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Dew Drop – September 21, 2011

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:53:26 +0000

Dew Drop – April 23, 2011

Alvin Ashcraft — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:21:38 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

TOD : Wrapping Code Block and Statements in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
WCF Extensibility – Message Inspectors (Carlos Figueira)
How to read/write different DXCore setting files from your own plug-in and How to load/change CodeRush templates from inside your DXCore plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
Handle an event with reflection (Gian Maria Ricci)
Windows Azure for Developers Task 12: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error and Windows Azure for Developers Task 13: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error [Other Solution] (Dhananjay Kumar)
Announcing ApiStack.net (Adam Granicz)
Anonymous type equality (Jef Claes)
SL# 1.4 Released (Zor)

Web Development

Using jQuery for ASP.NET Textbox Autocomplete (Joe Stagner)
Test your ASP.NET MVC or WebForms Application on IIS 7 in 30 seconds and Better, Faster, Easier SSL testing for ASP.NET MVC & WebForms (ricka0)
The Continuing Evolution of WCF–the Web Uris Evolve (Sam Gentile)
404? 500? The Server Header Infographic (Think "Making Server Headers pretty and more understandable infographic") (Greg Duncan)
Making use of Cloud Services .NET My Services (Hailstorm) (Christian Nagel)
New Sample NancyFx App TickerViewer (Bobby Johnson)
Thoughts on when to use Canvas and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
Configuring a WCF Service to Run Via HTTPS (Steve Smith)
Storing Encrypted Data in Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A new problem for the agile testing community (Gojko Adzic)
Use CQRS When Constrained on Developers and Time (Rinat Abdullin)
NUnit Exception Assertions (Richard Carr)
Using State Diagrams to Express Robot Behaviors & Transitions (Billy McCafferty)
Best practices: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Devon Musgrave)
Integration: ETL (Paul Stovell)
Peer recognition (Steven "Doc" List)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Multiple Windows (Peter Kuhn)
Silverlight 4 Documentation Updated (Brian)
MVVM Resources (Corey Schuman)
Babylon 3D engine for Silverlight 5 Beta available for download (Davide Zordan)
Dropbox photo uploader for Windows Phone – raw bits, no third-party libraries (Dennis Delimarsky)
The Mango Marketplace (Chris Koenig)
Windows Phone Next (Don Burnett)
Windows Phone Garage part deux (Glen Gordon)
Silverlight 5 Beta – available now! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes on 9 – Raw Backstage footage before the Mix11 keynote with Jonathan Carter (Scott Hanselman)
Cloud Cover Episode 44 – Umbraco and Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Sam Abraham Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Windows Phone Radio 24 (Brian Seitz)
Microsoft Surface 2 SDK at Mix 11 (Larry Larsen)
TWC9: Mix Sessions, Async CTP Refresh, Hanselman rides the Jellybean (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
VLC MIX WMV RSS – Jon Galloway shows us an alternate way to view the MIX videos, via magic of RSS and VLC (Greg Duncan)
VBandi at MIX Part 2 – Dave Campbell and Tony Champion (András Velvárt)
Coding QA Podcast Episode 54 – Interviewing at Microsoft (Mark Berry & Jim Wang)

Community / Events

Windows Phone Student App-a-thon! (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 CTP (MS Downloads)
SQL Server Management Studio Tip: Change Defaul templates for Stored Procedures (Amit Bansal)
SQL SERVER – Using Decode in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP Available for download (Denis Gobo)
Difference between a Cumulative Update and Service Pack for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0 (MS Downloads)
Just Published: Apr. 1- 15 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (SharePoint Developer Team)
How to upload a document in SharePoint 2010 using Client Context Object Model ? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

Now in Marketplace: Groupon, Home Depot (Michael Stroh)

The Geek Shelf

Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Scott Jamison

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Dew Drop – April 10, 2011

Alvin Ashcraft — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:27:16 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

ditto : with regard to AutoMapper (Michael Nichols)
Historical Debugging (Intellitrace) on Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Part-2 and View Call Hierarchy window in Visual Studio 2010 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Improving the Visual Studio 2010 UI Menu System – Part 4 (mikefourie)
Message Queue Shootout! (Mike Hadlow)
C# Yield Return Fun (Rob Miles)
[Book Review] NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook (Alec Whittington)
OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 and Known Issue with OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (beta) Dependency Checker (Brian Keller)
NHibernate Examples (Davy Brion)

