Dew Drop – December 8, 2009

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Top Links

• Any() versus Count() (Chris Eargle) – A great tip to save some CPU cycles.
• IronPython gets a long overdue website! (Jimmy Schementi) – A nice step for the IronPython team. Now if only we could get IPy shipped with Visual Studio.
• Localizing ASP.NET MVC Validation (Phil Haack) – More MVC v2 goodness from Phil.
• ASP.NET MVC Embedded Views with MVC Turbine (Javier G. Lozano) – Javier the mad scientist shows how you can have load views from embedded resources in your MVC app.
• Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests. (Uncle Bob Martin) – A nice demo video using FitNesse.
• We need your feedback on Web Client Guidance (Blaine Wastell) – Download the second drop of the Web Client Guidance project from the p&p team and tell them what you think.
• Fun with Channel 9 Videos – Live at PDC and Live to Tape (Scott Hanselman) – ScottHa + PDC + A Video Camera = Pure Geek Entertainment
• How To Check Email Programmatically – SidePOP (Rob Reynolds) – Check out Rob’s cool little email library. Cool stuff.
• Thoughts on Learning New Programming Languages (Jeremy Jarrell) – Jeremy adds his own thoughts on the practice of learning new languages to improve your skills.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convert a List<> Into XML using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How To User StreamReader to Open A File ReadOnly in C# (.NET) (Peter Kellner)
• New Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard CTP (Stephen Forte)
• Running An Agatha Service Layer In-Process (Without WCF) (Davy Brion)
• Rx Madness (Matt Davey)
• Targeting VS 2008 with the Visual Studio 2010 SDK (Aaron Marten)
• Building a recommendation engine in NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• Bootstrapping of VS packages and VSIX extensions in VS2010 (Dmitry Goncharenko)
• Query transformations are syntactic (Eric Lippert)
• What training doesn’t teach you about reading from .Net configuration (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Debugging Crash Dumps with Visual Studio 2010 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• A Helpful Formatter for TimeSpan (Ben Scheirman)

Web Development

• JSMag December 2009 available (Michael Kimsal)
• Globally Register User and Custom Controls in ASP.NET (Deepak Choudhari)
• ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content (Michael C. Neel)
• Magellan and View Reuse and Magellan Action Filters (Paul Stovell)
• The CustomValidationAttribute (Peter Blum)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Time transitions should be explicit (Oren Eini)
• Who Cares About Value? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Monthly Code Quality Report (Mike Hadlow)
• Setting up Hudson to use a common workspace (Derik Whittaker)
• Overriding generic component’s resolution in Castle Windsor (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Refactor Your Build Scripts and Which One Do You Prefer? (Davy Brion)
• Lessons in Software from Eric Brechner (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Detecting the Active View in a Prism App (Brian Noyes)
• Getting started with the charting controls (Cheryl Simmons)
• Creating an Image from PixelShaders in Silverlight and WPF (Corey Miller)
• Silverlight 4 Notification Window Class (Corrina Barber)
• WriteableBitmapEx – WriteableBitmap extensions now on CodePlex (Rene Schulte)
• WPF Touch Basics (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Paul Litwin on SQL Reporting Services (Carl Franklin)
• Leverage Microsoft .Net and WCF for Your Enterprise SOA – WebCast (Bob Familiar)
• Engadget Podcast 173 – 12.07.2009 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 40: Black screen claims- retracted, Windows 7, Bing Maps, Office 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Spaghetti Code Talks WCF RIA Services with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• Bharat Shah: Microsoft Online Services Overview (Charles Torre)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Merge (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Wanna Help Me Write a Book? (Lee Dumond)
• 6 Simple Questions for Andy Hunt (Jurgen Appelo)
• Join Me for a SharePoint Monday, Wednesday & Thursday (Dux Raymond Sy)
• MVP Talks Community on Tech Talk Radio (Jas Dhaliwal)

Database

• SQL Server Best Practices: Use Roles When You Can (Buck Woody)
• Introducing Microsoft Pivot (Michael Ceranski)
• Age calculation with SQL Server (Dave Ballantyne)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Invalid object name ’sys.configurations’. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 208) (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Host Headers, SharePoint (2010), and Access Denied (401) (Charles Chen)
• 10 Tips Troubleshooting Installations for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• JSON from PowerShell (but why?) (Joel Bennett)
• Outlook 2010 Beta 2 and Add-Ins: Dynamics CRM, Team Companion, LinkedIn and Plaxo (Martin Hinshelwood)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/8 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Free (reg-ware) PowerShell v1 eBook (593 pages) – “SAPIEN’s Windows Powershell V1.0: TFM” (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• RIA Services Link Listing #1 (Nikhil Kothari)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 12/07/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• New and Notable 395 (Sam Gentile)
• The Morning Brew #493 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 07, 2009 — #751 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

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