Dew Drop – July 18, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 3 – All About Actions (Rob Eisenberg)
• Microsoft Licensing Changes for IronRuby and IronPython (Miguel de Icaza)
• Sterling OODB v0.1 Alpha Released! (Jeremy Likness)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Facebook C# SDK" Announced for Microsoft Visual Studio Developers (Blake Handler)
• Debugging Distributed Transactions: Fault Handling (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Code Contracts – Generating documentation (Dennis Delimarsky)
• IronRuby – Release v1.1 and IronPython – Release v2.7 Alpha 1 (CodePlex)
• Full Screen Mode (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• MVC IsAuthorized and AuthorizedActionLink (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET Output Cache Provider (Gil Fink)
• Chirpy Attains Godlike Bird-Power In Version 1.0.0.4 (Evan Nagle)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Writing off a badly executed practice (Mark Needham)
• The art of community leadership (Brian Ahier)
• Which Language Do You Code In? (Davy Brion)
• Windows Phone Test Framework (UnitTest, UITest, PerformanceTest) – Release v0.5.1.0 (CodePlex)
• Coded UI Test – Tip 2 – Assertions (Shai Raiten)
• Nu and the OSS dependency nightmare (Dru Sellers)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Tutorial: Updating your Windows Phone Splash Screen with Transparent Images (Jason Zander)
• Windows Phone 7 will not feature Windows Live Sync at launch (Michael Gillett)
• Teaching An Old Control New Tricks With Templates (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone–a 8.5 minute video (Rob Relyea)
• Real-world MVVM Presentation from DDDSydney (Paul Stovell)
• Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers (Louis Lazaris)
• Windows Weekly 165: I’ve Said Too Much (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• What to do before OSCON (Kevin Shockey)
• The Great Much More Signal, Much Less Noise Challenge of 2010 (Jesse Liberty)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Quickstart Downloads from Microsoft (Pinal Dave)
• Order By Does Not Always Guarantee Sort Order (Adam Haines)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 7 Tip of the Week: Get a Free Power Efficiency Report for Your PC (Paul Thurrott)
• What then, is b? (Leon Bambrick)
• Swype spotted swiftly slinging fingers across Windows 7 screens? (Sean Hollister)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Linkblogging: Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Expression Web 3.0 and 4.0 Articles Link List (Minal Agarwal)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault