Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Short post today because I pushed a Dew Drop last night.

Top Links

• Task Parallel Library for Silverlight 2.0 (and WP7) (Robert McLaws & Jrmie "Garuma" Laval)
• Premature cries of Silverlight / WPF skill loss. Windows 8 supports all programming models (David Burela)
• Should You Upgrade Your WP7 App to Mango? (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Walking the Stack Without Symbols and With FPO (Frame Pointer Omission) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Book review: Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• Creating Basic RSS Reader in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Change Reference to Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• Studio for Wijmo MVC Review (Steve Michelotti)
• Photo Mosaics Part 5: Queues (Jim O’Neil)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone: Adding Mango features to a 7.0 WinPhone App (Morten Nielsen)
• Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 3: Going visual with screens (Gill Cleeren)
• Ensure Your Apps are Published in All Markets (Mike Ormond)
• 2000 WPF Things #369 – Binding a Label’s Content to the Current Date and Time (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 170: Todd Anglin on HTML5 (David Giard)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 62 – Team Structure (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Limit Millisecond Part in DateTime2 Datatype (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Query Techniques For Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Book Available for SQL Server Certification and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Constraints – Day 22 of 35 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Skype acquires Microsoft BizSpark partner GroupMe (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows Client Developer Roundup 079 for 8/22/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #921 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 21, 2011 – 2 — #1134 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

 

 

Top Links

• Microsoft to Acquire Skype (MS News)
• HTML5 Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Resco releases full official version of MobileForms Toolkit 2011 for Android! (Resco)
• Come to the May LASLUG Meetup (LA Silverlight User Group) – Meeting on 5/25 in Culver City. Also available on LiveMeeting for those over 100 miles away. Victor Gaudioso and company are giving away over $12,000 in prizes to attendees.
• Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone 7 Apps extended until further notice. (Gabriel Torok)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Remote Debugging in Visual Studio: Squashing Bugs in their Native Environment (Clive Tong)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) using Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes: Low Latency Sound Effects (Mike Taulty)
• Using an IoC container to create WCF service instances (Pieter de Rycke)
• Code Metrics – Calculating Metrics (Zain Naboulsi)
• Optional argument corner cases, part one (Eric Lippert)
• JustDecompile – Free (well, reg-ware), for everyone, forever, stand-alone .Net Decompiler from Telerik (Greg Duncan)
• Bringing Windows Azure to more devices (Somasegar)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS (Windows Azure Team)
• Xbox LIVE Indie Games: New Control Your Game Release Feature (XNA Team)
• Microsoft.Activities and Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting now available via NuGet (Ron Jacobs)

 

Web Development

• Building a relational data model in ASP.NET MVC 3 w/EF Code First (Rachel Appel)
• When you live on the bleeding edge, be prepared for a few nicks [Minor update to the Delay.Web.Helpers ASP.NET assembly download to avoid a NuGet packaging bug affecting Razor installs] (David Anson)
• Seriously WebForms like ASP.NET MVC (Deran Schilling)
• Compiling MVC Views In A Build Environment (Phil Haack)
• HTML 5: How to use the canvas (Sam)
• Using Session with in HTTPHandler (Abhijit Jana)
• Exposing WCF REST Service over HTTPS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• My thoughts on WebMatrix (Jef Claes)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 7: How to implement Thumbnail Toolbar Buttons (Jennifer Marsman)
• Getting Fiddler and the .NET Framework to Play (better) Together (Howard Dierking)
• May 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• AsyncController v/s SessionLess Controller (Imran Baloch)
• Using NetAdvantage jQuery Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Murtaza Abdeali)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Still Love CQRS (and Messaging and Event Sourcing) (Jonathan Oliver)
• Some Thoughts on Agile Planning (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Scrum vs Continuous Deployment or why Scrum falls short for web applications (Matthias Marschall)
• How to Create a Burndown Chart in Google Docs (David J. Bland)
• PMI Agile Certification – The Race is On (Peter Saddington)
• Request for feedback: The Soft Side of Software Engineering (Devon Musgrave)
• The Ubiquitous Object (S. Lott)
• Article:Threat Modeling Express (Sahba Kazerooni & Rohit Sethi)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 5 – Multiuser Scenarios (Deborah Hanamura)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Table Truncation Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Copying XAML from Expression Design to Expression Blend (Elliot Meacham)
• SilverWii – That is connecting a WiiMote to a Silverlight OOB app via NESL (Native Extensions For Microsoft Silverlight) (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft Announces Windows Azure Toolkits for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Tips: Concatenating strings in Silverlight XAML using StringFormat (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the Windows Phone Pivot Control (Paul Sheriff)
• Silverlight 5 Games: Best in Class (Sam)
• Telerik ToDoLists reference application (James Ashley)
• Hot and Cold Observables in Rx and Coming in Mango–Sql Server CE (Jesse Liberty)
• Analytics Show Developers Want More PreEmptive (Brandon Watson)
• Missing Method Exception w/ Caliburn.Micro when using INavigationService (Derik Whittaker)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Correctly Terminate Multithreaded .NET Compact Framework Applications? (MS Podcasts)
• Defrag 005 – Sound card malfunction, App restrictions, Remote Access (Larry Larsen)
• Ping 100: HaloFest, Kinect you in Carbonite, Talking to the wall, Ping celebrates 100! (Laura Foy)
• Pluralcast 41 : Tiberiu Covaci on Asynchronous ASP.NET (David Starr)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 54 – BDDify and Mehdi Khalili (Richard Banks)
• Yet Another Podcast #34–MVC3 & NuGet (Jesse Liberty)
• Podcast- Jorge Gabuardi Gonzalez (Joe Stagner)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 9th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ SharePoint Videos–Augmenting SPD2010 Workflows with VS2010 (Andrew Connell)
• Thoughts from ALT.NET Seattle (Ade Miller)
• US Kids – Remember to submit your game design to Kodu Cup! (Bradley G.)
• Microsoft slates ‘Mango’ VIP unveiling for May 24 in New York (Mary Jo Foley)
• Nate Muller: Microsoft’s Master Brewer (Microsoft JobsBlog)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Common Table Expression (CTE) and Few Observation and SQL SERVER – Resource Database ID – 32767 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 10 – SQL Server Reporting – Offload the reporting factor (Ted Krueger)
• Making our MongoDB Code Run Faster (Karl Seguin)
• TSQL-Tuesday # 18: Using a Recursive CTE to Create a Calendar Table (Joe Casella)

