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Dew Drop – December 25, 2009

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

Need test/sample/demo data that’s safe for public (and/or client) consumption? Then GenerateData.com! (Greg Duncan) – Great find…

C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 13 of 13 (Charles Torre) – A great series of videos comes to an end. If you haven’t watched any of them, and you’re interested in functional programming, go back and start at chapter 1.

.NET / Visual Studio

Thoughts on EF vs NHibernate (Rob Conery)

What can EF 4.0 do that NHibernate can’t? and Responding to how EF is better NH commentary… (Oren Eini)

More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started and Reader Challenge – Fault Handlers in C# (Bart de Smet)

If (Successful) { throw new Exception(); } (Brian Lagunas)

Heard from someone about the just released VS2010 B2 VM’s? Would like to get them but hate downloading them via the web site? Brian Keller has a download solution for you (and 7 Hands-on Labs too!) (Greg Duncan)

LINQ to SQL and missing Many to Many EntityRefs (Rick Strahl)

Web Development

corMVC initial release and qooxdoo reaches 1.0 (Michael Kimsal)

Trace.Writing in your web applications (Coding4Fun)

A Popup Insert control for Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)

jQuery hoverImage plugin (Wesley Bakker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #5 – Motivated Individuals (Julie Stickler)

Customer Connected Engineering at patterns & practices (JD Meier)

Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: My first attempt (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Information for Silverlight HVP Developers… (Jesse Liberty)

Custom Content Loaders in Silverlight 4.0 (David Hill)

Day #24: Silverlight Outside The Browser (Part 2 of 3) (Jeff Blankenburg)

Novell and Microsoft cut out the GPL cancer from open-source Silverlight (Sebastian Anthony)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield: Silverlight Rock Star! (Carl Franklin)

Holiday Special – The office, Typemock-style (Gil Zilberfeld)

Community / Events

What is Community? (Steve Andrews)

Database

SQL SERVER – CDC and TRUNCATE – Cannot truncate table because it is published for replication or enabled for Change Data Capture (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Being a writer, and having an editor. A Short Rant. (Jesse Liberty)

Cygwin 1.7 Adds Windows 7 Support and Many Improvements (Kevin Purdy)

More Link Collections

Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2009 — #762 and Silverlight Cream for December 25, 2009 — #763 (Dave Campbell)

MVVM LinksInfo (Lester Lobo)

WWD’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009 (Simon Mackie)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action

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Dew Drop – December 17, 2009

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Top Links

Blogging With OneNote 2010 Beta (Will Kelly) – Looks like OneNote is borrowing from Windows Live Writer. I’ll have to take a peek.
Silverlight 4 HTML Puzzle: How Does It Work? (John Papa) – John takes a closer look at one of the Silverlight 4 apps demoed by ScottGu at PDC09.

.NET / Visual Studio

Article: 10 Features in .NET 4.0 that made Me Smile (Michael Kennedy)
Greatest Prime Factor in F# (Scott Seely)
Astoria V.Next Ships for .NET 3.5 SP1 -> Versioning Issue (Stephen Forte)
Reading an Xml File in T4 Templates (Gil Fink)
C# Continuation Monad (Edmondo Pentangelo)
Developing iPhone Apps in .NET (Eve Turzillo)

Web Development

Mastering jQuery now available at TekPub (Dave Ward)
ASP.NET: Setting Focus in Modal Dialogs (Deborah Kurata)
JavaScript Part 1 – hello JavaScript! and JavaScript Part 2 – The Free Stuff and JavaScript Part 3 – Prototype Based Language and JavaScript Part 4 – the "this" operator (Leon Gersing)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit Testing Strategy: Hiding Out In the Open (Tim Barcz)
Coding: Naming (Mark Needham)
Agile Tenet #1 – Satisfy the Customer (Julie Stickler)
Unit Tests And Silverlight (Davy Brion)
Postulating Extreme Web UI Scalability (Jonathan Oliver)
Why is Agile so Hard to Sell? (Mike Cottmeyer)
The big picture of software development (Jimmy Nilsson)
Explicit Structural Typing (Duck Typing) (Christopher Diggins)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 4 demos from my PDC Keynote now available (Scott Guthrie)
Silverlight-powered Virtual DVD now available from Tesco (Silverlight Team)
Expression Blend 3 and SketchFlow! Wow! (David Lemphers)
Rotate your text in the WPF DataGrid Column Headers (Margaret Parsons)
ViewModel Pattern and Speech as UI. Help me Obi Wan, where’s the View? (Pete Brown)
Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text (Cheryl Simmons)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Corey Haines on Software Craftsmanship (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
This Week in Test: Episode 7 – Survivors (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
Stack Overflow Podcast #77 (Jeff Atwood)
A Look Behind Mouse 2.0 (Larry Larsen)
IronRuby sketch up (Coding4Fun)
Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Dave Campbell (Nic Fillingham)
Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin: Introducing Incarnate (Charles Torre)
Reactive Extensions API in depth: Retry (Jeffrey van Gogh)
New gameplay video with D&D on Surface (Eric Havir)

