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Dew Drop – March 13, 2011

Alvin Ashcraft — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:31:50 +0000

Dew Drop – December 9, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:24:21 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

NH Prof New Feature: Alert on bad ‘like’ query (Oren Eini)
A few LINQ Queries (Christian Nagel)
Pinning Watch Variables While Debugging Visual Studio 2010, Awesome Feature (Peter Kellner)
Telerik Data Services Wizard Updates (Stephen Forte)
Gtk# designer on OSX (Miguel de Icaza)
How to create lightweight reusable source code with NuGet (Daniel Cazzulino)
Does IntelliTrace support all the .NET Frameworks ? (Abhijit Jana)
Fronting long-running WF Services with MSMQ, the right way (Emil Velinov)
EF Feature CTP5: Raw SQL Query/Command Support (Gil Fink)
Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now in Beta (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

Replace Those Images with CSS: Rounded Corners (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Animating HTML5 Canvas Element (Leon Braginski)
Efficient Paging with WebGrid Web Helper – ASP.NET MVC 3 RC (Malcolm Sheridan)
Display HTML/CSS Warnings as Errors (Zain Naboulsi)
How one decision can turn web services to hell (Gunnar Peipman)
Retrieving Data from Google Analytics API using PHP (Lorna Mitchell)
Building a Sample WebMatrix Application (Joe Stagner)
ASP User Notification Update (John V. Petersen)
Easy Setup for PHP On Azure Development (Josh Holmes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Web Development Stack In OSX (Derick Bailey)
Lost in Translation – An Agile Game (Michael Norton)
Agile is Always a Team-Involving Activity and Increase Your Velocity By Adding More People? (ScoutMaster)
#Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of Lean Software Dev. – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDLEN (O’Reilly Media)
Cleaning /removing attachments from Test Cases in TFS. (Charles Sterling)
But, It Just Had to Get Done… Didn’t It!? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Are Better Business Architecture Abstractions the Key to Enterprise Architecture? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RadControls for Windows Phone vs. Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone (Rudi Grobler)
Windows Phone 7 Charts (Luke Lowrey)
Dynamically Generating Controls in WPF and Silverlight (Pete Brown)
Announcing V2.5 of the Metro Web Browser: Save Pics, Reorder Faves, Perf & Bug Fixes (Adam Nathan)
Resizing Images in Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 3) (Mike Taulty)
Animating the Color of an Object (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Community Megaphone Podcast Show #20 at Philly and Richmond Code Camps Take II (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Microsoft Research Part 1 – The Anechoic Chamber (Larry Larsen & Nic Fillingham & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

Talkative and Precognitive Badges (Jeff Atwood)
Spotlight: Jes Borland (Jen McCown)
Windows Azure Q&A Discussion with Microsoft Azure Architect (Lonnie Webb)

Database

SQL Server Compact 4.0 CTP2 for Windows Desktop (MS Downloads)
Microsoft Codename Atlanta Attempts to Help Out DBAs By Providing Basic Assistance (Brad M. McGehee)
Introducing SSIS Reporting Pack for SQL Server code-named Denali (Jamie Thomson)
SSRS: How to monitor report subscriptions (Paul Theriault)
Dealing with The row value(s) updated or deleted either do not make the row unique or they alter multiple rows errors (Denis Gobo)
HEAPs o’ Trouble With Multi-Column JOINs (Brad Schulz)
Can You Dig It? – The Plan Cache (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

Enhanced SharePoint 2010 Ribbon with JQuery (Greg Galipeau)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Verve – A Type-Safe Operating System (James Vastbinder)
Microsoft’s WP7 Platform Guy Won’t Talk Sales Numbers Either (Le Web) (Robin Wauters)
Microsoft’s Project Emporia–mining the web so you don’t have to and Microsoft’s Montage goes in public beta (Steve Clayton)
BizTalk–The Road Ahead (Bill Zack)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

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Dew Drop – August 17, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:24:12 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

