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Dew Drop – November 14, 2010

Dew Drop – November 11, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Getting the IE9 Beta to Play Well with Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Wahlin)
Visual F# 100 Examples: Example 12 to 13 (Rey Dacoco)
Visual Studio Logging (Zain Naboulsi)
What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked (Simone Chiaretta)
New White Paper Details the Windows Azure Programming Model (Windows Azure Team)
Concurrent programming: TCP relay server (Jon Harrop)
Feature Builder power with drag and drop simplicity – Instant Feature Builder v1 (Think “Drag and Drop Map/Code files/Docs/Guidance in and vsix out”) (Greg Duncan)
Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
EF FAQ Relocation and Overhaul (Danny Simmons)
Raven MQ – Client API Design (Oren Eini)

Web Development

Composition with jQuery Templates: Why and How (Dave Ward)
Creating a Carousel with jQuery (Matthew David)
How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery (Martin Beeby)
ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
Twitter Goes JSON-Only With One API, More to Come? (Adam DuVander)
How to take on the cloud – from Umbraco and Windows Azure (Andy Robb)
Investigate Web Pages Using the IE9 Developer Tools (Rachel Appel)
Azure@home Part 11: Worker Role Run Method (concluded) (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Software architecture introduces control (Simon Brown)
HBR as a Source of Insight and Customer-Connected Engineering (CCE) (J.D. Meier)
Code as a Cause of Project Failure (Michael Norton)
Local Version Control (James Iry)
The Full Stack–Part 3 Building a Repository with TDD (Jesse Liberty)
Distributed Agile: Communicating big design decisions (Mark Needham)
It’s just like putting LEGO bricks together… Or not? (Giorgio Sironi)
9 Free Pomodoro Timers (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
The taming of the phone [New SetterValueBindingHelper sample demonstrates its usefulness on Windows Phone 7 (and Silverlight 4)] (David Anson)
Updating Dates with WPF DatePicker (Julie Lerman)
WP7 UX Introduction: Part 2 (Jesse Freeman)
Enable background audio for multiple pages in Windows Phone 7 – Take 2 (Håkan Reis)
Windows Phone From Scratch #6 – Data Binding (Really) (Jesse Liberty)
Accessing Local Database using Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
Mindscape Silverlight Controls + Free Mega Pack Contest (Michael Crump)
Silverlight’s Bright Future (Ward Bell)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Developers: Rise to the Challenge at RiSE4fun.com (Charles Torre)
Announcing Project Crescent! (Silverlight Team)
iPhone and Tdd: The Video Series Begins (Brett Schuchert)
Yet Another Podcast #13–Corey Schuman (Jesse Liberty)
endpoint.tv – WCF Contract First with WSCF.blue (Ron Jacobs)

Community / Events

NoVA Code Camp Call for Speakers is Open! and REMINDER: PDC Re-cap Event in Reston THIS FRIDAY, 11/12 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Speaking at and Announcing the Mississippi Coast .NET User Group November 23rd (Keith Elder)

Database

SQL Server Denali: HADRON ROCKS. (Brent Ozar)
SQL Server 2011 (Denali) no DTS support (Devin Knight)
Breaking Change for Windows Azure Drive Beta in Guest OS 1.8 and 2.0 (Azure Storage Team)
Appending Date to End of Report Name in Reporting Services Subscription (Brian K. McDonald)
Denali Paging–Is it win/win ? (Dave Ballantyne)
Project Crescent (David Dye)

SharePoint

SharePoint Online: SharePoint Online (Beta) Solution Development Overview Poster (MS Downloads)
SharePoint 2010 publish plugin released (Jamie Lang)
Web services and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
BCS Meta Man November Beta (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
Windows Phone 7 supports tethering (for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 anyway) (damaster)
WriteMonkey Version 2 Preview 1 is now out, with added pizzazz (Erez Zukerman)
PowerShell url checker (Check if a list of url’s is valid) (Jason Jarrett)
Get your app featured on CNET! (Jennifer Marsman)
35 Developer Learning Pain Points (Joe Stagner)
Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)
Cloud computing talent: What do we look for? (Part 3 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)
The Inevitable Comparison: iPhone 4 vs Samsung Omnia 7 (Windows Phone 7) – Introduction (Taimur Asad)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design and Development $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDDND (O’Reilly Media)
Pro Android 2 (Pavel Rozenblioum)
Getting a Windows Phone 7 to Work with a PrePaid AT&T Plan (Frank La Vigne)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight

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Dew Drop – September 3, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ Grouped Joins (Richard Carr)
Turn on WCF Tracing for WCF Troubleshooting (Chris Love)
Visual Studio Extension: Save UML diagram as image (Gunnar Peipman)
Android and Windows Phone 7: Part 2 – Emulators – WP7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Getting Started with NDepend – A Visual Studio AddIn (Part–1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
Can we get a little service here? (Simon Jackson)
New WCF RIA Services QuickStart (Sam Landstrom)
File Transfer with WCF: Part III (Stefano Ricciardi)
The Object Browser: Creating a Keyboard Shortcut for Add to References (Zain Naboulsi)
What Did My Manifest Do: A Referral Was Returned from the Server (Sasha Goldshtein)
Getting Drive Info Part 3, CLR (Norman Kelm)
Visual C++ 2010: What’s new for MFC library? (Patrick Smacchia)

Web Development

How to Easily Inject jQuery into any Web Page (Rey Bango)
Tags Everywhere! Sueetie Wiki Page Tagging Now Online (Dave Burke)
Exploring IE9’s Enhanced DOM Capabilities (Travis Leithead)
Azure@home Part 6: Synchronous Table Storage Pagination (Jim O’Neil)
Talking about REST (Scott Seely)
Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box" (Alex North)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Let’s Play TDD #3: Cleaning Up My Mess and Agile Friday: "Coding Standards" Now Online (James Shore)
Black Jack Using Scrum – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner (Shai Raiten)
The Law of Conservation of Tradeoffs (Oren Eini)
Team and pair games for building collaboration (Michael Sahota)
Ask Satyam: Writing Clean, Debuggable Code (Daniel Barreiro)
Re-estimate Completed User Stories for a More Accurate Velocity? (Dan Puckett)
Creative Analogs (Dave Laribee)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight 4 Service Release 4.0.50826.0 and Extended WPF Toolkit – Release 1.1.0 (Brian Lagunas)
[WP7] Do you need to cache data ? (Nicolas Humann)
Best Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games in Development (Aside from Mine, of course) 😉 (Frank La Vigne)
What’s new for Performance in Silverlight 4 GDR1 (Silverlight Performance Team)
Windows Phone 7 Released to Manufacturing (OEM) (Zhiming Xue)
Catching the Back Button action on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
Encoding MP4 Problem in Expression Encoder 4 Pro (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Inside Windows Phone #01: Introducing the show (Jaime Rodriguez)
Silverlight TV 43: Applying Animations and States to Your Application (John Papa)
Windows Phone 7 Videos (Sunshine)
Connected Show Podcast – Steve Marx on Azure (Brian Johnson)
Tailspin Spyworks videos 13 and 14 are now live and ASP.NET – WebMatrix chapters 4-6 videos are now live (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

Richmond Code Camp Call for Speakers Closes Soon! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Leaders in Silverlight (John Papa)
Interview with Ken Schwaber, Part 2 (Dan Mezick)
MSDN Flash Poll #7 – Visual Studio Add-Ins (Mike Ormond)
Closer to Launch: Healthcare IT Q&A (Bob Nadler)
Interview with the Intrepid Buck Woody (Brad M. McGehee)
Don’t miss Devscovery 2010 (Laila Lotfi)
Charlotte Presentation: Creating M-V-VM Applications that are Tool-able (Karl Shifflett)

Database

SQL SERVER – Soft Delete – IsDelete Column – Your Opinion (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Types – Numeric vs Int (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: SQL Cookbook – Only $9.99. Use code DDSCB (O’Reilly Media)
Building a Data Warehouse Part V: Application Development Options (Stephen Forte)
Dealing with Microsoft.Ace and OPENROWSET Errors (Remou)
Reporting Services – Team Development (William Vaughn)

SharePoint

Guide to Migrating from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows SBS 2008 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

Skype Releases Skype 5.0 Beta 2 – Now Suports 10 People! (Blake Handler)
Launchpad–Good Idea (Daniel Fisher)
Skywriter: The Project Formerly Known as Bespin and Daily Dose – Android Doesn’t Count Upgrades as Activations Either (Mitch Pronschinske)
Gov 2.0 = Open Source? Not really, IMO… (Dan Kasun)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Parallel Programming with C#: Master Parallel Extensions with .NET 4 by Gaston Hillar

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