Dew Drop – October 20, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) (MS Downloads)
• ReSharper 5.0 Overview (JetBrains) – Link of the Day
• VS2010 MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration and VS2010 Parallel Computing Features Tour (Daniel Moth)
• Advanced Selenium RC logging with MSpec (Aaron Jensen)
• Coding .NET (including VS2010) on a Netbook (Dave Isbitski)
• Writing Extension Methods in F# to Use in C# (David Morton)
• Goodbye Team System. We Hardly Knew Ye. (David Starr)
• Using a download manager to quickly download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Brian Kellner)
• Modeling and Visualization in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and “First-time Experience” with Arch Tools (Cameron Skinner)
• Download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Official Launch March 22, 2010 (Doug Holland)
• What’s new for Data Dude in Visual Studio 2010? (Duke Kamstra)
• Using MSpec to Solve Kata Potter Part 1: The Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
• What is this thing you call "thread safe"? (Eric Lippert)
• Microsoft Sync Framework v2.0 SDK and Redistributable RTM/RTW (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2: The Historical Debugger is now IntelliTrace! (Habib Heydarian)
• Persistence in Workflow Foundation 4 Beta 2 (Henning Krause)
• Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework Beta 2! (Jason Zander)
• Some Tidbits of Entity Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Julie Lerman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 editor performance fix running on a virtual machine (Kevin Dente)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Known Issues (Kirill Osenkov)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 – and CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• VS2010 Beta 2 Installed on a Previous Beta 1 System (Sam Gentile)
• ReportViewer 2012 (William Vaughn)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Scott Hanselman)
• VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Scott Guthrie)
• Parallel Tasks and Parallel Stacks content updated for VS2010 Beta2 (Daniel Moth)
• To Brace or not to Brace in C# ifs and other Constructs (Peter Kellner)
• F# October 2009 CTP/Beta2 – F# + Rx Together At Last (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Use Array Predicates to Simplify Searches (Srinath MS)
• Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards the Cloud (Leena Rao)

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 are here! (Bill Staples)
• Multiline Scroll Box in ASP.NET (Dave Schinkel)
• How to debug the selected page inside selected project all the time? (Vishal Joshi)
• ASP.NET Assigning a Role to a User (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• JAOO: More on Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level from Billy Newport (Oren Eini)
• How not to implement a failing test (Jimmy Bogard)
• Without Context everything is suspect (Derik Whittaker)
• Testing Time—Static Calls and ISystemTime (Jonathan Oliver)
• Building A Product For Real (Jesse Liberty)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 3,4 & 5 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• A plea to my developer brethren about designer/designers (Tim Heuer)
• What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Dependency Injection Mess With Mocks (Sasha Goldshtein)
• An open letter to the micromanaged (Scott Berkun)
• Documenting Your Software Architecture – Why and How? (Simon Brown)
• Velocity in the Enterprise – Part 4 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Self-Organization vs. Anarchy (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I set multiple styles in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Important News for Users of the Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ Beta (James Clarke)
• Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release (Jeff Wilcox)
• DX Labs: Single Code Base Driving GDI and WPF Simultaneously from CodeRush Plug-ins (Mark Miller)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight updates and Silverlight Toolkit adds DragDrop targets! (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 10-4 Episode 33: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Brian Keller)
• .NET Rocks! – Francesco Balena on VB to .NET Migration (Carl Franklin)
• Stephan T. Lavavej: Everything you ever wanted to know about nullptr and Visualizing Concurrency: Inside the Concurrency Visualizer Profiling Tool (Charles Torre)
• How to create record and playback Test Cases in Visual Studio Beta2 (Charles Sterling)
• Spaghetti Code Talks T4 with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• Ping 34: Family Guy & Windows 7, Microsoft fights crimes with COFEE, Video Maps, SkyTV on Xbox (Laura Foy)
• Boot to VHD Screencast (Michael Kennedy)
• ScottGu Manchester Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Video (Mike Taulty)
• Microsoft Access – 2010 Demo (Tina)
• Radio TFS 27: The Ultimate Announcement Show (Martin Woodward)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part I – Getting Started (Rob Bagby)
• Episode 88 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage and the Win7 RK PowerPack (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

• IndyHall Town Hall 2 (Alex Hillman)
• SharePoint Conference Notes (Greg Galipeau)
• SharePoint Conference Keynote (Mike Walker)
• Architecture Thought Leaders Gathered in New York (Bill Zack)
• Limited places left for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)
• SQLAuthority News – PASS 2009 Sessions on Query Optimization and Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)
• You Can Lead A Developer to Patterns but You Can’t Make Them Think! (Steve Bohlen)
• Critical Path Training, SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint Conference (Andrew Connell)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop (MS Downloads)
• Database Audit Trails: How Would You Do It? (Davy Brion)
• An Introduction to SQL Server System Databases (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: Getting Started with Development on SharePoint 2010: Hands on Labs in C# and Visual Basic and SharePoint 2010: Developer and IT Professional Learning Plan and SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs and SharePoint 2010: SharePoint Developer Platform Wall Poster and SharePoint Server 2010 Search Architecture and SharePoint 2010: Developer Platform White Paper (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 Resources and SharePoint 2010 SDK Live and SharePoint 2010 Overview and Whats New and Overview of Visio Services 2010 (Mike Walker)
• Putting the SharePoint in SharePoint Designer (Todd Haugen)
• SharePoint 2010 (Jeff Teper)
• The New Service Application Architecture in SharePoint Server 2010 and Part 1 – Improvements to the Core SharePoint Platform & How the Benefit SharePoint 2010 Web Content Management and Part 2 – What’s Improved with SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management and Part 3 – What’s New with SharePoint Server 2010 Web Content Management (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 and Internet Explore Resources (Dani Diaz)
• Windows 7 in action: a closer look at Windows XP Mode (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Semantic Engine (Jamie Thomson)
• The Magic of Background Removal (Tucker Hatfield) – A post from the MS Office team.
• Mac Software, Snow Leopard Support Now Available (Live Mesh Team)
• A Serious Windows Home Server Pain Point (Rob Bazinet)
• Configuring Automatic Crash Dumps (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Microsoft Office 2010 Public Beta in November (Paul Thurrott)
• Time To Update My Favorites (Jesse Liberty)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #458 (Chris Alcock)
• Community Convergence LVI (Charlie Calvert)
• Silverlight Cream for October 19, 2009 — #711 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #94 (David Vidmar)
• 5 Top Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Resources (Charles Sterling)
• CloudNews for 19th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/19/2009 (Rick Minerich)
• Interesting Finds: October 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #564 (Mike Gunderloy)

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