Dew Drop – October 27, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Visualizing Concurrency, F# and More (Matt Davey)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Introduction (Bobby Johnson)
• Providing Feedback (Cameron Skinner)
• Running IronPython Scripts from a C# 4.0 Program (Charlie Calvert)
• Getting Loopy (Coding4Fun)
• Creating something from nothing [Developer-friendly virtual file implementation for .NET!] (David Anson)
• Simple Kick Start Example using MEF (Preview 8) (Derik Whittaker)
• .Net Framework 4.0: Enumerating file system objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Upcoming ADO.Net Entity Framework Feature Community Technology Preview for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (EF Team)
• Looking for questions or feedback on IntelliTrace (Habib Heydarian)
• Consuming Services with WCF (Herbjörn Wilhelmsen)
• Working with AS400-iSeries-System i Stored Procedures in .NET (Joel Cochran)
• Toolbox Search (Josh)
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing (Brittany Behrens)
• VSIX and MSI (Quan To)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard October CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 UML Designers – Part 1: Getting Started (Peter Provost)
• Speeding up data access by using Linq to SQL or EF (Jason Young)

 

Web Development

• Website Background Services Are Hot (Pete Seale)
• Playing with JQuery Validation Library, Part 2 (Chris Brandsma)
• ClientIDMode in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Microsoft Expression Super Preview Tool – Completely Useless ? (Dave Schinkel)
• Authentication – Assigning Permissions to Roles (Dave M. Bush)
• TIP: How To Generate a Fully Qualified URL in ASP.NET (E.g., http://www.yourserver.com/folder/file.aspx) (Scott Mitchell)
• jQuery Enlightenment is a Worthy Purchase (Marc Grabanski)
• Conditional UIHint (Steve Naughton)
• Building HtmlHelper Extension Methods for ASP.NET MVC (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Manage Your Windows Azure Application From PowerShell (Steve Marx)
• ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns (Steve Michelotti)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy rather than code (Simon Brown)
• Is software engineering still relevant? (Bob Stout)
• SOA Manifesto (Colin Jack)
• Hierarchical Namespace Component (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Hypervideo, Closed Captions & Accessibility (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar Control (Pete Brown)
• WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• WPF Comics Book Reader – Release v2.8 (CodePlex)
• New WPF features: Custom Speller Dictionary (Lester Lobo)
• Caliburn v1 RTW for WPF, Silverlight 2.0 and 3.0! (Rob Eisenberg) – Link of the Day

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Wolfgang Grieskamp and Keith Stobie: Spec Explorer – An Overview (Charles Torre)
• .NET Rocks! – Doug Seven on Visual Studio 2010 (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #149: Introduction to NDepend, adding NDepend to your Nant Script (Derik Whittaker)
• Free Webcast: How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Developing Data-tier Applications using Visual Studio 2010 (Elisa J.)
• A Feed You Should Read #9 – 10-4 (Greg Duncan)
• Ping 35: Hanselman, Windows 7 launch, Sharepoint 2010 Beta, Pointless apps (Laura Foy)
• deCast – Patterns-Based Silverlight – Part III – The Pipeline Pattern (Rob Bagby)
• SpecExplorer: Model-Based Testing made practicable (Jonathan de Halleux)
• ThirstyDeveloper Podcast – Windows Mobile 6.5 with Loke Uei Tan and Anand Iyer (Dave Bost)
• Polymorphic Podcast 2009.10.26 – ASP.NET AJAX Preview 6 with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
• SharePoint Conference 2009 Interview – one real, one fun 🙂 (Andrew Connell)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint Conference 2009 – Wrapup (Andrew Connell)
• Joining Windows (Harry Pierson)
• Sam Gentile Presentation: WF4, WCF4, and Dublin: Whats New in VS2010 (Sam Gentile)

 

Database

• FYI: A new barrier to SQL Azure adoption (Jamie Thomson)
• Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service – My Initial Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
• SQL SERVER – How to Enable Index – How to Disable Index – Incorrect syntax near ‘ENABLE’ (Pinal Dave)
• Dealing with Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation errors and Interesting Increase Key Value Post By CSS SQL Server Engineers (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Sharing VSeWSS experiences (Paul Andrew)

 

Miscellaneous

• CIO MAG: Windows 7 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Next Version of Windows (Bob Familiar)
• Free e-book: Windows 7 troubleshooting tips (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Opens Up the PST Format (Paul Thurrott)
• PST File Format Documentation coming… (Greg Duncan)
• Advice for Public Speakers (Bill Wagner)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 1: Introduction (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub (Tekkub Stoutwrithe)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)

 

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines 10/26/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: October 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #463 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for 26th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #569 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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