Dew Drop – October 28, 2009

 

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Using F# Discriminated Unions in C# (Beta2) (Jared Parsons)
• Simple Linq to Sql Enhancements with T4 Templating (Nathan Bridgewater)
• IronPython 2.0.3 and 2.6 RC2 (Harry Pierson)
• TFB210602: Failed to copy. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• A Chance to Influence the MSDN Visual Studio Documentation (Help System) (Charlie Calvert)
• VS 2010 Beta2: Workaround for Raster Font Settings Issue (Brittany Behrens)
• Windows7 Trigger Start Services – Part 2: Building a Trigger Start Optimized Service (Yochay Kiriaty)

 

Web Development

• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Creating Drill Down Reports (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET 4 Web Server Here Shell Extension (Phil Haack)
• Optimize your web site for search engines using the SEO Toolkit (MS Web Platform Team)
• Using PHP within the Expression Development Server (Chris Leeds)
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse for PHP developers (Maarten Balliauw)
• 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig is a View Model (Sara J. Chipps) – Link of the Day

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• An epic bug story (Oren Eini)
• MVC Web Testing Strategies – verifying content (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha – Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Jamie Cansdale)
• Stop Exposing Collections Already! (Davy Brion)
• The SOA Manifesto – Pointlessness Manifested (Harry Pierson)
• Developer Codpieces (Leon Bambrick)
• The Most Productive Programming Language (Dave Laribee)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF is the future, get over it, post of the day – “Are desktop developers ignoring WPF at their peril?” (Greg Duncan)
• New Options for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 WPF and Silverlight Projects and d:DesignInstance, d:DesignData in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Karl Shifflett)
• 10 Expression Blend 3 Tutorials for Silverlight available for download (Adam Kinney)
• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 1 (Laurent Bugnion)
• Silverlight Live Streaming being discontinued. What now? (Rene Schulte)
• New Silverlight Tooling Support in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Visual Web Developer Team)
• Inserting a Silverlight Navigation and Slideshow into Your Web Page (Silverlight Team)
• Easing Functions in WPF 4 (and Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
• Obfuscation of WPF applications (status update) (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Windows Presentation Foundation with Todd Fine (MS Screencasts)
• Vacation of Fluent NHibernate: Monday ClassMaps (Bobby Johnson)
• Dave Thompson: Turning Software into Services (Charles Torre)
• Recorded PowerShell Introductory Session from Quest Connect (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Part 1 – Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity and Part 2 – Dependency Injection with Unity and Part 3 – Modularity with Prism and Part 4 – The Unity Bootstrapper and Part 5 – Moving to a Modular Silverlight Project and Part 7 – Commands and Part 8 – Loosely Coupled Events and Part 9 – Sharing Data with Region Contexts and Part 10 – A Larger Example – "Email Client" (Mike Taulty)
• The Visual Studio Documentary: Tim Huckaby Full Length Interview (Tina)
• Access Web Databases and The Access Show (Office Team)

 

Community / Events

• Office and SharePoint Sessions at PDC (Ahmed El-Ramly)
• SharePoint Live Virtual Conference & Expo – November 5, 2009 (Andrew Connell)
• Google Groups is Dead (John Resig)
• Getting Geeky with Windows 7! My house party and visiting Best Buy on launch day. (Dave Isbitski)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• FAST meets SharePoint – What’s Coming in Search for SharePoint 2010 (Nate Treloar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google launches Android 2.0 SDK (Brad Linder)
• Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars [Gaming] (Adam Frucci)
• 7 on 7: Direct2D and DirectWrite (Jim O’Neil)
• Dear Microsoft: What’s the deal with Windows 7 upgrades? (Ed Bott)
• Google Wave will have an App Store too! (Sebastian Anthony)
• Windows Management Framework is here! (Nathan Burkhart)

 

More Link Collections

• SharePoint 2007 Posts: Recap (Pete Seale)
• LINKBLOG for Oct 27, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #464 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 — #717 and Silverlight Cream for October 27, 2009 – 2 — #718 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Index for Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update (Brad Abrams)
• CloudNews for 27th October, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

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