Dew Drop – December 29, 2010

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Top Links

• ReSharper 5.1.2 Release Candidate (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Using Sterling in Windows Phone 7 Applications (Jeremy Likness)
• Taking a screenshot from within a Silverlight #WP7 application (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone Marketplace reaches 5,000 apps (Kip Kniskern)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• What’s up with repositories? Basics. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Azure Blob Studio 2011” A standalone utility and/or Visual Studio 2010 extension for Azure blob management (with VB source too) and “Team for Word” hooks Word to Team Foundation Server for free (source available too, GPLv2) (Greg Duncan)
• DXCore plug-in Option Pages overview (Alex Skorkin)
• Server Explorer: Data Connections (Zain Naboulsi)
• Azure@home Part 13: Remote Desktop Configuration (Jim O’Neil)
• Converting Numbers to Words (Jonathan Wood)

 

Web Development

• Using COM Objects from ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• HTML5 Labs Launched and WebSocket Update (James Vastbinder)
• Convert ASP.NET DropDownList into Multi Select ListBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Reuse your closures with functors (Giorgio Sironi)
• Ext JS In Action (Ed Rought)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Teams and a ScrumMaster’s Patience and [Agile Guide] – Story Mapping for Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Delegated Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
• Use Downtime Projects to Recharge, Try New Work Habits (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Getting the Customer Involved (Vikas Hazrati)
• How To: Fake an Abstract Class with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• My, How the Times Are a Changin’ (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Best Practices in Enterprise and Applications Architecture (Mike Walker)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• My “What’s new in Silverlight 4 demo” app (Andrej Tozon)
• WPF Tutorial (Abhishek Sur)
• Consistency from WPF and GDI+ in creating images from stream (Gian Maria Ricci)
• WPF Twitter client with Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern step by step (Kirill Lykov)
• Making a generic UpdateSourceTrigger for PropertyChanged in Silverlight (Marlon Grech)
• Silverlight 4 Unleashed (Michael Crump)
• An RSS Reader For All Screens – Sharing your View Model and Code between Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, WPF, Surface (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Project templates for F# games on Windows Phone 7 using XNA (Joh)
• Silverlight: Reading from a File Contained in your XAP (Mike Snow)
• What I Learned In WP7 – #Issue 11 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Updated SMF Thumbnail Scrubbing Sample Code (Michael S. Scherotter)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #72: Starting to Look Like a Real Application (James Shore)
• Fantastic video on Software Engineering (Kris Gray)
• Bytes by MSDN: Dr. Ivan Sanabria and Tim Huckaby – Migrating VB6 apps to C# or .NET (MS Podcasts)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Meet Up – Tempe, AZ (Brian Seitz)

 

Database

• SSIS Multiple File Export (Jason Brimhall)
• SSMS Tools Pack 1.9.4 is out! Now with SQL Server 2011 (Denali) CTP1 support. (Mladen Prajdić)
• Filtered Index Vs. Indexed Views in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Running older compatibility levels in newer versions and Policy-Based Management for SQL Agent History (Ted Krueger)
• SSAS Understanding Multiple Security Roles (Devin Knight)
• Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements (Jason Strate)
• T-SQL: CASE Statement and RTFM365, Week 3 (Jen McCown)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Secure Store Service and Oracle (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lifehacker Pack for Windows Phone 7: Our List of the Best WP7 Apps (Kevin Purdy)
• Baking Social Into the Experience (Steve Clayton)
• Application to install on a new development machine–revisited (Dror Helper)
• Seasons gifts from the MonoTouch (iPhone) treasure chest. Background (GPS) tasks and UIControl (Peter van Ooijen)
• Reviewing a Decade of Digital Life – The size and the direction of personal media (Scott Hanselman)
• Hurry Up Microsoft, It’s Make or Break Time For The Zune (Steven Hodson)
• 4 Reasons Why Virtual Router is Superior to Connectify (Chris Pietschmann)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 28, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – December 29 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #759 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 12/29/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for December 27, 2010 — #1016 and SilverlightShow for 20-26 Dec 2010 and Silverlight Cream for December 28, 2010 — #1017 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 Unleashed by Laurent Bugnion