Dew Drop – October 21, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Layer Diagram in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 (Cameron Skinner)
• Setting up Offline help/Docs in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and Work Item Query (WIQ) files not opening in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Charles Sterling)
• Indexed Properties in C# 4.0 (Kirill Osenkov)
• EF4: Syncing Foreign Keys and EntityReference.EntityKey and EF4: Lazy Loading on By Default but what about pre Beta 2 Models? (Julie Lerman)
• Installing Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Windows Vista in 3 minutes and Configuring Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Vista in 12 minutes (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Window Positions in Visual Studio (Daniel Moth)
• Data Enhancements in .NET 4 / Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Scott Hunter)
• Populating a DataGridView from Xml Data (Deborah Kurata)
• Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• How to ensure placeholder folders are created during VS 2010 Web Deployment (Vishal Joshi)
• Getting Started with Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace: Hello IntelliTrace! (Habib Heydarian)
• Workflow Foundation 4 – Part II: NativeActivities and Extensions (Henning Krause)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Training Kit Published (Jason Olson)

Web Development

• VS10 Beta 2 From an ASP.NET MVC Perspective (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Testability Of Date-Dependent Code (Davy Brion)
• Is Kanban A Relabeling of Scrum? and A New Lean and Agile Picture (Karl Scotland)
• The effect of adding new people to project teams (Mark Needham)
• Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 3,4 & 5 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
• It’s All Fun and Games… (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Building Better Software By Learning From Accidents. (Rajiv Popat)
• Tokonoma and the art of the focal point (Garr Reynolds)
• Infrastructure Shards and Optional Components (Rinat Abdullin)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Sean Chambers)
• git-svn, SvnBridge and TFS Source Control (Javier G. Lozano)

Silverlight / WPF

• Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit (Jeff Wilcox)
• What’s New in Graphics for 4.0 Beta 2 (Jordan Parker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Rico Mariani: Inside Visual Studio Beta 2 – Performance and Reliability (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #148: Validating your XML Documents w/ XSD Schema (Derik Whittaker)
• Episode 88 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage and the Win7 RK PowerPack (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Jason Zander Full Length Interview (Tina)
• The Minutes On 9 – Channel 9 Video Interviews with the ASP.NET 4 Team (Scott Hanselman)
• Ed Wilson: Zune casting: considerations for success (Ed Wilson)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference Notes on SharePoint 2010 – Day 2 (Greg Galipeau)
• Introducing Guild 3 Software (David Starr)
• Limited places left for SQLBits V (Simon Sabin)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Beta 2 for Windows Desktop (MS Downloads)
• Using SqlBulkCopy To Perform Efficient Bulk SQL Operations (Scott Mitchell)
• SQL SELECT CASE Instead of IIF (Dave M. Bush)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Business Intelligence – Important Terms & Definitions (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Developer Content Published (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Activity Tracker (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Version 2 of Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor (Blake Handler)
• Free (as in direct download, no reg required) ebook – “Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2” (Greg Duncan)
• Best People Search in the World (Jurgen Appelo)
• How to write a book, part 2 (Scott Berkun)
• MonoTouch Comparison with Apple Tools (Scott Densmore)
• Windows 7 Media Center’s upgraded Netflix Watch Instantly interface now available (Richard Lawler)
• Creating Visio Diagrams without Visio – VisioAutomation & VisioVDX (Greg Duncan)
• Visio 2010 Beta Site (Mike Walker)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #459 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2009 — #712 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 10.14 ~ 10.21 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for 20th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Even More VS2010/NETFX 4.0 Beta 2 Links and Information (Sam Gentile)
• Double Shot #565 (Mike Gunderloy)

Book of the Day