Dew Drop – August 23, 2010
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Top Links
- Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 5 – IResult and Coroutines (Rob Eisenberg)
- The ThreadPool is dead (Josh Twist)
- Developing for the Windows Phone 7 – Part 4: Tombstoning (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – Sponsors and Philly Code Camp 2010.2 – ASP.NET Track (Nick Berardi)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Database Guide (Pieter de Bruin)
- Re: How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically and NGem (Daniel Fisher)
- LINQ Joins (Richard Carr)
- Syncing Visual Studio settings (David Vidmar)
- Creating a RESTful WCF service and Sending parameters to a RESTful WCF service (Dennis Delimarsky)
- CodePlex ClickOnce publishing from directly within Visual Studio (Greg Duncan)
- Modified Description of Adding Inheritance into T4 Template from Chapter 18 and Chapter List for Programming Entity Framework, 2nd Edition and Designing Repositories – Now I don’t feel so bad (Julie Lerman)
- Visual T4 for Visual Studio 2010 and Hello World of VS (Daniel Cazzulino)
- WF 4 Persistence, Tracking, and Bookmarks: Practical Approach (Mohamad Halabi)
- Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser – Using Visual Studio 2010 + Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- How to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye (Scott Hanselman)
- Show Previous Versions and Open With and Using Custom File Extension Associations and Understanding Find Symbol (Zain Naboulsi)
- Hidden Toolbox Search feature in VS 2010 (Brian Noyes)
- Introducing Code Contracts (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Castle Windsor (incl. Core with DynamicProxy and Dictionary Adapter) v2.5 final is out (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- Removing Event Handlers using Reflection (Hedley Muscroft)
- Extension method: DateTime.IsInFuture() and Extension method: IEnumerable<DateTime?>.AreChronological() (Jef Claes)
- Coroutines for Asynchronous Sequential Workflows using Reactive Extensions (Rx) (Jeremy Likness)
- Reading Barcodes from an Image – II (James Fitch)
Web Development
- Article:Book Excerpt and Interview: Pro HTML5 Programming (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
- ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Razor View Engine (Malcolm Sheridan)
- Creating a sitemap module for Orchard (Rudi Grobler)
- How to Get Started with the Windows Azure CDN (Windows Azure Team)
- The Web is Not Platform Independent (John Sonmez)
- The Web is all about Composition (Mark Nijhof)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process [VS2010 DB Tools - Datadude] (Jamie Thomson)
- Day 20 – Ask Better Questions, Get Better Results and Day 22 – Design Your Day with Skill (J.D. Meier)
- Distributed Agile: Initial observations and Ultimate configurability (Mark Needham)
- A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable (Louis Lazaris)
- Book Review: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Some thoughts on Application Architecture (Rockford Lhotka)
- Note on the Productivity and Managing Tasks and Rx works nicely with DDD and Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
- How Big Is Your Bucket? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- The Power of Simplicity (Eric Daugherty)
- Waste #1: Partially Done Work (Michael Stine)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 + Windows Azure = Cool Game Platform (Bob Familiar)
- Sending toast notifications on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
- BindingNavigator for WPF (Part 2 – Using) (Christian Nagel)
- Silverlight UI testing with Selenium and Ruby (Louis Salin)
- Effective Data Representation in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) using Data Triggers (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 Review (Michael Crump)
- Passing Data Between Pages (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Windows Phone 7 and Image Overlays (Nick Randolph)
- MediaElement, MediaPlayerLauncher and ApplicationBar in Windows Phone (Ricky Tan)
- BindingFinder-Utility (and sample code) to find all Bindings in a XAML UI project (Rob Relyea)
- My favorite of the leaked Windows Phone 7 handset images (Steven Hodson)
- A Pluggable Architecture for Building Silverlight Applications with MVVM (Weidong Shen)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Major Nelson Show 366: Shank, Summer of Arcade ends and more (Larry Hyrb)
- TWC9: Windows Phone videos, MVC for HTML 5, CoApp, Lab Management RTM (Dan Fernandez)
- Hanselminutes Podcast 228 – Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