Web Development

HTML Brain Teaser: When Divs and Headings Collide (Rob Conery)
Getting Constructive On ASP.NET Deployment (Rob Conery)
A jQuery Combo Box for ASP.NET (Joe Stagner)
Scott Guthrie on Microsoft WebMatrix (Devon Musgrave)
ASP.NET MVC: Using NonActionAttribute to restrict access to public methods of controller (Gunnar Peipman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

On Product Design And Expectations (Rob Diana)
CodePlex: Pull Request Diff Notes, Adding Changesets, and a Vertical Splitter (Matt Hawley)
NUnit Comparison Assertions (Richard Carr)
Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: A broken home (controller) and Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The case for the view model (Oren Eini)
Why Sign Up and Sign In Should Never Go Together (Anthony)
ALM Practices Part 4: Common Code Layout (Dennis Doomen)
On deprecation (Grigori Melnik)
It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be (Jef Claes)
Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture (Michael Sahota)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Creating a Nullable WPF ComboBox (seesharper)
Extended WPF Toolkit Release 1.4.0 (Brian Lagunas)
Building Caliburn.Micro’s NuGet Package (Rob Eisenberg)
Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 6: Making a WP7 Application Bar (Chris Love)
The Making Of An Windows Phone 7 App (Dani Diaz)
Jounce Part 15: Asynchronous Sequential Workflows (Jeremy Likness)
Null Reference from Simple Container in Caliburn Micro (Derik Whittaker)
Windows Phone 7, XNA and Farseer Physics. And source… and a game… and… (Greg Duncan)
Announcing TouchStudio (Nikolai Tillmann)
So what’s the difference between Custom Control and User Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
Windows Phone 7 Template for Social Reading Applications and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono IV: Content and Resource Files and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono VI: File Access (Nick Randolph)
Wpf Over Websockets (WoW) – How to Pump WPF windows & animations to browsers over HTML5 Websockets And Canvas (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
Webcam Support in Silverlight 4 to capture Video (Suprotim Agarwal)
WPF–Show Dialog with backdrop (Tim Hibbard)
Dependency Properties Made Easy (David Kelley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How Do I: Get Started With the Azure Service Bus? (MS Podcasts)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 394: Michael Jackson Experince for Kinect and more (Larry Hyrb)
Engadget Podcast 235 – 04.08.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Cloud Cover Episode 43 – Scalable Counters with Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
Windows Phone Radio 22 (Brian Seitz)
TWC9: Happy Birthday Ch9, MIX11, The Nineys & Channel 9 Live (Laura Foy & Nic Fillingham)
Windows Weekly 203: The ROMs Are Out There (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

Viva Las Vegas – Team IE @ MIX11 (Scott Armstrong)
Stack Overflow World-Wide MeetUps – Success! (Rebecca Chernoff)
Tech Ed North America 2011 (Cameron Skinner)
MVPs at Microsoft India TechEd 2011 (Lonnie Webb)
Mix 2011: Silverlight 5, Windows Phone, IE9, HTML5, and a liveblog! (Kip Kniskern)
A Geek’s Guide to Camping (Jim O’Neil)
Imagine Cup US Finals Day 2–Be The Change! (Bob Familiar)
What Am I Doing on the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Team (JD Meier)

Database

SQL Server: Monitor Long SQL Agent Jobs (Madhivanan)
Bulk loading data into a merge replicated table and Compress Data Partition Snapshots with SSIS – SQL University (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Add New Column With Default Value and SQL SERVER – TempDB in RAM for Performance (Pinal Dave)
Be careful when passing around parameters, make sure they are the same size and type (Denis Gobo)
Observing – Optimize for Ad Hoc Workload server option (Kim Tessereau)
Find Table Heaps Using Policy-Based Management (Jorge Segarra)
I’m a DBA, what do I need those tools for! Oh, yeah… for that… and that… and that… and… (Greg Duncan)

SharePoint

Download Guide for SharePoint Online Development (Bruce Kyle)

