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Dew Drop – July 23, 2008

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ to NHibernate in 10 Minutes (Matt Hinze)
Ward & I Talk Over the EF Vote of No Confidence Document (Jeremy D. Miller)
Learn How to Use NHibernate with the Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series (Scott Hanselman)
T4 Templates in Visual Studio for Code Generation Screencast (David Hayden)
Running a x64 Build Server. Challenges Overcome. (Eric Hexter)
Return a List<T> or ObservableCollection<T> (John Papa)
5 Things I Like Better About Visual Studio Than NetBeans (Jim Hoffman)
C# Snippets for Visual Studio 2008 – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy (MS Downloads)
What New Windows SDK Features Do You Want? (Win SDK Team)

Events / Community

Yay! Philly Geek Dinner (Lindsay Rutter)
CodePlex Project Discussions Mailing Lists (J. Wanagel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Measuring Testers (James Whittaker)
Dealing with Code Un-Coverable by Tests (Patrick Smacchia)
Unit Test Boundaries (Phil Haack)
Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 2 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 1 (Keith Elder) – Can’t wait to listen to this one, but I just finished episode 3 of DFB.
Software Plus Services and Developers (Matt Rosoff)
How to Communicate Design Decisions to Clients (Brian D. Armstrong)

Silverlight / WPF

Dynamically Selecting Theme in Silverlight 2 Applications (Zhiming Xue)
Building a Silverlight Application: A Designer’s Perspective (Corrina Barber)
Building a WPF Application: Part 1 (Christopher Bennage)
Silverlight and Multi-Touch Tablets (Bart Czernicki)

SharePoint

Notes on the Recently Released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint (Chandima Kulathilake)
LINQ4SP – Query Evaluation (Daniel Leiszen)
SharePoint Gradual Upgrade Disabled When Using a SQL Instance Named SharePoint and Database Gotchas When Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS (Scott Lock)

Web Development

AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC (Timothy Khouri)
Forcing Client Windows to Pop Up as Windows in Tabbed Browsers (Rick Strahl)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #23 – Use POCO LINQ to SQL Entities (Stephen Walther)
My Thoughts on ASP.NET’s MVC (Karl Seguin)
A Sneak Peek at ASP.NET AJAX 4.0’s Client-Side Templating (Dave Ward)

Miscellaneous

Computer Manuals (Larry Clarkin)
The Best Tech Tools and Fitness Plans to Get in Shape (Adam Pash)
Metered Internet: The Death of Web Work? (Mike Gunderloy) – Link of the Day
Looking Back – A Review of My Most Popular Blogs (Chris Love)
Introducing Xbox LIVE Community Games (XNA Team)
.NET Rocks! – Kirk Munro on PowerShell and PowerGUI (MS Downloads)
BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 / WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster (MS Downloads)
Microsoft Scalable Fabric (Sarah Perez)
Games for Windows – LIVE Is Now FREE (Kevin Unangst)
Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs (Jeff Atwood)

SQL Server

Introduction to Log Viewer (Pinal Dave)

Link-O-Rama

Interesting Finds: July 21, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 22, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Daily Find #91 (Tim Boland)
Silverlight News for July 22, 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 — #332 (Dave Campbell)
WMOC#12 – Terrarium Is Back! and WSOAC#25 – REST Eye For an SOA Guy (Dilip Krishnan)
Links (7/22/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
The Morning Brew #142 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Pro Developer) (Pro Developer): Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson: Books

Technorati: .net development, silverlight, wpf, biztalk, wcf, asp.net ajax, asp.net mvc, powershell, sharepoint, linq, nhibernate, entity framework, xbox live, metered internet service

Dew Drop – July 22, 2008

Web Development

Web Development as Tag Soup (Jeff Atwood)
DropThings: Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal – New and Improved (Brad Abrams)
The Weekly Source Code 30 – Spark and NHaml – Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines (Scott Hanselman)
ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 Available (Bertrand Le Roy)
ASP.NET MVC Tip #22 – Return a View Without Creating a Controller Action (Stephen Walther)

