Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – April 16-18, 2010

The Morning Dew took a three-day weekend for Mrs. Dew’s b-day. I thought I should catch up before Monday morning.

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Top Links

• Build Your Own Pivot Server in Windows Azure! (David Lemphers)
• Eliminating Comments: the Road to Clarity (John Sonmez)
• WinForms to XAML UI Converter (Rob Relyea)
• IronRuby Drops – Does it Make a Sound? (Scott Bellware)
• Silverlight and WPF Tip: Fitting items in a ListBox (Pete Brown)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Free copies of F# for Scientists! (Jon Harrop)
• Fun with turtle-graphics in F# (Brian McNamara)
• Visual Studio 2010 Recent Projects Improvements and Visual Studio 2010 Intellisense Improvements (Richard Carr)
• Custom Extension Types with VSIX (Aaron Marten)
• WCF Data Services Friendly Feeds and Issues with EntityPropertyMapping (EPM) (Chris Woodruff)
• IEnumerable IsNullOrEmpty (Daniel Vaughan)
• Tabbed thumbnails in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Book Review: C# in Depth – What You Need to Master C# 2 and 3 (Gil Fink)
• Smart vs. Block vs. None: The Indenting Smackdown and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using Generate from Usage and Brace Matching Rectangle and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Insert Documents to the Right of Existing Tabs and Recent Files and Navigate Open Document Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Got a great idea for a Windows Phone 7 game, but haven’t used the XNA Studio before (nor maybe any game dev either)? Here’s a ground-up XNA 2D tutorial series to help get you started (Greg Duncan)
• Data Services Expressions – Part 3 – Filters and Data Services Expressions – Part 4 – Accessing properties (Vitek Karas)
• AsyncEnumerator Survey for Microsoft (Jeffrey Richter)
• Keep Offline Help Up-to-Date in Visual Studio 2010 (WPF SDK Team)
• Error Creating Control Issue in the Design View in Visual Studio (Anh Phan)
• What on Earth is a Lambda Expression? (Simon Ince)
• Gemli – Do We Need An XPath-to-Object Mapper? (Jon Davis)
• What happens to C# 4 optional parameters when compiling against 3.5? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• OBFUSCATORS PAGE UPDATED (Pedro D. Güida)
• CSLA 4 Preview 4 available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Daily Dose – MonoTouch 3.0; Seems Unfazed by Apple’s New Terms (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Tip: Anonymous Event Handlers in VB.NET (Pete Brown)
• Have you seen Pivot yet? and What’s new in System.Data.Services (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• C#: Java-ish enums and Functional C#: Using custom delegates to encapsulate Funcs and Coding: Another outside in example (Mark Needham)
• Moving Suteki Shop from Linq-to-SQL to NHibernate and NHibernate Get vs Load and sub types (Mike Hadlow)
• Select is broken? (.NET 4) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Extending NServiceBus: Avoiding Two-Phase Commits and NServiceBus Distributed Transaction Woes (Jonathan Oliver)

