Dew Drop – June 19, 2011

Top Links

• NuGet 1.4 Released (Phil Haack)
• Updated Windows Azure AppFabric SDK Now Available for Download (Windows Azure Team)
• The Busy Developers Guide to the Kinect SDK Beta (Michael Crump)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 game at the Kinect Code Camp (Adam Kinney)
• The Debugger Mindset (John Sonmez)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• using “Default” Keyword in C# (Abhijit Jana)
• Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionary Class and Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionaryWriter Class and Reading XML file through LINQ: few Tips (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class (James Michael Hare)
• WCF 4: Download Files using WCF REST EndPoints (Mahesh Sabnis)
• C#: String.Compare ignore case (Raghav Khunger)
• Kinect – Getting Started – Control Camera Angle and Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk (Shai Raiten)
• Binding Box now supprots the Wcf Interop Bindings (Yaron Naveh)
• Getting started with Kinect SDK (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
• NuGet with MEF and Using NuGet for Application Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
• WTF Azure! (As in get a free The Daily WTF Mug just for trying out Windows Azure for 30 days, no Credit Card needed… US only though) (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• CSS 3.0 as the only schema in Visual Studio (Daniel Fisher)
• An Example to Use jQuery Validation Plugin (Song Li)
• Get started with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• New features and improvements in ASP.NET vNext (Zubair Ahmed)
• Windows 8 and the Two Worlds of HTML (James Ashley)
• Filtering an ASP.NET GridView control with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• CitiBank: It was not a breach of security, but a breach of stupidity (Rachel Appel)
• Microsoft Rejects WebGL for Security Reasons (Abel Avram)
• Netflix API Ditching DVD Endpoints to Focus on Streaming (Adam DuVander)
• Web Application Project vs. Website (Steve Naughton)
• What’s new in OpenWrap 1.1? (Sebastien Lambla)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is Agile Results? and Email Therapy (JD Meier)
• Have a Customer Advocate in Agile (Peter Saddington)
• Lokad.CQRS – Framework that is Designed for Farewells (Rinat Abdullin)
• Enterprise, SaaS, and Platforms (Udi Dahan)
• Mocking Events with Moq (Richard Carr)
• Test Maintenance; Or, The Third Era of Programmer Testing (Brian Marick)
• New Books on Software Architecture (Michael Stal)
• Git tutorial – comparing files with diff (Veera)
• Getting Started with Pub/Sub using Rhino Service Bus and Consuming Events in the Same Process as the Publisher with Rhino Service Bus (Eric Quist)
• Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository. (Jason Jarrett)
• Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference? (Scott Berkun)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building a Reusable ICommand implementation for Windows Phone Mango MVVM apps (Windows Phone Geek)
• Screenshot Tools for WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
• ChevronWP7 Labs to provide official Windows Phone unlocking service for homebrew developers (damaster)
• XAML with .NET Primer Part One (Don Burnett)
• Will the real Windows Phone 7 SketchFlow Template please stand up… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android Developers (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 14 – Detecting Network Information of the Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Using Isolated Storage to save, load and delete Pin Codes (Per Ola Sæther)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Inside IronJS – A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR (Scott Hanselman)
• Herb Sutter – Heterogeneous Computing and C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
• Daniel Moth: Blazing-fast code using GPUs and more, with C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #50: Developer Smackdown is 2 and we just hit show #50!! How do you learn? (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Engadget Podcast 244 – 06.17.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 57 – Optimal Test Automation (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 021 – “More Mango Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• This is my next Podcast 011 – 06.18.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
• Video: The 3 amigos at NDC2011 (Roy Osherove)
• C++ AMP recording and slides (Daniel Moth)
• Windows Phone Radio – 32 (Brian Seitz)

 

Community / Events

• How Transparency and Social Media are Evolving the SharePoint Community (Paul J. Swider)
• Houston Code Camp Registration is Now Open (Ben Scheirman)
• BizSpark / Windows Phone 7 Application Contest for Startup Companies (Zain Naboulsi)
• Kinect Code Camp – We made a Kinect project in 24 hours. (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Database

• Thoughts on Nexus in SQL Server PDW (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once and SQL SERVER – Selecting Domain from Email Address and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper Using SharePoint List Data in PowerPivot (Pinal Dave)
• Prevent SQL Logins from using SSMS … or any other app (Eric Humphrey)
• SSMS Add-in for Analysis Services (James Serra)
• Instantly Find Size of Tables on Disk (Larry Leonard)

 

SharePoint

• Dynamic Authorization for FBA based WCM Applications (Sanjay Arora)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kinect- Caught between Community & MSFT support (Don Burnett)
• Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 2: Manufacturing a PCB (Pete Brown)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 06.14 ~ 06.19 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #875 (Chris Alcock)
• Link dump for June 16th and Link dump for June 16th through June 17th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Kinect SDK – resources for developers (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Distributed Weekly 107 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Links– 2010_22 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Retrospective 37 – Customers, Skype, and Shoe Kanban (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 17 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 16, 2011 — #1108 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 12-June-2011 to 18-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

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