Month: February 2010

This is the last Dew Dump… back to the standard, categorized Dew Drop format on Sunday or Monday. I had a great week at the MVP Global Summit. Tune in to DZone’s .NET Zone next week for more Summit thoughts and such.

Shut Up, Bob (David Starr)

Hanselminutes – The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy (Scott Hanselman)

Windows 7: Taskbar Icon Overlay (Kirupa)

Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 (MS Downloads)

Drivers for NOSQL (Jimmy Nilsson)

John Papa and I discuss the MIX10K winners on SilverlightTV (Adam Kinney)

Decoupling Your System with Messaging (Me)

Microsoft on Google Apps (Alex Chitu)

IndyHall Member Profiles: Bill Jones (Alex Hillman)

How I use Social Media: Part 3–Blogging (Amy Blankenship)

Interesting Finds: February 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Interesting Finds: February 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)

AutoMapper for Silverlight 3.0 Alpha (Jimmy Bogard)

10-4 Episode 41: Downloading and Installing the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (Brian Keller)

SQL Server Service Packs Scheduled (Bruce Kyle)

Restarting the SQL Server Service Account – Why? (Buck Woody)

iMindMap for the iPhone (Chance Brown)

C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 3 of 3 (Charles Torre)

Avoiding Uninstall/Reinstall when Debugging Out-of-Browser Apps (Cheryl S.)

The Morning Brew #542 (Chris Alcock)

The Morning Brew #543 (Chris Alcock)

Extend your Master Pages (Chris Brandsma)

DAWG-fight, Optimizing text search in F# II (Chris Smith)

TweetCraft 2.0 source code posted! (Coding4Fun)

Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2010 — #800 (Dave Campbell)

Have You Jumped On The Bandwagon Yet? (Davy Brion)

No trees were harmed in the making of this blog post [How to: Successfully print a Chart with the Silverlight 4 Beta] (David Anson)

My object to object mapper source released (Gunnar Peipman)

Code Metrics: Lines of Code (LoC) (Gunnar Peipman)

Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 Now Available (EF Team)

Entity Framework POCO Template updated for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (Diego Vega)

Seven big questions about the new Windows Phone 7 Series (Ed Bott)

Tech Tweets for 17-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

Tech Tweets for 18-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

What’s the difference between ternary and tertiary? (Eric Lippert)

NOT EXISTS vs NOT IN (Gila Monster)

The Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management video tour – Six videos, 30 minutes, toward Lab Management guru’ism (Greg Duncan)

Los Techies Fiesta Invitation (Gregory Long)

Search Providers: Best Practices on Setting the Default (IE Blog)

F# Webcast (I.) – Introducing functional concepts (Jan Steberl)

F# Webcast (II.) – Using .NET libraries (Jan Steberl)

F# Webcast (IV.) – Developing standard .NET libraries (Jan Steberl)

F# Webcast (III.) – Using Asynchronous Workflows (Jan Steberl)

Strategy Diamond (JD Meier)

Add post-backs to MVC –or- add front controller to Web Forms (Jeffrey Palermo)

Preview of the new StoryTeller Test Editor — Looking for Feedback (Jeremy D. Miller)

Quirks in .NET – Part 1 (Kevin Jones)

Azure Book Reviews (Jimmy Skowr)

Interactive Sorting Using a Tablix in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Episode #5 – Jesse Liberty on Silverlight Hyper Video (Joe Stagner)

Silverlight TV 9: MIX 10K Challenge (John Papa)

Herding Code 73: Daniel Plaisted on Model-Based Testing in Action on the MEF Team (Jon Galloway)

CQRS: An Introduction for Beginners (Jonathan Oliver)

Advanced MVVM is now available for the Kindle (Josh Smith)

How to download and crack a Xap in Silverlight (Josh Twist)

EF4 Breaking Change: EF4 inner joins affect eager loading many to many (Julie Lerman)

Looking for Astoria aka ADO.NET Data Services aka WCF Data Services in VS2010? (Julie Lerman)

MSDN/TechNET Publishing System (MTPS) Rendering Subsystem Release Plan (Kimberly Wolk)

Silverlight MVP of the year (Laurent Bugnion)

Jump in! camp – Call for participants (Maarten Balliauw)

Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

TED Talk: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero (Mark Frauenfelder)

C#: Causing myself pain with LINQ’s delayed evaluation (Mark Needham)

The Ubiquitous Language is not Ubiquitous (Mark Nijhof)

App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health) (Mark Suster)

First code profiler for Silverlight (Martin Esmann)

What Do Ada Lovelace, Barbie and I All Have in Common? (Microsoft Blog Admin)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 7 – HTTP & Forms Auth (Mike Taulty)

Daily Dose – 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated (Mitch P.)

Daily Dose – Google Getting Sued Over Buzz (Mitch P.)

Table sizes (Niikola)

The 18th of Diduary: Did you know you can manage multiple items in your clipboard? (Jeff Blankenburg)

10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 12. The NamingPartsSubsystem (Mike Hadlow)

Office 2010 Application Compatibility Sweepstakes (Office Team)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C# – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFC (O’Reilly Media)

SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

jQuery Podcast 12 – Rey Bomb 1 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

.NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate – not quite what it sounds like (Rick Strahl)

Running Rails 2.3.x on IronRuby (Rob Bazinet)

Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest (Rockford Lhotka)

Return of the Becoming a Better Developer Meme: My 2010 SMART Goal (Russell Ball)

Facebook for Windows Phones Updated (Sarah Perez)

Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

Why you should be a team of one (Scott Berkun)

The Weekly Source Code 50 – A little on "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and trouble generating images on with ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)

FIX: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition=’MachineToApplication’ beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS (Scott Mitchell)

50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms) (Smashing Magazine)

Links (2/16/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

Silverlight MVPs of the Year (2009) (Tim Heuer)

Build Extensibility with .NET Framework 4 (VS Blog)

State of the Mono (Wally McClure)

Creators Club Communiqué 42 (Kathleen Sanders)

Type-Ahead Selection Support in Solution Explorer — vstipTool0010 (Zain Naboulsi)

Automatic Symbol Renaming When You Rename a File in Solution Explorer — vstipTool0011 (Zain Naboulsi)