Dew Drop – April 24, 2009

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s Silverlight-based Local Impact Map (Adam Kinney)
• Visual Studio Tip: Open XAML in code only mode (Corey Schuman)
• Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction (Boyan Mihaylov)
• "Follow the Cursor" Animation – lets do it with behaviors (Jose Fajardo)
• Debugging XMAL Parser Exceptions (Kirstin Juhl)
• Enhance Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Reporting with Silverlight (Sandeep Chanda)
• Understanding Performance in your WPF Application (Margaret Parsons)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Repository is Dead: Long Live Repository (Greg Young)
• Night of the living Repositories and Find the bug (Oren Eini)
• IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture (Mike Walker)

Web Development

• How we do MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET Survey Questions for the Community (Sam Gentile)
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!) (Scott Hanselman)
• Friday Books: RESTful .NET (Dave M. Bush)
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: Still Waiting for a GOOD Reason to Learn MVC (Joe Brinkman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NHibernate 2nd Level Cache (Oren Eini)
• Fluent Ado.Net and API design (Chris Brandsma)
• Idiomatic F# – Functional vs. Imperative (Chris Smith)
• Using Obscure Windows COM APIs in .NET (Jeff Moser)
• EF4 EF4 EF4 (Julie Lerman)
• Jon Skeet: Planning C# In Depth 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
• __clrtype__ Metaclasses: Adding CLR Fields (Harry Pierson)
• Consuming the Contents of Windows 7 Libraries (Yochay Kiriaty)
• .NET Trick – Persisting Data Without Using a Database (Michael Ceranski)
• HowTo: Create RSS Feeds with Linq to XML / XLinq (Robert Muehsig)
• Part 3 of My DSL for Developers Article is Live! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What about DataLoadOptions for Entity Framework ObjectContext? (Muhammad Mosa)
• Pro Tip: Don’t co-opt .net conventions for your own purposes (Scott C. Reynolds)
• Cloud Computing and Windows Azure (Mike Ormond)
• CLR 4 ThreadPool Enhancements (Daniel Moth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DimeCasts.NET Episode #104: Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5 (Ray Houston) – Link of the Day
• Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Cloud Computing Timescales and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Preparing for "The Cloud" and Interview – Aaron Skonnard on Current Shiny Toys (Mike Taulty)
• Herding Code 44: Microbusiness (Jon Galloway)
• The History of Microsoft – 1986 (Tina)
• Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux – The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex (Jonathan de Halleux)

Community / Events

• The Painting of IndyHall 2.0: THIS WEEKEND! (Geoff DiMasi & Alex Hillman)
• Dates Updated for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Labs (Bruce Kyle)
• CodeStock 2009 (Chris G. Williams)
• Those who can do, those who can’t blog? (Sara Chipps)
• MVPs Shine Silverlight Together at MVP Global Summit! (Jas Dhaliwal)
• Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference (Zhiming Xue)
• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC (Maarten Balliauw)

Database

• The Case for Multiple DBs in Multi Tenancy situations (Anne Epstein)
• Normaliser Component v2 : SSIS and Installation order for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, Team Explorer and SQL Server 2008 (Jamie Thomson)
• New book: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying (K. Jones)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Profiler and SQL SERVER – Leading Zero to Number (Pinal Dave)
• The real headquarters of Oracle (Simone Chiaretta)
• Please Mr. DBA, Change default passwords and use strong passwords (Ted Kreuger)

Miscellaneous

• Delicious Tech Tweets (Elijah Manor)
• MSDN Mag 6/2009 Editor’s Note Sneak Peak – On Aggregates (Howard Dierking)
• Recent Changes to IE Content on MSDN (Lance Leonard)
• Why we should attack our own systems? (Gunnar Peipman)
• What is this blog? (Silverlight Team)
• TeamCity 4.5 is live! (Richard Cirerol)
• Windows Mobile 6.5: Standard and Professional and Windows 8 and Windows 9: Various Tidbits (Stephen Chapman)
• Windows 7 Release Candidate out in the wild! (Taimur Asad)
• A Multitouch Pad for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 3009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #334 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2009 — #577 (Dave Campbell)
• CloudNews for April 23rd, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)
• Links (4/23/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

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