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Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – August 14-15, 2010

Dew Drop – August 5, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Creating Signed Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
LightSwitch Arrives (William Vaughn)
LightSwitch: The Return Of The Secretary (Oren Eini)
Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions (Scott Guthrie)
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version (Shai Raiten)
Keyboard Shortcuts: Reset All Your Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
Microsoft Aims Its Latest Tool, LightSwitch, at Professionals. Is it a Tool for Pros? (Abel Avram)
Intellisense Enhancements I want (Deepak Kapoor)
Microsoft.Data, LightSwitch and WebMatrix are the Next Step of Evolution (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery (Andy Croxall)
Tips and Tricks for Error Handling in ASP.NET Web Applications (Jacob Sebastian)
Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released — tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta (Sebastian Anthony)
IE9 Train Reaches Platform Preview 4 (James Pratt)
JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors (Leon Bambrick)
oData call debugging. (Mike Hole)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Studies that Validate Agile and Lean Methodologies (Dan Puckett)
Day 4 – Let Things Slough Off (J.D. Meier)
Evolving Architectures – Part V – Leaps (Mitch Pronschinske)
How Do You Estimate Your Project? (Stoimen Popov)
Coding Standards and Best Practices : Avoid using strings in CODE PLEASE! (Peter Bahaa)
Learn Decorator Design Pattern in Easy Steps (Ananth.tm)
Tech Lead Checklist to Kick your Team into Gear (Andy Singleton)
Technical Debt in Medical Software (Bob Nadler)
The 3 Questions (Ivo Manolov)
Defect Driven Testing: Your Ticket Out the Door at Five O’Clock (Jared Richardson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Tutorials : Apps Amuck (Nigel Sampson)
How design time data will save you time designing Silverlight and WPF applications and How to use a DesignInstance to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use DesignData to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
Data-Centric WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Data-Centric Silverlight Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Christian Nagel)
Experimenting with PRISM 4, Silverlight, MEF (Mike Taulty)
MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Overview UserControl (Davy Brion)
Why didn’t I think of that in the first place? [Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates] (David Anson)
New book: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
Great Article on Writing a Bing Maps Location-Aware App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers – Reloaded (Jesse Liberty)
Using RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 (Mamta)
Windows Phone 7 Beta: My Application Won’t Start After Renaming Project (Nick)
Silverlight Blackjack for Windows Phone 7 (Rob Miles)
Bring on Bing for Windows Phone 7 (My Kind of Phone)
Windows Phone 7 App Development (Richard Hay)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Community / Events

Typemock Sponsors #devLink2010, August 5 – 7th (Britt King)
Chat Now In Public Beta (Jeff Atwood)

Database

Testing Native Backup Compression in Combination with SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Compression (Glenn Berry)
PowerShell for the DBA: Search the Windows Event Logs for Errors (Buck Woody)
PostgreSQL Tutorial – Referring to Other Tables (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

Configure hMailServer for SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

Aurora Monitoring with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
Google Wave dies of acute unpopularity at age 1 (Jay Hathaway)
YouTrack Adds Importing from Trac and CSV Files (Mitch Pronschinske)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Masterminds of Programming – Only $9.99. Use code DDMMP. 2010 Jolt Award Winner (O’Reilly Media)
Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it (Steve Clayton)
Jive Software takes the first step towards a social enterprise app market (Steven Walling)
Microsoft’s mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg

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Dew Drop – August 3, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Setting Performance Counters (Richard Carr)
Microsoft.Data, because the 90s were so good, we want to do them again (Oren Eini)
F# Templates Now On Visual Studio Gallery (Daniel Mohl)
WCF RIA Services Part 4 – Integrating with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern (Brian Noyes)
Keyboard Shortcuts: Additional Mapping Schemes (Zain Naboulsi)
The CodeRush Options Screen (Rory Becker)

Web Development

Dynamic Methods in View Data (Phil Haack)
Restrict ASP.NET MVC Action’s Using The ActionMethodSelectorAttribute (Malcolm Sheridan)
MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released! (Maarten Balliauw)
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part II (Matthew Podwysocki)
My Journey with the StackExchange API (Dave Swersky)
Publishing Adaptive Streaming Video from Expression Encoder to Windows Azure Blobs (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Structure and guidelines, consistency and clarity (Simon Brown)
Explaining Software Design Patterns to a non-developer… (Greg Duncan)
How do You Stress Test Your Web Application? (Mike Hadlow)
Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world and Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world (Roy Osherove)
CSI: Microsoft (Gil Zilberfeld)
Projects vs. products (Daniel Crenna)
Slides for The Rule of 3, Hot Spots, and Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
Software Programming as Craft (Dave West)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Quick look inside a List Application for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Some Infrastructure Bits (Davy Brion)
Free ebook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2) (Devon Musgrave)
Couple of Expression Encoder updates (James Clarke)
How Advertising is Different on Windows Phone 7 and A Deep Zoom Container for Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Action Pack and Microsoft Tellme Speech Recognition Services (Don Burnett)
Book Review – 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
Ensuring your WPF applications are Accessible (Rob Relyea)
Async Data Validation (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kent Alstad is All About Performance (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Phone 7 Development with Mike Harsh (Robert Hess)
Episode 58: Building Facebook Applications with Windows Azure with Jim Zimmerman (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
endpoint.tv – CancellationScope Activity (Ron Jacobs)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 23 – Code Contracts with William Tulloch (Richard Banks)
Ping 68: Streetside, Hohm, Student Partners, Kinect & Farmaritaville (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Learning in Public – what I learned from being heckled at the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
London “Guathon” Event with Me on August 13th (Scott Guthrie)
Time to give back: GeekGive at the MVP Summit (Stephen Forte)

Database

SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance (Pinal Dave)
RSScripter and Permissions (William Vaughn)
SSMS Feature Request – Filter By Datetime, Not Just Date (Shaun Stuart)
Quickly Script Out Replication Redux (Chad Miller)
A Small Collection of DBCC Commands (Glenn Berry)

SharePoint

Chapters 1-4 of our upcoming Inside SharePoint 2010 development book on MSDN (Andrew Connell)
Wish you had free end user training incorporated into your SharePoint environment? (Joel Oleson)
Feature upgrade (part 4) – advanced scenarios (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Assembla’s Top 10 Used Tools (Anastasia Voskresenskaya)
Why Microsoft *can* compete with the Apple iPad and what the Apple pundits are clueless about… (Don Burnett)
Make your own Fable III Villager (Larry Hyrb)
Pluralsight Website Update, 7/31/2010 (Keith Brown)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Being Geek – Only $9.99. Use code DDGEK (O’Reilly Media)
Wolves Theme for Windows 7 (Richard Hay)
Kinect: the backstory (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by Jared Richardson

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