Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

No Dew Drop on Friday this week. I’ll be taking a long anniversary weekend with Stelene. See you Monday morning! 

Top Links

• Visual Studio 11 .NET Advances (Somasegar)
• Lap Around Roslyn CTP: Syntax Analysis and Flow Analysis (Sasha Goldshtein)
• OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 – v1 (Brian Keller)
• Designing your Windows Phone App – where to start and Windows Phone App Layouts with Expression Blend and Windows Phone App Styles (Sara Allison)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Kinect Speech Recognition – Introduction (Shai Raiten)
• Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)
• IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How can I get notified when some other window is destroyed? (Raymond Chen)
• OpenWrap 1.0.2 available (Sebastien Lambla)
• MSDN Magazine November Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• FSharpChart release supporting Stacked Charts (version 0.60) (Carl Nolan)

 

Web Development

• MVC–Hooking up my randomizer (Chris Skardon)
• Creating Style Rules in HTML 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Installing MVC 3 for Visual Studio 2010 on Windows Developer Preview after installing MVC 4 (Harish Ranganathan)
• Tips and tricks: HTML5 video and audio on iOS (John Esposito)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Null Object (Giorgio Sironi)
• Winter is coming! Get 50% OFF on WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine (Alexey Korsun)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: REST API Design Rulebook – $4.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• RazorEngine Performance and Template Caching (Steve Smith)
• CodeLobster PHP Edition – An IDE for PHP Developers (Senthil Kumar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban Applied to Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• New Article on Software Development (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Learning Behavior Driven Development (Larry Franks)
• Introducing the New TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal (TeamPulse Team)
• Introducing Android WebDriver (Tim Bray)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Reusable WPF Autocomplete TextBox (Part 2) (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): How to Update data (Windows Phone Geek)
• Authorization in Silverlight, part 3: securing your service calls. (Kevin Dockx)
• Telerik Windows Phone controls Q3 2011 Beta – New Context Menu, Chart Financial Series plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• The Blue Book gets Mango’d! Rob Mile’s "Windows Phone Programming in C#" Blue Book updated for Windows Phone 7.1(5) And do do the lab’s and demo’s too! and Kinecting to Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Welcome Nokia Lumia WP7 Emulator Skin (Telerik)
• 2000 WPF Things #417 – Using Star Sizing to Distribute Space Evenly across Rows or Columns (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Apps – Adding the glossy elements (Andrew Spooner)
• LightSwitch: Integrating The ComponentOne Scheduler (Michael Washington)
• Top 3 Memory Leak Inducing Pitfalls of WPF Programming (Omer Raviv)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building a Software Business at DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 3: The C++/CX Episode with Marian Luparu (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 040 – “Nokia FTW, Skype FTL” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SE Podcast #24 (Alex Miller)
• The Tablet Show – “Resist the Drama” (Dan Wahlin)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #62: Arduino and Netduino with a Couple of Microcontroller Geeks (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
• What The Tech 90: So Much To Say (Paul Thurrott)
• Devices and news from Nokia World (Laura Foy)
• Audiocast on Developer + Tester Collaboration (Jim Holmes)

 

Community / Events

• Rich Community. Great Opportunities. (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A Coder Interview With Andreas Håkansson (The Code Project)
• Upstate New York Tech Events and Torn Between Two (Code) Camps (Jim O’Neil)
• App Hub Developer Talk Series – Upcoming and on Demand Dev Talks (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Questions: Development Is Design (Mike Desmond)

 

Database

• SSAS – Deployment Wizard (Devin Knight)
• How do I get a listing of all DB instances and table names where a column name occurs in MS SQL Server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Wait Stats – eBook to Download on Kindle – Answer to FREE PDF Download Request (Pinal Dave)
• “Data Explorer” Mashup 101 (Data Explorer Team)
• All About Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) (Hima)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint API – Download \ Upload Documents (Tool) (Shai Raiten)

 

PowerShell

• Regular Expressions Are Your Friend (Part 1) (Tobias Weltner)
• Windows PowerShell ISE add-ons, links, info and a bit more (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6 (Avkash Chauhan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading October 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #738 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 25-Oct-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 10/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #968 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 26 Oct 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard

 

Top Links

• Project Silk Drop 11 (Karl Shifflett)
• Free and Freaking AWESOME: 3-D Sample for Silverlight 5 (Surf4Fun)
• Practical SOILD in Visual Studio – One example Solution (Greg Duncan)
• How much would you invest in a pixel? (Scott Barnes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Namespace and Class Alias in C# (Abhijit Jana)
• Make Script Performance Automatic with Custom Templates in Visual Studio 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• WCF SOAP Message Version (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Push Data to the Client using WCF CallBack Service (Mahesh Sabnis)
• TFS 2010 Build – Lesson learned –> Treat warnings as errors (Peter Gfader)
• Don’t Miss Out on this Webcast! Thursday, June 16th – Feature Demonstration of Microsoft Visual Studio Webcast (PubSec)
• How Developers Are Using var in C# (Steve Smith)
• Test drive the shiny new Wcf interop bindings (Yaron Naveh)
• WCF Express Interop Bindings 1.0 (CodePlex)
• 100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool (Sacha Barber)
• A quick Syntax quiz: Expressions and Statements (Bill Wagner)
• Pre-release Documentation Available (Rx Team)

