Dew Drop – November 7, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• .NET Windows Service Installer and Auto Start After Installation (Chris Pietschmann)
• Foreign Key Relationships in the Entity Framework (Tim Laverty)
• Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
• Detect Recursive Calls in Your .NET Code (Michel Posseth)
• DataAnnotations not in the client profile (Rockford Lhotka)
• MPI Project Template for VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
• Timers in .NET (Rhonda Tipton)
• All Your RegKeys Are Belong To Us (Aaron Marten)

Web Development

• A theming engine for ASP.NET MVC 2 (Daniel Crenna)
• Using serialized JSON to move complex data to and from the browser (Jason Grundy)
• Create ASP.NET Dynamic Hyperlinks from URLs Stored in Web.Config (Deepak Choudhari)
• Running WCF Service in IIS on Windows 7 Error: no svc MIME Type (Keith Elder)
• Note to self on HTTP namespace reservations (Mike Taulty)
• How To View JSON in a Pretty Way (Peter Kellner)
• Quickly Determine Whether a Column Is Fully Visible in a DataGridView (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Dave M. Bush)
• Using MSDeploy to automate your Enterprise Application remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
• Introduction to Distributed Source Control (Jason Young)
• Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Code (Howard Dierking)

Silverlight / WPF

• New WPF Features: Full Trust Xbap Deployment (Lester Lobo)
• Designer v Xaml v Code (Jesse Liberty)
• XAML for WinMo6.5? (Rob Relyea)
• WPF : Callout Popup (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Scott Stanfield from Vertigo – PSLUG First Meeting (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• New Katacast (Corey Haines)
• Peer to Peer Series Part 6: Introduction to PeerChannel (Jeff Brand)
• Each month through June 2010, we’ll bring you a 90-minute Architect focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs. (Jeff Barnes)
• Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and Software Security Today (Charles Torre)
• Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms (Michael Kennedy)
• Oredev 2009 – LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Idea for new user group (Jason Haley)
• Recap of Oredev and some .net debugging videos (Tess Ferrandez)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM Best Practices (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Package Stats Collector version 2 (Jamie Thomson)
• Always include size when using varchar, nvarchar, char and nchar (George Mastros)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions Pricing Announced (Denis Gobo)
• SQLAuthority News – Data Compression Strategy Capacity Planning and Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
• Sproc Executing Slow? It Might be This (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• Web Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive Technologies (Will Kelly)
• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Icon Maker" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) (Ed Bott)
• Almost everything you ever wanted to know about the MSG (stand alone Outlook Email message) file format but were afraid to ask (Part 1) (Greg Duncan)
• Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century (Paul Barr)
• Teaching Your Kids To Be Programmers (Paul Govan)
• Google Chrome 4: Yes, it’s fast, but is it usable? (Scott M. Fulton, III)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 6-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Double Shot #578 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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