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Dew Drop – April 15, 2011

Top Links

Windows Phone “Mango” to bring Private and Beta marketplace distribution options (damaster)
MVVM Light V4 preview 3 (BL16, MIX11 edition!!) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)
Code First/Entity Framework 4.1 Videos and Articles on MSDN (Julie Lerman)
WPF : Carousel Control (Sacha Barber)
Creating a Markup Extension for MEF with Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

C#/.NET Little Wonders: First() and Single() – Similar Yet Different (James Michael Hare)
Create a Windows Service in .NET That Can Also Run as Console Application (Steve Smith)
The easy way to publish NuGet packages with sources (David Ebbo)
Organizing source code and sorting class members using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 3 Sample Project Launched (Deran Schilling)
MVC + Code-First + Azure Part 2: Deployment (EF Team)
A Better Razor Foreach Loop (Phil Haack)
IE10 Platform Preview and CSS Features for Adaptive Layouts (Chris Jones)
Hacking jQuery-Validate in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Hamilton)
WCF Support for jQuery – MIX 2011 Release and WCF Web API Preview 4 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Article on Non-Determinism in Tests (Martin Fowler)
Lazy Developers Hate Agile and Scrum (Peter Saddington)
Pairing is a tool, not a mandate (Bill Wagner)
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Process Guidance – Version 5.1 (MS Downloads)
Leveling up by doing (Steven "Doc" List)
Traditional Software Development Methodologies (Stoimen Popov)
10 Tips for ensuring a better site design (Paul Boag)
Planning-Domain Research Guidance (Billy McCafferty)
Queries & Aggregates & DDD (Torkel Ödegaard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 (Damon Payne)
Basic XNA (Windows Phone Geek)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [WebBrowserExtensions.StringSource attached dependency property makes Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF’s WebBrowser control more XAML- and binding-friendly] (David Anson)
Working with User Names and Roles in Silverlight Applications (Dan Wahlin)
Debugging Data Bindings in XAML with Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
WPF TimeSpinner Control (Tim Hibbard)
Microsoft’s latest WP7 chassis spec includes second-gen Snapdragon, optional gyroscope (Vlad Savov)
Implicit DataTemplates for Control in Silverlight 5 Beta and Binding in Style Setters – SilverLight 5 Beta and RichTextBoxOverflow Control in SilverLight 5 (Abhijit Jana)
Silverlight 5 Beta – Lets deal with its features (Abhishek Sur)
What WP7 improvements mean for developers (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #102: Heresy, Revisited (James Shore)
MIX11 Interviews: Mike Taylor, Robert Nyman, Andrew Duthie, and John Bristowe (Rey Bango)
Hulu Plus, Kinect updates for Xbox 360 caught on camera (update: video!) (Richard Lawler)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Kevin Hale Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Joe Belfiore caught in a corner by Laura Foy, epic video of WP7’s Mango update ensues (Phone Arena)
Silverlight 5: Get the latest beta and watch the video! (Sam)

Community / Events

Over $100,000 Awaits in Developer Contests (Adam DuVander)
MIX11 Session feedback: Analyzing and Improving Windows Phone Application Performance and Awesome MIX11. Awesome time for a Microsoft Student Insider. (Dennis Delimarsky)
Mix, Silverlight and Windows Phone (Jesse Liberty)
FREE WEBCAST May 13, 2011: Windows Azure Deep Dive on Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services (Windows Azure Team)
Windows Azure News from MIX11 (Katrien de Graeve)
MVP Hosts Hot Kids CodeCamp (Lonnie Webb)

Database

SQL SERVER – Finding Location of Log File when Primary Datafile is Crashed (Pinal Dave)
Performance Tuning: Start to Finish (Grant Fritchey)
SQL Server Compact will be available for developers in upcoming Windows Phone “Mango” update (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)