 

Web Development

• The Book of CSS3 – take me to the future! …which is right now (Adam Kinney)
• JavaScript: fast floor of numeric values using the tilde operator (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Save yourself some typing when you call ASP.NET services (Dave Ward)
• Intro To Backbone.js: How A Winforms Developer is At Home In Javascript (Derick Bailey)
• HTML5 WebCamp| Presentation, Demo Code, Resources Available | Download (Doris Chen)
• Maintaining Browser History for Ajax events through script manager in asp.net (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Waegis Reloaded (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Complete Example of Tracking Start and End of Drag Operations with jQuery and Table Rows (Mats)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Inline Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Want to Learn jQuery Online? Check out Code School (Rey Bango)
• WAP v HTML5 v Native (Andrew Spooner)
• Orchard 1.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows Live developer platform adds OAuth 2.0 and more, continuing to let users connect the devices, apps, and sites they choose (Dare Obasanjo)
• MVVM and jQuery: Designing Maintainable, Fast and Versatile Sites (Saar Yahalom)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Focus Quotes (J.D. Meier)
• Walk with Agility – Kanban Works… with Shoes! (Peter Saddington)
• Git Tutorial – Getting Started (Veera Sundar)
• Why Great Ideas Fail (Scott Berkun)
• Article:The Retrospective Practice as a Vehicle for Leading Conceptual Change (Orit Hazzan & Yael Dubinsky)
• Productivity and Continuous Improvement – Measurement (and RescueTime) makes it happen, both Personally and at Work (Scott Hanselman)
• Extending MbUnit With Custom Expected Exception Attributes (Yann Trevin)
• Change Management 3.0 (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 ContextMenu with complex MenuItems and Using SqlMetal to generate Windows Phone Mango Local Database classes (Windows Phone Geek)
• RC’s of Windows Phone 7 Connectors for SBS 2011 Essentials and/or Windows Home Server 2011 now available… (Greg Duncan)
• What WP7 should learn from Windows 8 (Jo de Greef)
• A Solution for Binding Silverlight DataGrid Columns to 2nd Level Collection (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Tips & Tricks Part II: Get mobile with Office (Luke)
• WPF and the link that just won’t click (Rory Primrose)
• Real email accounts inside the Windows Phone emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft to Supply Developer Phones Running Mango Next Week (WP7GIRL)
• The Busy Developers Guide to Mango. (Michael Crump)
• Fast Application Switching Made Easy (Jesse Liberty)
• Metro In Motion Part #7 – Panorama Prettiness and Opacity (Colin Eberhardt)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Paul Bone Goes Parallel with Project Mercury (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 114: Trevor Burnham on CoffeeScript (Jon Galloway)
• Ribbon Hero 2 (Tina Wood)
• Ping 104: Sir Richard Branson, Intelligent healing on Kinect, WP7 to take the lead, Bing & Glee (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Change a life with dev4good (Craig Hogan)

 

Database

• SSAS Maestro–Redmond Day 2–Redux (Adam Jorgensen)
• Output clause in SQL Server 2008 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SQL Server Compact Private Deployment tweaks (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• SQL Server NTILE Function (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – SELECT * vs SELECT COUNT(*) (Pinal Dave)
• Column Order in an Index (Sarvesh Singh)
• ‘Topping and Tailing’ strings in database tables (Phil Factor)
• Service Broker, not ETL (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• SPItemEventReceiver Bug (Wesley Bakker)
• SP2010 Continuous Integration–pt 1: Benefits (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• You Probably Already Have a “Private Cloud” (Buck Woody)
• RTM’d today: Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Devon Musgrave)
• [Humor] Open Source/Source Available Project Maintainer [Sarcastic] Response cheatsheet (Greg Duncan)
• IE 9.0.1 Available via Windows Update (Vishwac Sena Kannan)
• Installing Java into an Azure Worker Role (J.P. Hamilton)
• Is Apple really using Windows Azure to power iCloud? (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Anatomy of a Great Chrome Web Store Listing (Pete LePage)
• C++ clear winner in Google language tests (Derek du Preez)
• Cross-Post: Java Sample Application for Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #873 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 06/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Link dump for June 13th and Link dump for June 14th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 14, 2011 — #1107 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 197 (Rhonda Tipton)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Robert C. Martin Series) by Robert C. Martin

 

 

