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Dew Drop – January 16, 2011

Dew Drop – January 12, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

C# In Depth – Optional Parameters and Named Arguments (Jon Skeet)
Book review: C# in Depth, Second Edition (Dror Helper)
Monads in C#-3. Creating our first Monad (Mike Hadlow)
Rhino Licensing (James Gregory)
MonoDroid Preview (K. Scott Allen)
Unbound Actions – Google Active Word (Alex Skorkin)
Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
Process created with CreateProcessAsUser won’t initialize properly (Alejandro Campos Magencio)

Web Development

ASP.NET – Password Strength Indicator using jQuery and XML (Bryian Tan)
Uri scheme ‘Http’s’ is invalid; expected http when using SSL in WCF (Derik Whittaker)
HowTo: Sessionless Controller in MVC3 – what & and why? (Code Inside Team)
Basic JavaScript Part 6: Automatic Semicolon Insertion (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Microsoft to launch Webmatrix Web-development tools this week (Mary Jo Foley)
Building a Simple FubuMVC Convention (Jeremy Miller)
RavenDB & HTTP Caching (Oren Eini)
Kinect talking to Flash via Node.js (Adam Flaherty)
Articles on JavaScript Error objects (Kris Gray)
HTML5 Recipes: New Input Types (Romin Irani)
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme (Luke)
Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs and Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
Using Web Storage in Web Applications (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

12 Key Agile Assumptions and 12 Key Barriers to Agile Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
[Agile Guide] – Agile for Technical Writers (Peter Saddington)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Lazy Setup (Giorgio Sironi)
Shifting testing strategies away from mocks and Defining unit tests (Jimmy Bogard)
TFS 2010 – Urban Turtle for a Better Scrum (Shai Raiten)
Liskov Substitution Principle (Richard Carr)
Lean Principles #5 – Deliver Fast (Kelly Waters)
Stardate 2011.11.1: Interface Segregation Principle vs Common Sense (Kyle Szklenski)
Programming is not a craft (Dan North)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
Top 10 Windows Phone 7 ( WP7 ) Resources (Daniel Egan)
Where do my Visual States come from in Blend? – by Matthew Adams (Kunal Chowdhury)
Prism 4 – Load Modules in Silverlight 4 using Prism – Multiple ways (Mahesh Sabnis)
Throwdown With Windows Phone 7 App Submission (Matthias Shapiro)
Create Custom Speech Bubbles in Silverlight. (Michael Crump)
CinchV2 and PRISM 4 Interoperability (Sacha Barber)
What makes an app a good app – 7 pointers (Dennis Delimarsky)
Architecting WP7 – Part 9 of 10: Threading (Shawn Wildermuth)
Silverlight Top 10 of 2010, A Year in Review (Silverlight Team)
WP7 Text Boxes – OnEnter (my 1st Behaviour). (Mike Hole)
PathListBox: Text on the path (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

CES 2011: One Note and Office 2010 (Tina)
MSJoe.com Podcast Episode #3–The ASP.NET Team’s Sr. PM Lead–Scott Hunter (Joe Stagner)
Agile Palooza DC – Ian Culling – Version One internal development and practices (Agile Toolkit Podcast)
Let’s Play TDD #76: Onward… Slowly (James Shore)
Kinect employees: Why innovation is important (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Hot Apps: Amazon Kindle, Fruit Ninja, ESPN Newsreader, Tetris 7, Sleep Well Tonight (Laura Foy)
ASP.NET MVC 3 Interview (K. Scott Allen)

Community / Events

SharePoint 2010 Developer Firestarter – January 27, 2011 (in-person & online) (Andrew Connell)
Announcing Monthly Silverlight Giveaways on MichaelCrump.Net (Michael Crump)
Free Agile Development and Testing Seminar in Pune Next Week (Stephen Forte)
Reminder: NHibernate Course in Dallas, March 2011 (Oren Eini)
IASA Netherlands Inaugural Event (Clemens Reijnen)
Salt Lake Software Craftsmanship Group (Keith Brown)
Paul Culmsee and 21 Apps join up for Information Mapping & Info Architecture Master Classes (Joel Oleson)

Database

31 Days of SSIS – UnPivot Transformation (11/31) (Jason Strate)
SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2008 R2 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
Denali – It’s the Future (Iain Kick)

SharePoint

Do’s and Don’ts Building SharePoint Applications (Bil Simser)
Multi-language support for SharePoint Sites (Mary Lee)

Miscellaneous

How do you learn PowerShell? One bit at a time…(and with a little help from Doug Finke) and “Microsoft Mathematics 4.0” – Free graphing calculator for the student in the house… (Greg Duncan)
Book review: Creative workshop (Scott Berkun)
A pissing match in the Microsoft boardroom – pass the popcorn (Steven Hodson)
Book Review – The Secrets of Consulting (Thomas LaRock)

The Geek Shelf

How to Break Software: A Practical Guide to Testing W/CD by James A. Whittaker

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Dew Drop – January 7, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

How to setup multiple startup projects in Visual Studio? and Exception Occurred ? – Get Troubleshooting tips from your favorite blogs (Abhijit Jana)
The design of RavenDB’s attachments (Oren Eini)
Complied Queries in LINQ and Remote and Local execution of Query in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
C#/.NET – Finding an Item’s Index in IEnumerable<T> (James Michael Hare)
LINQ Lycanthropy: Transformations into LINQ (Michael Sorens)
Managing Connections with SQL Azure and Entity Framework (EF Team)
MonoDroid Bridges .NET with Android (Abel Avram)
First NuGet Experience (Davy Brion)
.NET Extensions – Extension Methods Library for C# and VB.NET – Release: v2011.03 and Json.NET 4.0 Release 1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

WCF REST Service Activation Errors when AspNetCompatibility is enabled (Rick Strahl)
Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact 4.0 and ASP.NET – Dynamic Data, OData, deployment (part two) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
Razor Syntax Quick Reference (Phil Haack)
Book review: Pro HTML5 Programming (Jef Claes)
How to Bin Deploy SQL Compact Edition 4.0 and Razor web projects (Anh Phan)
Customizing ELMAH’s Error Emails (Scott Mitchell)
Razor Tip #1 (K. Scott Allen)
I Think I Know What Web 3.0 Is, Its Not Semantic (Chris Love)
Migrating World Maps To Azure (Dmitry Lyalin)
Cloud Throw Down: Part 4 – Perspectives on PaaS (Adron Hall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Coming up next in OpenWrap… (Sebastien Lambla)
Putting mocks in their place (Jimmy Bogard)
Can You Really Create A Business Logic Layer? (Ken Downs)
Automated Testing is Like Optimizing (Fredrik Olsson)
Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 3 – IoC 180 (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Blend Bits 20–Group Into (Mike Taulty)
Windows Phone From Scratch #18 – MVVM Light Toolkit Soup To Nuts 3 and Entity Framework Code-First, oData & Windows Phone Client (Jesse Liberty)
Video Series: “Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners” (Joey deVilla)
Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight) – by Colin E. (Kunal Chowdhury)
Tools for the lazy: Templify and NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
WPF & Silverlight Grids – Faster Creation Using CodeRush Templates and a Custom Plug-in (Mark Miller)
Prevent your Silverlight XAP file from caching in your browser. (Michael Crump)
My wish list for Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 14 (Jeff Blankenburg)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

BenkoTips Live and On Demand: What’s New in ASP.NET Web Forms 4 (MS Podcasts)
C9 Lectures: Greg Meredith – Monadic Design Patterns for the Web 3 of n (Charles Torre)
The Engadget Podcast Show 002: CES 2011 Part 2 – 01.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Learning Umbraco from the Master (Martin Beeby)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Dining On Campus (Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)
Microsoft Touch Mouse (Larry Larsen)
David Molnar and Margus Veanes – BEK – Domain Specific Language for String Manipulation Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
Silverlight TV 56: WCF RIA Services and Azure (John Papa)

Community / Events

NYC Code Camp: Call for Sessions!! (Stephen Forte)
Congratulations to the new and renewed Client App Dev MVPs! (Pete Brown)
Microsoft CES 2011 – More on Kinect, Surface 2.0 and the Touch Mouse (Jeff Meisner)
Microsoft and Samsung Unveil the Next Generation of Surface (Eric Havir)
Mono at CES: More Games (Miguel de Icaza)
Party with Palermo: MVP Summit 2011 – save the date (Jeffrey Palermo)

Database

SQL Server Index Tuning for Mere Mortals (Glenn Berry)
“Effective Clustered Indexes” (Think “Clustered Indexes in-depth from a real world, major SQL Server shop, DBA”) (Greg Duncan)
31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31) (Jason Strate)
SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info – Statistics of Optimizer (Pinal Dave)
CHECKDB running every minute? Check Database Properties (Pradeep Adiga)
Three Mistakes I Made With MongoDB (Jeremiah Peschka)
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

New SharePoint Developer Features in VS2010 SP1 – Unit Testing and IntelliTrace (Saaid Khan)

Miscellaneous

Mobile Phones + Savings: A Powerful Pair (Bill Gates)
Introducing Microsoft Surface 2.0—our vision for healthcare (Bill Crounse)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Building Wireless Sensor Networks – $13.99 (Save 50%) Code DDBWN (O’Reilly Media)
Project Emporia available for Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)
Evernote app for Windows Phone 7 to launch ‘this winter’ (Vlad Bobleanta)
WMI Code Creator (Thomas LaRock)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series) by Bill Wagner

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