Dew Drop – June 10, 2011

Top Links

• Updated Silverlight Unit Test Framework binaries–compatible with the Mango phone tools beta (Jeff Wilcox)
• Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Part 9–New WP7 Features (Rob Eisenberg)
• Leveraging your Android development expertise to build Windows Phone applications (JC Cimetiere)
• Tile Notifications Made Easy (Jesse Liberty)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.2–Visual Guide of new features (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Neovolve ReSharper Plugins 2.0 released (Rory Primrose)
• Not able to view the IntelliTrace Navigation Bar in Visual Studio 2010 –Solution (Abhijit Jana)
• IQueryable Vs. IEnumerable in terms of LINQ to SQL queries (Pranay Rana)
• Filter Weekdays from a Date Range (Christian Nagel)

 

Web Development

• A few reading resources for securing your IIS server. and Numeric Up Down Input using the jQuery UI Spinner and ASP.NET User Input via the jQuery UI Slider (Joe Stagner)
• Rethinking Models in MVC (Jonathan Allen)
• HTML5 Snippets (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Tip: use JavaScript as a calculator in Firefox and Chrome (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Calling JavaScript functions in the Web Browser Control (Rick Strahl)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 8: UrlContext (Chad Myers)
• Want to Learn Canvas? You Need to Get this Book. (Rey Bango)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Start Unit Testing Successfully (Avi Kaye)
• Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program (Mike Walker)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Telerik, Windows Phone 7, Sterling, and Free Licenses (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 9 – Page State Management (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Track the sales/downloads of your Windows Phone 7 applications with Mopapp (Simone Chiaretta)
• Silverlight Animation – Bird Hunt (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight design: Silverlight 5 Overview (Surf4Fun)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Using roles in Windows Azure? (MS Podcasts)
• Mohsen Agsen – C++ Today and Tomorrow and TechEd NA 2011: Edge on Site – Jason Zander on ALM (Charles Torre)
• E3 2011: Major Nelson talks about cloud storage, beacon and games (Tina Wood)
• YUI Theater — Dav Glass: “YUI 3 and Node.js (Not Just For Web Pages) ” (51 min.) and YUI Theater — Jenny Donnelly: “Introduction to Git” (53 min.) (Jenny Donnelly)
• BlendSIG Podcast June 2011: Andy Beaulieu (Joel Cochran)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Mark Rowe Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Silverlight TV 76: Animations on Windows Phone in the Bird Hunt Game (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• Tech Ed Recap (Denny Cherry)
• Agile Practitioners Israel Group Announced (Roy Osherove)
• June Microsoft Developer Dinner (Glen Gordon)
• Microsoft Joins the Open Group as a Gold Member (Mike Walker)
• Watch Japan Developer MVPs in Action This Weekend (Lonnie Webb)
• Win a Windows Phone at a Windows Phone Garage event in South Carolina (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• Visual Studio Database Development with SQL Server "Juneau" (Jenni Ripley)
• SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transform (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A week in Sybase Training, what did I learn, day 4 (Denis Gobo)
• Database Table Documentation with a Data Dictionary (Andrew Zwicker)

 

SharePoint

• WebDAV slow with “Automatically detect settings” (Wesley Bakker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Thoughts and Speculation: Windows 8 Announcements (Bill Wagner)
• So what’s the big picture in your little part of the twitterverse…? Microsoft Analytics for Twitter (Greg Duncan)
• Bacon Ipsum (Jaime)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 3, Receiving IOCTLs (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Fool me once, shame on .NET fool me twice shame on Azure (Scott Barnes)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily News Digest 06/09/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #870 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News June 9th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2011 — #1103 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro WCF 4: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation by Nishith Pathak