 

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Office 365 – Enhance Productivity through SharePoint Online & Exchange Online (Lonnie Webb)

 

Miscellaneous

• Back to the Past: Bill Buxton Shows Off 35 Years of Tech Devices (MS News)
• Using WinDbg to inspect native dump files (Björn Carlsson)
• Coming Soon to MSDN Subscribers! (Mark Curphey)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 9th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2011 — #1086 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #848 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/09/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro – Developer) by Kalen Delaney

 

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing Audit Trail using Entity Framework Part 1 and Part 2 (Morshed Anwar)
• Rhino Queues, Take 6 (Ayende Rahien)
• Getting Started with Live Tools for Visual Studio (Bruce Kyle)
• Convert List/IEnumerable to DataTable/DataView (Chinh Do)
• Gotta Love CodePlex (Darrel Carver)
• Assigning Foreign Keys In NHibernate (Davy Brion)
• Creating a functional programming model for MEF (Glenn Block)
• Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library – an Overview (Yochay Kiriaty)
• The Weekly Source Code 40 – TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich (Scott Hanselman)
• Refactorings Shipping in Refactor! Pro 9.1 (Mark Miller)
• Twitter Poll Results: Favorite Visual Studio Add Ons (Jim Holmes)

 

Web Development

• Review: jQuery in Action (Grant Palin)
• Anatomy of a Cross-site Request Forgery Attack and CSRF Attacks and Web Forms (Phil Haack)
• A Localization Handler to serve ASP.NET Resources to JavaScript (Rick Strahl)
• File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM (Justin Etheredge)
• Multi-blog Obsession (Jacob Proffitt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit 3 RTM (Andrew Stopford) – Link of the Day
• Framework Design Guidelines Book: Extra Content from the DVD Posted (Brad Abrams)
• testing sucks (James Whittaker)
• TDD: Testing mapping code (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Silverlight 3 – Experiencing ‘Out Of Browser’ Silverlight Application and Connecting it to a WebService (Harsh Bardhan)
• Why DataBinding With ComboBoxes is NonTrivial (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg: The Future of Computer Science (Allen Noren)
• NINE Questions with Rich Quackenbush (Chris Williams)
• Dream Build Play v3 (Coding4Fun)
• Missed MIX? (Jennifer Marsman)
• Announcing the "WPF for LOB" Training Tour (Karl Shifflett)
• Upcoming Events (Pete Brown)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Dimecasts.NET Episode #98: Learning about the Strategy Design Pattern (Derik Whittaker)
• The History of Microsoft – 1983 (Tina)
• dekePod Episode 013: The Mating Habits of the Pen Tool (Deke McClelland)
• Herding Code Episode 41: Next Generation Twitter Client Discussion At MIX09 (Jon Galloway)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft has Windows 7 surprises up its sleeve (Barry Collins)
• Required developer reading (Jimmy Bogard)
• Fixing Reliability Issues in IE8 (Herman Ng)
• How to add related projects to your project homepage – #007 (Sara Ford)
• Show message for SSRS reports that do not return data (Ted Krueger)
• How To Record Skype Calls For Free (Larry Larsen)
• Many² ways you can set a variable value (Ibrahim Abdul Rahim)

 

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for April 2, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: April 2, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #321 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for April 02, 2009 — #561 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (4/2/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
• CloudNews for April 2nd, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)

 

Book of the Day