Dew Drop – December 23, 2009

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Top Links

• Free C# Legacy Chapters (Jim Minatel) – Get get free PDF chapters from Wrox’ Professional C#.
• How to mock extension methods (Daniel Cazzulino) – “without paying for a TypeMock Isolator license to do it 😉 “
• AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem (Jimmy Bogard) – Jimmy talks about some of the things he’s like to change about AutoMapper’s design.
• Comparing Resource Dictionaries in Unit Tests (Christopher Bennage) – A test Christopher came up with while working on ÜberProf.
• Entity Framework Podcast and Unit Testing Video (Muhammad Mosa) – Really nice video about EF… highly recommend you check it out.
• Limited Time Expression Holiday Promotion in the US (Silverlight Team) – Get 30% off Expression 3 products!

.NET / Visual Studio

• Traceability in VS2010 (Clemens Reijnen)
• POCO Proxies Part 1 (Jeff Derstadt & Diego Vega)
• Resetting Visual Studio Experimental Instance to its super-clean initial state (Daniel Cazzulino)

Web Development

• IE 6, 7, 8 Only CSS (Kris Gray)
• Performance of JavaScript Looping Techniques (Elijah Manor)
• Guided Tour: jQuery – Array wannabes (Sergio Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Review: Clean Code (Grant Palin)
• Agile Tenet #3 – Deliver Frequently and Agile Tenet #4 – Work Together Daily (Julie Stickler)
• The Static Spider Web Pattern (Justin Etheredge)
• Fidelity – The Lost Dimension of the Iron Triangle (Karl Scotland)
• Duke Nukem Forever & Reworking code (Mark Needham)
• You know what they say about assuming (Joel Cochran)
• How QuickNet Found 2 Bugs That You And I Didn’t (Davy Brion)
• Understanding The Application Controller Through Object Messaging Patterns (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF

• Blacklight v4.3(Dec09) released (Martin Grayson)
• Day #22: Using The Farseer Physics Engine in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Working with Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Buttons with WPF 4 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight exception handling using WCF RIA Services and WCF Services (Fredrik Normen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for web developers, part 1 of 2 and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 for web developers, part 2 of 2 and ASP.NET MVC, part 1 of 2 and ASP.NET MVC, part 2 of 2 and Silverlight 4.0 (The Swedish Web Team)
• MSDN Flash Podcast 018 – IronPython (Eric Nelson)
• Francesco Logozzo – Static Checking with Code Contracts for .NET (Jonathan de Halleux)
• InfoPath 2010 – Customize a SharePoint List Form (Nick Dallett)
• Jafar Husain: Silverlight Toolkit and Rx, Part 1 (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Research Celebrates 2009 (Rob Knies)
• How our Customer Experience Improvement Program improved Gibraltar 2.1 (Kendall Miller)
• Twitter Killed the jQuery Star (Elijah Manor)

Database

• SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Clause and TOP WITH TIES (Pinal Dave)
• Explore BI Features of SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Design Patterns: Entry 2.5 (Charles Chen)
• BDC Meta Man 4.0.0.7 Released Yesterday (Lightning Tools)
• Santa’s SharePoint Governance Strategy (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• The Top 10 URL Shortening Services (Garin Kirkpatrick)
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 SDK (Hemant Mahawar)
• HOW TO: Boost Your Resume Over the Winter Break (David Spinks)
• Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007 (Ed Bott)
• …and the rest of the 2009 Most Searched goes to… (Kristin Meldahl)
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Secrets of Social Media Marketing (Dave Burke)
• Powershell: Load assembly without locking file. (Jason Jarrett)
• A peek behind the scenes at Hotmail (Arthur de Haan)
• Adding list of users to group (Dmitry Sotnikov)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #504 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #102 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 22, 2009 — #760 (Dave Campbell)
• Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)