Dew Drop – November 12, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Mono Tools for Visual Studio allow cross-platform remote debugging (Joel Bennett)
• “Smart” Duplicate Line in Visual Studio out of the box (David Vidmar)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Exposing The Service Layer Through WCF and Request/Response Service Layer: Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Reflector to the rescue…AGAIN (Derik Whittaker)
• Delete a work Item in TFS (Kirstin Juhl)
• First drop of "TMap for VS2010" available on Codeplex (Clemens Reijnen)
• Select the Highest value in each Group or Category using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0 (Michael Kennedy)
• “Hello GTK#” from the latest IronPython and F# (Steve Gilham)

 

Web Development

• Facebook SDK (Coding4Fun)
• Validating A Username Using JQuery and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET Cross Domain Form Submission (Dave M. Bush)
• AJAXified jQuery Flip Plugin (Elijah Manor)
• ASP.NET MVC wins with simplicity, not features (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
• Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform (Lawrence Moroney)
• Error Handling in MVC with ELMAH (Michael Ceranski)
• ASP.NET Workaround: Calling a JavaScript Function from a HyperLinkField in a GridView (Srinath MS)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Big UI changes and their effect on tests (Brian Marick)
• Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members (Jurgen Appelo)
• Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
• Message Passing Interface (MPI) (Daniel Moth)
• What they don’t tell you about user stories (Patrick Kua)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF : Tube Planner Using A Guided Search (Sacha Barber)
• Magellan Controllers (Paul Stovell)
• XAML 2009 Features: XAML Event handling (Lester Lobo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• In His Own Words: Stephen Wolfram on Computational Knowledge (Adam Sohn)
• Introduction to NCover on Dimecasts (Alan Johnson)
• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte in The Netherlands (Carl Franklin)
• Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
• SyncToy 2.1 Available for Download (Larry Larsen)
• "Parallel Programming Talk" show (Daniel Moth)
• Bob Muglia on Azure, Silverlight, and Realtime (Steve Gillmor)
• The Access Show – Episode Two (Tina Wood)
• Concurrent Programming with .NET4 Collections (Phil Pennington)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Azure PDC Sessions Announced (Mike Ormond)
• Another Prism Class Available Jan 11 – Jan 14 (Blaine Wastell)
• Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
• PDC guide for the busy guy (Greg Duncan)
• Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Two (Jimmy Bosse)
• PDC and Python (In That Order) (Sara J. Chipps)
• My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

 

Database

• Connecting to SQL Azure with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 (Bart Czernicki)
• SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Azure now available (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• Best Practice: Every table should have a primary key (George Mastros)
• SQL SERVER – Disable CHECK Constraint – Enable CHECK Constraint (Pinal Dave)
• Enter The Dragon: RoundhousE DB Migrations (Rob Reynolds)
• SSRS 2005 Matrixes (thirster42)

Miscellaneous

• Bing’s Next Chapter Begins Today (Henry Hall)
• Perhaps "Go" is the new Visual Basic (Leon Bambrick)
• How Many Calories in a Burger? What’s 2^2^2^2^2? Bing and Wolfram|Alpha Have the Answers (Tracey Yao & Pedro Silva)
• ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
• Windows 7: Its the Little Things (Debra Shinder)
• PowerShell-Based console for SMS 2003 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Static vs. Dynamic languages: What I really want (Jeffrey Palermo)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/12 (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Switching virtual networks the easy way (Peter Van Ooijen)
• New App Links SkyDrive to Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
• Bing vs. Google rematch on video search (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• MSN Video is being re-launched in the U.S. as Bing Video powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
• Captains Log – Twitter Style (Tobin Harris)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #475 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 11, 2009 — #729 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 11, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Nov-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Office 2010 Team Blogs Recap (John Wiese)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

 

Book of the Day