Dew Drop – October 13, 2009

 

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

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Get Time Zone Information (Richard Carr)
• Code Only – Further Enhancements (Alex James)
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence (Eric Lippert)
• LINQ Programming (Jim Kohli)
• How to edit code when debugging a 64-bit application (Habib Heydarian)
• VSTS 2010 TMap process templates infographic (Clemens Reijnen)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 1 – What Is Scala? (Justin Etheredge)
• Targeting earlier .NET frameworks 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 using Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Bala Chirtsabesan)
• URL Routing with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
• Using .NET 4.0 Tasks with the AsyncEnumerator (Jeffrey Richter) – Link of the Day
• Export to CSV using Reflection and IQueryable (Michael Ceranski)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – ThumbnailToolbarButton and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Overlays (Rudi Grobler)

 

Web Development

• Expression Encoder 3 – Free and on Web Platform Installer (Mike Ormond)
• HttpContext.Items[] vs Session[] (Dave M. Bush)
• Do you know about this undocumented Google CDN feature? (Dave Ward)
• Server specific Web.config sections replacement with WDP (Vishal Joshi)
• Dead Simple Geolocation… (Scott Galloway)
• BOOK: Murach’s JavaScript and DOM Scripting Training and Reference (Joe Stagner)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• We can’t all use duct tape (Steve Jones)
• "Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" (Ted Neward)
• I use Balsamiq Mockups and So Should You (Rob Bazinet)
• Architecture Journal – Service Orientation Today and Tomorrow (Mike Walker)
• What does the M in MVC actually mean? (Michael Wagg)
• DSLs: Violating the builder pattern (Mark Needham)
• Mocks versus stubs and fakes (Scott Koon)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• CoreMVVM – A Simple MVVM Framework on CodePlex (Mike Ormond)
• how to work with animations in Silverlight in the mvvm pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)
• Five minute recipe for a decent BoolToVisibilityConverter (Josh Twist)
• Saving images (.bmp, .png, etc) in WPF/Silverlight (Kirill Osenkov)
• Hosting Silverlight outside the browser (sourcecode) (Koen Zwikstra)
• Adding Silverlight Video to Websites with Expression Web 3 (Silverlight Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shawn Wildermuth on Declarative UI (Carl Franklin)
• ARCast.TV – How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture and Architect Innovation Cafe – Perspectives on Silverlight 3 and Architect Innovation Cafe – Deploying Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
• Ping 33: Windows Phones are here, Windows 7 party kit, hacking & phishing (Laura Foy)
• Thirsty Developer 75 – Sparking a Business into Divot Dog (Dave Bost)
• The SharePoint Ecosystem Part 1 Episode 34 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
• Microsoft Network Monitor Experts Day: Part 5 – Advanced API (Michael Hawker)

 

Community / Events

• Save the date: Google I/O 2010 (Joyce Sohn)
• Events This Week – October 12th, 2009 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• Generate Lots of Test Data with CROSS JOIN (Joe Webb)
• Interview With Rod Colledge About The Book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Engineering SharePoint (Jeff Teper)

 

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell RPN Calculator (Lee Holmes)
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 90-Day Eval VHD (Blake Handler)
• Adobe Photo Uploader for Facebook is a full-blown Facebook app (Jason Clarke)
• Scala: Code Kata #2 – Karate Chop – Array Slicing Attempt (Mark Needham)
• Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication (MG Siegler)
• Microsoft’s Windows 7, as viewed by the Mac faithful (Todd Bishop)
• Sneak preview of my new book (Scott Berkun)
• FTW IE6, IE7, IE8, Chrome & Firefox running together on Windows 7 (Nigel Parker)
• No, Windows 7 isn’t slower than Vista, even at booting up (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Functions and Solver Improvements in Excel 2010 (Office Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 12, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #453 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 12-Oct-2009 (Elijah Manor)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 10.09 ~10.13 (yuanjian)
• CloudNews for 12th October, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Double Shot #559 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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