Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – July 24-25, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• CSLA 4 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Entity Framework 4 “Code-First”: Custom Database Schema Mapping (Scott Guthrie)
• If you missed the Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions (Devon Musgrave)
• Unstated Requirements (Chad Myers)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Tab Settings (Richard Carr)
• Profiling an application with Visual Studio – CPU Sampling (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Database Development with Visual Studio 2010: Database Projects and Database Server Projects (Gouri Sohoni)
• Would like some Ultimate [Ranger] Architecture Guidance? There’s a Visual Studio Gallery page for that… (Greg Duncan)
• ‘forr’ shortcut in Visual Studio 2008/2010 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Death to the DAO and How to Test LINQ (Scott Leber)
• WCF RIA Services Contrib RTM Release and TVersity Dot Net – Alpha 1.3 (CodePlex)
• Using External Tools (Zain Naboulsi)
• An intro to what OpenWrap is (Sebastien Lambla)
• Surgery using leeches? (Jonathan Cogley)

 

Web Development

• mvcConf slides and code posted (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using dynamic type to test controller actions returning JsonResult (Gunnar Peipman)
• More Ext JS with ASP.NET MVC Goodies: Populating a GridPanel (Jorge Ramon)
• Build the Mobile Web with WebMatrix (Rob Tiffany)
• FYI, Check Out This abbr. API ASAP (Adam DuVander)
• Conditional Row Highlighting in Dynamic Data and Using Entity Framework from a different DLL in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• Azure@home Part 2: WebRole Implementation (Jim O’Neil)
• Daily Dose – PHP Language Update (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Manager 2.0: The Role of the Manager in Scrum (Pete Deemer)
• Principles 2: Principles of Software Testing (Ivo Manolov)
• Be like the bamboo: 7 lessons from the Japanese forest (Garr Reynolds)
• Work In Progress Version Of The Book On Builder At Work – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• How do you test asynchronous code? Part II (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Lokad CQRS – Message Throttling and Auto Scaling in the Cloud and Lokad CQRS – Using Protocol Buffers Serialization for Azure Messages (Rinat Abdullin)
• Notes from a TDD masterclass (Roy Osherove)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Design Resources – UI Guide and Design Templates (Bob Caswell)
• New phone bits, same pretty charts [Upgraded my Windows Phone 7 Charting example for the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta] (David Anson)
• WPF: integrating our application with the Windows 7 Taskbar (I) (Josué Yeray)
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama & Pivot controls – v0.9 (samples included) (CodePlex)
• Expression Encoder Screen Capture Codec (MS Downloads)
• Speech recognition in Windows Phone 7 (Kip Kniskern)
• How to pass values to Silverlight application from ASPX page using InitParameter? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0 and Network Authentication while performing Web Request (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to detect when a list is scrolling (or not) (Peter Torr)
• A Value Converter for the BALL Watch Silverlight Contest (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Cinch V2 : Article 3 out there (Sacha Barber)
• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 1: The Phone (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone 7 vs iOS 4 – Web Browser Speed Test [Video] (Taimur Asad)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 206 – 07.24.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 166: Revenge Of The White Icons (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: C# Scalability and MongoDB on .NET (Eric Hagan)
• endpoint.tv – Workflow and Custom Activities – Best Practices (Part 4) (Ron Jacobs)
• Cloud Cover Episode 20 – Visual Studio Tools with Jim Nakashima (Steve Marx)

 

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 26, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Software Craftsmanship 2010 (Chris Wanstrath)
• Powerpoint and Code Demos from my MVCConf Presentation (John V. Petersen)
• Boys and Girls bringing digital technology to life (Pamela Passman)
• Retrospective from online course (Greg Young)

 

Database

• A little Dance with SSIS and Informix (Jason Brimhall)
• NVARCHAR(MAX) VS NTEXT in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Find Queries using Parallelism from Cached Plan (Pinal Dave)
• Reporting Services – Custom Code requests (Simon Sabin)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Third (Grant Fritchey)

 

SharePoint

• Project Management Resources for SharePoint 2010 Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Make a Presentation (part 3) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Firefox Friday — "Beta 2 is coming, and it’ll break stuff" edition (Lee Mathews)
• This Week At Microsoft – Great Financial News, Kinect, Cloud and More. (Owen Linderholm)
• Resume review & advice: behind the scenes (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• Ditching the Service Layer and IOC for Mxins in Ruby (Paul Cowan)
• Microsoft SyncToy Folder Synchronization Tool (Richard Hay)
• Sysinternals Suite Updated (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 60 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• F# Discoveries This Week 07/23/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2010 — #909 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck