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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – February 21-22, 2009

Posted on February 21, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Design / Methodology / Testing

What’s Pair Programming Really Like? (James Shore) – Link of the Day
DDD: Living In The Enterprise (Casey Charlton)
Code & Run / Speed Kills (Dave Schinkel)
The Commented Version Of The Readable Code Challenge (Davy Brion)
With Services the focus is on behavior (Ian Cooper)
Application Lifecycle Management and a Collaborative Culture. (Clemens Reijnen)
Domain Driven Design & Test Driven DevelopmentDesign with Entity Framework Part 1.b, Review (Muhammad Mosa)
DDD: Isn’t Learning the Domain Half the Battle? (JP Hamilton)

.NET / Visual Studio

Type Theory Essentials in Pictures – Part 1 – Hints (Bart de Smet)
AutoMapper feature: projection (Jimmy Bogard)
Troubleshooting common mapping bugs with NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
Introduction to HealthVault Development #7 – Data providence (Eric Gunnerson)
.NET Framework 3.5 Namespace Poster (G. Andrew Duthie)
The MVC Template Team Got It Right (John Teague)
Getting Objects from the Object Context, not the database (Julie Lerman)
Windows 7 Taskbar: Jump Lists (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# programmers: closure basics (Julian M. Bucknall)
Mvc Contrib – Version 1.0 preparation / project restructuring (Jeffrey Palermo)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #48 – Disable Request Validation (Stephen Walther)
What Happens When You Deploy on Windows Azure? (Steve Marx)
Get inspired for web, photography, anything – SmashingMagazine.com (Tim Heuer)
Implementing Prototype’s Array Methods in jQuery (Josh Powell)
ASP.NET MVC: Driving partials by convention (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Extending the reach of your 2D XNA game to the web (Bill Reiss)
Flash vs Silverlight (Peter Bromberg)
More About the Layout System (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #96 – The meaning of AG_E_PARSER_BAD_PROPERTY_VALUE (Mike Snow)
Sonic : Out There In The Wild (Sacha Barber)

Database

SQL Server Indexed Views (Black Wasp)
SQL SERVER – Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

MOSS Solutions and Features in Deployments ( Part 3 ) (Michael Cummings)
VS 2010 and SharePoint (Chris Johnson)

PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is Awesome (Vlad)

Community / Events

MIX09 10k Contest Winners and Just published TCSWeekly episodes 4, 5 and 6 (Adam Kinney)
Progressive.NET Event (Ayende Rahien)
MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow Kicks Off Next Week (G. Andrew Duthie)
Party with Palermo Alt.Net/MVP Summit 2009 Edition is 9 days away! and NHibernate users mailing list going strong – Almost 10,000 posts and 1322 members (Jeffrey Palermo)
Online Windows 7 event: MSDN Unleashed (Raymond Comvalius)
Webcast Schedule for March 2009 (Nandita)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Aims to Build a Better Thesaurus (Ina Fried)
Windows Mobile is short changing .NET Developers (Ork)
CraigsList Reader makes searching Craiglist (even more) simple (Brad Linder)
Windows 7 Friday: Locking Down and Protecting Your Computer With AppLocker (Denny Boynton)
Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job (Kevin Purdy)
Hire the Best – Development (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Microsoft anticipating April 10 for Windows 7 release candidate (Lee Mathews)
Get yourself a Windows Home Server (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 20, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Silverlight Cream for February 20, 2009 — #523 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2009 — #524 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: February 21, 2009 (Jason Haley)
New and Notable 293 (Sam Gentile)
Functional Discoveries in the Microsoft Sociocosm 02/20/2009 (Rick Minerich)
CloudNews for February 20th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord: Books

ISBN: 0471081124
ISBN-13: 9780471081128

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Dew Drop – February 20, 2009

Posted on February 20, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Web Development

Creating RSS Feeds Using ASP.NET 3.5 (Kevin Miller)
Learning jQuery (G. Andrew Duthie)
Spiff Up Your ASP.NET MVC Forms with jQuery (Justin Etheredge)
Ask SM [CSS/JS]: Divs of Equal Height, Dealing with IE 6 (Chris Coyier)
Default Control Focus with ASP.NET Master Pages and LINQ (Malcolm Sheridan)
Oxite Updated (Sarah Perez)
The CSS Corner: Using Filters In IE8 (Sylvain Galineau)

.NET / Visual Studio

Does LINQ StinQ? Not with PLINQO! (Kevin Lawry)
In-depth: How .NET managed services interact with the ServiceControlManager (SCM) (Kim Hamilton)
DBProj.com (Gert Drapers)
Use IOperationBehavior to Customize Operation Behavior in WCF (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Axiom 0.7.5.0 Beta 1 (Michael Cummings)
Making c# lambda expressions more readable (Sean Biefeld)
If you are still wondering how fast is ADO.NET vs ADODB (Simone Chiaretta)
Using Enums in List Controls (Rick Strahl)
Windows Azure Training Kit (Martin Hinshelwood)
Custom Expressions and the DLR – Part 1 (Chris Cavanagh)
StyleCop for ReSharper – Release: RC Refresh (0.0.14293.004) (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

DDD: The Repository Pattern (Casey Charlton)
BDD Question: Low Level Behavior And Wrapper Methods? (Derick Bailey)
The valley of continuous learning (Louis Salin)
Great UI and the Presentation Layer – Clarity and Shape (Mark Miller)
A Little Chat About Code Sensible Code Generation (Sacha Barber)
Challenge: Do You Truly Understand This Code? (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day

