Dew Drop – February 6, 2009

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Graphical Paths with Gradient Colors (Charles Petzold)
• Where Does Silverlight and WPF Belong? (Chris Love)
• Why Silverlight Is the Future and Silverlight Online Goodies (Rocky Lhotka)
• New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• VSTS Has a New Web Site (Cameron Skinner)
• CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) (Rocky Lhotka)
• A Story of TFS WTFery (Ben Scheirman)
• Model Driven Template/Scaffolding AddIn for Visual Studio (Eric Hexter)
• Developing with Microsoft Business Rules Engine (Mohamad Halabi)

 

Web Development

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Streaming Video, but Were Afraid to Ask, and Then Some… (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why to Use a CSS Framework? and More About CSS Frameworks (Daniela Panfili)
• Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web (Rick Strahl)
• Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC (Stephen Walther) – Link of the Day
• Trying to Extend the ASP.NET MVC (T4) Item Templates to Create Multiple Files (Eric Hexter)
• Building AgiliTrain: Part 3 – Data Validation (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Friday Books – CSS: The Missing Manual (Dave M. Bush)
• REST Fundamentals (Kalyan Bandarupalli)
• Slide Elements in Different Directions (Karl Swedberg)
• Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web (Jason N. Gaylord)
• How to Use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile: Why Do We Integrate Early? (Mark Needham)
• The Essence of Great UI – An Overview (Mark Miller)
• S.O.L.I.D. By Example: Open Closed Principle (Bobby Johnson)
• Bounded Context, Extension Methods, and Fluent API’s (JP Hamilton)
• UX Patterns (and not UI Architecture Patterns) (Christopher Bennage)
• Why ‘Should Attach View to Presenter’ Is an Invalid Unit Test / Observation (Derick Bailey)
• Software Development "Lessons Learned" (Jarod Ferguson)
• The Next Level of Code Analysis Using ‘NDepend’: An Interview with Patrick Smacchia (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

.NET Community / Events

• Introducing .NET Shout Out (Joe Stagner)
• MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 3.5 Overview (Lindsay Rutter)
• MVPs Headline at TechEd 2009! (Jas Dhaliwal)

 

Database

• Managing Files with SQL Server 2008’s FILESTREAM Feature (Thiru Thangarathinam)
• Some Simple Code to Show the Difference Between Newid and Newsequentialid (Denis Gobo)

 

Miscellaneous

• Performance Is Important – Why Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com) Is Wrong and Right About Performance (Wallace B. McClure)
• New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes (Octavian "Vivi" Costache)
• Mobile Manager for Netflix (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Learning and Understanding (Gabriel Schenker)
• Suggested Sites & Privacy (Jane Kim)
• UAC Feedback and Follow-Up (Jon DeVaan & Steven Sinofsky)
• The History of Microsoft – 1975 (Tina @ Channel9)
• Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon’s Kindle Books to Be Available on Mobile Phones (Chris Webb)

 

More Link Collections

• CloudNews for February 5th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
• jQuery Week? (Thomas S. Williams)
• Silverlight Cream for February 05, 2009 — #508 (Dave Campbell)
• LINKBLOG for February 5, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (2/5/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• The Morning Brew #281 (Chris Alcock)
• SQL Friday, The Best SQL Server Links of the Past Week Episode 10 (Denis Gobo)
• Interesting Finds: February 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)

 

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