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Dew Drop – December 1, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:04:32 +0000

ISBN: 0596519206
ISBN-13: 9780596519209

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Dew Drop – September 25, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:06:20 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

First CTP of SQL Azure and Updated Training Kit Available! (Windows Azure Team)
Metaprogramming (Me)
Two Components for your Toolbox (Aaron Lerch)
NHibernate DSL Built Using "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
Why is covariance of value-typed arrays inconsistent? (Eric Lippert)
Running Multiple Instances of a Windows Service Using TopShelf (Kevin Miller)
Creating .Net Configuration Sections (Michael Cummings)
Neat Visual Studio Test Options (Steve Andrews)
Debug Composition from within Visual Studio (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Web Development

New Features in Web Platform Installer v2 (Adam Kinney)
Using JQuery to supplement CSS inadequacies (Dave Burke)
Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Three: The Community Experience (John Sheehan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Simplifying deployment (Simon Brown)
Complex vs Complicated (Dru Sellers)
Ship it, or Ship Out (Jak Charlton)
CI Servers and Build Scripts and Continous Integration Workflow (Jonathan Oliver)
XP As A Kanban System (Karl Scotland)
TDD: Tests That Give Us a False Confidence of Coverage (Mark Needham)
Being a Duct Tape Programmer (Michael C. Neel)
BAM! Geometric Shapes, Multi-Line support, Oh my! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 18. (Rajiv Popat)
Manifesto for Continuous Improvement and Why managing a software team can be more effective than "regular" management (Roy Osherove)
The Duct Tape Programmer (Uncle Bob Martin)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight VisualBrush and rounded corners (Chris Cavanagh)
Silverlight designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes #199 – Monomania – Mono, MonoTouch, MonoSpace, and MonoVS with Joseph Hill and Scott Bellware (Scott Hanselman)
AgileToolkit Podcast – Jim Miller – The Product Owner Role and Business Alignmnet (Bob Payne)
Scott Guthrie: Introducing WebsiteSpark and Web Platform Installer V2 RTM (Charles Torre)
Web Application Toolkits and Web Application Toolkit: Template-Driven Emails and Web Application Toolkit: REST Services and Web Application Toolkit: Mobile Web Applications (Jonathan Carter)
Xbox 360 Project Natal Creators panel from Tokyo Game Show 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
Be Productive and Stop Using XML and Be Productive and Go Mouseless (Roy Osherove)
Web Application Toolkits: FAQ (James Senior)
InfoPath SharePoint integration videos now online (Kathy Hughes)
Ade Miller on Developing for Multi-Core Computers (Keith Pleas)

Community / Events

Announcing WebOSSFlame (Scott Koon) – Link of the Day
Microsoft offers free software and support to small software companies (Justin Sargent)

Database

Filtered indexes and filtered stats might become seriously out-of-date (Kimberly Tripp)
SQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers (Pinal Dave)
The last good date for your database (Steve Jones)

SharePoint

Deploying Reporting Services WebParts to SharePoint WSS and MOSS (Tom Hearn)
Planning for SharePoint 2010 – Upgrade Planning Part 2 Moving the Databases (Chandima Kulathilake)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge (Mary-Jo Foley)
PowerShell Cookbook Now Available on iPhone (Lee Holmes)
Microsoft Releases Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit v3.5 (Blake Handler)
Early debut for Windows 7 PCs (Todd Bishop)
Ruby Exceptions And Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
Good information is easy to find (Joe Webb)
Kinda wishing I could keep using Delphi (Joe White)
Microsoft Press Enters Strategic Alliance with O’Reilly (Tim O’Reilly)
New Evernote beta brings face-lift, drawing tools (Josh Lowensohn)

Book of the Day

Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft)) (0790145053510): Steve McConnell: Books

ISBN: 0735605351
ISBN-13: 9780735605350

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Dew Drop – August 18, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:09:45 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

On "Oslo" (Douglas Purdy) – Link of the Day
Windows Communication Foundation extensibility to the max and WCF Extensibility part 1: background on game server protocols (Alex Thissen)
LINQ to Ducks – Bringing Back The Duck-Typed foreach Statement To LINQ (Bart de Smet)
Book Review: Essential LINQ (Jason Haley)
How to hinder reflection-based scenarios (Jimmy Bogard)
C#: Using IProgressDialog to show a “native” Progress Dialog from .NET in Windows (Chris Pietschmann)
Favorite improvement of Visual Studio 2010 so far… (David Kean)
Counting Words in a String Using Anonymous Types and Defining Lists of Anonymous Types (Deborah Kurata)
Using your own code is its own kind of encouragement [How to: Automatically update the widths of ListView columns - updated!] (David Anson)
Arrays of arrays (Eric Lippert)
11 books for a .NET Summer reading list (Simone Chiaretta)
A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to Nhibernate: getting started (Bertrand Le Roy)
Automating .NET development (and NHibernate) with IronRuby + Rake (Tobin Harris)
Updating the Command Line Parser (Martin Hinshelwood)
F# First Class Events – Creating Events (Matthew Podwysocki)
GC Helper for Obtaining Live Instances of a Type, or How I Implemented GC.GetAliveInstancesOf() (Sasha Goldshtein)
Introducing LazyLinq: Internals (Keith Dahlby)
MSMQ Studio: Show number of messages in a queue (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC in Action in Stores in September (Ben Scheirman)
Test Sending Email without a Server in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
Rest For ASP.NET MVC SDK and Sample (Phil Haack)
A few facts about the DinnerNow.net 3.1 sample application (Habib Heydarian)
Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – August Update Released (Jeff Barnes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

When Tools Take Over Your Team Room (Ade Miller)
Virtually everything and Code Ownership also mean Code Responsibility (Oren Eini)
Macros Facilitate Expressive Code (Jay Fields)
“We want it fixed, but don’t spend too much time on it” (Dave Schinkel)
Zen And The Art Of Software Development (Derick Bailey)
Acceptance Test “Lifecycle” (Jeremy D. Miller)
Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 2: Store Your Local Settings in the Database – Not the Client (Jeremy Jarrell)
Unit Testing Has Changed How I Write Software (Joel Ross)
The Sculptors (Uncle Bob Martin)
Back to the Future (Vadim Polner)
Law of Demeter: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
Refactoring Day 17 : Extract Superclass (Sean Chambers)

Silverlight / WPF

Physics Helper 3: Now with WPF Support! (Andy Beaulieu)
Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 3 – Pros and Cons (Dan Wahlin)
Prism And .Net RIA Services (David Hill)
Moonlight 2.0 beta tries to show off Silverlight 2.0 compatibility (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Adventures in Silverlight 3 Multi-touch, Part I (Jeff Paries)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ARCast.TV – Ward Bell on Building Modular Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight and WPF (Bob Familiar)
Doug Hauger: Inside the Windows Azure Platform Business Model (Charles Torre)
Video: Smart & Lean Organizations (Max Pool)

Community / Events

Sharing with Google Groups (Jeffrey Chang)
Don’t Miss FREE 1-Day SharePoint Conference in NYC (Dux Raymond Sy)
Events This Week – August 17th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Super User Now Public (Jeff Atwood)
MSDN Roadshows in August 2009 (Zhiming Xue)
Slides of My Presentation on ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 CTP (MS Downloads)
SQL Performance Tuning Basics (Michael Ceranski)

SharePoint

Windows 2008 R2 goodness – adding sharepoint folders to a library (Ishai Sagi)
Playing around with Powershell and SharePoint user profiles (Joris Poelmans)
MOSS for Developers – Part 4: Workflows for Developers (Doug Turnure)

Miscellaneous

Author news: Do you have an idea for a book? (Devon Musgrave)
Pulling from github on Windows (Mark Needham)

Book of the Day

Foundation Expression Blend 2: Building Applications in WPF and Silverlight (9781590599761): Victor Gaudioso: Books

ISBN: 1590599764
ISBN-13: 9781590599761

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Dew Drop – December 1, 2009

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Dew Drop – September 25, 2009

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Dew Drop – August 18, 2009

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Web Development

Design / Methodology / Testing

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Community / Events

Database

SharePoint

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