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Dew Drop – December 30, 2009

Posted on December 30, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

Microsoft Job Posting Confirms Xbox LIVE Windows Mobile Phones (Kat Hannaford) – Where’s my ZuneHD/WinMo/XboxLive device??? 🙂
Software Patents: Our Industry’s Nuclear Weapon (Davy Brion) – Davy’s argument against patents.
Still waiting for a 64-bit Flash Player (Ed Bott) – Me too!
Magellan Asynchronous Controllers (Paul Stovell) – Paul updates his WPF MVC framework to v1.1.
4th Web Client Guidance Drop Available on Codeplex and Proposed UX Design (Blaine Wastell) – p&p goodies… get ‘em while they’re hot.
Embedding HTML from jQuery AJAX Call Into Your Page (Elijah Manor) – Cool tip from Elijah.

.NET / Visual Studio

More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife (Bart de Smet)
No more magic strings with VisualStateManager.GoToState (András Velvárt)
Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments. (Eric Hexter)
Dealing with Nullable Types and IIf in VBNET (Kevin Jones)
Exploring Dynamic Data: Other attributes for business logic (Peter Blum)

Web Development

Gummy Bear 1.1 Is In The Can (Dave Burke)
4 JavaScript frameworks you may never have heard of (Michael Kimsal)
Converting an RGB Color To Hex With JavaScript (Phil Haack)
Using BindAttribute In ASP.NET MVC To Exclude Bindable Data (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Guidelines for consistent exception handling (Samir Bellouti)
When mini benchmarks are important (Oren Eini)
Recommended Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Davy Brion)
Runtime Fault Injection using TestAPI (Lester Lobo)

Silverlight / WPF

Getting the Absolute Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
WCF RIA Services DomainService life-cycle and adding Transactions (Fredrik Normén)
Silverlight HVP Design – Configuration & Scenarios (Jesse Liberty)
WPF : New Threading Component (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Jeffrey Van Gogh and Bart De Smet: Inside System.Interactive (Charles Torre)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark (Derik Whittaker)
Channel 9 Live at PDC09: TWoC9 Day 3 (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

Origins of a love affair (Damien Guard)
Running a Small User Group – Getting Help (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

Getting the ISO Week and Year (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

BCS Multiple Finder Methods for External Content Types (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

Presenting Lessons I’ve Learned (Jay Fields)
10 Things to Do Before the New Year (Meryl Evans)
Windows 7 Tip: Creating A Help Toolbar (Michael S. Scherotter)
50 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks (Steve Clayton)
Stephen King’s On Writing… A Memoir Of The Craft (Mike Cottmeyer)
DZone Daily Dose – 12/30 (Mitch Pronschinske)
3 Microsoft Project 2010 Productivity Enhancements (Will Kelly)
Hoping they will learn… Usability! (Maarten Balliauw)
Stormy weather? Who is monitoring the cloud? (Andy Singleton)
Conversation Piece: Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 (Debra Shinder)
How to pass arguments for remote commands and Bringing remote commands to your local session and Saving remote session to your local disk (Lukasz Anforowicz)

More Link Collections

2009’s Most Popular Articles (Scott Mitchell)
The Morning Brew #507 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for December 29, 2009 — #766 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 29-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
F# Discoveries This Week 12/29/2009 (Rick Minerich)
Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts (Simone Chiaretta)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 7 Inside Out

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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – September 19-20, 2009

Posted on September 20, 2009 | by Alvin A.

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

Put Intellipad-like language editing features into your applications (Chris Sells)
An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI) (Habib Heydarian)
Windows Azure Management API and .NET Services Update (Hanu Kommalapati)
The Azure Deployment and Management API is Here! (Bill Zack)
Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness (Peter Kellner)
Create a SQL Azure CRUD Application with Telerik OpenAccess and the WCF Wizard (Stephen Forte)
NHibernate, Inverse, and Object Associations (Jonathan Oliver)
Hacking LINQ Expressions: Join With Comparer (Keith Dahlby)

Web Development

Murach’s ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with C# 2008 (Dave M. Bush)
Tab Navigation with Smooth Horizontal Sliding Using jQuery (Karl Swedberg)
JavaScript and its love for zeroes (Sergio Pereira)
Now Running on Behistun and ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Adding your logo to the page in an SEO optimized way. (Kris Gray)