Miscellaneous

[Book Review] "Getting Started with Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6" by Augusto Alvarez (Greg Duncan)
Is Microsoft dead meat without a tablet? (Joe Wilcox)
Quiz: How well do you know your Microsoft Empire? (Mary Jo Foley)
Is JetBrains appCode a Solution Looking for a Problem? (Rob Bazinet)
ChevronWP7 updater pulled, places phones into ‘non-serviceable state’ of mind (Tim Stevens)
RTM’d Today: Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint to Create Presentations That Inform, Motivate, and Inspire (Valerie Woolley)
Bing turns on HTML5 UI (Kip Kniskern)

The Geek Shelf

C# 4.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference by Joseph Albahari

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Dew Drop – June 11, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:19:49 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Creating Windows Services in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
Fixing RIA Services’s “An EntityKey value cannot be null” with a CodeProcessor (Ingo Rammer)
MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
SOLID By [C#] Example Or “Stop talking about SOLID and show me the code…” (Greg Duncan)
Show the Full File Path in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
Model First in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 (Wriju Ghosh)
NHProfiler Integration (Torkel Ödegaard)
Cache Layer (Gil Fink)
.NET Framework Reference Enhancements Preview (Kimberly Wolk)
Don’t repeat yourself; consts are already static (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
Same Markup: Explaining "@_jscript_version" and Styling New HTML5 Elements (Tony Ross)
Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) engine for rendering the view (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript and 20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications (Pete LePage)
Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring (John Dundon)
jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Steve Sanderson)
Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server (Dave Ward)
Bing Health Map Shows Promise of Open Government Data (Adam DuVander)
When can I use … is a great resource for browser compatibility advice (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Friday: "Energized Work" Now Online (James Shore)
NCover 3.4.8: NUnit and IIS Improvements (Alan Johnson)
Beyond Unit Testing => Specification of Intent (Bobby Johnson)
You Need a Static Organizational Model (Mike Cottmeyer)
Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined and Udi Dahan: the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD and Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing (Gojko Adzic)
Mockups 1.8: Editable Groups and much more (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Lokad.CQRS – Getting Started (Rinat Abdullin)
Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process (Vladimir Gitlevich)
Performance and Security (Pieter de Bruin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 (Koen Zwikstra)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight (Mike Snow)
Microsoft releases Alpha version of IIS streaming for Silverlight and Apple devices (Steven Bink)
Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) (Tim Heuer)
IIS Media Services 4.0 – 32-bit and IIS Media Services 4.0 – 64-bit (MS Downloads)
Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Using TFS for Source Control with InfoPath 2010 (Laura Har)
Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout, and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32) (John Papa)
WebDev Radio Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more (Michael Kimsal)
Boagworld 214. When to hire a web designer (Paul Boag)
New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live. (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

Telerik Wins Best of TechEd! (Stephen Forte)
Employee of the year…#Typemock (Tal Druyan)
Wrox Wins 2010 Code Project Members Choice Award (Jim Minatel)

Database

Log Shipping for cheap DR (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
What are events SQL profiler eventclass numbers 65527,65528,65533,65534 (Simon Sabin)
Stored Procedure vs Parameterized Query (Joel Cochran)
Determine Permission for all Users at Object Level (Suprotim Agarwal)
PowerShell I Heart You (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Releases Three Free Outlook 2010 PST File Management Tools (Blake Handler)
Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool (Barb Dybwad)
Seeing Microsoft in the big picture (Cal Evans)
Small Basic V0.9 is here! (Vijaye Raji)
Multiple Default Printers in Windows 7 (Chris Koenig)
Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Sync and Mesh (David Treadwell)
PowerGUI 2.1 is available (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Adobe releases AIR 2, standalone SDK download coming soon (Jay Hathaway)
Apple and Microsoft will face off for June 24 retail showdown (Joe Wilcox)
Box.net finally gets a desktop sync client (Lee Mathews)
Daily Dose – iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers: 25th Anniversary Ed. Only $9.99 Use code DDHAC (O’Reilly Media)
Microsoft Small Basic is an ideal programming language and environment for small people and beginners (Sebastian Anthony)

The Geek Shelf

Learning WCF by Michele Leroux Bustamante

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Dew Drop – June 5, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:44:13 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Deep Cloning Using Binary Serialization (Richard Carr)
Rendering RSS feeds in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
Design by Contract with Microsoft .Net Code Contract (Fredrik Normen)
A Speedy Alternative to F# DelegateEvents (Rick Minerich)
“Getting Started with Extending Visual Studio” page now available on the MSDN Visual Studio Dev Center (Greg Duncan)
Remove the Navigation Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
Viewing Persisted Workflow State (Sasha Goldshtein)
Data Services Expressions – Part 5 – Sorting (Vitek Karas)

