Dew Drop – March 13, 2011

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Top Links

• Simplify your Visual Studio 2010 Toolbar and Free Your Mind (Scott Hanselman)
• Async Samples 3 (Bill Wagner)
• My First Reflector 7 Addin– Silverlight Opener (Jason Haley)
• Autofac 2.4.5 Release (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• A LINQ Style Median Operator (Richard Carr)
• NHibernate Profiler update: Client Profile & NHibernate 3.x updates (Oren Eini)
• Manipulating LINQ To SQL command text (Chris Cavanagh)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Maor David-Pur)
• Using CSLA 4: Data Access draft available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Android Emulator – Increasing Performance Suggestions for MonoDroid and The Android Emulator Keyboard (Wally McClure)
• New NServiceBus Feature: 32-bit (x86) Host Process (Jonathan Oliver)
• EFProf First Look: profiling a DevForce SL app (Ward Bell)
• BusinessFailureScope activity with deep nested support (Rory Primrose)
• Internals to .NET (Abhishek Sur)
• Find your DataContext (Bob Bartholomay)
• Saving your API key with nuget.exe (David Ebbo)

 

Web Development

• Referencing HTML Elements via JavaScript (Kirupa)
• Change TextBox Style when DropdownList value Change in ASP.NET using jQuery and TextBox and Textarea Style Change on Focus using jQuery (Abhijit Jana)
• My FubuMVC, StructureMap, and StoryTeller Plans (Jeremy Miller)
• ASP.NET Accordions with jQueryUI (Joe Stagner)
• Using jQuery with ASP.NET Master Page (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Sueetie Celebrates Turning 3.1 (Dave Burke)
• How to find your location inside Internet Explorer 9 (Don Burnett)
• Keeping WebSockets alive (Jef Claes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Automation Is Also For Developers (Shai Raiten)
• NUnit Testing Framework (Richard Carr)
• Programmers make Excellent Testers – Arguments and Counter Arguments (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Random Thoughts on Good Programmers and Good Code (Jay Fields)
• Using AppHarbor for Continuous Integration (Chris Missal)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Lazy Load XAML content from External File and Vice Versa (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating a Silverlight Out-of-Browser Splash Screen (Michael Wolf)
• Deal with Performance in WPF applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 7: Creating Service Account in new Silverlight based Azure Portal and Binding XML File to Data Grid in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF LiveLessons code demos (Jason Rainwater)
• Application Library Caching in Silverlight 4 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Building a CoverFlow visualization using Quartz Composer (Pavan Podila)
• Jounce Part 13: Navigation Parameters (Jeremy Likness)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 390: Pax East – Xbox LIVE Enforcement: Tales from the Din Part 3: The Conclusioning and Show 391: The PAX East Show (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Phone Radio 21 (Brian Seitz)
• GDC 2011 – a quick overview! (Tina Wood)
• Monad tutorial, part 3 (Brian Marick)
• TWC9: Recap of VS 2010 SP1, IE9 RTW set for Mar 14, Hack your house & cockroaches (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Weekly 199: I Feel Funny In My Pants (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Webinar – Neudesic’s Application Lifecycle Management for SharePoint (Senthil Kumar)
• Free Parallel Programming Workshops Coming to DC (Frank La Vigne)
• SVG Open 2011: Where SVG meets the Web (Patrick Dengler)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 and SQL SERVER – Pending IO request in SQL Server – DMV (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Auto Converts True or False to a bit (Andy Lohn)
• A Small Collection of SQL Azure Queries (Glenn Berry)
• Ever had poor performance saving files in SSMS over slow network? (Paul S. Randal)

 

Miscellaneous

• Coding envy? Pex4fun on your WP7 phone (Jonathan de Halleux)
• ETL and Building Intelligence Behind Semantic Search (Lynda Moulton)
• More Deep Dive Info, Including Abstracts from the PowerShell Team (Travis Jones)
• Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hits 10,000 Apps (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 12, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• New and Notable 416 (Sam Gentile)
• This Week’s Link List (March 11, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Distributed Weekly 93 (Scott Banwart)
• 14 Useful .NET Debugging Tips & Tricks in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 11, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Week Retrospective 23 – Agile Hippies and The Death of the Iteration (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 11th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 03/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 10-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Links of the week #143 (David Vidmar)

 

The Geek Shelf

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