Dew Drop – January 15, 2009

 

There will be no Dew Drop post tomorrow. I will be attending the MSDN Developer Conference in Washington, DC. Watch for a wrap-up post on .NET Zone. Links will return on Saturday evening.

Also, I switched web hosts yesterday. You may have noticed some errors on the site. Things appear to be working normally again. Please contact me if you notice any issues. Thanks!

 

Web Development

• A New Breed of Magic Strings in ASP.NET MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• jQuery 1.3 and Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense (James Hart)
• Why Learning CSS Is Important in a (Web) Development World (Peter Eysermans)
• Writing an Archive Calendar, Part 3 (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Retrieving Server-Side Data Using Web Services (Scott Mitchell)
• Named Formats Redux (Phil Haack)
• Windows Azure – Breaking It Down (Justin Etheredge)
• Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking (Maarten Balliauw)
• Two New ASP.NET AJAX Books Going on the Shelf (Darrin Bishop)
• Windows Azure SDK and Tools Refresh! (David L.)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Amazon S3 Publishing Plugin for Expression Encoder (Tim Heuer)
• Creating 3D Models for WPF (Mike Ormond)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReSharper 4.5 Nightly Builds (JP Hamilton)
• WCF NetMsmqBinding Error: The Queue Does Not Exist (Keith Elder)
• Automatic vs Explicit Properties (Eric Lippert)
• Astonishment Principles and Framework Behavior (K. Scott Allen)
• Avoid Object Initializers & the using Statement (Oren Eini)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• patterns & practices Mobile Pocket Guide Update (J.D. Meier)
• Pex 0.9 Released: Pre-Release License for VS2008, Better Test Framework Integration and Partial Support for Visual Basic.NET/F# (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Tools Still Matter (Alan Stevens)
• How Do You Know Your Code Works? (Chad Myers)
• Testing Your Code to Test Yourself (Chris Missal)

 

.NET Community / Events

• MSDN Developer Conference, Washington DC –> Jan 16 2009 (Rachel Appel)
• Introducing the "Foundation Series" (Brian Donahue) – Link of the Day
• Coming in March: IT Stack Overflow (Jeff Atwood)
• Surprise! Silverlight 3 Sessions Announced for MIX09 (Adam Kinney)
• Professional Development (Jacob Proffitt)

 

Database

• You Must Use the dbSeeChanges Option with OpenRecordSet When Accessing a SQL Server Table That Has an IDENTITY Column (Gunnar Peipman)
• Return All the Columns in the Database Which Allow NULLs (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Press F1 – SharePoint Help Is on the Way (Woody Windischman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Is Microsoft the New IBM? (Sara Chipps)
• Die, You Gravy Sucking Pig Dog! (Jeff Atwood)
• Office 14: Officially Coming Late 2009/Early 2010 and Office 14: Alpha Screenshots Emerge (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows Live Calendar: Out of Beta, Adds Features (Kip Kniskern)
• Anti-Virus Solutions for the Windows 7 Beta (Brandon LeBlanc)

 

More Link Collections

• Tech Twitterings #11: 2009.01.07 – 2009.01.13 (Elijah Manor)
• WMOC#43 – HealthVault Development and WSOAC#43 – SOA Is Dead and So Is REST?!! and WSDAC#31 – Top Developer Mistakes (Dilip Krishnan)
• Daily Find #116 (Tim Boland)
• LINKBLOG for January 14, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for January 14, 2009 — #486 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #265 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for January 15, 2009 (Silverlight Show)
• Links for 2009-01-14 (Hush Chamber)
• CloudNews for January 14th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• Interesting Finds: January 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

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