Month: May 2010

Bloated Dew Drop today since I was unable to get one out on Friday. Tomorrow morning should be a light one.

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Top Links

• The MVVM Twilight Zone (Josh Smith)
• Code Contracts Part 2 – Preconditions (Kevin Hazzard)
• Stack Exchange API Public Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
• Essential Tools for the WPF Novice (Michael Sorens)
• How about a Zune-style ChildWindow? (Jeff Wilcox)
• MEFedMVVM v1.0 Explained (Marlon Grech)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 (MS Downloads)
• Presentation:The State of the Art on .NET (Amanda Laucher & Josh Graham)
• Updated PowerCommands for Reflector (Jason Haley)
• Convert a Generic List to a Datatable (Abhijeet Singhai)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 2 and C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:SortedSet in Framework 4 (Sam Gentile)
• Include for LINQ to SQL (and maybe other providers) (Damien Guard)
• Creating an F# Solution Template for Visual Studio 2010 (Daniel Mohl)
• NHibernate Workbench (Felice Pollano)
• Using Sandcastle to build code contracts documentation and Code Contracts: How they look after compiling? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Windows Azure Most Wanted – MSMQ Azure and MSMQ Azure vs. Scalable Queue with Concurrency Locks (Rinat Abdullin)
• Building a Simple Logging Http Module with Logging Application Block (Gil Fink)
• VSGesture v2 for VS 2010 – Adding mouse gesture support to VS 2010 (No, not those “hand gestures” I see you doing at your screen… 😉 (Greg Duncan)
• Interview:Don Syme Talks About F# 2.0, a First Class Citizen in Visual Studio 2010 (Don Syme)
• C# 4.0 AccessPrivateWrapper – Instantiate and Access Private/Internal Classes and Members via dynamic + reflection (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Drowning one’s sorrows in the ThreadPool (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Transaction Flows Across Reentrant AppDomain Calls and Transactional Workflows: Suspend-Enqueue-Unload-Resume Done Correctly on Second-Phase Commit (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Talking Reactive Extensions (Matthew Podwysocki)
• C# & SqlDependency – Monitoring your database for data changes (Richard McCutchen)
• How To Enable Visual Studio 2010 Log (Shai Raiten)
• Dynamic Type to do away with Reflection (Rick Strahl)
• Querying a Hierarchical Parent-Child Structure in LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
• cleartextonfoo and Visual Studio SWAG!! and Hide the Status Bar and Hide the Vertical and/or Horizontal Scroll Bars (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 Wrox Blox available for purchase (Simone Chiaretta)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using jQuery context menu with tables (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to programmatically change the physical directory for a web app in IIS 7.x (Keith Brown)
• Using the Power of the Sueetie API for Good (Fighting Blog Spam) (Dave Burke)
• Create a Twitter API proxy for your own! (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the map/reduce way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Porting the HomeController, the Right Way and Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Migrations (Oren Eini)
• EmailTheInternet.com: Sending and Receiving Email in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Sean Nolan, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and New Plugin Enables WordPress To Use Windows Azure Storage Services (Windows Azure Team)
• Google + Pac Man = Statement? (Frank La Vigne)
• 4 Steps to Consume Web Services Using Ajax (includes video tutorial) (Shivprasad Koirala)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Collective Code Ownership" Now Online (James Shore)
• Code Kata Setup (Louis Salin)
• Trustworthiness… Then Trust (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Ninject.RhinoMocks: Auto Mocking Container For .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5 and Albacore: Should We Continue To Support Ruby v1.8.6? (Derick Bailey)
• Whole Agile (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Presentation:Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams (Roy Osherove)
• NCover 3.4.6: Bug Fixes (Stephen Ward)
• Is your test method self-validating ? (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Programmer Tip: True Alpha Geeks Breed Alpha Geeks. (Rajiv Popat)
• PowerShell for acceptance testing (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• "Intuitive" in one language may (at best) be "understandable" in another. Please plan accordingly…. (Michael S. Kaplan)
• The Unit Testing Lounge (Tal Townsend)
• Review: Designing with Web Standards (Grant Palin)
• Project Greenfield: Implementing Source Version Control (Joel Cochran)
• SketchFlow with a splash of balsamic (Rudi Grobler)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• F# PowerPack May 2010 – now for Silverlight (Dmitry Lomov)
• Using Windows 7 taskbar features in WPF [pure XAML] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Navigating Microsoft content on Silverlight and Expression Blend (Adam Kinney)
• SpinPaint for Windows Phone 7 (with a Rant about Touch) (Charles Petzold)
• While should I need to waste so many resources and 1-3 minutes to get started? (Fredrik Normen)
• Using DynamicObject to intercept and marshal property changes (Josh Smith)
• Silverlight – DataBind to an Anonymous type (Who knew?) (Jason Jarrett)
• Windows Phone 7 April CTP and TransitioningContentControl (Jeff Brand)
• Windows Phone? Sounds exciting! (Jeff Wilcox)
• You Already Are A Windows Phone 7 Programmer (Jesse Liberty)
• WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available! (Jossef Goldberg)
• Dotfuscator 4.7.1000 with WPF obfuscation support (Joe Kuemerle)
• Create Silverlight Master – Detail UI Using Data Sources Window Object DataSource (Karl Shifflett)
• Document Toolkit 2 Beta 1 available (Koen Zwikstra)
• Seesmic Releases Microsoft Silverlight Based Desktop 2 Preview (Richard Hay)
• Evolution of input and "255 depth levels ought to be enough for anybody." – Bill Gates, 2010 (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #23 – Working with Strokes and Shapes (Mike Snow)
• Right Click a TextBox and Display a ContextMenu using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A Sample Silverlight 4 Application Using MEF, MVVM, and WCF RIA Services – Part 3 (Weidong Shen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 04 of 18): Hello World (MS Podcasts)
• TWC9: Silverlight Tools for VS, Azure Guidance, Rx, and Home Server (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Home Server Vail (Larry Larsen)
• The Thirsty Developer 93: Talking Visual Studio with Jay Schmelzer (Dave Bost)
• Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling Tools in VS2010 (Cameron Skinner)
• Cloud Cover Episode 12 – Hosting WCF and Inter-Role Communication (Ryan Dunn)
• Windows Weekly 157: Next of KIN (Paul Thurrott)
• Boagworld 212. More skills to learn (Paul Boag)
• Toby Richards and Mike Hickman Discuss MVP Engagement with Office 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• StartUp Podcast Show #68 David Schenberg and BusyEvent.com (Bob Walsh)

