Dew Drop – February 1, 2011

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Top Links

• Spark View Engine – Release v1.5 (CodePlex) – With MVC3 support.
• jQuery 1.5 Released (John Resig)
• Beware “the Meeting Guy” (Jim Holmes)
• Easier Debugging with ReSharper and the Clipboard (James Kovacs)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ to RSS (Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya)
• Controlling XML Serialization of Attributes (Richard Carr)
• Customizable Output Directories for TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
• New book: Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
• Reactive FlickR Searching… (Mike Taulty)
• Incorrect C++ compiler behavior in Visual Studio (Umair Saeed)
• Accessing the Toolbars Using the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hide Methods from debugger Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
• Now Available: January Update for The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
• 7 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 6: Loading Related Entities (Arthur Vickers)
• Looking at the code for the sort pages powertoy (John Guin)

 

Web Development

• Elegant Image Mouse-Overs with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• HTML5 and CSS3 for Web Designers (Joey deVilla)
• Where has XHTML gone? (Giorgio Sironi)
• Select a textbox’s text on focus using jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
• Mvc Controls Toolkit – Release v0.8 (CodePlex)
• ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framewok on NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
• Simple Offline Application (Remy Sharp)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Three simple Mercurial rules (Jimmy Bogard)
• Should the Product Owner Also Be the ScrumMaster? (Dan Puckett)
• Agile Chronicles #1: Stressful (Jesse Warden)
• [Tool Review] – Scrumy – Lightweight Scrum and Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• xUnit.net – Release v1.7 (CodePlex)
• Tales from QA: The “Re-Design” of the Dialog Box (Hadi Hariri)
• Cycle time—the soothsayer of productivity (Eric Brechner)
• HowTo: TeamCity & CodeCoverage with dotCover (Code Inside Team)
• Book review: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Image Button and All about Dependency Properties in Silverlight for WP7 and WP7 Dynamically Generating DataTemplate in code (Windows Phone Geek)
• 8 of 10 – Understanding Pivots and Panoramic view controls (Alfred Astort)
• Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF) (Colin Eberhardt)
• Silverlight Tutorials: Silverlight Basic – SpinningCube (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• Silverlight and Prism: Communication between two Views of the same Module using IEventAggregator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Review of ComponentOne Silverlight Controls (Free License Giveaway). (Michael Crump)
• Expression Encoder 4 with GPU acceleration (Silverlight Team)
• OData and Windows Phone 7 Part 2 (Mike Ormond)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Grant Skinner Develops Apps in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 138 – PowerScripting Podcast – Parind Shah from EqualLogic (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Spaghetti Code Podcast – January 2011 (Jeff Brand)
• Ping 90: Microsoft Flash Mob, Swag for Jailbreaker, Quarterback Histories on Bing, Karaoke! (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 43 – Cows in the Dark, Functional Programming and MMO design (Richard Banks)
• Pluralcast 35 : Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 3 – The Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Community / Events

• 24 Hours of PASS Sessions Announced (Jason Strate)
• East coast MVPs, we need your help at the west coast SQL Saturday’s. (Denny Cherry)
• People of Egypt We Hear You (Joel Oleson)
• Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 Innovative Education Forum (Don Burnett)
• Art of Agile Training Returns February 28th (James Shore)
• Announcing UI-Binders (Ariel Ben Horesh)

 

Database

• Merge Join component sorted outputs [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• 31 Days of SSIS – SSIS Naming Conventions (31/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types – Wait Type – Day 1 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Scaling MongoDB – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMNG (O’Reilly Media)
• Importance of monitoring a database mirroring session (Paul S. Randal)
• Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS (Abel Avram)

 

SharePoint

• RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step (rcaper1)
• Applying Quotas Across all My Sites (Bil Simser)

 

Miscellaneous

• VDI and PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Powershell to Automate SQL Compare (Grant Fritchey)
• Free Kindle Book of the Day “Beer is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing” (limited time offer) (Greg Duncan)
• Google Docs update brings Collections, Priority Sort, and file previews (Lee Mathews)
• MVPs for Office 365: Getting Ready for Office 365 (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Home Server Update Released (KB981089) (Richard Hay)
• Internet Explorer 9 Reaches 23 Million Downloads and 1.82% Share on Windows 7 (Roger Capriotti)
• Confessions now in Paperback (Scott Berkun)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 31, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 180 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 057 for 1/31/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 02/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #782 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Jan 31th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 31 January 2011 – #16 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server) by Grant Fritchey & Sajal Dam