codemash – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 13, 2011

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Top Links

SQL Server Compact 4.0 released! (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM and ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax and IIS 7.5 Express (MS Downloads)
WebMatrix Released to Web (Markus Egger)
WP7 “Phantom Data” Source Possibly Revealed? (Bil Simser)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 designer error: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: objectType (Giorgetti Alessandro)
25% discount on all Microsoft books from Packt (Silverlight Show)
ANTS Memory Profiler Review (Sasha Goldshtein)
RTM’d Today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
Enterprise Library Extensibility (Grigori Melnik)
Reference of namespaces in OData (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Phonetic Comparisons using the Soundex Algorithm (Jonathan Wood)
DXCore abstract source tree structure (Alex Skorkin)
Visual Basic is Losing Its Runtime Library (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

Writing a Custom HTTP Handler in ASP.NET (Jonathan Wood)
Geomap Project – HTML Extensions for Rendering Map Displays (Chris Pietschmann)
The CSS Corner: CSS3 Media Queries (Sharon Newman)
HTML5 “standard”? (Rockford Lhotka)
IntelliSense for Razor Hosting in non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage (Stephen Walther)
Announcing YUI 3.3.0 (Satyen Desai)
Adding a Multi-Column Search to the Default List page in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
WebMatrix shipping January 13, 2011 (Lawrence Moroney)
Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs and Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
How to use IIS Manager to get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) details information ? (Abhijit Jana)
Feature Sample for Microsoft WebMatrix with Razor – Beta 3 (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: IntegrationContractTest (Martin Fowler)
12 Key Agile Thinking Tools (Mike Cottmeyer)
TDD for algorithms: the state of the art (Giorgio Sironi)
Polymorphism and Messaging (Udi Dahan)
Programming is not a Craft: My Take (David Starr)
Stardate 2011.12.1: Hasty Decisions (Kyle Szklenski)
Secrets of rapid release cycles, from the Google Chrome team (Andy Singleton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

HTML5: The WebSockets prototype with Silverlight, HTML Bridges and JavaScript (Jef Claes)
How to run multiple instances of the Windows Phone 7 emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
Working with gradients in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
Windows Phone 7: Pinch Gesture Sample (Peter Kuhn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Phil Japikse is All About BDD (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Programming Streams of Coincidence with Join and GroupJoin for Rx (Charles Torre)
Excel 25th Anniversary – Part One (Tina Wood)
Talking with Don Knuth, software pioneer (Robert Scoble)
Microsoft Research: Opportunities and innovation (Kelly Fife)
WP7 Minute Episode VI–Find My Phone (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

Mobile Connections in Las Vegas April 17-21 (Wally McClure)
CodeMash Precompiler Morning Thoughts (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
WebMatrix Launch–Today at CodeMash (Jim O’Neil)
Paul Culmsee and 21 Apps join up for Information Mapping & Info Architecture Master Classes (Joel Oleson)

Database

Miscellaneous

#Video Deal/Day: Crap Detection 101 – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCRP (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Interesting .NET Links – January 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
SilverlightShow for Jan 3-9, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2011 — #1025 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #769 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 01/12/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Ten Great Articles on WCF RIA Services (Frank La Vigne)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren

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Dew Drop – January 18, 2010

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Top Links

New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services (Dan Wahlin)
Coding is not Kata (Sara Ford)
UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Oleg Sych)
VS2010 Architecture Explorer Analyzers (Clemens Reijnen)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft Updates "MultiPoint Mouse SDK" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
Getting the System Up Time (Richard Carr)
Book Review: F# for Technical Computing (Granville Barnett)
Skipping the SMTP line with Postmark (Daniel Crenna)
Repeat your last search (Zain Naboulsi)
Coding: Missing abstractions and LINQ (Mark Needham)
10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 6. The Event Wiring Facility (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

Editable Routes (Phil Haack)
Populating Hierarchical Data Using Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
Creating an external facing Azure Worker Role endpoint (Maarten Balliauw)
Why choose between Ajax or MVC ? Together they KISS so sweet… (Peter Van Ooijen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Building software that matters: two books you absolutely have to read (Gojko Adzic)
Is There A Good Reason To Hide Inherited Members? (Davy Brion)
DVCS (Distributed Version Control System): support for agile? (Jeffrey Palermo)
Interface-Oriented Design – Book Review (Sharon J. Cichelli)
Dependency Injection Inversion (Uncle Bob Martin)
Avoiding The Typical Software Development World Stereotypes – Part 2. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight Breakpoints Not Being Hit (Christopher Bennage)
Restricted Pan and Zoom in WPF (Tony Rasa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

PM Podcast 138: Delivering SharePoint Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
Get Your Questions Answered on Silverlight TV (John Papa)
Major Nelson Show 347: Welcome to 2010 (Larry Hyrb)
This Week in Testing – Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 1) (Dror Helper)
Episode 98- PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski from PowerShellCommunity.org (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Community / Events

The CodeMash Precompiler Part 0 (Leon Gersing)
Free Developer Training for Windows Mobile 6.5 (Bruce Kyle)
What Is Wrong With My Blog? (Justin Etheredge)
Happy 4th Birthday jQuery (Mike Ceranski)
Microsoft MVPs for Charity (Stephen Forte)
Contribute to Assembla development to earn money, glory, and get the feature you want (Andy Singleton)

Database

Hey Microsoft, Our Databases Aren’t Services! (Davy Brion)
SQL Server PowerShell Extensions – Release: v2.0.1 Production (CodePlex)

SharePoint

Free Download: SharePoint eMagazine (1st Issue) (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell Module Manifests Tip: allowed cmdlets and variables (Joel Bennett)
Microsoft Surface Rocks the Red Carpet at the Golden Globes (Steve Seow)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #519 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for January 17, 2010 — #781 (Dave Campbell)
Weekly Links #88 (Grant Palin)
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 1/18/2010 (Pete Brown)
A Feed You Should Read #20 – blogs.msdn.com (Greg Duncan)
Links (1/17/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
Some Azure Links (Sam Gentile)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Dew Drop – January 17, 2010

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Top Links

10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 5. The Startable Facility (Mike Hadlow)
The Value Driven Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
I Am Not CodeMash (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

Learning to LINQ, provider that is – Writing a LINQ To Wikipedia provider walkthrough (Greg Duncan)
Some Common Operations using List – Part II (Suprotim Agarwal)
InjectionFactory and Automatic Factories in Unity 2 – Tutorials and Examples (David Hayden)
Search for the currently-selected string without bringing up the Find window (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

Accessing a Web Service Using Sys.Net.Webrequest (Anup Hosur)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Pair Programming continued (Mark Nijhof)
Programmer Tip: Have The Spine To Question Authority (And Your Manager). (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 139: Big Trouble In Little Paul (Paul Thurrott)
TWC9 – Clint Rutkas, Photoshop results, MVC 2 resources galore (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

On self-promotion, lies, and being a woman (Rachel Andrew)
What three events brought you here? (Paul S. Randal)
Interview with Silverlightshow.net and a sneak preview of my next articles (András Velvárt)

Database

SQL SERVER – Get Server Version and Additional Info (Pinal Dave)
Scripting Indexes (Patrick LeBlanc)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Updates Live Meeting Console & Outlook Conference Add-In for Office 2010 and Microsoft Releases "System State Analyzer Tool" for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
New, Improved Comments with @reply (Jeff Atwood)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 16, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Interesting Post… 1/11/2010 through 1/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

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