Dew Drop – March 18, 2009

Tons of goodies hitting MS Downloads this morning! Hello ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Silverlight 3 Beta!!!

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 C# Shorthands that improve productivity (Martijn Dijksterhuis)
• VSeWSS 1.3 Mar 2009 CTP and ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP1 (MS Downloads)
• Calling the Twitter API in C# and Twitter API – Get a list of your friends in C# (Wally McClure)
• Shorthand Repository Accessors (Tobin Harris)
• Functional .NET – Laziness Becomes You (Matthew Podwysocki)

Silverlight / WPF

• Data-Driven RIA with Silverlight and Silverlight 3 Tools and Microsoft® Silverlight™ 3 Software Development Kit Beta 1 (MS Downloads) – Links of the Day
• Silverlight – Binding ResourceDictionaries (Dave M. Bush)
• Why is focus in WPF so tricky? [managing and understanding focus in a WPF application] (Eric Burke)
• Silverlight Smooth Streaming: UX Simulator (Tim Heuer)
• How to Re Style the AvalonControlsLibrary DataGridView (Marlon Grech)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Continuous Integration 101 (Davy Brion)
• A better Model Binder (Jimmy Bogard)
• "A" way of dealing with dates in automated tests (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Coding: Make it obvious (Mark Needham)
• API design values and decision matrix (Roy Osherove)
• Book Review: The Art of Lean Software Development (Jim Holmes)

Web Development

• Syndicating and Consuming RSS 1.0 (RDF) Feeds in ASP.NET 3.5 (Scott Mitchell)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 and Live Search API SDK (MS Downloads)
• WCF REST Screencasts/Videos (Aaron Skonnard)
• Sueetie.Core Overview (Dave Burke)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Retrieve Table Size with SQL Server and ASP.NET 3.5 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Signs That Your JavaScript Skills Need Updating (K. Scott Allen)
• Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available (Bertrand Le Roy)

Podcasts / Screencasts

• Code Cast #25 – MassTransit (David Starr)
• 2009.03.17 Digital Productivity Strategies for Developers (Craig Shoemaker)
• NHibernate performance with Ayende, David Penton, and Ben Scheirman (Jon Galloway)
• Channel 9 This Week: Joe Nalewabau, Red Nose Day, Windows 7 .NET wrappers, free MVC chapter (Dan Fernandez)
• Major Nelson Show #312 : Resident Evil 5 (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 62 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ferdinand Rios and Jeffery Hicks from Sapien (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Architecture and Small to Medium MOSS Deployments-Episode 19 (SharePoint Pod Show)
• The Thirsty Developer 55: RESTifarian (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)
• Michael Foord Talks IronPython (.NET Rocks!)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 129: F# with Luke Hoban (SE Radio Team)
• Episode #93: Retrieving data from a REST based service using C# (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• Tracking MIX09 (Tim Sneath)
• Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2009 edition – save the date! (Jeff Palermo)

SharePoint

• Why Proper Requirements is Key to SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint Session State; The Guest That Just Won’t Leave (Todd Carter)

Database

• Enhancing Visualisation of Common Elements Across Groups Using Color in Reporting Services 2005, Part 2 (Thomas Williams)
• Indexing Best Practices for SQL Server 2008 (Jose Barreto)

PowerShell

• Confusion about PowerShell Script Signing (James Kovacs)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft SearchTogether Beta and Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86) and IIS Powershell Snap-in (x86) and Microsoft WebDAV 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86) and Microsoft Application Request Routing Version 2 for IIS 7 Beta 1 (x86) and Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 (x86) (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Outlook Attachment Reminder" (Blake Handler)
• Google Chrome 2.0 Beta (Alex Chitu)
• Inside Microsoft’s 2019 Vision Video (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM speculation heats up and Twitter intrigue: Kumo “only the test name”: Live Search (Kip Kniskern)
• Designing Aero Snap (Stephan Hoefnagels)
• 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications (Paul Andrew)
• Virtua Health Joins the Growing Amalga Family (Roberto Ruggeri)
• The Windows Azure Malfunction This Weekend (Windows Azure Team)
• The Hardest Interview Puzzle Question Ever (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 17, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for March 17, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• The Morning Brew #309 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2009 — #544 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Twitterings #20 (Elijah Manor)
• CloudNews for March 17th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

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