Dew Drop – September 17, 2009

 

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing to Text Files with StreamWriter (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Visual Basic Power Packs 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• Integrating SDL best practices in your Team Foundation Server Process Template (Charles Sterling)
• Interface Subscriptions Now Supported by MassTransit (Chris Patterson)
• Binding Control Properties to Business Object Properties and Using the Code Snippet Editor (Deborah Kurata)
• Fun with C# 4.0’s dynamic (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Coding: Watch out for mutable code (Mark Needham)
• Generically Constraining F# – Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Creating squared avatar images (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Web Development

• Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services (Billy McCafferty) – Link of the Day
• Microsoft Ajax CDN and the jQuery Validation Library (Stephen Walther)
• Security Mental Model for Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use (John Teague)
• Web Sandbox from Live Labs (Jim O’Neil)
• Search functionality: heavy on the research, light on the development (Kyle Baley)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pex 0.16.40915.5: Moles, a lightweight Detour Framework, and better support for Test Frameworks (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Actually Querying with the Specification Pattern (Chris Missal)
• Balanced Software Development (Karl Scotland)
• Modularity & Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• About stubs, fakes and mocks (Serge Desmedt)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF Designer sample code is posted (Jim Galasyn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Leon Gersing is Having a Love Affair with Ruby! (Carl Franklin)
• Video of the David Ebbo presenting T4MVC to the Community For MVC virtual user group (Eric Hexter)
• John Durant – Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 (Robert Hess)
• Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #6-Auto detection of OpenAccess Version (Stephen Forte)

 

Community / Events

• Are you a developer or designer in the NJ/PA/VA area? I’m hitting the road and would love to meet you! (Dave Isbitski)
• Workshop on Continuous Integration this Saturday (Ben Scheirman)
• Building 42 (Louis DeJardin) – Congrats, Louis!
• MVP Profile of the Week…..Jacob Sebastian (Robert Pearl)
• Announcing the Team Leadership Google Group (Roy Osherove)
• What Developer Tweeps are Using for Their App Dev (Pete Brown)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Converting Stored Procedure into Table Valued Function (Pinal Dave)
• Targeted Index Performance Improvements (Ian Stirk)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Project 2010 (MS PressPass)
• Google Acquires reCAPTCHA (Adam Ostrow)
• DreamScreen: HP Beats Apple to the Punch With Sleek Tablet (Ben Parr)
• Certifications (Wesley Bakker)
• Windows 8 Internal Presentation Template and More? (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft Project 2010 Promises Significant Improvement (Simon Mackie)
• Wave 4: Live Writer To Get The Ribbon Interface? (Scott Lovegrove)
• AppleInsider jumps the shark, declares Zune HD ‘failed’ (Paul Thurrott)
• NCover and NUnit Can Play Nicely on x64 (Justin Etheredge)
• Why I chose Windows 7 over Snow Leopard (and you should, too) (Joe Wilcox)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #435 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: September 16, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for September 16, 2009 — #693 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for September 16, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• CloudNews for 16th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #542 (Mike Gunderloy)
• New and Notable 371 (Sam Gentile)

 

Book of the Day