Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – July 31-August 1, 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

• Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 3: Your First App (Shawn Wildermuth)
• For Developers: Easily integrate Admob ads in Windows Phone 7 apps (Surur)
• Page-turning ‘Macallan’ UI will hit a Windows 7 tablet this year (video) (Sean Hollister)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Grouping on Multiple Properties with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• CreateDelegate – An Exercise in Using Expressions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Package management for .NET: Nu (Oren Eini)
• Thoughts on Change Framework Command (Jason Haley)
• Comparing .NET XML Serializers: Part One (Ivan Krivyakov)
• Customize Your Toolbars in Visual Studio 2008: Commands Tab and Understanding Commands: Simple Commands and Show All Toolbox Controls (Zain Naboulsi)
• Cautiously Merging IL (Udi Dahan)

 

Web Development

• Mining API Mapping for Language Migration (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The future of OpenRasta (Sebastien Lambla)
• Wave Visualizer: Turning Threads into Trees (Pamela Fox)
• Gowalla’s Write API: the Experience is Distributed (Adam DuVander)
• DOM Traversal (Jonathan Seitel)
• ASP.Net MVC 3.0 Preview 1, Razor and nested master pages (Fredrik Normen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 – Updated Sprint Burndown Report (Aaron Bjork)
• The Art of Agile Development (Brendan Enrick)
• 30 Days of Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• User story is worthless, Behavior is what we need (Omar Al Zabir)
• Rough Notes on using FitNesse with C++ (Brett Schuchert)
• I messed up (Eric Brechner)
• Breaking Even Small Things Up (John Sonmez)
• DoD TSP BOK – Free eBook, “Team Software Process (TSP) Body of Knowledge (BOK)”) (Greg Duncan)
• The value of naming things (Mark Needham)
• IBM Rational Enterprise Architecture Program (Mike Walker)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Install Offline Documentation for Windows Phone Developer Tools (Blake Handler)
• Silverlight Queues: Design (Oren Eini)
• Screen orientation on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Enforcing Single Instance WPF Applications (Daniel Vaughan)
• An Implementation of Castle Windsor Bootstrapper for Caliburn.Micro (Bobby Johnson)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF Series and MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Architectural Overview (Davy Brion)
• Xaml Fxcop Rules Using Xaml Toolkit and Running Xaml FXCop rules in FXCop GUI (Lester Lobo)
• Effective Data Representation in Silverlight 4.0 using TargetNullValue, StringFormat and FallbackValue (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Rendering a Xaml Gauge Control (and other WPF Controls) in ASP.NET MVC (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Windows Phone taskhost.exe error (Rob Miles)
• CSLA .NET and MVVM video series (Rockford Lhotka)
• Dealing with Images with Bad Metadata – Corrupted Color Profiles in WPF (Scott Hanselman)
• WPF: Drag and drop between listboxes (Nikos Printezis)
• WP7: Launchers and Choosers (Corrado Cavalli)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: New Channel9 Preview, Power Tools, MVC 3 Preview 1, Laser Graffiti (Dan Fernandez)
• jQuery Podcast 30 – Chris Coyier (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Windows Weekly 167: Childlike Wonder (Paul Thurrott)
• endpoint.tv – Canonical REST Service (Ron Jacobs)
• Software Architecture: Where do you start? (Zubair)
• Start Up Podcast Show #77 Jordan Ritter, CTO and Founder of CloudCrowd (Bob Walsh)
• A Conversation with Gilad Bracha (Charles Torre)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Redmond Heads to Berlin (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of August 2, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)
• My upcoming community speaking events (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Virtual Expo Networking Event (Joel Oleson)
• Why Google Cares About Developers (Brad Abrams)
• Have a WP7 App idea? Want to code an App?–Hook up with Mobile App Match (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft "Daily Build" Nerd Dinner – August 4th in Seattle, Redmond (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• Print Dates without Day or Time in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to BINARY_CHECKSUM and Working Example (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Windows Service could not connect to the report server database (Viswanathan Durairaj)
• NoSQL Summer Reading List (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Best Practices in Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Over 3,000 Windows Phone 7 devices connected to Facebook (Brody McKee)
• Ruby Is Scary (Jak Charlton)
• Lesson for Microsoft: Advertising works (Joe Wilcox)
• Discovering Bing (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 31, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 30, 2010 — #914 and Silverlight Cream for July 31, 2010 — #915 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 30, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 31, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 07.22 ~ 07.31 (yuanjian)
• Linkblogging: Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design by Diomidis Spinellis