How to publish a printer in Active Directory (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
New to C#, Visual Studio, and SQL Server (Jonathan McCracken)
Proposed New Visual Studio ALM Stack Exchange Site (Ed Blankenship)
WCF RIA Services Part 5 – Metadata and Shared Classes (Brian Noyes)
Roll Your Own Item Template with the Export Template Wizard (Zain Naboulsi)
NHibernate 3.0 QueryOver Syntax is the Bee’s Knees (Bobby Johnson)
Quick and Dirty way to backup a SQL Azure database to a local copy using EF and Dynamic Query (James Clarke)
Why I Love NServiceBus (Jonathan Oliver)
Coding Standards and Best Practices : Dealing with strings Part (1) and Implementing Multithreaded Singleton Class (Peter Bahaa)

Web Development

Exposing Java Implemented Logic – JSP or ASP.NET ? (Joe Stagner)
Resig Introduces jQuery Mobile (Mitch Pronschinske)
A Boolean Date Time Field Template for Dynamic Data 4 (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Quickly setting up Autospec and Growl for TDD goodness in Ruby!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Practical PHP Patterns: Optimistic Offline Lock (Giorgio Sironi)
Can We Adopt Agile? Not Yes. (Peter Schuh)
Monday Morning Productivity Jump Start (Amber Singleton Riviere)
I&I over P&T (Steve ‘Doc’ List)
Estimating is Overestimated (Sergio Romano)
Write testable code even if you don’t write tests (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight – Property Value Synchronization between Two View Models (Kiran Kumar G)
Creating a small downloader tool for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Creating Application using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Commanding and ADO.NET Entity Framework (Mahesh Sabnis)
Xbox LIVE Games for Windows Phone 7 Unleashed at Gamescom (Michael Klucher)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 1.0.0.400 (CodePlex)
Picking the right resolution for RibbonWindow’s Icon and Images in Ribbon Sample (Varsha Mahadevan)
Virtualizing Data in Windows Phone 7 Silverlight Applications (Peter Torr)
Windows Phone Applications – Gestures (Ricky Tan)
Windows Phone 7 gets all musical on your keystrokes (Steven Hodson)
Debugging Silverlight with Visual Studio and Firefox and Storing and playing media on Windows Phone 7 (Tim Heuer)
Windows 7 Phone: Details Matter (Sarah Perez)
One for the ladies (your mkop editor)
Two more WP7 tutorials (Nigel Sampson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone 7 app: Halo Waypoint just announced (Tina Wood)
YUI Theater — Dennis Lembree: “Making JavaScript Accessible (26 min.)” (Allen Rabinovich)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 25 – Entity Framework with Matthew Wills (Richard Banks)
Sparkling Client Show 103: Windows Phone 7 Development Hardware with Walt Ritscher (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Countdown to PDC10: There’s one pass left! Is your name on it? (Larry Larsen)
Ping 70: ZoomIt, PC & Mac Ads, Media Room, Gaming on Windows Phones (Laura Foy)
Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Silverlight Show)

Community / Events

How to Insult a Writer (Charles Petzold)
Growing Faith in Open Source, But Few Give Back (Mitch Pronschinske)

Database

Migrate MySQL, Access Databases to the Cloud with SQL Server Migration Assistant (Bruce Kyle)
Count the Number of Occurrence of Characters in a String – SQL Server Challenge (Suprotim Agarwal)
What I learned today – CHECKDB and database snapshots (John Pertell)
Integration Services vNext Coming Soon? (Todd McDermid)
Termination options for ALTER DATABASE (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell Cookbook V2 Now Available (Lee Holmes)
Xbox 360 Limited Edition Halo Reach console sounds (Larry Hyrb)
Add-ons, and Opting out of Google Analytics Without Them (Eric Lawrence)
Windows Home Server Vail August Preview Available for Testers – Brings Client Connector for Mac with Time Machine Support (Imran Hussain)
Ruby Programming and Education: A Match Made in Heaven (Satish Talim)
Mathematics Add-in for OneNote 2010 is available (John Guin)
Microsoft Releases VMMSSP (Krishnan Subramanian)
A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-1. (Md. Marufuzzaman)
Microsoft Heads Back to School (Anthony Salcito)
Daily Dose – Vim Increases Vigor (Mitch Pronschinske)
RTM’d Today: Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Rosemary Caperton)
Now You Can Get 4 TV Tuners on 1 Card (Sarah Perez)
Microsoft’s 3 Screens and a Cloud – in a single image and Vote on your favorite wishlist items for Windows 8 (Steven Hodson)
Use the "Spike" Feature in Microsoft Word to Copy and Paste Text (The How-To Geek)
Small Basic Tutorials (Vijaye)
Profiler Usage Analysis (Oren Eini)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server MVP Deep Dives by Paul Nielsen

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Dew Drop – April 3, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:59:47 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

The Zero-Argument Overload of Any (Craig Andera)
Open A Visual Studio Solution From A Command Prompt Or Batch File (Derick Bailey)
MSBuild Property Functions (Dan)
Sqlite & Entity Framework 4 (Dane Morgridge)
DataSet does not validate XML Schema (XSD) (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
CSLA 4 data portal changes (Rockford Lhotka)
Understanding the File Tab Channel Drop Down Button (Zain Naboulsi)
Testing NHibernate mappings (Mike Hadlow)
Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 1 (James Bender)

Web Development

SharpZipLib and ASP.NET (Charles Chen)
How to Serialize/Deserialize Complex XML in ASP.Net / C# (Impact Works)
Pro JavaScript Techniques (Chris Love)
Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part IV) (Minal Agarwal)
Ban HTML comments from your pages and views (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Your Certification is Meaningless (James Shore)
Book Review: Where Have All The Leaders Gone (Andy Warren)
Working with Legacy code and Working with Legacy code #1 : Draw up a plan. (Andrew Stopford)
10 Secrets to Being a Successful Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
The Better Adapted You Are, the Less Adaptable You Tend To Be (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Bill Buxton on Natural UI and Bill Buxton Explains ‘METRO’ and the whole NATURAL UI CONCEPT.. (Don Burnett)
MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Introduction to LINQ and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Intro to WCF Data Services and OData and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Getting Started with ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Deeper Look at ADO.NET Entity Framework and MSDN Simulcast: All Data/All Day Dive into .NET Data Access, Azure Data Storage Options (Emily Gibson)
jQuery Podcast 18 – Jeffery Way (Nettuts) (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
Cloud Cover Episode 7 – Dallas (Ryan Dunn)
Spaghetti Code Recaps the MIX Conference (Jeff Brand)
SSIS Prehistory video (Jamie Thomson)

Community / Events

The GitHub East Coast Tour (Chris Wanstrath)
OpenRasta needs an msdn license (Sebastien Lambla)
Announcing the Tips and Tricks SWAG Fest Beginning April 12th (Zain Naboulsi)
Headspring’s MVC Boot Camp now covers MVC 2 – April 21, 22, 23 (Jeffrey Palermo)
Free ASP.NET, Ajax, and IIS Web Camps (John Papa)
Attend Windows Summit 2010: May 25–27 (Joseph Mirabella)

Database

Microsoft pushes back delivery date for its SQL Server data warehouse release (Mary-Jo Foley)
Writing Tests for a Stored Proc Sure Feels Weird (Bobby Johnson)
A DMV a Day – Day 3 (Glenn Berry)
A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (2/30) DBCC CHECKDB causes blocking and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (3/30) instant file initialization can be controlled from within SQL Server (Paul S. Randal)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between GRANT and WITH GRANT (Pinal Dave)
Getting the physical device name and backup time for a SQL Server database (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases Office 2010 File Formats & Protocol Documentation (Blake Handler)
Microsoft Renames their Mobile OS to Just “Windows Phone 7″ (Uzair)
New Tweetmeme Plugins for Windows Live Writer (Sarah Perez)
Microsoft Office on iPad? Don’t Hold Your Breath (Lauren Indvik)
Kodu Tutorial #5 Programming UI (Stephen Coy)
Wolfram Alpha iPhone app drops from $50 to $1.99, gets iPad version (Jay Hathaway)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of SQL

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Dew Drop – March 26, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:22:24 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Finding a set of Nodes in an XML String and XML Literals: Handling Empty Elements (Deborah Kurata)
Automatically generating states with VS2010 UML tools and T4 (Manuel Naujoks)
Visual Studio Tip of the Day Start Page – Extension #3 (Sara Ford)
FluentPath now on CodePlex (Bertrand Le Roy)
Tips and Tricks: Apply (or Don’t Apply) Cut or Copy commands to blank lines (Brittany Behrens)
Hide or Show the Solution File in Solution Explorer (Zain Naboulsi)
Interview question (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

