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Dew Drop – September 8, 2011

Dew Drop – Holiday Edition – December 23, 2010

I’ll be back on Sunday, 12/26 with a fresh batch of links.

.NET / Visual Studio

MonoDevelop plugin for F# now available (Don Syme)
Design objects first, then create the DB (Dennis Delimarsky)
C# Closure Constructors (Mike Hadlow)
Application and Page Level Tracing (Zain Naboulsi)
A Text Parsing Helper Class (Jonathan Wood)
DXCore Services – Project (Alex Skorkin)
Talking Distinctions (Ariel Raunstien)

Web Development

A Whistle-stop Tour of jQuery (Pete O’Hanlon)
Resetting Form Field Values in an ASP.NET WebForm (Scott Mitchell)
YUI 3.3.0 Preview Release 3 (Eric Miraglia)
Happy Hardware Accelerated Holidays (Rob Mauceri)
ASP.NET MVC: Using ProfileRequiredAttribute to restrict access to pages and ASP.NET and WIF: Showing custom profile username as User.Identity.Name (Gunnar Peipman)
Setting up a CloudFront Mirroring CDN in 5 minutes (Nick Berardi)
Twitter API Updates Mean an End to GeoAPI (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban and Systems Thinking (Karl Scotland)
Article:Doing Kanban Wrong (Tim Wingfield)
Duplicated Setup Code in Your Tests? Refactor to a Factory! (Jim Holmes)
[Tool Review] – Pivotal Tracker – Build Better Software, Faster (Peter Saddington)
The Designer’s Cross-Training Toolkit (Mark Cossey)
Are You Coding on Thin Ice? (James Shore)
Solving Problems, You Better Learn How (John Sonmez)
Best Practices for Endless Scrolling (Anthony)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

My Month with Windows Phone 7 (Andrej Tozon)
MVVM and focus ListView element with complex template (Al Kampfer)
F#’ing SilverLight (F# SilverLight Template that is…) (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone From Scratch – Animation Part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone 7 Useful Links for Tile Push Notifications (Jason Zander)
New Book: Windows Phone 7 Game Development (Joey deVilla)
Announcing New Exam Drills for Windows Phone 7 (Kim Spilker)
Using Prism with Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
The XML content importer and Windows Phone 7 (Peter Kuhn)
What I Learned in WP7 – Issue #9 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Eric Falsken Builds Object Databases (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Silverlight vs XNA for Windows Phone 7 (Laura Foy)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 61: What should Developers know about SQL Server? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff) – Welcome back boys!
Hardware Accelerated Holidays (Larry Larsen)
Distributed Systems Podcast Episode 1: Distributed Systems Host Introductions (Andreas Öhlund, Jonathan Matheus, Jonathan Oliver & Rinat Abdullin)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 3 – The Model Shop (Larry Larsen, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
Interview:Laurie Williams: Getting to Comparative Agility (Laurie Williams)
Community Megaphone Podcast Show #21 with Guest Julie Lerman (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Download VTD Video Session on LightSwitch: 23rd November 2010 (Kunal Chowdhury)
WP7 Minute Episode IV–Search (Daniel Egan)
Silverlight TV 51: Debugging and Deploying WCF RIA Services (John Papa)

Community / Events

Silverlight Awesomeness In The East Coast (Dani Diaz)
Windows Phone 7 Federal App Contest Winners (Richard Hay)
Free Upcoming Event: jQuery Talk at Silicon Valley (Dr. Doris Chen)
Special thanks to everyone that helped me in 2010. (Michael Crump)
SQLBits 8 dates and venue announced (Martin Bell)

Database

Modifying SSRS Rendering (David Dye)
Santa, in the form of Red Gate, has brought us a present, SQL Scripts Manager, a free SQL Server script management and execution utility… (Greg Duncan)
Filtered Index in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 – How to read a Heap page (Ramkumar)
Interlude: SSMS tips (Don Halloran)
Strange issue while using IDENTITY values in INSTEAD OF triggers (Sam Bendayan)

SharePoint

*** NOW AVAILABLE *** Creating Custom SharePoint 2010 Service Applications and Consumers (Visual How To) (Andrew Connell)
Providing Feedback about the SharePoint Developer Documentation (Uma Subramanian)
SP2010 AJAX part 6: Debugging jQuery/JavaScript (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Survey Indicates Key API Trends (Krishnan Subramanian)
Readers vote with their clicks: The 20 hottest Microsoft stories in 2010 (Mary Jo Foley)
Kinect Coming To PCs, Says Game Developer (Matt Rosoff)
Hyper-V Survival Guide (Bill Zack)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

