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.NET / Visual Studio

Beyond the Monad fashion (II.): Creating web forms with LINQ (Tomas P.)
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010 (Shai Raiten)
Defining .NET Components with Namespaces (Patrick Smacchia)
CodeRush Pro clipboard tools overview (Alex Skorkin)
To box or not to box, that is the question (Eric Lippert)
Internals of Events (Abhishek Sur)
Introducing .Net Perf Timing. A FREE timing profiler for .Net (.NET Perf Team)

Web Development

Creating Custom HTML Helpers in ASP.NET MVC (Abhijit Jana)
Cascading DropDown with jQuery – WebMatrix Version (Joe Stagner)
How data annotations for ASP.NET MVC validation work (Rachel Appel)
Why WebGL and node.js (and websockets) are important (Rob Ashton)
WebSockets Release Interoperates with Firefox, Eclipse’s Jetty (Joe Stagner)
Secret Agent Man (Bil Simser)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Everybody is an architect, except when they’re not (Simon Brown)
6 Tips for Turbocharging Your Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
Effective Tests: A Unit Test Example (Derek Greer)
The Perfect ScrumMaster Job Description (Peter Saddington)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Mock Object (Giorgio Sironi)
Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part II: Scrum, but (Stephen Forte)
A Great Process is Continuously Evolving (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF Themes now available on NuGet and Making the ApplicationBar bindable (Rudi Grobler)
All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Files and Folders (Windows Phone Geek)
Air Hockey for Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
A Silverlight Resizable TextBlock (and other resizable things) (Colin Eberhardt)
From Android to Windows Phone (Jesse Liberty)
MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Quick Tips (Lonnie Webb)
Dan Wahlin on Understanding the Role of Commanding in Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
Golf Tracker and DailyAwesome – New WP7 tutorials on the Toolbox Site (Adam Kinney)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes on 9 – Digging into Entity Framework 4 Code First (Magic Unicorn Edition) (Scott Hanselman)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 47 – Task Army on Rails with Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli (Richard Banks)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 007 – “NoDon’t Make Me Wait” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Ping 94: Charlie Sheen & Microsoft, Killing IE6, Outlook tone checker, Fan Love for WP7 (Laura Foy)
Technology & Friends Episode 143: Tiberiu Covaci on Parallel Computing (David Giard)
Coding QA Episode 52 – Testing – Done Differently (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)

Community / Events

Announcing: DevReady with MVVM; Coming to NYC! (Rachel Appel)
Speech manager blends art and technology to share Microsoft’s future computing vision (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Calling West Midlands WP7 Enthusiasts! (Andy Wigley)
Why to Join a Software Craftsmanship Group (Brendan Enrick)

Database

Have SSIS’ differing type systems ever caused you problems? (Jamie Thomson)
SSRS: Shared DataSet, Not So Shared!!! (Patrick LeBlanc)
SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Architecting Data Warehouse – Niraj Bhatt (Pinal Dave)
Restore and Relocate Database Files Using PowerShell (Chad Miller)
Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions (Gethyn Ellis)
Ever had poor performance saving files in SSMS over slow network? (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

WebM Plugin for Internet Explorer 9 (Alex Chitu)
Windows PC vs. Xbox: Which gets the starring role in Microsoft’s living room hub of the future? (Mary Jo Foley)
Figuring out why my SVCHOST.EXE is at 100% CPU without complicated tools in Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)

The Geek Shelf

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

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Dew Drop – March 13, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

A LINQ Style Median Operator (Richard Carr)
NHibernate Profiler update: Client Profile & NHibernate 3.x updates (Oren Eini)
Manipulating LINQ To SQL command text (Chris Cavanagh)
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Maor David-Pur)
Using CSLA 4: Data Access draft available (Rockford Lhotka)
Android Emulator – Increasing Performance Suggestions for MonoDroid and The Android Emulator Keyboard (Wally McClure)
New NServiceBus Feature: 32-bit (x86) Host Process (Jonathan Oliver)
EFProf First Look: profiling a DevForce SL app (Ward Bell)
BusinessFailureScope activity with deep nested support (Rory Primrose)
Internals to .NET (Abhishek Sur)
Find your DataContext (Bob Bartholomay)
Saving your API key with nuget.exe (David Ebbo)

Web Development

Referencing HTML Elements via JavaScript (Kirupa)
Change TextBox Style when DropdownList value Change in ASP.NET using jQuery and TextBox and Textarea Style Change on Focus using jQuery (Abhijit Jana)
My FubuMVC, StructureMap, and StoryTeller Plans (Jeremy Miller)
ASP.NET Accordions with jQueryUI (Joe Stagner)
Using jQuery with ASP.NET Master Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
Sueetie Celebrates Turning 3.1 (Dave Burke)
How to find your location inside Internet Explorer 9 (Don Burnett)
Keeping WebSockets alive (Jef Claes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Automation Is Also For Developers (Shai Raiten)
NUnit Testing Framework (Richard Carr)
Programmers make Excellent Testers – Arguments and Counter Arguments (Shrini Kulkarni)
Random Thoughts on Good Programmers and Good Code (Jay Fields)
Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration (Chris Missal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhijit Jana)
Creating a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Splash Screen (Michael Wolf)
Deal with Performance in WPF applications (Abhishek Sur)
Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Service Account in new Silverlight based Azure Portal and Binding XML File to Data Grid in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
WPF LiveLessons code demos (Jason Rainwater)
Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Building a CoverFlow visualization using Quartz Composer (Pavan Podila)
Jounce Part 13: Navigation Parameters (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Major Nelson Podcast Show 390: Pax East – Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning and Show 391: The PAX East Show (Larry Hyrb)
Windows Phone Radio 21 (Brian Seitz)
GDC 2011 – a quick overview! (Tina Wood)
Monad tutorial, part 3 (Brian Marick)
TWC9: Recap of VS 2010 SP1, IE9 RTW set for Mar 14, Hack your house & cockroaches (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
Windows Weekly 199: I Feel Funny In My Pants (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

Webinar – Neudesic’s Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Senthil Kumar)
Free Parallel Programming Workshops Coming to DC (Frank La Vigne)
SVG Open 2011: Where SVG meets the Web (Patrick Dengler)

Database

SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 and SQL SERVER – Pending IO request in SQL Server – DMV (Pinal Dave)
SQL Auto Converts True or False to a bit (Andy Lohn)
A Small Collection of SQL Azure Queries (Glenn Berry)
Ever had poor performance saving files in SSMS over slow network? (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

Coding envy? Pex4fun on your WP7 phone (Jonathan de Halleux)
ETL and Building Intelligence Behind Semantic Search (Lynda Moulton)
More Deep Dive Info, Including Abstracts from the PowerShell Team (Travis Jones)
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hits 10,000 Apps (Richard Hay)

The Geek Shelf

The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Best Practices) by Marc McDonald

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