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Dew Drop – January 27, 2011

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Top Links

Scale-out computing on DevLabs (Somasegar)
TPL (Task Parallel Library) Dataflow CTP Released (Greg Duncan)
Keeping an application’s UI responsive with multi-threading (Jerry Joyce) – WP7 tip
Customers Get Dryad, DryadLINQ (Douglas Gantenbein)
Windows Phone From Scratch #25 – LINQ and Fluent Programming (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0 (MS Downloads)
WCF 4.0 Features Part #1 and Learning WCF RIA Service Part #2: Adding Query Methods (Dhananjay Kumar)
Enumerating resources from a native library via WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
Pasting a Single Selection Into a Box Selection vstipEdit0008 (Zain Naboulsi)
VS Achievements (Scott Wiltamuth)
MonoDroid on the Mac (Wally McClure)
Code Metrics PowerTool (Pieter de Bruin)
Date/Time Support in NHibernate (James Kovacs)
Final Draft Chapters of Parallel Programming with C++ Online (Ade Miller)
Code Providers – Remove Region Directives (Alex Skorkin)
OpenNI + Kinect (getting set up on Windows) (Baba)
.NET Tools that I would never want to part with.. (Don Burnett)

Web Development

ASP.NET Validation Control with Images Notification (Abhijit Jana)
HTML5 Blizzard: Full Hardware Acceleration in Action (Jason Weber)
How to open jQuery UI Dialog from codebehind and Disable all input controls on a form with jQuery (Raghav Khunger)
Creating a picture gallery with HTML5 canvas (Martin Beeby)
Calling .NET Framework Classes from WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
Click’less WebPI … as in a command line WebPI (Web Platform Installer) (Greg Duncan)
Python’s Yield (Anne Epstein)
Is OpenID Living Up to Our Expectations? (Abel Avram)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Back to Basics: Mock Eliminating Patterns (John Sonmez)
Measuring Quality in Agile (Mitch Ruebush)
How to add RowTest support to MSTest (Dror Helper)
Get a Better Word for Software “Craftsman” (Krishna Kumar)
It’s Design (K. Scott Allen)
Deliberate Discovery: The stuff I don’t know list (Mark Needham)
Dipping Your Toes into Kanban (David J. Bland)
Wasting Time as an Agile Developer? 5 Ways to Fix Time-Bandits at Work (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight 4 in Action (Denis Gladkikh)
Windows Phone 7 – Part #2: Your First Application (Andrea Boschin)
Catel – WPF and Silverlight MVVM library – Release: v1.1 (CodePlex)
Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #1 (Jeff Prosise)
Silverlight Spy 4 licensing (Koen Zwikstra)
Step By Step: Bing Maps Silverlight and an Out Of Browser (OOB) Application (Chris Pietschmann)
Building a personal website using Silverlight. (Michael Crump)
Upcoming free Windows Phone 7 Webinar Series – Shawn Wildermuth and Mark Arteaga (Senthil Kumar)
Quickly building a trial mode for a Windows Phone application (David Poll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Doc Norton Sharpens His Saw and .NET Rocks! – Andrew Parsons and Alfred Thompson Educate Kids in Software! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Making an impact at Microsoft (Kelly Fife)
Keynote Web Camps Belgium by Scott Hanselman (Liese Jespers)
Johanna Rothman Interview, with Ian Dees (The Pragmatic Programmers)
Microsoft Campus Tours – The Connector (Clint Rutkas, Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

SQL SERVER – What is a Technology Evangelist? (Pinal Dave)
10 Reasons Developers Should Blog. (Joe Stagner)
My Top 10 Interaction Developer picks for MIX11 Open Call (Adam Kinney)

Database

Microsoft Books Online for SQL Server Code-Named "Denali" CTP1 (MS Downloads)
31 Days of SSIS – Small Package, Big Win (26/31) (Jason Strate)
Rename a SQL Server database (Madhivanan)
SQL Server 2005 SP4 Released (Wes Yanaga)
Ridiculously Unnormalized Database Schemas – Part Two (Michael Swart)
SSAS Dimension Attribute Discretization Methods (Devin Knight)
RavenDB vs MongoDB – Why I don’t usually bother (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

Deployment guide for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
New Product Beta – Storage Maximizer for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Android 3.0 Honeycomb SDK preview goes live (Chris Ziegler)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Programming iOS 4 – $17.99 (Save 50%) Code DDP4R (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 26 January 2011 – #11 (Kunal Chowdhury)
The Morning Brew #779 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting .NET Links – January 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily News Digest 01/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services: Problem, Design, Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Erik Veerman

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Dew Drop – January 21, 2010

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Top Links

Comparing NHibernate and EF4 (Chris Sells)
Add a Flickr widget to any web site with jQuery (Dan Hounshell)
WPF for the Web guy…a story of pain, despair and learning (Scott Galloway)
Passing NULL into Overloaded Methods in unit tests… (Derik Whittaker)
Silverlight TV Episode 3: Multi-Touch 101 with Silverlight (John Papa)
Bill Gates launches new site, offering peek inside his mind (Todd Bishop)
Windows Phone teaser for Mix10 (Kip Kniskern)

.NET / Visual Studio

Implementing a Parallelized Octree in F# (Ade Miller)
The Project Location Is Not Trusted (Dave M. Bush)
Looks the same – with half the overhead! [Update to free ConvertClipboardRtfToHtmlText tool and source code gives more compact output; Can you do better?] (David Anson)
A new feature request for C# I would like is fall through exceptions (Derik Whittaker)
Controlling Application Lifetime In Topshelf and Configuring Topshelf Using A StructureMap Container (Kevin Miller)
Functional collectional parameters: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
Using Generate from Usage — vstipEdit0011 (Zain Naboulsi)
Much Ado About Monads – Creating Extended Builders Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
UML Modeling and Code Generation in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Provost)

Web Development

My Favorite Helpers For ASP.NET MVC (Rob Conery)
IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net (Harish Ranganathan)
Build an AJAX-Enabled Content Management System with Visual WebGUI: Part 3 (Bogdan Zamfir)
Large or asynchronous file uploads in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Crenna)
ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5 (Hadi Hariri)
Implementing a jQuery Modal Window in ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
Click and Retrieve the Value of a GridView Cell using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
Using Custom Security Attributes in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
Performance Optimizations Made By Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo JavaScript Minimizers (Nick Berardi)
HttpContext.Items and Server.Transfer/Execute (Rick Strahl)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Collaboration Patterns – Part 1 and Collaboration Patterns – Part 2 (Andy Warren)
When the design violates the principle of least surprise, you don’t close it as By Design (Oren Eini)
If It’s Not Working, Change Your Approach (JD Meier)
Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership (Christophe Louvion)
Good Managers Sometimes Have to Play Assholes (Jurgen Appelo)
Scrum Anti-Pattern: NOT Prioritising Stories Within Sprints (Karl Scotland)
Using Glance to visualize Code Metrics (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight: Themes (Deborah Kurata)
Creating torn images (Coding4Fun)
My Silverlight 4 Book Now Available for Pre-Order (Frank La Vigne)
Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.8 (Koen Zwikstra)
XamlPadSample – Step 1 (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

10-4 Episode 39: CLR 4 Security and Sandboxing (Jason Olson)
Stack Overflow Podcast #80 (Jeff Atwood)
Craig Mundie shows off the future of NUI (Laura Foy)
MVC 2 – Template Helpers and MVC 2 – Areas and MVC 2 – DataAnnotations and Parallel Computing (Martin Esmann)
This Week in Testing Episode 11 – Where Do They Talk From? (Part 2) (Dror Helper)
Hanselminutes on 9 – Follow up, 6 months later, On Managing People with Chris Sells (Scott Hanselman)
Authoring and Running Manual Tests in Visual Studio 2010 using Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Kathleen McGrath)

