Dew Drop – March 10, 2010
Sick yesterday == Extra long list of links today.
Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf
Top Links
- T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features (David Ebbo)
- A Vision of the Future for Home and Work Experiences by Microsoft Surface (Arturo Toledo)
- Game Developers Have a Great Opportunity with Windows Phone 7 Series (Ron Pessner)
- pluralsight and InnerWorkings (Meagon Marshall)
- 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far) (Joe Wilcox)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Go To a Line Number and Print with Line Numbers / Summary Info Poll and Reuse the Same Editor Window When Opening Files (Zain Naboulsi)
- Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive) (Scott Mitchell)
- Tuning C++ build parallelism in VS2010 (Dan (VS Team))
- ThinkGearNET Library (Brian Peek)
- VB and C# coevolution (Scott Wiltamuth)
- Slicing and Dicing Strings with CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
- When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Combining Higher Order Functions in C# and How to tell if a type is a delegate (Mike Hadlow)
- The yield statement cannot be used inside an anonymous method or lambda expression and Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in F# (Oliver Sturm)
- IronRuby Unleashed Is Out Now (Justin Etheredge)
- WCF Service Cannot Be Activated Because of ASP.NET Compatibility and WCF Data Service Error – Request Error (Keith Elder)
- .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… “Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference” (Think “Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy”) (Greg Duncan)
- XNA Game Studio 4 News (GDC 2010) (Greg Duncan)
- Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One (Eric Lippert)
- TMap for VS2010 Testing Process Template RC published on Codeplex. and VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
- MindBlaster Article Posted (Brian Peek)
- Save a diagram to Image File (Cameron Skinner)
- Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part II: Semantic Changes and +=/-= (Chris Burrows)
- Michael Klucher on XNA Game Studio for Windows Phone (Christian Schormann)
- Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# (Chris Sells)
- Using Copy-On-Write In Multithreaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead (Davy Brion)
- FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO (Bertrand Le Roy)
Web Development
- Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET (Steve Sanderson)
- Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article) (Jeffrey Palermo)
- Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink (Hadi Hariri)
- Working with the HTML5 Community (Adrian Bateman)
- ASMX ScriptService mistakes: Installation and configuration (Dave Ward)
- Displaying Multimedia Content In A Floating Window Using FancyBox (Scott Mitchell)
- Using Lucene – External Indexes (Oren Eini)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- VCS Survey (Martin Fowler)
- Agile Animations – Big Teams (Kirk Knoernschild)
- Git/Branch-Per-Feature – Composable Deployments/Releases? (Joey Beninghove)
- Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time (Jurgen Appelo)
- The 8th Phase (Karl Seguin)
- Getting real: Book review and Pair Programming: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
- Review: The Productive Programmer (Grant Palin)
- CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models (Derick Bailey)
- State Pattern Misuse (Greg Young)
- The Dissatisfied Designer (Dave Laribee)
- Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks (Oren Eini)
- Work is a Rubber Ball that Bounces Back (J.D. Meier)
Silverlight / WPF
- WPF / Silverlight Quick Tip: INotifyPropertyChanged for indexer and Binding to a Dictionary in WPF and Silverlight and Tracing WPF in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
- WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity (Scott Hanselman)
- Small Basic – Now with SilverLight (Vijaye)
- WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 3 : Focus and Activation (Paul Harrington)
- Silverlight 4, MEF and the DeploymentCatalog ( again
) (Mike Taulty) - A syntax highlighting TextBlock for Silverlight 3 (Jeff Wilcox)
- Silverlight Catastrophic Failure Message (Kathleen Dollard)
- Silverlight Challenge: Creating a DependencyProperty (Christopher Bennage)
- Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
- Pixel Perfect Development (Dave Schinkel)
- Simplified INotifyPropertyChanged Implementation with WeakReference Support and Typed Property Access API (Daniel Cazzulino)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Software Engineering Radio Episode 157: Hadoop with Philip Zeyliger (SE-Radio Team)
- endpoint.tv – Install/Uninstall AppFabric & Referencing Caching Libraries (Ron Jacobs)
- Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex (Sara Ford)
- Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Conversation with Gary Bernhardt (Corey Haines)
- Ping 51: TechFest, Ballmer, Xbox, Android & Tina Wood! and What is the Cloud? (Laura Foy)
- Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) (Tess Ferrandez)
- David Anderson on kanban – radio interview (Christophe Louvion)
- E2E: Erik Meijer and Leslie Lamport – Mathematical Reasoning and Distributed Systems (Charles Torre)
Community / Events
- SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint 2010 Pro Summit Edition (Andrew Connell)
- I love Codeplex! (Arian T. Kulp)
- Silverlight @ #MIX10 – The Next Web Now (Silverlight Team)
- You Can Sponsor Philly Code Camp (Nick Berardi)
- Microsoft at SXSW 2010 (Dominic Carr)
- Windows Live Wave 4 at Mix? Follow our liveblog and find out (Kip Kniskern)
- Got Questions? Ask the Experts at MIX10 (John Papa)
- 2010 Summit – in a word, “more!” (Joseph Mirabella)
- Speaking on “Ignite your coding” (Glenn Block)
- Getting ready for MIX10 (Ed Bott)
- Events This Week – March 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Looking for more SharePoint 2010 Info? Check out these Free Webcasts by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
- MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Improve Performance by Reducing IO – Creating Covered Index and SQLAuthority Book Review – Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Pinal Dave)
- Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 4: network optimization) (Paul S. Randal)
- SQL Server Locking & Block Scripts (Joe Webb)
- Why abbreviate schema names? (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
- Readying SharePoint For Teleworking (Will Kelly)
- Accessibility and SharePoint 2010 (Tim McConnell)
- Configure SharePoint Server 2010 for Mobile Device Access (Office Team)
- Training from Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 (Paul Andrew)
- Beyond F5 deployment – my top 5 benefits of Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint (Chris O’Brien)
Miscellaneous
- Kodu (MS Downloads)
- A Trip Down Memory Lane – Presentations over 10 years old (Scott Hanselman)
- #Ebook Deal of the Day: Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition – Only $9.99! Use code DDNUT (O’Reilly Media)
- Remote File Explorer in PowerGUI and PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- Office Web Apps to graduate with Windows Live Wave 4: gives clue to final release date? (damaster)
- The incomplete list of impolite WP7 user feature requests (Chris Sells)
- UITableView Example Code (Wally McClure)
More Link Collections
- Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/9/2010 – Special Edition (Pete Brown)
- Interesting Finds: March 8, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 9, 2010 and Interesting Finds: March 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #555 and The Morning Brew #556 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2010 — #809 (Dave Campbell)
- Tech Tweets for 8-Mar-2010 and Tech Tweets for 9-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- My new home page, refreshed [Updated collection of great Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization resources!] (David Anson)
- Innovation Showcase Headlines – 03.9.2010 (Bob Familiar)
The Geek Shelf
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