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Dew Drop – May 8, 2011

Top Links

New Release: ReactiveUI 2.3 (Paul Betts)
Eduasync part 1: introduction (Jon Skeet)
A Tough Nugget – NuGet Package Manager (Gil Fink)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 and CUDA, Easier with RC2! (Ade Miller)
Microsoft focusing even more on the dev platform (Dennis Delimarsky)
TFS API Part 35 – Create Build Controllers (Shai Raiten)
Recent Additions To My NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)
BRAIN DUMP: Conventional Routing in RabbitMQ (Dru Sellers)
Qtools – MSMQ Operations, Deployment And Monitoring Made Easy (Dotan J. Nahum)

Web Development

[Book Review] ASP.NET MVC 2 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
Getting current Authentication information on WCF REST Service (Dhananjay Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

AutoCompleteBox in Silverlight 4.0 with DataSource from SQL Server (Dhananjay Kumar)
How to make a Windows Phone 7 Vibrate using C# (Senthil Kumar)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 15 (Richard Hay)
Devdays Sessions now on Channel 9 (Rob Miles)
Windows Weekly 207: You’ve Been Walshed (Paul Thurrott)
TWC9: MVC3 Tools Update, AntiXSS, Freeze yourself in Carbonite using Kinect (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

Windows® Phone 7 User Group Event Sweepstakes (Dani Diaz)
Lessons Learned at Graduate School – Part 1 (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

SQL SERVER – What Kind of Lock WITH (NOLOCK) Hint Takes on Object? (Pinal Dave)
Practical NoSQL – Solving a Real Problem with MongoDB and Redis (Karl Seguin)
Multiple Server Query Execution – Management Studio (Vishal)

SharePoint

Silverlight Client Object Model in SharePoint 2010 – Part III (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator free alternatives (Don Burnett)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – May 8 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 01-May-2011 to 07-May-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Retrospective 31 – #Agile #Jobs and some #Tips (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC (Pragmatic Programmers) by Jonathan McCracken

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Dew Drop – May 7, 2011

Top Links

Async 12: Expressions within await (Bill Wagner)
NuGet Package of the Week #6 – Dynamic, Malleable, Enjoyable Expando Objects with Clay (Scott Hanselman)
MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) (Laurent Bugnion)
Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 1) (Michael Crump)

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ Zip Operator (Richard Carr)
SQL Server Compact Toolbox standalone – including all managed DLLs in a single .exe (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
MongoDB quickstart tutorial in C# and Linqpad (Lawrence Botley)
Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
Pushing Code to NuGet (Rob Conery)

Web Development

Rethinking JavaScript Object Enumeration (Angus Croll)
Getting Started with the HTML 5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook – Review (Hajan Selmani)
Galactic: Building a 3D Solar System with HTML5 (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
Guaranteed Success With Scrum (Mike Cottmeyer)
Criteria for Success (Peter Ritchie)
Discussing the Undiscussable: Book Review (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

TCommand: A WPF Compatible Command Pattern (L. Benini)
What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
More clarity and self-test help on our Content Policies and Technical Requirements (Todd Brix)
TouchStudio – Script Your Phone on Your Phone Reloaded (Jonathan de Halleux)
Blog Reader QA: A simple example of INotifyPropertyChanged. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Answering Niners Questions about Jelly Bean—The Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair (Tina Wood)
Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
Engadget Podcast 238 – 05.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Devdays Sessions now on Channel 9 (Rob Miles)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Wally McClure Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Windows Weekly 207: You’ve Been Walshed (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

Local Mid-Atlantic Events YOU should attend! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Excellent List of FREE Webcasts around our new Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools! (Angela Binkowski)
Seattle/Redmond Drinkup on Sat, May 7 (S. Chacon)
More Free State of .NET Events Coming Up! (Markus Egger)
Announcing a Prism, Unity, WPF, MVVM Training Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2008 R2 – Create Script to Copy Database Schema and All The Objects – Data, Schema, Stored Procedure, Functions, Triggers, Tables, Views, Constraints and All Other Database Objects (Pinal Dave)
Match your defaults with your trigger values to prevent horrible fragmentation on your indexes and tables (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server DBA Tip 9 – SQL Server Monitoring – Default Trace (Ted Krueger)
Removing OS Files Through a Stored Procedure (Kim Tessereau)
Multiple Server Query Execution – Management Studio (Vishal)
Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

