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Dew Drop – November 16, 2010

Dew Drop – November 10, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Reorganize the Default Item Templates (Zain Naboulsi)

Adding Multi-Value properties to untyped providers (Vitek Karas)

If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown) (Peter Kellner)

eBay Adds Microsoft’s OData Protocol for API Access (Daniel Luxemburg)

Creating Entity Data Model Without A Database With Entity Framework 4 (Deepak Kapoor)

Discovering race conditions using PostSharp (Dror Helper)

mogade.com: a free platform for casual game developers (Karl Seguin)

Web Development

Formatting Dates, Times and Numbers in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)

Writing HTML5 Applications with Google App Engine, Google Closure Library and Clojure (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

Notes on The Big View Engine Comparison (Louis DeJardin)

Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 4 (Emily Lewis)

Creating an HTML5 Game (Robby Ingebretsen)

Introducing the New YUI Test (Nicholas C. Zakas)

Web Page Performance in a Standards Compliant and Interoperable way (Anderson Quach)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Info Please: Tdd and Pair Programming (Brett Schuchert)

Beyond basic TDD (Gojko Adzic)

Effective Agile Meetings (Vikas Hazrati)

Chris Ducker: The Art of Managing a Virtual Team (Thursday Bram)

Mockingbird’s Wireframe Tool Now Sings To The Tune Of Real-Time Collaboration (Jason Kincaid)

Back to Basics: Cohesion and Coupling Part 2 (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Development Tip: Use Concurrent Programming Techniques (Bart Czernicki)

Creating the slider toggle control for Windows Phone 7 – external state change (Dennis Delimarsky)

Blend Bits 16: Real Data (Mike Taulty)

A WPF Lab right in Visual Studio! (Carole Snyder)

Microsoft is in the driver’s seat for Windows Phone updates (Ed Bott)

Page Transition Animations and Windows Phone 7 (Karsten Januszewski)

Windows Phone From Scratch #5 – Data Binding (Jesse Liberty)

All-day Windows Phone Event in Albany–11/16 (Jim O’Neil)

Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 (Katka Vaughan)

RTM’d today: Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)

Windows Phone day one sales: 40k (so what does that mean?) (Kip Kniskern)

MVP Award Program Interviews MVP Ginny Caughey on Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)

Windows Phone 7 U.S. Release Day Review (Richard Hay)

WPF vs Silverlight, really? (Rockford Lhotka)

Using the Device Panel (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

This App Makes Use of Your Phone’s Data Connection (Adam Nathan)

Writing windows phone apps for SharePoint (Sudheer Kovalam)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET Podcast Show 147 – WebMatrix/Razor Part II – audio (Wally McClure)

jQuery Podcast 39 – jQuery Mobile (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)

New Xbox 360 Transformer controller (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

Community, Community, Community, Community! (Mike Walsh)

Database

November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)

What’s new in SSIS in Denali? (Jamie Thomson)

#Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 10 Top SQL & Data Books – Celebrate #sqlpass Code DDDTA (O’Reilly Media)

Comparing MongoDB and SQL Server Replication (Jeremiah Peschka)

Drop all Connections to SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)

SQL SERVER – Get Database Backup History for a Single Database (Pinal Dave)

Download SQL Server Denali CTP and SQL Server Denali – Whats new for full text? and SQL Server Denali – Column Store indexes – The biggest thing in Denali (Simon Sabin)

First look at SQL Server Management Studio Denali and A first look at sequences in SQL Server Denali and Screenshots of the new look and feel of BIDS in Denali and Debugging In SQL Server Denali and Using OFFSET N ROWS FETCH NEXT N ROWS ONLY In SQL Server Denali for easy paging and Don’t install Denali BIDS side by side with a 2008 instance and The new Dynamic Management Views in SQL Server Denali (Denis Gobo)

SSMS Tools Pack 1.9.3 is out! (Mladen Prajdić)

SharePoint

SharePoint Server 2010 Search Architecture (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

Improving the Reach of Healthcare Through Mobile Technology (Tony Hey)

One Year Later: Windows 7 Deployment Trends (Paul Thurrott)

My Kinect Review (Christopher Bennage)

The Wonder of Light at The Smithsonian (Eric Havir)

Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Charlton Barreto, Technology Strategist at Intel (Robert Duffner)

Breathe With Skill to Dramatically Improve Your Health (J.D. Meier)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

