Dew Drop – July 28, 2010

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Top Links

• Silverlight in Action Book Update (Pete Brown)
• Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1) (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Service Location, Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Controllers and Part 3: View Engines/View Pages and Part 4: Filters (Brad Wilson)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Resources – UI Guide and Design Templates (chriskil)
• Ultimate Developer PC 2.0 – Part 3 – UPDATE on Building a WEI 7.9 and RFC for building a GOM (God’s Own Machine) (Scott Hanselman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Grouping (Richard Carr)
• Reviewing CommunityCourses: A RavenDB application (Oren Eini)
• View local (offline) help in Visual Studio 2010 with this extension (Cheryl Simmons)
• Customize Your Toolbars in Visual Studio 2010: Toolbars Tab (Zain Naboulsi)
• First MonoTouch Book is out (MonoTouch Team)
• "Invalid provider type specified" when using CNG providers with .NET CMS classes and CryptoAPI and 5 bytes exponent public keys (Alejandro Campos Magencio)

 

Web Development

• Techniques for Preventing Duplicate URLs in Your Website (Scott Mitchell)
• Improving client-side development in Visual Studio (Dave Ward)
• A Custom jQuery Selector to Retrieve Labels for Inputs (Chris Love)
• ASP.NET MVC & Url Extensions (Dane Morgridge)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult action result and ASP.NET MVC 3: New ViewModel is dynamic ViewData and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpStatusCodeResult (Gunnar Peipman)
• UnitOfWork Action filter for ASP.NET MVC and nHibernate (Fredrik Normen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Examples of Code First Entity Framework Unit Tests and Code First Entity Framework Unit Test Examples (Jag Reehal)
• Comparing Architectural Options (Simon Ince)
• Vendor Lock-In Vs. Best Of Breed Tools (Derick Bailey)
• Review: Reflections on management (Brad A. White)
• TDD: Testing collections and TDD: Call your shots (Mark Needham)
• Telerik enters the Agile ALM space (Stephen Forte)
• Are You Agile? (Stoimen Popov)
• Is Cool a low bar? (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Data Validation in Silverlight 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• How to detect the theme being used in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing Windows Phone 7 Unleashed (Daniel Vaughan)
• Silverlight and WebSockets and Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (6–Validation) (Mike Taulty)
• Cinch V2 : Article 4 is out there (Sacha Barber)
• Foursquare for Windows Phone 7 Looks Great! (Sarah Perez)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Resources (Steve Clayton)
• Building OpenPOS: Part 10 – Code First (Rudi Grobler)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tribune does Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern and ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Released – Channel 9 Video and Hanselminutes Podcast 224, Oh My! (Scott Hanselman)
• ARCast.TV – SharePoint Deployment to Microsoft BPOS Cloud (Zhiming Xue)
• Another party sold on creating Windows Phone 7 apps (Don Burnett)
• Mike Sampson: Inside Rev9 (Charles Torre)
• UML with VS 2010 Part 4: Capturing Business Workflows and Part 5: Architecting an Application and Part 6: Designing a Project’s Physical Structure (Clint Edmonson)
• Technology & Friends Episode 105: Nathan Blevins on Lego Mindstorm (David Giard)
• New Video Series – Learning Microsoft WebMatrix. (Joe Stagner)
• Kent Beck’s Test Driven Development Screencasts (Mark Needham)

 

Community / Events

• CodeBetter/Devlicio.us/LosTechies MSDN Ultimate Giveaways (Tuna Toksoz)
• 3 FREE Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition with MSDN Subscription GiveAway (.NET Curry)
• Secrets of an online presentation (Gil Zilberfeld)
• CodeStock 2010 Featured Women in Technology (Joseph Mirabella)
• Silverlight Tour Coming to Atlanta Next Week (with a 10% discount) (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Database

• Powershell Remoting with SQL Server (Grant Fritchey)
• Whats coming in SQL 11 (Simon Sabin)
• The TechNet Wiki and Updated Security Checklists (Buck Woody)
• Windows 7 + SQL 2008 = Aaaaarrrgggghhh! (Brad Schulz)
• Count(*) or Count(1) ? (Dave Ballantyne)
• Six Tips For Avoiding Bad Table and Column Names (Bob Pusateri)
• Backup of a FILESTREAM database may include garbage files as well (Jacob Sebastian)
• Finding Cross-Database Dependencies (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• 7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint 2010 for Project Management Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2010 Virtual Labs (Greg Galipeau)

 

Miscellaneous

• 2 Buildings, 4 floors and FINALY super wireless internet access ! and Would you use an Off-Line Learning Application ? (Joe Stagner)
• Resume review & advice: what I look for in a resume (Kenji Yamaguchi)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Gamestorming: Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, & Changemakers. Only $9.99 use code DDGSG (O’Reilly Media)
• The Ultimate Developer Machine 2.0 (Pete Brown)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #652 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Links to Scott Guthrie’s Using LINQ to SQL Tutorials (Scott Mitchell)
• Tech Tweets for 27-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight in Action, Revised Edition by Pete Brown