Dew Drop – November 4, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• New Article by Bill Wagner on Dynamic Method Bags in C# 4.0 (Charlie Calvert)
• Windows Azure, MSBuild, and Lotsa Files! (David Lemphers)
• Visual Studio 2010: UML modeling projects (Gunnar Peipman)
• VM Workshop – The multifactor, multifaceted, open source, example MVVM app in Silverlight, WPF, WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, Ajax, WinForms flavors (all in both C# & VB too) (Greg Duncan)
• F# under the covers VII (Steve Gilham)
• Com interop in C# 4.0: Indexed Properties (Sam Ng)
• TFS Build Agent and MSBuild Running the VS 2005 version of MSTest when it should be VS 2008 (James Allderidge)
• Workaround for Add-Member on plain .Net objects (Tianjie ‘James’ Wei)

 

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 17 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC View Model Patterns (Steve Michelotti)
• Using jQuery validation with ASP.NET WebForms (Dave Ward)
• jQuery Enlightenment eBook Review (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas – Part 3 (Eric Hexter)
• Html Encoding Nuggets With ASP.NET MVC 2 (Phil Haack)
• Tip#99: Did you know… You can now install new Media and Developer Tools products with Web PI v2 RTW? (Katerina Rohonyan)
• Use iframes with XHTML 1.0 Strict (Mads Kristensen)
• Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Create Tooltips for Forms using jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• MVC – Spark, The Alternative View Engine (Michael Ceranski)
• GridView and Updating a Row Manually (Dave M. Bush)
• MVC Application Extensibility with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano) – Link of the Day

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Transparency 101: Basic Transparency Rules (Shawn Farkas)
• Turtles and Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Data Driven Engineering: Tracking Usage to Make Decisions (Peter Koss-Nobel)
• Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control are not rocket surgery (Scott Koon)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Integrated Security With Silverlight And WCF (Davy Brion)
• XAML: Gradients (Deborah Kurata)
• WPF Sample: Convert HTML to XAML (and Back) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The WPF Starter Kit – A simple, barebones, pick it up in an afternoon, MVVM/Navigation/Commanding Framework (Greg Duncan)
• Client App Dev MVP releases the Razre WPF Application Framework (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Introduction to WPF 4 Multitouch (Jaime Rodriguez)
• NBC Winter Olympics on Silverlight (Larry Larsen)
• Quick tip: Snooping WPF application with elevated permissions (Laurent Bugnion)
• New WPF Features: Script Interop in Xbap (Lester Lobo)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 2) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Burton Smith – Concurrency, Parallelism and Programming (Charles Torre)
• This Week in Testing – Episode 2 – Lamest Test (Roy Osherove & Gil Zilberfeld)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 011 – Steve Marx on Windows Azure (Eric Nelson)
• Lazy Optimized Resource Initialization (Phil Pennington)
• BizTalk Server, SOA and the Shift to the Cloud (1/2) (Richard Seroter)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Scott Guthrie Full Length Interview (Tina Wood)
• Channel 9: Dynamic in C# (Sam Ng)
• PDC09 Workshop: Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Robert Hess)
• Discriminated Unions in F# (Kathleen McGrath)

 

Community / Events

• Billy McCafferty talking about S#arp Architecture on Nov 4 (Zachariah Young)
• Day Zero of PASS (Pre-conference seminar with Kim Tripp) (Joe Webb)
• Stephen Toub Tour – Parallel Computing Resources (Jennifer Marsman)
• Windows 7 Bootcamp at PDC 09 (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft to show Office Mobile 2010 at TechEd Europe (Sumeeth Evans)
• The $10k Code Challenge (Mitch Pronschinske)
• StackOverflow DevDays in London (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Database

• SQL Server Trigonometric Functions (Richard Carr)
• PowerShell 101 for the DBA: Managing Server Configuration via PowerShell Part 1 (Josh Jones)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Editions Announced (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Doing SharePoint 2010 Development – What’s in your rig? and Upgrading a SharePoint 2007 Publishing Site Master Page to SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Free SharePoint 2010 1 Day Developer Workshops and SharePoint 2010 Developer Resources (John Wiese)

 

Miscellaneous

• Exchange Server 2010 Help (MS Downloads)
• Google Chrome Converts User Scripts into Extensions (Alex Chitu)
• MSN and Bing – a Match Made in Redmond (Kristin Meldahl)
• Microsoft’s Aaron Margosis Updates His "LUA Buglight" Tool for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Virtu-Al PowerPack – A must-have tool for VMware (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What Microsoft won’t tell you about Windows 7 licensing (Ed Bott)
• Note to Self: Learn PowerShell by using it. Do one PS thing a day… (Greg Duncan)
• ThoughtWorks Studios Rolls Out New Version Of Mingle, Integrates With Google Wave (Leena Rao)
• VHD Attach enables right-click mounting and dismounting of VHD files in Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• IASA Group releases Certified IT Architect Professional (CITA-P) (Mike Walker)
• Resume, resume…What did I do with that resume? (Lisa Olson)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #469 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 — #723 and Silverlight Cream for November 03, 2009 – 2 — #724 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 3, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)

 

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