Community / Events

I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16 & 18, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
Asking the Mountain To Come To You (Rob Conery)
What do I have in store and hope for 2010 (Chris Woodruff)
Life With My Geek: The Cave Phenomenon (Elle Starr)
Zoho Reaches Out To Open Source Community (Krishnan Subramanian)
My CodeMash 2010 experience (Bill Wagner)
ALT.NET: Looks Like its Introspection Time Again! (Steve Bohlen)
What can you get with 10KB of Ruby or Python code? (Jimmy Schementi)

Database

Performance Tuning Methodology Preferences (Buck Woody)
XML Validation in SQL Server Intergration Services (Simon Sabin)

SharePoint

Step by step (aka Dummies or Busy Dev Guy) guide to installing SharePoint 2010 in a virtual machine free eBook (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
How to Remove Corrupted SharePoint Sites – Preparing for SharePoint 2010 Upgrade (Joel Oleson)
BCS Secure Store Services (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

Google Chrome OS the Easy Way (Chris Leeds)
Introducing the Windows Experience Pack (Brandon LeBlanc)
Intuit and Microsoft Sign Deal to Serve SMBs (Ben Kepes)
Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
“What’s New for Developers in Outlook 2010” (Greg Duncan)
Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows Powershell cmdlets for WMI (Kapil Mathur)
Ebook Deal of the Day: The Sustainable Network — Only $9.99! Use discount code TSNE9 (O’Reilly Media)
Microsoft Research Works on “Mental Tagging” of Images (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for Jan 20, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: January 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #522 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for January 20, 2010 — #783 (Dave Campbell)
Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

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Dew Drop – September 7, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

Enumerable.Range and Enumerable.Repeat (Deborah Kurata)
Visual Studio Code Analysis Performance (Doug Holland)
Type-Free Lambda Calculus in C#, Pre-4.0 – Defining the Lambda Language Runtime (LLR) (Bart de Smet)
Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Exploitable Crash Analyzer (Sasha Goldshtein)
NHibernate on the cloud: SQL Azure and SQL Azure, Sharding and NHibernate: A call for volunteers (Oren Eini)
Set focus on DataGridView cell (DotNetFacts)
F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part III (Matthew Podwysocki)
Dynamic type parameter constraints in C# 4 (Chris Burrows)
Code Contracts.Net to Xml Comments! (Jonathan de Halleux)

Web Development

How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) (Peter Kellner)
Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web (Ben Parr)
Patching Ruby on Rails Refresher (Rob Bazinet)
Creating an Image Frame (Chris Love)
Tidbits for Web Developers Targeting IE8 (Jim O’Neil)
Setting Cookies in Fiddler (Julie Lerman)
MVC – Using the jQuery DatePicker (Michael Ceranski)
Insert FrontPage Includes in Microsoft Expression Web 2.0 and 3.0 (Minal Agarwal)
Fiddler: Trying to work out how it all hooks together (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

When conversions ignore the errors… (Michael S. Kaplan)
Noodling on Kanban… Part Four and The Big Agile Persona and Building an Agile Book with Agile (Mike Cottmeyer)
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 15. (Rajiv Popat)
Step #1 – Claim Your Territory, Own your team and The first five Whys and Step #2 – Use a big visible board with post it notes and If you don’t own your team, Someone else will and 4 ways to discover a stuck team member, and what you can do about it (Roy Osherove)
Why Git? and Break the algorithm: Distributed Lock and Soft Deletes aren’t Append Only model (Oren Eini)
Manufacturing Authority And Trust (Alan Skorkin)
More ORM Ignorance (Davy Brion)
Hiring Developers – Why "Smart and Gets Things Done" is not Enough (Ed Willis)
The Provider Model Pattern, Really? (Justin Etheredge)
Balsamiq – It’s Not Just For Salad Anymore (Lee Dumond)
Book Club: Promiscuous Pairing & Beginner’s Mind (Arlo Belshee) and Coding: Checking invariants in a factory method (Mark Needham)
Configuring Team build using XUnit [From client] – Update. (Mehfuz Hossain)
Introducing Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
Stone Soup (James Bender)
Staff Meeting Bingo (aka Geo Distributed Engineering Challenges) (Jason Zander)

