Tag: bdd

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2008 Built-in C# Code Snippets Cheat Sheet (John Sheehan)
• Retrieving Text from Win32 SDK’s GetLastError() in C# (Tom Hearn)
• first impressions: ndjango updated to the new f# ctp (Alex Pedenko)
• Security Policy in the v4 CLR (Shawn Farkas)
• Model-First Development with Entity Framework 4.0 (?) (Bobby Johnson)
• Visual Studio 2010 and DSL Toolkit SDK Beta Now Available (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Day Two FAQ (Charles Sterling)
• Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier via Coding4Fun)
• DynamicDataTable, Part 0 (Curt Hagenlocher)
• Visual Studio 2010: Extension Manager (Dan Rigsby)
• .Net Framework 4.0: System.Linq.Parallel (Gunnar Peipman)
• Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Updated Entity Framework Documentation for Beta1 (EF User Education Team)
• POCO in the Entity Framework: Part 1 – The Experience (Faisal Mohamood)
• Encrypting Data in .NET Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• In Foof We Trust: A Dialogue (Eric Lippert)
• VS2010 Tutorial: Build a WPF App (Step 1) (Jason Zander)
• Surface Development Part 4: Reacting to Physical Objects (Jennifer Marsman)
• ReSharper vs. CodeRush+Refactor! Pro – The Battle Begins (Jimmy)
• Virtual code execution via IL interpretation (Mike Stall)
• The much improved EDM Wizard Pluralization in VS2010 and Complex Types in the EDM Designer in EF4 and a look at updating complex types in code and Customizing EDM Code Gen in EF4 and VS2010 Code Editor helps you navigate around your code (Julie Lerman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta Screen Shots (Kirstin Juhl)
• Entity Framework minimum permission considerations (Muhammad Mosa)
• A quick analyze of the .NET Fx v4.0 Beta1 (Patrick Smacchia)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Extensibility Forum (Quan To)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML in .NET 4 (Adam Kinney)
• Running Blend 3.0 with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 (Charles Sterling)
• The Control Local Values Bug Solution and new WPF 4.0 related APIs (Vincent Sibal)
• 3 essentials to quickly learning Blend (Corey Schuman)
• Why do some WPF projects build differently in VS vs MsBuild? (Rob Relyea)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 Beta 1 and IIS App Pools (Chris Cavanagh)
• Get last-modified header from response in ASP.NET (Mads Kristensen)
• Twitter from ASP.NET – Retrieving Statuses (Dave M. Bush)
• Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Scaling JavaScript to Large Web Applications (Ian Fette)
• PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Joris Poelmans)
• Don’t use Response.End() with OutputCache (Rick Strahl)
• Sending ELMAH Errors Via GMail (Scott Mitchell)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• IoC/DI should be about creating Loosely coupled code, not testable code (Derik Whittaker)
• Using The Guid.Comb Identifier Strategy (Davy Brion)
• The Enterprise is Broken (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Getting started with Caricature and IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Striving for Test Readability (JP Hamilton)
• Jumping The 20 Fence (Rob Conery)
• Awesome Pencil and Paper iPhone Prototyping (Tobin Harris)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – VersionBuilder and UppercuT – Automated Builds – Custom Tasks (Rob Reynolds)
• DateTime.LastYear (Roy Osherove)
• Context/Spec style testing and my approach to BDD (Ryan Svihla)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Agile Toolkit Podcast: Tips and Advice – Retrospectives (Bob Payne)
• VC 10: Stephan T. Lavavej and Damien Watkins – Inside STL and Inside .NET 4: Meet the BCL Team (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #112: Learning the Observer Pattern w/ Callbacks (Derik Whittaker)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #54 (Jeff Atwood)
• Windows 7 Graphics – WIC (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Silverlight Tour Comes to Washington DC (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• The History of Microsoft – 1990 (Tina)

 

Community / Events

• Prices Lowered for Bellware Workshops in Philly! (Brian Donahue) – Link of the Day
• Silverlight FireStarter DC Agenda (Frank La Vigne)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshows – Reston and Richmond (G. Andrew Duthie)
• MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow – June 2009 edition (Glen Gordon)
• Silverlight Tour and Silverlight Firestarter both coming to Washington, DC (Shawn Wildermuth)
• LAST CHANCE to Get Ready for Windows 7 with MVP Mark Minasi! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• Amazon adds physical data transfer option to AWS (Christina Warren)
• Keep An Eye On Those Indexes (Davy Brion)
• IDENTITY vs. ROWGUID, Part II (Rob Teixeira)
• SQLAuthority News – Download – SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 May edition of books online is out (Simon Sabin)

 

SharePoint

• Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2 (Stefan Gossner)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Wants Your Input to Help Improve Windows 7 Products (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome stable version goes 2.0, brings more speed (Chris)
• Avoid Tipping Your Hand in Salary Negotiations (Adam Pash)
• US Government Launches Data.gov (Andres Ferrate)
• Microsoft to demo new search engine (Kumo) next week (Brad Linder)
• Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes (Gunther Lenz)
• A week with the Verizon MiFi personal hotspot (Verdict: The best 3G device yet) (Joel Johnson)
• Geek quote of the day: Git and Home Depot (Joe White)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 4 – Be Confident but Humble (Justin Etheredge)
• You can sort by most downloaded project – #034 and How to customize your CodePlex Work Item template, in a way – #035 (Sara Ford)
• Where to Get New Media Center Themes (Sarah Perez)
• Wolfram Alpha searching for its niche (Tom Krazit)
• Windows Mobile 7: Still on Schedule (Stephen Chapman)
• Less Virtual, More Machine – Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #352 and The Morning Brew #353 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2009 — #598 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 21st (Jason N. Gaylord)
• New and Notable 322 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for May 21st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Links (5/21/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

 

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