Dew Drop – October 24, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s SOA Website Goes SL2 (Frank La Vigne)
• WPF and Lenovo (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight & ASP.NET MVC vs Web Forms (Very High Level) (Bart Czernicki)
• Adding Style to Silverlight 2 Controls (Dan Wahlin)
• Is Silverlight Ready for Business Apps? (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Stack Overflow OpenID Case Study (Jeff Atwood)
• Consuming JSON in ClearBasic (Gary Sherman)
• Our "Opinions" on the ASP.NET MVC (Introducing the Thunderdome Principle) (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Model Binding to a List (Phil Haack)
• Using jQuery to Search Content and Creating Custom Selector Filters (Rick Strahl)
• Friday Books – "Learning jQuery" (Dave M. Bush)

.NET / Visual Studio

• What I Want From an ORM (Colin Jack)
• Astoria Futures: Offline-Enabled Data Services (Pablo Castro)
• Working with Associations in ADO.NET Data Services, Part 2 (Phani Raj)
• Did You Know… How to Change the Default Templates That Appear in the New Project Dialog? – #342 (Sara Ford)
• IronPython – Release: 2.0 RC1 (CodePlex)
• Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Release: September 2008 CTP SP1 (MSDN Code Gallery)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Value of Lean and Kanban (Dave Laribee)
• Tricksy Dispatcher & Running Tests in TDD.NET (Christopher Bennage)
• Encapsulation: Entities, Collections and Business Rules (Derick Bailey)
• Big Announcement (James C. Bender)
• Code Reviews (Joel Ross)
• Pex Now a DevLabs Project (Nikolai Tillmann)
• .NET Projects: Code Coverage with NCover (Grant Palin)
• Introduction to Mocking (Mohammad Azam)
• From Mocks to Isolation (Vagif Abilov)

Events / Community

• Here Comes Windows 7: A PDC 2008 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• MSDN Unleashed – SQL Server 2008 and Silverlight 2 (Angela Binowski)
• My PDC 2008 Agenda (Troy Goode)
• Inspiring Through Innovation – DevLabs (Somasegar) – Link of the Day
• PDC2008 Downloadable Master Session List (Mike Swanson)
• Where Will I Be During PDC? and Women @ PDC (Dave Bost)
• Surface A/V for PDC (Robert Levy)
• WiiEarthVR at PDC (Brian Peek)

Database

• Useful Tips on Reporting Services and Caching in Reporting Services (Aakanksh)
• Beating a Dead Horse: Stored Procedures (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• SSIS Nugget: Nesting Variables to Calculate Values (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Fantastic Framework Released (Liam Cleary)

Miscellaneous

• SmallBasic Is Here! (Jason Olson)
• The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know and You’re Reading the World’s Most Dangerous Programming Blog (Jeff Atwood)
• Sobees Desktop Widget Engine Launches Public Beta (Brad Linder)
• How Can Microsoft Ease My Relocation Experience? (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Now a New Life Begins (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Shade Tree Halloween Special (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Geeks vs Nerds – The New Two-Party System for 2012 (Chris G. Williams)
• Graphics in Google Chrome (Brett Wilson)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks – Exploring .NET Types with a Get-Type Function and Reflection (James Brundage)
• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Darren Lewis) – Emoticons come to Gmail.

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 23, 2008 and Innovation Notes: October 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight News for October 23, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Silverlight Cream for October 22, 2008 — #404 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for October 23, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: 2008.10.19~2008.10.23 (yuanjian)
• Links (10/23/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for October 24, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
• The Morning Brew #208 (Chris Alcock)
• SQLAuthority Top Downloads – Bookmark (Pinal Dave)

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