Dew Drop – July 21, 2010
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Top Links
- Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 2 of N (Hadi Hariri)
- Announcing the Solution Navigator (Adrian Collier)
- Recreating the PhoneListBoxItemLayout (and why we cut it) (Peter Torr)
- The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 25, Going Postal: ActionFilters, Moq, ModelState, Oh My! (Evan Nagle)
- Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more… – Part 3. (Yochay Kiriaty)
.NET / Visual Studio
- SL/RIA/POCO: Generated Code and SL/RIA/POCO: No Generated Code? (Deborah Kurata)
- Avoid UI freezes at all costs, if possible (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Using Entity Framework Code First (CTP4) in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
- T4 Code Generation with Visual Studio 2010 (Dane Morgridge)
- C# Yellow Book Training Course (Rob Miles)
- Building and testing WCF web service using workflow foundation 4.0 (M. Muazzam Ali)
- How To – UppercuT and Gems (Rob Reynolds)
- Command Prompt Tab Completion and Copy and Paste with the Command Prompt (Zain Naboulsi)
- Transaction Tracking Typed Datasets Using SqlTransaction (Dave M. Bush)
- The Ultimate Lib Folder (Paul Stovell)
- Fresh Mono Baked and Building apps for the Retina Display (Miguel de Icaza)
- CodePlex Publishing Plugin – Preview Release (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Maximize Your Website’s Search Engine Placement Using Microsoft’s Free SEO Toolkit (Scott Mitchell)
- Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
- Rethinking form validation (Janko Jovanovic)
- Get ASP.NET C# 2.0 Website Thumbnail Screenshot (gafrancisco)
- The Essential List of JavaScript, jQuery, HTML & CSS Books to Make You a Better Web Developer (Rey Bango)
- Author Notes: Writing YUI 2.8: Learning the Library, the New YUI 2 Book from Packt (Daniel Barreiro)
- HTTP and optimistic concurrency (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit testing LINQ to SQL (Mehfuz Hossain)
- Re-Engineering In Agile Development Can Just Be Refactoring (Rob Diana)
- Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Somasegar)
- Managing the Agile Team Environment (Vikas Hazrati)
- The Hardest Thing I Struggle With (John Sonmez)
- Enjoy The Doing (Dave Laribee)
- Feedback, the environment and other people (Mark Needham)
- Mono’s Git Migration (Miguel de Icaza)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Strikes an Emotional Chord (Paul Thurrott)
- WPF 4 Unleashed! (Adam Nathan)
- Hopping outside the box [How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
- Windows Phone 7 Panorama Controls and Clarity Consulting’s Comic Book reader for Win Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
- The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 – Part 2: Using Sockets (Gill Cleeren)
- Semi final release – Windsor 2.5 beta 2 (now with Silverlight support) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- Unveiling Reuxables 4.0 + New Subscriptions (Dax Pandhi)
- Localization and Complex Validation in MVVM (Martin Joel)
- Loading, iterating, and saving photos with WP7 (Coding4Fun)
- Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
- Stringing Along to Disappointment in Silverlight (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Herding Code 88: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (Jon Galloway)
- PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview (Larry Larsen)
- Technology & Friends Episode 103: Steve Andrews on GeekGive (David Giard)
- This Week In Silverlight – Windows Phone tools in Beta (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
- Developing Access 2010 Hybrid Apps with Dick Moffat (Tina Wood)
- Pluralcast 20 : Technical Community and Geek Give with Steve Andrews (David Starr)
- Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: The Overview Video (Rob Tiffany)
- Presentation:Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity (David Anderson)
Community / Events
- A Very Interesting “Community-Focused” Project. (Ted Malone)
- How to Get Value From StackOverflow (Dave Swersky)
- 4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 #WPC11 (Dux Raymond Sy)
- The Windows Phone 7 Training Continues! Get Ready for Sessions 3 & 4 (Bob Caswell)
Database
- Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Win USD 11,899 worth MSDN Subscription 5 Days to go (Pinal Dave)
- Transitioning to SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting (William Vaughn)
- Hi, my name is SA (Jen McCown)
- SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Second (Grant Fritchey)
- Easy SQL Script for handling SQL Image Data (Michael Sync)
- PowerShell and Extended Properties (Buck Woody)
Miscellaneous
- noobgaming : my rails and gaming passions combined (Karl Seguin)
- PowerGUI Editor 2.1.1 and AD cmdlets 1.4 compatibility issue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
- When CONSTants Vary (James Iry)
- Does the Cloud Need Server Virtualization? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
- MVP Guest Post: The No-confusion Time line Report (Joseph Mirabella)
- Microsoft Security Essentials 2 beta now available for download (Lee Mathews)
- Intel vPro PowerShell Module (Jeffrey Snover)
- Kodu PC build 1.0.70.0 is live! (Stephen Coy)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2010 — #907 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Everyman on Community Engagement, Location Layers, Paying for Everything, Designing for Touch (Dave Burke)
- Tech Tweets for 20-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #647 (Chris Alcock)
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