Dew Drop – January 17, 2011

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Top Links

• Prism 4.0 Template Pack Now Available (David Hill)
• New F# ASP.NET MVC 3 Template on Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Initialize an Entity’s Property in LightSwitch (Dan L. Moyer)
• Entity Framework GetById (Mike Moser)
• Microsoft readying official Kinect SDK for Windows (Sebastian Anthony)

 

Web Development

• Retrieve the full ASP.NET Form Buffer as a String (Rick Strahl)
• Quick-Start Guide for Google Charts API (Lorna Mitchell)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Development and RE-WORK – Look at Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Suite Fixture Setup (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• If I were in a Silverlight focus group, here is ten things I would say. (Michael Crump)
• Adding a New Page to a Multi-Page Silverlight Application (Deborah Kurata)
• Windows Phone 7 Guides for IT Pros (and Developers) (Mike Ormond)
• What makes a WP7 App successful (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 41 – Glenn Block, WCF and HTTP (Richard Banks)

 

Database

• Tracking Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 31 Days of SSIS – 10 Things About Expressions (16/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – A Funny Cartoon on Index (Pinal Dave)
• SMO doesn’t always raise an error when handling login failures (Martin Bell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Powershell Error Handling (Martin Bell)

 

More Link Collections

• Silverlight Cream for January 16, 2011 — #1029 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 01/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #771 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler