Dew Drop – August 3, 2010

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Top Links

• A high performance ProgressBar for Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Announcing: Microsoft Ribbon for WPF RTW (Pete Brown)
• New Title! More Chapters! (Charles Petzold)
• How to load a huge file into a FILESTREAM column quickly (Jacob Sebastian)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Setting Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft.Data, because the 90s were so good, we want to do them again (Oren Eini)
• F# Templates Now On Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
• WCF RIA Services Part 4 – Integrating with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern (Brian Noyes)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Additional Mapping Schemes (Zain Naboulsi)
• The CodeRush Options Screen (Rory Becker)

 

Web Development

• Dynamic Methods in View Data (Phil Haack)
• Restrict ASP.NET MVC Action’s Using The ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (Malcolm Sheridan)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
• My Journey with the StackExchange API (Dave Swersky)
• Publishing Adaptive Streaming Video from Expression Encoder to Windows Azure Blobs (Steve Marx)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structure and guidelines, consistency and clarity (Simon Brown)
• Explaining Software Design Patterns to a non-developer… (Greg Duncan)
• How do You Stress Test Your Web Application? (Mike Hadlow)
• Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world and Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world (Roy Osherove)
• CSI: Microsoft (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Projects vs. products (Daniel Crenna)
• Slides for The Rule of 3, Hot Spots, and Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
• Software Programming as Craft (Dave West)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Quick look inside a List Application for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Some Infrastructure Bits (Davy Brion)
• Free ebook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) (Devon Musgrave)
• Couple of Expression Encoder updates (James Clarke)
• How Advertising is Different on Windows Phone 7 and A Deep Zoom Container for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Action Pack and Microsoft Tellme Speech Recognition Services (Don Burnett)
• Book Review – 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
• Ensuring your WPF applications are Accessible (Rob Relyea)
• Async Data Validation (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad is All About Performance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh (Robert Hess)
• Episode 58: Building Facebook Applications with Windows Azure with Jim Zimmerman (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• endpoint.tv – CancellationScope Activity (Ron Jacobs)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 23 – Code Contracts with William Tulloch (Richard Banks)
• Ping 68: Streetside, Hohm, Student Partners, Kinect & Farmaritaville (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Learning in Public – what I learned from being heckled at the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
• London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th (Scott Guthrie)
• Time to give back: GeekGive at the MVP Summit (Stephen Forte)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance (Pinal Dave)
• RSScripter and Permissions (William Vaughn)
• SSMS Feature Request – Filter By Datetime, Not Just Date (Shaun Stuart)
• Quickly Script Out Replication Redux (Chad Miller)
• A Small Collection of DBCC Commands (Glenn Berry)

 

SharePoint

• Chapters 1-4 of our upcoming Inside SharePoint 2010 development book on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
• Wish you had free end user training incorporated into your SharePoint environment? (Joel Oleson)
• Feature upgrade (part 4) – advanced scenarios (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Assembla’s Top 10 Used Tools (Anastasia Voskresenskaya)
• Why Microsoft *can* compete with the Apple iPad and what the Apple pundits are clueless about… (Don Burnett)
• Make your own Fable III Villager (Larry Hyrb)
• Pluralsight Website Update, 7/31/2010 (Keith Brown)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Being Geek – Only $9.99. Use code DDGEK (O’Reilly Media)
• Wolves Theme for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
• Kinect: the backstory (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 2, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #656 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 2-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Phone 7 Resource List Refreshed (Mike Ormond)

 

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by Jared Richardson