Dew Drop – May 19, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code from Persistence.NET NHibernate Workshops and NHibernate Queries – Examples and NHibernate – Mapping a single domain model to multiple physical data models (Oren Eini)
• Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently (Bashir Nabeel)
• More Extension Methods (Chris Cavanagh)
• Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey) (Chris Williams)
• A .NET (C#) Developer’s .gitignore File (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Preview: Entity Framework 4.0 Testability Improvements (Diego Vega)
• “foreach” vs “ForEach” (Eric Lippert)
• Windows 7 Managed Code APIs (Yochay Kiriaty) – Link of the Day
• Id Generation for db4o (Tuna Toksoz)
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 on msdn downloads (Wally McClure)
• .NET Framework 4 and VS Beta1 docs are posted (Jim Galasyn)
• Preview of Resharper for Visual Studio 2010 Coming Soon (JetBrains)
• Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008 and Multi-Targeting in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Supports UML (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Why Isn’t My Encryption.. Encrypting? (Jeff Atwood)
• Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

Web Development

• FireFox+Firebug vs IE8 Developer Toolbar (Chris Brandsma)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Phil Haack) – Coming in June.
• Book – ASP.NET MVC QUICKLY from Packt Publishing! (Joe Stagner)
• Dynamically Generate Meta Tags for ASP.NET Pages using LINQ To XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle (Roy Osherove)
• Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit (Stephen Walther)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Realizing a Fisheye Effect in Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
• 3D Hit Testing (Jordan)
• MVVM and The Origins of Caliburn (Rob Eisenberg)
• New York Times WPF Kit (Michael S. Scherotter)
• How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar [Jason Cooke] (Kathy Kam)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• “Code Leader” book – what’s the missing piece? (Roy Osherove)
• Programming magic: Rituals and habits of effective programmers (Amy Bennett)
• The Flat Tire Principle for Source Control (Eric Hexter)
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review (Mark Needham)
• Role and perception of Enterprise Architects needs to align better with business goals (Mike Walker)
• Unit Testing in EF v1 – the database conundrum and And now…Unit Testing in EF4 (Julie Lerman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Peter DaBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases (Carl Franklin)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 31: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 1 and Episode 32: Being Dynamic about IronPython with Harry Pierson – Part 2 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Code Cast 27 – Ade Miller (David Starr)
• Spaghetti Code Talks Silverlight 3 with Adam Grocholski (Jeff Brand)
• InfoStrat.VE: Integrating Virtual Earth 3D into WPF and Surface Applications for Mere Mortals (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 12: Mac vs Microsoft, Ipod vs Zune: The Ad Campaign War (Laura Foy)
• Episode 70 – PowerScripting Podcast – Practical PowerShell: Best Practices from the Field (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• David Giard interviews Jamie Wright on CSLA .NET (Rockford Lhotka)
• Surface Development Part 1: What is the Microsoft Surface? (Jennifer Marsman)

 

Community / Events

• The dojo is open… www.ITSamuraiSchool.com (Billy McCafferty)
• .NET RIA Services at TechEd 2009 (Brad Abrams)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta1 Forums –Now Live (Charles Sterling)
• Speaking at CodeStock 2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Events This Week – May 18th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Energy Event – Mark Your Calendar – May 20, 2009 (Pinal Dave)
• Dynamic Languages at TechEd 2009 (John Lam)

 

Database

• SMO Script Index and FK’s on a database (Ted Krueger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Increase Your Windows 7’s Portable’s Battery Life with "Power Management Reports" (Blake Handler)
• Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services (Rafe Needleman)
• My Phone Beta Opened To All Users! (Sunshine)
• WMI Feature Announcement (Nandan Bhat)
• MAKE magazine projects as free PDFs (Mark Frauenfelder)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience (Justin Etheredge)
• Microsoft and Open Source (Harry Pierson)
• Eduify Launches Educational Tool for Students on Windows Azure (Sarah Perez)
• Windows 7 Learning Site Launched (Scott Lock)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 18, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #350 (Chris Alcock)
• The Technology Post for May 18th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Silverlight Cream for May 18, 2009 — #595 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for May 18, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #80 (David Vidmar)
• CloudNews for May 18th, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

 

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