Design / Methodology / Testing

MbUnit CsvDataAttribute (Charles Chen)
MbUnit 3.1 (Andrew Stopford)
UI Patterns (Daniela Panfili)
StructureMap and Multiple AppDomains – Ensure you have loaded your components correctly (Derik Whittaker)
Open Source development model and How to lead a convoy to safety (Oren Eini)
Can’t See Recent Commits in Tortoise SVN Log and Do Not Return True/False on a Transaction Success/Fail (Dave Schinkel)
Composed Events (Dru Sellers)
Push to Multiple Git Repos (Mike Gunderloy)
SOA Maturity Models and Open Group SOA Governance Framework (Mike Walker)
Why is ‘Buy’ not always better than ‘Build’ (Mike Hadlow) – Link of the Day
Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 10. (Rajiv Popat)
The CSM Integrity Deficit (Uncle Bob Martin)
Set Based Concurrent Engineering: A simple example and TDD: Keeping test intent when using test builders (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Glow Behavior (Andy Beaulieu)
how to build an outlook style application – part 1 and how to apply a viewmodel to new windows (Erwin Van Der Valk)
WPF App: Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight (Rob Relyea)
Cinch Code Generated Is Out (Sacha Barber)
Silverlight Spy documentation (Koen Zwikstra)
Using WCF 3.5 REST Services and Consuming it in WPF 3.5 applications – An Application Development approach. (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes #198 – The Return of 3-Tier Architecture – RIA Services with Brad Abrams (Scott Hanselman)
ARCast.TV: Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions (MS Podcasts)
Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard Part I (Me)
The Coding4Fun Show: Advanced Rendering with Silverlight, Rick Barraza (Brian Peek)
TWC9: Sven Groot, Beer taste test, Office Web, ASP.NET Auto-Starts, System.IO changes (Dan Fernandez)
SharePoint Community Panel Discussion-Episode 30 (Rob, Nick, and Brett)
PDC09 Workshop: Developing Microsoft BI Applications – The How and The Why (Robert Hess)

Community / Events

Now with more forehead! (or, a happy shade of blue) (Pete Brown)

Database

SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI) and SQL SERVER – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries Depend Upon Expression Location (Pinal Dave)
DBA’s & PowerShell? Yep, PowerShell is not just for your IT brethren, you can have PS fun too! (Greg Duncan)
SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP – Utility Control Point (UTP) (Patrick LeBlanc)
Could not connect to computer ‘.’ – Debugging requires you to connect by name on windows 7 (Simon Sabin)
Checking Foreign Keys (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

Accessing SharePoint Document Libraries via Webdav with Windows 7 (Amanda Murphy)
Easier Silverlight Development against SharePoint (Matthew McDermott)

Miscellaneous

The Best Way To Interview A Developer (Alan Skorkin)
A Closer Look at Office Web Apps in Windows Live (damaster)
Office 15: Tentatively Planned for 2013 (Stephen Chapman)
Microsoft’s AD cmdlets available for Win 2003 and later (Dmitry Sotnikov)
How To Access And Try Microsoft Office Web Apps Tech Preview (Sunshine)
Using a PS Session without having Administrative Permissions (Per Østergaard)
Could Microsoft Tag augment Windows Mobile reality? (Joe Wilcox)
At long last, GIMP v2.8 to finally implement single-window interface (Lee Mathews)

More Link Collections

Links for the Week 2009.09.20 (Jeremiah Peschka)
CloudNews for 18th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
Interesting Post… 9/13/2009 through 9/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
Awesome Blogs of the Month – SEP ‘09 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day

The C# Programming Language (3rd Edition) (9780321562999): Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde: Books

ISBN: 0321562992
ISBN-13: 9780321562999

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Dew Drop – May 4, 2009

Posted on May 4, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Silverlight / WPF

RIA Services Contrib – Release 0.51 (CodePlex)
Silverlight Animation Tip (G. Andrew Duthie)
Star Wars Scroller in Silverlight 3 and A Quick Note on XAML Namespaces in Silverlight/WPF (Frank La Vigne)
Validation. Hey! You’re Done! (Jesse Liberty)
Download M-V-VM Project Template/Toolkit (Lester Lobo)
WPF design flaw of the day: no initial focus (Joe White)
Playing around with Syntax Highlighter (Pete Brown)
WPF : Attached Commands (Sacha Barber)
Discovering Silverlight 3 – Demos of new features (Velvárt András)
More Validation Fun – But Not Done Yet (Shawn Wildermuth)
Did You Know? Silverlight Class Library Can’t Be Named with “.Resources” (Michael Sync)

.NET / Visual Studio

Wanted: A kickass .NET API for CouchDB (Richard Dingwall)
NHibernate Validator and NHibernate, the database query cache and parameter sizes and NHibernate Search and NHibernate Filters (Oren Eini)
Chess Program in C# (Jacques Fournier)
Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer (Justin Etheredge)
F#: Erlang style messaging passing and F#: Entry point of an application and F#: Stuff I get confused about (Mark Needham)
Using IronRuby with RubyMine (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Projects, Assemblies, and Namespaces – oh my (Udi Dahan)
A simple sample for C# 4.0 ‘dynamic’ feature (Kirill Osenkov)
Functional Composition and Partial Application (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