Web Development

7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques You Can Start Using Right Now (Christina Warren)
Button Maker lets you make CSS-only buttons for the Web (Erez Zukerman)
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – MooTools Integration (Matthew Podwysocki)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Server Naming and Configuration Conflicts (Udi Dahan)
NUnit for .NET 4 (Grant Palin)
Send me bugs that are caught in end-to-end testing (Brian Marick)
Are we done testing yet? (Anand Pradhan)
Simple Branching Strategy Part 1: Back to Basics (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Using lambdas for WPF animation (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #28 – Text Trimming (Mike Snow)
A Circular Gradient Brush for Silverlight (Charles Petzold)
Silverlight 4 Theme refresh including RIA Services templates (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET Soup to Nuts: Web Application Design and Architecture (MS Podcasts)
TWC9: Windows Live Essentials, CodeRush vs Resharper, Silverlight Unit Testing (Dan Fernandez)
This Week in Test Episode 1 – Rietveld! (Roy Osherove)
jQuery Podcast 25 – Meeno Van Slooten (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
Community Megaphone Show #11 at Richmond Code Camp (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

Nothin But ReSharper – Remote (June 28th, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Expression Studio 4 Launch on June 7th (John Papa)
Socks, Beads, and Fun at TechEd New Orleans (Eve Turzillo)

Database

Authors Needed for the SQL Server Standard (Andy Warren)
Removing old files with SSIS (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Convert IN to EXISTS – Performance Talk (Pinal Dave)
Couch Potato 1.1 Bookmarklet – Expand/Collapse (Elijah Manor)
How to skip a Table or Database while using sp_MSforeachdb or sp_MSforeachtable (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

announcing the Lightning conductor 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

Windows Live Mobile website updated to Wave 4 (damaster)
Google Chrome’s Developer Tools Improve Productivity (Ian Fette)
10 things you should know about AT&T’s new smartphone data plans (Joe Wilcox)
How a Silly Phone for Teens Reveals Microsoft’s Plan for Us All [Cloud] (John Herrman)
Bing says thank you for a great first year (Yusuf Mehdi)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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Dew Drop – May 28, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:20:59 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Generics and Default Values (Richard Carr)
Telerik OpenAccess SP1 Available (Stephen Forte)
.NET Refcardz – My TOP 5 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Using the dynamic Keyword in C# to Improve Object Orientation – A Follow-up (Peter Ritchie)
Using Parameter Info (Zain Naboulsi)
Secure Logging in MSBuild and MSBuild Extension Pack – May 2010 Release (Mike Fourie)
WiimoteLib Future (Brian Peek)
Cast operators do not obey the distributive law (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

Non-Dom Element Event Binding with jQuery (Rick Strahl)
Web performance in seven steps (Jeroen Borgers)
Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET MVC – Release: v2010527 and Microsoft Web Protection Library – May CTP (CodePlex)
Quick jQuery hack to fix position:fixed toolbars in iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (Scott Koon)
Porting the MVC Music Store to Raven: ShoppingCartController (Oren Eini)
ASP.NET: Using pickup directory for outgoing e-mails (Gunnar Peipman)
Why Firebug sucks more than IE6 (Remy Sharp)
An Introduction to Using YUI 3 in Offline Applications (Alexander Kessinger)
Making Songs Swing with Windows Azure, Python, and the Echo Nest API (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Friday: "Iteration Planning" Now Online (James Shore)
Violations Of The “Tell, Don’t Ask” and “Don’t Repeat Yourself” Principles? (Derick Bailey)
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – book review (Gunnar Peipman)
Why Creatives Are Confused (Scott Berkun)
A Coverage Metric That Matters (Michael Feathers)
Announcing the May 2010 Release of Microsoft Health CUI (CUI Team)
Docx 2 UnitTest (Daniel Fisher)
Code Snippet Basics – now with NUnit! (Joel Cochran)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF Single Instance Application (Arik Poznanski)
OutlookBar for WPF & Silverlight (Rudi Grobler)
More Accelerometer Visualization on the Zune HD (Charles Petzold)
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Easily animate orientation changes for any Windows Phone application with this handy source code] (David Anson)
How to add a Close button to a WPF TabItem (Ed Fink)
Working with code based templates in Silverlight (Gabriel N. Schenker)
Playing Sounds from the Library (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Extending and Customizing SQL Server Data Mining (MS Podcasts)
Boagworld 213. Getting all emotional (Paul Boag)
Standard Dependency Graphs and Architecture Explorer and Managing Large Graphs (Chris Lovett)