.NET / Visual Studio

The Known Type Provider (Davy Brion)
What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB (Kathleen Dollard)
Running Your Build/Source Code From a RAM Disk (Eric Hexter)
Update Model – A Question of Identity – Part 1 of 3 (Lawrence Jones)
NHibernate.LINQ with ADO.NET Data Services (Shawn Wildermuth)
Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 2 (Justin Etheredge)
Evolution of C# Delegate Syntax From .NET 1.x to 3.5 (Bart Czernicki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Patch Management Approaches Using Centralized SCM and How a Blocking Remote Call Can Take Down an Application (Oren Eini)
No Slow Unit Tests with xUnit.net (Ade Miller)
Mocking Dilemma, Solved! (Davy Brion)
The Code Reuse Myth (Brian Reindel)
Leveraging Unit Tests as Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors (Schalk Neethling)
The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I Want to Know What You Mean. What You Meant. What You Will Mean. Every Time. (Anne Botha)

Silverlight

Check Out Our New Learn Page! (Jesse Liberty)
Fun Silverlight Game: Crayon Cannon (Dan Fernandez)
Silverlight 2.0 – Concepts to Become a Master Series (Part 1 – .NET/C#) and (Part 2 – WCF) (Bart Czernicki)

Events / Community / Blogging

Pluralsight BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Fundamentals in Big Apple (Sam Gentile)
Events This Week – July 21st, 2008 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Has/How/Why Tech Blogging Has Failed You (Robert Scoble)
PEST (James Whittaker)
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Declarative Data Validation Presentation – Charlotte Developers Guild (Karl Shifflett)
Upcoming Conferences with Plenty of SharePoint Oriented Content (Lawrence)
WordPress Tips + Things You Can Do After Installing WordPress (Amit Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

Review: The Annoted Turing by Charles Petzold (Michael C. Neel)
Live Mesh Updated (Sarah Perez)
Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Messenger Plus! Skins, Scripts Etc. (Sunshine)
Pre-Beta Mac Client for Live Mesh – Review Only (Chris)
What I Look For in an Interview Candidate (Pete Brown)
How to Become a Good Developer? (Gunnar Peipman) – Link of the Day

Link-O-Rama

Link Listing – July 20, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
New and Notable 255 (Sam Gentile)
Visual Studio Links #55 (Darren Stokes)
Weekly Links #10 (Grant Palin)
Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 — #330 and Silverlight Cream for July 21, 2008 – 2 — #331 (Dave Campbell)
Five Minutes Past Noon Coffee 170 (Harry Pierson)
Bookmarking the Web – w29/2008 (Erwin)
The Morning Brew #141 (Chris Alcock)

Book of the Day

Professional ASP.NET 3.5 MVC: Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack: Books

Technorati: .net development, sharepoint, .net community, silverlight, popfly, live mesh, wcf, xunit.net, asp.net ajax, asp.net mvc

Dew Drop – July 21, 2008

Silverlight / WPF

WPF Validation Simplified (Sacha Barber)
Build a WPF Application: Part 0 (Christopher Bennage)
Digging Deeper: Templates and the Visual State Manager (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight Drag, Drop, Import and Export (Michael Washington)
Experiments in Building a Silverlight Photo Control (Part 4) (Mike Taulty)

.NET / Visual Studio

Yet More on to Var or Not to Var (Josh Twist)
Mocking Dilemma (Davy Brion)
The New Crop of .NET Screencasts (Sergio Pereira)
IronEditor – Release v1.0.0.46 (CodePlex)
Sneak Peeks Into the New F# Project System, Part One (Brian)
Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
Linq2WMI – Release v.3 (CodePlex)
Using Generics and Anonymous Methods to Your Advantage (Maurice)
CustomFxCop – Release: Custom FxCop Rules (MSDN Code Gallery)

Web Development

IronRuby with ASP.NET MVC Working Prototype (Phil Haack)
ASP.NET Query Strings – Client Side State Management (Gil Fink)
Adding OpenSearch to Your Website and Getting in the Browser’s Search Box (Scott Hanselman)
RSS and Atom Refcard Available – Download Now (Jill Tomich)

Miscellaneous

The Difference Between Derivation and Innovation and Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables: Locking (Oren Eini)
History Tables (Ken Downs)
Twhirl Gets Pushy with Identi.ca (Rafe Needleman)
Scaling Hyper-V (James O’Neill)

Link-O-Rama

New and Notable 254 (Sam Gentile)
Interesting Finds: July 20, 2008 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Link Post 51 (Rhonda Tipton)
Links (7/20/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
Silverlight News for July 21, 2008 (Emil Stoychev)
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.21 (gOODiDEA)
The Morning Brew #140 (Chris Alcock)
WPF Links – 21 July 2008 (Rudi Grobler)

Book of the Day

Watchmen: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons: Books

Technorati: .net development, sql server, sharepoint, wcf, silverlight, ironruby, linq, asp.net mvc, opensearch

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