Dew Drop – October 1, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Chain Of Command And Passing Parameters (Charles Chen)
• Lazy: On Demand Construction in .NET 4.0 (Bill Wagner)
• LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework Pitfalls (Jason Young)
• Visual Studio 2010 Property Grid Filtering (WebDevTools Team)
• Visual Studio 2010 New Editor screenshot (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Google Wave Public Preview Goes Live (Andres Ferrate)
• Tip#97: Did you know… How to Display Hidden Information in Design View (Deepak Verma)
• Google Wave expands, in search of a clear use-case scenario (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Lower Case URLs and ASP.NET MVC (K. Scott Allen)
• Seadragon Ajax Control – Quick Start Guide (James Senior)
• Web Application Toolkit for IE8 (Mike Ormond)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bugs, defects and feedback (Jimmy Bogard)
• Leading Through Learning: The Responsibilities of a Team Leader and How to measure programmer productivity using TDD Katas (Roy Osherove)
• Well-constructed != Over-architected (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Facilitation Antipattern: Negator (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Successive Method Calls with Stubs (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Refactoring with Iterators: Prime Factors (Keith Dahlby)
• Introduction to Subversion/SVN – What are those Trunk, Tag and Branch things? (Greg Duncan)
• How to Respond Effectively to Design Criticism (Smashing Magazine)
• The Do-It-Yourself Team Values Kit (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight Tip – Managing HTML (Corey Schuman)
• Fluids and edge detection in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
• Quick and dirty WPF element tree viewer (Josh Smith)
• Creating a two dimensional barcode control for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Starter Kits available for SketchFlow and Behaviors (Silverlight Team)
• Are Value Converters Evil? (Christopher Bennage)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Michelle Leroux Bustamante on Web Security (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV: Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions (Zhiming Xue)
• Silverlight Screencast – How to create a Resource Dictionary (Murray Gordon)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #69 (Jeff Atwood)

 

Community / Events

• SQLBits Early Bird has been extended (Simon Sabin)
• Poll: Which mockingisolation framework do you use? (Roy Osherove)
• Interoperability and Open Source efforts at Microsoft (Dave Bost)

 

Database

• Suffer to succeed. Another SQL Server Import Story (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Management Studio and Client Statistics (Pinal Dave)
• Passing Multiple Records to a Stored Procedure in SQL Server (Dan Wahlin)

 

SharePoint

• Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint (Murray Gordon)
• How Can Microsoft Project Work with SharePoint? and Display a SharePoint list on Another Site in 3 minutes (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Give your computer insomnia [Free tool and source code to temporarily prevent a machine from going to sleep!] (David Anson)
• List all empty OUs (Dmitry Sotnikov) – A PowerShell how-to.
• What Makes A How-Do-I Video Great ? (Jesse Liberty)
• We want you… (Devon Musgrave) – Help make MS Press books more useful.

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #445 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 30, 2009 — #701 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 30th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
• New and Notable 375 (Sam Gentile)

 

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