Dew Drop – April 10, 2011

Top Links

• NuGet package for Sharp Architecture (Alec Whittington)
• 7 things Microsoft should do at MIX11 and probably won’t (Joe Wilcox)
• Introducing LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: a new fluent query API (Frans Bouma)
• How Microsoft IT Does Cloud Computing and Cloud Scenarios Hub on TechNet (JD Meier)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• ditto : with regard to AutoMapper (Michael Nichols)
• Historical Debugging (Intellitrace) on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Part-2 and View Call Hierarchy window in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 4 (mikefourie)
• Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
• C# Yield Return Fun (Rob Miles)
• [Book Review] NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 and Known Issue with OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (beta) Dependency Checker (Brian Keller)
• NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)

 

Web Development

• HTML Brain Teaser: When Divs and Headings Collide (Rob Conery)
• Getting Constructive On ASP.NET Deployment (Rob Conery)
• A jQuery Combo Box for ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
• Scott Guthrie on Microsoft WebMatrix (Devon Musgrave)
• ASP.NET MVC: Using NonActionAttribute to restrict access to public methods of controller (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Product Design And Expectations (Rob Diana)
• CodePlex: Pull Request Diff Notes, Adding Changesets, and a Vertical Splitter (Matt Hawley)
• NUnit Comparison Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: A broken home (controller) and Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The case for the view model (Oren Eini)
• Why Sign Up and Sign In Should Never Go Together (Anthony)
• ALM Practices Part 4: Common Code Layout (Dennis Doomen)
• On deprecation (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be (Jef Claes)
• Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture (Michael Sahota)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Nullable WPF ComboBox (seesharper)
• Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Building Caliburn.Micro’s NuGet Package (Rob Eisenberg)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar (Chris Love)
• The Making Of An Windows Phone 7 App (Dani Diaz)
• Jounce Part 15: Asynchronous Sequential Workflows (Jeremy Likness)
• Null Reference from Simple Container in Caliburn Micro (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows Phone 7, XNA and Farseer Physics. And source… and a game… and… (Greg Duncan)
• Announcing TouchStudio (Nikolai Tillmann)
• So what’s the difference between Custom Control and User Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Windows Phone 7 Template for Social Reading Applications and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono IV: Content and Resource Files and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access (Nick Randolph)
• Wpf Over Websockets (WoW) – How to Pump WPF windows & animations to browsers over HTML5 Websockets And Canvas (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Webcam Support in Silverlight 4 to capture Video (Suprotim Agarwal)
• WPF–Show Dialog with backdrop (Tim Hibbard)
• Dependency Properties Made Easy (David Kelley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Get Started With the Azure Service Bus? (MS Podcasts)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 394: Michael Jackson Experince for Kinect and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 235 – 04.08.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 43 – Scalable Counters with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Windows Phone Radio 22 (Brian Seitz)
• TWC9: Happy Birthday Ch9, MIX11, The Nineys & Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
• Windows Weekly 203: The ROMs Are Out There (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Viva Las Vegas – Team IE @ MIX11 (Scott Armstrong)
• Stack Overflow World-Wide MeetUps – Success! (Rebecca Chernoff)
• Tech Ed North America 2011 (Cameron Skinner)
• MVPs at Microsoft India TechEd 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
• Mix 2011: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone, IE9, HTML5, and a liveblog! (Kip Kniskern)
• A Geek’s Guide to Camping (Jim O’Neil)
• Imagine Cup US Finals Day 2–Be The Change! (Bob Familiar)
• What Am I Doing on the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Team (JD Meier)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Monitor Long SQL Agent Jobs (Madhivanan)
• Bulk loading data into a merge replicated table and Compress Data Partition Snapshots with SSIS – SQL University (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Add New Column With Default Value and SQL SERVER – TempDB in RAM for Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Be careful when passing around parameters, make sure they are the same size and type (Denis Gobo)
• Observing – Optimize for Ad Hoc Workload server option (Kim Tessereau)
• Find Table Heaps Using Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
• I’m a DBA, what do I need those tools for! Oh, yeah… for that… and that… and that… and… (Greg Duncan)

 

SharePoint

• Download Guide for SharePoint Online Development (Bruce Kyle)

 

Miscellaneous

• [Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
• Is Microsoft dead meat without a tablet? (Joe Wilcox)
• Quiz: How well do you know your Microsoft Empire? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem? (Rob Bazinet)
• ChevronWP7 updater pulled, places phones into ‘non-serviceable state’ of mind (Tim Stevens)
• RTM’d Today: Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Valerie Woolley)
• Bing turns on HTML5 UI (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 8, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 9, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.01 ~ 04.10 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 97 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• WebDev Tweets 7-Apr-2011 and 8-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Week Retrospective 27 – Podcast and Perfect Workshop Crafting (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 03-April-2011 to 09-April-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Weekly Links– 2010_14 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Links of the week #148 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2011 — #1072 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

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