Community / Events

COM Is Love (Jim Galasyn)
Silverlight.net and WindowsClient.net Update: Your Input Requested (Pete Brown)

Database

When did SQL Server start and how long is the downtime window? (Jeffrey Yao)
Transaction Log expanding on restore after shrink (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Disabled Index and Update Statistics (Pinal Dave)
StreamInsight on the Brain – can you help? (Trevor Dwyer)
How Much Space Am I Taking Up? (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Books for Developers, Administrators, Designers, Project Managers and End Users (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell: Check who can send email to a group (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Beyond Beta: Microsoft Tag Takes Off (Aaron Getz)
Linux for Consumers: MeeGo Updates (Miguel de Icaza)
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager — Now Available (Mike Fourie)
Microsoft’s FUSE Labs unveils Emporia (alpha) (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:20:32 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Announcing the Preview release of “Feature Builder” (Cameron Skinner)
Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Afterward: Effective Events (Chris Burrows)
Generating Random Letters (Deborah Kurata)
Closing Just the Selected Files You Want (Zain Naboulsi)
Setting up WCF Server/Client configuration for Anonymous Access (Derik Whittaker)
Data Annotations in the Entity Framework and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
Multi-targeting and the C# and VB compilers (Ed Maurer)
Dynamic Casting with .NET (Mike Ceranski)
Sorting OData feeds by their title (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
New book: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Rosemary Caperton)
Azure: A Glance at Apps Without Infrastructure (Rachel Appel)

Web Development

Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Refreshing An UpdatePanel With JavaScript (Scott Mitchell)
Store images on Flickr using Flickrnet.dll and ASP.NET MVC (Bill Sternberger)
Your JavaScript goes WHERE? (Chris Brandsma)
Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms – Client IDs (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) (Scott Guthrie)
Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record (Stephen Walther)
7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful (Daniel Jacobson)
Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts (Jeff Atwood)
HP Opens Snapfish Photo API, Gives Developers Access to 85 Million Members (Matthew Casperson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Strengthening your domain: The double dispatch pattern (Jimmy Bogard)
Quick example: why coding standards must be in place (Gunnar Peipman)
Warming up Sites Before Running Selenium Tests with NUnit’s SetUpFixture (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF

F# and Silverlight (Brian McNamara)
Creating a Small Overlay Window (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Create Silverlight Apps Using Plug-in Components (Bruce Kyle)
Using VertexPositionTexture on Windows Phone (Charles Petzold)
Sometimes you just gotta do the best you can [Tip: Read-only custom DependencyProperties don't exist in Silverlight, but can be closely approximated] (David Anson)
A RoleManager to apply roles declaratively to user interface (Andrea Boschin)
What tools are the minimum to get started in Silverlight? (Tim Heuer)
WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 6 : Automated UI Testing (Phil Price)
Fast and Easy Navigation in WPF or Silverlight Applications in Visual Studio 2010 (Karl Shifflett)
Mix Session Viewer for Windows Phone 7 (Kjell-Åke Andersson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Roman Rubin and Venkatesh Ramakrishnan Push the Limits of Silverlight. (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Some Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos (Brett Schuchert)
DeepFriedBytes Episode 50: Behind the Scenes of the .NET Languages with Luca Bolognese (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #168: Exploring how to use Layer Diagrams in VS2010 (Derik Whittaker)
Jim Somers (Antenna Software) chats with Gunther Lenz (Microsoft) (Gunther Lenz)
FXG Import for Expression Blend- Mix 10 Video Segment Courtesy of Adam Kinney (Don Burnett)
MSDN Radio: What you need to know about Silverlight (Emily Gibson)
Cloud Faster: Microsoft Research at TechFest 2010 and Bill Buxton & Student Insiders (Laura Foy)
The Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Code" and Feature Builder 101 – Creating the "Map" (Michael Lehman)
Channel 9 Live at MIX10: Bill Buxton & Erik Meijer – Perspectives on Design (Nic Fillingham)

