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Dew Drop – July 10, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft Robotics Studio – Not Just for Robots! (Julie Lerman)
Classes That Show Up in Every Project (Jeremy D. Miller)
Coverity Introduces New Static Analysis Solution for C# (Martin Steve)
PHPLinq as Cool as Real LINQ? (Mike Borozdin)

Events / Community

Philly ALT.NET – Thursday July 17 – Building Maintainable Apps with WPF (Brian Donahue)
DC ALT.NET – 7/24/2008 – LINQ Deep Dive with Scott Allen (Matthew Podwysocki)
Philly.NET – July 16, 2008 – An Evening with Billy Hollis: WPF + Silverlight (Bill Wolff)
July Agile Boot Camp Filling Up Quick – Reserve Your Spot Now (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF

The Silverlight 2.0 Security Model (Dino Esposito) – Link of the Day
How to Test Your WPF Applications (jytylr)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Your Software Can’t Heal Itself (Justin Etheredge)
Are You Sure Added and Refactored Code Is Covered By Tests? (Patrick Smacchia)

SQL Server

Microsoft to Deliver SQL Server 2008 in August (Steven Bink)
Query Analyzer or Management Studio? (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

DirectX 11 to Get Announced This Month (Steven Bink)
The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 1 and Part 2 (Andrew Connell)
iTunes Is Anti-Web (Jeff Atwood)

Blogging

Podcast #13 – stackoverflow (Jeff Atwood)
Can Google Docs Work for Live Blogging? (Josh Lowensohn)

Web Development

Waegis – The Web Cleaner (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Aggiorno, the Italian Colleague You’ve Always Wanted (Peter Eysermans)
jQuery Goodness and ASP.NET AJAX – Take II (Schalk Neethling)

SharePoint

Writing Performant Code in SharePoint (Joris Poelmans)
How to Create Rounded Corners for Web Part Title Bars (Heather Solomon)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: July 9, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for July 9, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
WMOC#10 – Composite Application Guidance for WPF Is Out and WSOAC#23 – Convenience Over Correctness Debate and WSDAC#10 – VB Futures (Dilip Krishnan)
Daily Find #86 (Tim Boland)
Silverlight News for July 10, 2008 (Ilia Iordanov)
New and Notable 250 (Sam Gentile)
Silverlight Cream for July 09, 2008 — #321 (Dave Campbell)
Visual Studio Links #48 (Darren Stokes)
The Morning Brew #133 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications: John Robbins: Books

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Dew Drop – July 9, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

An Amazing Introduction to NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling (Tony Davis)
DimeCast #20 – Testing Abstract Classes with Rhino Mocks (Derik Whittaker)
A Sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder and Non Paged CLR Host (Roy Osherove)
Mocking the LINQ to SQL Data Context (Andrew Tokeley)
Code Generation in Visual Studio Using T4 Templates – Screencast and Sample (David Hayden)
Keeping LINQ Code Healthy (K. Scott Allen)
Use This NHibernate Wrapper to Keep Your Repository Classes Simple (Jeffrey Palermo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Spartan Programming (Jeff Atwood)
Design Patterns – A Deep Dive 3 (Sunny Chaganty)
Taking on Dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)
Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators (Dave Laribee)
Testing the NuSoft Framework (Joel Ross)

Silverlight / WPF

Tip: Maximal and Minimal Zoom Level in the MultiscaleImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)
Tip of the Day #15 – Communicating Between JavaScript and Silverlight (Mike Snow)
Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player (David)
Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Video Blog: TooltipService and Custom ToolTip (Corey Miller)
Newton Physics Extensions for WPF (Chris Cavanagh)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Tip #15 – Pass Browser Cookies and Server Variables as Action Parameters (Stephen Walther)
Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows (Karl Swedberg)
Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls (Joe Stagner)
SubSonic 2.1 Released (Rob Conery)
User Input in Sheep’s Clothing (Phil Haack)

SharePoint

Custom Event Content Type (Becky Bertram)
Branding SharePoint – Part 3: Changing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Components – Intro and Web Parts (Heather Solomon)

SQL Server

Did You Know the History of SQL Server? (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

jpboodhoo.com Launches (finally)!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Everyone Could Use a SecondBrain (Bob Walsh)
3 More Ways to Supercharge Firefox (Mike Gunderloy)
The Microsoft Certified Architect Program (Bill Zack)
Recipe for Making an MVP (Charles Sterling)

Link-O-Rama

Daily Find #85 (Tim Boland)
Interesting Finds: July 8, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Links (7/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight News for July 9. 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 — #320 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #132 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action: Building Dynamic Web Portals (In Action): Darren Neimke: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, asp.net mvc, asp.net ajax, silverlight, wpf, sql server, nhibernate, jquery, nusoft, ndepend

Dew Drop – July 8, 2008

Design / Methodology

Entities and the Law of Demeter (Jimmy Bogard)
TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part 1 (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
Incremental Migration (Martin Fowler)

Silverlight / WPF

Great User Experience Example in a Business Application (Brad Abrams)
Hanselminutes Podcast 120 – The Odd Couple – A Developer and a Designer Talk About Working with XAML (Scott Hanselman)
P[e]op[le]Fly (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

Recursing Into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion (Matthew Podwysocki)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 5: Developing .NET Software on a Mac (Keith Elder)
Some RichTextBox Tricks (Patrick Smacchia)
The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization (Jason Kemp)
Scale Cheaply – Memcached (Karl Seguin)
Long Paths in .NET, Part 3 of 3 Redux (Kim Hamilton)
Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 2: Cache<KEY, VALUE> (Chad Myers)

C#/VB Pursefight

Declaring Event Handlers in C# Is Just Painful, Prove Me Wrong Please (Chris Love)
Creating Event Handlers in C# – The Definitive Guide (Keith Elder)

Web Development

ASP.NET Hacks (lessthandot)
Waegis Will Be Live Tomorrow (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Kill Your Users Table (Schalk Neethling)
HTTP Request Flow Diagram (Simone Chiaretta)

SQL Server

An Introduction to New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

Events / Community

User Groups This Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
Northern NJ .NET User’s Group Meeting: July 8, 2008 (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous

You Don’t Need a Muse: How to Get Your Work Done When You’re Not Inspired (Celine Roque)
Might Microsoft’s Midori Be ‘Cairo’ Revisited? (Mary Jo Foley)
Identi.ca Gets a Reply Tab, Actually Becomes Useful (Sarah Perez)
Is This the Time That 3D Sticks? (Robert Scoble)
Bash vs PowerShell (Jeffrey Snover)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: July 7, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Morning Coffee 166 (Harry Pierson)
Silverlight News for July 8, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
LINKBLOG for July 7, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2008 — #319 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #131 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf: Books

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