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 – January 11, 2011
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Top Links
- .Net Reflector 7 Beta released, with added Jason Haley Power Commands goodness right in the box! (Greg Duncan)
- Unit Test Naming Convention (Steve Smith)
- Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part – 1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Server and Tools chief Muglia to leave Microsoft in summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)
.NET / Visual Studio
- F# agents with timeouts (Gordon Hogenson)
- Cannot obtain Metadata from https using WCF (Derik Whittaker)
- Video on Default EndPoint in WCF 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Using F# 2.0 Powerpack ArgParser from C# (Steve Gilham)
- Allowing Access to HttpContext in WCF REST Services (Rick Strahl)
- Accessing the Menu Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
- Programmatically Reading Work Item Comments (Aaron Bjork)
- EF Feature CTP5: Pluggable Conventions (Rowan Miller)
- TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details (Shai Raiten)
Web Development
- Namespacing in JavaScript (Angus Croll)
- Find odd and even rows using $.inArray() function when using jQuery Templates (Hajan)
- FubuMVC, Routing, and the Front Controller Pattern and FubuMVC’s Configuration Strategy (Jeremy Miller)
- HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Joey deVilla)
- Sueetie .NET 4.0 Upgrade Pack Available. Sueetie v3.0 Coming Soon. (Dave Burke)
- Bogus Windows Phone 7 User Agent String (Nick Randolph)
- goo.gl gets an official API (You hear that rapid typing? That’s a ton of dev’s already pounding out the code to use it…) (Greg Duncan)
- Windows Azure and the PaaS Context (Adron Hall)
- Adding Your Application To The Graph (Nick Berardi)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 12 Keys to Success with Agile and Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise and Tools for Disciplined Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Why use Test Driven Development (Amy Blankenship)
- How Discipline Can Save You! (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Stardate 2011.10.1: Revenge of the Commons (Kyle Szklenski)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)
- Windows Phone 7 Design Tips: Navigation, Tombstoning, and Data Loading (Karl Erickson)
- Integrating IE9 Pinning with Microsoft Silverlight (Leon Braginski)
- Embedding a Sound File in Windows Phone 7 app (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
- XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 – Why should I care? (Peter Kuhn)
- WP7: Background execution – really? (Håkan Reis)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Boris Scheiman Waves His Hands at nKinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Office 2010 & Windows Phone at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
- CES 2011: Kinect and Live Mesh (Tina)
- The Engadget Podcast Show 005: CES 2011 Part 5 – 01.10.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
- DimeCasts.NET Episode #185: WP7: Learning how to handle Tombstoning (Derik Whittaker)
- Pluralcast 33 : Catching up with Ken Schwaber (David Starr)
- A Look at Microsoft’s Surface Computer V.2 (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- Register Now for a Free Day of Silverlight from the Experts! (John Papa)
- DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open (Brad M. McGehee)
- Microsoft is Launching WebMatrix, Thursday, January 13th, 2011 (Public Sector DPE Team)
- WebMatrix will Release Thursday, Jan 13th (Doris Chen)
Database
- Reducing SQL Server Sync I/O Contention :: Tip 3 (Rob Tiffany)
- Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
- 31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31) (Jason Strate)
- Rollback Transaction in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning Resolution (Pinal Dave)
- SSAS – Hiding Unknown Member (Devin Knight)
- How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL (Baron Schwartz)
Miscellaneous
- 12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
- Powertoys from the OneNote Test Team for 2010 (John Guin)
- Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (Microsoft Blog Admin)
- Is Avatar Kinect the Star Trek Holodeck in beta? (Steve Clayton)
- RTM’d today: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Tech Tweets for 10-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #767 (Chris Alcock)
- Links of the week #136 (David Vidmar)
- Weekly Link Post 177 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Interesting .NET Links – January 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord |
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Dew Drop – January 9, 2011
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Top Links
- MvcXaml – Images from XAML within ASP.NET MVC Application (Chris Pietschmann)
- Monads in C#–1. Introduction and Monads in C#–2. What’s the point? (Mike Hadlow)
- Running Ruby on Windows Phone (Rob Miles)
- Grouping Routes Part 2 (Phil Haack)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Read-Only Data in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Distinct operator in Linq (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- 30 Days Left to Submit XNA Game Studio 3.1 Games to App Hub (Team XNA)
- Loading COM components in your Web Service (Mike Snow)
- How to find and fix performance problems in ORM powered applications (Frans Bouma)
- How to use out of scope object with in Conditional Breakpoint ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Query Notification to .NET Application (SQLDependency & SQLCacheDependency) (Abhishek Sur)
Web Development
- Dynamic Sitemaps in ASP.NET (Jonathan Wood)
- How to sort ASP.NET DropDownList based on DataValueField or DataTextField using LINQ? (Abhijit Jana)
- ASP.NET and jQuery to the max – Part 2 (Gianluca Negrelli)
- Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr (Gil Fink)
- Be Careful with Data Services Authentication + Batch Mode (Chris Sells)
- Learn To Work With The Web, Instead Of Against It (Davy Brion)
- ASP.NET 4.0- Html Encoded Expressions (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- Book Review – JavaScript Patterns (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- HTML5: Installing the Microsoft WebSockets prototype and HTML5: Rebuilding the WebSockets Server prototype (Jef Claes)
- Detect External and Internal Links in a Web Page using jQuery – Expression Web (Minal Agarwal)
- Sueetie.com Now .NET 4.0…And All That It Implies (Dave Burke)
- Tutorials on ASP.NET MVC 3 (David Hayden)
- Converting a generic list into JSON string and then handling it in java script (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- Bookmark to inject FireBug Light into Internet Explorer. (Jason Jarrett)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Open / Closed Principle (Richard Carr)
- Free ArchiMate Modeling Tool – Archi (Mike Walker)
- Solving Problems, Breaking it Down (John Sonmez)
- Dynamic For The Win (Anders Janmyr)
- R is for Reliability (Anne Epstein)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Design Guidelines – Cheat Sheet (Cheryl Simmons)
- Cross Domain Issue – Case Study in Silverlight (Hima)
- Windows Phone From Scratch #19 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts #4 and Passing Parameters With Behaviors In MVVM Light for Windows Phone (Jesse Liberty)
- Customizing Silverlight ChildWindow Style using Blend (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) by Colin Eberhardt (Michael Crump)
- Silverlight: Making a DateTimePicker (Peter Kuhn)
- Windows Phone 7 Application Acceleration (Nick Randolph)
- Behaviors for accessing the Windows Phone 7 MarketPlace and getting feedback (András Velvárt)
- Windows Phone 7 Animated Button Press (Michael Washington)
- Jounce Part 9: Static and Dynamic Module Management (Jeremy Likness)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Deep Fried Bytes Episode 62: What Features of ASP.NET 4.0 Must Developers Learn (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Episode 135 – PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from Start-Automating.com (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Windows Phone 7 at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
- [Video] – I Need Agile Methodology (Peter Saddington)
- The Engadget Podcast Show 004: CES 2011 Part 4 – 01.08.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
- Have you wondered what it’s like to work at Microsoft? Here is a tour of campus and the surrounding area. (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Benko on the Microsoft Touch Mouse and PC Showcase with Ben the PC Guy (Larry Larsen)
- Connected Show: Migrating To Azure (Brian Hitney)
Community / Events
- Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Event for Public Sector (Public Sector DPE Team)
- Windows Phone 7 – Meanwhile at CES 2011… and Microsoft at CES – A quick glance at Windows 8 and the rest (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Congratulations to New and Re-awarded MVPs! (Lonnie Webb)
- Registration Open for Silicon Valley and Redmond Web Camps! (Doug Holland)
- How to Say Thanks in an Answer (Jeff Atwood)
Database
- 31 Days of SSIS – What The Sorts?! (7/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Merge Join Is My Friend (8/31) (Jason Strate)
- Create Date in T-SQL – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – Get File Statistics Using fn_virtualfilestats and SQL SERVER – master Database Log File Grew Too Big (Pinal Dave)
- The OUTPUT clause (Martin Catherall)
- RTFM365, Week 5 (Jen McCown)
- Installing MySql Connector for Mono and Basic MySQL Transactions (2#4u)
SharePoint
- Using PowerPoint 2010 to Create a Custom Theme for SharePoint 2010 (Melissa Coates)
Miscellaneous
- When Changing Your Environment Might Mean a Change in You (Bobby Johnson)
- An Idle Thought about Selecting a Development Platform (Jeremy Miller)
- Why Verizon won’t let Apple announce iPhone (Joe Wilcox)
- Microsoft is working on a FaceTime competitor for Windows Phone [Update] (Brad Sams)
More Link Collections
- Everyman on Storybuilders, Clubs over Crowds, Driving Social Actions, Corporate Ipsum (Dave Burke)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 01.01 ~ 01.10 (yuanjian)
- Silverlight Cream for January 08, 2011 — #1023 (Dave Campbell)
- Interesting .NET Links – January 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Week Retrospective 14 – A Couple Good [Agile Guides], [Tool Review], and Warcraft (Peter Saddington)
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SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Eric Carter |