JavaScript book excerpt, discount and free shipping offer (Michael Kimsal)
How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters (Peter Kellner)
jQuery Tabs Plugin with Images (Dave Schinkel)
Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates (Dan Wahlin)
JavaScript Gotcha in IE7 (Christopher Bennage)
yUML and jQuery for Large Diagrams (Tobin Harris)
Swap images with user interaction in Microsoft Expression Web 2 (Minal Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Practical .NET Unit Testing – Free paper released (Jason Young)
Agile Meets The Recession and The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II (Bob McIlree)
Artisanal Retro-Futurism ⊗ Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism (Brian Marick)
How Many Bedrooms Did You Say? (Max Pool) – Link of the Day
On Getting Rid Of Common Libraries… What About Don’t Repeat Yourself? (Davy Brion)
A Culture of Microcomponents (Ben Scheirman)
Pex 0.12.40430.3 : Exploration Tree View, Partial Stubs… and Stubs as Parameterized Models with Contracts (Jonathan de Halleux)
Pair Programming: When your pair steps away (Mark Needham)
The Hunt For Simplicity (Justin Etheredge)
Mocking for IronRuby (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Remote Retrospectives with Twiddla (Jim Holmes)
Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Michael Janke)
Builders, Story Tellers And Whiners – Part 3 (Rajiv Popat)
Can we avoid tooling to prevent spaghetti code? (Patrick Smacchia)
Metadata Belongs With The Class, Not With Another Class (Sasha Goldshtein)
Metadata Classes – A Force for Good or Evil? 🙂 (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes #178 – JavaFX and the Web’s Four Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman)
Jason Olson: Composing Programming Languages, F# and OO (Charles Torre)
WebDevRadio Episode 64: CouchDB with Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson (Michael Kimsal)
This week on C9: Windows 7 RC, Glimmer for jQuery, and ZOMG Ponies (Dan Fernandez)
Recent Pluralsight On-Demand! library updates (Aaron Skonnard)
10-4 Episode 17: F# Intro (Jason Olson)
Screencast: Windows Workflow Foundation workflow service context basics and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Creating Custom Context Bindings and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in .NET client applications and Screencast: Windows Workflow – Managing workflow services context in WF client applications (Matt Milner)
Behaviors in Blend 3 – Podcast (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
FitNesse with Bob Martin – Part 2 (Stephen Wright)

Community / Events

IT Samurai School coming soon… (Billy McCafferty)
Best Practices Conference (William Vaughn)
Devlicio.us Motto Contest Finals – Put your voice (Tuna Toksoz)
Secure a Speaking Slot for Tech Ed North America 2010 (Jas Dhaliwal)
On speaking, trolling, inciting and growing (Ted Neward)
INETA Live – Call for Speakers (Steve Andrews)
Axum, Reactive Framework and other Lang.net items (Matthew Podwysocki)
What Should Microsoft Do For .NET Open Source? (Rob Conery)

Database

Geek City: Controlling Lock Granularity (Kalen Delaney)
Real World Perspectives on the Pros and Cons of Stored Procedures (Jas Dhaliwal)
Doing my SQL myths session on Live meeting (Simon Sabin)
SQL SERVER – Example of DDL, DML, DCL and TCL Commands and SQL SERVER – Add or Remove Identity Property on Column and SQL SERVER – Roadmap of Microsoft Certifications – SQL Server Certifications (Pinal Dave)
Create a new embedded Firebird database (DotNetFacts)

SharePoint

Search and Natural User Interfaces – Part 2 (Nathan Treloar)
SharePoint SDK 1.5 (April 2009) Released! (Randall Isenhour)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases “Sneak-Peek” Images of Upcoming Office 2010 and MSDN Blogger Recommends Free Windows 7 Federated Search Providers (Blake Handler)
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on devices, startups, IP and open source (Todd Bishop)
Book: Growing Software (David Starr)
Network Monitor (Netmon) 3.3 Overview (Will Gregg)
Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator (Brian Peek)
Windows 7 setup secrets (Ed Bott)
XP Mode in Windows 7 is no cop out (Lee Mathews)
Top 10 Scenarios; ISVs Add Customer Value with Windows 7 Features (Bruce Kyle)
Glimmering with effects (Coding4Fun)
Interviewing the Interviewee (Dave Schinkel)
Pablo’s Topic of the Month – May 2009 Edition (Gregory Long)
A Little Bit of Personality (Denise Trabona & Samuel Moreau)
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine On Video (Jesus Diaz)
Windows 7 Blame Feature (Nick Berardi)
Codesqueeze Charity Kickin – Room To Read (Max Pool)
Tips for CodePlex Projects hosting multiple applications – #026 (Sara Ford)
iBrowz: A New RSS Reader for Windows Mobile (Sarah Perez)
Test driving Windows 7 RC and PowerShellPlus 3.0 on Virtual PC (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #339 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for May 01, 2009 — #584 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2009 — #585 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Links #51 (Grant Palin)
New and Notable 317 (Sam Gentile)
CloudNews for May 1st, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Links (5/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Discoveries This Week 05/01/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley Signature Series): Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory: Books

ISBN: 0321534468
ISBN-13: 9780321534460

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