Dew Drop – August 27, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a PDF with C# and iTextSharp (Tom Hearn)
• C# Event Accessors (Richard Carr)
• Popfly Parting Present (Ben Anderson) – Link of the Day
• Fun With Method Missing and C# 4 (Phil Haack)
• The TryThis method (John Teague)
• QuickGraph 3.3: Easy interop with Delegate Graphs (Jonathan de Halleux)
• COM Interop Gets Much Better in C# 4.0 (Joydip Kanjilal)
• ADO.NET Data Services Logical Operators (Deepak Kapoor)
• LINQ: Porting jQuery’s Each (Steve Andrews)
• Starter Project Templates (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Plus (+) in .NET Class Names (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

 

Web Development

• Google Releases New Static Maps API (Andres Ferrate)
• Simplovation Web.Maps.VE v3.0 Now With FREE Edition! (Chris Pietschmann)
• Test Swarm Alpha Open (John Resig)
• How to deal with invalid characters in SOAP responses from ASP.NET web services (Stefan Gossner)
• Testing URL Generation on Routes in MVC Framework (Tim Barcz)
• Following up on some of the attention [Live sample posted and a *very* small tweak to the Html5Canvas source code!] (David Anson)
• LINQ and the ASP.NET Repeater control (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC – Is WebForms the VisiCalc of Web Development? (Joe Stagner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Before There Was Lean, Agile Or Waterfall There Was Theory X, Y And Z (Alan Skorkin)
• Agile in the Very Large – Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Session Level Cache (Davy Brion)
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: The Session Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 4: Combinatorial Variation Generation APIs (Ivo Manolov)
• Pop Quiz: .NET Integers, Unit Testing, and Boundary Checking (Steve Andrews)
• Zero Defects In Software, Setting a Higher Bar (Tim Barcz)
• Pair Programming: Observations on anti-patterns and Coupling and Expressiveness (Mark Needham)
• TDD Master Class Day # 3 – “What I learned today” (Roy Osherove)
• Refactoring Day 26 : Remove Double Negative (Sean Chambers)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• LINQ to Bing, Silverlight and .NET RIA Services (Nikhil Kothari)
• Showcase Silverlight Apps for Talks and Demos (Adam Kinney)
• WPF 3D Chromium Browser (Chris Cavanagh)
• Creating a highlighting text block for Silverlight 3, revisited and A Silverlight HighlightingTextBlock implemented in Visual Basic and Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines (Jeff Wilcox)
• Silverlight and localizing string data (Tim Heuer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex? (Carl Franklin)
• Code Cast 30 – Story Teller with Jeremy Miller (David Starr)
• Dan Pink: Rethinking the ideology of carrots and sticks (Garr Reynolds)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #2- Astoria (Stephen Forte)
• Validation in Silverlight 3 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Async Messaging and the Barbarian Hordes (Harry Pierson)

 

Community / Events

• Understanding the MVP Program – Part 1 (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Author news: Interview with CodePlex’s Sara Ford (Devon Musgrave)
• Silverlight 3 Firestarter Event Streamed Live (Mike Ormond)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Azure (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
• The Remote Desktop Experience on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
• What’s in a Word? From Science to Software (Jurgen Appelo)
• Using the XBox360 Preset to Encode HD Content (Eric Juteau)
• RTM’d today: Windows 7 Inside Out (Sandra Haynes)
• Bing Translation Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Apple’s culture of lies, Part 2: A different way of looking at it (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 26, 2009 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #421 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2009 — #675 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for 26th August, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• New and Notable 363 (Sam Gentile)

 

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