 

Community / Events

• Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint (Melissa Travers)
• A Week in the Life of a Community PM at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• SQL Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in August! (Paul S. Randal)
• Microsoft voted best workplace in Europe (Anne Cheng)
• New England GiveCamp – Come Code for Charity (Jim O’Neil)
• 10 Ways to Maximize Your Conference Experience (Dan Wilson)
• Shame on you for stealing (Buck Woody)

 

Database

• Auto Generate AlphaNumeric ID’s in a SQL Server Table (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Snapshot Isolation – Reduce the Blocking Transactions and SQLAuthority News – Downloads Available for Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Pinal Dave)
• Virtual Lab: Creating the Basic SQL 2008 R2 Virtual Machine (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
• Delete all data in database (when you have FKs) (Niikola)
• Geek City: Clearing Plans for a Single Database (Kalen Delaney)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 – Top 10 Resources to get you started… (SharePoint Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Book Review of Tribes by Seth Godin (Joe Webb)
• Android 2.2: Froyo Is a Major Update (Alex Chitu)
• 13,000+ Free Icons for Web and Desktop Development (David Vidmar)
• J Allard leaving Microsoft over Courier axing? (Donald Melanson)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Reviewing the Dow Jones Industrial with Excel 2010 (Nate Oliver)
• 24 things to do, and 100 things *not* to do (yet) for building a MicroISV (Leon Bambrick)
• Accelerating change – we can’t do it alone (Pamela Passman)
• 6 Git Commands To Get You Started (Nick Berardi)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 22, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – May 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for May 21, 2010 — #866 and Silverlight Cream for May 22, 2010 — #867 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 51 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #605 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links #106 (Grant Palin)
• Links of the Week #120 (David Vidmar)

 

The Geek Shelf

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