Dew Drop – January 5, 2010

…and we’re back! Sorry for the outage over the last 36 hours. Here’s yesterday’s Dew Drop. I’ll probably skip 01/06 and come back with an XL version of the Dew tomorrow. Thanks for reading/clicking! 

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Top Links

• Changing Visual Studio’s Color Palette (Matthew Johnson) – An addin for VS2010 to work around the lack of built-in themes for the IDE.
• Essential F# DZone Refcard by Chance Coble & Ted Neward (Greg Duncan)
• T4MVC 2.6.10: fluent route value API, shorter way to refer to action, and more (David Ebbo)
• MVC Integration Changes in Autofac Beta 2.1.6 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• What the Office team will be talking about at CES (Rachel Bondi)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Open .sln File as Elevated User (Jason Haley)
• NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• BOOK : Murach’s C++ 2008 (Joe Stagner)
• Overloading Dynamic (Justin Etheredge)
• Creating WCF Service using Workflow 4.0 Beta 2 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• F#: Expressing intent and the forward/application operators (Mark Needham)
• AutoMapFilter meet IJoinedFilter (Wes McClure)

Web Development

• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC (Rob Conery)
• BOOK – ASP.NET 4.0 by Joydip Kanjilal (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• UI Automation tools snake oil? (Jimmy Bogard)
• Don’t Strive For Perfection (Davy Brion)
• BDD in .NET with Cucumber part 3: Scenario outlines and tabular templates (Gojko Adzic)
• Production profiling security considerations (Oren Eini)
• Agile Tenet #7 – Usable Doc as a Measure of Progress (Julie Stickler)
• FubuMVC Diagnostics Sneak Peek (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A web store using FubuMVC and CQRS and Test Driven Spikes (TDS) (Mark Nijhof)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extending the SLHVP Player to be a Platform (Jesse Liberty)
• Bing Maps 3D, WPF, and Windows 7 MultiTouch (Marc Schweigert)
• Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight – Navigate to a specific Page using a Hyperlink (Fredrik Normén)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Pixel8 Podcast – ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta with Stephen Walther (Craig Shoemaker)
• Pluralcast #5: The Lean Sensei (David Starr)

Community / Events

• The Virtual PowerShell Group (Joel Bennett)
• Northeast Roadshow: Finding Developer Help (Chris Bowen)
• Community Coding Contest 2010 – Looking for Input and Prizes (Chris Pietschmann)
• Stack Overflow: Where We Hate Fun (Jeff Atwood)
• Predictions for 2010 Part I- Beyond .NET (Stephen Forte)
• 2010 Predictions, 2009 Predictions Revisited (Ted Neward)
• January 2010 Silverlight MVPs (Tim Heuer)
• Should PASS hold the conference on the East coast (Simon Sabin) – Yes!  🙂
• Help Silverlight win a 2009 Crunchie for Best Technology Achievement (Silverlight Team)
• MVC 2 in Action book conducting public reviews (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Byebye 2009, welcome 2010! (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• SQLPSX v2 – PowerShell for SQL Server has been PowerShell 2’ed (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server RDL Specification (Pinal Dave)
• TSQL Challenge – Remove duplicates from a string (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Azure CTP Testers Can Upgrade Their Accounts To Paid Commercial Subscriptions Starting Today (Denis Gobo)
• MySQL, Oracle And Cloud Computing (Krishnan Subramanian)

SharePoint

• Planning for Upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Using Windows 7 GodMode to create keyboard shortcuts to settings (James Clarke)
• First Cousins Once Removed (Eric Lippert)
• The 50 Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials from 2009 (Frank La Vigne)
• Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes (Tianjie (James) Wei)
• Oh, no. My TortoiseSVN overlays are missing (Sergio Pereira)
• Case of the Missing PC Speaker Beep in x64 Win7 (Larry Larsen)
• An Exercise in De-Obfuscation (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

• Tech Tweets for 4-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #510 (Chris Alcock)
• Independent Consultant Notes: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• A Feed You Should Read #18 – F# Discoveries This Week (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)