Dew Drop – February 4, 2011
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Top Links
- On Reflector (Miguel de Icaza)
- Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) Refresh Released (Windows Azure Team)
- Physical Wall Boards are King for Agile – Keep it Simple (Peter Saddington)
- If Writing An Object That Is IDisposable, Don’t Fail During Construction (Steve Smith)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Few Tips on Customizing Debugging Window View in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
- Changing the Desktop Wallpaper (Richard Carr)
- Conway’s Game of Life with F# and SDL.NET (Scott Philip Brown)
- How to Intercept a WCF Message to track message size (Derik Whittaker)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Useful But Overlooked Sets (James Michael Hare)
- Getting the "windows azure web role entry point has stopped working" when using Visual Studio 2010 and the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio (Jon Flanders)
- Do you know about the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
- AsmSpy: A little tool to help fix assembly version conflicts (Mike Hadlow)
- Middleware in the WCF Web APIs (Ryan Riley)
- How to view the XAML Code on the Intellisense popup in Visual Studio 2010 ? (Senthil Kumar)
- Helpful DateTime extension methods for dealing with Time Zones (Joshua Flanagan)
- Coding Helpers – Move to Region (Alex Skorkin)
- Creating Console apps that use the Server Profile (David Ebbo)
- System.Object : a look on mother of all managed classes (Dhananjay Kumar)
Web Development
- How to get list of all active HttpModules in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
- Curiosities in Microsoft.Web.Helpers: Video.Flash and Analytics.GetGoogleHtml and JSON Deserialization Made Simple With System.Web.Helpers and List (Karsten Januszewski)
- MVC Tip – An easy way to deal with those NotFound Errors (Mike Ceranski)
- An Open Letter To jQuery Plugin Authors (Richard Freedman)
- MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
- WebSharper 2.1 Beta 5 available (Adam Granicz)
- New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements (Adam DuVander)
- JSON Toolkit – Release v1.0 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 9: Optimistic Concurrency Patterns (Arthur Vickers)
- ‘Why’ often unhelpful (Mark Needham)
- Frustrating automation investigations (John Guin)
- Hex values for Crayola colors (Cory Doctorow)
- Things That Work: Download to Paper (Gil Zilberfeld)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Animations — Alternatives, Performance (Jan Slodicka)
- A Pivot-Style Data Grid without the DataGrid (Jeremy Likness)
- Google Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control (Naveed Tejani)
- Animated WPF Panels (Fredrik Bornander)
- Blend Bits 21–Importing from Photoshop & Illustrator… (Mike Taulty)
- New book: Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 and New book: Microsoft XNA Framework Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 (Devon Musgrave)
- Silverlight Spy 4 (Koen Zwikstra)
- Some Useful WP7 Content for your Toolbag (Mike Ormond)
- Changing the border for a DatePicker control on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
- ListPicker FullScreen mode Background problem: workaround (Windows Phone Geek)
- Microsoft will release new WP7 developer tools, including CDMA updates (Phone Arena)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- John Platt: Introduction to Sho – A Playground for Data (Charles Torre)
- Hanselminutes on 9 – Phil Haack, Ted Neward, Two Friends and Qdoba (Scott Hanselman)
- Let’s Play TDD #83: Parsing and Formatting (James Shore)
- Silverlight TV 60: Checking Out the Zero Gravity Game, Now on Windows Phone 7 (John Papa)
- WCF RIA Services Webinar – Querying and Updating Data (Brian Noyes)
- Community Megaphone Podcast Show #23 with guest Eric Kepes (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Community / Events
- Nerd Nite, February 10, 2011 (Philly Nerd Nite)
- Kathleen Dollard in Vermont and New Hampshire (Jim O’Neil)
- Join Us for WebCamps – Free Web Developer Training – Around the World (Bruce Kyle)
Database
- What is SQL Server Crescent? (Jacob Sebastian)
- SQL SERVER – DMV – sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks and sys.dm_exec_requests – Wait Type – Day 4 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
- Prompts for Reporting Services (Chris Webb)
SharePoint
- Working with SharePoint 2010 Themes (Anweshi Deverasetty)
Miscellaneous
- How to Write Without Writing (Jeff Atwood)
- If Reflector needed money so badly, why didn’t they ask? (Joe White)
- Red Gate should have said… (Keith Dahlby)
- Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ Release Candidate (minus Drive Extender) goes to testers and What does it mean to be a Microsoft beta tester any more? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Ultimate PC, 5 months in (Pete Brown)
- Is Microsoft going to sell their own tablet? [VIDEO] (Steven Hodson)
More Link Collections
- Daily WP7 Development News Feb 3th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 3 February 2011 – #19 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- The Morning Brew #785 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 02/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- WebDev Tweets 3-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Distributed Weekly 88 (Scott Banwart)
The Geek Shelf
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