March 2011 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – March 11, 2011

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Top Links

Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control (Colin Eberhardt)
Using HTML5 Web Storage for Interprocess Communication (Jeff Prosise)
Using NuGet without committing packages (David Ebbo)
.NET Reflector 7 Released (Paulo Morgado) – Winners in my Reflector contest have been selected and will be notified shortly.

.NET / Visual Studio

YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments and "Bart Simpson’s Guide to Windows Azure" [How can I beat that title?] (Greg Duncan)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: Tuples and Tuple Factory Methods and ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 (James Michael Hare)
Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
Uplevel NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
patterns & practices : Composite Services Guidance – CTP2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

Introducing formlets for jQueryUI (Joel Bjornson)
Revisiting Some (Old) Tags in HTML 5 (Kirupa)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes) (Abhishek Sur)
I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
Prism 4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation and Unity (Karl Shifflett)
All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage and All about Splash Screens in WP7 – Creating animated Splash Screen (Windows Phone Geek)
Creating gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design (Elliot Meacham)
Phone updates: process and timing (Eric Hautala)
Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
Not your regular photo and video camera on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Talkin’ C++ with Kate Gregory (Charles Torre)
Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics (John Papa)
Developers: a new kind of IDE arrives in Cloud9 (First look!) (Robert Scoble)
Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)

Community / Events

More FREE Windows Phone 7 training events (Rudi Grobler)
Do You Dig Design? Announcing the New UX Lightning Series at MIX11 (John Papa)
Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER! (Lindsay Lindstrom)
A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
What we wish we could show you about Microsoft TechFest (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Free Training: Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform, 4/20/2011 and Join us in Washington DC: Free One-Day Course on Parallelism, 3/25/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
WCF RIA Services Validation Webinar (Brian Noyes)
GitHub on LinkedIn (Chris Wanstrath)
Interview with SQL Server MVP Joe Webb (Brad M. McGehee)

Database

SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Finding Latch Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint: Create Dashboards with KPI, Scorecard and Report using Excel Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)
Dynamics CRM 2011 and SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

CodePlex: Pull Request Conversations, Inline Diff Enhancements (Matt Hawley)
Retro gaming on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
Safer and Faster Downloads in IE9 (Ritika Virmani,)
The problem with calling legacy/native apps from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #810 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 — #1058 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet

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Dew Drop – March 10, 2011

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Top Links

Recognition: It’s Cheap and Effective (Jim Holmes)
Using AutoCompleteBox in a Windows Phone Panorama or Pivot item (Jeff Wilcox)
Jounce Part 12: Providing History-Based Back Navigation (Jeremy Likness)
Go Try NuGet. Seriously. (Brendan Enrick)
CSLA 4 mono platform porting update (Rockford Lhotka)

.NET / Visual Studio

MonoDevelop & Teaching F# & QCon tutorial (Tomas P.)
How to use SelectMany with LINQ JOINS (Abhijit Jana)
Book Review: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments (Greg Duncan)
Creating a JavaScript Object as Name Value Pairs (Kathleen Dollard)
Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
Integrating Ruby and C# with RabbitMQ (Scott Banwart)
Using the New IntelliSense (Zain Naboulsi)
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 with support for SQL Server Compact 4.0 released (Erik EJ)
MEF addict [Combining .NET 4’s type embedding and MEF to enable a smooth upgrade story for applications and their extensions] (David Anson)
Unique Constraints in the Entity Framework (Faisal Mohamood & Kati Iceva)
References and Pointers, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
Microcontroller Projects and Source Code (Sharon J. Cichelli)
Custom DisposalScope activity and Calling a workflow service operation multiple times and WF content correlation and security (Rory Primrose)
Machine.Specifications (MSpec) 0.4 (Aaron Jensen)
Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++ (Ade Miller)
Getting Rid of Magic Strings in Entity Framework 4 Includes (Matt)

Web Development

"The Amazing <html>5doctor Easily Confused HTML5 Element Flowchart of Enlightenment!" or "The header, footer, aside, section, article, figure, div flowchart cheatsheet" (Greg Duncan)
Replacing the Ajax Contol Toolkit with jQuery – how do you want it ? and Dynamic Cascading Selection Lists for ASP.NET WebForms with jQuery. (Joe Stagner)
datajs formats for OData flavored with simplicity (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Put your cloud on a diet (or: Windows Azure and scaling: why?) and Windows Azure CDN updates (Maarten Balliauw)
Internet Explorer 9 Security Part 2: Protection from Socially Engineered Attacks (Ryan Colvin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile, Decoupled Security for Better Service Orientation (Francois Lascelles)
Agile and Fixed-Scope Projects – It Can Be Done! (Peter Saddington)
Book Review: Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools – Part 1 (Shrini Kulkarni)
The case for a makefile (Louis Salin)
Distributed Version Control: My reasons for using it (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

A highlighting AutoCompleteBox in Silverlight (Peter Kuhn)
MVVM in Android (xandytsui)
Another 7 for 7 – The Windows Phone 7 Ignition Kit presents Windows Phone 7 in 7 Steps (Greg Duncan)
Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
CodeProject article about Mole 2010 (Josh Smith)
Drawing in WP7: #3 Understanding Path shapes and All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage (Windows Phone Geek)
Mindscape Phone Elements Released (John-Daniel Trask)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad Makes Javascript Perform (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
IE9 RTW Due Date, A Big Thank You, MIX11, and a Unicorn Named Frank and Parallel Programming for C++ Developers: Tasks and Continuations, Part 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
Windows Client – LINQ Training Videos (20) and Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
Herding Code 107: Apple Subscription fees, Nokia, Reflector, Mono, Watson, CardSpace, and IE9 RC (Jon Galloway)
Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features (Scott Guthrie)
Building a SharePoint Development Machine Using the Easy Setup Script (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
TechFest 2011: Facial Recognition in Videos (Laura Foy)
endpoint.tv – Performance Testing with SO-Aware (Ron Jacobs)
Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)
Let’s Play TDD #93: Insanity Check (James Shore)

