Dew Drop – June 27, 2011

Top Links

• Continuous Client: My first attempt at multi-device user experience transitions (Kelly Sommers)
• How to unsubscribe from an Event which is registered to an anonymous method (Derik Whittaker)
• Preventing Items from being analyzed in ReSharper and YouTrackSharp: A .NET Client for YouTrack (Hadi Hariri)
• SharpDevelop gets T4 support (Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading and Writing CSV Files in C# (Jonathan Wood)
• Retrieve Drive, File and Folder Names (Richard Carr)
• Automatically Show the Output Window During Build in Visual Studio and Working with BigInteger in .NET 4.0 and Working with SortedSet in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
• More Free TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Webcasts available in June and July! (Angela Dugan)
• Inserting/Updating Record on related entities using LINQ and Logging in LINQ to SQL and Resolving Concurrency conflicts in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• My Classic Cascading Filters and Field Templates on NuGet (Steve Naughton)
• Windows 8 will (probably) not deprecate C++ and .NET in favor of HTML5 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Some facts about Null in .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Discover Amazing Open Source Code With the Freshmeat API (Allen Tipper)
• Refactoring to functional ActionResults in Figment (Mauricio Scheffer)
• Skeletal Tracking with the Kinect for Microsoft SDK (Don Burnett)
• "Hello World" in C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Internals : Visualizing ASP.NET Page Life Cycle using IntelliTrace (Abhijit Jana)
• Unit test your MVC views using Razor Generator (David Ebbo)
• Nancy 0.6.0 saw the light of day (Andreas Håkansson)
• Adding RSS to tags in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Tutorial: Making a Canvas Snake Game (Rey Bango)
• Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Michael Crump)
• Client Express (Mark Nijhof)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD for unbelievers (Evgeny Goldin)
• TDD adapted for mere mortals (Kent Tong)
• CQRS Analogy with Relenta – Scaling Email Management in Company (Rinat Abdullin)
• Your Detail Orientated Mode. (Rajiv Popat)
• It’s a little bit funny…The Clean Coder and my Septimana horribilis (Scott Galloway)
• The Template Method pattern gone wrong (or how to stop your overridden methods getting called) (John Rayner)
• Article:Dependency Injection with Mark Seemann (Jonathan Allen)
• Bounded Rationality (Mark Needham)
• Learning the Stance of Reaction, Part 1: Tango (Brian Marick)
• Process Isolation in PHPUnit (Matthew Turland)
• Keeping Things Interesting (Or: Avoiding .NET At Home) (Davy Brion)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.4.2 officially released with Mango support and more and #7 How to use AddressChooserTask in a Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
• Version 1.3.0.1 of the F# and C# Win Phone App (Silverlight) Project Template Released (Daniel Mohl)
• Hosting an HTML App in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Don Burnett)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 20 – Know about the Accelerometer Tool and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 21 – Small Demo of Accelerometer Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight 4.0: Duplex Communication over Http using PollingDuplexHttpBinding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
• PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Testing and improving app before submission (Per Ola)
• Dell Venue Pro – Working with the native layer – intro, registry and work modes and Dell Venue Pro – Working with the native layer – SIM, SD card (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Betting The House On LightSwitch (Michael Washington)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 162: Mike Amundsen on node.js (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 403: UFC Personal Trainer, F.E.A.R. 3, COD Black Ops Annihilation Game Add-on (Larry Hyrb)
• SharePoint MCM, Top 3 mistakes, and User Profile Sync discussion with Spencer Harbar-Episode 63 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Windows Weekly 214: You Say MeeGo, I Say Mango (Paul Thurrott)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #29 with Guest Ben Dewey (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Funnect (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 20 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Cover Episode 48 – Node.js, Ruby, and Python in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK Beta, HTML5 for VS, MVC Mini Profiler, XNA Socket Demo (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone Radio – 33 (Brian Seitz)
• NServiceBus Videos Online (Udi Dahan)
• Yet Another Podcast #40–Chris Bowen, Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)

 

Database

• SQL Server Tutorials on Date Time (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services Operations Guide and SQL SERVER – T-SQL Scripts to Find Maximum between Two Numbers and SQL SERVER – Puzzle Involving NULL – Resolve – Error – Operand data type void type is invalid for sum operator (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Aggressive Caching Mode (Oren Eini)
• Replacing Cursors with Set-Based SQL Queries – Part 1 (Andrew Zwicker)

 

Miscellaneous

• First take reviews of the Mango release (Brian Seitz)
• Velocity 2011: The Performance Impact of Modernizing Internet Explorer (Jason Weber)
• The rumors were right: Google to phase out its Microsoft HealthVault competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
• Introducing the Consolidated Windows Azure Team Blog and Just Announced: June 2011 CTP of the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (Windows Azure Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: June 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #881 (Chris Alcock)
• June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet (Scott Guthrie)
• Links of the week #154 (David Vidmar)
• Today’s Links (6/24/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• Daily Links 24/06/2011 (Jax)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 19-June-2011 to 25-June-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News 24 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 38 – Agile, Scrum, Developers and Tutorials (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Digest 06/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed by Stephen Walther