Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Posts will be sporadic this week while I am at the MVP Summit in Bellevue/Redmond, WA.

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Top Links

• Guidelines and rules for GetHashCode (Eric Lippert)
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.2.3 (Yann Trevin)
• Templated Razor Delegates (Phil Haack)
• Kaxaml 1.8 (Robby Ingebretsen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code Snippet Types (Richard Carr)
• New Uber Prof Feature: Too Many Database Calls In The Same Request (Oren Eini)
• Setting Custom AIF Headers When Using WCF (Scott Banwart)
• Approximate String Comparisons Using Levenshtein Distance (Jonathan Wood)
• Another release for Fluent Assertions (Dennis Doomen)
• Azure Worker Role is not there yet (Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz)
• Windows Azure Use Case: High-Performance Computing (HPC) (Buck Woody)
• A Smarter Entity Framework Include Method (Nick Berardi)

 

Web Development

• Run ASP.NET Web Application from Command Prompt (Abhijit Jana)
• MVC ActionLink Setting Custom Attributes With Class (Chris Love)
• ActiveX Filtering for Consumers (Herman Ng)
• JavaScript Architecture (Simon J Ince)
• App_Start folder convention for NuGet and WebActivator (David Ebbo)
• Using Distributed Caching With Agatha (Davy Brion)
• Loving the Web Again (Alan Stevens)
• Top Ten Mobile Internet Trends (Rob Tiffany)
• DynamicModuleUtility (K. Scott Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Recommended Book: Apprenticeship Patterns (Davy Brion)
• TDD vs BDD (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Unit tests are overrated (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Does Agile Have a Dirty Little Secret? (Peter Saddington)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Implicit Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Terms Clearly Explained and Defined (Bart Czernicki)
• The Cost of Delay (Louis Salin)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 5 – Input (touch + gestures) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Marketplace free App Submission Limit Increased to 100! (Rob Tiffany)
• WPF – skinning the ComboBox moving the DropDown Menu around (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• WPF Login Verification Using Active Directory (Paul Sheriff)
• WP7 WatermarkedTextBox custom control (Windows Phone Geek)
• New Release: ReactiveUI 2.2 (Paul Betts)
• Reactive Extensions–More About Chaining (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Giorgio Sardo on the IE9 Release Candidate (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Sparkling Client Show 113: Silverlight 5 Thoughts (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• 12 Year old kid develops for Windows Phone! (Laura Foy)
• Windows Weekly 197: Angry Bricks (Paul Thurrott)
• ASP.NET MVC Security Videos (5) (Joe Stagner)
• The Thirsty Developer 99: Type @ and Go! (Dave Bost)
• Technology & Friends Episode 139: Lee Brandt on NHibernate (David Giard)

 

Community / Events

• The best of the Microsoft MVP 2011 summit tweets (so far) (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo aka MADExpo! and Events This Week – February 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Leaving patterns & practices (JD Meier)
• Registration Now Open for Dream.Build.Play 2011 Challenge (XNA Team)
• Announcing MADExpo (Kevin Griffin)
• Join the XNA-UK crew at the Microsoft Tech Days Conference on 24th March 2011 (Darkside)
• MVP Global Summit Gives Microsoft Another Reason to Listen (Jeffrey Meisner)

 

Database

• Access SQL Server Compact 4 with ASP Classic and VbScript (Erik EJ)
• Creating Mailing Labels in SQL Server Reporting Services (grrlgeek)
• SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Summary of Month – Wait Type – Day 28 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• SSAS – Preserve Measure Null Values (Devin Knight)
• Adventure Works Sample Database Diagrams (Brian McDonald)

 

Miscellaneous

• Ruby for Kids Helps Teach Programming (Chuck Lawton)
• 10 Fun Microsoft Facts You Might Not Know (Frank La Vigne)
• Microsoft’s new Answers site stumbles (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 02.23 ~ 02.28 (yuanjian)
• The Morning Brew #801 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 061 for 2/27/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Daily News Digest 02/28/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 02/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 15 Tips from Daily .NET Tips (Abhijit Jana)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Adam Freeman

 

 

Composed via in-flight wifi en route to MVP Summit 2011. Sweet!

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Top Links

• Web Tracking Protection: An Emerging Internet Standard that Helps Protect Consumers from Tracking (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Building a Windows Phone 7 Application with UltraLight.mvvm (Jeremy Likness)
• C# Compiler as a Service Update (Miguel de Icaza)
• Tests are your airbag (Krzysztof Koźmic)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Code Snippets with Replacements (Richard Carr)
• Programmatically finding Binding Elements in WCF Binding and Cross machine communication between .Net Application using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
• "Quick Find" a better way using Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools and Multi Targeted Add Reference Support in Productivity Power Tools (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Converting Numbers to Ordinal Strings and Approximate String Comparisons Using Levenshtein Distance (Jonathan Wood)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Windows Azure Storage Client Library Reference Documentation Updated with New Sample Code and Remarks (Windows Azure Team)
• Why we need better garbage collection on the Xbox (Joh.)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Rounded Corners with jQuery and ASP.NET DropShadow with jQuery. and Wanna deploy WordPress on Microsoft Azure ? (Joe Stagner)
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1 is now available as a DRM-free PDF ebook (Simone Chiaretta)
• IE9′s ‘Do Not Track’ features could become Web standards (Tim Conneally)
• Microsoft Guidance for Silky Smooth Web Sites (Chris Love)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Problem with Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Kidzban – Kanban for Your Classroom (Peter Saddington)
• Scrat–Copy Quality Center Test Plan Structure To Microsoft Test Manager (Shai Raiten)
• Dependency Injection & IOC (Abhishek Sur)
• 10 of 10 – Aesthetics and alignment matter (Alfred Astort)
• Continuous Delivery (Anders Janmyr)
• The Benefits of a Flush Search Box (Anthony)
• Are you refining or rotting? (Paul Boag)
• Reuse is overrated, then came package management (Matt Hinze)
• Book Review – Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don’t Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• The Ascendancy of Testers (Elizabeth Keogh)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Binding Events to Methods in the Silverlight MVVM View Models (Song Li)
• WPF Realtime Textbox Change Binding (Arian Kulp)
• All about ResourceDictionary in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, SharePoint, Silverlight and .NET Articles in February 2011 and Author of the Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
• MVVM + Broker + Castle Interceptor = FUN (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Silverlight: Wish List II (Deborah Kurata)
• Illustrator FXG and XAML export usage in Blend 4 (Bob Bartholomay)
• Getting ready for Microsoft Silverlight Exam 70-506 (Part 7) (Gill Cleeren)
• Select Many: Reactive Extensions’ Mother Of All Operators [Chaining] (Jesse Liberty)
• Writing about Windows Phone 7 Development (Mike Ormond)
• Save the Date–Windows Phone 7 Tech.Days Online Conference (Mike Ormond)
• Introducing Phoney’s FadingMessage Class (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies for Windows Phone 7 arrive April 6 (Vlad Bobleanta)
• Who ate all the pies!! (Rich)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: The Opinionated Cloud – Learning about AppHarbor (Scott Hanselman)
• Building on Azure: Softronic (Charles Torre)
• What is a SharePoint Analyst? Episode 57 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Gillmor Gang 2.26.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
• ASP.NET MVC Data Access Videos & Tutorials (17) and ASP.NET MVC App Building Videos (61) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 63: Exploring National Instruments’ App Using Data and Business Features (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 19 now available (Brian Seitz)
• The Full Stack, Part 8: Adding Search to the Windows Phone Client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• TWC9: Kinect SDK is coming, New VS Power Tools, & Profanities by programming language (Dan Fernandez)

 

Community / Events

• 2011 MVP Summit Preview (Thomas LaRock)
• TechDays 2011 – Developer track sessions update (Katrien de Graeve)
• A Message to MVPs from Nestor Portillo (Lonnie Webb)
• Tech.Days Online Conference – Create.Design.Deliver | Windows Phone 7 (Andy Wigley)
• The Microsoft MVP Summit (Brent Ozar)

 

Database

• Access SQL Server Compact 4 with ASP Classic and VbScript (Erik EJ)
• Some Suggested SQL Server 2008 R2 Instance Configuration Settings (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server: Count Rows in Tables and its Size (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2011 – Wait Type – Day 25 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Glenn Berry – Wait Type – Day 26 of 28 and SQL SERVER – Best Reference – Wait Type – Day 27 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 2 (Steve Novoselac)
• Come One, Come All to T-SQL Tuesday #016 : Aggregate Functions (grrlgeek)

 

SharePoint

• My Favourite SharePoint 2010 Scalability Articles (Paul Andrew)
• New Technical Article on SharePoint Architecture (Ricky Kirkham)

 

Miscellaneous

• Document: What a Microsoft employment contract looks like (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft unveils redesigned WindowsEmbedded.com (Brad Sams)
• Chrome Developer Tools: Back to Basics (Christos)
• Landing Your Dream Job in a Networked World (Dawn Foster)
• Get add-ons right in Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• What if we made Wikipedia into game… Wait, there’s Wikipedia Maze! (Greg Duncan)
• Opening a OneNote page each day at the same time (John Guin)
• Windows Live Mesh Beta Ends 31 March 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Learning programming online – still possible (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 24, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: February 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 91 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 24th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News Feb 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for February 26, 2011 — #1052 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (February 25, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #800 (Chris Alcock)
• Week Retrospective 21 – PMI Certification and Pecha-Kuchas (Peter Saddington)
• Weekly Links– 2010_08 (Joe Stagner)
• Daily News Digest 02/24/2011 and Daily News Digest 02/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 24-Feb-2011 and 25-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Randolph

 

 

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Top Links

• 36 Hour Free Offer: jQuery Fundamentals Training (Scott Guthrie)
• PMI Agile Certification… The PMI Agile Project Professional (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Tekpub’s Second Open House (Rob Conery)
• How To Find Out Which NuGet Packages Depend on Yours (Phil Haack)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to Import Export Data Tips in Visual Studio 2010 ? and Workaround For Non Serializable Types and Search Multiple Strings Using Regular Expression and “View this as root” – A Solution Navigator features in VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools (Abhijit Jana)
• Default parameters in C# (Eric Gunnerson)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Web API – Content Types (Ron Jacobs)
• Reimplementing LINQ to Objects: Part 45 – Conclusion and List of Posts (Jon Skeet)
• Windows 7 Recipe – Taskbar Single Instance (Yochay Kiriaty)
• Task Parallel Library 3 of n (Sacha Barber)

 

Web Development

• HowTo: Fileupload with ASP.NET MVC (Code Inside Team)
• Contoso Karate Feature Demo Available for Download (Joe Stagner)
• Making HTML5 Come Alive with the Canvas API (Jeff Prosise)
• Daily Dose: HTML5 Goes Mobile: The-M-Project Open Source Framework (Katie McKinsey)
• Ruby on Rails vs ASP.NET MVC slides, demos and video are online (Simone Chiaretta)
• How EnableViewStateMAC Makes ViewState Secure ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Mobile Web Facts and Best Practices (Rob Tiffany)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 5 – Effective Testing (Karl Seguin)
• Git: Oops! I didn’t mean to commit on that remote tracking branch! and Git: D’OH! I didn’t want to delete that branch! (Derick Bailey)
• Unit Testing 101: Are You Testing Your JavaScript? (Christian Johansen)
• BAM! – PMI Agile Certification is Here (Peter Saddington)
• Interview:Ron Jeffries on the Potential of Agile (Ron Jeffries)
• In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Getting Up to BAT: Hiring an Automation Lead (John Sonmez)
• Why the Ok Button is No Longer Okay (Anthony)
• Nurturing curiosity & inspiring the pursuit of discovery (Garr Reynolds)
• The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates (Jay Fields)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Filtering in MVVM architecture (Gian Maria Ricci)
• More answers about our first software update (Michael Stroh)
• Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts (Greg Duncan)
• ‘Content’ is NOT ‘Text’ in XAML (Paul Sheriff)
• WP7 ToastPrompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Building on Azure: InterGrid/Green Button (Charles Torre)
• RunAs Radio show #200… not our most technical show… (Paul S. Randal)
• IIS Deploy & Run ASP.NET Websites Videos & Tutorials (24) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Add Social Networking Features to your Site (Joe Stagner)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #189: Entity Framework: Making changes to the T4 Templates (Derik Whittaker)

 

Community / Events

• The NYC Code Camp 2011 Retrospective! (Rachel Appel)
• Attending The Microsoft MVP Summit 2011 (Richard Hay)
• Reminder: Register for the PowerShell Deep Dive Conference & submit your sessions (Travis Jones)
• Careers 2.0 Launches (Joel Spolsky)
• Community Branching (Dane Morgridge)
• Come and see me and other F# guru’s in Seattle! (Robert Pickering)

 

Database

• PHP on Windows and SQL Server Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Writing Better Queries Presentation Materials (Joe Webb)
• Configuring Antivirus for SQL Servers (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – 2000 – DBCC SQLPERF(waitstats) – Wait Type – Day 24 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Fundamentals of Storage Systems, IO Latency and SQL Server (Wesley Brown)

 

SharePoint

• Shared calendars in Sharepoint 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)

 

Miscellaneous

• IE9 Feedback: Platform Previews through Beta (Justin Saint Clair)
• The Kinect’s Past (James Ashley)
• 5 questions you may not want to ask your interviewer (Chris Rosenau)
• API Jobs: Technical Evangelism as a Career (Mike Borozdin)
• WordPress 3.1 released, features massive writing workflow and admin overhauls (Sebastian Anthony)
• Android 3.0 SDK Now Available to All Developers (Stan Schroeder)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 23 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• 23-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #799 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 23th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Zone Daily News Headline – February 24, 2011 (Silverlight Zone)
• Silverlight Cream for February 23, 2011 — #1051 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari