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Dew Drop – February 24, 2010

Posted on February 24, 2010 | by Alvin A.

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Top Links

Strengthening your domain: Aggregate Construction (Jimmy Bogard)
All About MIX10 (Mike Swanson)
The game is over, people! (Michael S. Kaplan)
Key Software Development Trends (Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

Free Entity Framework v1 eBook – 514 pages of barebones, yet still good foundational, EF’ness (Greg Duncan)
Working With Messages (Me)
Profiler new feature: Too many joins detection (Oren Eini)
New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances (Lee Dumond)
Undo and Redo Global Actions — vstipEdit0020 and Insert File As Text — vstipEdit0021 (Zain Naboulsi)
Daily Dose – Mono Supports MeeGo Apps – Android Support Coming (Mitch Pronschinske)
RoundhousE – ADO.NET over SMO (Rob Reynolds)
Solution: Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 extension does not load in vs 2010 RC (Roy Osherove)
The Case of 64-Bit .NET Upgrade Bug (Russell Ball)

Web Development

A Testable PayPal IPN with Rails 2.3 (Rob Conery)
Comparing the Performance of Visual Studio’s Web Reference to a Custom Class (Sam Menard, John Jakovich & Jamie Davis)
Note to self: Asp.Net MVC Controllers are not Code Behind (Chris Brandsma)
Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5 (Seth Rosenblatt)
WCF Data Services and jQuery (Shawn Wildermuth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

What Would You Do? Management Scenario #1 (Andy Warren)
Wanna Review My Code? (Davy Brion)
Links to Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) Pattern Code and Discussions (Mike Glenn)
MSpec and Auto Mocking (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Lessons Learned from Dr. Seuss (J.D. Meier)
Refactoring: Small steps to pull out responsibilities (Mark Needham)
Balsamiq Weekly Release: Updated Certificate, Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)

Silverlight / WPF

Finding an Object TreeViewItem (Carole Snyder)
Performing DML Operations using WCF REST Service and Silverlight (Mahesh Sabnis)
MEF, Silverlight and the DeploymentCatalog (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Joel Semeniuk on using TFS with small teams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Silverlight TV 10: Jesse Liberty Explains the Hyper Video Project (John Papa)
Running Reporting Services Reports in Windows Azure (Marc Schweigert)
Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 10 – WCF and HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Community / Events

Free Event! Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Angela Binkowski)
DevTeach Toronto 2010 Ultimate Edition (James Kovacs)
Nerd Dinner in Portland February 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Preparing for the 2010 Scripting Games (Ed Wilson)
Virtual Alt.NET – UppercuT Automated Builds (Rob Reynolds)
Featured Woman in Technology: Lisa S. Jones (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

Viewing Missing Indexes in Management Studio 2005 (Joe Webb)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Rollup Clause (Pinal Dave)
Script to get indexes and their included columns (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

Upgrade SharePoint 2003 to 2010 – Free Tech Preview (Joel Oleson)
RootFinder Property – BCS Search (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate Available for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
Google is a dangerous monopoly — more than Microsoft ever was (Joe Wilcox)
Bing – It Does Way More Than You Think (Keith Elder)
The 24th of Diduary: Did you know what you can do with a Home Server? (Jeff Blankenburg)
Understanding 64-Bit Office (Ted Way)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Programming – Only $9.99! Use code DDAGP (O’Reilly Media)
Microsoft boosts college grad hires (Thomas Kohnstamm)
Sam Ramji Joins Mindtouch Board (Krishnan Subramanian)

More Link Collections

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.23.2010 (Bob Familiar)
The Morning Brew #546 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2010 — #802 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 23-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD

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Dew Drop – May 31, 2009

Posted on May 31, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Web Development

New jQuery Ribbon release! (Mikael Söderström)
First Look: Google Wave (Paul Thurrott)
ASP.NET 4.0: Modifying ClientID of controls (Gunnar Peipman)
Sample Code for New Windows Azure Blob Features (Steve Marx)
Using ‘Tracing Images’ feature in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

.NET / Visual Studio

Debuggable Self-Host Windows Service Projects (Brian Noyes)
NHibernate – Coarse Grained Locks (Oren Eini)
Pretty Printing Exceptions (Chris Cavanagh)
Installing the Couch(DB) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Creating Your First F# Program with Visual Studio 2010 (Kathleen McGrath)

Silverlight / WPF

ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari)
Cider/Blend/Other tools – Please don’t hardcode knowledge of “WindowsBase.dll” for XAML component model attributes, etc… (Rob Relyea)
Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead (Tim Heuer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates (Jeremy D. Miller) – Link of the Day
xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 5 (Build IT!) and Part 6 (Source Control & What NOT to Check In) and Part 7 (TortoiseSVN Global Ignore List) and Part 8 (Next Steps) (Rob Reynolds)
Git Getting Stronger (Mike Riley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Herding Code 48: Dustin Campbell on Visual Studio 2010 (Jon Galloway)
Bing: Test Drive Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Laura Foy)
The Thirsty Developer 63: F# with the Nomadic Developer (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