- Engadget Podcast 209 – 08.20.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
- ARCast.TV – Rocky Lhotka on Patterns, Architecture and MVVM (Bob Familiar)
- Windows Weekly 170: The Little Dicky Mouse (Paul Thurrott)
- WinExtra on Windows Ep. 15: Adapting for the future (Steven Hodson)
- CodeTV: What is Windows Azure (Tanzim Saqib)
- Montage of Windows Phone 7 Ads and Partner Messaging (Don Burnett)
- Technology & Friends Episode 112: Phil Winstanley on Exception Driven Development (David Giard)
- Start-Up Podcast Show #80 Josh Clark, Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps (Bob Walsh)
- Implementing Parallel Patterns using .NET 4 (Stephen Toub)
- Screen cast – Developing A ‘touchy’ Twitter browser using Surface toolkit for Windows Touch devices beta (Anoop Madhusudanan)
- Behind The Curtain – Episode #2 (Michael Lehman)
- King of Bing Maps: Winners Announced! (Laura Foy)
Community / Events
- Followup on the Latest Microsoft Connect SUX Post and The Tech Events Initiatives (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
- I’ll be presenting at the New York City SharePoint User Group, September 1 (Andrew Connell)
- Windows Phone Jump Start Still Jumping (Rob Miles)
- Develop With Passion® is teaming up with Skills Matter (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
- Speaking at Tech.Ed Next Week (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- Free SilverlightShow Webinar: Running Silverlight Outside the Browser and with Elevated Trust (Svetla Stoycheva)
- Introduction to MongoDB – A Free Live Webcast – August 24 @ 10am PT (O’Reilly Media)
- DBA Tracy Hamlin Wins the 2010 Exceptional DBA of the Year Award (Brad M. McGehee)
- Social Media – The Way of Becoming Antisocial (James R. Eggers)
- Happy News on The jQuery Course (Marc Grabanski)
- MSDN Event: Parallelism in Visual Studio 2010 – Redux (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Windows phone developers join me at Teched EMEA (Jaime Rodriguez)
- Microsoft Intern Tony Menard on video game testing and white water rafting (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
Database
- Convert VarChar to Currency in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
- SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Storage – Part 2 and SQL SERVER – Computed Columns – Index and Performance and SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Does Not Work – Limitation of the Views Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
- Difference between @@IDENTITY, SCOPE_IDENTITY, IDENT_CURRENT (Samrat Banerjee)
- The Lazy DBA Series: SQL Trace / Profiler and The Lazy DBA Series: Monitoring (Ted Krueger)
- Where did the SQL Server Profiler Template disappear? and SQL Server Profiler and the C drive space issue (Pradeep Adiga)
- Don’t, don’t, don’t change the server name if you are using replication (Simon Sabin)
- Application databases and external integration points and Database assisted denormalization (Oren Eini)
- Using SORT_IN_TEMPDB to improve Index Performance (Suprotim Agarwal)
- Differential backup of master database? (Pradeep Adiga)
Miscellaneous
- Become The Next Photoshop Evangelist (Ben Forta)
- Office 15: What’s Microsoft’s new mystery application? (Mary-Jo Foley)
- Microsoft: Kinect on PC ‘a possibility’ (Tim Ingham)
- Microsoft Office 15 details and screenshots leak (Andrew Lyle)
- Beginner Developer Learning Center – Find your path to success! and How Bing is out-innovating Google (Bob Familiar)
- Microsoft’s Phoenix takes flight (maybe) (Ed Bott)
- A Quick guideline for Microsoft Windows PowerShell Part-4. (Md. Marufuzzaman)
- #Ebook Deal of the Day: Algorithms in a Nutshell – Only $9.99. Use code DDAN9 (O’Reilly Media)
- A Recipe to Promote your Site (Robert Cartaino)
- Guest tools for Hyper-V – Change your DVD from within the guest (Simon Sabin)
- Using C#-style Events In Ruby (Davy Brion)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: August 20, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 21, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
- Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 — #928 and Silverlight Cream for August 20, 2010 – 2 — #929 and Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2010 — #930 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 20, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 21, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
- Everyman on Transmedia and the Distributed Story, Where Freemium Begins, The Wiki Requirement (Dave Burke)
- Distributed Weekly 64 (Scott Banwart)
- Weekly Link Post 158 (Rhonda Tipton)
- The Morning Brew #670 (Chris Alcock)
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