Dew Drop – June 23, 2011

Top Links

• Project Silk Drop 12 (Karl Shifflett)
• Why Software Development Will Never be Engineering (John Sonmez)
• IronPython – Release: v2.7.1 Beta 1 and Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.40 (CodePlex)
• Eduasync part 13: first look at coroutines with async (Jon Skeet)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reviewer’s Guide (MS Downloads)
• How to implement the Sync Edit feature from Delphi IDE inside Visual Studio IDE using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
• Tracing in WCF: Understanding basic steps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• EF4 books and EF 4.1 (Julie Lerman)
• Configuring a PowerShell Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Kinect–How to Apply Smooths Frame Display Using TransformSmoothParameters and Kinect – Create Buttons (Shai Raiten)
• Filter NuGet Package updated (Steve Naughton)
• Using Fluent NHibernate ClassMaps? You’re Doing It Wrong. (Bobby Johnson)
• Source Code Available for the Kinect Mouse Cursor Project (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New version of FSharpChart now available and FSharpChart new features and code drop availability (Don Syme)
• Rangers Build Customization Guide — Available now. and Rangers Lab Management Guide — Available now (Mike Fourie)
• Configuring Log4net in code using Windsor Installers (Naeem Khedarun)
• ADO.NET EF 4.0: Working with Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) Classes (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Advanced CodeRush Plug-ins: Converting an Object Initializer into a Constructor (Mark Miller)
• Learn ADO.Net Entity Framework: Performing basic CRUD Operation (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Ref returns and ref locals (Eric Lippert)
• Making a Reverse Geocoding to Find an Address (Gil Fink)
• Links to C++ documentation (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• ComponentModel for ASP.NET MVC3 (Ray Liang)
• Precompile your MVC Razor views using RazorGenerator (David Ebbo)
• Rendering A Rails Partial As A jQuery Template (Derick Bailey)
• Adding Scale to ASP.NET Applications in the Cloud (Jenni Ripley)
• Cleaning up POSTs in ASP.NET MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET: DropDownList with ComandName and CommandArgument and ASP.NET Repeater: Binding events to controls in header template (Raghav Khunger)
• HTML5 and its Impact on SEO (Rey Bango)
• Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Azure for PHP SDK v3 Final Release (Andy Robb)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: FlagArgument (Martin Fowler)
• When did Scrum start loving project managers? (Allan Kelly)
• Tech Leading: Keeping the passion (Mark Needham)
• Just Launched: Zoho BugTracker (with GitHub Integration!) (Rodrigo Vaca)
• 5 Dangerous Ideas for Designers (Scott Berkun)
• PowerMockup, A New Tool for Low Fidelity Mockups (David Bulkin)
• MOF Archive (MS Downloads)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Port your Android or iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7 (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Introduction (Windows Phone Geek)
• Bouncy McFuzzin for Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 18 – Know about various Phone Tasks (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7: Mango beta process detailed, delay explained, new unannounced features (News staff)
• Windows Phone Mango Push Notification Changes (Nick)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Adding Localization Support (Per Ola)
• PivotViewer Shorts Part 5: Invert Facet Category Selections (xpert360)
• Quick reminder on How-To map items of a list view to a VM command (Gian Maria Ricci)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dominick Baier Walks Us Through Claims-Based Security! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #117: setIcon() (James Shore)
• Ping 105: Xbox 360 takes the lead, Kinect Shop, Kodu Cup, Droid Devs called to Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
• ADPWest 2011 – Drew Thoeni – Techwell and the ADP/Better Software Conferences and ADPWest 2011 – Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins – Agile Coaching Institute (Agile Toolkit Team)
• SE Podcast #09 (Alex Miller)
• Montage by FUSE Labs (Larry Larsen)
• ReSharper Tips and Tricks Video from NDC (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Wijmo Quick Demo: Adding Tooltips to your Charts (Kevin Griffin)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Announces 2011 Partner of the Year Award Winners and Finalists (MS PressPass)
• Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed, Part 2: The Demo (Paul Thurrott)
• Last call to register for free Next Generation UX event on June 28 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
• Teachers, would you like to help Microsoft pilot a new XNA Game Development course (and get free stuff in the process)? (Greg Duncan)

 

Database

• "Build Secure Database Applications with Microsoft SQL Server" Series To Be – Post 0 of X (Greg Duncan)
• Red Gate’s SQL Source Control and better SQL objects organization (Jakub Dvorak)

 

SharePoint

• IUseSharePoint.com – How do you use SharePoint? (Andrew Connell)
• How to Open a List Form in a Modal Dialog Box (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Opportunity for innovation in healthcare – then and now (Bill Crounse)
• Box.net Ups The Ante Against Microsoft With In-Depth Google Docs Integration (Leena Rao)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Graphics and Animation on iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDGRX (O’Reilly Media)
• Awesome Powershell Tutorial Series (Rhonda Tipton)
• PowerShell: Dealing With File Locks (Tobias Weltner)
• RTM’d Today: Windows 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition (Valerie Woolley)
• Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 22, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for June 22, 2011 — #1111 (Dave Campbell)
• Today’s Links (6/22/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #879 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 06/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 21-Jun-2011 and 20-Jun-2011 and 22-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Link dump for June 21st and Link dump for June 22nd (Jeff Schoolcraft)

 

The Geek Shelf

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague