Dew Drop – December 22, 2009

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Top Links

• Cool Things to Do with Dynamics in dotNET 4 (Kevin Jones) – Kevin examines the new dynamic keyword coming in .NET 4.0 with some tips on when/how to use it.
• Magellan with Windows Forms (Paul Stovell) – Just because you have to develop with WinForms doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of MVC.
• Render Silverlight in WPF – WPF SilverlightViewport (Jeremiah Morrill) – Hosting Silverlight in a WPF app… there’s an API for that.

.NET / Visual Studio

• 6 Of My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts (Hatim Rih)
• Blogging code samples stays easy [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code for Visual Studio 2010!] (David Anson)
• Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
• High CPU in .NET app using a static Generic.Dictionary (Tess Ferrandez)
• Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
• Discovering Dallas: Part 3 (Jim O’Neil)
• How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception (Peter Kellner)
• Entity Framework troubleshooting and performance (Simon Sabin)
• Exploring Dynamic Data: Textual attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

• e-Commerce using ASP.NET MVC Framework (Ramani Sandeep)
• Using jQuery To Hijack ASP.NET MVC Form Posts (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JS Methods, static and instance (Kris Gray)
• Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Effectus: Isolated features (Oren Eini)
• 8 Ways to Be Heroic (Noah Blumenthal)
• Essential Habits Of An Effective Professional Freelancer (Rob Smith)
• Testing tips (That is testability, not TDD part 2) (Wes McClure)
• Why GUI Test Automation is Popular and Tempting? Part I – Business context (Shrini Kulkarni)
• One change at a time (Mark Needham)
• Managers Are Not Game Designers! (Jurgen Appelo)
• That Rotting Design (Kirk Knoernschild)

Silverlight / WPF

• Falling Snow in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Day #21: Rapid Silverlight Prototyping In SketchFlow (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Magellan View Engines (Paul Stovell)
• WPF Manipulation Basics (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• [Video] Spark View Engine Part 1 (Mike Ormond)
• .NET Rocks! – Eric Lawrence on Fiddler (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 1 and Channel 9 Live at PDC09: .Net Rocks Part 2 (Nic Fillingham)
• Episode 95- PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Jones from the CS Techcast on SQL (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast #4: Developing for the Cloud (David Starr)
• SharePoint 2010 Branding-Episode 40 (Rob, Nick & Brett)

Community / Events

• Chris’ Year in Review 2009 (Chris Missal)
• 3 years of Encosia, the best of 2009, and my gratitude (Dave Ward)
• Getting started at Microsoft (Jon Galloway)
• Spoke at Girl Geek Dinner – World Still Intact (Sara J. Chipps)
• Windows Azure for Microsoft Partners (Steve Clayton)

Database

• Geek City: Exploring the Transaction Log Structure (Kalen Delaney)
• SQL Azure Data Sync tool (Stephen Forte)
• SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
• Here’s a couple of helpful observations on VSeWSS 1.3 and Here’s a walkthrough building an Event Receiver in VSeWSS (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

• Is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on his way out the door in 2010? (Nicholas Kolakowski)
• Hacking PowerGUI (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• 10 things Microsoft did right in 2009 (Joe Wilcox)
• The meaning of open (Jonathan Rosenberg)
• Windows 8: LinkedIn’s Latest (Stephen Chapman)
• The 10 Tech Commandments for Employment After Age 40 (Shlomi Ben-haim)
• Latest Must Have Software (Tim Boland)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #502 and The Morning Brew #503 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for December 21, 2009 — #759 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 21-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 12/21/2009 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 124 (Rhonda Tipton)
• F# Discoveries This Week 12/21/2009 (Rick Minerich)

The Geek Shelf

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