“Demystifying The Cloud – An Introduction to Cloud Computing” free ebook which includes the three popular services, Amazon, Google and Azure (Greg Duncan)
Tip#102: Did you know… How to specify tag specific formatting (Deepak Verma)
Google APIs Get Faster Thanks to Smart Optimizations (Matthew Casperson)
Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 (Lawrence Moroney)
Building A Custom ActionResult in MVC 2 To Download Excel Files (Malcolm Sheridan)
ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup on Mouse Over (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Art of Agile Development: Chapter 9: Developing and Agile Friday: "Test-Driven Development" Now Online (James Shore)
Law Of Demeter: Extension Methods Don’t Count and Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons (Derick Bailey)
In TDD Red is not ‘does not compile’ (Ian Cooper)
Filing a Great Bug (Matt Gradwohl)
Ninja Level Productivity Tip: Evading an Unwanted Meeting in 3 Easy Steps (Russell Ball)
Pipes and Filters Pattern in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Two Week Tetris Applying Otazo’s Truths to Managing Development (Tucker Croft)
Finding the assumptions in stories (Mark Needham)
Klocwork Beefs Up Security in Agile Source Analysis (Mitch Pronschinske)

Silverlight / WPF

RIA Services and Validation (Nikhil Kothari)
Windows Phone 7 + Silverlight Performance (Andy Beaulieu)
Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 (David Hill)
The platform giveth power, don’t taketh it away [Tip: Do not assign DependencyProperty values in a constructor; it prevents users from overriding them] (David Anson)
Data binding user settings in Windows Phone applications (Jeff Wilcox)
Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

TypeMock Video: The Goals of Unit Testing (TypeMock)
Research Perspectives on JavaScript with Erik Meijer, Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn (Charles Torre)
XAML, Expression Blend and the Future of Multi-Touch Technology (Eric Hagan)
The Thirsty Developer 89: McNuggets Go Tribal (Dave Bost)
This Week In Silverlight 3.25.2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Silverlight TV 18: WCF RIA Services Validation (John Papa)
Windows Phone 7 Series Shazam App: MIX 2010 Keynote (Laura Foy)
Package and Re-use a SharePoint List (Laura Harring)

Community / Events

Goodbye Intel, Joining Microsoft as an Architect Evangelist (Doug Holland)
Project Natal ‘experience’ to premiere at E3 on June 13th (Paul Miller)
Daily Dose – De Icaza Interview About .Net Taken Down (Mitch Pronschinske)
There’s Still Time to Participate in This Year’s Imagine Cup (Anthony Salcito)
Be a Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” (John Wiese)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Improves Developer, User Experience (Bruce Kyle)
SQL SERVER – Generate Report for Index Physical Statistics – SSMS (Pinal Dave)
Benchmarking: 1-TB table population (part 5: network optimization again) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

Exam 70-541 – TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Application Development (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Labs "Canvas for OneNote" Updated for Office 2010 (Blake Handler)
Review: The Nomadic Developer (Me)
New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring (Todd Schwartz)
Process Explorer (yes, that Process Explorer) v12 Released and Development/Test Environments, Windows Activation and You (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone 7 Series theme coming soon to Windows 7 thanks to Rainmeter (Imran Hussain)
What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? (Kat Neville)
Microsoft Semantic Search (Trevor Dwyer)
Windows 8: The SKUs are Here to Stay (Stephen Chapman)
Sharing 2.0 (Piero Sierra)
Windows Live™ ID Support, Download Page Ads, and Other Changes (Matt Hawley)
David Pogue’s Windows 7: The Missing Manual Is Here! – Ingenious Tips and Tricks, Disarming Humor (O’Reilly Media)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WPF

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Dew Drop – March 8, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:20:04 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Go To a Line Number (Zain Naboulsi)
DataTemplate in Generic.xaml – it should be the next ToString()! (Rob Relyea)
Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes) (Scott Guthrie)
Comparing LINQ to SQL vs the classic SqlCommand (Al Pascual)
Building Hello MEF – Part IV – DeploymentCatalog and Building HelloMEF – Part V – Refactoring to ViewModel (Glenn Block)
Windows Azure Tools from 3rd parties (Hanu Kommalapati)

