Dew Drop – December 4, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Code Generation Made Easy (Peter Provost)
• If Only My IDE Could Do… This (Andrew Stopford)
• TestDriven.Net Options Pane (Jamie Cansdale)
• Permission-Based Authorization vs. Role-Based Authorization (Rocky Lhotka)
• Programmatically Opening the ‘Default Programs’ Window (David Kean)
• Throwing Exceptions from Constructors? (Shahar Yair)
• Jeff Richter Video on Asynchronous Programming and His Power Threading Library (Charlie Calvert)

 

Web Development

• Finding a CSS Class Definition (Dave M. Bush)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show #129 – Caching with .NET 3.5 SP1 (Wallace B. McClure)
• Known Installation Issues with ASP.NET MVC (Phil Haack)
• The Weekly Source Code 28 – ASP.NET MVC Beta Obscurity – ModelState.IsValid Is False Because ModelBinder Pulls Values from RouteData (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing jBlogMvc (Amr Elsehemy)
• Compatibility View Improvements to Come in IE8 (Scott Dickens)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• The Wrap Panel (Jesse Liberty)
• Nesting Regions (or Creating Fractals) with Prism (Josh Twist)
• Moonlight Beta 1 – Congrats! (Mike Ormond)
• The Silverlight Application Corner (Tim Heuer)
• Selecting and Displaying Images and Text Files from a Client Machine Using Silverlight 2 (Harsh Bardhan)
• MEF: Taking Extensibility to the Next Level (Rudi Grobler)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Fat Controller (Ian Cooper)
• Roadmap for WCSF (Blaine Wastell)
• Isolation Frameworks – Lessons from the Wild (Roy Osherove)
• F# + TestDriven.NET + xUnit.net = WIN (Matthew Podwysocki)
• The Need for Speed (Wendy Friedlander) – Link of the Day
• Improved Support for MbUnit, xUnit and Gallio (Jamie Cansdale)
• The Problem with Logging (Jeff Atwood)

 

Career

• Don’t Be Afraid of People Better Than You (Sara J. Chipps)
• What It Takes to Be a Great Technical Lead (Davy Brion)

 

Database

• sqltrace: A Tool Every SQL Server Developer Should Have (Denis Gobo)

 

Events / Community

• Free Microsoft Robotics Studio Training (Frank La Vigne)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Book Writing Process (Simone Chiaretta)
• The Story of a Programming Book (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter (Elijah Manor) – And me!   🙂
• Dell Mini 9 – Practical Developer’s Review (Scott Hanselman)
• Balsamiq – Quick (and Dirty) UI Mockups (David Vidmar)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 3, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 279 (Sam Gentile)
• LINKBLOG for December 3, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• CloudNews for December 3rd, 2008 (Mayank Gupta)
• Creators Club Communiqué 10 (Kathleen Sanders)
• The Morning Brew #237 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for December 04, 2008 (Silverlight Show)

 

Book of the Day