Dew Drop – April 6, 2010

 

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Top Links

• Windows programming: The "it works on my machine" syndroma (Patrick Smacchia)
• Visualizing the Windows Phone Accelerometer (on a Zune HD) (Charles Petzold)
• Beta Version of WCSF for VS2010 Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Coding4Fun – Paint With Light (Randall Maas)
• A Checklist for OData Feed publishers (Phani Raj)
• Download Your Free Copy of DZone’s Latest Refcard on Lean Software Development! (Lyndsey Clevesy)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Convert Text to Morse Code (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2010 Professional Whitepaper (MS Downloads)
• SonicFileFinder 2.2 Released (Roland Weigelt)
• Delete to the Beginning or End of a Word (Zain Naboulsi)
• CSLA 4 business rules subsystem and CSLA 4 business rule chaining (Rockford Lhotka)
• Editor Guidelines UI – Extension #4 (Sara Ford)
• Automatic Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support with VB 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Creating a Time UUID (GUID) in .NET (Nick Berardi)
• RIA Services and Entity Framework POCOs (Julie Lerman)
• Add an attribute to an MSXML node (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Dotfuscator 4.6.5000 ships, includes VS 2010 RTM support and offline Runtime Intelligence (Joe Kuemerle)

 

Web Development

• Expression Web 3 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 2 Render Template to String (Joey Bratton)
• jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores (Charles Chen)
• A Custom ASP.NET MVC Model Binder for Repositories (Mike Hadlow)
• Open Data Protocol AKA OData (Mike Ceranski)
• Adding Google Charts to your ASP MVC Applications (John V. Petersen)
• ASP.NET MVC and CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 8 Tips for Performance Metrics (Jurgen Appelo)
• Defining the Last Responsible Moment (Karl Scotland)
• Turning a bug into a feature (Eric Lippert)
• Mind your boomerangs and Twist 2.0: acceptance testing – the productive way (Gojko Adzic)
• Scrum Flow at a Glance (J.D. Meier)
• Refactor This: Answers and Refactor This: Results (Oren Eini)
• The performance implications of IEnumerable vs. IQueryable (Chris Sells)
• Red For The Right Reason: Fail By Assertion, Not By Anything Else (Derick Bailey)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 6 (Rob Eisenberg)
• Managing service references and endpoint configurations for Silverlight applications (Tim Heuer)
• Creating a Silverlight Client for @shanselman ’s Nerd Dinner, using oData and Bing Maps (Anoop Madhusudanan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 159: C++0X with Scott Meyers (SE-Radio Team)
• Pete at MIX10: Richard Costall – Silverlight Manic Miner for Windows Phone 7 (Pete Brown)
• Episode 108 – PowerScripting Podcast – SharePoint 2010 with Gary LaPointe (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• This Week in Silverlight 4.1.2010 and Silverlight Consulting Life – MSDN Bytes Interview (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Improving perceived WPF app startup performance with MEF and a Splash Screen (Marc Schweigert)
• Ping 54: Windows Phone 7 Training Kit, 64GB Zune, Microsoft helps electric cars (Laura Foy)
• Herding Code 77: Eric Hexter on MvcConf, C4MVC, and MvcContrib (Jon Galloway)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Games Studio Writer John Sutherland – from Pong to Natal (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Visual Studio 2010 : /* Life Runs on Code */ (Rachel Appel)
• DevExpress Training Dates Available (Oliver Sturm)
• Behind the Scenes of the Developer Launch (Eddie Amos)
• 24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• ReMIX Atlanta and .NET Rocks Roadshow – sign up today! (Glen Gordon)

 

Database

• Avoid SQL Injection with Parameters and Understanding SARGability (to make your queries run faster) (Simon Sabin)
• MongoDB vs. SQL Server – INSERT comparison part deux (Denis Gobo)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (5/30) AWE must be enabled on 64-bit servers (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve and Explore Database Backup without Restoring Database – Idera virtual database (Pinal Dave)
• Comparing Red Gate SQL Prompt to SQL Server IntelliSense (Mitch Pronschinske)
• A DMV a Day – Day 6 (Glenn Berry)
• Delay Validation with SSIS Tasks (Ted Krueger)

 

SharePoint

• Maximizing SharePoint 2010 on a Mac + iPhone or iPod + iPad (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Integrating the Git bash into Console (Jimmy Bogard)
• HP takes aim at iPad (Steve Clayton)
• New Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria (CEC) program website live (Steven Bink)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning iPhone Programming – Only $9.99 Use code DDLPP (O’Reilly Media)
• Developing with the Google Wave APIs – For a grade! (Pamela Fox)
• Daily Dose – iPhone OS 4.0 To Be Revealed Thursday (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Update on upcoming books: Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, and ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2010 — #831 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #573 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #114 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting Finds: April 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Resources to help you create an Azure App Today! (Jeff Barnes)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010