Web Development

Goodbye Http Handler, Hello FileResult (Mike Ceranski)
Preview Tools in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: JavaScript: The Good Parts – Only $9.99! Use code DDJSG (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Why Your Developers Don’t Want To Swap Pairs – Practical Agility (Alan Skorkin)
Less is More, Slower is Better (J.D. Meier)
Ubiquitous and unambiguous ? (Peter Van Ooijen)
Leadership Tip: Stop Cloning Teams. Encourage Diversity In The Approaches Taken. (Rajiv Popat)
A movement called weekend testing – What it can do you and your testing career? (Shrini Kulkarni)
Role Specific Interfaces: DIP And ISP In Action (Derick Bailey)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

The Thirsty Developer 87: Ironing It All Out with Jimmy Schementi (Dave Bost)
Major Nelson Show 352: Xbox LIVE Profile Policy change, SXSW community event and more (Larry Hyrb)
Episode 104- PowerScripting Podcast – MDT 2010 with Keith Garner (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
A Great SlideShare from the always outspoken and beloved Scott Barnes of Readify.Net (Don Burnett)
My "What’s New in Silvelright 3" Video from 0reDev Last Fall (Shawn Wildermuth)
Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler (Oren Eini)

Community / Events

MIX10, Coding4Fun Show, and You! (Brian Peek)
Ready to test those Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Series apps? (Jeff Wilcox)
My First Week as a Developer Evangelist (Sara Ford)
Introducing the MVC Melee!!! (Sara J. Chipps)
A few announcements for those in the UK (Scott Guthrie)

Database

Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys (Kalen Delaney)
03-08-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: Sending an email inside of SSIS to a Gmail account (Kevin Goff)
SQLAuthority News – SQL SERVER 2008 R2 Pricing (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market (Sebastian Anthony)

The Geek Shelf

Ironpython in Action

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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 – September 16, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:38:41 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Simulating a Swarm Algorithm in C# (Mike Gold)
Gotchas: Adding Attributes to Properties on Interfaces in F# (Ade Miller)
XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions Released – Get your Zune HD Dev On (Greg Duncan)
XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions (XNA Team)
Using the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with Multiple Versions of OpenAccess (Stephen Forte)
F# under the covers III (Steve Gilham)
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (Joe Stagner)
Generically Constraining F# – Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 4 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Reflection with dynamic (Kirill Osenkov)
PSA: NHibernate Session.Save() do you know what it returns? (Derik Whittaker)
Using LINQ to query object hierarchies (Gunnar Peipman)
What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II – Developing Routing Service (Mahesh Sabnis)

Web Development

Accessing Images On Flickr From An ASP.NET Website Using The Flickr.Net Library (Scott Mitchell)
Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client (Rick Strahl)
Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN (Scott Guthrie) – Link of the Day
Supporting Web Standards Development with SuperPreview (Steve Guttman)
Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use (John Teague)
There’s a Javascript Magazine, and its really good! (Kris Gray)
Output DOCTYPE In XSLT (Deepak Kapoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Book Club: SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin) (Mark Needham)
Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 8. (Rajiv Popat)
The Downside of Transparency (Chris Sells)

Silverlight / WPF

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Martin Woodward on Team System (Carl Franklin)
RADAR: Windows Automatic Memory Leak Detection (Charles Torre)
Radio TFS 26: Random Beta 1 Stuff (Martin Woodward)

Community / Events

Critical Path Training to give away $15,000+ of free SharePoint 2010 training and Amazon Kindles at the SharePoint Conference! (Andrew Connell)
Administering setup in Visual Studio 2010 (Charles Sterling)
PDC09 – See you there! (Greg Duncan)
More on Codeplex.org (Scott Koon)
Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits (Simon Sabin)
Last day to enter the raffle for a ticket to Roy Osherove’s TDD workshop (Sebastien Lambla)

Database

The Fundamentals of Storage Systems – Introduction (Wesley Brown)
SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2 (Pinal Dave)
Blobs and Filestreams (Andy Warren)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell Tip: Providers (James Kovacs)
The Windows 7 upgrade survival guide (Ed Bott)
Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, and 3D games on the way (updated) (Thomas Ricker)
Windows PowerShell : Variables, Types, and Operators (Phil Pennington)
Use the tools Microsoft didn’t use to create Zune HD apps (Paul Thurrott)
Announcing Pocket Tabs for iPhone (Ben Scheirman)
Google Gets Real-time Search (Darrell Etherington)
What do YOU want to see in Windows 8? (Stephen Chapman)
IE8 Download Notification in Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
Windows 7 For Architects & Developers – Updates (Jeff Barnes)
Challenge: NH Prof Exporting Reports (Oren Eini)