Community / Events

Free SQL Server Training in April (Jeremiah Peschka)
Nothin But .Net Remote Pilot – Reviews (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
Scottish Visual Studio 2010 Launch event with Jason Zander (Martin Hinshelwood)
Get Cloud Ready: Attend FREE Windows Azure Firestarter Event April 6, 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
OpenSource on .net at Microsoft TechDays (Sebastien Lambla)
Demo Apps from MIX10 on Windows Phone 7 (Sunshine)

Database

Backup Meta-Data (Buck Woody)
Finding meaningful error details to report execution failures (Ted Krueger)
FizzBuzz Revisited (Jason Brimhall)
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Cheat Sheet from MidnightDBA (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Official SharePoint 2010 Certifications and Microsoft Official Curriculum Training Courses (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Find And Replace With Regular Expressions In Vim / ViEmu (Derick Bailey)
Very Thorough Dissection of Windows Phone 7 Series on AnandTech (G. Andrew Duthie)
Becoming a Windows Search Ninja – “Mastering Windows Search using Advanced Query Syntax” and The Microsoft Desktop Player [Beta] – Your IT/Development Video/Cast/Whitepaper/Link/News Console (Greg Duncan)
The dreaded “HR Interview” Part 1: The Phone Screen (Gretchen Ledgard)
Windows Phone 7 Series Theme Now in Beta (Sarah Perez)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: slide:ology – Only $9.99! Use code DDSDG (O’Reilly Media)
Note to Microsoft: I love the new phone, but… (Stephen Forte)
10 Tips to Keep yourself Sane while Working from Home (or alone) (Pete Brown)
Visual Web Developer Team is Hiring (Bradley Bartz)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

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Dew Drop – January 12, 2010

Alvin Ashcraft — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:01:37 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Bookmarking with Visual Studio and ReSharper 5.0 (Vadim Kreynin)
LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #3 (Damien Guard)
Checking Whether A Method Is Overridden (Davy Brion)
NHiberante and Join types in your mappings Select vs Join (Derik Whittaker)
Receiving notifications when garbage collections occur (Jeffrey Richter)
Continuing to an outer loop (Eric Lippert)
Replacing text with a box selection (Zain Naboulsi)
Generating Prime Numbers in a Range (Was: LINQ Challenge), Part 1 – Introduction (Sasha Goldshtein)
Entity Framework in .NET 4 (Somasegar)
PyBinding now hosted on CodePlex (Pavan Podila)
F#: Refactoring to pattern matching (Mark Needham)
10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 2. Auto Registration (Mike Hadlow)

Web Development

A More Scalable ScrewTurn Wiki Membership Model (Dave Burke)
Adding Multiple Nested Data in ASP.NET MVC Application (Mohammad Azam)
MVC Turbine Redux (Javier G. Lozano)
ASP.NET Performance – Part 3 – Cache Busting (Karl Seguin)
Required Field Highlighting in Dynamic Data Field Templates (Steve Naughton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Tenet #9 – Attention to Excellence (Julie Stickler)
What Do You Want to Accomplish Today? (JD Meier)
StatLight (Rockford Lhotka)
Poll: Do you use NUnit’s fluent API? (Roy Osherove)
I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist (Rob Bazinet)
When visualizations go wrong, part 2 (Scott Berkun)

Silverlight / WPF

Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II (Karl Shifflett)
Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.7 (Koen Zwikstra)
Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model and Silverlight 4 – Displaying a Bunch of Files from a Zip File (Mike Taulty)
Digging into Data (from a XAML perspective) (Rob Relyea)
Silverlight Top 10 of 2009 (Silverlight Team)
Severely Decoupled Configuration (Jesse Liberty)
Minimizing your designer footprint (Alex Knight)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Stephen Walther On ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV – An Overview of MVC4WPF – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Familiar)
Countdown to MIX10: We’re baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! and Ping 43: CES, God Mode in Win 7, New Years Resolutions, MIX10 (Laura Foy)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #158: Exploring Operator Overloading in C# (Derik Whittaker)
The Thirsty Developer 81: nPlus1 (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

Silverlight Design Days – Free Blend Training on Tour (Adam Kinney)
Magenic Code Mastery Event for Developers – February 11, 2010 and Calling All Enterprise Architects – Register Today for the Microsoft Business Integration Roadshow (Bob Familiar)
Events This Week – January 11th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
The best of the best and the worst of the worst of 2010 CES (Robert Scoble)
Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users (Jeffrey Palermo)
A Call for Help – Vote for my Codeplex Issues (Eric Hexter)
The NIH dance (Oren Eini)

