Dew Drop – February 12, 2010

Dew Drops could be sparse next week while I’m in Bellevue/Redmond for the MVP Global Summit.

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Top Links

• Old DRM’d Wrox ebooks are "upgradable" to DRM-free (Jim Minatel)
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit – February Release is LIVE! (Zain Naboulsi)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 2 of 3 (Charles Torre)
• More “Windows Phone 7″ Confirmation (Stephen Chapman)
• Sqlite on the iPhone – Retrieving the last inserted row id with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The F# PowerPack Released on CodePlex (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Writing Efficient String Functions in C# (Armando)
• Registration Error while Hosting WCF Services in a Windows Server (Derik Whittaker)
• Writing object to object mapper: my mapper vs AutoMapper (Gunnar Peipman)
• CLR via C#, 3rd Edition Available Today (Doug Holland)
• WCF RIA Services Preview and the Visual Studio 2010 RC (Harish Ranganathan)
• Intellisense Crashing fix for VS 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Chaining simple assignments is not so simple (Eric Lippert)
• Open Government Data and .NET (Dan Kasun)
• Announcing touch.codeplex.com (Marc Schweigert)
• Craig Sutherland: Considering XAML for Config for CruiseControl.NET (Rob Relyea)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Me)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Culture of Heroism (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Know Your Rules to Be Successful (J.D. Meier)
• FsUnit – Test Fsharp with Fsharp (David Cooksey)
• Challenge: Efficient querying (Oren Eini)
• Removing Generated code from NCover Reports (Derik Whittaker)
• Case Studies on Benefits of TDD (Jim Holmes)
• Rationalizing Assembly Reference (Patrick Smacchia)
• Balsamiq Weekly Release: Fixed the “jump” bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Discipline * Skill = Craftsmanship (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• FFT and oscilloscopes in Silverlight (Coding4Fun)
• This one time, at band camp… [A banded StackPanel implementation for Silverlight and WPF!] (David Anson)
• Getting Started with WPF : Hello World in Multiple Flavors (Pete Brown)
• Design and XAML on Different Document Tabs — vstipTool0009 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Addressing the Pre-Loader Issue (John Stockton)
• VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly (Andy Beaulieu)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Azure Miniseries #1: Migration (Brian Hitney)
• Connected Show Podcast: Addicted to Spring.NET (Brian Johnson)
• geekSpeak Recording – Persistence Ignorance and Entity Framework 4 with Dane Morgridge (Emily Gibson)
• Countdown to MIX10: Let’s do it Live (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 85: Open Source at Microsoft with Hank Janssen (Dave Bost)
• New Expression Blend screencast series (András Velvárt)
• This Week in Silverlight – February 11th 2010 (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)

Community / Events

• Growing the Pool of SQL Server Speakers (Andy Warren)
• Join MSDEV Fan Page on Facebook (Bruce Kyle)
• 2010 Summit: More MVPs to take on presenting roles than ever before (Joseph Mirabella)
• 10 Things you need to know from X10 (Larry Hyrb)
• Creators Club Communiqué 41 (Kathleen Sanders)

Database

• The SQL Server Health Check (Buck Woody)
• A Simple Refactoring (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Do you do backups? Do you test them? (Simon Sabin)
• Running sp_helpdb against a snapshot shows wrong files on SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
• How to connect SharePoint Business Data Catalog to PostgreSQL (Dmitry Kaloshin)

Miscellaneous

CodeProject Releases Wiimote Hardware Driver for Windows 7 (Blake Handler)

• PowerGUI Pro vs PowerGUI and A PowerShell present for Valentine’s Day (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe Flash Now Supports InPrivate Browsing (Andy Zeigler)
• Teach, Learn and Play with Small Basic from Microsoft DevLabs (Joe Stagner)
• Fix for Message Size Issue in Outlook 2010 Beta (Office Team)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments – Only $9.99! Use code DDGHC (O’Reilly Media)
• My Extension Wish: Workflow in Wave (Pamela Fox)
• The 12th of Diduary: Did you know you can drag Windows Explorer to the command line? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback (Todd Jackson)
• Workaround to Catch Exceptions from Import-CliXml (Francisco Gomez Gamino)
• Getting Started in Objective-C with XCode (Brett Schuchert)
• I don’t like MSDN (Karl Seguin)
• Mighty Box, an App Launcher for Windows (Sarah Perez)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #538 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 11-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 — #796 (Dave Campbell)
• Comprehensive list of Visual Studio 2010 RC links (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Interesting Finds: February 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)