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Dew Drop – January 4, 2009

Web Development

Sueetie Blog Support. Engage! (Dave Burke)
DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex (Joe Brinkman)
WebTests Expose Silly Security Vulnerability (Josh Twist)
Secure ASP.NET MVC Applications (Shiju Varghese)
Happy DotNetNuke 5.0 New Year and DNN Wrox Blox (Jim Minatel)

.NET / Visual Studio

Hands On Labs – Validation Application Block (4.1) – December 2008 (MS Downloads)
NHibernate Profiler Review (Davy Brion)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Context Driven Testing Gets a Boost – to Grow Stronger (Shrini Kulkarni)
Hardware Is Expensive, Programmers Are Cheap (Michael Janke)
Using NDepend on Large Project, a Success Story (Patrick Smacchia)
Declarative Context Adapters (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Silverlight / WPF

Generic Support in XAML (Sacha Barber)
IoC on Silverlight (Nicholas Blumhardt)

PowerShell

Solving Brain Ticklers with PowerShell (Adam Barr) – Link of the Day
Diagnosing Here-Strings with PowerShell_ISE and Extending and/or Modifying Commands with Proxies (Jeffrey Snover)
PowerShell Analyzer Like Execution Hotkeys for PS CTP3 ISE (Karl Prosser)

Database

SQL Server 2008 – Change Color of Status Bar of SSMS Query Editor (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Phishing Attacks Know No Boundaries… or Limits (Ted Neward)
10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years at Microsoft (Omar Shahine)
Defining Real-Time Aggregations with BizTalk Server 2009 / Excel 2007 (Brian Loesgen)
Hands-On with the Windows 7 Beta: Surprise! It’s Actually Not Terrible (Aric Annear)
Measuring Up Windows 7’s New “Super” Taskbar (Long Zheng)

More Link Collections

Check Out Tip #24 to Tip #40 on Our Tips and Tricks Blog (Deepak Verma)
Interesting Finds: January 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
LINKBLOG for January 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)

Book of the Day

Dependency Injection (Paperback): Dhanji Prasanna: Books

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Dew Drop – January 3, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

Back to Basics: Explore the Edge Cases or Date Math Will Get You (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
When Designing a Software Masterpiece, Make the First Release in Pencil (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF

Single Instance WPF Application in .NET 3.x (Chris Pietschmann)
Silverlight Toolkit WrapPanel (Jesse Liberty)
Reading and Displaying RSS Feed in a Silverlight DataGrid (Suprotim Agarwal)

Web Development

Client-Side Scripting 101 Part 1: The Reasons (Jay Kimble)
Extension Methods and a Plea for Mixins (Jimmy Bogard)
The Year of jQuery UI (Karl Swedberg)

SharePoint

Best Practices SharePoint Conference – My Sessions and More (Woody Windischman)

PowerShell

A Module to Create Modules and Advanced Functions (Jeffrey Snover)
Get-Verb and How and Why to Use Splatting (Passing [switch] Parameters) and How to Write a Console Application in PowerShell with Add-Type (James Brundage)

More Link Collections

Summary Online – Silverlight Tips of the Day (Mike Snow)
Silverlight Cream for January 02, 2009 — #474 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: January 3, 2009 (Jason Haley)

Book of the Day

Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series): Martin Fowler: Books

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Dew Drop – Xmas Edition – December 24-25, 2008

Merry Christmas to everyone!

.NET / Visual Studio

Getting App Arch Guide Knowledge in VSTS2010 – Part 3 – Create Diagrams from Code (Clemens Reijnen)
IronPython for the Daily Grind (TFS Sample Included!) (JP. Hamilton)
Working with Inheritance in ADO.NET Data Services (Phani Raj)
Using ExportProvider to Customize Container Behavior Part I (Glenn Block)
Language Envy – Episode 0 (Sergio Pereira)
10-4 Episode 2: Welcome to Visual Studio 2010 (Jason Olson)
Capturing and Streaming Sound by Using DirectSound with C# (Tamir Khason)

Web Development

View, Models and ViewModels – Part 1 (Javier G. Lozano)
Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (Maarten Balliauw)
DosPecesCreations: Some Initial Thoughts on Building My First Rails App (Russell Ball)
Using ASP.NET and jQuery to Pass Multiple Values from a GridView to Another Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
Apply ASP.NET Authentication and Authorization Rules to Static Content with IIS 7.0’s Integrated Pipeline Feature (Scott Mitchell)
DotNetNuke – Release: 05.00.00 (CodePlex)
Wrox Blox Merry Christmas: New Features in ASP.NET SP1 (Jim Minatel)
How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in an ASP.NET MVC Application (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

On Craftsmanship, Part 1 (David Starr) – Link of the Day
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git Book Review (Mike Riley)
NH Prof Deep Dive: Applying the Open Close Principle at the Architecture Level and NH Prof Deep Dive: Implemented the Unbounded Result Set Warning (Oren Eini)
Many-to-Many Relationships with Data Attached in NHibernate (Kyle Baley)

Silverlight

…Any Suggestions for Learning [Silverlight]? (Dave Campbell)

PowerShell

Early Christmas Present from PowerShell Team: Community Technology Preview-3 (CTP3) of Windows PowerShell V2 (Hemant Mahawar)
PowerShell V2: ParameterSets (Jeffrey Snover)
Windows PowerShell CTP2 to CTP3 Conversion Guide and Dreaming in PowerShell V2 : Lottery Numbers with Get-Random and Write-CommandBlogPost and PowerShell Scripting Tricks: Get-Font and PowerShell + XNA: New-SpriteFont and Merry Christmas from PowerShell: The CodeDownloader Module (James Brundage)
PowerShell 2 CTP3 – First Impressions and PoshCode Updated for CTP3 (Joel Bennett)
Unique Lottery Numbers with Advanced Array Functionality (Dr. Tobias Weltner)
Configuring PowerShell for Remoting – Part 1 (Krishna Vutukuri)

Miscellaneous

Interesting Collaboration Tool to Check Out (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Best of 2008: 5 Most Popular Posts (Dave Ward)
12 Warmup Exercises Before CES 2009 (Toon, Lydon, & Norman)
CloudNews for December 22nd, 2008 and CloudNews for December 23rd, 2008 (Sameer & Mayank Gupta)
Free Version 4.0 of Yugma Online Conferencing App Is Here (Samuel Dean)
Top 10 MediaShifting Stories of 2008 (Mark Glaser)
10 Programming Languages Worth Exploring (Steve Rowe)
Windows Azure Q&A with Amitabh Srivastava (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for December 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #251 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio Links #92 (Darren Stokes)
Interesting Finds: December 24, 2008 and Interesting Finds: December 25, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for December 24, 2008 — #466 (Dave Campbell)

Book of the Day

Windows PowerShell Pocket Reference: Lee Holmes: Books

ISBN: 0596521782
ISBN-13: 9780596521783

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