Database

Finding Invalid SQL Logins (Chad Miller)
T-SQL Tuesday #002: Non-aggregated columns in a GROUP BY query (Kalen Delaney)
SSIS – Lesson learnt, Case is very very important (Simon Sabin)
SQL SERVER – Fragmentation – Detect Fragmentation and Eliminate Fragmentation (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) upgrade tool for VSeWSS (MS Downloads)
Try System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta and SharePoint Foundation 2010 beta (SharePoint Team)
10 Key Questions Determining SharePoint SQL Server Count (Joel Oleson)
Business Connectivity Services Authentication (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

Kodu Game-Creation Tool for Kids Adapted for the PC (MS PressPass)
MobileShell – PowerShell Prompt in a Browser (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Resume wording matters (Ryan Graves)
Popular Languages of 2009 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Windows Mobile 7 – New Details Emerge (Taimur Asad)
Ebook Deal of the Day: iPhone: The Missing Manual, Third Edition — Only $9.99! Use discount code PTMM9 (O’Reilly Media)
Starting a new language is like spiking (Patrick Kua)
Ballmer Picks Natural User Interface As Next Big Trend (Bruce Kyle)

The Geek Shelf

Domain-Driven Design

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Dew Drop – October 10, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:17:48 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

ReSharper 5.0 – Bookmarks (Tim Barcz) – Link of the Day
Review: The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security (Mike Hadlow)
Visual Studio Profile (Daniel Moth)
Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 6 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
How to Make Your Application Better on Windows 7 (Bruce Kyle)
Hybrid App Debugging – The Debug Window (Harry Pierson)
Enforced Strings (Paul Stovell)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC Cheat Sheets (Elijah Manor)
Highlight and Auto Select CheckBoxList Items With jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 13. (Rajiv Popat)
Using Dependency Injection and Mocking For Testability (Rob Conery)
What I Learned About Writing Unit Tests: Test Infrastructure (Sasha Goldshtein)
Coding: API readability/testability (Mark Needham)
TDD: Keeping assertions clear (Mark Needham)
Guest Post: Suggestions for Effective Team Communication in a Virtual Environment (Larry Silverman)
DDD: Entity Injection and Mocking Time (Jonathan Oliver)
Event Aggregation (Davy Brion)
Exploring NServiceBus (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Magic Numbers: Integers (Josh Poley)
Evolving a Workflow (Karl Scotland)
Velocity in the Enterprise, Part 3 (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

Creating Behaviors in Silverlight 3 (Andy Beaulieu)
NUnit and Silverlight (Joe White)
Expression Encoder: Which edition is right for you? (Silverlight Team)
Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.4 released (Koen Zwikstra)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Intro to ASP.NET MVC & the MVC Design Pattern (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals & Practices (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Routing & Controllers (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Rendering Markup & Working with Data (MS Podcasts)
ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: ASP.NET MVC & AJAX (MS Podcasts)
TWC9: Office Engineering, Zune HD app, .NET Audio Recorder (Dan Fernandez)
Kickoff to the Road Trip and SharePointOverflow.com-Episode 32 (SharePoint Pod Show Admin)

Community / Events

Review: Stack Overflow DevDays Boston (Jason N. Gaylord)
Another Community Update (Joel Cochran)
Windows 7 Launch Party (Laura Foy)

Database

SQL Server Announcements From Microsoft (Glenn Berry)
Decimal and Numeric problems when you don’t specify precision and scale (George Mastros)
SQL SERVER – Download Logical Query Processing Poster (Pinal Dave)
Adventures in SQL CLR and C# (Wesley Brown)
An issue when enabling protocols with Powershell (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Recommends More Windows Home Server Add-ons (Blake Handler)
The single biggest reason why Windows 7 won’t be another Vista (Ed Bott)
Social Media Oops Means We Get a Deep View at Microsoft (Dan Morrill)
Boot Windows 7 from VHD without installing a native OS (Mike Ormond)
Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video) (Thomas Ricker)
Updated Windows Mobile 7 RTM Time Frame and Office Mobile 7 Teaser (Stephen Chapman)

