Dew Drop – September 23, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading from Text Files with StreamReader (Richard Carr)
• Chocolate Salty Bools (Lee Dumond) – Title of the day. Well done, Lee…
• How to keep you fingers on the keyboard within VSTS 2010 Architecture Edition (Clemens Reijnen) – Link of the Day
• When an object-relational mapper is too much, DataReader too little (Damien Guard)
• Must Everything Be Virtual With NHibernate, Part II (Davy Brion)
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 – Code Coverage Settings Window Closes Unexpectedly (Doug Holland)
• Debugging a COM object (Runtime Callable Wrapper) with Visual Studio 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
• .NET Access Control Service takes a REST (Keith Brown)
• BizTalk Project Creation Fails – or, Why did BizTalk in VS 2008 break? (Matt Milner)

 

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Sorting and Filtering Chart Data (Scott Mitchell)
• DotNetNuke – Retrieving Host Access (Dave M. Bush)
• Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery (Louis-Rémi Babé)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD: Copying and pasting tests (Mark Needham)
• Agile Architecture, Lean Principles (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Do you plan your work? (Louis Salin)
• A Mess is not a Technical Debt. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Change is Good (Rob Reynolds)
• Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok (Jason Fitzpatrick)
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview (Scott Hanselman)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• A new way to get the full version of Expression Encoder 3 (James Clarke)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services (Carl Franklin)
• C# 4.0 Dynamic with Chris Burrows and Sam Ng (Charlie Calvert)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #142: Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• Working from home & commuting via float plane (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Steal My Book (Roy Osherove) – I’ve almost finished ‘The Art of Unit Testing’ and it’s worth every penny. Do yourself a favor and go buy a copy.
• Chance to win a free HD Zune and free VSTS 2010 Training in a Northwest City near you! (Charles Sterling)
• Events this week – September 22nd, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Goodbye MSDN Magazine (Howard Dierking) – Good luck, Howard. Thanks for everything you have done for msdnmag!
• MVP Profile of the Week….. (Robert Pearl) – Greg Larsen, SQL MVP, is featured this week.

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2 (Sumeeth Evans)
• SQL SERVER – Insert Values of Stored Procedure in Table – Use Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Wave in Internet Explorer (Lars Rasmussen)
• Introducing Google Chrome Frame (Ian Fette)
• XPS Essentials Pack Version 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• Setting up TortoiseSVN to use WinMerge (Derik Whittaker)
• Getting More Performance out of Windows Live Meeting (William Vaughn)
• Create Your Own Forum With Zoho Discussions (Stan Schroeder)
• Windows 8 Special: Features and Considerations (Stephen Chapman)
• Office Web Apps (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Courier Multitouch Tablet Unveiled (Taimur Asad)
• Helping You Recover Your Work in Office 2010 (Nitie)
• Paint.NET 3.5 Beta 1 released – now with added shiny (Paul O’Brien)
• U need some .Net training and/or course materials? Then .Net U is for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator (Runar Olsen)
• Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials (Melissa Scroggins)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 22, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #439 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for September 22, 2009 — #697 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 22, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Sep-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• New and Notable 373 (Sam Gentile)
• CloudNews for 22nd September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #546 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

Book of the Day