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Dew Drop – June 28, 2011

Dew Drop – June 23, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010 Reviewer’s Guide (MS Downloads)
How to implement the Sync Edit feature from Delphi IDE inside Visual Studio IDE using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
Tracing in WCF: Understanding basic steps (Dhananjay Kumar)
EF4 books and EF 4.1 (Julie Lerman)
Configuring a PowerShell Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
Kinect–How to Apply Smooths Frame Display Using TransformSmoothParameters and Kinect – Create Buttons (Shai Raiten)
Filter NuGet Package updated (Steve Naughton)
Using Fluent NHibernate ClassMaps? You’re Doing It Wrong. (Bobby Johnson)
Source Code Available for the Kinect Mouse Cursor Project (G. Andrew Duthie)
New version of FSharpChart now available and FSharpChart new features and code drop availability (Don Syme)
Rangers Build Customization Guide — Available now. and Rangers Lab Management Guide — Available now (Mike Fourie)
Configuring Log4net in code using Windsor Installers (Naeem Khedarun)
ADO.NET EF 4.0: Working with Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) Classes (Mahesh Sabnis)
Advanced CodeRush Plug-ins: Converting an Object Initializer into a Constructor (Mark Miller)
Learn ADO.Net Entity Framework: Performing basic CRUD Operation (Dhananjay Kumar)
Ref returns and ref locals (Eric Lippert)
Making a Reverse Geocoding to Find an Address (Gil Fink)
Links to C++ documentation (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

ComponentModel for ASP.NET MVC3 (Ray Liang)
Precompile your MVC Razor views using RazorGenerator (David Ebbo)
Rendering A Rails Partial As A jQuery Template (Derick Bailey)
Adding Scale to ASP.NET Applications in the Cloud (Jenni Ripley)
Cleaning up POSTs in ASP.NET MVC (Jimmy Bogard)
ASP.NET: DropDownList with ComandName and CommandArgument and ASP.NET Repeater: Binding events to controls in header template (Raghav Khunger)
HTML5 and its Impact on SEO (Rey Bango)
Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
Windows Azure for PHP SDK v3 Final Release (Andy Robb)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: FlagArgument (Martin Fowler)
When did Scrum start loving project managers? (Allan Kelly)
Tech Leading: Keeping the passion (Mark Needham)
Just Launched: Zoho BugTracker (with GitHub Integration!) (Rodrigo Vaca)
5 Dangerous Ideas for Designers (Scott Berkun)
PowerMockup, A New Tool for Low Fidelity Mockups (David Bulkin)
MOF Archive (MS Downloads)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Port your Android or iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7 (Jason Gaylord)
Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Introduction (Windows Phone Geek)
Bouncy McFuzzin for Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 18 – Know about various Phone Tasks (Kunal Chowdhury)
WP7: Mango beta process detailed, delay explained, new unannounced features (News staff)
Windows Phone Mango Push Notification Changes (Nick)
PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Adding Localization Support (Per Ola)
PivotViewer Shorts Part 5: Invert Facet Category Selections (xpert360)
Quick reminder on How-To map items of a list view to a VM command (Gian Maria Ricci)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Dominick Baier Walks Us Through Claims-Based Security! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Let’s Play TDD #117: setIcon() (James Shore)
Ping 105: Xbox 360 takes the lead, Kinect Shop, Kodu Cup, Droid Devs called to Windows Phone (Laura Foy)
ADPWest 2011 – Drew Thoeni – Techwell and the ADP/Better Software Conferences and ADPWest 2011 – Michael Spayd and Lyssa Adkins – Agile Coaching Institute (Agile Toolkit Team)
SE Podcast #09 (Alex Miller)
Montage by FUSE Labs (Larry Larsen)
ReSharper Tips and Tricks Video from NDC (Jura Gorohovsky)
Wijmo Quick Demo: Adding Tooltips to your Charts (Kevin Griffin)

Community / Events

Microsoft Announces 2011 Partner of the Year Award Winners and Finalists (MS PressPass)
Windows 8: Sinofsky @ D9 Transcribed, Part 2: The Demo (Paul Thurrott)
Last call to register for free Next Generation UX event on June 28 in Brussels (Katrien de Graeve)
Teachers, would you like to help Microsoft pilot a new XNA Game Development course (and get free stuff in the process)? (Greg Duncan)

Database

"Build Secure Database Applications with Microsoft SQL Server" Series To Be – Post 0 of X (Greg Duncan)
Red Gate’s SQL Source Control and better SQL objects organization (Jakub Dvorak)

SharePoint

IUseSharePoint.com – How do you use SharePoint? (Andrew Connell)
How to Open a List Form in a Modal Dialog Box (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

Opportunity for innovation in healthcare – then and now (Bill Crounse)
Box.net Ups The Ante Against Microsoft With In-Depth Google Docs Integration (Leena Rao)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Graphics and Animation on iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDGRX (O’Reilly Media)
Awesome Powershell Tutorial Series (Rhonda Tipton)
PowerShell: Dealing With File Locks (Tobias Weltner)
RTM’d Today: Windows 7 Inside Out, Deluxe Edition (Valerie Woolley)
Why Big Software Companies Fail at Hiring Good Talents (Keyvan Nayyeri)

