Day: May 12, 2010

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Top Links

• MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) (Jeremy Likness)
• Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth (Scott Mitchell)
• Code contracts and inheritance (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer (Jennifer Marsman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated C# all-in-one file (Kirill Osenkov)
• Service Operations for Any and All (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Think .Net Cache = System.Web.Caching? .Net 4 has a present for you, System.Runtime.Caching. and Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review – Essential C# 4.0 (Brandon Cannaday)
• Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction (Chris Mann)
• Break Multiple Processes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services (Chris Sells)
• ADO.NET Survey Results (Luiz Fernando Santos)

 

Web Development

• F# in ASP.NET, mathematics and testing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Using the Sueetie Cross-Application Footer Menu Control (Dave Burke)
• Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Ali Bastani)
• Becoming a Great Web Developer (Marc Grabanski)
• New book: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• DOM Range and HTML5 Selection (Jon Seitel)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Information is the Most Transient Form of Power and ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure and Application Scenarios and Solutions (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: Chasing a points total (Mark Needham)
• Responsibility And Disaster (Michael Nichols)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Updated Bing App for Windows Phone (Justin Jed)
• IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game (Nigel Parker)
• Event-based property changes in pure XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
• We’ve secretly changed this control’s DataContext – let’s see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios – including DataGrid+ContextMenu] (David Anson)
• Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling (Mike Snow)
• IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming (Silverlight Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Corrinne Yu – Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One and Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction (Tina Wood)
• Webcast: NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
• Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery (Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (John Papa)
• MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Emily Gibson)
• JP Boodhoo’s Introduction to Machine.Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
• Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010 (Eric Swift)
• Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Kelly Cassidy: Effective Prototyping with SketchFlow (Eric Hagan)

 

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday (Scott Guthrie)
• It’s time to Party like is SharePoint 2010 Launch Day! (Joel Oleson)
• Women In Web Design: Group Interview (Smashing Editorial)
• Microsoft’s greatest strength: people (Eugenia Sawa)
• Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month (Jeff Wilcox)

 

Database

• SQL Azure vs. SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• 5 Things SQL Server Should Truncate (Brent Ozar)
• Five things SSIS should drop (Jamie Thomson)
• Trusting Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Query Tuning and Five things wouldn’t miss in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Meme: Tagged: 5 things SQL Server should drop (Denis Gobo)
• Why LOB data makes shrink run slooooowly (T-SQL Tuesday #006) (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) 2.0 Released – New Cmdlets, PowerShell 2 and XCopy, oh my and “If you want users to RTFM, write a better FM” (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
• Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
• Snagit 10 Released With New Capture Tools (Simon Mackie)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 11-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #598 (Chris Alcock)
• New and Notable 415 (Sam Gentile)
• Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 — #859 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework (Animal Guide)