Community / Events

A Tribute to the Road Warriors – Top 20 Most Travelled SharePoint People in 2009* (Joel Oleson)
What ASP.NET (MVC) Developers can learn from Rails – 4th Feb 2010 (Chris Canal)

Database

SQLAuthority News – Hub-And-Spoke: Building an EDW with SQL Server and Strategies of Implementation (Pinal Dave)
Script Task vs Flat File Connection Management (Ted Krueger)
SQL Server CASE Expressions (Richard Carr)

SharePoint

How to Prioritize Business Needs Before Implementing SharePoint (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

Office 2010 File Validation (David B. Heise)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/17 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Microsoft Releases MFCopy for Copying Windows 7 Multimedia Files (Blake Handler)

More Link Collections

Tech Tweets for 16-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #500 (Chris Alcock) – Congrats to Chris and the ‘Brew!
Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2009 — #757 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Star Wars Interactive R2D2 Astromech Droid Robot: Toys & Games

ASIN: B001E95SQ2

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Dew Drop – December 11, 2009

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Top Links

Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Coming Soon (Doug Holland) – Good news for fans of Richter’s MS Press book.
Usability Testing For Free (Tobin Harris) – Cool site where you can have people test drive your web app and provide feedback.
Benchmarking a simple DOM based cloning template (Scott Koon) – Check your performance when working with a large DOM.
ASP.NET MVC – 0 to 30 in 30 minutes (Nick Berardi) – A video tutorial by Nick, created for DevReady.NET.
Deploying your Silverlight and WCF RIA Services application (Tim Heuer) – Deployment: the part of the SDLC many people ignore until it’s starting them in the face.
The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail (Scott Hanselman) – Get your Inbox(es) organized!
Run Google Wave Inside Thunderbird 3 (Kevin Purdy) – Great trick using the new tabbed UI in Thunderbird.

.NET / Visual Studio

Handling complex security conditions with Rhino Security (Oren Eini)
Castle Windsor new feature – dynamic parameters from registration site (Krzysztof Koźmic)
The Siege Project: Siege.ServiceLocation, Part 3 – Extending the container with custom use cases (Marcus Bratton)
Constraints are not part of the signature (Eric Lippert)
Reflection on a method with an out parameter (Peter Blum)
Telerik OpenAccess Data Services Wizard Product Roadmap (Stephen Forte)

Web Development

Running ASP.NET applications from a remote share (Jason Grundy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Challenging requirements (Gojko Adzic)
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – A Review (Gregory Long)
Are Extension Methods a Code Smell (Kevin Jones)
Entity Framework Profiler: The new look (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF

Microsoft Releases Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (Blake Handler)
WCF NET.TCP Protocol in Silverlight 4 (Radenko Zec)
StatLight – Goes Open Source (Jason Jarrett)
Creating an Image from PixelShaders in Silverlight and WPF (Corey Miller)
New WPF Showcase: Scrum Sprint Monitor (Jay Esguerra)
Resizing images from the server using WPF/WIC instead of GDI+ (Bertrand Le Roy)
Use XamlReader.Load for WPF XAML (not XamlServices.Load) (Michael Shim)
Silverlight 4 – More on Capturing Video from WebCams (Mike Taulty)
Silverlight for Point Of Sale (POS) applications (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MSDN geekSpeak: Using SharePoint Server as a Development Platform with Paul Stork and SQL Server 2008 R2 Support for Up to 256 Logical Processors and Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions and Got Memory Leaks? Find Errors Using Intel Parallel Studio (MS Podcasts)
MVPs Talk Visual Studio 2010 at Dev Connections 2009 (Jas Dhaliwal)
C9 Lectures: Dr. Graham Hutton – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 11 of 13 (Charles Torre)
Behind the Windows 7 Startup Animation (Larry Larsen)
Developer Tools Ecosystem Summit Videos Now Available! (Weston Hutchins)
Juan Chen and Nikhil Swamy: FINE, a Compiler for End-to-End Security Verification (Jonathan de Halleux)
Reactive Extensions API in depth: CombineLatest (Jeffrey van Gogh)

Community / Events

What should I work on next? (Oren Eini)

Database

Fun and games with Reporting Services expressions (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX: Cannot drop server because it is used as a Distributor in replication (Pinal Dave)
The Dark Sides of Consolidation (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Press Releases "First Look: Microsoft Office 2010” for Free Download (Blake Handler)
Restructuring AD groups (Dmitry Sotnikov)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/11 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Microsoft Acquires Sentillion (Roberto Ruggeri)
Read and Recommended: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Stephen Forte)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #496 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for December 10, 2009 — #754 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 10-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Links (12/10/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Interesting Finds: December 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Thursday linkfest (Scott Berkun)
Creators Club Communiqué 34 (Kathleen Sanders)

The Geek Shelf

Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O’Reilly)) (9780596516246): George T Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow, Heineman George, Pollice Gary, Selkow Stanley: Books

ISBN: 059651624X
ISBN-13: 9780596516246

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