Day: August 31, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Calculate the Seconds, Milliseconds and Microseconds using C# VB.NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Task List Shortcuts (Richard Carr)
• CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships (Charlie Calvert)
• Copy-Past Modeling Diagrams and Modeling Elements within VSTS 2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM (James Gregory)
• Type-Free Lambda Calculus in C#, Pre-4.0 – Defining the Lambda Language Runtime (LLR) (Bart de Smet)
• My favorite NHibernate exception (Jimmy Bogard)
• CodeRush plugin "Navigate to Implementation" – binaries for CodeRush 9.2.4 (Kim)
• All for that small Drop Down Box – Part 3 (Vishal Joshi)
• Architecture Tools in VSTS 2010 (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
• Build a Custom WCF Encoder (Srinath MS)
• How to install and configure Visual Studio Team Explorer (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Deploying a Web Application Project Still looks for Code-behind during Runtime (Dave Schinkel)
• Sample: Parsing Content in C# Using IFilter (Jason Zander)
• Understanding TransactionScope Procedural Activities in WF 4.0 – An Application Development Approach. (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Analyze MEF Assemblies from the Command Line and Parameterised Triggers and Re-Entrant States in Stateless v2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Static Constructors in .NET 3.5, still a bad thing? (Nick Berardi)
• Reveal hidden API usage tricks from any .NET application (Patrick Smacchia)
• MSMQ Studio: Subqueues and outgoing queues (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

 

Web Development

• Enabling Windsor Integration in MonoRail (Patrick Steele)
• Book Review of Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov (Peter Kellner)
• Azure Reference Architecture Explored with Project Riviera (Bruce Kyle)
• jQuery and MVC: JSON and Favorite Image Icons with jQuery and MVC (Steve Andrews)
• Your First ASP.NET MVC Application (Maarten Balliauw)
• Getting and setting max zIndex with jQuery (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Most Important Agile Practice Of All and On Teaching And Learning And Knowledge Trans … fening and All Developers Should Know How They Learn Best (Alan Skorkin)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Custom Queries and The complexity of unity and On PSake and Avoid Soft Deletes and How I found a memory leak and Your queries are going to fail in production (Oren Eini)
• Code Reviews (Deborah Kurata)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Executing Custom Queries and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Bringing It All Together and Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Conclusions and There Is No Excuse For Failing Queries In Production (Davy Brion)
• DDD Step by Step (Greg Young)
• Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part14. (Rajiv Popat)
• Book Club: Unshackle your domain (Greg Young) and Coding: Group the duplication, then remove it and Coding: The guilty bystander (Mark Needham)
• The Capability Conversation (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Refactoring Day 29 : Remove Middle Man and Refactoring Day 30 : Return ASAP (Sean Chambers)
• Cooking Up a Good Template Method (Sharon J. Cichelli)
• Code coverage measure for F# unit tests (Steve Gilham)
• Accountants Don’t Use Erasers (Jonathan Oliver)
• Big Visible TeamCity (Joshua Flanagan)
• Book review – Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Piquing curiosity, or “How to scratch the surface” (Kyle Baley)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Using Behaviors (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Silverlight 3 Navigation Application: New Themes and Tweaks (Brad Abrams)
• Bing SDK Available for Silverlight, iPhone, Mac (Bruce Kyle)
• Silverlight 3 Application Themes (Corrina Barber)
• SketchFlow Feedback File Format (Frank La Vigne)
• Innovation/Showcase on Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 3 (Jeff Barnes)
• Conways Life in WPF (Steven Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutiae-seven with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• SDU Show 44 with guest Simon Sabin (SQL Down Under)
• Windows Weekly 120: Bing Is My Back-End (Paul Thurrott)
• CNET Video: Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 3 (Ina Fried)
• Show #330: Madden NFL 10, Beatles Rock Band and Felicia Day (Larry Hyrb)
• This Week on C9: .NET Micro Framework, Azure, and PHP (Jason Olson)
• My Videos (Roy Osherove)
• Episode 82 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Russ Kaufmann on PowerShell and Clustering (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Chat room questions from the EF Tips & Tricks webcast (Julie Lerman)

 

Community / Events

• DevLink 2009 (Sara Ford)
• Microsoft Has Newly Updated Public MVP Website (Brad M. McGehee)
• Have you registered for the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas (Daniel Brown)
• Updated Community Schedule (Joel Cochran)
• Conclusion of the Stars (Kirk Knoernschild)
• MICROSOFT ACTIVE PROFESSIONAL 2009 (Pedro Daniel Güida)
• Thoughts on #Agile2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Database

• SQL Server Arithmetic Operators (Richard Carr)
• Extracting insert, update, delete rowcounts from T-SQL MERGE and Exploring Composable DML (Jamie Thomson)
• Scripting Server Side Traces (Joe Webb)
• Quick 2005/2008 Script to Export Permissions (K. Brian Kelley)
• SSMS Tools PACK, Something Every SQL Server Developer That Uses SSMS Should Have Installed (Denis Gobo)
• Decompressing on Compression in SQL Server 2008…. (Robert Pearl)
• Plan Caching in SQL Server 2008 by Greg Low and Mirrored Backup and Restore and Split File Backup and Application and Multi-Server Management and Effect of Oracle acquiring MySQL – A Delayed Analysis (Pinal Dave)
• INSERT and UPDATE loading practice – The impact of forwarding pointers. (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2 (Charles Chen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• No Microsoft Office Web Apps test build in August, after all (Mary Jo Foley)
• 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills (Andrew Gibson)
• Lessons learned from Windows Live ID’s foray into Open ID (Kevin)
• Live Mesh incompatible with Apple Snow Leopard 10.6 (Kip Kniskern)
• Test-Driving Remoting In Windows 7 (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 Build 23037 for a Windows Phone Near You (Taimur Asad)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Build 14.0.4417.1000 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• ‘Macs don’t get viruses’ myth dissolves before public’s eyes (Tim Conneally)
• Amazon Kindle vs. Amazon Kindle DX – The Final Word (Scott Hanselman)
• PowerShell Interview and Exploring WMI with PowerShell V2 (Jeffrey Snover)
• Zoho: Thriving Amid the Giants (Raju Vegesna)
• Weekly Release: More OS-Native Menus! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Weird things said in job interviews Part 3 (Lisa Olson)
• You really ought to check out Boot from VHD in Win7 (Mike Ormond)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 29, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 30, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for August 28, 2009 — #677 and Silverlight Cream for August 29, 2009 — #678 and Silverlight Cream for August 30, 2009 — #679 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #89 – “Late summer” Edition (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #68 (Grant Palin)
• What’s New Resources for VS2010 and .NET 4 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• CloudNews for 28th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Weekly Link Post 108 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

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