Book of the Day

Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5 (2nd Edition) (9780321533920): Mark Michaelis: Books

ISBN: 0321533925
ISBN-13: 9780321533920

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Dew Drop – September 11, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:09:58 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Designing a system with DSLs (Oren Eini)
Adding Workdays to a Date (Chad Juliano)
Using Exception.Data to Append Data to Error Stack (Dave Schinkel)
What’s the difference between conditional compilation and the conditional attribute? (Eric Lippert)
C# – A Simple Way to Process Command Line Arguments (Michael Ceranski)

Web Development

ASP.NET AJAX Preview 5 (Chris G. Williams)
On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine (Jay Kimble)
Lucene.net vs. Indexing Services, or “How to conquer your fear of index management” (Kyle Baley)
Box goes mobile with new OpenBox API (Josh Lowensohn)
Simplifying Cross Browser Compatibility Testing (Mike Ormond)

Design / Methodology / Testing

CodeRush TestRunner (Andrew Stopford)
NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released (Oren Eini)
Pressure, Expressed in Initial Development Time (Jay Fields)
Wither the Repository (Jimmy Bogard)
Improving Testability of GUI Code, an Example (Brett Schuchert)
Agile is never ‘no process’ (Ian Cooper)
Git local pre-commit hook and "git commit -a" and "git add" (Jason Meridth)
Using the Specification Pattern for Querying (Chris Missal)
Why do I develop with passion!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
What is your basic navigation structure for WPF/WinForms/Silverlight/Swing/Cocoa applications? and Graceful Shutdown Braindump (Jeremy D. Miller)
Observing And Understanding Genuine Builders – Part 16. (Rajiv Popat)
The three stages of learning team leadership and Immediate and delayed satisfaction in software development (Roy Osherove)
Bloggers compare Git notes (Ryan Menezes)
Who decides what is a bug and what should be fixed? (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF

Caliburn RC3 (Rob Eisenberg)
TreeView Selector (Rudi Grobler)
Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Stack Overflow Podcast #67 (Jeff Atwood)
Podcast: Are You Doing What It Takes to Succeed at Implementing SharePoint? (Dux Raymond Sy)
What are .NET Services? (Nigel Watling)
InfoPath 2010 Overview Video and Building forms with InfoPath 2010 (S.S. Ahmed)

Community / Events

CodePlex Foundation (Oren Eini)
Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
PDC09 $500 discount ends September 15 (Devon Musgrave)
PDC 2009 – Patterns of Parallel Programming (Doug Holland)
Evolving the PDC09 Event Site (Mike Swanson)
Congratulations to the TeamCity.Codebetter.Com team! (Jeremy D. Miller)
SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2009- Seattle (Pinal Dave)
Simone Chiaretta turns 35 and gives away a Mindscape Mega Pack professional subscription (Simone Chiaretta)
How to contribute to open source without writing a single line of code (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Database

Using Mirroring to Reduce DB Migration Downtime (Part 1) and (Part 2) (Ted Krueger)
SQL 2008 Express Download – Getting the exe and Does debugging in SQL 2008 require sysadmin privileges (Simon Sabin)
SQL Azure Does Stored Procedures (Stephen Forte)
Be Careful When Uninstalling SQL 2008 R2 CTP (Ken Simmons)

PowerShell

What’s new in PowerShell 2? (Joel Bennett)
XP and W2K3 Release Candidate Versions of PowerShell are Now Available for Download (Jeffrey Snover)

Miscellaneous

Windows Deployment Services benefits even small shops/individuals (Andrew Connell)
Data Visualization and Infographics Resources (Cameron Chapman)
New Windows 7 advert (Steve Clayton)
Collision Physics With Small Basic (Vijaye)
Friday Fun: Survival Kit For Microsoft Employees Owning iPhone (Krishnan Subramanian)
September’s Toolbox Column Now Online (Scott Mitchell)
Microsoft’s Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week) (Sumeeth Evans)

