Dew Drop – October 30, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects (Billy McCafferty)
• Transitioning from VSTS2008 to Visual Studio 2010 and Where has “Team System” gone? (Anthony Borton)
• Visual Studio: Clipboard Ring (Deborah Kurata)
• VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey (Jason Zander)
• ReSharper 5.0 – Now with VS 2010 Beta 2 (JP Hamilton)
• Designer Support for One-Way navigations in Entity Framework 4 (Julie Lerman)
• Starting to Use the Windows 7 Touch API in .NET (Jason Ipock)
• Performance (Cameron Skinner)
• Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2 (Chris Patterson)
• The Weekly Source Code 46 – Jeff Key rocks Taskbar Meters that Monitor your Windows 7 CPU and Memory and Disk in the Taskbar (Scott Hanselman)
• The Best Way to Hide a Column in a DataGrid (Srinath MS)
• How to Fix “The application cannot start” Error (Weston Hutchins)
• Compiling Mapping using Fluent NHibernate (Michael Nichols)
• Instructions for collecting dumps in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• Integration between Zoho & External Apps – Part II (Raju Vegesna)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig Is a View Model? (Sara J. Chipps)
• HTML5, a 3 minute guide (Leon Bambrick)
• Converting a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project (Nichole Baker)
• eBook 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls (Joe Stagner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Software, Sewing, and the Craftsman (David Starr) – Link of the Day
• Unit Testing: Testing Properties and Unit Testing: Exposing Internal/Friend Members and Unit Testing: Exposing Private Members (Deborah Kurata)
• Why We Delegate: The Darkness Principle (Jurgen Appelo)
• Agile practices do not address technical complexity (Scott Koon)
• DDDD: Why I Love CQRS (Jonathan Oliver)
• Software Architecture for Developers (Simon Brown)
• Low-Technology (Dave Laribee)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part V: Thank Them For Their Feedback (Patrick Kua)
• It’s all about the delivery (Hadi Hariri)
• Coding: Consistency when invariant checking (Mark H. Needham)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XV: Patterns and Antipatterns (Krzysztof Koźmic)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Real-time list filtering with Silverlight, MVVM, and PagedCollectionView (Avi Pilosof)
• Countdown to Visual Studio 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• wpf text blurry blues? (Coding4Fun)
• NEW series on Patterns-Based Development with Silverlight (Murray Gordon)
• Drawing Lines – Silverlight WriteableBitmap Extensions II (Rene Schulte)
• Showing Progress in the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (and a short romp through Windows 7 cleartype settings) (Pete Brown)
• New WPF features: KeyGesture Binding (Lester Lobo)
• Essential Silverlight 3 (Dave M. Bush)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chris Sells in on DataDude (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 33 – Jimmy Bogard on AutoMapper (Chris Brandsma)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 007 – Mike Ormond discusses ASP.NET 4.0 and MSDN Flash Podcast 010 – Paul Jackson on Memory Mapped Files in .NET 4, Oslo and more (Eric Nelson)
• Connected Show Podcast: User Experience: It ain’t Lipstick baby (Brian Johnson)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 5 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• New WPF Video: How Do I: Use CollectionViews to Sort and Filter Data (Todd Miranda)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #72 (Jeff Atwood)
• Bug Killer – A Channel 9 Halloween special (Laura Foy)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Tuesday Conventions (Bobby Johnson)
• Creating a Web Part for SharePoint by Using a Designer (Kathleen McGrath)
• Recommended Books – part 1 (Roy Osherove)
• New Official jQuery Podcast Announced (Elijah Manor)
• How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010 – A Free, Live Webcast – Nov 3rd @ 10am PT (Dux Raymond Sy)
• BlockingCollection Demonstration in Producer-Consumer Scenarios (Phil Pennington)

 

Community / Events

• Mark Your Calendars: Dec 5, 2009 – SharePoint Saturday DC is Back! (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SOA Manifesto (Rockford Lhotka)
• Where to engage with questions about WPF4 Beta2 (Rob Relyea)
• PDC 2009 – What’s Happening at the Patterns Workshop (Ade Miller)
• Windows Azure Platform Launch Update (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure at PDC 2009 (Steve Marx)

 

Database

• You see that database? OFF WITH HIS HEAD! (Oren Eini)
• Another T-SQL Challenge (Dave Ballantyne)
• Manipulating Blob Data in MSSQL with C# (Michael Ceranski)
• Eschewing Date Types in our Database (Karl Seguin)
• Connecting to SQL Azure with Telerik OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)

 

SharePoint

• Configuring ASP.NET (And SharePoint) to use SQL-based Sessions (Tom Hearn)
• October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Jie Li)

 

Miscellaneous

• Getting Your Groove Off (Howard Dierking)
• Computer Forensics in a Windows 7 (and Vista) world and Seen all the PowerShell goodness in Win7? Want to use the same tool Microsoft did to create much of it? Here you go! “PowerShell Cmdlet and Help Designer” (free and source available BTW) (Greg Duncan)
• Enough, Microsoft. No One Is Endorsing Piracy. Obviously. (Paul Thurrott)
• Are You Classic or Lightweight? The MSDN Redesign (Wolf Schmidt)
• Building an iPhone Application (Eran Kampf)
• Connectify creates and shares Virtual WiFi Hotspots with Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #466 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 29, 2009 — #720 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 29-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 386 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 29th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Awesome Blogs of the Month – OCT ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting Finds: October 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (10/29/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• 14 Silverlight Articles You Must Read on DotNetCurry (Minal Agarwal)

 

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