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Dew Drop – April 16, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Just say No! to C# Regions and I still say Regions are not useful… but… (Saul Mora)
Adding the fuel gauge (Simon Brown)
Educate Developers Instead Of Protecting Them (Davy Brion)
Refactoring Project Structure is just as important as Refactoring Code (Derik Whittaker)
Piggyback on Derik Whittaker’s Post on Refactoring Project Structure (Dave Schinkel)
The Big Agile Practices Survey (Jurgen Appelo)
Survey Time! (Mike Cottmeyer)
Lessons from the Coding Dojo: Simple is Hard (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

NHibernate mapping – <database-object/> (Oren Eini)
“Is XML” Regex / Extension Method (Chris Cavanagh)
Speeding up a local build (Jimmy Bogard)
MEF: Dependencies are Queries? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Free eBooks: ADO.NET Entity Framework, Powershell & C# (Robert Muehsig)
Your Very First NHibernate Application – Part 2 (Gabriel N. Schenker)

Web Development

A new flag to optimize ASP.NET compilation behavior (David Ebbo)
JSON Compatibility Across Browsers (Saul Mora)
Custom Route Constraint in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri) – Link of the Day
Introducing new Sueetie Column: Feature Rich and Feature Rich: Gallery Server Pro – How to Create Secure Albums and Feature Rich: YetAnotherForum.NET – How to Create a Private Forum (Dave Burke)
10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks (Jean-Baptiste Jung)
Clean blend of javascript and csharp (Louis DeJardin)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight with F#: Handling Keyboard Input (John Liao)
GeoPlaces: WCFWPF app (Lester Lobo)
Poll, Don’t Wait for your Silverlight Applications (Louis Salin)
Mediator v2 for MVVM WPF and Silverlight applications (Marlon Grech)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

p&p SharePoint Development Guidance v2 – What’s in Drop 7? (Ajoy Krishnamoorthy)
ARCast.TV – Enabling Accelerators on Your Web Site (Bob Familiar)
Dimecasts.NET Episode #102: Taking a look at how to modify the T4 templates used by Sharp Architecture (Kyle Baley)
Episode 132: Top 10 Architecture Mistakes with Eoin Woods (SE-Radio Team)
Stack Overflow Podcast #49 (Jeff Atwood)
Herman Venter – The Common Compiler Infrastruture goes Open Source (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

Microsoft MSDN Events Unleashed – IE 8 and Windows 7 Development (Angela Binkowski)
I’m an ASP Insider (Simone Chiaretta) – Congrats, Simo!
Comments: Now with Flags and Votes (Jeff Atwood)

SharePoint

Database

Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 White Paper Released (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

Atlona’s Wireless USB to HDMI Video Adapter. FTW! (Everything USB)
Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "Desktop Time Tracker" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
My MSDN Flash Editorial for April 13, 2009 (Dave Bost)
Comma Quibbling (Eric Lippert)
Where is the Xbox 360 Lite? (Steve Tibbett)
Microsoft uncovers details on Office 2010 (Taimur Asad)
Does Windows Azure Support Java? and Programming Language Interoperability in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
Zune HD Specs, What We Do & Don’t Know (Ryan Rea)
SkyDrive Adds New Silverlight-Enabled Features and Qik for Windows Mobile Updated (Sarah Perez)
Mockups 1.6 Release: Linking Mockups, and More! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Office 2010 announced (Mark Harrison)
Installing Visual SVN Server (Kevin Miller)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 15, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #328 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 15, 2009 — #571 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for April 15th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

The Art of Agile Development: James Shore, Shane Warden: Books

ISBN: 0596527675
ISBN-13: 9780596527679

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Dew Drop – April 15, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

5 More Random Gotchas with the WPF DataGrid (Vincent Sibal)
Silverlight Simple Animation (Charlie Calvert)
Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Styling Part 7.2 (Chris Anderson)
Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF – An Overdue Summary (and full source code) (Eran Kampf)
Debugging XAML (Brian Lagunas)
ViKi Version 0.0.01 (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

Libraries Under the Hood (Yochay Kiriaty)
An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Using the Query Syntax (Scott Mitchell)
NHibernate Mapping – Concurrency (Oren Eini)
Exploring the Z3 Theorem Prover (with a bit of LINQ) and C# 4.0 Feature Focus – Part 4 – Co- and Contra-Variance for Generic Delegate and Interface Types (Bart de Smet)
Creating a Utility Framework (Arian Kulp)
CCI – the new open-source metadata reader (David Kean)
NServiceBus 1.9 RTM (Udi Dahan)
Simplifying TFS: Applying hot fixes without branching (Oleg Sych)

Web Development

Native JSON in IE8, Firefox 3.5 plus Json.NET (James Newton-King)
Free Chapter of ASP.NET MVC Book (Frank La Vigne)
Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack) – Link of the Day
Tip # 52: Did you know… When deploying your ASP.NET web application, debug=false should be set in web.config (Anh Phan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Communication is Optional (Josh Poley)
The Big Agile Practices Survey (Jurgen Appelo)
Lean: Big Picture over Local Optimisations (Mark Needham)
The Enterprise Architecture Books Being Read By Enterprise Architects (Mike Walker)
Some Fundamentals of Service Oriented Architecture (Mike Hadlow)
BDD with RSpecCucumberIronRuby. (Andy Stopford)
AutoMapper feature: interfaces and dynamic mapping (Jimmy Bogard)
Know Your Enemy (Gregory Long)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Bob Beauchemin Gets Spatial in SQL Server 2008! (Carl Franklin)
Expert to Expert: Amitabh Srivastava – Windows Azure and Cloud Computing (Charles Torre)
New Webcast: Developing Windows Services (Dan Rigsby)
Dimecasts.NET Episode #101: Building a Nant Script — Part 4: Adding fxCop to your build script (Derik Whittaker)
Building Controls in Silverlight – Lessons from the Silverlight Toolkit Team (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: What’s New in Silverlight 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Chad Fowler on the Passionate Programmer (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Community / Events

Congrats to Tim for being voted in as an ASPInsider (Derik Whittaker)
Lang.NET 2009 (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

Rebuild master and restore system databases from complete disk failure and Add Report Wizard Layout Style (Standard Company Style) (Ted Krueger)
Default Dates in SSRS Reports (pmch22)

Miscellaneous

Your NPR Name (Liana Maeby)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
Confirmed: Office 2010 will come in 32-bit, 64-bit flavors (Emil Protalinski)
Two free e-books available in April (Devon Musgrave)
Mogulus releases Procaster live streaming app (Jay Hathaway)
Ad Agencies vie for “Pink” campaign: Zune enabled phones coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
Addressing the confusion around Windows 7 ‘build forking’ and Modding the WDTV (Paul Thurrott)
Why All The Zune Leaks? The Buzz Is Deafening! (Ryan Rea)
How to hyperlink specific words in your CodePlex wiki? – #016 (Sara Ford)
If you actually put your laptop on your lap, this is a must have (Scott Lock)
It’s Office 2010: First technical previews due in Q3 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
v0.4 of Small Basic says "Bonjour" (Vijaye G.)
There is Only One Feed Reader – Google (Zoli Erdos)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #327 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 14, 2009 — #570 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for April 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Interesting Finds: 2009 04.10~04.15 (yuanjian)
CloudNews for April 14th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Creators Club Communiqué 24 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Test Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Kent Beck: Books

ISBN: 0321146530
ISBN-13: 9780321146533

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