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Dew Drop – November 10, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

PyKinect (Yep, Python and Kinect, in Visual Studio yet!) (Greg Duncan)
ReSharper 6.1 EAP for Visual Studio 2011 (Hadi Hariri)
New Entity Framework Book(s) Status (Julie Lerman)
Docking External Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
Pyvot for Excel (Mike Stall)
MapWindow GIS v4.8.6 – Final Release – 64Bit (CodePlex)
Further Tales of the Keyboard Ninja (Just* Team)
How to access Service Configuration settings in Windows Azure Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)
POLAR – Creating a Virtual Machine in .NET (Paulo Zemek)
Building a .NET Quality Control Tool for Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies (Kevin Ha)

Web Development

Refactoring MVC Routes (Deran Schilling)
ASP.NET MVC: Converting business objects to select list items (Gunnar Peipman)
Backbone.js: Object Literals, Views Events, jQuery, and `el` (Derick Bailey)
6 for 5… Six lesson class for HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
Announcing JesCov – JavaScript code coverage (Ola Bini)
Web applications with the Play framework (Giorgio Sironi)
Improving the JavaScript typeof operator (Axel Rauschmayer)
Adobe puts full support behind HTML5, leaves Flash to standalone mobile apps (Tim Conneally)
Recipe for a Brittle Data Service (G. Andrew Duthie)
Web sites vs Web apps (Rockford Lhotka)
Your users don’t care if you use Web Sockets (Scott Hanselman)
Programming for the future of mobile (Jef Claes)
Learn from my Express.js HTTP status code blunder (Dave Ward)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.359 (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and DevExpress XAF (Patrick Liekhus)
People, NOT Technology (Peter Saddington)
Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop (Steve Schoeffel)
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit (Thomas Weller)
Code Analysis for All (Tim Burrell)
New Article: Best Practices for Performance Improvements Using Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Ruppert Koch)
TDD With Roy Osherove (Rob Conery)
#Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Readable Code – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
Is Implementing Continuous Delivery the key to success? (Paul Stack)
Getting your App Continuously Tested (Maria Marcano)
Sound vs. Valid Argument (Mark Pearl)
Arity (Chris Eargle)
MSpec Runnner Available for ReSharper 6.1 EAP (Hadi Hariri)
The last vestiges of Hungarian notation (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

The New "ListPicker Learning Pack" : Solution to all your ListPicker problems and GART Geo AR Toolkit and Getting Started with Windows Phone Reminders (Windows Phone Geek)
Blend 5 and Visual Studio 11 feedback – The Future of Windows 8 Development (Benjamin Laffont)
Inside Windows Phone Apps – IMDb (Sara Allison)
2000 WPF Things #427 – Changing Margins from Within Blend (Sean Sexton)
The differences between IE9 on the desktop and IE9 on WP7 (Martin Beeby)
Styling Windows Phone Silverlight Applications (Tim Murphy)
WP7: Northern Lights WP7 Toolkit v0.0.1 (Bjorn Kuiper)
Building Microsoft Exchange client for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
Putting back functionality left out of VB Core – ( If you can’t live without Mid when writing WP7 apps 😉 ) (VBTeam)
What if “Microsoft” were in our shoes? About Windows Phone (Vijaya Malla)
How to Control Screen Layouts in LightSwitch (Chris D.)
Live Tiles in WP Mango (Daniel Egan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Mix Kinect and Metro (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
SPLASH 2011: Gilad Bracha – Dart, Newspeak, and More and Microsoft DevCamps: Free, Fun, No-Fluff Events for Developers (Charles Torre)
Information Integration – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
The Verge Mobile Podcast 001 – 11.09.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
What The Tech 92: Just Like RIM (Paul Thurrott)
There’s Something About Nolock: Webcast Video (Kendra Little)
SE Podcast #26 (Alex Miller)
Toji: The Psake Based, Nuget Powered Canned Build of Awesome (Bobby Johnson)

Community / Events

VS Live Orlando in December (Rockford Lhotka)
A Coder Interview With Al-Farooque Shubho (The Code Project)
TEDxPhilly 2011: The City [Recap] (Bianca)

Database

SharePoint

Two New User Adoption and Engagement Strategies: ShareLab and ShareLove (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

What is Bill Gates reading? 5 books on helping world’s poor (Michele Matassa Flores)
Microsoft Download Manager (MS Downloads)
Yesterday’s Patch Tuesday delivers some OneNote 2010 goodness too. Free update to improve OneNote 2010’s SkyDrive and sync features… (Greg Duncan)
Samsung jumps on the ‘Windows 8 in second half of 2012’ bandwagon (Mary Jo Foley)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman

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Dew Drop – November 4, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Lazy Loading in C# (Suprabhat Paul)
Using lambdas – C++ vs. C# vs. C++/CX vs. C++/CLI (Nishant Sivakumar)
Track Changes and Advance Scroll Mode in Visual Studio 2010 (Christian D. Yellington)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Generic Action Delegates (James Michael Hare)
Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Alpha (CodePlex)
DevForce Code First with AOP (Ward Bell)
Be a Keyboard Ninja! (Just* Team)
Project2NuGet (Greg Duncan)
Source code for OneCal (John Guin)
Overriding part registration conventions with the MEF attributes (Nick)
Application State, Suspension and Termination of Apps in WinRT (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

Using the NetAdvantage jQuery Chart to Explore Over One Million Items of USGS Data (Graham Murray)
Full-height app layouts: Navigation and History (Steve Sanderson)
Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls – Check them out (John Petersen)
Using a virtual machine to play with multiple versions of PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
WebMatrix 2 Beta (Vishal R. Joshi)
MetroBlog: Windows8 Metro Styled Blog (Justin Angel)
Bing Webmaster Tools Fall Updates (Duane Forrester)
Open Source Simple Twitter Client written in JavaScript (Titanium) (Michael Sync)
How to read Windows Azure Application Endpont IP Address and Port values in the Startup Task (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Retreaded: ContextualValidation (Martin Fowler)
Comparison extension method for unit testing (Denis Pitcher)
Best and Most Up-to-date Agile/Lean Books (Jurgen Appelo)
INF3720 – Interaction Design Chapter 5 Summary (Mark Pearl)
Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples (MS Downloads)
Mercurial 2.0 Released with LargeFiles extension (Alex Blewitt)
Coded UI tests : AutomationId or how to find the chose one (control) ! (Jonathan Antoine)
A Faster Way to File Bugs in BugTracker (Celina)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Announcing: Phone as a Remote Control (Peter Kuhn)
Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth| Part2: Data Binding and “Top Windows Phone Dev Tools” section is now Live! and WP7Contrib, Caliburn Micro and AgFx added to the Top Windows Phone Dev Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
Introduction to Resource Washing in NetAdvantage for Silverlight 11.2 (Damyan Petev)
Thinking of Pinned Apps conceptually on Windows Phone (Adam Kinney)
Getting started with Windows Phone 7 development (4) – Displaying data from webservice (Anders Poulsen)
300 Windows Phone 7 Icons, Creative Commons (with *.XAML, *.Design and *.PNG) (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #423 – Setting Maximum Height and Width for Rows and Columns in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone Design Tips #4 (Andrew Spooner)
31 Days of Mango | Day #4: Compass (Jeff Blankenburg)
The LOB Chronicles Episode 12 : Looking at a (Rad)GridView (Evan Hutnick)
XamMultiColumnComboEditor (Atanas Dyulgerov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Announcing Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Alpha (Charles Torre)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 041 – “Kinect a Mole” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Reza Malekzadeh Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Check Out Steve Jobs In A Rare, Unedited Interview From 1990 (AAPL) (Dylan Love)
Inside Microsoft Research: The Research Behind Kinect (Rob Knies)

Community / Events

Baton Rouge Windows Phone User Group (Chris Koenig)
Surface MVP Helps Develop Breakthrough Tool to Diagnose Autism (MVP Award Program)
Salute to the MVPs and a Nod to MVP Wannabes (Joel Oleson)
Five Questions: Imagine That (Mike Desmond)
It’s big. It’s in NYC. It’s a secret (for now). (Michael Stroh)
Touring Microsoft’s Technology Center Campus in Malvern (Daniel Olivieri)
I work for Microsoft now (David Vidmar)
JobsBlog roll call: Meet our team – and introduce yourself! (Gretchen Ledgard)
A Coder Interview With Dan Mohl (The Code Project)

Database

SQL Server 2012 Edition and Licensing Revamp Round-up and SQL Kinection (Greg Duncan)
SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Edition (Jorge Segarra)
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Interview Questions And Answers Book Summary and SQL SERVER 2012 Editions – Highlights of The Cloud-Ready Information Platform (Pinal Dave)
SSIS Interview questions – Answers (Ted Krueger)
Book Review – Effective MySQL (Sean Hull)

Miscellaneous

All Your Base Are Belong to Us: A Videogame History Book (Jonathan Liu)
November Oracle Technology Network Offers (Oracle Technology Network)
Profanity doesn’t work and Google+ Ripples brings something interesting to the table (Scott Hanselman)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg & Christopher Bennage

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