After nearly 7.5 years, today is my last day as a FTE at Allscripts (formerly Eclipsys). Best of luck to all my teammates in Malvern, Vancouver, Pune and remote! I start a new adventure on Monday.
The Morning Dew may some some more downtime this week while I enjoy some time off with my family.
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Top Links
- Another source for LINQ extensions (Jimmy Bogard)
- Take NuGet to the next level with sample packages (David Ebbo)
- Visual Studio 2010 enhancements (Somasegar)
- Windows Phone 7: Tombstone Frustration (Nick Randolph)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
- Duplicate queries in tfs between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Available March 8th for MSDN Subscribers, general availability March 10th (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Sharing port between WCF Services in netTcpBinding (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Extending TFS’s Extensible Source Control Explorer – TFSSCExplorerExtension (Team Foundation Server Source Control Explorer VS 2010 Extension) (Greg Duncan)
- No More 250 Users Limitation In Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (Shai Raiten)
- Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
- NOW AVAILABLE: February 2011 Update of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
- Parsing Tokens with Extension Methods and Programmatically Resizing an Image (Jonathan Wood)
- When is Code First not code first? (Arthur Vickers)
- References and Pointers, Part One (Eric Lippert)
Web Development
- New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4 (Devon Musgrave)
- HTML5 Cheat Sheet (Frank La Vigne)
- ASP.NET WebForms Dynamically Selecting MasterPages (Joe Stagner)
- Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010, Third Edition (Tom Jensen)
- Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 1: Enhanced Memory Protections (Eric Lawrence)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- TDD/BDD and the lean startup (Ian Cooper)
- Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part I: How I started to use Scrum (Stephen Forte)
- The [Iteration] is Dead (Peter Saddington)
- A few tips for being a more effective solo developer (Rachel Appel
)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- MVVM For Silverlight/WP7- the Refcard… and Building Custom Gauges for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Apps at Warp Speed (Greg Duncan)
- Silverlight Unit Test For Phone (Jesse Liberty)
- Charles Petzold on Programming Windows Phone 7 (Julie Lerman)
- Accessing SharePoint UserProfileService from Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight Team)
- Drawing in WP7: #1 Getting Started and Line Shape and Drawing in WP7: #2 Drawing shapes with finger (Windows Phone Geek)
- Taking a look at the Mindscape Phone Elements for WP7. (Michael Crump)
- IE on Windows Phone 7 – some supported URI schemes (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Handling WP7 orientation changes via Visual States (András Velvárt)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Mark Miller and Seth Juarez Go Mad with Kinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Pluralcast 37 : HTML 5 with Craig Shoemaker (David Starr)
- Ping 93: Kinect plays with Windows Phone, Gamertags revived, Live Mesh, HTML5 Contest (Laura Foy)
- Countdown to MIX11: Open Source Fest-a-Palooza (Larry Larsen)
- Windows Forms Training Videos (114) and Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)
- Distributed Podcast Episode 5: CQRS EventStore – Best Framework/Library Ever! (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
Community / Events
- GDC 2011 (Miguel de Icaza)
- Events This Week – March 7th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- 30 Projects and Counting Will be at Open Source Fest at MIX11 (John Papa)
- New England GiveCamp 2011 (Jim O’Neil)
- Thoughts (on Windows Phone 7) from the MVP Summit (Chris Williams)
- JetBrains night at Bristol .NET User Group (Hadi Hariri)
Database
- SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 4 (Brian K. McDonald)
- Migrate a SQL Server Compact database to SQL Server using Web Deploy (MSdeploy) (Erik EJ)
- The Three C’s Of Interviewing (Joe Webb)
- Column-based Storage in SQL Server 2011 (Jonathan Allen)
- Repair SQL Server Database marked as Suspect or Corrupted (Madhivanan)
- SSRS: My Filter is not Working!!! (Patrick LeBlanc)
- SQL SERVER – Difference between COUNT(DISTINCT) vs COUNT(ALL) (Pinal Dave)
- T-SQL Tuesday #016 Grouping Market Data With T-SQL (Denis Gobo)
- Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default (Andy Warren)
- T-SQL Tuesday #016 – Summarizing data using GROUPING SETS() (Jacob Sebastian)
- XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates (Jason Strate)
- T-SQL Tuesday #016 – COUNT and DELETE duplicates (Ted Krueger)
SharePoint
- MVPs for Office 365: Organize Your Information Better in SharePoint Online Office 365 with Managed Metadata (Lonnie Webb)
- Social Squared Ideas–Installation Guide and Social Squared Ideas–Getting Started (Lightning Tools)
Miscellaneous
- MSDN Library Home Adds Quick Links (JD Meier)
- A treeview control for OneNote 2007 (John Guin)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Weekly Link Post 184 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup 062 for 3/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight Cream for March 07, 2011 — #1055 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 7th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- The Morning Brew #807 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 03/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework by Julia Lerman |