Dew Drop – May 13, 2009

 

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET Routing Without ASP.NET MVC (Scott Mitchell)
• Upload Multiple Files in ASP.NET using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Community for ASP.NET MVC – Release: Azure MVC v1 – C# (CodePlex)
• Mixing ASP.NET, jQuery and JSON (Dave M. Bush)
• Donut Hole Caching in ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• jQuery Sortable Plug-in and unwanted Clicks (Rick Strahl)
• Why these jQuery worst practices aren’t. (Scott Koon)
• Maintaining Cookieless Session Values in Dynamically Generated Hyperlinks (Rafay Ali)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• "Olso": Hot or Not? (Chris Sells)
• string.Repeat() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)
• Sneak Preview: Model First in the Entity Framework 4.0 (Noam Ben-Ami)
• Sneak Preview: Deferred Loading in Entity Framework 4.0 (Faisal Mohamood)
• Debug Diag script for troubleshooting .NET 2.0 Memory leaks (Tess Ferrandez)
• New Name for Test and Lab Tools (Jason Zander) – Link of the Day
• Announcing FsCheck 0.6: Dot is the new pipe (Kurt Schelfthout)
• C# – object, var and dynamic demystified (Michael Ceranski)
• Reversi for Windows Mobile (Ziad Elmalki)
• Get Internet Connectivity for Your .NET Mobile Device Emulators (Mamta M.)
• Debugging and PDBs (Marcelo)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Matchingo – A Silverlight Memory Game (CodePlex)
• CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3’s ‘Projection’ feature (Jose Fajardo)
• Expression Blend 3: Trying a Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Part 2) (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guidance (Tim Heuer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Don’t mock my integration tests (Oren Eini)
• Success and statistics (Jimmy Bogard)
• Testability vs. Testing (Dino Esposito)
• Road Thoughts – Frameworks (and Honesty) (Corey Haines)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kenn Scribner on REST (Carl Franklin)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #109: Learning Hudson: Setting up a simple build (Derik Whittaker)
• Stored Procedure Panel from Tech Ed 09 posted online and Surviving the Downturn: Panel discussion now online from Tech Ed 09 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Inside Microsoft’s home of the future (Robert Muehsig)
• Mocking – VISUG session (screencast) (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Announced, CTP Coming This Summer (Denis Gobo)
• IDENTITY a fraud? and When are you upgrading to SQL Server 2008? (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint: SPList.HasView() extension method (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Community / Events

• Social Media Blogs Top 200… Your Nominations Please! (Jurgen Appelo) – Vote for me!  🙂
• IndyHall Welcomes Scott Bellware’s TDD and Web Testing Workshops, June 2nd and 3rd (Alex Hillman)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 training in Sydney next week – and it’s FREE (Anthony Borton)
• Ayende’s Post #4000 (Dave Laribee)
• Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira (Aslam Kahn)
• The DZone interviews Hamilton Verissimo on MEF (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio and Mono at TechEd (Darren Stokes)
• French MVP Becomes the #1 Visual Basic Contributor (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Tech Ed BookStore (Julie Lerman)
• TechEd 2009 – Embrace Open Source on CodePlex (DPR301) (Sara Ford)
• Stack Overflow Developer Days Conference (Jeff Atwood)
• SQLAuthority News – TechEd India 2009 – Day 0 – Day 1 – Authors Tech Session – SQL Server Cheat Sheet – Catch Me Live (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Random Developer Quotes (Oren Eini)
• Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes – Part III: JumpList (Gunther Lenz)
• Is Microsoft about to purchase SeeqPod’s assets? (Brad Linder)
• IE8: Nine Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Windows 7 Removes the Need for QuickTime (Keith Elder)
• Twitter changes @reply settings again, users protest (Jay Hathaway) – Boo!
• Just what is Kumo, anyway? (And is it open source?) (Kip Kniskern)
• Asteroids (Vijaye)
• What kind of open are you looking for? (Seth Godin)
• The book shelf of a Connected Systems MVP (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Microsoft "Pink" specs leak out: Tegra, Snapdragon, OMAP 3, oh my? (Nilay Patel)
• All You Need To Know About Giving A Presentation (Steve Clayton)
• Some Programming Languages to Consider Learning (Steve Rowe)
• What can the Rails Maturity Model do for me? (Rob Bazinet)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 12, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #346 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2009 — #591 (Dave Campbell)
• Technology Related Links for May 12th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for May 12th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Daily Find #121 (Tim Boland)

 

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