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Dew Drop – January 18, 2009

.NET / Visual Studio

Lanuage Envy – String Interpolation (Sergio Pereira)
Why Oslo Is Important (Dan Vanderboom) – Link of the Day
Building WCF Services with F#, Part 1 (Ted Neward)
I Don’t Really See the Problem with NHibernate’s XML Mapping Files (Davy Brion)

Web Development

DevEvents – LINQ to SQL Model Binding in .NET MVC (Steve Andrews)
Hyper-Video Videos Posted and The Header Content Control (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Estimating and Planning (Jeff McWherter)
How to Unit Test This Code? (Scott Dorman)
Significant Advances in Unit Testing Windows Workflow (Michael Kennedy)
Design Principles (Laila Bougria)

Database

SQL Server – Difference Between Index Scan and Index Seek and CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors (Pinal Dave)
Converting Dates in SQL Server (Rhonda Tipton)
Too Many Indexes! (Kalen Delaney)

Miscellaneous

Hyper-V and Windows 2008 Workstation and Hyper-V – Enable Sleep / Hibernate and Hyper-V and Wireless Networks and Hyper-V Monitor Gadget for Windows Sidebar and Hyper-V and Sound and Hyper-V and Virtualization Support for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Mark Harrison)
Technical Books to Read in 2009 (Grant Palin)
PowerShell P/Invoke Walkthrough (Lee Holmes)

More Link Collections

Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #14 – January 18, 2009 (Bob McIlree)
Interesting Finds: January 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Links (1/18/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Links of the Week #68 (David Vidmar)

Book of the Day

Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series): Mike Cohn: Books

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Dew Drop – January 17, 2009

Web Development

jQuery, JSON, and ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 4 and Part 4a and Part 4b (Julian M. Bucknall)
DomainDataSource Server Control: LINQ + Code Generation (Nikhil Kothari)
SYTYAWD #4 Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript (Jeff McWherter)
Abstracting Request State (Davy Brion)
Use an Envelope Element in RESTful WCF Service Response (Keyvan Nayyeri)
The Yield Statement in C# (Michael Ceranski)

.NET / Visual Studio

Using LINQ with Unfriendly Collections (Simon Sabin)
January CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released (Steve Marx)
Real World Apps in Days not Weeks (Scott Hanselman)
Windows Azure SDK on Windows 7 Beta (David L.)
How to Convert PDF to Image Using Ghostscript API (Lord TaGoH)
Hard Lessons Learned from ClickOnce (Jeremy Jarrell)
Deep Fried F# (Chris Smith)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #3: Configuring Our Application (Eric Gunnerson)
C#, Lambdas, Closures, Value Types (Mike Taulty)
Named Format Strings (James Hart)
First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I Love It!!! (Peter Kellner)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 2 Popup Menu (Philip Kin)
Updated SLS Plugin for Encoder Available (Tim Heuer)
CodePlex, Now with Silverlight (John Stockton)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #82 – How to Implement Double Click (Mike Snow)
Command Helper Classes for Silverlight & WPF (Nick Kramer)
Perenthia, a Silverlight-Based RPG in Beta (Adam Kinney)
Prism V2 – Drop 9 Now Available (Bob Brumfield)
Friday Books – Silverlight 2 in Action (Dave M. Bush)
Tutorial #11: Creating a Navigation in Silverlight (Jeff Blankenburg)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Ux Tip 2 – UX Review (Corey Miller)
Named Formats Pex Testimonium (Jonathan de Halleux)
Getting Results From Software Development Teams (Gunnar Peipman)
The Big Redesign in the Sky (Uncle Bob Martin)
12 Useful Web Tools for Designers (Jacob Gube)
The Danger of Commenting Out Code and YAGNI: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)
DDD: The Generic Repository (Greg Young)
Future-Proofing a Design (Eric Lippert) – Link of the Day
Test Case Reuse (in the Future) (James Whittaker)
Hanselminutes Podcast 146 – Test Driven Development Is Design – The Last Word on TDD (Scott Hanselman)
The Aggressive Class vs The Laid Back Class (Chris Missal)
Eric Evans on Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
Code Refactoring – Freaking Awesome (Mike Bernat)

SharePoint

SPSiteBuilder 3.0 Re-released with Source (Keith Richie)
Five Steps to More Successful SharePoint Solutions (Gunnar Peipman)

Database

Using Fluent NHibernate to Map Composite Keys for a Table (Derik Whittaker)
How to Implement a TypeOf Operator in SQL by Using sql_variant_property (Denis Gobo)

.NET Community / Events

TCSWeekly, A New Client-Focused Show on Channel 9 (Adam Kinney)
A New Side Project – Geeks Without Borders (James Johnson)
Follow Up: Developer Dinner on Silverlight Business Applications (Marc Schweigert)
MSDN Developer Conference – WOW! (G. Andrew Duthie) – It was a really great event. My full wrap-up post is coming soon!
Silverlight Tip of the Day #83 – Go to MIX09 (Mike Snow)

PowerShell

How to Make Your Own Module Repository and Using PowerShell to Protect Against Conficker (Enabling and Disabling AutoRun.inf) (James Brundage)
Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7 (Lilia Gutnik)
XML Part 1: Playing wit RSS Feeds and XML Content (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

Search Twitter with Windows 7’s Federated Search (Lee Matthews)
User Account Control (UAC) – Quick Update (Windows Team)
Video Demonstration: The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Adam Pash)
My 2009 Top 10 Technology Hit List (Russell Ball)
What I Use (January 2009 Update) (Paul Thurrott)
Planet of the Apes Font (Mark Frauenfelder)
Hire the Best: Architecture (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Top 10 Things to Learn – 2009 Edition (Arjan Zuidhof)
Live Mesh Team Joins Windows/Windows Live Org (Kip Kniskern)
Google Chrome Installation and Updates (Ian Fette)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for January 15, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 16, 2009 and LINKBLOG for January 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Daily Find #117 (Tim Boland)
CloudNews for January 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Visual Studio Links #100 (Darren Stokes)
Links (1/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight Cream for January 15, 2009 — #487 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 — #488 and Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2009 – 2 — #489 (Dave Campbell)
Link Listing – January 15, 2009 (Christopher Steen)
The Morning Brew #266 (Chris Alcock)
Discoveries This Week 01/16/2009 (Rick Minerich)
Silverlight News for January 16, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
Interesting Finds: January 16, 2009 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Interesting Finds: 2009.01.15 ~ 01.17 (yuanjian)
SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 7 (Denis Gobo)

Book of the Day

Silverlight 2 in Action: Chad Campbell, John Stockton: Books

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