Book of the Day

Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, Fourth Edition (Windows.Net) (9781590598849): Andrew Troelsen: Books

ISBN: 1590598849
ISBN-13: 9781590598849

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Dew Drop – June 23, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:32:40 +0000

Web Development

Spark View Engine – Release: Spark v1.0 (CodePlex via Chris Alcock) – Link of the Day
The Perfect Web Framework (Chad Myers)
Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 (Chris Love)
Make Web Requests Programmatically in .NET (Deepak Choudhari)
MVC – Using Custom Routes (Michael Ceranski)
Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman – AjaxView, Performance Profiling of AJAX web sites (Jonathan de Halleux)
Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

When DDD Should Be Considered (Jérémie Chassaing)
NH Prof: Architectural Overview (Oren Eini)
Patterns and Practices of Lean Software Development (J.D. Meier)
We Are Not Doing DDD – Part Two – CQS (Jak Charlton)
Reducing Resistence to Dependency Injection (Patrick Kua)
NCover v3.1.4 released! (Joe Feser)
A Kanban Sidebar – Take 2 (Karl Scotland)
Seams: Some Thoughts (Mark Needham)

.NET / Visual Studio

Developing Windows Services with .NET (Henning Krause)
NHibernate – (Oren Eini)
How to Get Started Testing, Publicizing Your Applications on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Bruce Kyle)
Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP 1 (Carl Perry)
Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework (Diego Vega)
Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework and Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework (Alex James)
Why Doesn’t C# Implement "Top Level" Methods? (Eric Lippert)
(VS2010 Beta1) Native Parallel Programming: ConcRT example — Debugging TwentyFour (Feng Yuan)
“The” IronRuby Tutorial (Jimmy Schementi)
Developing for the Windows 7 Taskbar – Jump into Jump Lists – Part 1 (Yochay Kiriaty)
Using Windows Search in your applications (Josh Twist)
The Rest of EF4 – Feature CTP1 Released today (Julie Lerman)
F#: Continuation Passing Style and Visual Studio/Resharper: Changing the order of arguments (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

XAML node loop example: finding all named object instances (Rob Relyea)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Sahil Malik’s Sharepoint Checklist (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV – Dynamic IT, Trends in IT Operations (Bob Familiar)
Creating Lookless Controls for WPF and Silverlight and Skins for WPF and Silverlight (Jared Bienz)
Principles of Design Series: Learn about Emphasis using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
Toolshed Tooltip #11 – DotNetNuke and Web Installer from Episode 2 and #12 – Virtual PC from Episode 2 (Russell Fustino)
Ping 17: Microsoft sues over ClickFraud, Soapbox scales down, Project Natal & Bing on Fallon (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Yet There is an Iran (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Met Eric Evans at ParisJug (Jérémie Chassaing)
Girl Developer the News (Sara J. Chipps)
Free Webinar: 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation (Steve McConnell)

Database

Get Performance Tips Directly from SQL Server (Ian Stirk)
NH Prof: NHibernate Profiler vs. Sql Profiler (Oren Eini)
Exporting XML data from SSIS – nugget (Simon Sabin)
SQL SERVER – 2005 – 2008 – Delete Duplicate Rows (Pinal Dave)
Replace Your Case When Then Else Syntax With the Sign Function In SQL Server (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

Sample MOSS 2007 WCM site now available – Adventure Works Travel (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 (Greg Hitchcock)
The Upcoming Smashing Book (Smashing Magazine)
Tethering iPhone 3G on Windows 7 (Keith Elder)
Services from Zoho, Software from Microsoft: Announcing Zoho Office for SharePoint (Rodrigo Vaca)
Flash 10 for smartphone beta coming this October (Ross Miller)
Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! and Microsoft’s Windows 7 Entertainment Center: Part 2 (Stephen Chapman)
Small Basic API Reference (Vijaye)

Book of the Day

Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series): Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, Chris Bowen: Books

ISBN: 0321440064
ISBN-13: 9780321440068

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Dew Drop – March 13, 2011

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Dew Drop – December 9, 2010

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Dew Drop – August 17, 2010

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Dew Drop – April 3, 2010

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Dew Drop – March 26, 2010

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Dew Drop – March 8, 2010

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Dew Drop – January 26, 2010

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