The Geek Shelf

CSS3: Visual QuickStart Guide (5th Edition) by Jason Cranford Teague

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Dew Drop – June 19, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

using “Default” Keyword in C# (Abhijit Jana)
Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionary Class and Internal classes to understand WCF Message: XmlDictionaryWriter Class and Reading XML file through LINQ: few Tips (Dhananjay Kumar)
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class (James Michael Hare)
WCF 4: Download Files using WCF REST EndPoints (Mahesh Sabnis)
C#: String.Compare ignore case (Raghav Khunger)
Kinect – Getting Started – Control Camera Angle and Kinect – Getting Started – Become The Incredible Hulk (Shai Raiten)
Binding Box now supprots the Wcf Interop Bindings (Yaron Naveh)
Getting started with Kinect SDK (Dimitris – Ilias Gkanatsios)
NuGet with MEF and Using NuGet for Application Plug-Ins (Matt Hamilton)
WTF Azure! (As in get a free The Daily WTF Mug just for trying out Windows Azure for 30 days, no Credit Card needed… US only though) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

CSS 3.0 as the only schema in Visual Studio (Daniel Fisher)
An Example to Use jQuery Validation Plugin (Song Li)
Get started with ASP.NET MVC and PetaPoco (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
New features and improvements in ASP.NET vNext (Zubair Ahmed)
Windows 8 and the Two Worlds of HTML (James Ashley)
Filtering an ASP.NET GridView control with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
CitiBank: It was not a breach of security, but a breach of stupidity (Rachel Appel)
Microsoft Rejects WebGL for Security Reasons (Abel Avram)
Netflix API Ditching DVD Endpoints to Focus on Streaming (Adam DuVander)
Web Application Project vs. Website (Steve Naughton)
What’s new in OpenWrap 1.1? (Sebastien Lambla)

Design / Methodology / Testing

What is Agile Results? and Email Therapy (JD Meier)
Have a Customer Advocate in Agile (Peter Saddington)
Lokad.CQRS – Framework that is Designed for Farewells (Rinat Abdullin)
Enterprise, SaaS, and Platforms (Udi Dahan)
Mocking Events with Moq (Richard Carr)
Test Maintenance; Or, The Third Era of Programmer Testing (Brian Marick)
New Books on Software Architecture (Michael Stal)
Git tutorial – comparing files with diff (Veera)
Getting Started with Pub/Sub using Rhino Service Bus and Consuming Events in the Same Process as the Publisher with Rhino Service Bus (Eric Quist)
Git on Windows: Creating a network shared central repository. (Jason Jarrett)
Arrogance vs. Confidence: what’s the difference? (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Building a Reusable ICommand implementation for Windows Phone Mango MVVM apps (Windows Phone Geek)
Screenshot Tools for WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
ChevronWP7 Labs to provide official Windows Phone unlocking service for homebrew developers (damaster)
XAML with .NET Primer Part One (Don Burnett)
Will the real Windows Phone 7 SketchFlow Template please stand up… (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone API mapping tool for Android Developers (Senthil Kumar)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 14 – Detecting Network Information of the Device (Kunal Chowdhury)
PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Using Isolated Storage to save, load and delete Pin Codes (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes: Inside IronJS – A complete JavaScript/ECMAScript open source implementation on the .NET DLR (Scott Hanselman)
Herb Sutter – Heterogeneous Computing and C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
Daniel Moth: Blazing-fast code using GPUs and more, with C++ AMP (Charles Torre)
Developer Smackdown Musing #50: Developer Smackdown is 2 and we just hit show #50!! How do you learn? (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
Engadget Podcast 244 – 06.17.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Coding QA Podcast Episode 57 – Optimal Test Automation (Unknown Author)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 021 – “More Mango Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
This is my next Podcast 011 – 06.18.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
Video: The 3 amigos at NDC2011 (Roy Osherove)
C++ AMP recording and slides (Daniel Moth)
Windows Phone Radio – 32 (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

How Transparency and Social Media are Evolving the SharePoint Community (Paul J. Swider)
Houston Code Camp Registration is Now Open (Ben Scheirman)
BizSpark / Windows Phone 7 Application Contest for Startup Companies (Zain Naboulsi)
Kinect Code Camp – We made a Kinect project in 24 hours. (Dennis Delimarsky)

Database

Thoughts on Nexus in SQL Server PDW (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once and SQL SERVER – Selecting Domain from Email Address and SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper Using SharePoint List Data in PowerPivot (Pinal Dave)
Prevent SQL Logins from using SSMS … or any other app (Eric Humphrey)
SSMS Add-in for Analysis Services (James Serra)
Instantly Find Size of Tables on Disk (Larry Leonard)

SharePoint

Dynamic Authorization for FBA based WCM Applications (Sanjay Arora)

Miscellaneous

Kinect- Caught between Community & MSFT support (Don Burnett)
Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 2: Manufacturing a PCB (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

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Dew Drop – June 23, 2011

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Dew Drop – June 19, 2011

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