Dew Drop – May 20, 2009

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF WF Samples for .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Classic JukeBox (Coding4Fun)
• Entity Framework 4.0: Pluralization and New Webcast: ADO.Net Data Services (Dan Rigsby)
• Result: Directing Workflow With A Return Status And Value (Derick Bailey)
• Sneak Peek – Using Code Generation Templates with the Entity Framework 4.0 (Alex James)
• CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 and The Weekly Source Code 42 – Tree Trim, Plugins, and MEF (Scott Hanselman)
• A lap around Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 1 (Taimur Asad)
• Building CSLA .NET 3.6 in Visual Studio 2010 (Rockford Lhotka)
• Entity Framework 4.0 Sneak Previews (Marc Schweigert)
• Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 2: Triggering Builds and Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 3: Running Tests, Nightly Builds, and Creating Artifacts (Richard Cirerol)
• Checking for EF to TSQL Query Compilation Changes in VS2010 Beta1 (Julie Lerman)
• Should Call Hierarchy display compiler-generated member calls? (Kirill Osenkov)
• Yield, I thought I knew you! (Louis Salin)
• Uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Surface Development Part 2: Surface Controls (Jennifer Marsman)
• Latest Docu builds available (Joshua Flanagan)
• Sensor and Location .NET Library for Windows 7 (Adam Kinney)
• F# Actors Revisited (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 14 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET WebForm Routing with SiteMaps (Chris Cavanagh)
• ASP.NET 4 Beta 1: WebForms Routing extension methods (Scott Galloway)
• ASP 4 – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 (Scott Hanselman)
• Tip#63: Did you know…How to specify a fixed port for Visual Studio Development Server while using WAPs? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS2010 Beta 1? (Marc Schweigert)
• How do Mobile Browsers Behave? (John Resig)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• New York Times Application Sample for WPF, Silverlight, REST Services (Bruce Kyle)
• Just Built My First SL3 / Dev 10 App (Jesse Liberty)
• .NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template and Silverlight Visual Studio helper files (Tim Heuer)
• XAML2009 and System.Xaml.dll Preview (in .NET FX 4 Beta1) (Rob Relyea)
• Windows Media Center Brings Netflix To Consumers Using Silverlight (Sunshine)
• Silverlight Frankenstein (Rod Paddock)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Talk on Agility (Ade Miller)
• In The Brain of David Ross: NBehave and Behavior Driven Development (Me)
• Beyond top-down design (Jimmy Bogard)
• A First Look at Moq (Brett Schuchert)
• Announcing Pablo’s E-Books! Book #1: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development (Derick Bailey) – Link of the Day
• Caricature ready for beta (Ivan Porto Carrero)
• Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Service Level (Jak Charlton)
• Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks (Roy Osherove)
• IOC Container, Go Hide! (Jérémie Chassaing)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Vance Morrison: CLR Through the Years (Charles Torre)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #111: Introduction to AutoMapper (Eric Polerecky)
• Video: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Dan Wahlin)
• Interactivity Without Code and Who’s Using Silverlight? Ebay (Silverlight Team)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Developer Dinner Series for Partners: Presenting Azure: Building Applications Using the .NET Service Bus – Raleigh, NC June 18, 2009 (Nandita)
• Enter to win a free pass to the SharePoint Conference 2009! (SharePoint Team)
• DC ALT.NET – 5/27/2009 – Introduction to Pair Programming (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

SharePoint

• Use Custom Lists for More Effective Workflow Auditing (Paul Galvin)
• How to configure the SharePoint people picker to search for users in other domains and Tip of the week : search for documents in SharePoint Server 2007 from within Office or Internet Explorer (Joris Poelmans)
• TDD with SharePoint – the best movie ever (Roy Osherove)

 

Database

• SQL Server – Download PDF SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Releases "OffiSync" Google Docs Integration for Microsoft Office and Microsoft’s "Side-Project" Paint.Net Upgraded for Windows 7 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free "Photoshop Texture Importer" for Paint.Net (Blake Handler)
• Mogulus Rebrands With A Killer Domain: Livestream.com (MG Siegler)
• Flock 2.5 Brings Beefed Up Facebook Chat and Twitter Search (Stan Schroeder)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Learn Programming Now! (Devon Musgrave)
• A Technical Presenter’s Journey: Part 1 – Know Your Audience and Part 2 – Rehearse! (Justin Etheredge)
• CodePlex projects now indexed by Koders and also available in Black Duck Open Source Knowledge Base (Sara Ford)
• The Bathroom Wall of Code (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft to show “Kumo” next week? (Kip Kniskern)
• RubyMine Interview on InfoQ (Rob Bazinet)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for May 19, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: May 19, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #351 (Chris Alcock)
• Some resources about Visual Studio Extensibility (Kirill Osenkov)
• Silverlight Cream for May 19, 2009 — #596 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 19th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• Creators Club Communiqué 28 (Kathleen Sanders)

 

Book of the Day