Dew Drop – November 3, 2010

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Top Links

• Mo controls, mo controls, mo controls… [Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start–Reloaded! (Andy Wigley)
• Microsoft Press ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
• Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die) (Simone Chiaretta)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ? (Tom)
• Using Tuples (Richard Carr)
• Working with Tuple in C# 4.0 (Abhishek Sur)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 web test–Custom loop (Al Kampfer)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition (Eric Lippert)
• ILMerging assemblies with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
• Microsoft Test Manager Hotfix available: VS10-KB2387011 (Clemens Reijnen)
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta is available for download! (Shai Raiten)
• Team Foundation Server and Azure (Pieter de Bruin)
• Microsoft Help Viewer – Updates Planned for Visual Studio SP1 (Kathleen McGrath)
• WCF 4.0 – A More Pleasant Experience for Devs (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Orchestration vs WF 4.0 (Jon Fancey)
• NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook EBook on Sale This Week (David Hayden)
• ILMerge – How to Merge Assemblies After A Build (Keith Elder)
• Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support (Mike Taulty)
• Why, oh why is pooling turned off in Entity Framework 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 (Wally McClure)
• Show Advanced Build Configurations and Edit and Continue (Zain Naboulsi)
• Create an Entity Data Model From a Database – Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Getting the most out of user events and Windows Server AppFabric Monitoring (Emil Velinov)

 

Web Development

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 18 (Scott Mitchell)
• XHTML in IE9 (Tony Ross)
• PROs and CONs of Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
• 5 features of PHP that seem hacks, but save your life (Giorgio Sironi)
• Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 3 (Emily Lewis)
• Microsoft Folks Submit Grid model for HTML/CSS to the W3C. (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET: Converting X-Forwarded-For To REMOTE_HOST (Jon Davis)
• Introducing MVC Development w/the Razor View Engine for Visual Studio Developers (Rachel Appel)
• How to Scroll Video using JQuery in 9 steps (Martin Beeby)
• Lucene.NET could use the community’s support (Ian Cooper)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• SOLID Motivational Calendar (Derick Bailey)
• Seven key ideas of real quality assurance (Gojko Adzic)
• The State of Agile – Lisa Crispin (Lisa Crispin)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Automation Framework (Giorgio Sironi)
• Lean Principles #4 – Defer Commitment (Kelly Waters)
• Agile Manifesto 2.0 – Updates to Come? and 10 Years of Agile – Are We Better Yet? and Tool Review – TinyPM – Nothing Small About It (Peter Saddington)
• Motivating the Unmotivated (Michael Norton)
• Who Wants This User Story? (Dan Puckett)
• Developer Guidance Maps Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Azure and Windows Phone (J.D. Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Caliburn.Micro Contest (Rob Eisenberg)
• Silverlight Framework – All Historical Tool Releases and What is New (Bart Czernicki)
• Windows Phone Partners With PreEmptive Solutions For Analytics (Brandon Watson)
• New OData Tools Feed Windows Phone 7 App from Windows Azure Platform (Bruce Kyle)
• New Version of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Cheryl Simmons)
• Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 of 2 and Input box? On Windows Phone 7? Indeed. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Invoking the Keyboard in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Chris Love)
• Sync Framework 4.0 CTP now supports clients like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight (Hanu Kommalapati)
• F# with WPF : Fun with async {} or Asynchronous Workflow – bouncing ellipse (Imran Khatri)
• Running a Windows Phone Application under the lock screen and Hail to the swiss army knife of Silverlight Windows Phone Apps LongListSelector (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Jounce Part 5: Navigation Framework and Silverlight and HTML5: Microsoft’s Official Stance (Jeremy Likness)
• Committed to Silverlight (John Papa)
• Silverlight : Stop Blaming Microsoft For Your Stupidity (Karl Seguin)
• Creating a Tile using theme’s color as background (Windows Phone 7) (Katrien de Graeve)
• Document Toolkit maintenance release (Koen Zwikstra)
• Dotfuscator for Windows Phone Released (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Microsoft Shifts Silverlight Focus (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tracking Sales Statistics with the Silverlight Analytics Framework for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Styling A ContextMenu In Expression Blend (Sacha Barber)
• WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API (Dragos Manolescu)
• Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight! (Tim Heuer)
• Detecting Whether the Dark or Light Theme is in Use and Making Your Images Change Color Based on the Theme (Adam Nathan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ted Neward and Dierk Konig Compare .NET and JVM Evolution (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #44: Dis Approvals and Let’s Play TDD #45: Looking for Keys in All the Wrong Places (James Shore)
• Herding Code 96: Eric Sink on Veracity and DVCS (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 130 – PowerScripting Podcast – Core Show with Hal and Jon (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Full Stack, Part 2: Setting up the UI for our Windows Phone client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• Video & Podcast: Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Joel Oleson)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #9 – Charlie Kindel (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Coding QA Episode 50 End of an Era (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
• Inside Windows Phone#11:Obfuscation And Analytics (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Ping 81: PDC is here, Pixar uses Azure, IE9 Preview, Zunes & Phones and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2010 (Laura Foy)
• Sparkling Client Show 110: Silverlight is Dead. Long Live Silverlight. (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
• ARCast.TV – Creating Windows Phone 7 Apps Using a Configuration Tool and ARCast.TV – Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Zhiming Xue)
• Medical “gaming” and simulation—new on Microsoft Health Tech Today (Bill Crounse)

 

Community / Events

• Hello, Microsoft (Steve Sanderson)
• MVPs Discuss the MVP Award and PDC (Lonnie Webb)
• Virtual Brown Bag Sessions with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
• PDC and Silverlight (Bob Muglia)
• My take from PDC 2010 (Christian Nagel)
• Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week (Jeff Wilcox)
• Busy November in the Works, Several Speaking Engagements (Chris Love)
• Microsoft Webcast: Overview of Windows Azure & Visual Studio 2010 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• MSDN Flash Poll #11: What would you like to be doing? (Mike Ormond)

 

Database

• Format Phone Numbers in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Are you a Database Administrator or a Database Developer? and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: MS Jet OLEDB 4.0 cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is used to run in apartment mode. (Pinal Dave)
• When to use SQL Mirroring Timeout (Ryan Adams)
• Disaster Recovery for AppFabric Caching V1.0 (SQL Mirroring) (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Mixed ASC/DESC sorting in MySQL (Quassnoi)
• Combining Validation of Transactional and Persisted Data (James Allderidge)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 customErrors mode (Greg Galipeau)
• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)

 

Miscellaneous

• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Status Bar Changes in Outlook 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
• Xbox 360 Dashboard update is now available (Larry Hyrb)
• Microsoft + open source = loving relationship? (Andy Robb)
• Incorporating 3rd Party Libraries in iPhone apps (Ben Scheirman)
• Book review: DSLs in Action (Dror Helper)
• Automate your PowerShell demos (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Using Author Names to track which machine I used to edit OneNote pages (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Beautiful Security – $14.99 (Save 53%) Code DDBSC (O’Reilly Media)
• Free Microsoft Tools for Educators and Teachers and Halo Reach Noble Map Pack Release is This Month (Richard Hay)
• Drupal Founder on Why Open Source is Good for Business [INTERVIEW] (Sarah Kessler)
• Becoming An Independent Consultant (Derick Bailey)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #720 and The Morning Brew #721 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 1, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2010 — #984 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 048 for 11/1/2010 (Pete Brown)

 

The Geek Shelf

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