Dew Drop – July 26, 2011
Top Links
- EF 4.1 Update 1 Released (EF Team)
- Announcing the Windows Azure AppFabric July Release (AppFabric Team)
- Coding4Fun Toolkit – now with in-app tiles (Dennis Delimarsky)
- When to use ViewBag, ViewData, or TempData in ASP.NET MVC 3 applications (Rachel Appel)
- ViewData, ViewModel, ViewBag… (Rob Conery)
- WP7 Developers! Developers! Devel…wtf is the designers? (Scott Barnes)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Article: Using Entity Framework to Successfully Target Multiple Databases (Yevhen Shchyholyev)
- Tab through Primitives for CodeRush (Rory Becker)
- Available Now: Windows Azure Marketplace Content & Tools Update (Windows Azure Team)
- NumPy and SciPy for .NET (Jonathan Allen)
- Mindscape LightSpeed Free eBook available (not LightSwitch… but for the LightSpeed ORM…) (Greg Duncan)
- How to get the number of unread mails from multiple mailboxes using the EWS Managed API and PowerShell (Henning Krause)
Web Development
- Hello World application with ASP.NET pages and WebMatrix (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Supercharged JavaScript Graphics – Only $15.99 w/code DDSUP (O’Reilly Media)
- Getting Started with the AmplifyJS NuGet Package in Visual Studio (Elijah Manor)
- Architecture of Tankster – Introduction to Game Play (Part 1) (Nathan Totten)
- datajs at DevCon5 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- Using node.js to store PHP sessions (Gonzalo Ayuso)
- Exploring CoffeeScript Part 4 – Objects and Classes (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Adopting Agile in an Environment of Fear (Amr Elssamadisy)
- The Virtualization Experiment (John Sonmez)
- Understanding Scrum (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
- Macto: Day to day life (Oren Eini)
- Using existing code is right, usually (Bill Wagner)
- Retrospectives: The 4 L’s Retrospective (Mark Needham)
- Microsoft Cloud Case Studies at a Glance (JD Meier)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- #10 Windows Phone Mango SaveRingtoneTask and Windows Phone MVC – Released (Windows Phone Geek)
- Using secondary shell tiles on Windows Phone with the 7.1 SDK (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Using XamRibbon ButtonTool in MVVM applications (Ivo Evtimov)
- Windows Phone 7: Pivot Page Indicator Control (Corey Miller)
- Changing Application Tile in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
- 19 Mango’s in 15… 19 "How Do I" 15 minute videos from MSDN on WP7 Mango dev (Greg Duncan)
- Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox (Jesse Liberty)
- How to Communicate between two Local Silverlight Applications? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Windows Phone App Hub Enhancements (Mike Ormond)
- A WP7 Application for WP7 developers… (Rudi Grobler)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Mark Rendle Has Some Simple.Data (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Episode 155 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joel Bennett, Doug Finke and James Brundage on Show-UI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Using the Windows Azure Access Control Service in iOS Applications (Vittorio Bertocci & Wade Wegner)
- Ping 110: ScriptTD, Photosynth for dollars, Microsoft Garage, Kinect Light Saber (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- I’m presenting at the New York City & Boston SharePoint User Groups in September (Andrew Connell)
- Upcoming Events for July 25th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Appreciation for Free Content (Keyvan Nayyeri)
- Quick take: E.J. Layne’s intern life (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - Join The New Windows 8 Forums (Everton Blair)
Database
- SQL Server Bit Data Type and how it Stores Values (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Guest Post by Malathi Mahadevan – Day 26 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- Slipstreaming of updates in Denali (Simon Sabin)
- SQL Server – "Denali” – String Concatenations using CONCAT() (Vishal)
- SQL Server Reporting Services MSBuild Tasks – Release 1.1.15173.000 (CodePlex)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata – Creating Managed Metadata Columns (Andrew Connell)
- “SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Kit” (Think “Building Windows Phone 7 Apps that integrate with SharePoint Training Kit”) (Greg Duncan)
- MVPs for Office 365: Why Social Networking on SharePoint 2010? (Lonnie Webb)
- Services Running in a Multi-Server SharePoint Farm (SharePoint Developer Team)
- Working with the ECMAScript Client Object Model (JSOM) in SharePoint 2010–Part 4 (Nikhil Sachdeva)
Miscellaneous
- Announcing ShadowSpawn (Craig Andera)
- Geek Browser Usage (Davy Brion)
- Fix PowerGUI shortcuts in Start menu (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Brandon Watson Issuing Challenge to Unsatisfied Android Users (Candice)
- RTM’d today: Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out (Kim Spilker)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 25, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – July 25 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup 076 for 7/25/2011 (Pete Brown)
- Today’s Links (7/25/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #902 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 07/25/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 25 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
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