Top Links

• Debugger Canvas on DevLabs (Somasegar)
• 3-Day Test Driven Development with Uncle Bob Martin in Philadelphia (EventBrite)
• Building a Cloud OS for .NET Developers – Part 2 (Michael Kennedy)
• ReSharper 6.0 Beta Available (Hadi Hariri)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Common Table Expressions (Abhijit Jana)
• Creating Windows Services, visually (well using the Component Designer and Visual Studio Windows Service template anyway) and MFCMAPI – Articles-a-pluza! (Greg Duncan)
• Linq to NHibernate – String.Equals with StringComparison option (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Ordering data in LINQ Queries by more than one column (Pranay Rana)
• TFS API Part 38 – Create Label (Shai Raiten)
• RSA private key import from PEM format in C# (Tamir Khason)
• A nice, basic log4net setup (Andreas Hammar)
• Appending to a Windows Azure Block Blob (Steve Marx)
• Implementation of a Message Broker on BizTalk (Steinar Moen)
• Advanced scenarios with Windows Azure Queues (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• Web Role Instances recreated, repaired while deploying MVC 3 Applications on Windows Azure (Harish Ranganathan)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Classic Computer Science in JavaScript (Rey Bango)
• MiniProfiler: Lightweight profiler for ASP.NET web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Five little known files to help improve your web site (Greg Duncan)
• Certificates in Windows Azure (Jaime Alva Bravo)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier – Release: v4.22 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Principles (Avi Kaye)
• Is Agile Doomed? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Book Review: The Clean Coder by Uncle Bob Martin (Cory Foy)
• Balsamiq New Release: Partial PNG Export and more! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Mocking Generator Methods (Michael Foord)
• Visio 2010 WBS Modeler (MS Downloads)
• Questioning Team Accountability (Amr Elssamadisy)
• Parkinson’s Law and Iteration Zero (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Changing the Title in the Tile Icon of a Windows Phone 7 Application (Jayson Gaylord)
• 10 Silverlight 5 Demos (John Papa)
• Windows Phone 7 Competitions (Rudi Grobler)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Recommendations and Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• WPF ListBox as Bar Chart (Christian Nagel)
• Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 2) (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 12 – Using Isolated Storage to Store and Retrieve Data (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Expression Blend templates for Windows Phone applications (Pam)
• Off-thread decoding of images on Mango, how it impacts your application ? (SL WP Perf Team)
• Panorama Template (Alex Knight)
• ShellToast on Windows Phone – when HTTP push is just too much (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ICSE 2011: Conversation with Kumiyo Nakakoji (Charles Torre)
• Episode 149 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vittorio Bertocci on Windows Azure Access Control Services (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Check Out New Windows Azure Jump Start Video Series (Windows Azure Team)
• Pluralcast 44 : Joe Hummel on High Performance Computing (David Starr)
• Let’s Play TDD #114: Icon Challenges (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Presenting a Free Webinar w/ Idera July 15, 2011 – Understanding SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)
• Philly Nerd Nite Summer Update (Michelle & Melissa)
• What I learned at FOO Camp ’11 (Scott Berkun)
• Microsoft Gamefest 2011 – Seattle, WA August 22-23, London, England July 14-15, and Tokyo July 29! (Doug Holland)
• Upcoming Events for June 13th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• New York City F# Meetup Group, June 16, Chris Marinos – Getting Your Func(tional) on with F# (Don Syme)

 

Database

• Time to start thinking about, and providing feedback on, what you’ll need to upgrade to Denali (aka next version of SQL Server) (Greg Duncan)
• SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Error (James Serra)
• SQL Server Instant File Initialization (PQW) (John Sansom)
• SSAS – Understanding KeyColumns Dimension Property (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Watch Online and Download – Inside of Next Generation SQL Server – Best Practices Analyzer using Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer and SQLAuthority News – BI Quiz Question – How to Optimize Cube? – Hints (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Migration Wizard (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Saving Table Space (Quick And Dirty) (David Forck)
• Using Catalog Views – sys.sql_expression_dependencies (Vishal)

 

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Practical SharePoint Governance for Everyone (Deb Sorenson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Eloquent Ruby (Dan Watson)
• Windows 7 on a Mac: my Boot Camp survival guide (Ed Bott)
• 11 things Microsoft did right in fiscal 2011 (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft files trademark for Kinect-like ad tech (John Callaham)
• Tip: Disabling spell check underlining in the OneNote Web Client (John Guin)
• New! Microsoft Press eReference Library Hosted by Safari Books Online (Kim Spilker)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS – Only $6.49 w/code DDCCR (O’Reilly Media)
• Why Microsoft Has Developers Horrified About Windows 8 (Peter Bright)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting .NET Links – June 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for June 6-12, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2011 — #1106 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 072 for 6/13/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #872 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Links 14/06/2011 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 06/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan