Dew Drop – November 4, 2010

Kinect launch day… hooray for Amazon release day delivery!

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Top Links

• Kinect for Xbox 360 review (Ross Miller)
• ListPicker? I hardly even know ‘er! [A detailed overview of the Windows Phone Toolkit’s ListPicker control] (David Anson)
• Using the Task Parallel Library with ASP.NET MVC for scalable web applications (Mike Hadlow)
• Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls (Peter Ritchie)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Mixed WCF endpoint bindings for hosted workflow services (Rory Primrose)
• Get Rid of the Splash Screen (Zain Naboulsi)
• Enterprise Library roadmap (Grigori Melnik)
• XBLIG: 4.0 Submission Opens on App Hub This Friday (Team XNA)
• How to create a quick installer to deploy your apps using Null Soft Scriptable Installer System (NSIS) – It is Small, Free and flexible (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• AppFabric Cache – Deploying cache servers and cache clients on different Active Directory Domains (Rama Ramani)
• Getting Good at Parallel (with NxtGenUG) and Getting good at Parallel: 1 – Cancellation (Josh Twist)
• Rate your calls: Type Constraint Or Type Evaluation (Abhishek Sur)
• XmlPoking vsixmanifests with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
• StreamInsight Query Pattern: Find the top category (using Order By, Take and ApplyWithUnion) (Mark Simms)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET & ADO.NET Code Samples Collections (Joe Stagner)
• Fetching Namespaced XML Elements With SimpleXML (Lorna Jane)
• ASP.NET: Converting X-Forwarded-For To REMOTE_HOST (Jon Davis)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Learning Python, 4th Ed. $18.99 (Save 53%) Code DDRP4 (O’Reilly Media)
• How to scroll the browser using JQuery (Martin Beeby)
• One Official Boat-load of Web-Dev Cheat Sheets (Greg Duncan)
• Sub-pixel Fonts in IE9 (Ted Johnson)
• 10K Apart (Nishant Kothary & Joshua Allen)
• How to use IIS Manager to get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) details information ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• State of Agile (David Hicks)
• A Response To “What Is An Interface” By John Sonmez (Derick Bailey)
• Seven key ideas of real quality assurance (Gojko Adzic)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Minimal Fixture (Giorgio Sironi)
• CQRS Architecture and Definitions (Rinat Abdullin)
• NServiceBus Updates (Udi Dahan)
• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
• Ndepend to the resque (Al Kampfer)
• Software Development Methodologies (Andrew Phillips)
• Dynamic Prototyping (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Understanding Project Management Maturity: People, Process, and Tools (Dux Raymond Sy)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Design Team joining the conversation (Albert Shum)
• XNA Back Buffers and the Status Bar (Charles Petzold)
• Extra Extra Silverlight is Dead, What? (Dani Diaz)
• Place your bets! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• More on Silverlight for Windows Embedded and Andy Wigley on Silverlight Embedded with .NET (Don Burnett)
• Walking Robot Series In WPF — Part 1: Triangles, Rectangles, And Cubes (Gary Miller)
• Tips for debugging WP7 media apps with WPConnect (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Ria Services – Entity Default Values (Greg Gum)
• Introducing ThemeMatic–WPF Theme Generation Tool (LearnWPF)
• Building the new PDC Trivia Application (Pete Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Designers and Developers at DevReach! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.7 Audacity (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Clemens Vasters and Maggie Myslinska: Service Bus Enhancements (Wade Wegner)

 

Community / Events

• Building Software: Ayende’s way (Oren Eini)
• Come debate the future of Silverlight! (Stephen Forte)
• Toronto Area SharePoint Saturday: Saturday November 13th at Microsoft Canada HQ (Joey deVilla)
• All NHibernate Day materials and videos are online (Simone Chiaretta)
• patterns & practices Symposium – Redmond 2010 (materials) (MS Downloads)

 

Database

• Search all Stored Procedures where a Table is referenced – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PARTITION BY clause works incorrectly when in nested select over large volumes of data (aedna)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Last Backup Time for All Database (Pinal Dave)
• Proof that CPU Power Matters (Brent Ozar)
• Expression Based Interactive Sorting using Reporting Services 2008 – Part 2 Dynamic Sort By (Brian K. McDonald)
• Service Broker – SQL Server Connections (Steve Jones)
• In defense of transactional replication as an HA technology (Paul S. Randal)
• 10 things in MySQL (that won’t work as expected) (Quassnoi)

 

SharePoint

• Upgrading to SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Planning (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games (Michael C. Neel)
• Searching Stack Overflow The Easy Way (Another Reason To Use Google Chrome) (Nick Berardi)
• The State of Learning in the Workplace Today (Sumeet Moghe)
• Why Open Source is Better for Your Business than Microsoft (Rob Bazinet)
• Today is a good day to be in Redmond (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft lets slip that we can expect Windows 7 SP 1 by March 2011 (Steven Hodson)
• Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special Extended to March 31, 2011 (Windows Azure Team)
• Red Gate Labs on a shoestring (Richard Mitchell)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 3 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #722 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/04/2010 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

PowerShell for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators by Niklas Goude