Dew Drop – November 28, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# Dynamic and Multiple Dispatch (Curt Hagenlocher)
• Dr. Popper for Zune Written with XNA 3.0 and Getting Started with XNA 3.0 and C# (Bill Reiss)
• Object Oriented F# – Encapsulation with Object Expressions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Transactions Made Simple with Windows Communication Foundation (Steve)
• Addicted to MEF – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
• Visualizing LINQ Expressions in the Debugger (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fun with T4 Templates and Dynamic Data (David Ebbo)
• Did You Know… There’s a Way to Have Visual Studio Log Its Activity for Troubleshooting? – #366 (Sara Ford)
• Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions (Karl Seguin)
• IronPython and LINQ to XML Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Screen Scraping and Part 3: Consuming Atom Feeds and Early Christmas from Iron Languages and DLR (Harry Pierson)
• patterns & practices: Guidance Explorer Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 – Release 20081121 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough and SubText 2.1 Released! Contains Security Update and Poll on Moving SubText to ASP.NET 3.5 (Phil Haack)
• WCF REST Services and AJAX Callbacks (Rick Strahl)
• Tip #30: Did You Know… Ajax Extender Controls UI Behaves Differently in VS 2008 Than in VS 2005 (Anh Phan)
• The Weekly Source Code 37 – Geolocation/Geotargeting (Reverse IP Address Lookup) in ASP.NET MVC Made Easy (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Creating a Custom View Engine in ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
• Oomph – A Microformats Toolkit – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Check/Uncheck All Items in an ASP.NET CheckBox List Using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Learn About Enabling Social Networking in SharePoint (Brendon Schwartz)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• New Silverlight Book Written by Microsoft Techs Working on the "Front Lines" (David Solivan)
• New Silverlight Showcases and Feeds (Tim Heuer)
• Avoiding CommandBinding in the XAML Code Behind Files (Marlon Grech)
• What Is the Silverlight Font? (Seema Ramchandani)
• Routed Events in Silverlight (Martin Mihaylov)
• Moonlight Roadmap Update (Sarah Perez)
• Managing Your WPF Splash Screen’s Lifecycle (Boris Eligulashvili)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Perils of Quantification – What Harm Metrics Can Do for You? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Yet Another Use of a Unit Test Framework (David Starr)
• When Agile Works (Wendy Friedlander)
• PTOM: Descriptive State Enumeration and Mapping a State Pattern with NHibernate (Derick Bailey)
• MSTest Tip: Double Click to Go to Failing Test (Simone Chiaretta)
• xUnit.net – Unit Testing for .NET – Release v1.1 (CodePlex)
• Best Essays of 2008 (James Shore)
• Genesis: Bridging the Gap Between Requirements and Code (Davy Brion)

 

Database

• Viewing All Foreign Key Constraints in SQL Server (Jimmy Bogard)
• SDS Shell v0.2 : SQL Data Services (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• New Utility for Dealing with Off-Screen Apps – Front and Center! (Kevin Dente)
• 27 Free Must-Have Online Collaboration Tools (Dana Coffey)
• SilverlightShow Accelerator for IE8 (Ilia Iordanov)
• Potential Windows Live Writer Competitor (Paul Thurrott)
• Lunascape: New Kid on the Browser Block (Darrell Etherington)
• Windows Live Writer Sidebar Gadget and Evernote’s New Windows Mobile App (Sarah Perez)
• Where Are the XML Editors? (Eric Larson)
• Five Strategies Microsoft Got Right… and What It Teaches (Steve Clayton)
• WordPress 2.7 Release News and Links (Lorelle Van Fossen)
• Two UI Features I Just Don’t Understand (Steve Tibbett)

 

PowerShell

• My New PowerShell Cmdlets for SharePoint 2007: Feedback Requested! (Gary Lapointe)
• PowerShell Scripting Tricks: The Joy of Using Hashtables with Windows PowerShell (James Brundage)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for November 26, 2008 and LINKBLOG for November 27, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Daily Find #111 (Tim Boland)
• Silverlight Cream for November 26, 2008 — #438 and Silverlight Cream for November 27, 2008 — #439 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #232 and The Morning Brew #233 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for November 27, 2008 and Silverlight News for November 28, 2008 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• CloudNews for November 26th, 2008 and CloudNews for November 27th, 2008 (Sameer & Mayank Gupta)

 

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