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)

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