Month: January 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Welcome to the new DotNetKicks (James Avery)
• Visual Studio 2010 Tip of the Day Returns!! (Sara Ford)
• Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (Part 1) (Ted Krueger)
• Visions of Software Development or Can’t We Just All Get Along? (Christopher Bennage)
• Easily Explore Existing Architecture (Patrick Smacchia)
• Picture-in-Picture for Whiteboard movies with eBeam (Jonathan de Halleux)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Bookmarking with Visual Studio and ReSharper 5.0 (Vadim Kreynin)
• LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #3 (Damien Guard)
• Checking Whether A Method Is Overridden (Davy Brion)
• NHiberante and Join types in your mappings Select vs Join (Derik Whittaker)
• Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
• Continuing to an outer loop (Eric Lippert)
• Replacing text with a box selection (Zain Naboulsi)
• Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 1 – Introduction (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Entity Framework in .NET 4 (Somasegar)
• PyBinding now hosted on CodePlex (Pavan Podila)
• F#: Refactoring to pattern matching (Mark Needham)
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 2. Auto Registration (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

• A More Scalable ScrewTurn Wiki Membership Model (Dave Burke)
• Adding Multiple Nested Data in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
• MVC Turbine Redux (Javier G. Lozano)
• ASP.NET Performance – Part 3 – Cache Busting (Karl Seguin)
• Required Field Highlighting in Dynamic Data Field Templates (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Tenet #9 – Attention to Excellence (Julie Stickler)
• What Do You Want to Accomplish Today? (JD Meier)
• StatLight (Rockford Lhotka)
• Poll: Do you use NUnit’s fluent API? (Roy Osherove)
• I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist (Rob Bazinet)
• When visualizations go wrong, part 2 (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

• Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II (Karl Shifflett)
• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.7 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model and Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File (Mike Taulty)
• Digging into Data (from a XAML perspective) (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Top 10 of 2009 (Silverlight Team)
• Severely Decoupled Configuration (Jesse Liberty)
• Minimizing your designer footprint (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Walther On ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – An Overview of MVC4WPF – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Familiar)
• Countdown to MIX10: We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! and Ping 43: CES, God Mode in Win 7, New Years Resolutions, MIX10 (Laura Foy)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #158: Exploring Operator Overloading in C# (Derik Whittaker)
• The Thirsty Developer 81: nPlus1 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour (Adam Kinney)
• Magenic Code Mastery Event for Developers – February 11, 2010 and Calling All Enterprise Architects – Register Today for the Microsoft Business Integration Roadshow (Bob Familiar)
• Events This Week – January 11th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The best of the best and the worst of the worst of 2010 CES (Robert Scoble)
• Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users (Jeffrey Palermo)
• A Call for Help – Vote for my Codeplex Issues (Eric Hexter)
• The NIH dance (Oren Eini)

Database

• Finding Invalid SQL Logins (Chad Miller)
• T-SQL Tuesday #002: Non-aggregated columns in a GROUP BY query (Kalen Delaney)
• SSIS – Lesson learnt, Case is very very important (Simon Sabin)
• SQL SERVER – Fragmentation – Detect Fragmentation and Eliminate Fragmentation (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) upgrade tool for VSeWSS (MS Downloads)
• Try System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta (SharePoint Team)
• 10 Key Questions Determining SharePoint SQL Server Count (Joel Oleson)
• Business Connectivity Services Authentication (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Kodu Game-Creation Tool for Kids Adapted for the PC (MS PressPass)
• MobileShell – PowerShell Prompt in a Browser (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Resume wording matters (Ryan Graves)
• Popular Languages of 2009 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
• Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone: The Missing Manual, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
• Starting a new language is like spiking (Patrick Kua)
• Ballmer Picks Natural User Interface As Next Big Trend (Bruce Kyle)

More Link Collections

• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 01/12/2009 (Bob Familiar)
• The Morning Brew #515 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for January 11, 2010 — #775 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Entity Framework Resources (Julia Kornich)

The Geek Shelf

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