Dew Drop – November 22, 2010

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Top Links

• 20 Interesting WPF Projects on CodePlex (Some for Silverlight too) (Pete Brown)
• MonoDevelop 2.4.1 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
• The Weekly Source Code 57 -Controlling an Eagletron TrackerPod with C# 4, ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Scott Hanselman)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Asynchronous C# and F# (III.): How does it work? (Tom)
• Source code for F# Depth Colorizer extension (Brian McNamara)
• Misusing mutable state with F# Asynchronous Workflows (Kean Walmsley)
• C# 5.0–Rise of the Task (Mike Taulty)
• Window Layouts: Design, Debug, and Full Screen (Zain Naboulsi)
• “Exploring Reactive Extensions” (Greg Duncan)
• The State of .Net Facebook Development (Nathan Totten)
• Using CSLA 4 series outline and Using CSLA 4: CSLA .NET Overview available (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• Named Routes To The Rescue (Phil Haack)
• CSS Quick Tip: CSS Arrows and Shapes Without Markup (Nate Cavanaugh)
• Using IE 9 Developer Tools to Learn jQuery (Rachel Appel)
• HTML5 Recipes: Storage 101 (Romin Irani)
• 10 Essential Tools for building ASP.NET Websites (Stephen Walther)
• HTML5 Day 6: New Range Input Type (Chris Pietschmann)
• Creating Twitpic client using ASP.NET and OData (Gunnar Peipman)
• IE9 and SunSpider–the plot thickens (Kip Kniskern)
• Granting Access to Twitter applications (Martin Beeby)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Tdd for the iPhone: Continued (Brett Schuchert)
• Scrum Training Exercises (Dan Puckett)
• TDD in Xcode Suddenly Tons Better (Rob Williams)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Layer Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Agile Estimating 2.0 – A Cheat Sheet (ScoutMaster)
• The smallest bugs, the biggest problems – Part I (Oren Eini)
• Bowling Kata (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
• Make it interesting for yourself (Mark Needham)
• Architecture Guide: Windows Forms, Generics, Auto-Mapper, Entity Framework, Framework Design and many more.. (Nirosh L.W.C.)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF = Silverlight+ (Christian Nagel)
• Part 1 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)
• Get a Agent, a ServiceAgent (WP 007 Agent) (Rudi Grobler)
• Using the Pivot Control (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 126: Chris Woodruff on OData (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 183: The Wil Wheaton Of Podcasts (Paul Thurrott)
• You’ve got questions; I’ve got dumb looks [PDC10’s Channel 9 Live Windows Phone 7 Q&A session available online and offline] (David Anson)
• Ping 84: Visual Search WP7 apps, Kinect Art, Lync, Facebook & Office (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #53: Testing Styles (with Kim Gräsman) (James Shore)
• DDD Windows Phone 7 Event Videos (Mike Ormond)
• Yet Another Podcast #15 – Ian Griffiths (Jesse Liberty)
• Pluralcast 29 : ALM with Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 36 – A Chat with Greg Low – Part 2 (Richard Banks)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Web Camps (Scott Guthrie)
• Free Webinar: Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• Great opportunity for Windows Developers– your app featured on C-net’s download.com (Dave Isbitski)
• Imagine Cup "Solve This" (Somasegar)

 

Database

• SSIS Denali Data Flow Grouping (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Change Database Access to Single User Mode Using SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services – CTP2 (MS Downloads)
• Do Foreign Key Constraints Help Performance? (Grant Fritchey)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Query and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Value (Jason Strate)
• WAITFOR what? (Martin Bell)
• The Productive DBA (Paul Theriault)

 

Miscellaneous

• New book from Pragmatic Works in the "works"… (Adam Jorgensen)
• Improving Your Developer Skills (Gil Fink)
• MSDN Library Home Mockup to Simplify Finding the Product Docs (J.D. Meier)
• is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android’s? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Got Hacked? How to Fix Hacked Facebook or Twitter Account and Prevent it (Joel Oleson)
• Robot framework revisited (Gojko Adzic)
• Should I get certifications before applying to Microsoft? (RJ Naugle)
• How do I print tags? (Luis Cabrera)
• Creating dynamic methods with closures in Ruby (Paul Cowan)
• Kodu Localization (Stephen Coy)
• RTM’d today: Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit (Valerie Woolley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Weekly Link Post 171 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.15 ~ 2010 11.22 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #734 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 11/22/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for November 21, 2010 – 2 — #997 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 049 for 11/22/2010 (Pete Brown)

 

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth by Jon Skeet