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Dew Drop – November 30, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

Announcing: Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Support RTW (Jason Zander)
BCL Extensions Source Code released on CodePlex (Frans Bouma)
Performing Code Reviews in TFS 2010 (Ivo Manolov)

.NET / Visual Studio

Beginning F#: Positive Discrimination (Ian Voyce)
Disabling the Visual Studio Splash Screen (Richard Carr)
RavenDB Multi Tenancy (Oren Eini)
XMI Export Sample (Cameron Skinner)
Setting mouse cursor position with WinAPI (Dennis Delimarsky)
“Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010)” (Think PDC 2010 version… With Azure VM[Beta], VPN, Remote Desktop and more) (Greg Duncan)
LINQ to Z3, The World’s Fasted Theorem Prover (Jonathan Allen)
Document Outline: WPF and Silverlight Projects and Document Outline: Windows Form Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
MefContrib 1.0.0.0 sees the light of day! (Andreas Håkansson)
Time-travel with .NET or DateTime, DateTimeOffset and the lost DST hour (Greg)
Synchronizing multiple nodes in Windows Azure (Josh Twist)
Get Started with LightSwitch at New Developer Center (Bruce Kyle)
These aren’t the Droids you are looking for – A guide to obfuscation (Simon Jackson)
BizTalk Server–distinguished field (Quoc Bui)
Bit twiddling: What does warning CS0675 mean? (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – A powerful Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor from ColorZilla (Paul Boag)
Sammy.JS (Mike Hadlow)
Getting The Route Name For A Route (Phil Haack)
HTML5: New in the javascript Selector API (Jef Claes)
JSMentors.com – The Mailing List to Learn JavaScript in a Professional and Courteous Environment (Rey Bango)
Date and time in PHP 5 (Giorgio Sironi)
A Closable jQuery Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
HTML5 Recipes: More on Storage (Romin Irani)
AJAX to the rescue! (Sam Tyson)
How to convert dates from Google Reader and Facebook API with Json.NET (Simone Chiaretta)
In the YUI 3 Gallery: Server-Sent Events (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Windows Azure, SQLite and Temp (Rinat Abdullin)
The trip down the writing of a IE managed extension path continues… Dealing with the potholes (i.e. Debugging) (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Development practice: Retrospectives in Kanban (Michael)
Insightful Leadership Books (J.D. Meier)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Four Phase Test (Giorgio Sironi)
Is the Project Going to Fail? – How to Spot the Signs of a Problem in the Project (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
Opinion: On some aspects of modern software development and distribution. (Dennis Delimarsky)
AutoTest.NET (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Better git-svn Through Aliases: git up & git dci (Keith Dahlby)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Better together [DynamicOrientationChanges and TransitionFrame create a comprehensive transition experience for Windows Phone 7] (David Anson)
ChevronWP7: Community Enabler or Jailbreaking Tool? (Nick Randolph)
Silverlight and WCF Service Consumption: Event vs. APM (Jeremy Likness)
Now you can develop for WP7 in VB too (Mike Ormond)
Visual Basic for the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW (Larry Lieberman)
WP7 update to bring copy/paste, multitasking, Bing upgrades, and custom ringers (Phone Arena)
Paul Juenger on WHS Phone WP7 Application (Silverlight Show)
Part 2 of 4 : Tips/Tricks for Silverlight Developers. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward Brings Team Foundation Server to Everyone! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 9 of n (Charles Torre)
Herding Code 98: Dale Ragan on Moncai (Jon Galloway)
Episode 132 – PowerScripting Podcast – Aaron Nelson on the PASS Summit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 169: Memory Grid Architecture with Nati Shalom (SE-Radio Team)
Let’s Play TDD #56: Window Titles (James Shore)
ARCast.TV – Building Recovery.gov Using SharePoint and Other Technologies (Zhiming Xue)
Windows Weekly 184: Extension Denied (Paul Thurrott)
YUI Theater — Nicholas C. Zakas: “YUI Test” (49 min.) (Eric Miraglia)
Technology & Friends Episode 127: Jason Follas on Looting Design Ideas from World of Warcraft (David Giard)
Yet Another Podcast #16 – Adam Kinney (Jesse Liberty)
No Network Activity Indicator in Windows 7: But Why? (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Events This Week – November 29th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Managing Projects Using Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Webcast Dec 3rd 9AM PST and Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition Webcast Dec 14th 11am PST (Charles Sterling)
Blog Round-up – What Are You Thankful For? (Jason Strate)
Support Computer Science Education Week 2011! (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Database

SSIS Package Annotation in Denali (Brian K. McDonald)
Executing PowerShell in SQL Server Redux (Chad Miller)
Using DMVs to Find the Ports that SQL Server is Listening On (David Levy)
Change the Default Language for SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – DBA or DBD? – Database Administrator or Database Developer and SQL SERVER – Automated Type Conversion using Expressor Studio (Pinal Dave)
Run SSIS Package from Stored Procedure (Ted Krueger)
Loops Without Cursors (Ken Downs)
SQL Indexing and Performance Part 1: SQL Storage and Indexing (Lefteris Karafilis)