Silverlight / WPF

Testing Bindings In WPF (Christopher Bennage)
Silverlight 2 gets minor update (Tim Heuer)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #95 – Working with Strokes in Shapes (Mike Snow)
Carousel Video Posted – Parts 1 and 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Setting up a basic n-tier CSLA .NET for Silverlight project (Rockford Lhotka)

SharePoint

Are SharePoint Developers Better Architects than Architects? (Adam Buenz)
Please help – Visual Studio SharePoint development environment is very slow (Gunnar Peipman)
Starting with JQuery and SharePoint – that did not work (Ton Stegeman)

Community / Events

I’ll be at TechEd North America 2009 – Will you? (Andrew Connell)
Network Instruments to Host Event in Philly (David Solivan)
CodeStock 2009 “Call for Speakers” is Open (Michael C. Neel)
Silverlight 2 Firestarter Event this Weekend – Malvern, PA (Pete Brown)
User Group Meeting: Microsoft’s Cloud Services and Combining WCF and Business Activity Monitoring (Zhiming Xue)
Tech Ed Connect (Jesse Liberty)
Fun with Twitter for Mix09 (Scott Hanselman)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s ‘Social Desktop’ prototype bridges PC and Web (Todd Bishop)
Free app downloads any Google Book Search item as PDF and Theme GMail your way with a custom color scheme (Lee Mathews)
The Bad Apple: Group Poison (Jeff Atwood)
Top 10 Disney LEGO Sets We’d Like to See (Matt Blum)
25 random things about Microsoft (Meghan)
Autoruns for Windows Updated for Windows 7 (Sarah Perez)
Auto Twitterise Your Blog Posts (Steve Clayton)
Much Ado About Monads – List Edition (Matthew Podwysocki)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #291 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for February 19, 2009 — #522 (Dave Campbell)
Links 2009-02-19 (Gunnar Peipman)
Interesting Finds: February 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Links (2/19/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
CloudNews for February 19th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

Book of the Day

Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development (3rd Edition): Craig Larman: Books

ISBN: 0131489062
ISBN-13: 9780131489066

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Dew Drop – February 19, 2009

Posted on February 19, 2009 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

Improve your NHibernating with NHProf (Hiberlog)
Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Load Testing Using VSTS 2008 (Mohammad Ashraful Alam)
DateTime.MaxValue (Fredrik Eriksson)
Contextual Sessions with NHibernate – Part 2 (Javier G. Lozano)
CodeRush/Refactor Pro refactors Javascript too (Jay Kimble)
C#: Extensions methods != Open classes (Mark Needham)
Mapping Objects with AutoMapper (K. Scott Allen)

Silverlight / WPF

Building a WPF Application: Part 4 (Christopher Bennage)
Prism 2.0 is Live (Blaine Wastell)
Silverlight LinkLabel Control – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
just released: composite application guidance for wpf and silverlight – February 2008 (Erwin van der Valk)
MVP TV – Changing Silverlight 2’s Control Appearance and Behaviour. (Jas Dhaliwal)
New Release: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) (J.D. Meier)
WPF Kid Stuff: Extracting a Control Template (Shafqat Ahmed)
Prism v2 – Guidance and Patterns for WPF and Silverlight (Tim Heuer)
Silverlight 2 GDR1 Now Available… (Tim Sneath)
Dependency Properties and Silverlight 2 (Corey Miller)
Deep Zoom Composer – February 2009 Preview Released (Sunshine)
Tracking Down Memory Leaks in WPF and Silverlight (Vladimir Milev)

Design / Methodology / Testing

DDD: What Kind of Applications Is It Suited To? (Casey Charlton)
D3: Modeling Part 1 – Real-World Relationships (Danny Simmons)
"Inappropriate Intimacy" points to the bleeding out of your domain logic (Ian Cooper) – Link of the Day
Types of testing (Laila Bougria)
MSTest Digest #1 (Steve Andrews)
Presenter Logic || Domain Service Logic || Repository Logic? (Sean Biefeld)

Web Development

Fixing this blog for Internet Explorer 8 (Julian M. Bucknall)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #47 – Using ResolveUrl in an HTML Helper (Stephen Walther)
Oxite: what’s new and how to stay up to date with it (Simone Chiaretta)

SharePoint

SharePoint and TDD – The other view (Andrew Woodward)
Debugging SharePoint solutions using Visual Studio (DigiMortal)
SPTDD: SharePoint and Test Driven Development, Part One (Eric Shupps)

Community / Events

Mix09: Developing RESTful Services & Clients w/ M (Chris Sells)
Hanselminutes Podcast 150 – Uncle Bob Martin, this time with feeling (Scott Hanselman)
Team System on Twitter (Steve Andrews)

SQL Server

How To Name Default Constraints And How To Drop Default Constraint Without A Name In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

How to Keep Innovating (Bill Buxton)
Windows 7 Beta Brings New Functionality to Games Explorer (Brandon LeBlanc)
The secret driven-development/design acronyms (Damien Guard)
Engineering the Windows 7 Boot Animation (Karen Wong)
Are You An Expert? (Jeff Atwood)
Google Releases Google Mobile for Windows Mobile and The Best Whitepaper I’ve Read In Years: Cloud Computing from UC Berkeley (Steve Clayton)
The Hulu Plugins Just Keep Coming! (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for February 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
The Morning Brew #290 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2009 — #521 (Dave Campbell)
CloudNews for February 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
New and Notable 292 (Sam Gentile)
Daily Find #118 (Tim Boland)
Creators Club Communiqué 18 (Kathleen Sanders)

Book of the Day

Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide (Agile Software Development Series): Craig Larman: Books

ISBN: 0131111558
ISBN-13: 9780131111554

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