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Dew Drop – November 5, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Display complex information in TFS 2010 Build log (Al Kampfer)
Asynchrony in C# 5.0 part Four: It’s not magic (Eric Lippert)
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Returning an Immutable Collection (James Michael Hare)
C# in Depth, Second Edition (Ferdinando Santacroce)
TaskWsdlImportExtension–a hidden gem in the C# vNext async CTP samples (Lars Wilhemlsen)
Creating Tray Applications in .NET: A Practical Guide (Michael Sorens)
Using Table Valued Parameters with VB.net (Leidago Noabeb)
Using the Task Parallel Library with ASP.NET MVC for scalable web applications (Mike Hadlow)
Composing Sequential Tasks With Linq (Mike Hadlow)
Visual F# 100 Examples: Example Number 7 and Visual F# 100 Examples: Example 8 to 10 (Rey Dacoco)
Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
The ResetSettings Switch (Zain Naboulsi)
How to modify NHibernate mappings at Runtime (Giorgetti Alessandro)
Kalifescope and Monotouch, from idea to the AppStore (Peter Van Ooijen)
CodeRush Templates – The ‘Templates’ options page. and CodeRush Templates – Creation Basics (Rory Becker)

Web Development

A Sordid Little Tale Of Unexpected Security Exceptions (Phil Haack)
Using the Model Keyword in Razor – ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
Tardis Bank is now live and An ASP.NET HttpModule to set the current culture to the user’s locale (Mike Hadlow)
How To Format Bytes in GridView Using ASP.NET (Custom asp:BoundField Server Control) (Peter Kellner)
Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust (Simone Chiaretta)
PDC10: Building a Blog with Microsoft "Unnamed Package of Web Love" (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Friday: "Release Planning" Now Online (James Shore)
Tobias Mayer on Scrum Alliance; Part 2 (Dan Mezick)
State of Agile – David Hicks (Dave Hicks)
Choosing to Start Small or Go All In when Adopting Agile (Mike Cohn)
Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Victor Noagbodji)
Head First Design Patterns (Prashant Khanwale)
Reuse Myth – can you afford reusable code? (Allan Kelly)
Learning Culture Makes a Big Difference (Sumeet Moghe)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF Window “Native” Behavior: Metro Window (Joel Bennett)
Delivering the message. Using MessageBox in Windows Phone 7. (Dennis Delimarsky)
Silverlight and HTML5 (Al Kampfer)
Touched–(Part 4)-Simple Example and Silverlight–Displaying Tookit Charts from XML Data and “I like Silverlight but I also like HTML5…which is best?” (Mike Taulty)
WP7 Code Camp Tour 2010 – Slides, hands-on labs and samples (CodePlex)
Silverlight Attendance Demo using Sterling Silverlight Database (Michael Washington)
My Thoughts on the Silverlight vs HTML5 Debate (Frank La Vigne)
Guessing if the SIP is visible in a Windows Phone application (Jaime Rodriguez)
Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone: First Look (James Ashley)
CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Getting As Much Attention As iPad From Publishers In 2011 (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, HPQ) (Jay Yarow & Kamelia Angelova)
Windows Phone From Scratch #4 – First Xaml (Jesse Liberty)
A Potentially Informative Article about the WPF Engine and Drawing Fractals via WPF (logicchild)
IIS Media Services 4.0 released, support for multiple devices (Katrien de Graeve)
Integrating Your App into the Music + Videos Hub (Mark Hopkins)
Silverlight Guys, What should we do next? (Michael Sync)
JavaScript Can’t Do Math – SilverlightCalculator A New Silverlight OSS Project (Rod Paddock)
Understanding Browser-Based Silverlight Project Architecture (Shailesh Patel)
Silverlight Mobile Phone Text Styles (Mike Snow)
InfoStrat.VE and the Bing Maps 3D end-of-life (Josh Blake)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET Podcast Show 145 – Windows Azure Part III – Visual Studio Tools – Audio (Wally McClure)
Let’s Play TDD #46: Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing and Let’s Play TDD #47: Spike-a-riffic (James Shore)
PDC10 Recap: First Impressions from Windows Phone 7 Developers (Brian Keller)

Community / Events

Local PDC Recap comes to Reston, VA on November 12th and Office Hours: Come Test Your Windows Phone 7 App at CMAP Code Camp! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Speaking at Tech Ed Europe 2010 in Berlin (Pete Brown)
Raphael Mun: translating dreams to Xbox (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
Join in Windows Azure Firestarter Events in Eastern US (Bruce Kyle)
INETA Community Speakers Stats for October (Chris Williams)

Database

A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database (David Levy)

SharePoint

SP2010 AJAX part 3– using jQuery AJAX with a HTTP handler (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

OMG Stop the presses! There are line-ups for Microsoft products (Art Lindsey III)
JAMS Job Scheduler PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Helping a user who opened a folder as a notebook (John Guin)
#Ebook Deal/Day – Security Power Tools – $21.99 (Save 54%) Code DDPWR (O’Reilly Media)
BizSpark Graduation Offer for Startups (Somasegar)
Erlang OTP In Action (Paul Umbers)
Windows Azure Pricing Options (Windows Azure Team)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Secrets by Paul Thurrott

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