Dew Drop – April 8, 2010

 

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Top Links

• RSS feeds in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• MvcContrib – Portable Area – Visual Studio project template (Eric Hexter)
• Entity Framework Profiler goes out out beta (Oren Eini)
• Mapping Conceptual Model Function to Complex Type in Entity Framework 4.0 (Muhammad Mosa)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Quick Tip #1 – Generate From Usage (Me)
• Cassia – A .NET Windows Terminal Services Library (Think “Including the Terminal Services Manager MMC Snap-in functionality in your app’s” library) (Greg Duncan)
• Click and Drag Text to a New Location and Transpose Lines, Words, and Characters — vstipEdit0042 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Increased readability with C# 4 named arguments (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• First Encounters of the MEF Kind (Mike Ceranski)
• Adding git commit information to your assemblies (Joshua Flanagan)
• Telerik OpenAccess DSW 1st official release (Peter Bahaa)

 

Web Development

• Google Wave Federation Protocol: More Docs, More Code (Dan Peterson)
• Multi-Step Processing in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)
• Building ASP.NET Validator Using Data Annotations (Gil Fink)
• So how do I get from here to OpenXML? Got a map for you, an Open XML SDK Blog Map… (Greg Duncan)
• A Closer Look at Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Acceleration Through Flying Images (Jason Weber)
• Javascript Tetris update (Mendelt Siebenga)
• Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile (Pete Brown)
• Open Data Protocol AKA OData (Mike Ceranski)
• Running PHP on Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Velocity as a goal (Mark Needham)
• Creating Awesome Applications When You’re Clueless (Pete Brown)
• Book Review: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Jim Holmes)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• New Silverlight Book (Joel Cochran)
• Daily Dose – Microsoft Turns on Silverlight 4 April 13 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Customizing the Caret and Selection Styles in WPF 4 and Layout Rounding (Pete Brown)
• @mstrobel: System.Xaml.dll available on Mono? More XAML support on Silverlight? (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jim Zimmerman combines Facebook and Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Business Opportunity Behind Azure (Brian Johnson)
• Eron Kelly: Moving Microsoft to the Cloud – Past, Present and Future (Charles Torre)
• Community Megaphone Show #7 with guest Kevin Hazzard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• How Silverlight Powered CTVOlympics.ca – A Case Study (Eric Hagan)
• Nice video: The Rise And Fall Of Waterfall (Clemens Reijnen)
• The History of Microsoft – The Jeff Raikes Story: Part One (Tina Wood)

 

Community / Events

• The one about joining Windows (James Clarke) – Good luck, James!
• The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Joins Twitter (Blake Handler)
• Google Code Jam 2010 registration now open (Igor Naverniouk)
• Open Spaces at conferences, what’s your take? (Brett Schuchert)
• Events This Week – April 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Watch the Silverlight 4 Launch event and LIVE QA with ScottGu and others (Tim Heuer)

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Key / Value stores – Usages (Oren Eini)
• A DMV a Day – Day 8 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (7/30) multiple mirrors and log shipping load delays (Paul S. Randal)
• CouchDB – Document Persistence Powered by CQRS (Rinat Abdullin)

 

SharePoint

• SP2010 support and fixes for SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (Chris O’Brien)
• Last night’s SharePoint 2010 install troubleshooting – User cannot be found (Paul Andrew)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Releases "7plus" Auto-Hotkey Windows 7 Add-on (Blake Handler)
• PowerShell PowerPack Download (Buck Woody)
• New Favorite Tool: Windows Live Writer Backup (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 7 deals: harder to find, but still there if you look (Ed Bott)
• Resume and social media tips for developers (Amanda Matthews)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #575 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 7, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 7-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 — #833 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

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