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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:02:08 +0000

Dew Drop – July 22, 2011

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:22:14 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

String Split Utility and Use BitmapScalingMode to ensure your rendering of Image is perfect (Abhijit Jana)
High memory usage with WCF Discovery and Macto: Where is the Inmate anyway? (Oren Eini)
C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: The Default is to Hide, Not Override (James Michael Hare)
Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part IV (Luca Bolognese)
Visual Studio 2010 Sp1– “A Selected Drive is No Longer Valid” (Mike Taulty)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Power Commands for Visual Studio 2010 (Robert Green)
Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
Fifty for Free – 50+ Free .Net Dev’s tools and utilities… (Greg Duncan)
NLog – Advanced .NET Logging – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)

Web Development

Facebook: Updated JavaScript SDK and OAuth 2.0 Roadmap (Jerry Cain)
Web Workbench Introduces Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript to Visual Studio 2010 (Jenni Ripley)
Recursively spawning Web Workers (Jef Claes)
Best resources to learn JavaScript (Stack Overflow)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit testing inside the code editor and the Solution Explorer (Alex Skorkin)
The Scrum Guide, 2011 (David Starr)
Thinking Quotes and One-Man Band vs. Pairing Up On Problems (JD Meier)
Source Control Software Is Too Intrusive (Jeff Blankenburg)
Continuous Integration in .NET (Ferdinando Santacroce)
Best Coding Practices Poster #2: “Thread Your Computation!” (Joey deVilla)
5 apps to improve productivity and collaboration (Amber Singleton Riviere)
Clean Code Versus Great Code (Davy Brion)
A Better Team: Arrogance And Accepting Your Own Strengths (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Capturing Windows Phone 7 Panorama Images (Colin Eberhardt)
Using SQL CE on WP7 Mango–Getting Started (Derik Whittaker)
Windows Phone Tips and Tricks: The Student Edition (Luke)
WP7 Marketplace Search (Touchality)
Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 apps – Volume 1: Developing apps 1-50 (Matt Lacey)
Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part II) (Pam Keesey)
E-Book Published: Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Kunal Chowdhury)
New URI schemas in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – isostore and appdata (Dennis Delimarsky)
How-To: Revert back to NoDo from Mango Beta (Mulder_truth)
WP7 Submit Application – The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly (Shai Raiten)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

AppFabric.tv – Workflows in Azure AppFabric Applications (Ron Jacobs)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bill Wilder Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Pete at Tech Ed 2011: Cogent DataHub WebView in Silverlight (Pete Brown)
Silverlight TV 79: Data Binding Debugging (John Papa)
Coding QA Episode 60 – Fede and Atlassian (Part 2) (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 026 – “Birds and Mushrooms” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Web Dev Radio Episode 88 – mid summer catch up – avoid fixed bid projects (Michael Kimsal)
Let’s Play TDD #125: The Cost Basis Field (James Shore)

Community / Events

Your resume questions answered! (Microsoft JobsBlog)
August 15th-16th Workshop – Introduction to .NET– .NET From Scratch, Chattanooga, TN (Keith Elder)
Documenting DevDays 2011: #2 – Speakers! (Alison Sperling)
What happened at GameFest 2011? (Sara Allison)
Officially Announcing Develop With Passion® – Webinars (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Thank you to Charles Petzold and Ada’s Technical Books (Devon Musgrave)

Database

Partial name matching in SQL Server 2011 “Denali” (Jakub Dvorak)
SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Data Warehouseing Concepts – Day 22 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Denali Feature Packs (Stephan Lawson)
SQL Server – "Denali" – Conditional Operator/Logical Function – IIF() (Vishal)
How to find replicated tables (Richard Douglas)
Land a Dream DBA or Developer Job: Seven Questions to Ask (Kendra Little)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata – In Depth Look into the Taxonomy Parts (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Lynda.com Software Training in a Mindmap (Chance Brown)
TechNet "Build and Print a Book" beta now live (Greg Duncan)
Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow (Jim O’Neil)
Limited Edition Star Wars Console (Larry Hryb)
A Minimal Windows Azure Storage Client Library in Perl (Steve Marx)

The Geek Shelf

Head First SQL: Your Brain on SQL — A Learner’s Guide by Lynn Beighley

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Dew Drop – November 12, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:27:10 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

The F# compiler source release: making it easy to write cool Visual Studio extensions (Brian McNamara)
A LINQ Style Operator to Combine Sequences (Richard Carr)
Free EBook Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Bruce Kyle)
Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Six: Whither async? (Eric Lippert)
F# Goes Open Source and New Mono Log Profiler (Miguel de Icaza)
Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 3 (Sasha Goldshtein)
Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
Linked Items in Projects (Zain Naboulsi)
Moncai – Cloud Computing Platform for .NET (Rinat Abdullin)

Web Development

Getting ready to move to a jQuery / WCF based AJAX model. (Joe Stagner)
Using HTML forms to collect user data (Pad Gallagher)
Javascript prototype property (Ryan Sukale)
Sueetie Calendar Properties Exposed (Dave Burke)
Gave up ASP.NET MVC on IIS 5.1/6 (Sam Gentile)
Web Designers VS. Web Developers: Infographic by Wix.com (Talya Wix)
Facebook Best Practices Straight From The Source (Romin Irani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Cost vs. Risk In Testing (Derick Bailey)
Typemock Isolator 6.0.6 is out! (Igal Tabachnik)
Design Patterns used with Windows Azure App Fabric: The Service Bus (Mitch Pronschinske)
Article:Book Review: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management (Shane Hastie)
Mighty Moose – Smart Continuous Unit Tests for .NET and Mono (Rinat Abdullin)
Interview with Mary Gorman – Agile Requirements! (ScoutMaster)
Favor Value Over Quality (Davy Brion)
Mindjet takes Project Management to Next Level with Project Jetpack (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Apps That Play Media (Dani Diaz)
GeoCoordinateWatcher tips part1 (Jaime Rodriguez)
Pet Peeve: How to break the back button experience in Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7: Where to store that application key? NOT in the Application (Nick Randolph)
WPF DatePicker That Allows KeyBoard Up/Down DatePicking (Sacha Barber)
2 of 10 – Make sure your buttons are visible, even when the keyboard is displayed. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

E2E: Concurrent Programming with Revisions (Charles Torre)
New DevNugget: Pinned Sites in Internet Explorer 9 (G. Andrew Duthie)
StartUp Success Podcast Show #88: Jeff Haynie of Appcelerator (Bob Walsh)
Windows Phone 7 Themed Videos (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Community / Events

Giveaway: Win Telerik RadControls for Silverlight worth $799 FREE (Kunal Chowdhury)
John Jackson: from submarines to the Cloud (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
Silverlight Firestarter – Future of Silverlight starts now!!! (Michael Sync)

Database

Generate SQL Server Database From Entity Data Model (Deepak Kapoor)
Parameters in SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
New Uses for NoSQL (Jeremiah Peschka)
Take a SQL Server Database Offline (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Get All the Information of Database using sys.databases (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

cross web application rollup web part (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
Windows Phone 7 supports USB tethering for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 and LG Optimus 7 (Updated) (damaster)
How to Get More Plus out of Notepad++ [Coding] (Aaron Martin)
Check Out PragPub, An Excellent Free Magazine (Davy Brion)
Snippet manager in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Adding Value to Ebooks – color figures (Jim Minatel)
Mr. Ballmer, Please Step Back. Step Away from the Vehicle. (Joel Oleson)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Conversion Optimization $15.99 (Save 43%) Use code DDCVN (O’Reilly Media)
Kinect Has Now Been Hacked To Run On Mac OS X ! UPDATE: Kinect Can Do Multitouch Too [VIDEO] (Uzair Ghani)
Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)

The Geek Shelf

Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (2nd Edition) by Krzysztof Cwalina

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Dew Drop – January 27, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:00:20 +0000

Happy tablet day!

.NET / Visual Studio

NHibernate new feature: Lazy Properties (Oren Eini)
I just installed Visual Studio 2010, now how do I get Code Contracts? (Melitta Andersen)
Relating CSLA .NET experience (Rockford Lhotka)
How to detect the text encoding of a file (Sergio Pereira)
Microsoft-Compatible APIs in Mono 2.4 (Tapas Pal)
Automapper: Don’t forget Mapper.Reset() at the start (Mark Needham)
Agatha Vs NServiceBus? (Davy Brion)

Web Development

URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
Simple (?) AJAX Upload For ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
Populate an ASP.NET ListBox from JSON results using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
ASP.NET: ListBox Scrollbar (Deborah Kurata)
CSS Basics: The Box Model (Jan Van Ryswyck)
MVC or WebForms: It’s more about client side vs server side (Ian Cooper)
Pumping ‘Iron’ for JavaScript (Mitch Pronschinske)
Gracefully Failing (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Coding: The Collecting Parameter Pattern (Mark Needham)
Giving feedback to defensive people (Patrick Kua)
Career Growth and Finding Your Way Forward (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

