Dew Drop – December 16, 2009

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Top Links

•  LINQPad updated to support Data Services! (Chris Sells)
• An Update on the FubuMVC Reboot (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Live Preview jQuery Plugin (Phil Haack)
• Open Source Success Metrics (Oren Eini)
• Building Hello MEF – Part III – XAP Partitioning (with the host’s permission) and the sweetness of recomposition. (Glenn Block)
• Architecting Silverlight 4 with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 1 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows 7 Test Drive – A New Developer Resource (Yochay Kiriaty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Thinking about the future of the Caching block (Chris Tavares)
• Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
• Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping and Entity Framework POCO (EF4): Generic Repository and Unit of Work Prototype and Unity Extension for Entity Framework POCO Configuration, Repository and Unit of Work (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Many Faces of Visual C++ (Josh Poley)
• Using Speech Synthesis in .NET 4 and Windows 7 (Pete Brown)
• Windows Azure in Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Enhancing Charts With Ajax (Scott Mitchell)
• Build a Front End of an E-commerce System Using ASP.NET MVC Framework Part 1 (Xianzhong Zhu)
• ASP.NET: Modal Dialogs and ASP.NET: Clearing Modal Dialogs (Deborah Kurata)
• Remember JScript closures capture all variables in scope (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Binding Multiple Events to Reduce Redundancy with Event-Delegation Tooltips (Karl Swedberg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Name that refactoring: 1 – Version 2 and Name that refactoring: 2 – Version 2 (Brett Schuchert)
• Don’t Be A Whiny Developer (Davy Brion)
• Customer, Problem, Competition, and Success (JD Meier)
• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Mike Hadlow)
• The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith – Fred Brooks (Mark Needham)
• Revisiting “Maintainable for whom?”, or “How to justify your crap” (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight / WPF

• Software Escrow as a Service with EPS, Silverlight and Azure (Jared Bienz)
• Contributing to the SL HVP (Jesse Liberty)
• Another Silverlight Centering Trick and Use the Right Container for ListBox Scrolling (Joel Cochran)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Reactive Extensions API in depth: Repeat (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Parallel LINQ with code samples and The Power of Parallel: Parallel Debugging with Visual Studio and Allinea DDTLite on Windows HPCS2008 (Wenming Ye)
• Jeffrey Van Gogh: Testing Rx with Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Interview Tech-Ed 2009 Berlin: Brian Keller talks about the new VS 2010 Testing Tools and Interview Tech-Ed 2009 Berlin: Steve Teixeira talks about Parallel Computing with VS 2010 and why you should take care (Oliver Scheffert)
• Herding Code 66: Brad Wilson and Scott Densmore on iPhone Development (Jon Galloway)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Dan Fernandez Full Length Interview (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Win a Pass to the Microsoft Visual Studio Launch Conference and Expo (Eve Turzillo)
• Events This Week – Last Edition for 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Badges: Positive Only (Jeff Atwood)
• MVP Releases Programming Course on Writing Computer Games (Jas Dhaliwal)
• The Open Space Conference Experience (JC Teague)
• IronRuby @ RubyConf 2009 – Part 4: Project status (Jimmy Schementi)
• Microsoft Recruits Student Bloggers With Free Software And Trips To Conferences (Leena Rao)
• Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of MIX10 (Larry Larsen)

Database

• My Perfect SQL Server Management Tool (Buck Woody)
• SQL SERVER – Fillfactor, Index and In-depth Look at Effect on Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Using PowerPivot with SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)

SharePoint

• ECM platform enhancements – Content Organizer, List Throttling, Enterprise Content Types etc. (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Using Git As a Backup Tool (Rob Conery)
• Microsoft’s Office team takes a page from the Windows play book (Mary-Jo Foley)
• I Buy Too Many Books (Davy Brion)
• Get some Windows 7 Library juju, like adding non-indexed drives, with the Win7 Library Tool (with source too!) (Greg Duncan)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/16 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Server Backup On The Cheap: Backup For Less Than $10.00 A Year (Nick Berardi)
• Get Microsoft Tinker for free via the newly-launched Games on Demand (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #499 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for December 15, 2009 — #756 (Dave Campbell)
• 20 Must Read ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery and Silverlight articles on DotNetCurry – 2009 (Minal Agarwal)
• Interesting Finds: December 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)

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