Dew Drop – January 25, 2011

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Top Links

• Using MEF to link view model locator and load assembly UIs dynamically (Rick Ratayczak)
• CodePlex: MVVM Light Toolkit – Release v3 SP1 (3) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Where Enterprise Architecture and Project Management Intersect (Bob McIlree)
• Database Deployment with the VS 2010 Package/Publish Database Tool (Rachel Appel)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to suppress compiler warning using #pragma warning directives in Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Linqer – a nice tool for SQL to LINQ transition (Hajan Selmani)
• What to do when your Netduino locks up and Visual Studio won’t deploy to it (Pete Brown)
• Show All Settings with Web Development and Zero-Length Box Selection Video vstipEdit0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Password Generator – Release v2.2 (CodePlex)
• 14 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (Team XNA)
• Autofac 2.4 is here – come and “NuGet” it! (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• .NET 4 Coming to Server Core (Bruce Kyle)
• Using Dynamic Data with EF Code First and NuGet (David Ebbo)
• The Entity Framework DZone Refcard and FreeImage 3.15 out today… (Greg Duncan)
• Using a ToDo list more effectively (Hadi Hariri)
• Installing Nuget package with package manager console step by step overview. (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Spot the defect: Bad comparisons, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Code Issues – Try statement without catch or finally (Alex Skorkin)

 

Web Development

• Prefixing Input Elements Of Partial Views With ASP.NET MVC (Davy Brion)
• HTML5 Wish List for 2011: Interview with Michael Mullany (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
• ASP.NET MVC: Fun With Routes (Jeremiah Clark)
• Using the Dojo Toolkit with Microsoft’s WCF (SitePen)
• Dependency Injection in MVC 3–with Views (John V. Petersen)
• Excerpt from upcoming title: Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 4 (Kim Spilker)
• And now instead, 5 things Java envies PHP for (Giorgio Sironi)
• My Blog is Now Running on Ruby in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Drupal 7 and New Support for Microsoft Technologies (Joe Stagner)
• Treeble with YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Myths of Kanban (Dan Puckett)
• Asynchronous Control Updates In C#/.NET/WinForms (Derick Bailey)
• Functional Style BDD Step Definitions (Phillip Trelford)
• A good coach seeks first to understand (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• The Language Divide (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How we systemically apply filters to our data access and A quick follow up about data restrictions (Joshua Flanagan)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• AutoComplete TextBox with WPF (Christian Nagel)
• Loading Data when the User Scrolls to the End of a List in Windows Phone 7 (Daniel Vaughan)
• Tasks: Launchers and Choosers–Windows Phone From Scratch #22 (Jesse Liberty)
• Integrating RadMap for Silverlight in ASP.NET – by @telerik (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Integrating HTML into Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• $10,000 for your Windows Phone 7 app (Andrew Spooner)
• Making of – The first version of the presentation layer for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• “Create a Whimsical Animated Silverlight Background” (Mike Taulty)
• Developer Guidance – Onboarding Windows Phone 7 – Release: Fuel Tracker Source (CodePlex)
• WP7 TimeSpanPicker in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 137 – PowerScripting Podcast – Adam Driscoll from Quest on the New vWorkspace PowerShell Module (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Designer 2010 and the SharePoint Community-Episode 55 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Silverlight Training Course (Silverlight 4) – by @Ch9 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 Minute Show Episode 7: Diagnostics (Richard Hay)
• Ping 89: OneNote on iPhone, Kinect Helicopter & Operation, Speller Contest, Atlanta (Laura Foy)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 3: Messaging (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• VIDEO SERIES – Microsoft WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – January 24th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Philly Tech Week now live, be a sponsor or event organizer today (Technically Philly)
• Philly Code Camp 2011.1 – Sponsors (Nick Berardi)
• My proposals for the #MIX11 open call (Laurent Bugnion)
• MIX11 BootCamps (Chris Koenig)
• A Note from Microsoft’s own Jennifer Marsman (Don Burnett)
• MIX11 Open Call Voting Started (Gil Fink)
• Coffee and Code at Cloud: Wednesday, January 26th (Joey deVilla)

 

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Databases (24/31) (Jason Strate)
• Keeping Perspective: What Are You Building? (Joe Webb)
• SQL Server: Export Table to CSV (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Clipboard Ring – CTRL+SHIFT+V (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft SQL Server Licensing For Dummies.. (Robert Pearl)
• Backup file contents with SSIS – Defining the Design and Backup file contents with SSIS – Foreach Loop Container and file handling (Ted Krueger)
• SQL for Developers: Data Crunching (Tim Corey)
• Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition (Kendra Little)
• RTFM365, Week 7 (Jen McCown)

 

Miscellaneous

• Packtpub Microsoft Monday (Alec Whittington)
• Cursors in Powershell (Martin Bell)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #Android – $17.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDPAE (O’Reilly Media)
• Print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print (Tyler Odean)
• Manual Memory Management in Objective-C (Umair Saeed)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 056 for 1/24/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #777 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 24, 2011 — #1034 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream top picks for January 17-23, 2011 and Daily News Digest 01/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 24 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

The Geek Shelf

Non-Designer’s Design Book, The (3rd Edition) [Paperback] by Robin Williams (Author)