Dew Drop – November 11, 2010

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Top Links

Importing Adobe Photoshop files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)

Introduction to SSIS Projects in Denali (Jamie Thomson)

Jounce Part 6: Visual States and Multiple Views per ViewModel (Jeremy Likness)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the IE9 Beta to Play Well with Visual Studio 2010 (Dan Wahlin)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example 12 to 13 (Rey Dacoco)
• Visual Studio Logging (Zain Naboulsi)
• What happened to Lucene.Net? It got forked (Simone Chiaretta)
• New White Paper Details the Windows Azure Programming Model (Windows Azure Team)
• Concurrent programming: TCP relay server (Jon Harrop)
• Feature Builder power with drag and drop simplicity – Instant Feature Builder v1 (Think “Drag and Drop Map/Code files/Docs/Guidance in and vsix out”) (Greg Duncan)
• Book Review Programming Entity Framework Second Edition (Deepak Kapoor)
• EF FAQ Relocation and Overhaul (Danny Simmons)
• Raven MQ – Client API Design (Oren Eini)

 

Web Development

• Composition with jQuery Templates: Why and How (Dave Ward)
• Creating a Carousel with jQuery (Matthew David)
• How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery (Martin Beeby)
• ASP.NET Web Application: Publish/Package Tokenizing Parameters (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• Twitter Goes JSON-Only With One API, More to Come? (Adam DuVander)
• How to take on the cloud – from Umbraco and Windows Azure (Andy Robb)
• Investigate Web Pages Using the IE9 Developer Tools (Rachel Appel)
• Azure@home Part 11: Worker Role Run Method (concluded) (Jim O’Neil)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture introduces control (Simon Brown)
• HBR as a Source of Insight and Customer-Connected Engineering (CCE) (J.D. Meier)
• Code as a Cause of Project Failure (Michael Norton)
• Local Version Control (James Iry)
• The Full Stack–Part 3 Building a Repository with TDD (Jesse Liberty)
• Distributed Agile: Communicating big design decisions (Mark Needham)
• It’s just like putting LEGO bricks together… Or not? (Giorgio Sironi)
• 9 Free Pomodoro Timers (Simon Mackie)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 minute Observable.FromAsyncPattern sample for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The taming of the phone [New SetterValueBindingHelper sample demonstrates its usefulness on Windows Phone 7 (and Silverlight 4)] (David Anson)
• Updating Dates with WPF DatePicker (Julie Lerman)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 2 (Jesse Freeman)
• Enable background audio for multiple pages in Windows Phone 7 – Take 2 (Håkan Reis)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #6 – Data Binding (Really) (Jesse Liberty)
• Accessing Local Database using Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Mindscape Silverlight Controls + Free Mega Pack Contest (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight’s Bright Future (Ward Bell)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Developers: Rise to the Challenge at RiSE4fun.com (Charles Torre)
• Announcing Project Crescent! (Silverlight Team)
• iPhone and Tdd: The Video Series Begins (Brett Schuchert)
• Yet Another Podcast #13–Corey Schuman (Jesse Liberty)
• endpoint.tv – WCF Contract First with WSCF.blue (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• NoVA Code Camp Call for Speakers is Open! and REMINDER: PDC Re-cap Event in Reston THIS FRIDAY, 11/12 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at and Announcing the Mississippi Coast .NET User Group November 23rd (Keith Elder)

 

Database

• SQL Server Denali: HADRON ROCKS. (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2011 (Denali) no DTS support (Devin Knight)
• Breaking Change for Windows Azure Drive Beta in Guest OS 1.8 and 2.0 (Azure Storage Team)
• Appending Date to End of Report Name in Reporting Services Subscription (Brian K. McDonald)
• Denali Paging–Is it win/win ? (Dave Ballantyne)
• Project Crescent (David Dye)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Online: SharePoint Online (Beta) Solution Development Overview Poster (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 publish plugin released (Jamie Lang)
• Web services and the Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (Lightning Tools)
• BCS Meta Man November Beta (Nick Swan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Migrating from Communications Server 2007 R2 to Lync Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone 7 supports tethering (for Samsung Focus/Omnia 7 anyway) (damaster)
• WriteMonkey Version 2 Preview 1 is now out, with added pizzazz (Erez Zukerman)
• PowerShell url checker (Check if a list of url’s is valid) (Jason Jarrett)
• Get your app featured on CNET! (Jennifer Marsman)
• 35 Developer Learning Pain Points (Joe Stagner)
• Firefox 4.0 beta 7 brings faster JavaScript, WebGL, is now feature-complete (Lee Mathews)
• Cloud computing talent: What do we look for? (Part 3 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)
• The Inevitable Comparison: iPhone 4 vs Samsung Omnia 7 (Windows Phone 7) – Introduction (Taimur Asad)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mobile Design and Development $13.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDDND (O’Reilly Media)
• Pro Android 2 (Pavel Rozenblioum)
• Getting a Windows Phone 7 to Work with a PrePaid AT&T Plan (Frank La Vigne)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 10, 2010 — #990 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Database Testing Links (Buck Woody)
• Denali Links (Richard Douglas)
• The Morning Brew #727 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/11/2010 (Silverlight Show)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight