Dew Drop – June 14, 2011

Top Links

• Debugger Canvas on DevLabs (Somasegar)
• 3-Day Test Driven Development with Uncle Bob Martin in Philadelphia (EventBrite)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 2 (Michael Kennedy)
• ReSharper 6.0 Beta Available (Hadi Hariri)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Common Table Expressions (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating Windows Services, visually (well using the Component Designer and Visual Studio Windows Service template anyway) and MFCMAPI – Articles-a-pluza! (Greg Duncan)
• Linq to NHibernate – String.Equals with StringComparison option (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column (Pranay Rana)
• TFS API Part 38 – Create Label (Shai Raiten)
• RSA private key import from PEM format in C# (Tamir Khason)
• A nice, basic log4net setup (Andreas Hammar)
• Appending to a Windows Azure Block Blob (Steve Marx)
• Implementation of a Message Broker on BizTalk (Steinar Moen)
• Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• Web Role Instances recreated, repaired while deploying MVC 3 Applications on Windows Azure (Harish Ranganathan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Classic Computer Science in JavaScript (Rey Bango)
• MiniProfiler: Lightweight profiler for ASP.NET web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Five little known files to help improve your web site (Greg Duncan)
• Certificates in Windows Azure (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier – Release: v4.22 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Principles (Avi Kaye)
• Is Agile Doomed? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Book Review: The Clean Coder by Uncle Bob Martin (Cory Foy)
• Balsamiq New Release: Partial PNG Export and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Mocking Generator Methods (Michael Foord)
• Visio 2010 WBS Modeler (MS Downloads)
• Questioning Team Accountability (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Parkinson’s Law and Iteration Zero (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the Title in the Tile Icon of a Windows Phone 7 Application (Jayson Gaylord)
• 10 Silverlight 5 Demos (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Competitions (Rudi Grobler)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Recommendations and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF ListBox as Bar Chart (Christian Nagel)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 2) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 12 – Using Isolated Storage to Store and Retrieve Data (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone applications (Pam)
• Off-thread decoding of images on Mango, how it impacts your application ? (SL WP Perf Team)
• Panorama Template (Alex Knight)
• ShellToast on Windows Phone – when HTTP push is just too much (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Kumiyo Nakakoji (Charles Torre)
• Episode 149 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Access Control Services (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Check Out New Windows Azure Jump Start Video Series (Windows Azure Team)
• Pluralcast 44 : Joe Hummel on High Performance Computing (David Starr)
• Let’s Play TDD #114: Icon Challenges (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ Idera July 15, 2011 – Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
• Philly Nerd Nite Summer Update (Michelle & Melissa)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ’11 (Scott Berkun)
• Microsoft Gamefest 2011 – Seattle, WA August 22-23, London, England July 14-15, and Tokyo July 29! (Doug Holland)
• Upcoming Events for June 13th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New York City F# Meetup Group, June 16, Chris Marinos – Getting Your Func(tional) on with F# (Don Syme)

 

Database

• Time to start thinking about, and providing feedback on, what you’ll need to upgrade to Denali (aka next version of SQL Server) (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Error (James Serra)
• SQL Server Instant File Initialization (PQW) (John Sansom)
• SSAS – Understanding KeyColumns Dimension Property (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Watch Online and Download – Inside of Next Generation SQL Server – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer and SQLAuthority News – BI Quiz Question – How to Optimize Cube? – Hints (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Migration Wizard (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Saving Table Space (Quick And Dirty) (David Forck)
• Using Catalog Views – sys.sql_expression_dependencies (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Practical SharePoint Governance for Everyone (Deb Sorenson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Eloquent Ruby (Dan Watson)
• Windows 7 on a Mac: my Boot Camp survival guide (Ed Bott)
• 11 things Microsoft did right in fiscal 2011 (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft files trademark for Kinect-like ad tech (John Callaham)
• Tip: Disabling spell check underlining in the OneNote Web Client (John Guin)
• New! Microsoft Press eReference Library Hosted by Safari Books Online (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDCCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Why Microsoft Has Developers Horrified About Windows 8 (Peter Bright)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – June 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for June 6-12, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2011 — #1106 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 072 for 6/13/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #872 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Links 14/06/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 06/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

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