Dew Drop – May 4, 2011

Top Links

• Anders Hejlsberg: Questions and Answers (Charles Torre)
• MassTransit 2.0 Beta – Boo Yeah! (Dru Sellers)
• The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ (Bart de Smet)
• Next Steps in 2011 (John Resig)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Extensibility – Message Formatters (Carlos Figueira)
• Visual Studio go faster! Faster!… (Well okay, maybe just phone home and tell Microsoft you’re feeling a little slow…) – Visual Studio PerfWatson and NTrace v2 now available (think Managed VS2010/.Net 4 Event Tracing for Windows) (Greg Duncan)
• MassTransit v2.0 Beta Available Now on NuGet! (Chris Patterson)
• XNA Game resources: Free sounds and music to use in your games (Sam)
• Back to basics: Usage of static members (Patrick Smacchia)
• Not Just a Designer: Code First in Entity Framework Article on VS Magazine (Gil Fink)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Server Explorer: Part 3 – Plug-in Architecture (Fred Song)
• Resource management in Javascript based games (Rob Ashton)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – WebSockets (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Using CSS3: Older Browsers And Common Considerations (Dave Sparks)
• Good introduction to FubuMVC from the Two Ryan’s (Jeremy Miller)
• jQuery.map() in 1.6 (Jordan Boesch)
• Classical inheritance in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• Introduction to Complex UIs Using jQuery UI (Ralph Whitbeck)
• WordPress auto sign-on with IIS7 and a plugin (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Best Windows Hosting Offers (including plenty of free stuff) (Andy Robb)
• Geospatial data support in OData (Arlo Belshee)
• Project Silk Drop 8 (Karl Shifflett)
• Deleting “Flash Cookies” Made Easier (Andy Zeigler)
• What we’re up to with datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article:Agile at 10 – A State of Contradiction (Mike Beedle)
• 10 Tips for Agile Adoption in the Enterprise (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Stored Procedure Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• A minimal actor framework (Oren Eini)
• Getting things done daily (Hadi Hariri)
• Trust, Honesty, Openness, Cooperation and Friction-free Tooling (Jak Charlton)
• Are You Making Time for Your Team to Innovate? (Georgina Laidlaw)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 PasswordBox Light theme problems – the solution (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trick Play Video (Mike Taulty)
• Introducing Runtime Intelligence Portal 2.0 (Brandon Siegel)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Uploading Data back to Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• Event to Command in WPF MVVM application (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Supporting copy ‘n paste in your Windows Phone app (Daniel Moth)
• Silverlight/WCF RIA Validation: Metadata Class (Deborah Kurata)
• Silverlight 4 and Prism: Communication between Two Views of Different Modules using IEventAggregator (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Blending the WebBrowser Control with your App (Mike Ormond)
• Windows Phone 7 Social Viewer Template v2 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Make your own Angry Birds for WP7 (Jo De Greef)
• Metro In Motion Part #4 – Tilt Effect (Colin Eberhardt)
• Jeremy Likness on Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Silverlight Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chatting with the Imagine Cup Winners! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Ping 99: Kinect sets a world record, Ribbon Hero 2, Location history on Windows Phone, Anti-Bullying (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #33–Mobile Game Development (Jesse Liberty)
• Worldwide Telescope – Kinect Style (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Free 1 Day HTML5 Training Available| Register Now (Doris Chen)
• Indianapolis TFS & ALM User Group Presents–Visual Studio 2010 Test Manager on June 1st (Angela Binkowski)
• Windows Phone Garage–May 9th and New England Code Camp 15–This Weekend! and Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter (Jim O’Neil)
• Joel Cochran Speaking at RockNUG (Frank La Vigne)
• Scott Guthrie Will Head Azure Development, Remains Connected with .NET & ASP.NET (Abel Avram)

 

Database

• SQL Server DBA Tip 6 – Server Security – Windows Authentication / SQL Authentication and Compressing Data with Uniqueidentifier columns (Ted Krueger)
• Iterating Over Columns in the SSIS Script Component (Todd McDermid)
• TRIGGERS, IDENTITY, INSERTED and OUTPUT (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• URL Shortener – These SharePoint URLs are LONG! (Joel Oleson)
• Using LINQ-to-SharePoint with Choice Fields (Ricky Kirkham)
• Deploying a BCS Model to another Environment (Phill Duffy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Issues updating to 7392 (“Walshed” phones) and What’s in your 7392 Windows Phone Update (Chris Walsh)
• WP7: Latest update news (Eric Hautala)
• Another one is "In the books" – Professional Mono for Android is now AR complete (Wally McClure)
• Dealing with Now and why I’m almost done with C# and Java (Karl Seguin)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 192 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily News Digest 05/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 2-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #844 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2011 — #1082 and Silverlight Cream for May 03, 2011 -2 — #1083 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 3rd 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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