Dew Drop – January 21, 2011

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Top Links

• Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0 (Scott Guthrie)
• XamlQuery – The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library – at CodePlex (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Installing NuGet packages directly from the command line (David Ebbo)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tie the scrolling between two controls (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Notion Solutions is providing free VS2010 ALM Web Based Training. Four subjects, three session schedule choices, two companies, one great value (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Comparer<T>.Default (James Michael Hare)
• Visual Studio Testing Extensions now available on NuGet (Jeremiah Clark)
• Monads in C#-6. Introducing a simple parser (Mike Hadlow)
• Unknown breaking change in .NET 4? (Frans Bouma)
• An Autofac Lifetime Primer (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• NuGet-enabled WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET (Brian Peek)
• Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach) (Abhishek Sur)
• CUDA – A basic parallelised task (Rob Ashton)

 

Web Development

• Falling for HTML5: Finding Love in the Little Things (Felicity Evans)
• How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project (Deepak Verma)
• Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 -Beta (x86) and Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 -Beta (x64) (MS Downloads)
• Wolfram Alpha opens up API, makes it free for personal use (Erez Zukerman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Manifesto 2.1 – “MoreAgile Manifesto” (Peter Saddington)
• Listening to feedback mechanisms (Mark Needham)
• Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Manual of Style (in code) (JP Hamilton)
• Interface Segregation Principle (Richard Carr)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using styles and resources to simplify your xaml (Nigel Sampson)
• Blend, Visual Studio and compile in x86 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Simple Drag Selection in WPF (Ashley Davis)
• A classic memory game: Part 2 – The game logic, connecting the ViewModel and the View (Levente Mihály)
• New F# Empty Web Application (Silverlight) Template (Daniel Mohl)
• The Coding4Fun team has done it again, released another “Kit” that is… The Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• Writing an Orchard widget: LatestTwitter (Maarten Balliauw)
• Does your Silverlight application really have to end in .XAP? (Michael Crump)
• Building Touch Interfaces for Windows Phones, Part 4 (Jeff Prosise)
• WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
• zTop app for WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Going Bananas (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight TV 58: Windows Phone Design Tips With Corrina (John Papa)
• Announcing Windows Azure Jump Start Training Videos (Katrien de Graeve)

 

Community / Events

• February 23rd Microsoft Developer Dinner for Partners: Take your SharePoint Solutions to the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Let’s Chat Friday at the Linked In .NET User Group – Jan 21 (John Papa)
• Competition: win a free place in our class in February! (Paul S. Randal)
• A brain dump after reading Alt.Next (Dru Sellers)

 

Database

• SSRS – How to find all the reports that use one or more given columns? (Jacob Sebastian)
• 31 Days of SSIS – No More Procedures (20/31) (Jason Strate)
• Create a Business Intelligence Solution in SQL Server 2008 R2 – Free Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – 1600 Blog Post Articles – A Milestone (Pinal Dave)
• How to Delete Large amounts of data in a Batch. (Paul Theriault)
• Solving the ‘Events in Progress’ problem in MDX, Part 1 (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Deployment guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Eliminating large JS files to optimize SharePoint 2010 internet sites (Chris O’Brien)
• Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010: Support at Last (Dave McMahon)
• Why do my new list fields not appear on the New, Edit, or Display forms? (Ricky Kirkham)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google’s New CEO: Larry Page (Alex Chitu)
• Looking Up Email Addresses with PowerShell (David Levy)
• Scotty looks at the monitor and says, “Computer…” Ok, our tech still isn’t 23rd century, but we’re getting closer, and here’s a free ebook that shows you how, “The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7” (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft codenames: Do all roads really lead to ‘Rome’? (Mary Jo Foley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Best #iPad Apps – $8.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDBSP (O’Reilly Media)
• Parsing Serial MIDI Messages with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
• New File menu in Zoho Sheet and IE 9 support (Ramesh)
• Microsoft Pivot Gets Re-Released (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 86 (Scott Banwart)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #775 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 20 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 01/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

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