Technorati Tags: vs2010,asp.net mvc,javascript,jquery,sharepoint,sql server,ssms,silverlight,windows phone 7,f#,monodevelop,dxcore

Dew Drop – November 22, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Asynchronous C# and F# (III.): How does it work? (Tom)
Source code for F# Depth Colorizer extension (Brian McNamara)
Misusing mutable state with F# Asynchronous Workflows (Kean Walmsley)
C# 5.0–Rise of the Task (Mike Taulty)
Window Layouts: Design, Debug, and Full Screen (Zain Naboulsi)
“Exploring Reactive Extensions” (Greg Duncan)
The State of .Net Facebook Development (Nathan Totten)
Using CSLA 4 series outline and Using CSLA 4: CSLA .NET Overview available (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

Named Routes To The Rescue (Phil Haack)
CSS Quick Tip: CSS Arrows and Shapes Without Markup (Nate Cavanaugh)
Using IE 9 Developer Tools to Learn jQuery (Rachel Appel)
HTML5 Recipes: Storage 101 (Romin Irani)
10 Essential Tools for building ASP.NET Websites (Stephen Walther)
HTML5 Day 6: New Range Input Type (Chris Pietschmann)
Creating Twitpic client using ASP.NET and OData (Gunnar Peipman)
IE9 and SunSpider–the plot thickens (Kip Kniskern)
Granting Access to Twitter applications (Martin Beeby)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Tdd for the iPhone: Continued (Brett Schuchert)
Scrum Training Exercises (Dan Puckett)
TDD in Xcode Suddenly Tons Better (Rob Williams)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Layer Test (Giorgio Sironi)
Agile Estimating 2.0 – A Cheat Sheet (ScoutMaster)
The smallest bugs, the biggest problems – Part I (Oren Eini)
Bowling Kata (Ashley Nathan Feniello)
Make it interesting for yourself (Mark Needham)
Architecture Guide: Windows Forms, Generics, Auto-Mapper, Entity Framework, Framework Design and many more.. (Nirosh L.W.C.)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF = Silverlight+ (Christian Nagel)
Part 1 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)
Get a Agent, a ServiceAgent (WP 007 Agent) (Rudi Grobler)
Using the Pivot Control (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 126: Chris Woodruff on OData (David Giard)
Windows Weekly 183: The Wil Wheaton Of Podcasts (Paul Thurrott)
You’ve got questions; I’ve got dumb looks [PDC10’s Channel 9 Live Windows Phone 7 Q&A session available online and offline] (David Anson)
Ping 84: Visual Search WP7 apps, Kinect Art, Lync, Facebook & Office (Laura Foy)
Let’s Play TDD #53: Testing Styles (with Kim Gräsman) (James Shore)
DDD Windows Phone 7 Event Videos (Mike Ormond)
Yet Another Podcast #15 – Ian Griffiths (Jesse Liberty)
Pluralcast 29 : ALM with Sam Guckenheimer (David Starr)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 36 – A Chat with Greg Low – Part 2 (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

Upcoming Web Camps (Scott Guthrie)
Free Webinar: Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
Great opportunity for Windows Developers– your app featured on C-net’s download.com (Dave Isbitski)
Imagine Cup "Solve This" (Somasegar)

Database

SSIS Denali Data Flow Grouping (Devin Knight)
SQL SERVER – Change Database Access to Single User Mode Using SSMS (Pinal Dave)
PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services – CTP2 (MS Downloads)
Do Foreign Key Constraints Help Performance? (Grant Fritchey)
XQuery for the Non-Expert – Query and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Value (Jason Strate)
WAITFOR what? (Martin Bell)
The Productive DBA (Paul Theriault)

Miscellaneous

New book from Pragmatic Works in the "works"… (Adam Jorgensen)
Improving Your Developer Skills (Gil Fink)
MSDN Library Home Mockup to Simplify Finding the Product Docs (J.D. Meier)
is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android’s? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
Got Hacked? How to Fix Hacked Facebook or Twitter Account and Prevent it (Joel Oleson)
Robot framework revisited (Gojko Adzic)
Should I get certifications before applying to Microsoft? (RJ Naugle)
How do I print tags? (Luis Cabrera)
Creating dynamic methods with closures in Ruby (Paul Cowan)
Kodu Localization (Stephen Coy)
RTM’d today: Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit (Valerie Woolley)

The Geek Shelf

C# in Depth by Jon Skeet

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