Book of the Day

Programming F# (Animal Guide) (9780596153649): Chris Smith: Books

ISBN: 0596153643
ISBN-13: 9780596153649

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Dew Drop – June 25, 2009

Alvin Ashcraft — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:39:21 +0000

.NET / Visual Studio

Reading a Microsoft Project file (mpp) in C# (Tom Hearn)
Visual Studio 2010 User Interface Guidelines (Aaron Marten)
Expressions Cheat Sheet (Jimmy Bogard)
Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider (Damien Guard)
Adding and removing websites to/from security zones programmatically (C#) (Dennis Dietrich)
It Already Is A Scripting Language (Eric Lippert)
Correlating Downloads to Usage With Visual Studio 2010 (Joe Kuemerle)
Using SqlHelper in a .Net application (Sam Tyson)
iTextSharp – The easy way (Dave M. Bush)
Providing Safe Alternatives (Matthew Podwysocki)

Web Development

Google Releases Virtual Keyboard AJAX API (Andres Ferrate)
Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? (David Ebbo) – Link of the Day
JavaScript implementation of "M" (Chris Sells)
Developer Tools for Google Chrome (Ian Fette)
Two frameworks are better than one (Simone Chiaretta)
Better JavaScript class generation (Jay Kimble)
Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery (Pamela Fox)
Learning to Create Icons using Expression Design (Arturo Toledo)
Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container (Rinat Abdullin)
Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing (Ryan Svihla)
Debugging with Different Browsers in Visual Studio 2008 (Michael Ceranski)
.NETOOP high level configuration storage decision. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Where are my Entities and my Repositories? and Which model is best? That’s not the question. (Jérémie Chassaing)
Ubiquitous Language in Product Development (Dave Laribee)
Avoid Using NHibernate With NUnit 2.4.6 (Davy Brion)
Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests (Francis K. Cheung)
Security Design Reviews (Jossie Tirado)
QTB: Agile Adoption – How to stuff it up (Mark Needham)
Just Be Honest and Tell the Truth (Jeff Perrin)

Silverlight / WPF

ToggleButton Command for Prism (Corey Schuman)
Giving WPF Some Love (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding (Pete Brown)
Expression Design for Developers part 4 – Using Layers and Exporting to XAML (Joel Cochran)
Using Binding to position a Collection of elements – Take 2 (Josh Twist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! #458 – Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! (Carl Franklin)
WebDevRadio Episode 67: MySQL with Keith Murphy (Michael Kimsal)
DimeCasts.NET Episode #121: Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark (Donn Felker)
Stack Overflow Podcast #59 (Jeff Atwood)
How to use a delegate (Jennifer Marsman)
Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session Posted (Brian Peek)
ThirstyDeveloper #66 – HAML with a side of SASS (Dave Bost & Larry Clarkin)

Community / Events

Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET (Louis DeJardin)
TDD Master Class almost full (Roy Osherove)
Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes (Silverlight Team)
VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm (Ryan Svihla)
Looking for a charity for CodePlex project owners to donate advertisement revenue (Sara Ford)

PowerShell

Control your PC with your voice … and PowerShell (Joel Bennett)
New Powershell Survey on Connect (Osama Sajid)

Database

Repost: Watch out for SQL Server Parameter Sniffing (Chris Brandsma)
Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform (Devin Knight)

Miscellaneous

PM Tip #10: Interview Tips for Landing a Great Program Management Job (Brad Abrams)
Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs and The iPhone Software Revolution (Jeff Atwood)
Audio files from Ghostbusters (Larry Hyrb)
Become a Gmail ninja with tips from Googlers (Jason Clarke)
XBOX 360 & ZUNE BUZZ (Pedro Daniel Güida)
Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog (Smashing Magazine)
Zune HD video hands-on quickie (Paul Miller)
Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest (Rafe Needleman)
Introducing Microsoft Hohm – Save Energy & Money and Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in Windows 7 (Nic Fillingham)
FriendFeed Adds File Sharing. No Movies, But MP3s Are Fine. (MG Siegler)

Book of the Day

Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP: Quentin Zervaas: Books

ISBN: 1590599063
ISBN-13: 9781590599068

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Dew Drop – September 21, 2011

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Dew Drop – April 23, 2011

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Dew Drop – April 10, 2011

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Dew Drop – June 11, 2010

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Dew Drop – June 5, 2010

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Dew Drop – May 28, 2010

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2010