Dew Drop – April 12, 2010

Happy VS2010 Launch Day! 

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Top Links

• Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Somasegar)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Learning XNA 3.0 – Only $9.99 Use code DDLXN (O’Reilly Media)
• Introducing Autofac 2.1 RTW (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Steve Jobs admits iTunes for Windows is a sub-standard app (Jon Johansen)
• Understanding T4: MSBuild Integration (Oleg Sych)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Fluent Email in .NET (Luke Lowrey)
• Generic Types (Richard Carr)
• How to Create, Develop, Deploy Windows Azure App (Bruce Kyle)
• Optional Parameters and Auto-Implemented Properties (Deborah Kurata)
• How to use WMI from a .NET Application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using the Undo and Redo Stack and Change the Tooltip Font Size (Zain Naboulsi)
• Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
• Ship It!! Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Now Available (Jason Zander)

 

Web Development

• XML and XSL Transformation in ASP.NET MVC – XmlActionResult (Tomasz Pęczek)
• Lazy Loading jQuery Collapsible Panel in ASP.Net Using JSON (Satheesh Babu)
• What’s New in ASP.NET 4.0 – ClientID Generation for a Cleaner MarkUp (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Automating ASP.NET MVC deployments using Web Deploy (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working with Legacy code #3 : Build a safety net. (Andrew Stopford)
• Application Architecture Guide Layer Diagrams – Patterns & Practices (David Hayden)
• Productivity Tip: Reducing Your Talk-Time And Getting Some Real Work Done. (Rajiv Popat)
• What is a Domain Event? (Greg Young)
• Why Agile Results? (J.D. Meier)
• Balsamiq Biweekly Release: version 1.7! (Peldi Guilizzoni)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Event Bubbling and Tunneling (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• SpellChecker in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• 30 seconds from File|New to a new CRUD Silverlight application with Telerik’s new LINQ Implementation (Stephen Forte)
• Windows System Color Theme for Silverlight – Part Three (Corrina Barber)
• WPF: Binding to Anonymous Types from LINQ (Pete Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 151: Paul’s Tent Pole (Paul Thurrott)
• Whirlwind 9: Introducing C# 4 and Whirlwind 10: What’s new in C# 4: Dynamic Lookup and Whirlwind 11: What’s new in C# 4 – Named & Optional Parameters (Bruce Kyle)
• Episode 109 – PowerScripting Podcast – v2 Experts Panel (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Pluralcast 13 : Women in Technology (David Starr)
• Engadget Podcast 191 – 04.11.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Major Nelson Show 356: PAX East wrap up and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
• Introducing AppFabric: Moving .NET to the Cloud by Aaron Skonnard and What’s new in Silverlight 4: Part 2 by Mike Taulty (Matthijs Hoekstra)

 

Community / Events

• The local Microsoft .Net Community and why you SHOULD attend a CodeCamp (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Spot the SQLAuthority Baby Contest – SQL Server Cheat Sheet (Pinal Dave)
• Watch the Visual Studio 2010 launch live! (Joseph Mirabella)
• The Worldwide MVP Community Joins Together This Week (Joseph Mirabella)

 

Database

• That No SQL Thing – Document Databases (Oren Eini)
• SQL SERVER – What is MDS? – Master Data Services in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
• A DMV a Day – Day 11 and A DMV a Day – Day 12 (Glenn Berry)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (11/30) database mirroring failover is instantaneous (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• What NOT to Migrate into SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Download Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
• Awesomium 1.6 Alpha (Chris Cavanagh)
• Making presentations that stick (Garr Reynolds)
• Daily Dose – Yahoo’s CTO Quits (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 11, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #577 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 10, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 11, 2010 — #836 (Dave Campbell)
• Links of the week #115 (David Vidmar)
• Cheetsheet: 2010 04.08 ~ 04.11 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #100 (Grant Palin)
• Everyman on Specializing, Community Interaction, Inventing the Future, Solar Paint (Dave Burke)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup for 4/12/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Weekly Link Post 140 (Rhonda Tipton)
• 10 New Articles; 10 More Ways to Learn the Google Wave APIs (Pamela Fox)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Visual Studio 2010