Dew Drop – April 19, 2010

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Top Links

• Effective exercises for teaching TDD (Gojko Adzic)
• Twitter Goes Anywhere With New API (Adam DuVander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Some introductory Rx samples (Bart de Smet)
• SqlClient Default Protocol Order (Luiz Fernando Santos)
• Design Time Code Generation and Runtime Model-Driven Generation (Rockford Lhotka)
• Close the Current Document Window and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding labels to Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• Advice for Aspiring ASP.NET Web Developers (Mike Ceranski)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD & Functional Testing: from collections to scalars (Brian Marick)
• Double Dispatch is a Code Smell (Derek Greer)
• Getting Results the Agile Way: A Word from the Author (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• Getting Started with Expression Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Printing Support in Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 357: We say good bye to Original Xbox support for LIVE and more (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2010 Summit @ AIIM Expo (SharePoint Team)

Database

• SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Books Online (MS Downloads)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (18/30) FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Find Most Active Database in SQL Server – DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Sharepoint Planning Guide and SharePoint Foundation Operations (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Import file to change group membership (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Daily Dose – Apple, Google, Intel, IBM Hiring Practices Under Investigation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Network Warrior – Only $9.99 use code DDNWE (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 19, 2010 – AM Edition (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #582 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/19/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 — #840 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 141 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links of the week #116 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship