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)
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Dew Drop – March 9, 2011
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Top Links
- NuGet Action Plan – Upgrade to 1.1, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Jason Zander)
- WCF Data Services March 2011 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
- Async Samples Part 1 (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Use credential manager to use TFS shell extension in a workgroup or outside a domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Support dynamic fields with NHibernate and .NET 4.0 (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio 2010 and HW acceleration on Windows XP… (Jeremy Alles)
- Visual Studio Find in Files Overwhelmed With External JavaScript (Kathleen Dollard)
- Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
- Working with unmanaged and IDisposable resources in WF (Rory Primrose)
- IronPython – Release: v2.7 RC2 (CodePlex)
- New Book by Windows Azure MVP David Pallmann, "The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning", Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
- Monad tutorial, part 2 (Brian Marick)
- Windows Azure Use Case: Infrastructure Limits (Buck Woody)
- "A Day of Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform" (Joe Hummel)
Web Development
- Creating PDF Documents with ASP.NET and iTextSharp (Scott Mitchell)
- ASP.NET Custom Repeater Control with EmptyTemplate, ShowHeaderWhenEmpty,ShowFooterWhenEmpty,ShowCount Properties (Abhijit Jana)
- TextBox Input Watermark using jQuery and Is it the end for the AJAX Control Toolkit ? (Joe Stagner)
- Comparing Hardware Accelerated SVG across Browsers with Santa’s Workshop (Seth McLaughlin)
- Improving User Experience: Preload Images (Jan Lehmann)
- datajs now available on NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Kanban, System Archetypes and Limits to Success (Karl Scotland)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Spy (Giorgio Sironi)
- How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010 ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Unit Testing (Richard Carr)
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coding Convensions (Dror Helper)
- Productivity Tip: Dry Erase Markers and Mirrors (G. Andrew Duthie)
- How Can I Make This More Testable? (Howard Dierking)
- Lessons learnt from failure (Grigori Melnik)
- At Microsoft, NUI goes beyond fun and games (Mary Jo Foley)
- Testing conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Notification Control (Nigel Sampson)
- XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 6 – Input (accelerometer) (Peter Kuhn)
- Native Extensions further to blur the boundary between Silverlight and WPF (Jonathan Allen)
- Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight 4: SketchFlow for Prototyping UI using Expression Blend 4 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- ChainedPropertyObserver (Sacha Barber)
- An Update on Windows Phone Marketplace; new tips, policies and regional access program (Todd Brix)
- WP7 PerformanceProgressBar in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 142: Matt Casto on Offline Applications (David Giard)
- DimeCasts.NET Episode #190: Rake: Learning to use Rake With MSBuild (Derik Whittaker)
- Let’s Play TDD #92: InvalidDollars Gets an Icon (James Shore)
- Hot Apps: Tiki Towers, Flickr, Bubblegum, Royalty, Word Tangle FREE and TechFest 2011: ShadowDraw and TechFest 2011: Mobile Photography- Capture, process and View (Laura Foy)
- Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – Stay Connected and Social Media (Pinal Dave)
- The official Xbox PAX East Schedule (Larry Hyrb)
- Get DevReady with MVVM (Dani Diaz)
- The need for participation, compassion, & community in the classroom (and lecture hall) (Garr Reynolds)
- Celebrating International Women’s Day (Microsoft JobsBlog
)
Database
- T-SQL Tuesday #016 – TOP N Percent for the group (Naomi)
- Geek City: What gets logged for index rebuild operations? (Kalen Delaney)
- Links to the Shard’s – Linking to Sharded SQL Azure Databases (Greg Duncan)
SharePoint
- Technical reference for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
- SharePoint 2010 – Starter Taxonomies Now Available (Andrew Connell)
- Create SQL Server Dashboard in SharePoint (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- Just Published: Feb. 14-Mar. 7 | 2010 SharePoint Dev content (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching (Dirk Metzmacher)
- Sale: Save 40 Percent on Books from Microsoft Press (Kim Spilker)
- IE9 final release due next week, will you use it? (Kip Kniskern)
- The & in Microsoft R&D (Steve Clayton)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #808 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for Feb 28 – March 06, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 — #1056 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Community Curators, your one stop link shops (Greg Duncan)
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Dew Drop – February 22, 2011
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Top Links
- Two Caliburn Releases in One Day! (Rob Eisenberg)
- Windows Phone Pivot Control: Enable text wrapping for the Title (Jeff Wilcox)
- Not Everything Has a DeclaredType (Jason Bock)
- Academics, Enthusiasts to Get Kinect SDK (Rob Knies)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating Visual Studio Code Snippets (Richard Carr)
- Getting Added And Deleted Items In A List Using LINQ (Abhijit Jana)
- Office 2010 Sample: Open XML SDK 2.0 Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 (MS Downloads)
- Migrate MsTest of database edition to VS2010 (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Exploring Windows Azure Storage APIs By Building a Storage Explorer Application (Paolo Salvatori)
- Adding a Reference inside a NuGet project (Paul Betts)
- Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL (Pete Brown)
- Extending the BizTalk ESB Toolkit – Orchestration (Scott Banwart)
- NuGet Fluent Cassandra (Nick Berardi)
- WiX It – A (The?) free and (all?) powerful Setup/MSI builder (Greg Duncan)
- Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Windows Azure for developers Task4: Error Attaching the debugger in Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and Windows Azure For Developers Task 5: Configuring Virtual Machine sizes (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Never Say Never, Part One (Eric Lippert)
- TypeInference where T : AssumptionsAreWrong (Bill Wagner)
- ColorPicker Controls for WinForms (Jonathan Wood)
Web Development
- Design style for OData in datajs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- User Interface for Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.0 (Jorge)
- Python 3.2 Released (Python.org)
- Last Session Debugging Value using Data Tips (Abhijit Jana)
- Custom Data Annotation Validator Part I : Server Code (K. Scott Allen)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Book Review: Object-oriented Software Metrics (Patrick Kua)
- Let’s Play Name That SDLC: Volume 1 (David J. Bland)
- Security in the Software Development Lifecycle (Srini Penchikala)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- 0-60 with a Windows Phone 7 app (Andy Robb)
- Creating theme friendly UI in WP7 using OpacityMask (Windows Phone Geek)
- Our first Windows Phone update—and how to get it (Michael Stroh)
- Windows Phone 7 first update rolls in – not NoDo (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Attaching a Command to the WP7 Application Bar. (Michael Crump)
- What difference does a sprite sheet make? (Peter Kuhn)
- Simple menu for your WP7 application (Rudi Grobler)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Udi Dahan Clarifies CQRS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Engadget Podcast 233 – 02.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
- AuthorsCast: Stephen Baker on Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything (Lee Dumond)
- Community Megaphone Podcast Show #24 at CMAP Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Community / Events
- How Should the PASS Nominating Committee Be Selected? and How To Write Better Queries WebCast (Joe Webb)
- CSLA .NET at Open Source Fest: MIX11 (Rockford Lhotka)
- Microsoft photographers’ book raises over $60K for the United Way (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - The life of a journalist at HIMSS (Neil Versel)
- Open Source Fest at MIX11 (John Papa)
- vNext (Rudi Grobler)
- Events This Week – February 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Database
- Five Favorite Free SQL Server Downloads (Brent Ozar)
- Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with Desktop Private Deployment and a Setup project (MSI) (part 2) (Erik EJ)
- SQL Server Concurrency Series from the CAT (Customer Advisory Team) and Free Training SQL Server Training DVD’s (or online) from Quest (reg-ware) – 12 Sessions, Two DVD’s, Zero cost… (Greg Duncan)
- Shameless Self-Promotion – Introduction to SQL Server [Book] (K. Brian Kelley)
- SQL Server: First Day of Previous Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Jacob Sebastian – Filestream – Wait Types – Wait Queues – Day 22 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
- What does a SQL Server developer need to know? (Denis Gobo)
Miscellaneous
- The Windows 8 tablet interface to feature live tiles similar to WP7 (Phone Arena)
- List of all post Windows 7 and Windows 8 builds (Brad Sams)
- Academic Earth – Free and easy access to full video courses and lectures (from Yale, UCLA, Harvard, Berkley, MIT, Stanford and more) and [Preview Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
- Amazon Prime members now get streaming movies, TV shows (Lee Mathews)
- MVPs for Office 365: How to create a secured kiosk access with Office 365? (Lonnie Webb)
- Windows 8 roadmap: A picture is worth a thousand build numbers (Mary Jo Foley)
- Unicode 6.0.0 is [actually] released! (Michael S. Kaplan)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMTW (O’Reilly Media)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 02.14 ~ 02.22 (yuanjian)
- The Morning Brew #797 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for February 21, 2011 — #1049 (Dave Campbell)
- Weekly Article Digest 02/21/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/22/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News Feb 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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