Dew Drop – August 29, 2011

Top Links

• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 4: To query or to code, that is the question! (Gill Cleeren)
• MEFedMVVM NavigationExtension (Marlon Grech)
• Windows Phone 7.1 SDK is Alarming (Shawn Wildermuth)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Cookbook – Only $13.99 w/code DDJQR (O’Reilly Media)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Async Lambda Expression and How to use DebuggerTypeProxy while debugging your sensitive Type and Working with TypeCatalog in MEF (Abhijit Jana)
• String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace and Speed Test: String Concatenation (Richard Carr)
• EF 4.1 Code First and WCF Data Services Part 2: Service Operation Considerations (Glenn Gailey)
• Subversion to TFS 2010: The migration engine is unable to resolve a conflict where two changes have the same target item (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Kinect Reception – Tech Stuff (Shai Raiten)
• Steps to write a plugin based application with MEF and Monday Mornings : Extensibility in .NET 4.0 (Abhishek Sur)
• VMMap Allocation Profiling and Leak Detection and Process Monitor Profiling Support (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Save disk space with IsolatedStorageGZipFileStream (Nicolas Humann)
• Recording Skype Calls (with your code) (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Server-Sent Event Notifications with HTML5 & Goliath (Ilya Grigorik)
• Inside ASP.NET MVC: IResolver and it’s implementations and Latest version of ELMAH MVC controller (Alexander Beletsky)
• Initialize assemblies using PreApplicationStartMethod for ASP.NET 4.0 Application and ASP.NET Calendar Control as Outlook Calendar (Abhijit Jana)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Duplicate Observed Data (Giorgio Sironi)
• Dissecting CSS3 gradients – Part 2 (Ryan Sukale)
• Facebook Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love (Raghu Chandrasekaran)
• Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows – Are you mad? and Asynchronous scalable web applications with real-time persistent long-running connections with SignalR (Scott Hanselman)
• Don’t Execute A Backbone.js Route Handler From Your Code (Derick Bailey)
• Creating and updating EXCEL file in Windows Azure Web Role using Open XML SDK (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Declaring Static Methods in PHP (Lorna Wilson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Choosing Technology To Include In Software Design (DotNetBlocks)
• Responsive Web Design – Stop and Think (Anthony Grace)
• Action Guidelines and The Way of Success (JD Meier)
• Data validation, take it seriously (Jef Claes)
• What makes a web design expert? (Paul Boag)
• Spread your workload (Roy Osherove)
• What Are Best Practices for Agile Managers? (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Lost Art of Design Etiquette (Dan Rose)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Where to find Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Toolkit.dll in WP Toolkit Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• GZIP Compressed Web Requests in WP7 – Take 2 (Morten Nielsen)
• Order in Chaos: Handling unhandled exceptions in a WPF application (Arik Poznanski)
• WPF ListBox Postioning using a Canvas (Christian Nagel)
• [Weekend coding] MetroPack – desktop Cydia (alt Marketplace) for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Charts in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Silverlight 4: Applying Style to the Selected DataGrid Cell during Edit Operation (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #374 – Using a Tooltip to Display the Full Contents of a TextBox (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 75: Understanding LightSwitch with Beth Massi (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Technology & Friends Episode 171: Phil Japikse on Agile (David Giard)
• Herding Code 119: On The Writing Of Technical Books (with Jesse Liberty, Phil Haack, and Brad Wilson) (Jon Galloway)
• Cloud Cover Episode 57 – Windows Azure Page Blobs with Brent Stineman (Steve Marx)
• TWC9: August 26th 2011 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nic Fillingham)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Studios (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 223: Shave Theme For Sharing (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• NHibernate & RavenDB Courses in New York, October/November 2011 (Oren Eini)
• 22 Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2011 (With Even Some Junior Ones) (Peter Cooper)
• Moved to Keyvan.MS Domain (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
• Jason Milgram named Windows Phone 7 Developer Hero of the Week (Bob Familiar)

 

Database

• My BIG problem with SQL Server Denali! (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – SQL Server Error Messages – Day 27 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Structured Error Handling – Day 28 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – What is XML? – Day 29 of 35 and SQL SERVER – SSQL Architecture Basics – Core Architecture Concepts – Book Available for SQL Server Certification (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL: Running MongoDB on the Cloud (Mindstorms)
• Every .NET Developer Should Know About the Database they are working with (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Speech Recognition Leaps Forward (Janie Chang)
• Designing the Windows 8 file name collision experience (Steven Sinofsky)
• Using Evernote for training courses (Simon Brown)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: August 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – August 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading August 28, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Retrospective 47 – Gotta Love Them Tools (Peter Saddington)
• Link dump for August 26th and Link dump for August 27th and Link dump for August 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2011 — #1138 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 21-August-2011 to 27-August-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Weekly Article Digest 08/29/2011 and Daily News Digest 08/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Paul T. Kimmel