Dew Drop – June 12, 2009

 

I’ll be on vacation next week, so posts will be scattered about a bit. I’ll probably switch over to my smaller “Dew Droplet” post format as well.

 

Web Development

• Binding in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Smith)
• WebServices – Error Handling (Dave M. Bush)
• MVC IsAuthorized and AuthorizedActionLink (Chris Cavanagh)
• Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Integrating your ASP.NET Web Application with Online Payment Services (Zhiming Xue)
• Codeigniter – I like PHP again! (Paul Zubkov)
• Building a TweetThis Extension with Automatic Bit.ly for Graffiti CMS (Lee Dumond)
• Cache files using ASP.NET Cache Dependency (Malcolm Sheridan)
• The Wrong Level of Abstraction (Jeff Atwood)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger (Nigel Sampson)
• Versioning your Silverlight application (Corey Schuman)
• Customizing Silverlight 3 DataGrid Headers (Dan Wahlin)
• Turning off Cider (John Papa)
• XAML centric improvments in VS2010 – markup extensions intellisense and more (Rob Relyea)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Discovering System.Linq.Expressions (Charles Chen)
• NHibernate – Automatic change tracking for aggregate roots in DDD scenarios (Oren Eini)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 is GO! (Kathleen Sanders)
• Windows 7 Programming Guide – Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• XNA Game Studio 3.1 (Coding4Fun)
• An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part IV) (Habib Heydarian)
• F# – Duck Typing and Structural Typing (Matthew Podwysocki)
• NHibernate: Calling Update Unnecessarily (Tobin Harris)
• TFS Build: _PublishedWebsites for exe and dll Projects (Mike Hadlow)
• Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts (Some new VS 2010 shortcuts included too!) (Dot Net Cube Dude)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The “focus on business value” pillar (version 1) (Brian Marick)
• Showing Potential Merge Issues in Hudson (Derik Whittaker)
• Reducing Code Coupling – Service Locator (Grant Palin)
• Integration Testing Your ASP.NET MVC Application (Steve Sanderson)
• Pex 0.14.040610.2: Fix Suggestions for Invariant Methods and Natural properties for Stubs. (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Coding: Single Level of Abstraction Principle and Coding Dojo #17: Refactoring Cruise Control .NET (Mark Needham)
• A Short History of Programming Language Generations (Rick Minerich)
• Software Development Body of Knowledge – ABC 01 (Rinat Abdullin)
• You’re Not Your Data Access (Rob Conery)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rory does iPhones! (Carl Franklin)
• Hanselminutes – Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer and MSDN Bytes – Today’s Random Silly Hanselman Video (Scott Hanselman)
• JQuery for Absolute Beginners Video Series (Bobby Johnson)
• 10-4 Episode 23: An Introduction to Manual Testing (Brian Keller)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #117: Exploring how to use Global Variables and ViewData (Strongly typed and weak typed) with Spark (Donn Felker)
• MSDN Webcast: Silverlight Controls Framework (Lindsay Rutter)
• Windows 7 Graphics – High DPI (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial – Lesson 2 (Posted by Me)
• Community Radio Episode One (Steve Andrews)
• The History of Microsoft – 1993 (Tina)
• Jimmy Fallon rocks out with Project Natal (Nilay Patel)
• Conversation with Ivan Agosta-Rubio and Bellatrix Martinez (Corey Haines)

 

Community / Events

• ScotALT.NET – An Evening of O/RM (Mike Perrin)
• CodeStock, CodeStock… CODESTOCK!! (Alan Stevens)
• Foundation Series Is a Hit! (Brian Donahue)
• New Community Megaphone Event Tools (G. Andrew Duthie) – Link of the Day
• TechNet Conference Goes Virtual! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Events hosted by SRT Solutions (Jennifer Marsman)
• MSDN Road Show – Don’t Miss It! (Michael Ceranski)
• Contest – NETOOP Needs a Logo ! (Joe Stagner)
• Lean & Kanban Conferences – Looking back and looking forwards (Karl Scotland)
• Up close and personal with the Visual Studio 2010 Editor Team (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• Changing Bound Defaults to Default Constraints (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Customize Toolbar – Remove Debug Button from Toolbar (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Developer Edition—Downscale Emulation (William Vaughn)

 

Miscellaneous

• Is Programming A Generic Skill? (Justin Etheredge)
• Suggest a HealthVault topic… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Nine Video Games Ripe for Rebirth (John Booth)
• CodePlex now supports projects hosting ads from The Lounge (and lots of other great new features too!) (Sara Ford)
• New App for Writing Documents Online (Tobin Harris)
• Google Native Client grows out of research phase (Stephen Shankland)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 11, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #367 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 11, 2009 — #611 and Silverlight Cream for June 11, 2009 – 2 — #612 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for June 11th, 2009 (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 11th June, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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