Microsoft Releases a Cross-Platform Silverlight Client for Facebook (Me)
Binding UI Events from View to commands in ViewModel in Silverlight 4 (Slobodan Pavkov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – oData (Carl Franklin)

Community Megaphone Show #2 with guest Joel Cochran (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #160: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects (Derik Whittaker)
Show Us Your Tech: Juan Goni Edition (Larry Larsen)
The Visual Studio Documentary Mardi Brekke-Hutchings and Dee Dee Walsh full length interview (Tina Wood)
I. M. Wright podcast: "Spontaneous Combustion of Rancid Management" (Devon Musgrave)

Community / Events

How to Participate in the SQL Community – Draft #1 (Andy Warren)
O’Reilly Webcast tomorrow, Jan 27, Top 10 Treats in EF4 (Julie Lerman)
If you build it, they will come… (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
The Code Retreat Tour 2010 (Corey Haines)
The Center for the Advancement of Enterprise Architecture as a Profession (CAEAP) (Bob McIlree)

Database

Attaching a Database (Buck Woody)
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Release Date in May 2010 (Pinal Dave)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Time-out occurs While Waiting for Buffer Latch (Viswa)

SharePoint

SPWeb.AssociatedGroups.Contains Lies (Keith Dahlby)

Miscellaneous

Ebookpie.com launches with Wrox Chapters and ebooks (Jim Minatel)
Unlock thumbnail previews for Firefox 3.6 on Windows 7 (Ed Bott)
New in PowerGUI 2.0: Snapshots (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Daily Dose – SourceForge Blocks the "Axis of Evil" and Then Some (Mitch Pronschinske)
SmartDraw 2010: An Easy-to-use Diagramming Tool (Will Kelly)
The Astoria Team Is hiring !!! (Phani Raj)
The PowerScripting Centennial (Lee Holmes)
Ballmer’s tablet bumble (Robert Scoble)
Office 2010 Technology in Action at the Winter Games in Vancouver (Office Team)
Ebook Deal of the Day: Using Drupal — Only $9.99! Use discount code UD999 (O’Reilly Media)
Documentary Featuring Bill Gates Scores at Sundance (Sarah Perez)
The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple’s Hands (Jason Kincaid)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers)

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Dew Drop – January 26, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:35:34 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Best Practice to Minimize your Windows Azure Compute Hours! (Gunther Lenz)
Announcing the Entity Framework POCO Template update for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Diego Vega)
Missile Launchers with F# (Coding4Fun)
Duplicated columns in generated sql from NHibernate (Derik Whittaker)
Profiler New Feature: Side by Side diff (Oren Eini)
Don’t Use Try/Catch (Karl Seguin)
XNA 3D Primer Published – Get a free copy! (Michael C. Neel)
Do You Have A Great Windows Azure Idea? (Windows Azure Team)
Adding labels to Breakpoints — vstipDebug0001 (Zain Naboulsi)
Calls to ReportExecutionService.Render() Hang (Tony Rasa)

Web Development

ASP.NET: Displaying a Second Window with JavaScript and ASP.NET: Selecting a Row in a GridView (Deborah Kurata)
The Twitter API: The Schrodinger’s Cat of Web Service APIs (Karsten Januszewski)
Translating routes (ASP.NET MVC and Webforms) (Maarten Balliauw)
Setting Up IoC in ASP.NET MVC using Castle Windsor (Ali Bastani)
jQuery 1.4 Opacity and IE Filters (Rick Strahl)
Tip#101: Did you know… How to scope Theme (Anh Phan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Delivering value (Brian Marick)
Highly Recommended Book: Debug It! (Davy Brion)
Designing applications for cloud deployment (Gojko Adzic)
Architecting for Desktop Virtualization – Part 3: Treat Your Desktop Client Like a Web Client (Jeremy Jarrell)
TDD: Simplifying a test with a hand rolled stub and TDD: Rewriting/refactoring tests (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

Flattery will get you everywhere [Html5Canvas source code now available on CodePlex!] (David Anson)
More Silverlight Performance Goodness (Frank La Vigne)
Incorporating Video into a Silverlight 4 Application (Scott Seely)
Be one of the first to get the Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook! (Silverlight Team)
XamlPadSample Step 1e-App.xaml and Assemblies (Rob Relyea)
Simple 3D WPF Charting Wins Overall Best Article Dec 2009 (Sacha Barber)
Magellan is on CodePlex (Paul Stovell)
Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) and Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) and Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) and Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) and Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) (Peter Kellner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Silverlight TV Episode 4: 3 Steps to MEF – Export, Import, Compose (John Papa)
Daniel Jeberaj on .NET Component Development (Lyndsey Clevesy)
Ping 45: Helping Haiti, Xbox taking over, Bing & Purge (Laura Foy)
The Thirsty Developer 82: Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup with Ed Holloway (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

Events This Week – January 25th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
If He Walks Like A Ruby Developer, But He Talks Like A PHP Developer, Then What Exactly Is He? (Jonathan Carter)
Code Mastery – FREE EVENT – Boston (Rockford Lhotka)
SharePoint 2010 SocialFest (Steve Clayton)

Database

Tracking SQL Server Time (Buck Woody)
DBCC CHECKFILEGROUP bug fixed in 2008 SP1 CU6 (Paul S. Randal)
SQLAuthority News – Download White Paper – Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
Adding ribbon items into existing tabs/groups (ribbon customization part 2) (Chris O’Brien)
I added a Web Part to my site home page which causes an exception (Paul Andrew)
Integrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 (Robert Hess)

Miscellaneous

Google Reader Gets Smart, Tracks Updates on Feedless Web Sites (Adam Pash)
A Feed You Should Read #21 – All About Microsoft by Mary-Jo Foley (Greg Duncan)
More Resources for Developers (Ian Fette)
Wrox PDF Ebooks DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
Use The Right Version of PowerShell. (Jeffrey Snover)
2010 Tech Trends; Microsoft CIO Shares Some Thoughts (Dominic Carr)
Search Fundamentals – Basic Indexing (Alan Skorkin)
Dose – Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK Released… Wait, No! I Take it Back! (Mitch Pronschinske)
Accessing Office Documents Using Your Phone (Office Team)
Cheat sheet: Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Essential LINQ

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Dew Drop – November 12, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:20:56 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Mono Tools for Visual Studio allow cross-platform remote debugging (Joel Bennett)
“Smart” Duplicate Line in Visual Studio out of the box (David Vidmar)
Request/Response Service Layer: Exposing The Service Layer Through WCF and Request/Response Service Layer: Synchronous Client-Side Usage (Davy Brion)
Reflector to the rescue…AGAIN (Derik Whittaker)
Delete a work Item in TFS (Kirstin Juhl)
First drop of "TMap for VS2010" available on Codeplex (Clemens Reijnen)
Select the Highest value in each Group or Category using LINQ (Suprotim Agarwal)
Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0 (Michael Kennedy)
“Hello GTK#” from the latest IronPython and F# (Steve Gilham)

Web Development

Facebook SDK (Coding4Fun)
Validating A Username Using JQuery and ASP.NET Membership Provider (Chris Love)
ASP.NET Cross Domain Form Submission (Dave M. Bush)
AJAXified jQuery Flip Plugin (Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC wins with simplicity, not features (Jeffrey Palermo) – Link of the Day
Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform (Lawrence Moroney)
Error Handling in MVC with ELMAH (Michael Ceranski)
ASP.NET Workaround: Calling a JavaScript Function from a HyperLinkField in a GridView (Srinath MS)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Big UI changes and their effect on tests (Brian Marick)
Choosing Authority Levels for Team Members (Jurgen Appelo)
Legacy Code: Sensing (Mark Needham)
Message Passing Interface (MPI) (Daniel Moth)
What they don’t tell you about user stories (Patrick Kua)

Silverlight / WPF

WPF : Tube Planner Using A Guided Search (Sacha Barber)
Magellan Controllers (Paul Stovell)
XAML 2009 Features: XAML Event handling (Lester Lobo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

In His Own Words: Stephen Wolfram on Computational Knowledge (Adam Sohn)
Introduction to NCover on Dimecasts (Alan Johnson)
.NET Rocks! – Stephen Forte in The Netherlands (Carl Franklin)
Interviews at TechEd Europe 2009 – MVP Laurent Bugnion (Jas Dhaliwal)
SyncToy 2.1 Available for Download (Larry Larsen)
"Parallel Programming Talk" show (Daniel Moth)
Bob Muglia on Azure, Silverlight, and Realtime (Steve Gillmor)
The Access Show – Episode Two (Tina Wood)
Concurrent Programming with .NET4 Collections (Phil Pennington)

Community / Events

Windows Azure PDC Sessions Announced (Mike Ormond)
Another Prism Class Available Jan 11 – Jan 14 (Blaine Wastell)
Get Your BI Project Started with Free Developer Training on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
PDC guide for the busy guy (Greg Duncan)
Top 10 Takeaways from DevConnections Day Two (Jimmy Bosse)
PDC and Python (In That Order) (Sara J. Chipps)
My Twitter Notes from Scott Guthrie Keynote at DevConnections (Julie Lerman)

Database

Connecting to SQL Azure with SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 (Bart Czernicki)
SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Azure now available (Greg Duncan)
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
Best Practice: Every table should have a primary key (George Mastros)
SQL SERVER – Disable CHECK Constraint – Enable CHECK Constraint (Pinal Dave)
Enter The Dragon: RoundhousE DB Migrations (Rob Reynolds)
SSRS 2005 Matrixes (thirster42)

Miscellaneous

Bing’s Next Chapter Begins Today (Henry Hall)
Perhaps "Go" is the new Visual Basic (Leon Bambrick)
How Many Calories in a Burger? What’s 2^2^2^2^2? Bing and Wolfram|Alpha Have the Answers (Tracey Yao & Pedro Silva)
ASP.NET Interview Questions For New College Graduates (Dave M. Bush)
Windows 7: Its the Little Things (Debra Shinder)
PowerShell-Based console for SMS 2003 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Static vs. Dynamic languages: What I really want (Jeffrey Palermo)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/12 (Lyndsey Clevesy)
Switching virtual networks the easy way (Peter Van Ooijen)
New App Links SkyDrive to Windows Explorer (Sarah Perez)
Bing vs. Google rematch on video search (Scott M. Fulton, III)
MSN Video is being re-launched in the U.S. as Bing Video powered by Silverlight and Smooth Streaming (Silverlight Team)
Captains Log – Twitter Style (Tobin Harris)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET MVC in Action (9781933988627): Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy Bogard: Books

ISBN: 1933988622
ISBN-13: 9781933988627

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Dew Drop – October 14, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:18:12 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

F# – Fluent NHibernate – POCO Class Object (Bob Lucke)
Outlook for Azure – scattered clouds but generally sunny (Vishwas Lele)
Windows Communication Foundation 4.0 – New REST Features (Mahesh Sabnis)
Introducing the Reactive Framework Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
Parallelizing a loop with tasks, avoiding the pitfall (Daniel Moth)
More Fun with Regular Expressions : Word and Paragraph Parsing (Chris Love)
What is up with the Entity Framework vNext? (Oren Eini)
WinForms User Controls 101 (Deborah Kurata)
Pre and Post Deployment Events (Gert Drapers)
Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – TabbedThumbnail (Part 1) (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 2 (Scott Mitchell)
BlogML 2.1 Released (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Write ASP.NET without Web Forms or MVC ! (Joe Stagner)
Creating Beautiful Dialogs Using JQuery UI (Mohammad Azam)
Determine The Role of a User in ASP.NET (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Software Externalities (Phil Haack)
Response: "Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease" by Ted Neward (Jeffrey Palermo)
Haacked, but not content; agile still treats the disease (Ted Neward) – Link of the Day
What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
Creating sustainable competitive advantage (Seth Godin)
Refactoring Dinner: Interfaces instead of Inheritance (Sharon J. Cichelli)
Our Code Stinks (Steve)
Modeling as Expressed in Code, Part 1 and Modeling as Expressed in Code, Part 2 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Paper Prototypes (Larry Clarkin)
Essential Versus Accidental Tasks (Joel Ross)

Silverlight / WPF

New to Silverlight? (Mike Ormond)
Anatomy of an MVVM Application *or* How Tards Like Me Make MVVM Apps (Jeremiah Morrill)
Using Custom Validation Rules in WPF (Joel Cochran)
Make your WPF buttons color hot-track! (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ARCast.TV: Juval Lowy on The EnergyNet, the Next Software Boom (MS Podcasts)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #147: Abstracting away Dependencies for Simpler code (Derik Whittaker)
Claudio Caldato on PHP & ADO.NET Data Services (Dmitry Lyalin)
An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 (Zhiming Xue)
The Visual Studio Documentary: S. Somasegar Full Length Interview (Tina)
MSDN TV – Bing Maps Silverlight Map Control (Johan Lindfors)
Discussion with Rob Lefforts Episode 35 (Rob, Nick, & Brett)
Tom Goulet – Cucumber, Ruby and the transition to Generalizing Specialist (Bob Payne)