Why Should I go to a Code Camp? (Dave Schinkel)

PowerShell

PoshCode Poll: How do you want Search to work? (Joel Bennett)

SharePoint

Modifying Built-in Content Types in SharePoint (Bob Mixon)

Database

SQL SERVER – Create Multiple Filegroup For Single Database (Pinal Dave)
Service Master Key Backup (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

REVIEW: First Look at Microsoft’s New BING Search Engine (Blake Handler)
The Stack Overflow Trilogy (Jeff Atwood)
All electronics should label their energy use (Rob Relyea)

More Link Collections

May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio (Scott Guthrie)
Interesting Finds: May 30, 2009 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 324 (Sam Gentile)

Book of the Day

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams: Books

ISBN: 0321545613
ISBN-13: 9780321545619

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Dew Drop – May 30, 2009

Posted on May 30, 2009 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

Generic Method for Loading Interfaces in C# (For a Plugin System) (Tom Hearn)
Combining Arrays (Richard Carr)
Visual Studio 2010 will allow mobile development, Microsoft affirms (WindowsForDevices)
Vista, Visual Studio 2008, SharedView and Azure (Chris)
MGDisplay: Visualize Parsed "Oslo" Grammars (Chris Sells)
Reading embedded files at runtime (Gunnar Peipman)
Entity Framework VB Samples Now Available on CodeGallery! (Elisa Flasko)
dropkick – an idea for deployments (Dru Sellers)
Background Garbage Collection in CLR 4.0 (Tess Ferrandez)
F#: Testing asynchronous calls to MailBoxProcessor (Mark Needham)
.NET Cheat Sheets (Michael Ceranski)
UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 2 and Part 3 (Rob Reynolds)
Running ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1 on Windows 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Move Command Link Column to End Column – Dynamic Data (Stephen Naughton)
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 SDK Documentation is now available! (VSX Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Heisenbugs (Chris Missal)
More Persistence Patterns in MSDN (Jeremy D. Miller)
xUnit.NET: Running tests written in Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Needham)
What I look for in a Code Review (Mike Hadlow)
Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 4 (Rajiv Popat)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Validation with the Data Annotation Validators (ASP.NET Tutorials)
Friday Books – Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and jQuery ProgressBar (Dave M. Bush)
jQuery Resource Collection and ASP.NET CheckBoxList Align When Wrapping (Elijah Manor)
Writing A Page To A String (Phil Haack)
Indonesian MVP Releases Open Source IIS Log Analyzer! (Jas Dhaliwal)
Tip#66: Did you know… how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? (Deepak Verma)

Silverlight / WPF

Prism Quick Start Kit (David Hill)
What’s New In Silverlight 3 (Jesse Liberty)
I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine. (Joe Stagner)
Adventures in MVVM – Commanding with List Boxes (Brian Genisio)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Multi-touch in WPF 4 Beta 1 and A Motion Capture Viewer written in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
Google Wave Video Demo Makes a Little More Sense of Wave (Adam Pash)
Video: Silverlight 2 Video Reflection (Nigel Parker)
This Week on C9: Bing, Changes to .NET FX 4.0, & play Apple IIe games on your Xbox (Dan Fernandez)
10-4 Episode 21: Web Tooling Improvements (Drew Robbins)
10 MorphX tricks in 10 minutes (Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan)
Mike Ormond interviews me about the MVC Framework (Mike Hadlow)

Community / Events

Demos for Silverlight 2 Controls and ASP.NET MVC talks at DevDays 2009 (Fritz Onion)
1/2 Day Windows 7 AppCompat Lab Engagement at Reston MTC, 6/8-6/12 (Free) (Zhiming Xue)
Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT (Sunshine)

Database

Get local lab and instances going. Replication /.SQL Agent (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key (Pinal Dave)
Report Builder 2.0 – Promising, but Supported? (William Vaughn)
Grouping datetime values in half hour blocks in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

MSDN Mag 7/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peek (Howard Dierking)
LightBox Makes Simple Touch-Ups a Snap (Jason Fitzpatrick)
Is Hulu Coming to Xbox 360? (Mark Wilson)
Rants and Raves #1 (Joel Cochran)
Some quick takes on Bing and Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out (Kip Kniskern)
Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine (Laura Foy)
7 free Windows 7 tweaking utilities (Lee Mathews)
First night with Bing (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters (Sridhar Vembu)
Windows 7 SP1 Build 7138: Redux and EXCLUSIVE: Windows 7 UI Animations – The Early Days (Stephen Chapman)
How to connect to a CodePlex TFS server using Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 – #040 (Sara Ford)
Integrate the New Hulu Desktop into Media Center and Microsoft Launches Real-Time Browser: IE8 Bundled with OneRiot (Sarah Perez)
Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 plus Advanced Search Tricks (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for May 29, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: May 29, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for May 29, 2009 — #604 (Dave Campbell)
The Technology Post for May 29th (Jason N. Gaylord)
CloudNews for 29th, May 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition: Steve Krug: Books

ISBN: 0321344758
ISBN-13: 9780321344755

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