Dew Drop – February 12, 2011

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Top Links

• NuGet 1.1 Released! (Phil Haack)
• Blizzard’s Goal is to Release Diablo III This Year (Brian Crecente)
• Sterling Object-Oriented Database 1.0 RTM (Jeremy Likness)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Source Server and Symbol Server Support in TFS 2010 (Ed Blankenship)
• ODAC Entity Framework and LINQ Beta was Released (Gil Fink)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 with SP1 (Shai Raiten)
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.2856.0 (MS Downloads)
• CodeRush Code Issues technology overview and CodeRush Code Issues overall list (Alex Skorkin)
• How To Build Windows Services in .NET The Easy Way with Topshelf–Part 1 (Keith Elder)

 

Web Development

• Using jQuery Live instead of jQuery Hover function (Hajan Selmani)
• OData, jQuery and datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Detecting which button was clicked in MVC (Simon J. Ince)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Become a patterns & practices Developer! (Bob Brumfield)
• Writing Tests for HealthVault Applications (Eric Gunnerson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft + Nokia and some Windows Phone Radio for Good Measure (Brian Seitz)
• Achievement unlocked: Windows Phone 7 and WireShark combo (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Snoop – The WPF Spy Utility – Release v2.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #6 (Jeff Prosise)
• WPF : Weird 3D Level Tree Like Control (Sacha Barber)
• Windows Phone 7 QuickStarts Live! (Sam Landstrom)
• Exclusive: Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 concept revealed! (Vlad Savov)
• Blend Bits 24–Templating Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• Silverlight Simple MVVM Commanding (Deborah Kurata)
• Reactive Drag and Drop Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Why To Do Today doesn’t have a Live Tile (Nigel Sampson)
• To the Cloud! with Expression Encoder 4 (Don Burnett)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: mvcConf, WP7 Tools update, AsmSpy, JavaScript OO (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Cloud Cover Episode 36 – Mark Russinovich Talks Fabric Controller and Cyber Terrorism (Wade Wegner)

 

Community / Events

• Prism Talk – Infragegistics MVPs (Brian Noyes)
• What does the Microsoft and Nokia alliance mean for developers? (Wally McClure)
• SQL Azure track at the PASS summit (Allen Kinsel)
• The Imagine Cup Challenge! (Aseem Datar)

 

Database

• SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 Toolkit v2 – Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it… (Greg Duncan)
• A NULL Is Not Unknown (Joe Webb)
• SQL SERVER – PAGELATCH_DT, PAGELATCH_EX, PAGELATCH_KP, PAGELATCH_SH, PAGELATCH_UP – Wait Type – Day 12 of 28 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• XMLPad – a new tool in my developer utility belt (Jamie Thomson)
• Khan Academy and BitTorrent partner to deliver P2P educational video (Lee Mathews)
• Caveat utilitor – Can I run two versions of Microsoft Project side-by-side? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Paint.NET v3.5.7 Beta (Build 4058) is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Tools of the trade: Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research (Steve Clayton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 11, 2011  and Interesting Finds: February 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Week Retrospective 19 – Personal Kanban and Agileurls.com (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 11 February 2011 – #27 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• This Week’s Link List (February 11, 2011) (Brian Swan)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars