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Dew Drop – April 29, 2011

Dew Drop – March 25, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

How to update “Run only specified windows applications” GPO programmatically (VBScript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
Trigger-Start Services Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
New Training for Visual Studio 2010 and Notepad for Workitems: how to programmatically create workitems in Visual Basic for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 3 – Customizing the build process [Help File] (Dennis Delimarsky)
Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
Cloud Sync/Backup your Visual Studio settings with Pepper (Greg Duncan)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ToLookup() LINQ Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
Improving CLRProfiler 3: Double the speed of profile loading (Feng Yuan)
A Friendly DateTime Formatter (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

Getting Your Feet Wet with HTML 5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game (Adam Kinney)
Want to work on datajs? (Phil Haack)
IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics (Mike Taulty)
IE9’s Document Modes and JavaScript (Gaurav Seth & Paul Chapman)
Basic JavaScript Part 12: Function Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Using jQuery UI DatePicker in an ASP.NET Application. (Joe Stagner)
HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
Using Translation Services within ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
Web Workers, for a responsive JavaScript application (Giorgio Sironi)
Windows Azure and scaling: how? (PHP) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Write clearer Unit Tests (Gian Maria Ricci)
3 Scrum Types – Your Flavor of Scrum? and Kanban Elevator Pitch – Help Craft It (Peter Saddington)
Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part III: Moving away from Scrum (Stephen Forte)
Bus and Broker Pub/Sub Differences (Udi Dahan)
The Essential Product Cookbook–The First Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Sharing An IE Instance Among Multiple Tests With WatiN And MS Test (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
Windows Phone: Touch (Jesse Liberty)
Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Complex Theme (Windows Phone Geek)
Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 1) (Michael Crump)
Phone Tools v0.6 Released – Breaking Change! (Shawn Wildermuth)
Free “no code” WP7 App Dev and also Marketplace registration from AppMakr and Microsoft (limited time) (Think “App’ify your RSS feed in just a few clicks, with a good number of customization options too”) (Greg Duncan)
Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Jeremy Likness)
Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
A Batch File for Closing Zune and Launching the WPConnect Tool (Daniel Vaughan)
Getting Total Memory on Win7 Mobile Devices (Mike Snow)
Designing hubs, being creative. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes: Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty (Scott Hanselman)
geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
Webcast: Brief introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
Let’s Play TDD #97: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (James Shore)
Silverlight TV 67: Bill Buxton Talks about Speed Dating at MIX11 (John Papa)
Cloud Plumbing: Brian Noyes Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi (Larry Larsen)
The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
Innovate both technology and your own career at Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Trigger Started Services on Windows 7 (John Bristowe)
Blend SIG Podcast: February 2011: Adam Kinney and March 2011: Frank LaVigne (Joel Cochran)
endpoint.tv – AppFabric WCF HTTP Template (Ron Jacobs)
Community Megaphone Show #26 FoxPro Reunion (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

Job Opportunities (Cameron Skinner)
Webinar: Amplify JavaScript Library with Scott González (Elijah Manor)
Come Demo your Cool Robotics, Microcontroller, or other Hardware Hacking at MADExpo (Pete Brown)
IE is MIXing it up in Vegas! (Ziad Ismail)
Russian GM speaks at MVP Organized MCP Meeting (Lonnie Webb)

Database

PostgreSQL Row Storage Fundamentals (Jeremiah Peschka)
Looking at the RavenDB structure (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

SharePoint Roundup (Avi Kaye)
DeliverPoint versus well known Sharepoint administration tools (Lightning Tools)
Microsoft: We’re adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day (Mary Jo Foley)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (MS Downloads)
20 percent time spent coding in the clouds (Dave Burke)
Comparison: Xcode 3 vs. Xcode 4 (Austin Ritchie)
Manifesto Manifesto: a recipe for manifestae (Cory Doctorow)
Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop (Dirk Metzmacher)

The Geek Shelf

Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More

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Dew Drop – February 1, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ to RSS (Hisham Abdullah Bin Ateya)
Controlling XML Serialization of Attributes (Richard Carr)
Customizable Output Directories for TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
New book: Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Kim Spilker)
Reactive FlickR Searching… (Mike Taulty)
Incorrect C++ compiler behavior in Visual Studio (Umair Saeed)
Accessing the Toolbars Using the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
Hide Methods from debugger Using DebuggerHidden attribute (Abhijit Jana)
Now Available: January Update for The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit (Windows Azure Team)
7 Days Left to Submit XNA GS 3.1 Games on App Hub (XNA Game Studio Team)
Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 6: Loading Related Entities (Arthur Vickers)
Looking at the code for the sort pages powertoy (John Guin)

Web Development

Elegant Image Mouse-Overs with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
HTML5 and CSS3 for Web Designers (Joey deVilla)
Where has XHTML gone? (Giorgio Sironi)
Select a textbox’s text on focus using jQuery (Scott Mitchell)
Mvc Controls Toolkit – Release v0.8 (CodePlex)
ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framewok on NuGet (Maarten Balliauw)
Simple Offline Application (Remy Sharp)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Three simple Mercurial rules (Jimmy Bogard)
Should the Product Owner Also Be the ScrumMaster? (Dan Puckett)
Agile Chronicles #1: Stressful (Jesse Warden)
[Tool Review] – Scrumy – Lightweight Scrum and Kanban (Peter Saddington)
xUnit.net – Release v1.7 (CodePlex)
Tales from QA: The “Re-Design” of the Dialog Box (Hadi Hariri)
Cycle time—the soothsayer of productivity (Eric Brechner)
HowTo: TeamCity & CodeCoverage with dotCover (Code Inside Team)
Book review: Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Gunnar Peipman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Image Button and All about Dependency Properties in Silverlight for WP7 and WP7 Dynamically Generating DataTemplate in code (Windows Phone Geek)
8 of 10 – Understanding Pivots and Panoramic view controls (Alfred Astort)
Automatically Showing ToolTips on a Trimmed TextBlock (Silverlight + WPF) (Colin Eberhardt)
Silverlight Tutorials: Silverlight Basic – SpinningCube (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
Silverlight and Prism: Communication between two Views of the same Module using IEventAggregator (Mahesh Sabnis)
Review of ComponentOne Silverlight Controls (Free License Giveaway). (Michael Crump)
Expression Encoder 4 with GPU acceleration (Silverlight Team)
OData and Windows Phone 7 Part 2 (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Grant Skinner Develops Apps in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 138 – PowerScripting Podcast – Parind Shah from EqualLogic (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Spaghetti Code Podcast – January 2011 (Jeff Brand)
Ping 90: Microsoft Flash Mob, Swag for Jailbreaker, Quarterback Histories on Bing, Karaoke! (Laura Foy)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 43 – Cows in the Dark, Functional Programming and MMO design (Richard Banks)
Pluralcast 35 : Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (David Starr)
Windows Phone 7 – Episode 3 – The Emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)

Community / Events

24 Hours of PASS Sessions Announced (Jason Strate)
East coast MVPs, we need your help at the west coast SQL Saturday’s. (Denny Cherry)
People of Egypt We Hear You (Joel Oleson)
Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 Innovative Education Forum (Don Burnett)
Art of Agile Training Returns February 28th (James Shore)
Announcing UI-Binders (Ariel Ben Horesh)

Database

Merge Join component sorted outputs [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
31 Days of SSIS – SSIS Naming Conventions (31/31) (Jason Strate)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types – Wait Type – Day 1 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Scaling MongoDB – $8.49 (Save 50%) Code DDMNG (O’Reilly Media)
Importance of monitoring a database mirroring session (Paul S. Randal)
Amazon Will Offer Oracle Database 11g on RDS (Abel Avram)

SharePoint

RTM’d Today: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Step by Step (rcaper1)
Applying Quotas Across all My Sites (Bil Simser)

Miscellaneous

VDI and PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Powershell to Automate SQL Compare (Grant Fritchey)
Free Kindle Book of the Day “Beer is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing” (limited time offer) (Greg Duncan)
Google Docs update brings Collections, Priority Sort, and file previews (Lee Mathews)
MVPs for Office 365: Getting Ready for Office 365 (Lonnie Webb)
Windows Home Server Update Released (KB981089) (Richard Hay)
Internet Explorer 9 Reaches 23 Million Downloads and 1.82% Share on Windows 7 (Roger Capriotti)
Confessions now in Paperback (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled (Expert’s Voice in SQL Server) by Grant Fritchey & Sajal Dam

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