Dew Drop – July 22, 2011
Top Links
- NuGet Package of the Week #9 – ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world (Scott Hanselman)
- Mapping the Memory Usage of .NET Applications: Part 3, CLR Profiler (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Building @NuGetLatest in Two Hours (John Sheehan)
- Building a Better Web Application: Part 3 (Tobin Titus)
.NET / Visual Studio
- String Split Utility and Use BitmapScalingMode to ensure your rendering of Image is perfect (Abhijit Jana)
- High memory usage with WCF Discovery and Macto: Where is the Inmate anyway? (Oren Eini)
- C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: The Default is to Hide, Not Override (James Michael Hare)
- Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part IV (Luca Bolognese)
- Visual Studio 2010 Sp1– “A Selected Drive is No Longer Valid” (Mike Taulty)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Power Commands for Visual Studio 2010 (Robert Green)
- Opening the Internet Settings Dialog and using Windows Default Network Settings via Code (Rick Strahl)
- Fifty for Free – 50+ Free .Net Dev’s tools and utilities… (Greg Duncan)
- NLog – Advanced .NET Logging – Release: v2.0 (CodePlex)
Web Development
- Facebook: Updated JavaScript SDK and OAuth 2.0 Roadmap (Jerry Cain)
- Web Workbench Introduces Sass, LESS, and CoffeeScript to Visual Studio 2010 (Jenni Ripley)
- Recursively spawning Web Workers (Jef Claes)
- Best resources to learn JavaScript (Stack Overflow)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit testing inside the code editor and the Solution Explorer (Alex Skorkin)
- The Scrum Guide, 2011 (David Starr)
- Thinking Quotes and One-Man Band vs. Pairing Up On Problems (JD Meier)
- Source Control Software Is Too Intrusive (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Continuous Integration in .NET (Ferdinando Santacroce)
- Best Coding Practices Poster #2: “Thread Your Computation!” (Joey deVilla)
- 5 apps to improve productivity and collaboration (Amber Singleton Riviere)
- Clean Code Versus Great Code (Davy Brion)
- A Better Team: Arrogance And Accepting Your Own Strengths (Derick Bailey)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Capturing Windows Phone 7 Panorama Images (Colin Eberhardt)
- Using SQL CE on WP7 Mango–Getting Started (Derik Whittaker)
- Windows Phone Tips and Tricks: The Student Edition (Luke)
- WP7 Marketplace Search (Touchality)
- Book Review: 101 Windows Phone 7 apps – Volume 1: Developing apps 1-50 (Matt Lacey)
- Create your first Windows Phone app in Expression Blend (Part II) (Pam Keesey)
- E-Book Published: Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Kunal Chowdhury)
- New URI schemas in Windows Phone SDK 7.1 – isostore and appdata (Dennis Delimarsky)
- How-To: Revert back to NoDo from Mango Beta (Mulder_truth)
- WP7 Submit Application – The [NeutralResourceLanguage] attribute is missing on the entry assembly (Shai Raiten)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- AppFabric.tv – Workflows in Azure AppFabric Applications (Ron Jacobs)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Bill Wilder Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Pete at Tech Ed 2011: Cogent DataHub WebView in Silverlight (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight TV 79: Data Binding Debugging (John Papa)
- Coding QA Episode 60 – Fede and Atlassian (Part 2) (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 026 – “Birds and Mushrooms” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Web Dev Radio Episode 88 – mid summer catch up – avoid fixed bid projects (Michael Kimsal)
- Let’s Play TDD #125: The Cost Basis Field (James Shore)
Community / Events
- Your resume questions answered! (Microsoft JobsBlog
) - August 15th-16th Workshop – Introduction to .NET– .NET From Scratch, Chattanooga, TN (Keith Elder)
- Documenting DevDays 2011: #2 – Speakers! (Alison Sperling)
- What happened at GameFest 2011? (Sara Allison)
- Officially Announcing Develop With Passion® – Webinars (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
- Thank you to Charles Petzold and Ada’s Technical Books (Devon Musgrave)
Database
- Partial name matching in SQL Server 2011 “Denali” (Jakub Dvorak)
- SQL SERVER – Interview Questions and Answers – Frequently Asked Questions – Data Warehouseing Concepts – Day 22 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server Denali Feature Packs (Stephan Lawson)
- SQL Server – "Denali" – Conditional Operator/Logical Function – IIF() (Vishal)
- How to find replicated tables (Richard Douglas)
- Land a Dream DBA or Developer Job: Seven Questions to Ask (Kendra Little)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- Lynda.com Software Training in a Mindmap (Chance Brown)
- TechNet "Build and Print a Book" beta now live (Greg Duncan)
- Photo Mosaics Part 1: Application Workflow (Jim O’Neil)
- Limited Edition Star Wars Console (Larry Hryb)
- A Minimal Windows Azure Storage Client Library in Perl (Steve Marx)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: July 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Today’s Links (7/21/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
- The Morning Brew #900 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 07/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Web Dev Tweets 20-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
- Daily WP7 Development News 21 July 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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