Dew Drop – December 11, 2009

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Top Links

•  Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Coming Soon (Doug Holland) – Good news for fans of Richter’s MS Press book.
• Usability Testing For Free (Tobin Harris) – Cool site where you can have people test drive your web app and provide feedback.
• Benchmarking a simple DOM based cloning template (Scott Koon) – Check your performance when working with a large DOM.
• ASP.NET MVC – 0 to 30 in 30 minutes (Nick Berardi) – A video tutorial by Nick, created for DevReady.NET.
• Deploying your Silverlight and WCF RIA Services application (Tim Heuer) – Deployment: the part of the SDLC many people ignore until it’s starting them in the face.
• The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail (Scott Hanselman) – Get your Inbox(es) organized!
• Run Google Wave Inside Thunderbird 3 (Kevin Purdy) – Great trick using the new tabbed UI in Thunderbird.

.NET / Visual Studio

• Handling complex security conditions with Rhino Security (Oren Eini)
• Castle Windsor new feature – dynamic parameters from registration site (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
• Constraints are not part of the signature (Eric Lippert)
• Reflection on a method with an out parameter (Peter Blum)
• Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard Product Roadmap (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

• Running ASP.NET applications from a remote share (Jason Grundy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Challenging requirements (Gojko Adzic)
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – A Review (Gregory Long)
• Are Extension Methods a Code Smell (Kevin Jones)
• Entity Framework Profiler: The new look (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Releases Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (Blake Handler)
• WCF NET.TCP Protocol in Silverlight 4 (Radenko Zec)
• StatLight – Goes Open Source (Jason Jarrett)
• Creating an Image from PixelShaders in Silverlight and WPF (Corey Miller)
• New WPF Showcase: Scrum Sprint Monitor (Jay Esguerra)
• Resizing images from the server using WPF/WIC instead of GDI+ (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Use XamlReader.Load for WPF XAML (not XamlServices.Load) (Michael Shim)
• Silverlight 4 – More on Capturing Video from WebCams (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight for Point Of Sale (POS) applications (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN geekSpeak: Using SharePoint Server as a Development Platform with Paul Stork and SQL Server 2008 R2 Support for Up to 256 Logical Processors and Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions and Got Memory Leaks? Find Errors Using Intel Parallel Studio (MS Podcasts)
• MVPs Talk Visual Studio 2010 at Dev Connections 2009 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Graham Hutton – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 11 of 13 (Charles Torre)
• Behind the Windows 7 Startup Animation (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Tools Ecosystem Summit Videos Now Available! (Weston Hutchins)
• Juan Chen and Nikhil Swamy: FINE, a Compiler for End-to-End Security Verification (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Reactive Extensions API in depth: CombineLatest (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• What should I work on next? (Oren Eini)

Database

• Fun and games with Reporting Services expressions (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX: Cannot drop server because it is used as a Distributor in replication (Pinal Dave)
• The Dark Sides of Consolidation (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Press Releases "First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” for Free Download (Blake Handler)
• Restructuring AD groups (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Acquires Sentillion (Roberto Ruggeri)
• Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #496 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 10, 2009 — #754 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Links (12/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Interesting Finds: December 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Thursday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
• Creators Club Communiqué 34 (Kathleen Sanders)

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