SharePoint

Optimising SQL Server for Sharepoint 2010 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
BCS Meta Man–Using a SharePoint List as an External Content Type and BCS Meta Man 4.0.0.1 Beta released (Phill Duffy)
Using the JavaScript Object Model in a Content Editor Web Part (Kumar Abhishek Verma)
Reducing the amount of markup in ASCX files (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

Send IM from PowerShell (Dmitry Sotnikov)
New book: Microsoft Visio 2010 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
Open Source, Adoption And Whatever (Krishnan Subramanian)
Using Get-WinEvent –FilterXml to process Windows Events (James Wei)
Windows 8 to feature USB-runnable Portable Workspaces, sales of 16GB thumb drives set to soar (Tim Stevens)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #835 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 04/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Interesting .NET Links – April 14, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily WP7 Development News April 14th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown

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Dew Drop – April 4-5, 2011

Top Links

So many interfaces! (Eric Lippert)
How Can You Load Test WCF Services? (Chris Love)
Extending Mole 2010’s Reach – Mole Type Loader (Karl Shifflett)
F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1 (Visual Studio Blog)

.NET / Visual Studio

Internals of LINQ (Abhishek Sur)
Debugging Series: Symbol Server (Cameron Skinner)
Dynamic query with Linq (Pranay Rana)
Build folders for Team Explorer (Shai Raiten)
Visual Studio–Build Folders extension for Team Explorer (terje)
async samples 9: Migration from Existing APIs (Bill Wagner)
Differences between CodeRush Pro and CodeRush Xpress (Alex Skorkin)
New Game Development Page and Tutorials on App Hub (XNA Team)
Optimization Note (C++) 1: push, pop, call _chkstk (Feng Yuan)
Going from Fugly to Fabulous by giving your objects their own debugging visualizer and Connecting to Kinect (Greg Duncan)
FluentMigrator getting started (Sean Chambers)
ILMerge Gotcha (Jonathan Oliver)
ISNULL or COALESCE? Sometimes it Really Does Matter (Larry Leonard)
Open your solution files as admin (David Ebbo)
Dynamically load embedded assemblies – because ILMerge appeared to be out. (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

10 ASP.NET Tips and Tricks (Abhijit Jana)
Generic Way to Bind Enum With Different ASP.NET List Controls (Abhijit Jana)
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: The Shopping Cart and Google Page Speed Online Tool (Chris Love)
Customizing ASP.NET MVC’s Required Property Validation Messages (Davy Brion)
Expression Web Super Preview Spring 2011 Demo (Don Burnett)
Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.5 released. (Joe Stagner)
ASP.NET MVC: Create a Custom ActionResult to return XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
JavaScript numbers, bits and strings (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Lightweight PHP application deployment to Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
Getting fancy with Nancy – Introduction (Andreas Håkansson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Deliberate practice, effective sketches (Simon Brown)
Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 2 (Derek Greer)
Can You Apply Agile for Long Processes? (Gil Zilberfeld)
My first Scrum team in the wild (Martin Hinshelwood)
Data on Estimation vs Number of Stories (Patrick Kua)
NUnit Equality Assertions (Richard Carr)
MOQ and C# (inc. synchronized and asynchronized Wcf Service calls) (Bert O’Neill)
Elastic Leadership (Roy Osherove)
Testing right by testing the right thing (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

TextBox.TextChanged event fire twice on the Phone (Rudi Grobler)
Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight Developer Run time is not installed. Please install a matching version (Aashish Gupta)
WPF databinding trick (part 2) (Jeremy Alles)
Visual Studio Item Template for Silverlight Interface (Jason Haley)
Canvas Animations in HTML5 (Jeff Prosise)
Metro In Motion #3 – Flying Titles! (Colin Eberhardt)
Procedural Animations in Silverlight (Mike Taulty)
A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys and How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
Fiddler and Windows Phone 7 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
New version of Mole 2010 available (Josh Smith)
Using ReactiveUI with MVVM Light (or any other framework!) (Paul Betts)
WPF Dynamically Generated DataGrid and WPF TemplateParts (Paul Stovell)
Find out if you are using the Windows Phone Emulator (Rob Miles)
How to create a Windows Phone 7 app from scratch (Update 2: Playing around) (Andrew Spooner)
Apply a tile brush to an object’s fill or stroke (Pam)
Keeping it regular (Pete O’Hanlon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 149: Pickering, Marinos, and Minerich on F# (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podast Show 393: Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do & C-3PO (Larry Hyrb)
Clean Code Episode III – Contents and Release Notes. (Uncle Bob Martin)
Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 010 – “Next Stop, Hungary!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

Community / Events

Events This Week – April 4th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Microsoft adds 11 Windows Phone mystery sessions to its Mix conference lineup (Mary Jo Foley)
Azure Camp Kolkata on 10th April 2010 (Abhishek Sur)
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, Check Out What Students are Creating (The Bing Team)
Chasing inspiration: from Imagine Cup to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Jeffrey Richter speaks about Windows Azure and Asynchronous Programming (Jeffrey Richter)
Robert Greyling on Spark View Engine on 12 April 2011 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
We’re Ready to Rock… (Brian Hitney)

Database

Useful new topics in SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online (Erik EJ)
Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
Isolating SQL Server from other systems (K. Brian Kelley)
SQL Server: Disable Table Constraints (all or some) (Madhivanan)
Static analysis of Simple.Data code to generate databases (Rob Ashton)
Listing Firewall rules in SQL Azure and Fetching SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically and Adding and Deleting SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically (Dhananjay Kumar)
Leaving the relational mindset – RavenDB’s trees (Oren Eini)
SSMS Tips & Tricks – Scripting Multiple Objects (Seth Phelabaum)
Varying Results with Subquery, ORDER BY, MAXDOP (Jen McCown)
Using STOPAT in the RESTORE DATABASE Statement (grrlgeek)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010: Connect InfoPath Form Web part with Excel Web Part (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

So what was I thinking anyway? (Chris Brandsma)
Windows Installer XML (WiX) 3.5 Makes Component Authoring Easier (Jenni Ripley)
Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (PowerShell Team)
Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)
How to sniff web traffic from Marketplace-based Android applications (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #826 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News April 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 065 for 4/4/2011 (Pete Brown)
Interesting .NET Links – April 2, 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – April 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Weekly Link Post 188 (Rhonda Tipton)
Week Retrospective 26 – Product Owner Essentials and AOL (Peter Saddington)
Daily News Digest 04/04/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Links of the week #147 (David Vidmar)
Weekly Links– 2010_13 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
SQL Server Denali Resources (Suprotim Agarwal)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning F# by Robert Pickering

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2011

Top Links

Announcing Jounce 1.0 RTM – It’s here! (Jeremy Likness)
Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application (Derik Whittaker)
Preview Drop #3 of Enterprise Library Silverlight Integration Pack (Grigori Melnik)
NuGet 1.2 Released (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

C# API Design: Type Inference, Named Parameters, and Generic Delegates (Jonathan Carter)
TFS and WF4: The diff noise problem and Beware of lifetime manager policy locks in Unity (Rory Primrose)
Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released! (Blake Niemyjski)
Microsoft NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio & VWD (Joe Stagner)
My Visual Studio snippets (Shawn Burke)
I love R# because it reduce mouse usage (Gian Maria Ricci)
Enabling Parallelism for Productivity Programmers (Ade Miller)
I spy with my little eye… ILSpy (Greg Duncan)
async 8: creating combinators (Bill Wagner)

Web Development

JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part I) and JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part II) (Julian M. Bucknall)
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: Designing the Genre and Album Pages (Chris Love)
HTML5: What Is It, Why Should I Care, and What’s Microsoft Doing About It? (G. Andrew Duthie)
Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET (Matteo Slaviero)
Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 (Scott Hanselman)
What Firefox 4 means to web developers? and The PHP frameworks poll results (Giorgio Sironi)
RockPaperAzure Coding Challenge and Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 1 and Creating a Quick Progress Visual like UpdateProgress (Brian Hitney)
YUI 2.9.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Jenny Han Donnelly)
Composite C1 CMS 2.1 (2.1.4087.22991) and patterns & practices: Project Sile Community Drop 4 – 28 Mar 2011 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

IT Turf Wars? Agile Can Help (Peter Saddington)
One Real-Life Product Owner Team and Product Owner Team Design Considerations (Mike Cottmeyer)
Improving Meetings (K. Brian Kelley)
Effective Tests: How Faking It Can Help You (Derek Greer)
Organising NUnit Tests (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application and Nullable ComboBox for Silverlight and WPF (Mircea Deliu)
A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter (Brandon Watson)
Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
(Brandon Watson)

Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
Design/performance – WP7 in blend and code (Håkan Reis)
Silverlight Scaling and Anti-Aliasing Issues (Jeremy Likness)
Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox (Joey deVilla)
Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development (Karl Erickson)
Capturing Screenshots on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
WP7 TombstoneHelper (Rudi Grobler)
How to install LightSwitch Beta 2? (Kunal Chowdhury)
MVVM Light – what’s the Messenger? (Dennis Delimarsky)
Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
Supercharged Spreadsheets – PowerPivot in Office 2010 and A Few Minutes with Nolan Bushnell – Creator of Pong and Atari (Tina Wood)
PDC Sessions now published on Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
Technology & Friends Episode 148: G Andrew Duthie on Community Megaphone (David Giard)
endpoint.tv – Parent / Child Workflows (Ron Jacobs)
Let’s Play TDD #98: One Beeellion Dollars (James Shore)
Spaghetti Code – March 2011 (Jeff Brand)
The GeekDads Episode #88: Moderately Misplaced Teen Pop Song (Ken Denmead)
Countdown to MIX11: Get Your Science On (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

WP7 App Challenge competition – get a free ride to WPC 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Communities and Networks: What are you building? (Bill Wagner)
Mono and Google Summer of Code (Miguel de Icaza)
MSDN Virtual Lab: A Lap Around IE9 (Wes Yanaga)
Lightning tools webcasts (Brett Lonsdale)
Event: New Sessions Released, Learn from the Best at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
UX at MIX11: Full Speed Ahead (Jason Alderman)
I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla (Scott Mitchell)

Database

Snapshot Synchronization with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
T-SQL, SQL Administration and SSRS Articles Link List – March 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – TechEd 2011 – Random Question and Answers and SQL SERVER – ‘Denali’ – A Simple Example of Contained Databases (Pinal Dave)
March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – syscomments (Thomas LaRock)
MySQL: GROUP BY in UNION (Quassnoi)
(Not a) CHECKDB error “Unable to deallocate a kept page” (Paul S. Randal)
Building Our Own Federated Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell (Eric Humphrey)

SharePoint

Using the Builder Pattern To Create SharePoint Lists (Bil Simser)
Connected Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 – an Architectural Framework (Mark Kendall)
Update Taxonomy Field Values in a List Item using SharePoint Web Services (Sridhar Raghunathan)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Co-Founder Blasts Bill Gates in Memoir (Paul Thurrott)
Careers 2.0 now does GitHub (Matt Sherman)
New in Marketplace: ESPN ScoreCenter (Michael Stroh)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning #Android – Only $15.39 (Save 45%) w/code DDLAN (O’Reilly Media)
Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm (asgard4)
Announcing Group Plans for Tekpub (Rob Conery)
Windows Phone Mobile Studio: A reincarnated (and de-hipsterized) Kin Studio? (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft DreamSpark – now with a free Microsoft Certification Exam (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: March 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – March 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
The Morning Brew #823 and The Morning Brew #824 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News March 29th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily News Digest 03/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2011 — #1068 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 by Peter Ritchie

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