Dew Drop – May 29, 2009

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Gallio with NCover (Andre Loker)
• Lifecycle of an open source project (Chad Myers)
• Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Monster Objects (Chris Missal)
• Pex 0.13 Released: Unit Tests as Inputs, Fuzzing and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, F# Beta 1 support (Nikolai Tillman)
• Taming the Pex beast: Well-behaved enums, multi-dimensional arrays and booleans (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Coding Dojo #16: Reading SUnit code (Mark Needham)
• Integration via the Cloud (Mike Ormond)
• ThoughtWorking: Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages (Ted Neward)
• The Holy Grail is NOT Automation (Tim Barcz)
• Why Messaging #5 – Bus vs Broker (Dru Sellers)
• UppercuT – Automated Builds – Getting Started Part 1 (Rob Reynolds)
• Agile (Wrongfully) Assumes Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launching July 10 (Emil Protalinski) – Link of the Day
• Formatting Your WPF Data – String.Format is in the House! (Amit Raz)
• If you can’t beat XAML, improve it (Josh Twist)
• Expression Web 3 tools simplify debugging and Silverlight video encoding (Silverlight Team)
• Our 7 Goals for XAML (Rob Relyea)
• Blend 3: Photoshop Import – Supported Features (Janete Perez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate – Executable DML and Why Defer Loading in Entity Framework isn’t going to work (Oren Eini)
• Questions from Pinky on "Oslo" (Chris Sells)
• POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 2 – Complex Types, Deferred Loading and Explicit Loading (Faisal Mohamood)
• Azure: New Support for the Cloud, New Skills Not Required (Jason Zander)
• GetHashCode and LINQ to objects (Josh Twist)
• EDM Modeling: Self-Referencing Many to Many Relationships and More Designer Improvements – Deleting Entities from the model and from the store schema (Julie Lerman)
• Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1 (Quan To)
• Review: IronPython in Action (Scott Koon)
• May CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released, Including Visual Studio 2010 Support (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (Alex Mueller)
• ELMAH for Error Logging and Reporting in ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC (Billy McCafferty)
• CSS Image Mouseover with <li> (Dave Schinkel)
• Disabling HTML Input Elements (Chris Cavanagh)
• Easily put Google services on your site with Web Elements (Jay Hathaway)
• Google shows Native Client built into HTML 5 (Stephen Shankland)
• IP Address Location In ASP.NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The power of SubSonic unleashed (Yordan Georgiev)
• ASP.NET MVC and Localization (Mike)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Nicholas Blumhardt on Autofac (Carl Franklin)
• An introduction to Windows 7 Libraries for .NET development (Adam Kinney)
• Surupa Biswas: CLR 4 – Resilient NGen with Targeted Patching (Charles Torre)
• Caleb Baker on Geneva Server and SAML 2.0 Interoperability (Donovan Follette)
• Interoperability demo between PHP, Windows CardSpace and Geneva Server (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #55 (Jeff Atwood)
• The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase — The Video (Jeremy D. Miller)
• When to use Prism (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Chris Pendleton – Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control (Robert Hess)
• The History of Microsoft – 1991 (Tina)

Community / Events

• Facebook .NET Programmers Group Session on XNA 3.0 (Brian Peek)
• Shout Out to Ryan Reese – CSS Guru (Dave Schinkel)
• Journeyman Calendar Up! (Corey Haines)
• MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshows – Reston and Richmond (Pete Brown)
• Cloud Computing User Group Meeting, June 18, 2009 (Zhiming Xue)

SharePoint

• You Can Pry SharePoint Designer From My Cold, Dead Hands (Paul Galvin)

Database

• SQL Server Grouping (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server and Reporting Services Workshop (William Vaughn)
• New Windows Azure Storage Features – May 2009 (Brad Calder)

PowerShell

• Adding Custom Cmdlet Help for Providers (June Blender)
• PowerShell 2.0 – Differences Between Win7Beta and Win7RC (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

• FCC Action Needed to Protect Consumer Choice (Eric Rabe)
• Ballmer’s internal email on ‘Bing’ and Woz: Microsoft Bing ‘astounding’ (Todd Bishop)
• Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. (Lars Rasmussen)
• Customize Google Using Server-Side Scripts and Play Games in Google Talk and Google Wave (Alex Chitu)
• Google Wave: A Whole New Communication and Collaboration Platform for the Web (Andres Ferrate)
• Meaning of life (Jimmy Bogard)
• SourceForge Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Ohloh Corporation (SourceForge)
• Steve Ballmer Quote-O-Rama (Brian Lam)
• Don’t Forget to Goof Off Occasionally (Darrell Etherington)
• Verizon Wireless to carry Palm Pre, Storm 2 "in about six months" (Darren Murph)
• Server Fault: Calling All Lusers (Jeff Atwood)
• Expression Design for Developers part 3 – Editing Your Art (Joel Cochran)
• Some quick takes on Bing (Kip Kniskern)
• More details about the Zune HD and Zune/Xbox Live integration and Announcing Bing (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected (Rafe Needleman)
• Twilver: A new Silverlight Twitter App (Sarah Perez)
• How (and why) to set a default release – #039 (Sara Ford)
• Bing in the changes (Steve Clayton)
• Windows Mobile 7 UI: Still Under Construction and Windows 7 Entertainment Center (Stephen Chapman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 28, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #357 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 28, 2009 — #603 (Dave Campbell)
• The Technology Post for May 28th (Jason N. Gaylord)
• CloudNews for 28th, May 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (5/28/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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