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Dew Drop – October 19, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Finding Clone Codes in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
Thoughts on JustDecompile compared to Reflector (Dennis Delimarsky)
All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 (aka Metro version) now Visual Studio Extension’d (Don’t leave your Visual Studio without it…) (Greg Duncan)
Exploring Visual Studio 11 IDE – Solution Explorer New Features Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
APress Deal of the Day – 19/Oct/2011 – Introducing .NET 4.0 With Visual Studio 2010 (Tatworth)
Microsoft Biology Foundation Evolves into New Tool Kit: .NET Bio (Simon Mercer)
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
Visual C++ and WinRT/Metro – Databinding Basics (Nishant Sivakumar)
Template for generating POCO classes with Notify in Entity Framework 4.1 (David Sherwood)
The Quick and Dirty EF 4.1 Code Generator (Colin Blair)
"You are now up to date." [IfModifiedSinceWebClient makes it easy to keep a local file in sync with online content - and do so asynchronously] (David Anson)
Capture, Transfer, and Rethrow Exceptions with ExceptionDispatchInfo [.NET 4.5] (Sasha Goldshtein)
Naked Objects Release 4.0.110.0 (CodePlex)
Things I love about .Net (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

Facebook: Introducing HTML5 Resource Center (Matt Kelly)
New! HTML 5 and CSS: Six Complete Lessons (Randy Guthrie)
Optimize ASP.NET presentation (Mads Kristensen)
A Web Standard for Notifications using JavaScript and HTML5 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Nested Conditionals with Guard Clauses (Giorgio Sironi)
A JavaScript class pattern that starts with a function (Axel Rauschmayer)
Drop Shadows in CSS3 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Handling PHP Sessions in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
Site Pinning: Rotating Overlay Icons for Multiple Service Notifications (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Respect is a Reflection and Personal Development Books Revisited (JD Meier)
Which Program Team Are You Managing? (Johanna Rothman)
How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture (Jeff Gothelf)
Wrapping Up on the Feng Shui for Establishing a Culture of Innovation (Peter Saddington)
Universal unit testing (browser, Node.js) with Jasmine (Axel Rauschmayer)
Your ctor says that your code is headache inducing: Introduction (Oren Eini)
Mocking Property Expectations with Moq (Richard Carr)
Xbox Kinect Hub Remake – An Introduction To New User Interfaces (Doug Rathbone)
Agile is for your WHOLE Business (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Implicit styles in Windows Phone 7 (Andreas Hammar)
IoC for Windows Phone: Ninject (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
A New Library for Building HTML5 Widgets for Windows Phone (Mitch Pronschinske)
Expression Blend: Designing for usability (Pam Keesey)
2000 WPF Things #411 – Use HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment to Position Child Elements within a Grid (Sean Sexton)
Facebook Graph API and Silverlight (Lazar Nikolov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 022: The Fishbone Documentary (Mark Frauenfelder)
Startup Success Podcast Show #123: Hal Ostrow, mistartuplawyer.com (Bob Walsh)
Video on How to solve cross domain problem in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Engadget HD Podcast 270 – 10.18.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Defrag: Shortcuts, Multimonitor setup, USB Wifi Extender (Larry Larsen)
The GeekDads Episode #102: Causation Does Not Imply Causality (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

The Microsoft Cookbook: Good food, good stories, good cause (Zoe Goldring)
Sold out Windows Phone camps help students and professional developers publish their own apps (Dave Isbitski)
PASS Summit 2011: A Picture Book (Jes Schultz Borland)
MVPs Take Top Honors in Kinect for Windows Application (MVP Award Program)

Database

SQL Server Denali CTP3 Demo VHD (MS Downloads)
Upcoming SQL Server Training Webcasts (Brent Ozar)
Monitoring SSRS report performance: Part 1 (John Pertell)
SQL SERVER – A Simple Quiz – T-SQL Brain Trick (Pinal Dave)
What does a SQL Server DBA need to check for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly? (Denis Gobo)
Using sys.dm_exec_requests to find a blocking chain (William Assaf)
Creating Views in Another Database (Bob Pusateri)
Dropping a database – such a simple thing! (Martin Catherall)
Extended properties of database objects (J. Verheul)

SharePoint

What “The Far Side” can teach us about SharePoint (Mark Rackley)

Miscellaneous

New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions (Dominic Mazzoni)
Getting Inherited Config Settings (Howard Dierking)
What is SkyDrive waiting for? (Kip Kniskern)
Microsoft closes in on delivering its own Hadoop competitor (Mary Jo Foley)
Ominous Post (Matt Warren)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Codermetrics – $16.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4 in Action by Stefano Mostarda

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Dew Drop – October 18, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

How to let other teams at Microsoft know how to support F# better (Don Syme)
Neovolve.Toolkit 1.1 Released (Rory Primrose)
System Users and Application Users (Oren Eini)
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Training Kit October 2011 Released and Helping others become Visual Studio Keyboard Ninja’s with the Code Ninja Spy (Greg Duncan)
Automated Build-Deploy-Test using TFS 2010 (Anuj Chaudhary)
New Field Notes and Real World Guidance added to the Windows Azure Technical Content (Molly Bostic)
Fixing NLog’s Logging to a Web Service (Peter Kuhn)
Windows 8 Metro declarations: User Tile Provider (Andrej Tozon)
WinRT and Windows Property System part 1: storing and retrieving files metadata (Andrei Marukovich)
Facebook C# SDK 5.3 (CodePlex)
Azure Storage Client using Async API (Rohit Gupta)
Using Geospatial Data (WCF Team)

Web Development

How to Deploy Your ASP.NET MVC 3 with SQL CE 4.0 & Entity Framework (Christian D. Yellington)
Tips For Using Backbone.js Routers With HTML5 PushState (Derick Bailey)
RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Second Edition (Devon Musgrave)
The many places to Dive into HTML5 (Greg Duncan)
Using HTML5 Geolocation API in ASP.NET Application (Harish Ranganathan)
Viewmodel extractors in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
HTML5 Gaming: animating sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and An introduction to CSS pseudo-element hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
A look at Dart from the eyes of an OO programmer (Giorgio Sironi)
Ah Ha Moments – Handcrafted CSS (Ryan Rauh)
JavaScript unit testing support (Sergey Simonchik)
Ruby and Node on Windows Azure Learning Plan (Larry Franks)
Challenging non-local session scope (session-per-request) (Jeffrey Palermo)
RIA/JS: Deleting Entities (Josh Twist)
Getting Started With PHP Templating (Krzysztof Rakowski)
Azure Blob Storage – a simple example (Peter von Lochow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Development is Broken (Avi Kaye)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine and CoffeeScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Writing Software as a Kaizen Event (Stephen Forte)
Product Owners are not a myth (Martin Hinshelwood)
Effective Stand-ups (Robert May)
Book Review “Cloud Computing Architected – Solution Design Handbook” by John Rhoton and Risto Haukioja (Kai Wähner)
Blocks and Playsets (Christopher Bennage)
How To Produce Bug-Free Software (Derek Greer)
The Lure of Specialization (Joel Semeniuk)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Insert data (Windows Phone Geek)
Code to Send SMS in Windows Phone 7 and Reading coordinate values using Accelerometer API in Windows Phone 7 and Debugging WCF Service from Silverlight: The Breakpoint will not currently be hit at WCF Service error (Dhananjay Kumar)
Authorization in Silverlight, part 2: manipulating the UI (Kevin Dockx)
ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool Coming Soon (Few Weeks Away) (Antonio Hernandez)
A behavior to show the Windows Phone 7 camera as background (Joost van Schaik)
2000 WPF Things #409 – Child Elements in a Grid Size to Fit the Containing Cell and #410 – Default Grid Row and Column Sizes (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 21: I Go Pogo! (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Drawbridge: A new form of virtualization for application sandboxing and Tao Liu: F# Design Patterns (Charles Torre)
Herding Code 123: Andreas Håkansson and Steven Robbins on NancyFx (Jon Galloway & Co.)
Episode 162 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Pfeiffer from Interface Technical Training (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Short interview on C++ AMP (Daniel Moth)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for October 17th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Windows Phone Hackathon draws in Pro Devs and Students (Bob Familiar)
Quick training & conference announcements (Udi Dahan)
YUIConf 2011 Preliminary Schedule Now Available (Jenny Donnelly)

Database

SQL Server Developers Tools code-named “Juneau” becomes SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Gert Drapers)
SQL SERVER – Next Version of SQL Server ‘Denali’ is Officially Named as SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
Denali CTP3 – Semantic Search features (Trevor Dwyer)
Simple XML exist performance enhancement (Arthur Olcot)

SharePoint

Web Part Development Options in SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s plan for bringing its BI tools to iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices (Mary Jo Foley)
Windows 8 “Isn’t Finished”, Microsoft Reminds us again! (Mike Halsey)
Learn Ruby with the Edgecase Ruby Koans (Jim Weirich & Joe O’Brien)

The Geek Shelf

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

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