Dew Drop – April 3, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Introducing a new type of help for developers (Frank Rice)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Extending jQuery AJAX (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 5 (Rob Eisenberg)
• DevForce Extensibility With MEF InheritedExport (Ward Bell)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The Zero-Argument Overload of Any (Craig Andera)
• Open A Visual Studio Solution From A Command Prompt Or Batch File (Derick Bailey)
• MSBuild Property Functions (Dan)
• Sqlite & Entity Framework 4 (Dane Morgridge)
• DataSet does not validate XML Schema (XSD) (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CSLA 4 data portal changes (Rockford Lhotka)
• Understanding the File Tab Channel Drop Down Button (Zain Naboulsi)
• Testing NHibernate mappings (Mike Hadlow)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 1 (James Bender)

 

Web Development

• SharpZipLib and ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
• How to Serialize/Deserialize Complex XML in ASP.Net / C# (Impact Works)
• Pro JavaScript Techniques (Chris Love)
• Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part IV) (Minal Agarwal)
• Ban HTML comments from your pages and views (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Certification is Meaningless (James Shore)
• Book Review: Where Have All The Leaders Gone (Andy Warren)
• Working with Legacy code and Working with Legacy code #1 : Draw up a plan. (Andrew Stopford)
• 10 Secrets to Being a Successful Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
• The Better Adapted You Are, the Less Adaptable You Tend To Be (J.D. Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Windows Phone: Frame/Page navigation and transitions using the TransitioningContentControl (Avi Pilosof)
• "I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating" [Tip: For a truly read-only custom DependencyProperty in Silverlight, use a read-only CLR property instead] (David Anson)
• Property change notifications for multithreaded Silverlight applications (Jeff Wilcox)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Bill Buxton on Natural UI and Bill Buxton Explains ‘METRO’ and the whole NATURAL UI CONCEPT.. (Don Burnett)
• MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Introduction to LINQ and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Intro to WCF Data Services and OData and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Getting Started with ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Deeper Look at ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Azure Data Storage Options (Emily Gibson)
• jQuery Podcast 18 – Jeffery Way (Nettuts) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Cloud Cover Episode 7 – Dallas (Ryan Dunn)
• Spaghetti Code Recaps the MIX Conference (Jeff Brand)
• SSIS Prehistory video (Jamie Thomson)

 

Community / Events

• The GitHub East Coast Tour (Chris Wanstrath)
• OpenRasta needs an msdn license (Sebastien Lambla)
• Announcing the Tips and Tricks SWAG Fest Beginning April 12th (Zain Naboulsi)
• Headspring’s MVC Boot Camp now covers MVC 2 – April 21, 22, 23 (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Free ASP.NET, Ajax, and IIS Web Camps (John Papa)
• Attend Windows Summit 2010: May 25–27 (Joseph Mirabella)

 

Database

• Microsoft pushes back delivery date for its SQL Server data warehouse release (Mary-Jo Foley)
• Writing Tests for a Stored Proc Sure Feels Weird (Bobby Johnson)
• A DMV a Day – Day 3 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (2/30) DBCC CHECKDB causes blocking and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (3/30) instant file initialization can be controlled from within SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between GRANT and WITH GRANT (Pinal Dave)
• Getting the physical device name and backup time for a SQL Server database (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Office 2010 File Formats & Protocol Documentation (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Renames their Mobile OS to Just “Windows Phone 7″ (Uzair)
• New Tweetmeme Plugins for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
• Microsoft Office on iPad? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Lauren Indvik)
• Kodu Tutorial #5 Programming UI (Stephen Coy)
• Wolfram Alpha iPhone app drops from $50 to $1.99, gets iPad version (Jay Hathaway)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2010 — #828 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Everyman on iPad as CD-ROM, Successful Web App Traits, Freemium Flexibility (Dave Burke)

 

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