Dew Drop – April 27, 2010

 

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Top Links

• DSL Book now available as rough-cut (Martin Fowler)
• The Open Data Protocol .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available for Download (Shayne Burgess)
• Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Controllers (Jimmy Bogard)
• How does MEFedMVVM compose the catalogs and how can I override the behavior? – MEFedMVVM Part 4 (Marlon Grech)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Custom Build Steps, Tools, and Events (Andrew Arnott)
• Launch of Visual Studio 2010 & Dotfuscator CE 5 (Brandon Siegel)
• Using optional parameters in C# 4.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Enable or Disable All Breakpoints and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using the WPF Tree Visualizer (Zain Naboulsi)
• ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
• UML Sequence Diagram: F# Script (Phil Trelford)
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Launching an F# web application inside VS2010 as if it were C# (Steve Gilham)
• Xml Document Transform (XDT) Snippets for VS 2010 (Vishal Joshi)
• MicrosoftDataServicesRootUri, or How to customize WCF Data Service URIs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Every Program There Is, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• Coding4Fun – Photos Near You (Arian T. Kulp)

 

Web Development

• Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page (Steve Wellens)
• Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog? (Nichole Baker)
• Creating RSS feeds in ASP.NET MVC (Damien Guard)
• IIS and PAE (Tess Ferrandez)
• Sueetie Localizer Ready to Rock in Gummy Bear 1.3 (Dave Burke)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Next Week’s Art of Agile Excerpt (Poll) (James Shore)
• The Most Annoying Habit Of A Software Manager (Alan Skorkin)
• Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
• Principles of Software Development Productivity (Peter Ritchie)
• Code and Coffee: Save Yourself! (Jared Richardson)
• The Exciting Enterprise (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Easier debugging thanks to lightweight methods (Patrick Smacchia)
• NCover 3.4: .NET 4 Support And More (Stephen Ward)
• Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design (Ben MacGowan)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 5 Future Features (Justin Angel)
• Using the ChangePropertyAction (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• WPF 4 Migration Issues/Breaking Changes and My StaticResource reference worked differently with WPF 4 RC than it does with WPF 4 RTM (Rob Relyea)
• Silverlight revolutionizes beta of next Windows Home Server (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #4 – Enabling Out of Browser Applications and Silverlight Tip of the Day #5 – Debugging Out of Browser Applications (Mike Snow)
• MVVM with Transaction and View Locator Example (Jeremy Likness)
• 3 Silverlight Free Demos (John Papa)
• Simple Databinding and 3-D Features using Silverlight in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – High Value Asset Tracking with Bing Maps, Silverlight and Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 53: A Lap Around OData with Mike Flasko (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• video: Basic Test Specification and Execution scenario (Clemens Reijnen)
• geekSpeak Recording – Five Key Developer Features in Expression Blend with Corey Schuman and MSDN Radio: Expression, Poetry, and the Windows Phone (Emily Gibson)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #87 (Jeff Atwood)
• Sod This 8 – The Secure Show (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
• This Week In Silverlight April 23 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Windows is named Windows : But Why? (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Joining the Vertigo Team! (Justin Angel)
• Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 (#LSSC10) Review (Derick Bailey)
• Events This Week – April 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Win a 15-minute phone conversation with Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover! (Devon Musgrave)
• Live Chats to Learn more about Sharepoint – 28 MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

 

Database

• ETL Process using Raven (Oren Eini)
• Upgrades from Beta or CTP SQL Server Software are NOT Supported (Buck Woody)
• Getting Started with Mongo on Windows (Erik Peterson)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (26/30) nested transactions are real (Paul S. Randal)
• Find Tables with No Primary Key – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition – Only $9.99 use code DDMSC (O’Reilly Media)
• SSIS : Using the VariableDispenser object within Script Components (Josef Richberg)
• SQL University: Auditing SQL Server, Part I (K. Brian Kelley)
• Steps for MySQL DB Replication (Manish Agrawal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cheat Sheet Updated (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using BCS from Visual Studio 2010 for deployment to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and This product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or above (Paul Andrew)

 

Miscellaneous

• Observations on my own Startup (Dan Morrill)
• Using Windows Explorer & SkyDrive without ANY 3rd party software (not even Office 2010!) (Greg Duncan)
• Feedback on the IE9 Platform Preview (John Hrvatin)
• Share Photosynths on Facebook (Sunshine)
• Tower of Hanoi (Vijaye)
• Windows Home Server "Vail" Public Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• The EU is trying to kill startups (Stephen Forte)
• Daily Dose – A Farewell to Floppy Disks (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #588 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 26-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 — #848 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .Net)