SharePoint

Introducing SharePoint Online Workflows (Josh Topal)
Creator and Updater BCS Methods in SharePoint 2010 using Web Service (Lightning Tools)
Missing server reference in SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft eyes leap back into TV: sources (Yinka Adegoke)
MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: New Features that Increase Productivity when building forms in InfoPath 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
Get Going on Powershell (Jason Crider)
The Pee-Wee Herman Rule (Jeff Atwood)
Kodu PC Build 1.0.94.0 released (Stephen Coy)
Windows Server 8: Microsoft Searching for an SDET to Help Ship Windows 8 Server Backup (Stephen Chapman)
Speeding Up Your Scripts! (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 29, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 050 for 11/29/2010 (Pete Brown)
The Morning Brew #739 and The Morning Brew #740 (Chris Alcock)
ASP.NET, MVC, EF 4.0 and .NET Articles in November 2010 and Author of the Month and T-SQL and SQL Server Administration Articles Link List – November 2010 (Suprotim Agarwal)
Silverlight Cream for November 28, 2010 — #1001 (Dave Campbell)
Daily News Digest 11/29/2010 and Weekly Article Digest 11/29/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Dew Drop – April 27, 2010

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Top Links

DSL Book now available as rough-cut (Martin Fowler)
The Open Data Protocol .NET Framework Client Library – Source Code Available for Download (Shayne Burgess)
Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Controllers (Jimmy Bogard)
How does MEFedMVVM compose the catalogs and how can I override the behavior? – MEFedMVVM Part 4 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

Custom Build Steps, Tools, and Events (Andrew Arnott)
Launch of Visual Studio 2010 & Dotfuscator CE 5 (Brandon Siegel)
Using optional parameters in C# 4.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Enable or Disable All Breakpoints and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using the WPF Tree Visualizer (Zain Naboulsi)
ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
UML Sequence Diagram: F# Script (Phil Trelford)
Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing with VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
Launching an F# web application inside VS2010 as if it were C# (Steve Gilham)
Xml Document Transform (XDT) Snippets for VS 2010 (Vishal Joshi)
MicrosoftDataServicesRootUri, or How to customize WCF Data Service URIs (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Every Program There Is, Part One (Eric Lippert)
Coding4Fun – Photos Near You (Arian T. Kulp)

Web Development

Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page (Steve Wellens)
Tip #104: Did you know … How to view text for the ‘hint’ buttons on the Publish Web Dialog? (Nichole Baker)
Creating RSS feeds in ASP.NET MVC (Damien Guard)
IIS and PAE (Tess Ferrandez)
Sueetie Localizer Ready to Rock in Gummy Bear 1.3 (Dave Burke)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Next Week’s Art of Agile Excerpt (Poll) (James Shore)
The Most Annoying Habit Of A Software Manager (Alan Skorkin)
Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
Principles of Software Development Productivity (Peter Ritchie)
Code and Coffee: Save Yourself! (Jared Richardson)
The Exciting Enterprise (Kirk Knoernschild)
Easier debugging thanks to lightweight methods (Patrick Smacchia)
NCover 3.4: .NET 4 Support And More (Stephen Ward)
Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design (Ben MacGowan)

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight 5 Future Features (Justin Angel)
Using the ChangePropertyAction (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
WPF 4 Migration Issues/Breaking Changes and My StaticResource reference worked differently with WPF 4 RC than it does with WPF 4 RTM (Rob Relyea)
Silverlight revolutionizes beta of next Windows Home Server (Scott M. Fulton, III)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #4 – Enabling Out of Browser Applications and Silverlight Tip of the Day #5 – Debugging Out of Browser Applications (Mike Snow)
MVVM with Transaction and View Locator Example (Jeremy Likness)
3 Silverlight Free Demos (John Papa)
Simple Databinding and 3-D Features using Silverlight in Windows Phone 7 (WP7) (Mahesh Sabnis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ARCast.TV – High Value Asset Tracking with Bing Maps, Silverlight and Windows 7 (Bob Familiar)
DeepFriedBytes Episode 53: A Lap Around OData with Mike Flasko (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
video: Basic Test Specification and Execution scenario (Clemens Reijnen)
geekSpeak Recording – Five Key Developer Features in Expression Blend with Corey Schuman and MSDN Radio: Expression, Poetry, and the Windows Phone (Emily Gibson)
Stack Overflow Podcast #87 (Jeff Atwood)
Sod This 8 – The Secure Show (Oliver Sturm & Gary Short)
This Week In Silverlight April 23 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Windows is named Windows : But Why? (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Joining the Vertigo Team! (Justin Angel)
Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 (#LSSC10) Review (Derick Bailey)
Events This Week – April 26th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Win a 15-minute phone conversation with Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover! (Devon Musgrave)
Live Chats to Learn more about Sharepoint – 28 MVP Experts (Melissa Travers)

