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Dew Drop – July 12, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Tag, you are it… Another way to organize your files in Visual Studio and Getting started cooking with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First – Getting the tools and your first dish and Using the Portable Library Tools, a tutorial and Adding Speech Recognition to a Kinect Quickstart (Greg Duncan)
Parallel for loop in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
RabbitMQ Subscriptions with the DotNet Client (Mike Hadlow)
Creating a NuGet Package for LINQ to Twitter (Joe Mayo)
Microsoft Kinect SDK Offers Channel Opportunity (Frank Ohlhorst)
CodeRush Code Issues specific to extension methods (Alex Skorkin)
EF 4.1 Language Packs (EF Team)
MonoDroid v MonoTouch : a comparison (Craig Dunn)

Web Development

HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 (Gil Fink)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Substitute Algorithm (Giorgio Sironi)
Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
A hidden gem in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP: command line parsing (Maarten Balliauw)
Announcing Sueetie Notifications (Dave Burke)
IIS Rewrite Tool – the pain of a simple rule change (Paul Stack)
Using Azure AppFabric Service Bus from Ruby Apps (Suren Machiraju)
Introducing the WebDataGrid / WebHierarchicalDataGrid Cheat Sheet (Craig Shoemaker)
Templates With Razor (Hugo Bonacci)
WCF Support for jQuery July 2011 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How Agile Architects Lead (Johanna Rothman)
Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Domain Specific Languages and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: DSLs – Semantic Models (Josh Arnold)
Little Bets for Big Ideas in Agile Development (Peter Saddington)
Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, part VII–Data Access Layer is GOOD for you and Macto: Creating The Model (Oren Eini)
How would you like that developed, sir? Tactically or strategically? (John Rayner)
Is Technical Debt Still a Useful Metaphor? (Amr Elssamadisy)
It’s Time to Fix Subversion Merge (Andy Singleton)
Code Review Quiz (Chad Myers)
9 Timeless Techniques for User-Friendly Tables (Anthony)
Filters and Priorities (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Open Source Databases and Helper Libraries (Windows Phone Geek)
BindableApplicationBar update for Windows Phone Mango (Nicolas Humann)
Sharing Assemblies between Silverlight and .NET (Christian Nagel)
Images renders ugly in Silverlight OOB (Håkan Reis)
Windows Phone–Sending Messages Between Pages (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 28 – How to Detect the Current Theme? (Kunal Chowdhury)
WPF 4: Custom Command and Command Parameter for TextBox using Prism 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
Communicating between two local Silverlight Applications (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen Architect S#arply (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 6 of n (Charles Torre)
Episode 153 – PowerScripting Podcast – Spencer Brown from /n Software on PowerShell Inside (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Pluralcast 46 : Keith Brown on RavenDB (David Starr)
SQL Server Denali Videos (Suprotim Agarwal)
How IT pros can evaluate Lync 2010 with free downloadable virtual hard disks (Larry Larsen)
Ping 108: Facebook & Skype, Call of Duty, Baidu, Bing, Office 365 (Laura Foy)
Make: Live Episode 12: Robots (preview video) (Matt Richardson)
Let’s Play TDD #122: Extracting ConfigurationPanel (James Shore)

Community / Events

Reporting Services Webinar (William Vaughn)
More Women Than Ever at the 2011 Imagine Cup (Steve Clayton)
Join me at the European SharePoint Conference Keynote Oct 17-20 and 140+ SharePoint People to Follow on Google+ (Joel Oleson)
Upcoming Events for July 11th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Survey Results: Open Source Developer Preferences (June 2011) (Jonathan Wanagel)
Windows Phone Student App-a-thon (Dani Diaz)

Database

Environment variable in SSIS not being recognized (James Serra)
Third test build of Microsoft’s SQL Server ‘Denali’ expected this week (Mary Jo Foley)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 12 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Database Worst Practices – New Town and New Job and New Disasters (Pinal Dave)
How to move the Master database (Ryan Adams)
Capturing wait stats for a single operation (Paul S. Randal)
Select random records using TABLESAMPLE clause (Jakub Dvorak)
Foreign Key Hierarchy Update (Jason Brimhall)
5 Ways to Be a More Effective DBA Today (John Sansom)

SharePoint

PerformancePoint Services Extension Points (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

One big feature social networks really need: Channels (David Ebbo)
Live Tiles go PowerPoint according to WinRumors (Don Burnett)
OneNote Section Color Powertoy updated for OneNote 2010 (John Guin)
#Video Deal/Day: Artificial Intelligence in iPhone Games – Only $9.99 w/code DD8JN (O’Reilly Media)
iOS For .NET Developers Course Published (John Sonmez)

The Geek Shelf

Learning WCF: A Hands-on Guide by Michele Leroux Bustamante

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Dew Drop – July 10, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

XML Serialization of Arrays and Collections (Richard Carr)
WCF Data Services June CTP: LINQ Improvements and Properties on Derived Types (Jenni Ripley)
FluentValidation and PostSharp for RESTful WCF parameter validation – Part 4 (Naeem Khedarun)
Exploring Topics and Queues by Building a Service Bus Explorer Tool–Part 1 (Paolo Salvatori)
Project Templates and preinstalled NuGet packages (Marcin Doboz)
Atari Lynx Emulator and Kinect Toolkit v 1.0 and Fluent Validation v3.0.0.1 and SQL Compact Code Generator – Build 1.2.0.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

MVC–Showing a setup screen on the first run (Michael Ceranski)
Using PC Hardware more efficiently in HTML5: New Web Performance APIs, Part 2 (Jatinder Mann)
Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute and Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags (Chris Pietschmann)
Simulating Mouse Click Events in JavaScript (Marc Grabanski)
Evaluating jQuery Plugins for Use in your Projects (Ralph Whitbeck)
Buzz Makes it Easy to Use HTML5 Audio (Rey Bango)
Tweaking Add Item Templates for Better Script Performance (G. Andrew Duthie)
Complex filtering in isotope.js (Pavan Podila)
Client Express – Require and Exports (Mark Nijhof)
Listing your MySQL Databases with PHP (James Harvey)
Performance Tuning PHP Apps on Windows with Wincache (Brian Swan)
Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs (Brian Bondy)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier v4.24 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

design patterns (Mo Khan)
My two cents on Scrum (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
Patterns of Compositional Architecture and Patterns of Compositional Architecture: Policies (Josh Arnold)
Windows Azure and Object-Oriented Testable Code (J.P. Hamilton)
Wringing Metaphor from Thin Air : I am the customer (David Starr)
Weekly Reminders for Changing Your Habits and Adopting New Practices (JD Meier)
Nurturing Self-organizing Teams (Shane Hastie)
Balance the System First (Mike Cottmeyer)
Keystoning Features (Mark Nijhof)
Make Incremental Improvements or Disruptive Change (Bill Wagner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Give us Feedback on my Windows Phone Book (Charles Petzold)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 27 – How to Detect whether the Network is Available? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows Phone 7.1 – Codeless Development using Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
PinCodeKeeper WP7 app – Submitting to Marketplace (Per Ola Sæther)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 216: You Got Your Dropbox In My Mesh (Paul Thurrott)
This is my next Podcast 014 – 07.09.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
TWC9: EF June CTP, jPlayer, Kinect Gesture Toolkit, and a flying car (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 024 – “International Flavored Mango” (Ryan Lowdermilk and Travis Lowdermilk)
The GeekDads Episode #95: Yes, We Are Lazy, But in a Good Way (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
Windows Phone Radio – 35 (Brian Seitz)
Demo of Visual Voicemail on WP7 Mango (video) (Hyde13)
Video: Team Leadership in the Age of Agile (Roy Osherove)

Community / Events

Team SIMPLEX–MIRA at ImagineCup 2011 (New York City) and Microsoft ImagineCup 2011 in New York City – The Kick-Off and ImagineCup 2011 Opening Ceremony and Developing the ImagineCup WorldWide Finals Tracker app fro WP7 @ ImagineCup – Part 1 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Azure Sessions Not To Miss at WPC11 Next Week (Windows Azure Team)
July Silverlight Giveaway by Mindscape, First Floor Software and more! (Michael Crump)

Database

Free SQL Server 2008 R2 Business Intelligence Training Course (James Serra)
"Gotchas" With Using an SSAS Default Member (Melissa Coates)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 9 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Day 10 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – TSQL – GROUP BY CUBE() (Vishal)
Showing slowest parts of SQL query and How to merge (combine) date intervals in T-SQL (Jakub Dvorak)
Getting Ahead of the Curve – Big Data (Kevin E. Kline)
Learning From the Mistakes of Other DBAs (Brad M. McGehee)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Development–What’s in your rig? (Andrew Connell)
SharePoint 2010 – Now in New Mega Size! (Joel Oleson)
Read the detail about SharePoint 2010 and Remote Blob Storage and Articles about Scaling SharePoint to Large Content Database Capacity (Paul Andrew)
Understanding workflow starting parameters – Part 1 (SharePoint Designer Team)

Miscellaneous

Windows Live Wave 5 currently in Milestone 2 stage; to be tightly integrated with Windows 8 (damaster)
Q&A: Putting A Training Course Together (Davy Brion)
Think you have THE idea for an MMO, but don’t any any infrastructure or funds to build one? Wish there was a 30/70 deal for MMO’s too? (Greg Duncan)
Zune branded subscription video coming soon? (Kip Kniskern)
What’s on Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft priority list now? (Mary Jo Foley)
A future game machine, try it now for free! (Surf4Fun)
Installing Mango on your Samsung Taylor (Rudi Grobler)

The Geek Shelf

iPhone and iPad for Programmers (2nd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul Deitel

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