Dew Drop – October 25, 2009

 

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Overview of type inference in F# (Brian McNamara)
• UppercuT and Mono Migration Analyzer (Rob Reynolds)
• Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 – Done (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Collection covariance with C# 4.0 (Mike Hadlow)
• How to Get Started with Multi-Core: Parallel Processing You Can Use (Bruce Kyle)
• .Net Framework 4.0: string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace() method (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Web Development

• CloudBerry Explorer for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in beta (Steve Clayton)
• 14 Microsoft Expression Web 3 Articles and Tips you should read (Minal Agarwal)
• Working with the Internet Explorer Developer Tools (Chris Love)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows 7 Reflections… (Larry Osterman) – Link of the Day
• Finally Some Real Improvements For Automated Testing In .NET (Davy Brion)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Magellan (Paul Stovell) – A WPF app framework inspired by ASP.NET MVC.
• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Karl Shifflett)
• XAML Tip: DataContext Comment (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hello Tekpub (Rob Conery) – A new screencast service from James Avery and Rob.
• Spec Explorer 1.0 – A “Visual tool for modeling software behavior and generating test suites from those models” (Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• Mike Cottmeyer on Tour (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Database

• Best Practices for Integration Services Configurations (Pinal Dave)
• Postgresql – Day 2 (Karl Seguin)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 – access data through ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) (Jon Flanders)

 

Miscellaneous

• Problems with Windows 7? "The behavior may be by design" (Blake Handler)
• Writing a good book proposal for Wrox (Jim Minatel)

 

More Link Collections

• This week in search 10/24/09 (Marissa Mayer)
• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Links #76 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Post… 10/17/2009 through 10/25/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Book of the Day