Database

ETL Process using Raven (Oren Eini)
Upgrades from Beta or CTP SQL Server Software are NOT Supported (Buck Woody)
Getting Started with Mongo on Windows (Erik Peterson)
A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (26/30) nested transactions are real (Paul S. Randal)
Find Tables with No Primary Key – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition – Only $9.99 use code DDMSC (O’Reilly Media)
SSIS : Using the VariableDispenser object within Script Components (Josef Richberg)
SQL University: Auditing SQL Server, Part I (K. Brian Kelley)
Steps for MySQL DB Replication (Manish Agrawal)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Cheat Sheet Updated (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Using BCS from Visual Studio 2010 for deployment to SharePoint Foundation 2010 and This product requires Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or above (Paul Andrew)

Miscellaneous

Observations on my own Startup (Dan Morrill)
Using Windows Explorer & SkyDrive without ANY 3rd party software (not even Office 2010!) (Greg Duncan)
Feedback on the IE9 Platform Preview (John Hrvatin)
Share Photosynths on Facebook (Sunshine)
Tower of Hanoi (Vijaye)
Windows Home Server "Vail" Public Preview (Paul Thurrott)
The EU is trying to kill startups (Stephen Forte)
Daily Dose – A Farewell to Floppy Disks (Mitch Pronschinske)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #588 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Tweets for 26-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 26, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2010 — #848 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 (Expert’s Voice in .Net)

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Dew Drop – February 1, 2010

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Top Links

Windows Home Server Vail CTP4 Leaks, Includes a Built-in App Store (Anum Lodhi)
STUPID goals (Christophe Louvion)
Running static code analysis on SQL Server database with Visual Studio Team System for database architects (Denis Gobo)
Good Team Dynamics Are Essential For High Technical Quality (Davy Brion)

.NET / Visual Studio

F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming – PDC 2009 (Luke Hoban)
XML Documentation Comments and Finding a Node in an XML String (Deborah Kurata)
MEF and decrypting LoaderExceptions (Derik Whittaker)
.NET Framework 4.0: Comparing LINQ and PLINQ performance (Gunnar Peipman)
NServiceBus 2.0 Release Candidate 2 Available (Udi Dahan)
Application running in the iPad Simulator (Wally McClure)
Exporting dynamically changing configuration values (Glenn Block)
Guidelines, a hidden feature for the Visual Studio Editor — vstipEdit0015 (Zain Naboulsi)
VS 2010 Quick Hit: Generate from Usage (Dariusz Parys)
LINQ to SQL with Stored Procedures (Arian T. Kulp)
MP3 player for Windows 7 (Shoban Kumar)

Web Development

WCF and JQuery Using JSON (Chris Love)
Daily Dose – Will HTML5 Kill Flash? (Mitch Pronschinske)
ASP.NET: ListBox Tooltip (Deborah Kurata)
50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques (Smashing Magazine)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Programmer Tip: Consider Taking A Couple Of Happy Hours Each Day Of Your Life. (Rajiv Popat)
Gherkin style specification testing in .NET (Ryan Lanciaux)
Attitude of the development team to the product (Brian Marick)
Saving Time by Mindmapping (Chance Brown)
Are we functional? (Eric Brechner)
Thoughts On TDD (A Case Study With Ruby And RSpec) (Alan Skorkin)
Test Tool Checklists – TMAP NEXT DOWNLOADS (Clemens Reijnen)

Silverlight / WPF

New York Times Silverlight Kit Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
Saving Files Locally in Silverlight (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Silverlight TV Episode 5: Using Metadata with MEF (John Papa)
ARCast.TV – Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bob Familiar)
Episode 99- PowerScripting Podcast – Shannon Ma on NetPoint (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Herding Code 71: James Avery and Rob Conery on NoSQL and a bunch of other stuff (Jon Galloway)
Major Nelson Show 349: BioShock 2, NFS: Shift and Windows Home Server (Larry Hyrb)

Community / Events

Leveraging Twitter to Promote User Groups (G. Andrew Duthie)
Life With My Geek: Man Cave Has Jumped Shark (Elle Starr)

Database

SQL SERVER – Question – How to Convert Hex to Decimal (Pinal Dave)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #529 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: 2010 01.19 ~ 01.31 (yuanjian)
Silverlight Cream for January 31, 2010 — #790 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Post… 1/24/2010 through 1/31/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)
Weekly Link Post 130 (Rhonda Tipton)
Windows Client Developer Roundup for 2/1/2010 (Pete Brown)
SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Insight Series (Joel Oleson)
Links (1/31/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright’s "Hard Code" (Best Practices)

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