Dew Drop – January 26, 2011

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Top Links

• Using the Location Service in Silverlight for Windows Phone (Jeff Prosise)
• Creating HTML5 Offline Web Applications with ASP.NET (Stephen Walther)
• Mixing Razor Views and WebForms Master Pages with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide from Microsoft Patterns and Practices (Joey deVilla)
• Using the Camera in Windows Phone 7 (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding and Resolving Namespaces using Shortcut key in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Controlling Serialization of XML Elements (Richard Carr)
• Replacing Text with a Box Selection vstipEdit0006 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Call a Method Asynchronously in .NET using Polling Pattern and Callback Pattern (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Bootstrapping The .NET Framework Without An MSI Installer (Derick Bailey)
• Git tooling for .NET developers (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• How to make all non-virtual members virtual (Daniel Cazzulino)
• .NET/Mono: IArithmetic on Primitives (Zor)
• Office 2010: Developer Map Poster (MS Downloads)
• Adding SortedMerge to Elevate (Bill Wagner)
• Tagging assemblies with Mercurial changeset hash (Jimmy Bogard)
• Devart Releases New Entity Framework Provider (EF Team)
• Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action (Gil Fink)

 

Web Development

• jQuery DateRange Picker (Karl Seguin)
• A New Web for .NET: WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
• How to make ViewState secure in ASP.NET ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Basic JavaScript Part 8: Namespaces (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• jQuery ASP.Net MVC Controls – Release: v1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• 10 things you should think about with HTML 5 (Joe Stagner)
• Recommended: “Introducing HTML5” (Joey deVilla)
• ASP.NET MVC Unit Testing with UpdateModel and TryUpdateModel (Mike Ceranski)
• BlueGriffon: a cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML5 and CSS3 editor based on Firefox 4 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Optimising ASP.NET Performance (Simon Ince)
• Windows Azure Use Case: Agility (Buck Woody)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum + Technical practices = XP ? (Allan Kelly)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: State Verification (Giorgio Sironi)
• Microsoft is Imagining a NUI future (Steve Clayton)
• Project Managers are Killing the Profession – What to do? (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM Frameworks with WP7 support and Reading barcodes from your WP7 device and Taking Sterling for a Test-Drive and Mahhala – FluidKit and Mahhala – Fluent Ribbon Control Suite and Mahhala – Bag o’ Tricks and Mahhala – WPF NotifyIcon (Rudi Grobler)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 2 – Text rendering (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7 Tip: How to correctly handle smart quotes in WebBrowser control (Simone Chiaretta)
• Launchers & Choosers–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Update VisualState From ViewModel (Gagan Kapoor)
• A Navigator Control For Visiblox Time Series Charts (Colin Eberhardt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stephen Toub is more Parallel than Ever (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 103: Seb Lambla on OpenEverything (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Project Emporia on Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• My interview on .NET Mania (Stephen Forte)
• Let’s Play TDD #80: Focus Lost (James Shore)
• Free Windows Azure Training on Zune & iTunes (Wes Yanaga)
• VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Razor Syntax and VIDEO – Microsoft WebMatrix – Templating Features (Joe Stagner)
• Coding4Fun On Channel9! (Clint Rutkas)
• “Azure for CS101” videos and course material from the Microsoft Faculty Connection (Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• Join Online for SharePoint 2010 FireStarter Developer Event Jan 27 (Bruce Kyle)
• HTML5, Silverlight, Windows Phone – MIX 2011 Registration Open (Doug Holland)
• HTML5, Silverlight sessions face off at Microsoft Mix ’11 conference (Mary Jo Foley)
• Mix Open Call Submission (Rob Eisenberg)
• Chapters and Seasons (Steve Andrews)
• South Florida Code Camp. Feb 12th 2011 (Jason Rainwater)
• TechDays 2011: Early bird extended and first confirmed speakers (Katrien de Graeve)
• Save on MIX11 – Register by Feb 11 (Silverlight Show)

 

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – One Package, Unlimited Tables (25/31) (Jason Strate)
• Getting Started With Consulting Webcast Recording Now Available (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Reducing Page Contention on TempDB (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Cluster resource doesn’t come online | Service control: stop before startup (Pradeep Adiga)
• Awesome line up for SQLBits 8 (Simon Sabin)
• DENALI: Server Memory Change event class bug fix (Sankar Reddy)

 

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Creating Custom SharePoint Server 2010 Document Sets with Visual Studio 2010 and ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Customizing and Extending the SharePoint 2010 Server Ribbon (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011 (Alan Eustace)
• Windows 7 and SSDs: Setup secrets and tune-up tweaks (Ed Bott)
• Update: Effectively Protecting Consumers from Online Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
• History of Microsoft [Inforgraphic] (Imran Hussain)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #778 (Chris Alcock)
• Recent SharePoint Developer Content (Mary Lee)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 25 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for January 25, 2011 — #1035 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans