Dew Drop – April 22, 2010
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Top Links
- Back to (Parallel) Basics: Do you really want to do that? or Why doesn’t the new Parallel.For support BigInteger? (Scott Hanselman)
- The Three Pillars of Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone (Andre Vrignaud)
- Dell Lightning Specs and Launch Date (Windows Phone 7) (Taimur Asad)
- The Best Way to Keep Your Product Moving Forward (Jared Richardson)
- A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Preface and Chapters 1 (Ade Miller)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Declarative Security and Reflection (Shawn Farkas)
- Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame (Charles Sterling)
- Start Extending Visual Studio 2010! (Richa Prasad)
- Using Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Pin a DataTip to source (Zain Naboulsi)
- Network List Manager API wrapped for .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
- New Release: Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (J.D. Meier)
- ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! (Peter Kellner)
- Actions, Step and Rules (Rob DuWors)
- VS 2010 Debugger Improvements (BreakPoints, DataTips, Import/Export) (Scott Guthrie)
- Try Mono.Cecil if you need System.Reflection.Emit in Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
- Immutable instances and deferred references (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- Capturing Filtered Windows Events with Windows Azure Diagnostics and Call DiagnosticMonitor.Start() Only Once (Steve Marx)
- UppercuT and Mercurial (hg) (Rob Reynolds)
Web Development
- Facebook Makes Huge API Changes – Open Graph Protocol and Much More (Andres Ferrate)
- Applying CSS Styling via Metadata (Stephen Naughton)
- Meet the Lovely Lucene at Sueetie.com (Dave Burke)
- Inside The CSS Working Group (Sylvain Galineau)
- Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Resource Usage: IoC Containers And Large Object Graphs and Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
- The Elephant and the Rider (J.D. Meier)
- Sogeti TMAP process template certified and ready (Clemens Reijnen)
- Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 (Kirill Osenkov)
- Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
- Interview: Patrick Kua : Agile Coach (Roy Osherove)
Silverlight / WPF
- International Radio Operators Alphabet in F# & Silverlight – Part 1 (Mark Pearl)
- Avatar Mosaic -Experimenting with the Artefact Animator (Adam Kinney)
- Silverlight Tip of the Day #1 – Using Static Resources in Class Libraries (Mike Snow)
- Get a Silverlight XAP signing certificate for cheap thanks to GoDaddy (Tim Heuer)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Dan Fernandez Live in Los Angeles (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Welcome to Docs – Video Tutorial and Getting Started for Docs – Video Tutorial (Amy Sorokas)
- Introducing Docs for Facebook: Making Your Documents Social (Charles Torre)
- Brian Noyes on MVVM, Prism, and Silverlight 4 (Eric Hagan)
- Tech-Ed is About the "Stuff" You Can Use Today and Concurrency Visualizer High Speed Tour (Larry Larsen)
- endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric in action monitoring and troubleshooting and endpoint.tv – Windows Server AppFabric – Configuring Monitoring Data (Ron Jacobs)
Community / Events
- SharePoint Lover, Interested to attend TEC2010 from Apr 25-28, 2010 in LAX for FREE? (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Join Microsoft Technical Fellow for a Roundtable Discussion About Launching Windows 7 in an Enterprise Organization (Joseph Mirabella)
- Need Unit Testing Academy then join TypeMock Academy (Muhammad Mosa)
- Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part I (Thom Mitchell)
- Awkward: The Other Microsoft Interview Story (Pete Brown)
Database
- List of Undocumented Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 (MS Downloads)
- That No SQL Thing: Document Database Migrations (Oren Eini)
- #SQLR2 Launch Goofs (Brent Ozar)
- SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 Supports PDO (PHP Data Objects) (Bruce Kyle)
- Which Edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 should you use? (Buck Woody)
- A DMV a Day – Day 22 (Glenn Berry)
- SQL SERVER – Create Primary Key with Specific Name when Creating Table (Pinal Dave)
- SSIS code smell – Unused columns in the dataflow (Jamie Thomson)
- A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (21/30) corruption can be fixed by restarting SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
- SQL Server 2008 R2: Helping Customers Get More Value Out of Their Data (Ted Kummert)
- Do you use disable index or drop index when running your ETL processes in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
SharePoint
- Announcing the CMIS Connector for SharePoint (Ryan Duguid)
Miscellaneous
- Getting Mediaencoder working with Windows 7 and Windows Vista –and Video capture with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (Charles Sterling)
- Coding4Fun Cannon – Building the Robot (Clint Rutkas)
- Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 is now available for everyone to download – not just OEMs (Imran Hussain)
- More Amazon S3 cmdlets and PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
- #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming the iPhone User Experience – Only $9.99 use code DDPTP (O’Reilly Media)
- Introducing Docs for Facebook (Dominic Carr)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #585 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 21, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Silverlight Cream for April 21, 2010 — #843 (Dave Campbell)
- Tech Tweets for 21-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
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