Dew Drop – December 10, 2009

 

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Top Links

• Installing the Spark View Engine into ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 (Andrew Siemer) – If you are using MVC and you have not tried Spark yet, do yourself a favor and check it out.
• Business Errors are Just Ordinary Events (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Big UI Library Improvements (Peldi Guilizzoni) – A great update to the best UI mockup tool available.
• Everybody stand-up! 7 resources for standup meetings. (Simone Chiaretta) – A nice collection of links to useful information on standups.
• Prism and MEF (David Hill) – How do you use them together? Read on…
• Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2010 edition – book flight now (Jeffrey Palermo) – I’ll be there!
• Ready, Set, Go! (Dave Astels) – Dave summarizes what you need to know about Google’s Go language.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows 7: Jump Lists (Arian T. Kulp)
• NH Prof new feature: Filter static files (Oren Eini)
• Haskell vs F#: Function composition (Mark Needham)
• Creating extensions for VS 2010 (Somasegar)
• Building and publishing an extension for Visual Studio 2010 (Quan To)
• C# regions sure can be useless (Jeff Wilcox)

 

Web Development

• Guided Tour: jQuery – guard and default operators (Sergio Pereira)
• ASP.NET WebForms + Routing Video and Downloads (Michael Kennedy)
• The CategoryAttribute and Dynamic Data (Peter Blum)
• jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 And The Live Event (Malcolm Sheridan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Chickens and Pigs (Julie Stickler)
• Building software that matters, part two (Gojko Adzic)
• Real World Benefits From Loose Coupling, Inversion Of Control And Dependency Injection (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft Feedback 2010 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Clarified CQRS (Udi Dahan)
• Is the term ‘Agile’ still useful? (Patrick Kua)
• Don’t Break the Interface (Peter Bromberg)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WriteableBitmapEx – WriteableBitmap Extensions Now on CodePlex (Rene Schulte)
• xml syntax highlighting in Silverlight (Nick Kramer)
• WPF/XAML helping VS2010 Extensibility (Rob Relyea)
• SketchFlow helps deliver an ambitious new auction tool – meeting tight time and budget constraints (Silverlight Team)
• Overlaying Icons on the Windows 7 Taskbar with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight 4: System.Xml.Linq.dll is missing?? Well, sort of… (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Proper Care and Feeding of Regular Expressions: Your World Examples (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Live from Øredev 2009 (Carl Franklin)
• Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010 (Brad Abrams)
• PDC09 Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp videos now online and available (Greg Duncan)
• Watch New WPF & WinForms Videos! (Jay Esguerra)
• The Outlook calendar starts in 1601 – But Why? (Laura Foy)
• Enabling Help in the Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Kathleen McGrath)
• SPC Interviews-Episode 39 (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• Office Casual – Smart Art (Tina Wood)
• Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard December CTP Instruction Video (Stephen Forte)

 

Community / Events

• IndyHall Member Profiles: Mike Nicholaides (Parker Whitney)
• Microsoft, Open Source and the CodePlex Foundation (Lawrence Moroney)

 

Database

• What can cause log reads and other transaction log questions (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Future of Business Intelligence (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press Releases "First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” for Free Download (Blake Handler)
• "Programming Pearls" (Jason Bock)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/10 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• PowerShell is all about enabling you. Even the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) can be extended (via PowerShell of course) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Responds to Windows BitLocker Claims (Paul Thurrott)
• By Extension, Chrome Battles Firefox (MG Siegler)
• Windows 7: The 64 Bit Question (Debra Shinder)
• Test-Spelling (James Brundage)
• Microformats: Boon or Bane? (Jeff Atwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 9, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 10, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #495 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 09, 2009 — #753 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 9-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman Links for December 9, 2009 (Dave Burke)

 

The Geek Shelf