Dew Drop – April 7, 2010

 

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Top Links

• “Dynamic Prototyping…”: SketchFlow Book Now Available (Christian Schormann)
• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 7 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Creating Awesome Applications when you’re Clueless (Pete Brown)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.10 (CodePlex)
• MSHC Migrate Utility (Robert Chandler)
• VS 2010: Enhanced IntelliSense Matching (Deborah Kurata)
• Use the Cassia .NET Library to Detect Users Connected to Windows Server (Deepak Choudhari)
• How do you know if your users are using a given application and/or feature? Or how often they are using it? Check out the free, included with VS2010, “Dotfuscator Software Services – Community Edition” (Greg Duncan)
• Changing the connection string for typed DataSets (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• OData Visualizer Extension (Gil Fink)
• Using LINQ to represent XML data as an Object containing Master-Detail records (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Web Development

• How Twitter’s 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs (Adam DuVander)
• Infinite Scroll WebSites via AutoPagerize – Hacky, but the beginning of something cool (Scott Hanselman)
• NServiceBus and Windows Azure Challenges (Rinat Abdullin)
• New <%: %> Syntax for HTML Encoding Output in ASP.NET 4 (and ASP.NET MVC 2) (Scott Guthrie)
• Ajaxafy your .Net application with JQuery (Greg Galipeau)
• How to Use Windows Azure Drive (Bruce Kyle)
• Multi-Step Processing in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Azure: New Guest OS 1.2 (David Makogon)
• annoy.smarx.com: Letting the Internet Choose My Wallpaper (Steve Marx)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• You can learn a lot from a child (redux) (Garr Reynolds)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Architecture – Only $9.99 Use code DDBAD (O’Reilly Media)
• There really is computer science (Rockford Lhotka)
• Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• Branching Strategies: Handling Dependencies Between Branches (Derick Bailey)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• d:DesignInstance in Blend 4 (Christopher Bennage)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 7 : Wrap up (Paul Harrington)
• Your First Silverlight Application (Dave Campbell)
• Step by Step Tutorial : Installing Multi-Touch Simulator for Silverlight Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Two New WPF Video Additions (Jay Esguerra)
• New XAML Features That’ll Make Designers Happy (Frank La Vigne)
• Assembly-level initialization at design time (Josh Smith)
• Great SketchFlow Book Available (Jared Bienz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Picture gallery sample using the client object model (Anthony de Bruyn)
• How to Embed PowerShell Within a C# Application (Bruce Kyle)
• MSDN Radio: From Visual Studio to CodePlex (Emily Gibson)
• Typemock’s Birthday Video (Gil Zilberfeld & Friends)
• Samuel McAravey: Using Rx in the Real World (Jeffrey van Gogh)
• Jon Takes Five with Javier Lozano on MVC Turbine (Jon Galloway)

 

Community / Events

• Live from Philly! Mike "The Samurai" Gannotti & Dux @ ShareFEST on Apr 8, Thu, 7pm – 8pm EDT (Dux Raymond Sy)
• VS2010 Launch Events!! Sign Up Today! (Zain Naboulsi)
• SQLAuthority News – Milestone of 1300th Post and A Few Updates (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Key / Value stores – Operations (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Release: SPG2010 Drop 8 (CodePlex)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• Customizing Ribbon Positioning in SharePoint 2010 Master Pages (Jonathan Kern)

 

Miscellaneous

• Sync Remember the Milk With Outlook (Simon Mackie)
• What I Do to Prep a Technical Presentation (K. Brian Kelley)
• Partition Wizard Manages and Fixes Your Hard Drive for Free (Kevin Purdy)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 7, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.05.2010 (Bob Familiar)
• Silverlight Cream for April 06, 2010 — #832 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #574 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 6, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 6-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.01 ~ 04.07 (yuanjian)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)