Silverlight / WPF

Supporting Graceful Shutdown and Saving on Close From a WPF Prism App (Brian Noyes)
SketchFlow: Global State Behavior Sample (Christian Schormann)
What do you call that small white square icon in Expression Blend? (Adam Kinney)
5 Reasons Why Silverlight Is My Preferred Web Development Platform (Davy Brion) – Link of the Day
Selector Double Click Firing ViewModel ICommand and Selector DoubleClick Behaviour calling ViewModel ICommand and Cinch : A Code Generator Is Coming (Sacha Barber)
How to prevent a TabItem from being selected (Josh Smith)
Detecting design time mode in WPF and Silverlight and Installing the MVVM Light Toolkit and MVVM Light Toolkit V1.1.1: What’s new? (Laurent Bugnion)
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Comments about Adding… (Brad Abrams)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

This Week C9: VS 2010, Must-Have Developer Utilities, Upgrade your home (Dan Fernandez)
Connected Show – Episode #15 – Jon Skeet goes DEEP on C#4.0 (Bob Familiar)
Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard: How-to Video #3- REST Collections (Stephen Forte)
Review: Three Technical Podcasts I Subscribe To (Steve Sanderson)
Show #331: Seattle Penny Arcade Expo 2009 (Larry Hyrb)
New DevNugget: ASP.NET Databinding and jQueryUI (G. Andrew Duthie)
Spreadsheet of every TED talk as of 9/2/2009 (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

Microsoft Wants You to Party Like It’s XP (Mary Jo Foley)
Event: Silverlight Firestarter, September 17th and Event: ASP.NET MVC Firestarter, October 3rd (Dave Bost)
Microsoft MVPs Are Ready For Windows 7! (Jas Dhaliwal)
Rhino Mocks 4.0 Planning Forum (Oren Eini)
How to contribute to open source (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Database

SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Cannot drop the database because it is being used for replication. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3724) and SQL SERVER – Find Gaps in The Sequence and SQL SERVER – Importance of Database Schemas in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
Mapping the Brain using SQL Server 2008 Spatial Features (Trevor Dwyer)
Using SQL Server in Powershell outside of SQLPS (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

URL Shortening in SharePoint with bit.ly (Jan Tielens)

Miscellaneous

Creative Mindmaps for Learning (Chance Brown)
Free eBook: DevShaped (Dave Bost)
Updated New and Final Wrox Covers (Jim Minatel)
Looking for Free Stock Photos? Try Everystockphoto (Simon Mackie)
Work Item Notifications and Recommended Download (Sara Ford)
Branding 101 for Developers – Part 3 of 4 (Sidney de Koning)
Old WordPress Versions Under Attack (Lorelle VanFossen)
Dynamic Typing? (Bil Lewis)
Expanding your blog readership (Eugene Rosenfeld)
Data Visualization Features in Excel 2010 (MS Office Team)
Newsflash: Killing Zombies Increases your Typing Speed (Russell Ball)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 5, 2009 and Interesting Finds: September 6, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for September 04, 2009 – 2 — #684 and Silverlight Cream for September 05, 2009 – 2 — #685 (Dave Campbell)
Links of the week #90 – “Shadow Complex is so cool” Edition (David Vidmar)
Interesting Finds: 2009 09.01 ~ 09.05 (yuanjian)
Weekly Links #69 (Grant Palin)
Interesting Post… 8/30/2009 through 9/5/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
New and Notable 367 (Sam Gentile)
LINKBLOG for Sep 4, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
CloudNews for 4th September, 2009 (Mayank Gupta)

Book of the Day

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) (9780321545619): Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams: Books

ISBN: 0321545613
ISBN-13: 9780321545619

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