Community / Events

My Picks for PDC 2009 (Dan Fernandez)
Happy 14th Birthday Frank’s World! (Frank La Vigne)
Survey on the usage of ORM Frameworks in .NET (Sergejus Barinovas)
Focusing on Data – Try #3 (Sam Gentile)
Thoughts about the Design Master Class (Laila Bougria)
Mid Atlantic Roadshow – October to December Tour (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

SQL Server Basic Mathematical Functions (Richard Carr)
SQLAuthority News – First Editorial – T-SQL Challenges Beginners (Pinal Dave)
Win A Copy Of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

How to Make your own Ringtones in Windows 7 (Blake Handler)
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Services Architecture (Steven Bink)
Facebook Keyboard Navigation Makes Facebook Easier to Jump Around (Kevin Purdy)
What’s new in PowerGUI 1.9.5 (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Book of the Day

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code (9780131495050): Gerard Meszaros: Books

ISBN: 0131495054
ISBN-13: 9780131495050

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Dew Drop – October 8, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:46:08 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Using LET in LINQ with extension method syntax (Keith Brown)
Hybrid App Debugging Aside – The DLR Hosting API (Harry Pierson)
Finding memory leaks with ANTS Memory Profiler (Tess Ferrandez)
NH Prof New Feature: NHibernate Search Integration (Oren Eini)
LINQ to SQL Audit Trail Library (Sergejus Barinovas)
A new MSDN for a new Operating System and a new Development Environment (Scott Hanselman)
Windows Mobile development in VS2010 (Daniel Moth)
System.Drawing Round-Trip PixelFormat Stability (Rick Minerich)
Create your own IDE in 10 minutes (Rudi Grobler)

Web Development

82 Shopping APIs (Adam DuVander)
Selecting ASP.NET Web Controls in JQuery and ASP.NET 3.5 Problem – Design – Solution (Chris Love)
Leveraging ASP.NET MVC 2 futures “ViewState” (Maarten Balliauw)
Adventures with the SEO Toolkit (Mike Ormond)
Error connecting to SQL Server from Windows 7 / Windows 2008 R2 with ASP.NET (Bill Staples)
Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
ASP.NET MVC learning resource: Request-Handling Pipeline Poster (Steve Sanderson)
Limit Number Of Characters In an ASP.NET Multiline TextBox using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (Janie Chang)
Oh, That’s Just “Academic” Talk, Not Reality (Dave Schinkel)
Testing only the code of value (Derik Whittaker)
Want a guided tour through the presentation patterns in StoryTeller? (Jeremy D. Miller)
Pex v0.17.41006.7 : More Moles and Bug Fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
The Use/Reuse Paradox (Kirk Knoernschild)
Git…Command-line or GUI? (Tim Barcz)
TDD Derangement Syndrome (Uncle Bob Martin)
What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: My First Tests (Sasha Goldshtein)
How We Do Things – Evolving our TDD/BDD Practice (Scott C. Reynolds) – Link of the Day
Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 12. (Rajiv Popat)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Exchange 2010 and Exchange Web Services – What’s New Webcasts (Chris Mayo)

Community / Events

DotNet U (Chris Williams)
Free Windows 7 Developer Boot Camp @ PDC – Nov 16 (John Pelak)
Introducing Stack Overflow Careers (Jeff Atwood)
Countdown to PDC09: Da Cloud! Da Cloud! (Larry Larsen)
Free Windows 7 Seminar with Mark Russinovich (and Friends) (Yochay Kiriaty)
Windows 7 House Party Packages, Starting to Arrive (Stephen Chapman)

Database

Migrating Schema and Data from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
To SA or not to SA and Derived Column and the Data Flow Task (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Query Optimization – Remove Bookmark Lookup – Remove RID Lookup – Remove Key Lookup – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

The Zune HD vs. iPod Touch Review (Part 1) (Nicholas Kolakowski)
Google Maps Gets Major Upgrade with More Details and Data (Andres Ferrate)
Google Wave 101 (Gina Trapani)
Coke Zero Facebook App Searches for Your Digital Double (Christina Warren)
Windows XP Mode & Windows Virtual PC RTM are now both available on MSDN Subscribers Downloads… and New Sysinternals utility released today, Disk2vhd v1.0 – Yes, creating a VHD from a physical hard drive, even an online one, is now a couple clicks away… (Greg Duncan)
Introducing the Bing Reference Homepage (Katie Conry)
Google Wave: Few Thoughts (Krishnan Subramanian)
Review and Comparison: Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD and VX-7000 with High Quality Video in Skype and Live Messenger (Scott Hanselman)

Book of the Day

Windows via C/C++ (Pro – Developer) (9780735624245): Jeffrey M. Richter, Christophe Nasarre: Books

ISBN: 0735624240
ISBN-13: 9780735624245

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Dew Drop – August 12, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:41:31 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Statement Trees With Less Pain – Follow-Up on System.Linq.Expressions v4.0 (Bart de Smet)
Code Name Dublin Tutorial (MS Downloads)
Visual Studio 2010 Adds Support for Debugging, Profiling, Analyzing Parallel Applications (Bruce Kyle)
TryParse and Generating Random Numbers (Deborah Kurata)
Embedding Python Scripts in C# Applications (Harry Pierson)
How to detect the .NET Framework directory using PowerShell and Create your own Code Analysis rule set using Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Habib Heydarian)
Exceptions Happen, Part 1 (James Bender)
Launching an Asynchronous Operation Using BackgroundWorker (Jayadev D)
First Class Composable Events in F# (Matthew Podwysocki)
EF Table Splitting – The Opposite of Entity Splitting (Julie Lerman)
Determining Merge Errors in a Typed DataSet (Srinath MS)

Web Development

Exception Handling Advice for ASP.NET Web Applications (Scott Mitchell)
Is Basic Authentication Really Insecure? (Alan Skorkin)
JavaScript: A tool too sharp? (Jimmy Bogard)
New Windows Azure Blob Features – August 2009 (Brad Calder)
Inferred Controller Actions (Javier G. Lozano) – Link of the Day
Tip #91: Did you know … How to automate FTP 7.5 installation and site creation? (Kern Handa)
Deploying Your First Windows Azure App (Mike Ormond)
New Storage Feature: Signed Access Signatures (Steve Marx)
Script# (Script Sharp) – writing javascript in C# (Roy Osherove)
Binding a Hashtable to a DropDownList Web Server Control (Deepak Choudhari)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Is Your Code Worthy Of Being Improved (Alan Skorkin)
New book: Engineering Software for Accessibility (Devon Musgrave)
Is Quality an Absolute? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Building Remarkable Work And Play Environments – Part 10. (Rajiv Popat)
Refactoring Day 11 : Switch to Strategy (Sean Chambers)
DDDD: The Event Storage Doesn’t Store Commands (Jonathan Oliver)
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind: Book Review (Mark Needham)
Naming and Body Language in Functional Code (Michael Feathers)
Open Source, NIH and the meaning of conversation (Sebastien Lambla)

Silverlight / WPF

4 Expression Studio 3 Starter Kits available for download (Adam Kinney)
Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files (Brad Abrams)
A Fluttering Photo Effect for Silverlight 3 (Charles Petzold)
MVP Releases Silverlight Database Diagram Widget (Jas Dhaliwal)
Expression Studio TuTorialS Starter Kit (Jaime Rodriguez)
Can I jump to Silverlight 3 now? What do the stats say? (András Velvárt)
how do i do… With the Model-View-ViewModel pattern (Erwin Van Der Valk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Ward Cunningham on the Origin of the Term “Technical Debt” (Bobby Johnson)
Elliot H Omiya, Larry Osterman and Frank Yerrace: Inside Windows 7 – Audio Stack (Charles Torre)
2009.08.11 Expression Blend Design Time Data Using MVVM (Craig Shoemaker)
Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World (A BBC Documentary) (Stephen Chapman)

Community / Events

Speaking at TechDays 2009, Me (Bil Simser)
Presentation Patterns on Virtual ALT.Net (Jeremy D. Miller)
Hey…what happened to ArcReady? (Larry Clarkin)
Announcing Mobile Incubation Week Washington DC! – September 28 – October 2 (John O’Donnell)
Agile Architecture at Upcoming Conferences (Kirk Knoernschild)
SQLBits V Training Day and SQL 2008 R2 Day pricing (Martin Bell)
Temet Nosce (Rob Conery) – Rob leaving MS. Good luck!
Stack Overflow and Doctype (Jeff Atwood)
Jet Brains Development Academy Welcomes Another (Tim Barcz)
Upcoming Talk: Content Syndication With ASP.NET 3.5 (San Diego ASP.NET SIG) (Scott Mitchell)

Database

Some Statement Start Times! (Grant Fritchey)
DataBase Design & Creation (Jesse Liberty)
SQL SERVER – Backup master Database Interval – master Database Best Practices (Pinal Dave)
Dynamic multi-value SQL LIKE (Serge Baranovsky)

SharePoint

Moving Files from Shares to SharePoint and SharePoint Libraries, Folders and Content Types Oh My! (Bob Mixon)

Miscellaneous

Two Microsoft Employees Release "Make Office Better" Website (Blake Handler)
Microsoft Office web apps won’t officially support Chrome, Opera browsers (Brad Linder)
Emancipating NHibernate from Hibernate? (Oren Eini)
Upgrading Vista 32 bit to Windows 7 64bit (Dave M. Bush)
Publish Your Photosynth To Facebook (Sunshine)
Defrag: Windows 7 Multitouch (Larry Larsen)
Doing your research before the interview (Kenji Yamaguchi)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET MVC in Action (9781933988627): Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy Bogard: Books

ISBN: 1933988622
ISBN-13: 9781933988627

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Dew Drop – March 5, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:04:42 +0000

Silverlight / WPF

Silverlight.FX and Silverlight Store Sample App (Nikhil Kothari)
Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough – Creating a “Traffic Jam” game and Silverlight Game – Part 1 – Creating the main layout and Part 2 – Creating a Car UserControl and Part 3 – Using Linq to XML to read and generate the levels and Part 4 – Adding drag and drop functionality to move the cars around and Part 5 – Storing Highscores in Isolated Storage (Tess Ferrandez)
The Power of ICommand (Rudi Grobler)
Silverlight – Databinding ListBox (Dave M. Bush)

Design / Methodology / Testing

DDD: Validity, Consistency and Immutability (Casey Charlton)
Back to Basics: Interfaces (Karl Seguin)
Coding: Good Citizens (Mark Needham)
Is Excessive Mapping Of DTOs/ViewObjects to Entities A Code Smell (Michael Nichols)

.NET / Visual Studio

January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh (Chris Sells)
What Should I Talk About In A Presentation About NHibernate? (Davy Brion)
Writing and IronPython Debugger: Adding Interactivity (Harry Pierson)
Gratuitous Use of Linq (Jacob Proffitt)
On Tagging, Part 1 (Howard Dierking)
WCF: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority (Josh Twist)
Recursive LINQ with Y-combinator (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

Big Day for Sueetie Source and Documentation updates (Dave Burke)
Adding Search To Your Site (In 5 Minutes) (Jeff Blankenburg)
10-4: Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 (Public Sector DPE Team)
New ASP.NET MVC Validation Tutorials Posted at www.ASP.net/MVC (Stephen Walther)
MVC Contrib – Release: RC – 0.0.1.846 (CodePlex)

Community / Events

Foundation Series Workshop 1 – Wednesday, March 11th (Brian Donahue) – A new series of workshops for Philly-area developers. Don’t miss it! – Link of the Day
Alt.net: Alienation by adoption (Ayende Rahien)
Are you going to MIX09? (Pete Brown)
SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote from SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 4 – Keynote of Steve Ballmer (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint unit testing and SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (Joris Poelmans)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Windows Live Writer Backup" (Blake Handler)
Ballmer: Microsoft needs to make faster Windows Mobile advances (Todd Bishop)
A Journey in Technical Computing (Ade Miller)
Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App (John Herrman)
Live Mesh…the story so far (Steve Clayton)
Zoho Writer 2.0 launches with fresh look (Raju Vegesna)
Intro to Programming: Microsoft Small Basic (Paul)
We need a new slogan (Roy Osherove)
10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers (Scott Hanselman)
Flash / ActionScript Guitar Synthesizer and Andre’s Amazing Lab (Pete.Brown)
Zune news: New streaming podcasts, new Zune Social functionality (Paul Thurrott)

Book of the Day

The ThoughtWorks Anthology: Essays on Software Technology and Innovation (Pragmatic Programmers): ThoughtWorks Inc.: Books

ISBN: 193435614X
ISBN-13: 9781934356142

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Dew Drop – August 25, 2011

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Dew Drop – July 22, 2011

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Dew Drop – November 12, 2010

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Dew Drop – January 27, 2010

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Dew Drop – January 26, 2010

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Dew Drop – October 14, 2009

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