Installing a Fresh Windows OS to a New Bootable VHD with no Host OS for Boot to VHD (John Papa)
Programming and Age (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Windows Phone 7 App Pick: Tasks At Last (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – May 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Distributed Weekly 101 (Scott Banwart)
Weekly Links– 2010_17 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action by Wictor Wilen

Technorati Tags: vs2010,sql server,silverlight,windows phone 7,agile,scrum,nuget,linq,mongodb,linqpad,C#

Dew Drop – May 6, 2011

Top Links

EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
White Paper: Flex, Silverlight or HTML5? Time to decide… (Colin Eberhardt)
Pull Request Listing, Recent Releases in Followed Projects, and Projects You May Like (Matt Hawley)
MSDN Patterns & Practices introduces Project Silk, a web guidance project (Rachel Appel)

.NET / Visual Studio

C#/.NET Little Wonders: The LINQ Set Operations — they’re not just for math! (James Michael Hare)
Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
New Windows Azure Connect Features Add New Locations, Enhance Interface (Windows Azure Team)
Is Mono dead? Is Novell dying? (Rob Conery)
Generate better NHibernate logs (Jose Romaniello)
Must-have resource for Azure developers (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Web Development

HTML 4 to 5 Cheat sheet, see what’s new and removed for Tags and Attributes. (Greg Duncan)
Calling Web Service Page Methods with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
Microsoft ASP.NET – Too many options (Peter Gfader)
ASP.NET MVC: Getting selected values from CheckBoxList (Gunnar Peipman)
Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0 Beta Released (Andy Robb)
New IE9 Developer Content on MSDN (IE Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The conflict between agile and architecture (part 1) (Simon Brown)
My Work with Scrum.org (David Starr)
Tips for UI Tests with GWT: HTML IDs, or “How to buy votes” (Kyle Baley)
Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
Best practices: Dynamics of Software Development, 2006 Edition (Devon Musgrave)
Lifecycle of singleton objects (Gian Maria Ricci)
Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins (Anthony T)
A Fluent Backwards Design (Jeremy Likness)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Building CTA Bus Tracker for WP7 – Part 1 (Erik Klimczak)
Part 4b – Hello piggy and Part 4a – Raising the floor and Part 4c – Launching our pig and Part 4 – Three, two, one… launch! (Jo de Greef)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
At look at the Lync SDK with Marcelo Farjalla (Larry Larsen)
Developer Smackdown Musing #47: WCF Web API with Glenn Block and Scott Seely (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
Silverlight TV 71: Laurent Bugnion, Luigi Rosso, and Ward Bell Talk Silverlight 5 at MIX11 (John Papa)

Community / Events

It’s Not Too Late to Attend – or Host – A Windows Azure Boot Camp Near You! (Windows Azure Team)
May 2011 Edition of Philly Nerd Nite (Nerd Nite)
Developer Stand up Comedy – Coding 4 Fun (Scott Hanselman)
Join the Open Source Un-Contest and Get a Free eBook from O’Reilly (Joe Stagner)
Announcement: Richard Hale Shaw Seminar in Ann Arbor (Bill Wagner)

Database

SQL SERVER – Video – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server DBA Tip 8 – Server Monitoring – Baseline (Ted Krueger)
Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

Database maintenance for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 design samples: Corporate portal with classic or claims-based authentication (MS Downloads)
SharePoint: Create Dashboard with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2008 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
SharePoint and Azure Integration Opportunities (Vishwas Lele)

Miscellaneous

BizTalk 2010 VHD (MS Downloads)
2011 Ultimate Tools List for Mac (Ben Scheirman)
Right click DMP your Windows Explorer – Creating file association and context menu for WinDbg (Greg Duncan)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Adobe AIR – Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDAAR (O’Reilly Media)
Commerce Tracking with Google Analytics for Android (Tim Bray)
Install Ruby on Rails on Windows Easily with Rails Installer (David Hayden)
‘Walshied’ Windows Phone 7 that won’t update? There’s a fix for that (Mary Jo Foley)
Windows Home Server 2011 Will Protect Your Data (Richard Hay)
Musings on ebooks (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: Cinco de Mayo 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – May 5 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily News Digest 05/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #846 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News May 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development: Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 by Chris G. Williams

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