Dew Drop – March 28, 2011

Top Links

• XNA is coming to Visual Basic! (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Dual’ing Windows Phone 7 Emulators – Setting up your environment to deploy and debug in multiple WP7 emulators (Greg Duncan)
• Improved HTML Copy in the latest Productivity Power Tools (Kirill Osenkov)
• Jounce Part 14: Using MEF for Non-Shared Views and View Models (Jeremy Likness)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio – Open a file into two tabs (Arian Kulp)
• Assembly Information (Richard Carr)
• Package Management for .NET developer: NuGet (Code Inside Team)
• Test Driving NHibernate 3.0, LINQ and the Entity Framework CTP 5 with the Abstract Factory Design Pattern (Mark J. Caplin)
• Multiple Line Editing in Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• A Nuget Packaging Dilemma (Davy Brion)
• Improving CLRProfiler 4: Reducing SampleObject memory consumption by 58% (Feng Yuan)
• CSLA 4 version 4.2 alpha release and CSLA .NET and Windows Azure (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Web Development

• Rounding Corners using CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Three new Action Result Type in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Making Web Apps Sizzle with Bing Maps and HTML5’s Geolocation API (Jeff Prosise)
• Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler and ASP.NET Routing not working on IIS 7.0 (Rick Strahl)
• WebSharper 2.1 Professional RC2 released (Adam Granicz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing dependency injection pattern in .NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Building An Awesome Organization – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test-Specific Subclass (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MVVM# Episode 1 and MVVM# Episode 2 and MVVM# Episode 3 and MVVM# Episode 4 (Maxxx)
• Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App (Cameron Skinner)
• Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations (Colin Eberhardt)
• Metro Inspiration–Designing Better Looking Apps for Windows Phone 7 (Bil Simser)
• The real Windows Phone problem is with AT&T, not Microsoft (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft’s Belfiore sorry for appearing insensitive with Windows Phone statements (Steven Hodson)
• ListBox Paging in Silverlight 4 using DataPager control (Suprotim Agarwal)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save XML files using XmlSerializer and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save XML files using XmlWriter (Windows Phone Geek)
• Application Bar Buttons Are Null (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 66: Getting a lesson about Technical Debt from Gary Short (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 392: Crysis 2, Shift 2, ME2 Game add on, Bulletstorm and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Technology & Friends – Episode 147: Brent Stineman on Azure Design Patterns (David Giard)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 49 – David Starr on BDD (Richard Banks)
• Chatting with the Kinect Team’s Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 201: The Kids’ll Love It! (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 009 – “Delay YOU, Delay ME, Delay it TOGETHER” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

 

Community / Events

• Monads! European Virtual ALT.NET Tuesday 29th March (Mike Hadlow)
• Win amazing prizes by building a great WP7 app (Luke)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Count based on Condition and SQL Server: Delete Backup History to reduce MSDB database size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 32 Bit – 64 Bit – HTML5 – Database Backup Restore and SQL SERVER – Denali – Improvement in Startup Options (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Ruby Syntax Highlighting Within The Console With Wirble And The RVM (Dan Watson)
• Get Started Developing For Android With Eclipse, Reloaded (Chris Blunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 27, 2011 — #1066 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #821 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #146 (David Vidmar)

 

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck