Dew Drop – February 3, 2011

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Top Links

• Setting the record straight (Yusuf Mehdi)
• Reflections on recent news (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft adds H.264 support to Google Chrome (Ed Bott)
• Pairing is Conversation (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• First CodeGuru Reference Card now available, the C# 4.0 Cheat Sheet (Registration required) (Greg Duncan)
• Moving or Selecting Between Matching Braces vstipEdit0075 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip : Override ToString() in Objects (Steve Smith)
• CodeSmith Generator 5.3.4 with NHibernate 1.2.1 Released (T. DuPont)
• Fun with Noun Pluralization libraries and the .NET Framework (Scott Hanselman)
• CLR Profiler for .NET Framework 4 is now available (Jossef Goldberg)
• Red Gate to Monetize .NET Reflector (Ed Blankenship)
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 8: Working with Proxies (Arthur Vickers)
• Clipboard Tools – Smart Cut and Smart Copy (Alex Skorkin)
• How to determine event subscriptions at runtime (Merrick Chaffer)
• A Simulator for Knuth’s MIX Computer (George Tryfonas)

 

Web Development

• jQuery 1.5′s AJAX rewrite and ASP.NET services: All is well (Dave Ward)
• Dynamically Adding Drop down using JQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Redirecting Routes To Maintain Persistent URLs (Phil Haack)
• RenderPage And Data in ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Pages (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Should Cloud APIs Focus on Client Libraries More Than Endpoints? (Phil Leggetter)
• MSDN Magazine Pivot Viewer Source Code (Howard Dierking)
• The MVC 3.0 IDependencyResolver interface is broken. Don’t use it with Windsor. (Mike Hadlow)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• PragPub Celebrates Agile’s 10th Anniversary (Joey deVilla)
• Apple, Google, or Microsoft? – Which Does Agile Better? (Peter Saddington)
• Lean Principle #6 – Respect People (Kelly Waters)
• Stardate 2011.31.1: Why Me(ssage Brokers)? (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Waterfall Comfort Blanket (Julian Holmes)
• Service location is (not) always evil (Rob Ashton)
• Test Driven Source Control–Safe Points and What are you going to do about it? (Roy Osherove)
• What is Code Metrics (Shai Raiten)
• If Software Was Like The Super Bowl (K. Scott Allen)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Build Your First Silverlight Application for Windows Phone 7 (Justin Whitney)
• Windows Phone 7 Development for Android Dev’s Series (Greg Duncan)
• WCF – Silverlight debugging tips (Hima Bindu Vejella)
• Windows Phone Design Guidelines and Life Cycle: Page State Management (Jesse Liberty)
• Tombstoning Pivot Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone and Tombstoning Panorama Controls in Silverlight for Windows Phone and Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #3 (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows Phone Training Kit – Update (Yochay Kiriaty)
• WP7 Toolkit LongListSelector fix in the latest build: 60973 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Blend Bits 21 – Importing… (Mike Taulty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stephen Toub: Inside TPL Dataflow (Charles Torre)
• Video: Good C# Habits Can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits (Elijah Manor)
• Unit Testing in C++ (Avi Kaye)
• WebMatrix Launch–CodeMash 2011 Recordings Available on Channel 9 (wesy)
• Jeremy on innovation at Microsoft (Kelly Fife)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Archives (Clint Rutkas, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
• AuthorsCast: Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework, Second Edition (Part 1 of 2) and Part 2 of 2 (Lee Dumond)

 

Community / Events

• Presenting at the Expression Blend online group in February (Adam Kinney)
• Australian SharePoint Conference lures global gurus (Paul J. Swider)
• Tech-Ed Israel: MVPs Raise the Bar (Lonnie Webb)
• Microsoft Virtual Tech Days – 9th to 11th Feb 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• The Nineys are Here! (John Papa)

 

Database

• Importing and Exporting SSIS Packages Using PowerShell (Chad Miller)
• What SQL Server Service Pack Do I Have Installed? (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_wait_stats Explanation – Wait Type – Day 3 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Restirct access to Local System Administrators on SQL Server (Pradeep Adiga)
• Implementing end-to-end ordered delivery using Microsoft BizTalk Server and SQL Server Service Broker – New whitepaper on TechNet Wiki (Tim Wieman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Variadic Powershell Functions With Optional Named Params (Harry Pierson)
• Windows Phone 7 Update To Be Released On February 7th? (Dr. Usman)
• Search wars: Microsoft outdoes Google’s copying claim by alleging fraud (Joe Wilcox)
• 4 New PowerShell cmdlets (Josh Topal)
• Gimp Paint Studio expands GIMP with new brushes, presets (Lee Mathews)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Feb 2nd Links: Visual Studio, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, JQuery, Windows Phone (Scott Guthrie)
• The Morning Brew #784 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 2 February 2011 – #18 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Recipes – Helping the Community (Joel Reyes)
• Silverlight Cream for February 02, 2011 — #1039 (Dave Campbell)
• WebDev Tweets 2-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 2th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

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