Community / Events

A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
Roanoke Code Camp 2011 is this Saturday! (G. Andrew Duthie)
DevConnections new "Fundamentals" Track! (Paul Sheriff)
Speaking of MSFT day-long workshops — "A day of GPU with Microsoft and NVIDIA" (Joe Hummel)
Would you like to learn more about MVVM? Check out DevReady with MVVM (John V. Petersen)

Database

SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 From Microsoft (Glenn Berry)
Why I don’t use SSIS checkpoint files (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Sharing your ETL Resources Across Applications with Ease (Pinal Dave)
PostgreSQL Extensions (Jeremiah Peschka)
SUM (T-SQL Tuesday #016) (grrlgeek)
Disaster recovery 101: fixing metadata corruption without a backup (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

Joli OS 1.2 adds file browser with Dropbox integration, public profiles (Lee Mathews)
Qlockwork 3.0 Launch! (Anne Currie)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – March 9 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily News Digest 03/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
7-Mar-2011 and 8-Mar-2011 and 9-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #809 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for March 09, 2011 — #1057 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News March 9th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 by Ted Pattison

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Dew Drop – March 9, 2011

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Top Links

NuGet Action Plan – Upgrade to 1.1, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Jason Zander)
WCF Data Services March 2011 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
Async Samples Part 1 (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

Use credential manager to use TFS shell extension in a workgroup or outside a domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
Support dynamic fields with NHibernate and .NET 4.0 (Oren Eini)
Visual Studio 2010 and HW acceleration on Windows XP… (Jeremy Alles)
Visual Studio Find in Files Overwhelmed With External JavaScript (Kathleen Dollard)
Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
Working with unmanaged and IDisposable resources in WF (Rory Primrose)
IronPython – Release: v2.7 RC2 (CodePlex)
New Book by Windows Azure MVP David Pallmann, "The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning", Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
Monad tutorial, part 2 (Brian Marick)
Windows Azure Use Case: Infrastructure Limits (Buck Woody)
"A Day of Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform" (Joe Hummel)

Web Development

Creating PDF Documents with ASP.NET and iTextSharp (Scott Mitchell)
ASP.NET Custom Repeater Control with EmptyTemplate, ShowHeaderWhenEmpty,ShowFooterWhenEmpty,ShowCount Properties (Abhijit Jana)
TextBox Input Watermark using jQuery and Is it the end for the AJAX Control Toolkit ? (Joe Stagner)
Comparing Hardware Accelerated SVG across Browsers with Santa’s Workshop (Seth McLaughlin)
Improving User Experience: Preload Images (Jan Lehmann)
datajs now available on NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban, System Archetypes and Limits to Success (Karl Scotland)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Spy (Giorgio Sironi)
How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010 ? (Abhijit Jana)
Unit Testing (Richard Carr)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coding Convensions (Dror Helper)
Productivity Tip: Dry Erase Markers and Mirrors (G. Andrew Duthie)
How Can I Make This More Testable? (Howard Dierking)
Lessons learnt from failure (Grigori Melnik)
At Microsoft, NUI goes beyond fun and games (Mary Jo Foley)
Testing conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Notification Control (Nigel Sampson)
XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 6 – Input (accelerometer) (Peter Kuhn)
Native Extensions further to blur the boundary between Silverlight and WPF (Jonathan Allen)
Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
Silverlight 4: SketchFlow for Prototyping UI using Expression Blend 4 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
ChainedPropertyObserver (Sacha Barber)
An Update on Windows Phone Marketplace; new tips, policies and regional access program (Todd Brix)
WP7 PerformanceProgressBar in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 142: Matt Casto on Offline Applications (David Giard)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #190: Rake: Learning to use Rake With MSBuild (Derik Whittaker)
Let’s Play TDD #92: InvalidDollars Gets an Icon (James Shore)
Hot Apps: Tiki Towers, Flickr, Bubblegum, Royalty, Word Tangle FREE and TechFest 2011: ShadowDraw and TechFest 2011: Mobile Photography- Capture, process and View (Laura Foy)
Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

SQLAuthority News – Stay Connected and Social Media (Pinal Dave)
The official Xbox PAX East Schedule (Larry Hyrb)
Get DevReady with MVVM (Dani Diaz)
The need for participation, compassion, & community in the classroom (and lecture hall) (Garr Reynolds)
Celebrating International Women’s Day (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Database

T-SQL Tuesday #016 – TOP N Percent for the group (Naomi)
Geek City: What gets logged for index rebuild operations? (Kalen Delaney)
Links to the Shard’s – Linking to Sharded SQL Azure Databases (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

Technical reference for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
SharePoint 2010 – Starter Taxonomies Now Available (Andrew Connell)
Create SQL Server Dashboard in SharePoint (Pravinkumar Dabade)
Just Published: Feb. 14-Mar. 7 | 2010 SharePoint Dev content (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching (Dirk Metzmacher)
Sale: Save 40 Percent on Books from Microsoft Press (Kim Spilker)
IE9 final release due next week, will you use it? (Kip Kniskern)
The & in Microsoft R&D (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #808 (Chris Alcock)
SilverlightShow for Feb 28 – March 06, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 — #1056 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News March 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily News Digest 03/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Community Curators, your one stop link shops (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth, Second Edition by Jon Skeet

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