I will be on vacation beginning tomorrow. A week at the beach while recovering from a torn Achilles… I expect that I will be spending quite a bit of time in the house (with WiFi). Dew Drop posts will be sporadic until I return on June 28th.
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Top Links
- Using Web Services from an XNA 4.0 WP7 Game (Michael Cummings)
- CodePlex: Search Project Openings, New Ad Format, and more (Matt Hawley)
- The Weekly Source Code 52 – You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means. (Scott Hanselman)
- Unity Extension For Disposing Build Trees On TearDown (Rory Primrose)
.NET / Visual Studio
- WCF & Mex are correct, but why is my metadata not published???? (Derik Whittaker)
- Retrieve Security Information of Files using .NET (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Working with the bit.ly API to shorten URLs (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services: Part I and Using Telerik’s new LINQ implementation with WCF RIA Services Part II: Query Methods (Stephen Forte)
- Hide the Quick Find and Quick Replace Tool Window After the First Match and Auto Hide All Tool Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
- Command Image Changing Extension (Ryan Molden)
- Run Cassandra As A Windows Service (Nick Berardi)
- Connection Pooling in ADO.NET (Hima Bindu Vejella)
- A Couple Useful Powershell Commands for working with Ruby/IronRuby (Bobby Johnson)
Web Development
- common css mistakes/putting a stop to them (Niels Matthijs)
- Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum (Rebecca Murphey)
- Adding HTML5 placeholder attribute support through progressive enhancement (Robert Nyman)
- Parameterization vs. Web.Config Transformation (Vishal Joshi)
- Build a List Tree with the Beauty of jQuery (Stoimen Popov)
- Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials (Vitaly Friedman)
- The query parameter ‘$format’ begins with a system-reserved ‘$’ character but is not recognized (Chris Love)
- Issues with modal overlays on the web (Janko Jovanovic)
- Reactive programming with WebSharper (Joel Bjornson)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Friday: "Real Customer Involvement" Now Online (James Shore)
- Get to No as fast as possible (Tim Hibbard)
- p&p – Windows Azure Guidance – Part 2, Drop 1 (CodePlex)
- Setting up automatic test runs after compilation in VS2010 (Eric Hexter)
- Make the JavaScript Test Pass (K. Scott Allen)
- Automating scheduled tasks (Jimmy Bogard)
- Less is More Redux (Peter Bromberg)
- Modeling Websites and Native Code (Somasegar)
- TestApi v0.5 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Device Requests (Brandon Watson)
- Revisiting the Code Not Taken [Updated analysis of two ways to create a full-size Popup in Silverlight] (David Anson)
- Three Hotfixes for WPF Memory Leaks (Jonathan Allen)
- Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Time categories with WPF and Exchange (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- CinchV2 : Article 2 (Sacha Barber)
- IIS Media Services 4.0 Beta Now Available (Silverlight Team)
- Using d:DesignSource for design-time DataGrid grouping with sample data (Jack Ukleja)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online (Ade Miller)
- Video: 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes! (Sara Ford)
- Video: What’s New in Expression Blend 4 (Eric Hagan)
- StartUp Podcast Show #71 Nilofer Merchant on the New How of business (Bob Walsh)
- Community Megaphone Show #12 with guest Frank La Vigne (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
- Wizards of Smart – Heroku, Cloud, and Iron Ruby (Jonathan Birkholz)
Community / Events
- Survey for Interesting Finds followers (Jason Haley)
- SQLAuthority News – Interview with SQL Server MVP Madhivanan – A Real Problem Solver (Pinal Dave)
- Training classes for DevExpress Silverlight products? (Oliver Sturm)
- Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’ (Chris Ziegler)
- Rock out in the Microsoft candidate experience lobby (Kelly)
- Live Chats to Learn more about SharePoint – with the MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)
Database
- Replace SQL Server DateTime records of a column with UTC time (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Shrink, Damn’d Log! Shrink, I Say! (Jeremiah Peschka)
- XQuery Lab 57 – Getting Started with OPENXML (Jacob Sebastian)
SharePoint
- Give me your tired, your poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free… With open arms we welcome Notes Admins and Developers to SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
- Defining Actions for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Hrayr Diloyan)
- Mapping the Office Item Type for External Content Types in BCS Meta Man (Phill Duffy)
Miscellaneous
- Inside the Microsoft Certified Master Program (Brent Ozar)
- Announcing Windows Embedded Handheld (Chris Koenig)
- Interviewing .NET Developers (JP Hamilton)
- Introducing Zoho Wiki 2.0 (Susan)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: June 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #624 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Tech Tweets for 17-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2010 — #885 (Dave Campbell)
- Highlights from the Google I/O Wave Developer Sandbox (Pamela Fox)
The Geek Shelf
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