Dew Drops could be sparse next week while I’m in Bellevue/Redmond for the MVP Global Summit.
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Top Links
- Old DRM’d Wrox ebooks are "upgradable" to DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit – February Release is LIVE! (Zain Naboulsi)
- C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 2 of 3 (Charles Torre)
- More “Windows Phone 7″ Confirmation (Stephen Chapman)
- Sqlite on the iPhone – Retrieving the last inserted row id with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
.NET / Visual Studio
- The F# PowerPack Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Writing Efficient String Functions in C# (Armando)
- Registration Error while Hosting WCF Services in a Windows Server (Derik Whittaker)
- Writing object to object mapper: my mapper vs AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)
- CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Available Today (Doug Holland)
- WCF RIA Services Preview and the Visual Studio 2010 RC (Harish Ranganathan)
- Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
- Chaining simple assignments is not so simple (Eric Lippert)
- Open Government Data and .NET (Dan Kasun)
- Announcing touch.codeplex.com (Marc Schweigert)
- Craig Sutherland: Considering XAML for Config for CruiseControl.NET (Rob Relyea)
Web Development
Design / Methodology / Testing
- A Culture of Heroism (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
- Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Know Your Rules to Be Successful (J.D. Meier)
- FsUnit – Test Fsharp with Fsharp (David Cooksey)
- Challenge: Efficient querying (Oren Eini)
- Removing Generated code from NCover Reports (Derik Whittaker)
- Case Studies on Benefits of TDD (Jim Holmes)
- Rationalizing Assembly Reference (Patrick Smacchia)
- Balsamiq Weekly Release: Fixed the “jump” bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types (Peldi Guilizzoni)
- Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)
Silverlight / WPF
- FFT and oscilloscopes in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
- This one time, at band camp… [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
- Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in Multiple Flavors (Pete Brown)
- Design and XAML on Different Document Tabs — vstipTool0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
- Addressing the Pre-Loader Issue (John Stockton)
- VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly (Andy Beaulieu)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Azure Miniseries #1: Migration (Brian Hitney)
- Connected Show Podcast: Addicted to Spring.NET (Brian Johnson)
- geekSpeak Recording – Persistence Ignorance and Entity Framework 4 with Dane Morgridge (Emily Gibson)
- Countdown to MIX10: Let’s do it Live (Laura Foy)
- The Thirsty Developer 85: Open Source at Microsoft with Hank Janssen (Dave Bost)
- New Expression Blend screencast series (András Velvárt)
- This Week in Silverlight – February 11th 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Community / Events
- Growing the Pool of SQL Server Speakers (Andy Warren)
- Join MSDEV Fan Page on Facebook (Bruce Kyle)
- 2010 Summit: More MVPs to take on presenting roles than ever before (Joseph Mirabella)
- 10 Things you need to know from X10 (Larry Hyrb)
- Creators Club Communiqué 41 (Kathleen Sanders)
Database
- The SQL Server Health Check (Buck Woody)
- A Simple Refactoring (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
- Running sp_helpdb against a snapshot shows wrong files on SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
SharePoint
- Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
- How to connect SharePoint Business Data Catalog to PostgreSQL (Dmitry Kaloshin)
Miscellaneous
CodeProject Releases Wiimote Hardware Driver for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
- PowerGUI Pro vs PowerGUI and A PowerShell present for Valentine’s Day (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Adobe Flash Now Supports InPrivate Browsing (Andy Zeigler)
- Teach, Learn and Play with Small Basic from Microsoft DevLabs (Joe Stagner)
- Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta (Office Team)
- #Ebook Deal of the Day: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments – Only $9.99! Use code DDGHC (O’Reilly Media)
- My Extension Wish: Workflow in Wave (Pamela Fox)
- The 12th of Diduary: Did you know you can drag Windows Explorer to the command line? (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback (Todd Jackson)
- Workaround to Catch Exceptions from Import-CliXml (Francisco Gomez Gamino)
- Getting Started in Objective-C with XCode (Brett Schuchert)
- I don’t like MSDN (Karl Seguin)
- Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #538 (Chris Alcock)
- Tech Tweets for 11-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 — #796 (Dave Campbell)
- Comprehensive list of Visual Studio 2010 RC links (Sergejus Barinovas)
- Interesting Finds: February 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
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