Dew Drop – November 1, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Character Testing with the Char Structure (Richard Carr)
• Linq to SQL Profiler – Progress (Oren Eini)
• RichTextBox Styles (Deborah Kurata)
• Awesome F# – Decision Trees – Part I (Chris Smith)
• Creating Launcher Scripts for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Irony (Kirill Osenkov) – Link of the Day
• Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3 (Chris Patterson)
• Sweet State Machine DSL in "M" (Chris Sells)
• T4 Preprocessed Text Templates in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
• CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 3 available (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates (Brad Wilson)
• Writing cache based repositories for web application prototyping (Gunnar Peipman)
• Add an Image Command Field to a GridView at Runtime in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• Search and Filter Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• JavaScript class browser: once again with jQuery (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Mvc Turbine v2 RC (Javier G. Lozano)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Oye! Oye! New poppendieck book now available (Christophe Louvion)
• A Culture of Blame (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Spontaneous combustion (Eric Brechner)
• Should I use MEF with an IoC container? – Part 1 (Glenn Block)
• Review: The Art of Unit Testing (Grant Palin)
• Book Review: Enterprise Service Bus (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• MVP Releases BizUnit on CodePlex! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Development Methodology "Renovation" (Jeff Perrin)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Now ! (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Coding: Invariant checking on dependency injected components and Coding: Copy/Paste then refactor (Mark Needham)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 19. (Rajiv Popat)
• NHProf and Caliburn Testability (Rob Eisenberg)
• Question on Module Design (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XV: Patterns and Antipatterns (Krzysztof Koźmic)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight – October 2009 (MS Downloads)
• WPF’s CollectionViewSource (Beatriz Costa)
• Random Rectangles in Silverlight (using WriteableBitmap) (Charles Petzold)
• Essential Silverlight 3 (Dave M. Bush) – Dave’s review of the Apress title.
• New WPF Features: LayoutRounding (Lester Lobo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Asli Bilgin, Halloween, VS2010, and community events (Dan Fernandez)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 009 – Tom Quinn discusses Test Doubles, Mocking and Coding Dojos (Eric Nelson)
• Office Casual – Jott (Tina)
• Engadget Podcast 169 – 10.31.2009 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Expression Blend Twitter List (Adam Kinney)
• MSDN and TechNet Live Present: Highlights from "The New Efficiency" Launch (Denny Boynton)
• MSDN Roadshows Coming to a City Near You (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Recap from the Microsoft Women’s Conference 2009 (Sara Ford)

 

Database

• Deploying Reporting Services reports using msbuild (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Authority News – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – Solid Quality Mentors (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com (Justin Jed)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/31 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Happy Hallo-Wave-een! (Pamela Fox)
• Multitouch Fingerpaint in 30 Lines of PowerShell Script (Larry Larsen)
• SkyDrive Explorer adds 25gb of free cloud storage to Windows Explorer and Microsoft Security Essentials rated best free antivirus for Windows (Lee Mathews)
• Why I switch services so often (why I don’t use Google Reader anymore) (Robert Scoble)
• Sending Automated emails with Send-MailMessage, ConvertTo-HTML, and the PowerShellPack’s TaskScheduler module (James Brundage)
• Tools we use for running our startup (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Microsoft and their huge problem in the clouds – A Response To Krishnan’s Take (Alex Espinoza)
• Windows 7 with BitLocker and Still Booting To VHD and Using a Bluetooth Jawbone Headset for BT-Audio (Microphone or Speakers) on Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
• Unfinished Windows 7 Feature Turns Laptops Into Wi-Fi Hotspots (Sumeeth Evans)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 31, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 31, 2009 — #721 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 30-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 10.25 ~ 10.31 (yuanjian)
• Links for the Week of 2009.10.30 (Jeremiah Peschka)
• CloudNews for 30th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Interesting Post… 10/26/2009 through 10/31/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Double Shot #573 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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