Dew Drop – December 28, 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

• Architecture by Baseball: Conference on the mound (Larry Clarkin)
• StarFight (Paul Stovell)
• Making a generic UpdateSourceTrigger for PropertyChanged in Silverlight (Marlon Grech)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Remove and Sort – Namespaces using Shortcut in Visual Studio (Jonathan Wood)
• DXCore Services – LinkedIdentifiers and Clipboard Tools – Paste Replace Word (Alex Skorkin)
• MonoDevelop is the Third IDE for F# (Jonathan Allen)
• Create Web Application or Virtual Directory in IIS (Zain Naboulsi)
• IR Black Theme For Visual Studio (Rob Conery)
• [Book Review] “Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0” by Sachin Joshi from Packt Publishing (Greg Duncan)
• Immutable Array for .NET (Luigi Grilli)
• Rocket Framework for Windows – Release: v1.0.0 and FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – Release: v1.1.0 (CodePlex)

 

Web Development

• Format JavaScript with the IE9 developer tools (Jef Claes)
• New Book: Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Reuse your closures with functors (Giorgio Sironi)
• Stream.CopyTo() extension method and ASP.NET: Serializing and deserializing JSON objects (Gunnar Peipman)
• Calling a REST Based JSON Endpoint with HTTP POST and WCF (Wally McClure)
• 10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 (Jolie O’Dell)
• Hosting the Razor Engine for Templating in Non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• [Agile Guide] – Rotating Responsibility for Scrums and Retrospectives (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Inline Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• How To Complete Stories Without Leaving Bugs Behind (Dan Puckett)
• 10 Interface Design Tips to Improve Your Business Application (Derek Singleton)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Wpf tab control when you have photoshop images and Consistency from WPF and GDI+ in creating images from stream (Al Kampfer)
• Silverlight Spy Preview 2 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Pingback : A quick comparison of getting started on Windows Phone 7 Development and Android Development (Senthil Kumar)
• Help my Slider control does not work inside a Grid in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Shaun Walker on the state of DotNetNuke (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 4: Search (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Agile, .NET or C++ User Groups Can Win One Year of Sponsorship + Product Licenses and More (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Marissa Mayer: Here’s What It Was Like Being The Only Female Geek At Stanford And Google (GOOG) (Jay Yarow)

 

Database

• Filtered Index Vs Indexed Views in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Plan Cache and Data Cache in Memory (Pinal Dave)
• If the SQL Server install fails… and the uninstall as well (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Procedure expects parameter error from SqlCommand (Ted Krueger)
• Thoughts on schemas and schema proliferation (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Get Datepart in SharePoint Designer Workflow (Wesley Bakker)

 

Miscellaneous

• 10 Webapps that Add Great New Features to Gmail [Productivity] (Amit Agarwal)
• Silverlight Cream Monday WP7 App Review # 1 (Dave Campbell)
• 3 tips for getting a job in the new year (Eugenia Sawa)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Classic Shell Scripting – $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDSKP (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft News of Note in 2010 (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on State of the Web, One More Link, 25 Redesigns, Content Sharing Factors, China Blue (Dave Burke)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 28 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 — #1016 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 12/28/2010 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

WCF 4.0 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities by Mike Liu