Dew Drop – November 16, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• Self-Contained Entity Framework Models and ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Julie Lerman)
• Multi-Threaded K-Means Clustering in .NET 4.0 (Justin Etheredge)
• Fun with Linq Aggregate (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to the Reactive Framework Part IV (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Request/Response Service Layer: Asynchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
• Enabling Recomposition in MEF (Preview 8) (Derik Whittaker)
• Updated Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for the Entity Framework (EF Team)
• Partitioning Data Using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Castle Windsor lazy loading (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• The Passionate Programmer Book Review (Louis Salin)
• A Gentle Nudge: Too Much Inspiration Is Highly Overrated. (Rajiv Popat)
• The Open/Closed Principle – A real world example (Joel Abrahamsson)
• "Mark my words, if you want to stay relevant and competitive in the coming years — I…" (Sebastian Hermida)
• Revisiting NAnt for Builds (Grant Palin)

Silverlight / WPF

• WPF graph that detects circular dependencies (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 130: Trapped, Like Carrots (Paul Thurrott)
• ARCast.TV – The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com (Bob Familiar)
• Video: Azure Services in Visual Studio Beta 2, Part II (Charlie Calvert)
• Major Nelson Show #339: Getting Ready for Holiday 2009 (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

• SketchFlow and Blend at PDC ‘09 (Christian Schormann)
• NotAtPDC is back! (Steve Andrews) – Link of the Day
• SQLAuthority News – Notes of Excellent Experience at SQL PASS 2009 Summit, Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta (Karl Scotland)

Database

• SQL Server Random Number Generation (Richard Carr)
• RoundhousE: Configuration (Rob Reynolds)

Miscellaneous

• I Can Do That With 1 Line of PowerShell: Installed Software (Jeffrey Snover)
• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically (Joel Bennett)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/16 (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #477 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for November 15, 2009 — #732 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman Links for November 14, 2009 (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #97 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: 2009 11.09 ~ 11.16 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #79 (Grant Palin)
• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• Links (11/15/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 119 (Rhonda Tipton)

Book of the Day