Dew Drop – March 29, 2011

Top Links

• Phoney Tools v0.7 Released (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Encapsulation: You’re Doing It Wrong (Derick Bailey)
• Modifying the default code generation/scaffolding templates in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 1 (Derek Greer)
• async samples 7: Combinators (Bill Wagner)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Difference between two Entity Set using LINQ (Abhijit Jana)
• The Visual Studio Debugger: A new series on an old topic (Cameron Skinner)
• Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 (Mike Taulty)
• TFS Integration Platform Updated Mar 11 (Shai Raiten)
• Working with the New Project Dialog in Visual Studio 2010 and Configuring Offline Help with VS2010 SP1 (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to request a daily build of DevExpress IDE Tools (Alex Skorkin)
• Optimizing Regex Performance, Part 3 (Ron Petrusha)
• An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4 (Bobby Johnson)
• MonoMac Offers .NET Style APIs for Cocoa Development (Jonathan Allen)
• Entity Framework Model Inheritance with SQL CE 4 (Arun Mahendrakar)
• New Azure Tools Roll Out to Mobile Platforms (Jeffrey Meisner)
• List Exporter To CSV (Sacha Barber)

 

Web Development

• LightSwitch and HTML (Michael Washington)
• High Performance Javascript (Anders Janmyr)
• A Collapsible Content Area Using jQuery UI and A jQuery Color Picker for ASP.NET Apps (Joe Stagner)
• Who Needs Classes Anyway? (Davy Brion)
• Facebook C# SDK Tutorial: Getting Started with an ASP.NET MVC 3 Website (With Javascript SDK) (Nathan Totten)
• A first look at the upcoming JavaScript modules (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler (Rick Strahl)
• Scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests with MvcScaffolding (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Azure Worker Role and BasicHttpBinding and the Loch Ness Monster (Christian Martinez)
• WebMatrix Tutorial: Quickly Find Hosting and Deploy Your Web App (Steve Lydford)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing and TypeMock Part 3 (Avi Kaye)
• The Importance of Agile Feedback Loops (Dan Puckett)
• Top 10 Essential Product Owner Characteristics (Peter Saddington)
• Why a Product Owner Team? and Product Owner Team… Who Needs to Play? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Designing For The Future Web (James Gardner)
• Stand Up Meetings Are About More Than Standing (James Kovacs)
• Model Driven Development and Domain Specific Language Best Practices (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• Getting up to BAT: Creating Your First Smoke Tests (John Sonmez)
• New book: Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project (Kim Spilker)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
• WPF 4 DataGrid Row Drag and Drop (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Common Problem with Notifications from a View Model (Nigel Sampson)
• My 10 tips for designing phone apps (Alex Knight)
• TombstoneHelper now in NuGet (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Eric Lippert Talks About Project Roslyn (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Talkin’ C++ with Boris Jabes: C++ Intellisense, Game Development, and Boris Faces His Demons (Charles Torre)
• The Engadget Show – 019: HP’s Jon Rubinstein, Palm TouchPad demo, Nintendo 3DS, Samsung 9 Series (Chad Mumm)
• Ping 96: Mark Russinovich joins us, Zero Day: A Novel, IE9 loves Firefox, 3D app for your phone (Charles Torre & Laura Foy)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials for Technical Decision Makers (Larry Larsen)
• Podcast with CodeItRight (Lisa Feigenbaum)

 

Community / Events

• Mobile Connections – Las Vegas, NV – April 17-21 (Wally McClure)
• Arrive a Day Early and Attend a Boot camp at MIX11 (Wes Yanaga)
• 20 Mix11 HTML5 and JavaScript Sessions (Elijah Manor)
• Nerd Nite Special Edition: The Philadelphia Science Festival! (Philly Nerd Nite)
• VOTE: Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards and MSDN Flash Mid-Atlantic Editorial for March 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mole 2010 at the Portland Area .NET User Group (Josh Smith)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details (Pinal Dave)
• MySQL: splitting aggregate queries (Quassnoi)
• VOTE: Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards and MSDN Flash Mid-Atlantic Editorial for March 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mole 2010 at the Portland Area .NET User Group (Josh Smith)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details (Pinal Dave)
• MySQL: splitting aggregate queries (Quassnoi)
• Does CHECKPOINT write uncommitted data to disk? (Sankar Reddy)

 

SharePoint

• lightning conductor 2007 web part 2.3.0.0 (Brett Lonsdale)
• Social Squared March Release (Lightning Tools)

 

Miscellaneous

• Happy Developers (Brandon Watson)
• Is Putting.Net on Your Resume Bad for your Career? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting that PDF onto your Kindle 3 so you can actually read it… and Good to meet you Source. And you, Source… And you… Using Source Meet to meet about source [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
• Browser Power Consumption—Leading the Industry with Internet Explorer 9 (Walter VonKoch, Matthew Robben & Jason Weber)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: How To Sync Multiple Notebooks in OneNote Mobile on Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Evernote Modernizes Web App, Adds Facebook Sharing (Jennifer Van Grove)
• Microsoft releases Windows Thin PC public test build (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 187 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #822 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 03/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2011 — #1067 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

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