Dew Drop – January 30, 2011

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Top Links

• Useful Value Converters (Nigel Sampson)
• Reactive Extensions–Observable Sequences are First Class Objects (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing RouteMagic (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Safe IO on the Xbox 360 in F# (Johann Deneux)
• AXUM + Belief Propagation = Cool Possibilities (Don Burnett)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 5: Working with Property Values (Arthur Vickers)
• Introducing DirectCanvas (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Entity framework support for table valued functions and thus full text (Simon Sabin)
• Use “Obsolete” attributes to indicate Obsolete Methods (Abhijit Jana)
• Internals of Exception Handling (Abhishek Sur)

 

Web Development

• Create nice animation on your ASP.NET Menu control using jQuery (Hajan Selmani)
• Changing an HTML Form’s Target with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
• ViewBag does not exist in current context (Steve Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The 12 Key Reasons Companies Adopt Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Getting Things Done with Backpack and 37Signals (Michael Kennedy)
• Big Software Rewrites (Ray Houston)
• Two versions of being practical… (Shrini Kulkarni)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• GPS Emulator for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Charting in a Silverlight Application using MVVM and Missing Chart Legend (Deborah Kurata)

 

Community / Events

• POPL 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• 7 Things You Need to Know to Drive User Adoption of SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• Free Mix11 Windows Phone 7 app now available (Greg Duncan)

 

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Exporting Execution Plans (29/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – SEQUENCE is not IDENTITY (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Fetching lists from SharePoint 2010 site using client object model (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – January 30, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 17 – Agile Sucks, Giveaway, and Denouncing Your CSM (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 29 January 2011 – #14 and Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 30 January 2011 – #15 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Jan 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET MVC, Sharepoint, Silverlight, Expression Web and .NET Articles in January 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro .NET 4 Parallel Programming in C# (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Adam Freeman