Dew Drop – May 6, 2011

Top Links

• EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide… (Colin Eberhardt)
• Pull Request Listing, Recent Releases in Followed Projects, and Projects You May Like (Matt Hawley)
• MSDN Patterns & Practices introduces Project Silk, a web guidance project (Rachel Appel)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The LINQ Set Operations — they’re not just for math! (James Michael Hare)
• Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
• New Windows Azure Connect Features Add New Locations, Enhance Interface (Windows Azure Team)
• Is Mono dead? Is Novell dying? (Rob Conery)
• Generate better NHibernate logs (Jose Romaniello)
• Must-have resource for Azure developers (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

 

Web Development

• HTML 4 to 5 Cheat sheet, see what’s new and removed for Tags and Attributes. (Greg Duncan)
• Calling Web Service Page Methods with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Microsoft ASP.NET – Too many options (Peter Gfader)
• ASP.NET MVC: Getting selected values from CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 Beta Released (Andy Robb)
• New IE9 Developer Content on MSDN (IE Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The conflict between agile and architecture (part 1) (Simon Brown)
• My Work with Scrum.org (David Starr)
• Tips for UI Tests with GWT: HTML IDs, or “How to buy votes” (Kyle Baley)
• Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
• Best practices: Dynamics of Software Development, 2006 Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Lifecycle of singleton objects (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (Anthony T)
• A Fluent Backwards Design (Jeremy Likness)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building CTA Bus Tracker for WP7 – Part 1 (Erik Klimczak)
• Part 4b – Hello piggy and Part 4a – Raising the floor and Part 4c – Launching our pig and Part 4 – Three, two, one… launch! (Jo de Greef)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
• At look at the Lync SDK with Marcelo Farjalla (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #47: WCF Web API with Glenn Block and Scott Seely (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• Silverlight TV 71: Laurent Bugnion, Luigi Rosso, and Ward Bell Talk Silverlight 5 at MIX11 (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• It’s Not Too Late to Attend – or Host – A Windows Azure Boot Camp Near You! (Windows Azure Team)
• May 2011 Edition of Philly Nerd Nite (Nerd Nite)
• Developer Stand up Comedy – Coding 4 Fun (Scott Hanselman)
• Join the Open Source Un-Contest and Get a Free eBook from O’Reilly (Joe Stagner)
• Announcement: Richard Hale Shaw Seminar in Ann Arbor (Bill Wagner)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Video – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 8 – Server Monitoring – Baseline (Ted Krueger)
• Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Database maintenance for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 design samples: Corporate portal with classic or claims-based authentication (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint: Create Dashboard with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SharePoint and Azure Integration Opportunities (Vishwas Lele)

 

Miscellaneous

• BizTalk 2010 VHD (MS Downloads)
• 2011 Ultimate Tools List for Mac (Ben Scheirman)
• Right click DMP your Windows Explorer – Creating file association and context menu for WinDbg (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Adobe AIR – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDAAR (O’Reilly Media)
• Commerce Tracking with Google Analytics for Android (Tim Bray)
• Install Ruby on Rails on Windows Easily with Rails Installer (David Hayden)
• ‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Home Server 2011 Will Protect Your Data (Richard Hay)
• Musings on ebooks (Martin Fowler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: Cinco de Mayo 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #846 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 by Chris G. Williams