Dew Drop – October 22, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger. (Habib Heydarian)
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Harry Pierson)
• Workflow Foundation Part III: Participating in persistence (Henning Krause)
• Visual Studio 2010 Training Course on Channel 9 (Jason Olson)
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010 (Jason Zander)
• Force .NET application to run in 32bit process on 64bit OS (Gabriel N. Schenker)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – October Preview (G. Andrew Duthie)
• C# Static interfaces and Take 2 (Jérémie Chassaing)
• What’s New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 (Justin Van Patten)
• A tour of the new Channel 9 Learning Center and Download Visual Studio 2010 Express Editions (Dan Fernandez)
• Busting Visual Studio Myths – or How I learned to counter “that guy’s” anti-VS/.Net comments – or how I convinced my boss that Feature X doesn’t have Problem Y (Greg Duncan)
• New Visual Studio 2010 Built-in C# Snippets Cheat Sheet (John Sheehan)
• IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 (Jimmy Schementi)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Sample Data Project Templates (Karl Shifflett)
• Interesting findings in the diff between .NET Fx v4 Beta1 and Beta2 (Patrick Smacchia) – Link of the Day
• Lambdas aren’t just for managed code (Scott Seely)

 

Web Development

• Facebook Churning Out API Updates (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET Substitution Control and DotNetNuke – Collecting Profile at Registration (Dave M. Bush)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – Web Tools Overview (Mike Snow)
• The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2 (Stephen Walther)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• All the wonderful colors of code coverage (Dennis "D.C." Dietrich)
• Being Business Focused: Risk (Dru Sellers)
• 31 Days of Refactoring eBook (Simone Chiaretta)
• Testing Time – The Best of Both Worlds (Jonathan Oliver)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part III: Agree on Action (Patrick Kua)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Custom Properties and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPFClickOnce plugins (Brad Abrams)
• Two birds, one stone [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 2 and DataVisualizationDemos update] (David Anson)
• Silverlight Design Time: Toolkit October 2009 Release Update (Ning Zhang)
• Silverlight out-of-browser and initParams (Josh Twist)
• New WPF Features: TextFormattingMode for clear text (Lester Lobo)
• Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2 (Mike Snow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App (Carl Franklin)
• Pat Brenner: Visual Studio 2010 – MFC and Windows 7 (Charles Torre)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Scott Hunter on The Big Picture and new Templates and Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET 4 and Phil Haack (and son!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #71 (Jeff Atwood)
• Channel 9 makes you smart(er) – Channel 9 Learning Center opens with VS2010/.Net 4 and Windows 7 courses (free of course) (Greg Duncan)
• New Parallel Capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler (Phil Pennington)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part II – The Repository Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• Functions and Classes in C# (Sam Stokes)
• Windows 7 and your Xbox 360 (Tina)
• Creating an External List in SharePoint by Using Business Data (Kathleen McGrath)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 21st, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 Launch Client Developer Track Content Available Here (Dave Bost)
• SharePoint Conference Notes on SharePoint 2010 – Day 3 (Greg Galipeau)
• PDC09: Application Deployment with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Robert Hess)
• Live Webcast of Windows 7 Launch Event in NYC 10/22/09 (Zhiming Xue)
• StackOverflow DevDays (Steve Rowe)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
• Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_) (Patrick LeBlanc)

 

SharePoint

• #spc09 ECM for the Masses: How SharePoint 2010 Delivers On The Promise (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Expands Office 2010 Web Apps Technical Preview (Blake Handler)
• Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You (Bing Team)
• RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Marissa Mayer)
• Building an iPhone app (Aaron Jensen)
• FolderSize Displays What’s Eating Your Hard Drive Space (Adam Pash)
• Refactoring: Ruby Edition available. (Jay Fields)
• 7 Ways to Change the World (Jim O’Neil)
• Google Music Service: The Screenshots (Michael Arrington)
• Lightroom Beta 3 now available (Ryan Brenizer)
• How We Made GitHub Fast (Tom Preston-Werner)
• Burger King selling a Windows 7 Whopper in Japan (Vladislav Savov)
• SinkOverflow (Steve Tibbett)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 21, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #460 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 21, 2009 — #713 (Dave Campbell)
• Double Shot #566 and Double Shot #567 (Mike Gunderloy)
• XAML/WPF Web News (2009-10-20) (Rob Relyea)
• CloudNews for 21st October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

 

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