Web Development

• Use the Factery API to Get Important Text From Searches (Adam DuVander)
• PHP Developers Get SDK for SQL Server Reporting Services (Bruce Kyle)
• PHP: What You Need To Know To Play With The Web (Christian Heilmann)
• Quick bit.ly API tip – Usernames are Case-Sensitive (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Sending JSON to an ASP.NET MVC Action Method Argument (Phil Haack)
• How to install Subtext (and Umbraco) Using WebPI (Simone Chiaretta)
• Update on the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
• JavaScript Prototypes versus Closures (Simon Ince)
• Web Deployment Projects Released to Beta (WDP for VS 2010) (Vishal Joshi)
• Web Deployment Projects for 2010: Microsoft Listens (Michael C. Neel)
• How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 1 – Google Analytics (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Setting the Frame properties in Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)
• Flip your Tip: Keeping the Event-delegation Tooltip in View (Karl Swedberg)
• POSTing JSON Data to MVC Controllers and Posting JSON Data to MVC Controllers and A Simple JSON Model Binder (Javier G. Lozano)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "No Bugs" Now Online (James Shore)
• A Guide to Parallel Programming – Drafts of Chapters 2 and 5 (Ade Miller)
• All Solved Problems Are Easy (Derick Bailey)
• Diagnostic Data Adapters, Coded UI & Test Type Extensibility – Some of the things you’ll find on the VS2010 Test SDK Page (Greg Duncan)
• Customer, Developer, Tester (Ian Cooper)
• Linfu Duck Typing Part 1 – Revealing Secrets (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Starting Conversations Or A Movement By Finding A Few Remarkable Nuts. and Entrepreneurship Tip: Working With Programmers Who Are Straightforward – Part 1. and The Least You Can Do Is Give No Excuses For Your Laziness And Boring Dreams. (Rajiv Popat)
• CQRS/DDDD – What’s New (Rinat Abdullin)
• Film Making: A Better Software Development Metaphor (Rod Paddock)
• Event Sourcing and CQRS, Bounded Contexts (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Pomodairo – My new favorite Pomodoro timer (Peter Provost)
• Perceived Response Time from a Developer’s Perspective (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why Selenium and Rspec? (Scott Gillenwater)
• On Design for Testability (Udi Dahan)
• Late integration: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• 3 Ways to Get Unstuck (J.D. Meier)
• Getting Started Unit Testing with nUnit (Peter Ritchie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft’s CodePlex Releases "RSS Reader" Project for Windows Phone 7 (Blake Handler)
• Obfuscating Silverlight (for free) (Andy Beaulieu)
• Silverlighting Your PHP, Part 2: Hijacking XAML From Expression Blend (Justin Whitney)
• Some Notes on DRM in Silverlight 4 (Brian)
• A few cool new features added in Expression Blend 4 RC (Adam Kinney)
• Alive and kickin’ [New Silverlight 4 Toolkit released with today’s Silverlight 4 RTW!] and The one with all the goofy heading names [Detailed information about the Silverlight Toolkit’s new stacked series support] (David Anson)
• Small change in MVVM Light Toolkit templates for Blend 4 RC (Laurent Bugnion)
• Loading animation in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Can you access a loose XAML file from LoadComponent? and Of Crashing and Sometimes Burning (Ashish Shetty)
• Silverlight 4 Up and Running (Rene Schulte)
• Making printing easier in Silverlight 4 (David Poll)
• Silverlight 4 released. Availability of tools announcement and Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 release and Backward Compatibility with Silverlight 4 applications and Seesmic and Silverlight Provide an Extensible Social Platform (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight 4 Released (Scott Guthrie)
• Silverlight 4 Release: Happy Third Birthday, Silverlight! (Pete Brown)
• My Article on SketchFlow is Up and Updated RIA Services + MVVM Example (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Dependency Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)
• Silverlight 4 Documentation on MSDN, and Favorites/bookmarks (Wolf Schmidt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – John Lam and the Science of Fitness (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 152: Tool-Free Zone (Paul Thurrott)
• jQuery Podcast 20 – Barcamp Rochester (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Pete at MIX10: David Kelley on the Prototype WPF and Silverlight Retail Experience (Pete Brown)
• ALMday session 1 – New Application Lifecycle Management features of Visual Studio 2010 and Session 2 – Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Part 1, an Introduction and Session 3 – Using TMAP with TFS 2010 in software development projects and Session 4 – Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: Part 2, Making It Real and Session 5 – Opsummering (Martin Esmann)
• LINQ – Beyond Queries by Scott Allen and Silverlight 4 – A Guided Tour of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) (Matthijs Hoekstra)

Community / Events

• MySQL conference 2010: thriving as one of many (Andy Oram)
• F# Code Retreat (Chris Canal)
• Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4 are here! Check out a local launch event near you. (Dave Isbitski)
• SQLAuthority News – Best Complements – DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA (Pinal Dave)
• Crowdsourcing MVVM Light Toolkit support (Laurent Bugnion)
• Indy Hall Member Profiles – Steve Winkler (Parker Whitney)

Database

• FOR XML Workshop – Understanding FOR XML RAW (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Release Date: May 21 2010 (Brent Ozar)
• A DMV a Day – Day 16 and A DMV a Day – Day 17 and A DMV a Day – Day 18 (Glenn Berry)
• A few of my favorite… Windows Azure Storage Explorers… (doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but you get the idea) (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review – SQL Server Integration Services: Problem – Design – Solution (Tim Mitchell)
• Do you use Column=@Param OR @Param IS NULL in your WHERE clause? Don’t, it doesn’t perform (Denis Gobo)
• Testing Existence of a Windows Azure Blob (Steve Marx)
• SELECT TOP Shortcut in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Pinal Dave)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (15/30) checkpoint only writes pages from committed transactions and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (16/30) corruptions and repairs and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (17/30) page checksums and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (18/30) FILESTREAM storage, garbage collection, and more (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM! (Jeff Teper)

Miscellaneous

• Free "Visual Studio Theme" for Windows 7: Widescreen Edition and Microsoft Releases "Silverlight 4 Client for Facebook" (Blake Handler)
• Create and Track Your Own License Keys with PowerShell (Buck Woody)
• Recursion redefined (Dror Helper)
• Microsoft Office 2010 RTMs. MSDN and TechNet Availability on 22nd April (Uzair)
• Zune HD Hacked – OpenZDK released for development (Tauqeer Ahmed)
• Daily Dose – Scala 2.8 RC1 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Microsoft Launches Fix it Center Beta (Paul Thurrott)
• KIN, Silverlight, Cloud Services and the Summer of Football: Weekend Reading for April 17/18 (Dominic Carr)
• Windows 7 Federated Search (Yochay Kiriaty)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 17, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #581 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 15, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 16, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 17, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 16, 2010 — #838 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2010 — #839 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman on Bill Knew Better, Transmedia Storytelling, Freelancers for the Win (Dave Burke)
• Links of the week #116 (David Vidmar)
• Tech Tweets for 15-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Creators Club Communiqué 50 (Kathleen Sanders)
• A Feed You Should Read #28 – Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen.com (Greg Duncan)
• Distributed Weekly 46 (Scott Banwart)
• New and Notable 413 (Sam Gentile)
• F# Discoveries This Week 04/16/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Thursday Linkfest (Scott Berkun)

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