Dew Drop – April 1, 2011

Top Links

• NuGet Package of the Week #4 – Deserializing JSON with Json.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 3 (Justin Etheredge)
• The importance of performance testing in a Windows Phone 7 application (Simone Chiaretta)
• Hosting a Simple “Read-Only” NuGet Package Feed on the Web (Phil Haack)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Create a tree flatten function to support LINQ queries (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Uber Prof & NuGet (Oren Eini)
• C#/.NET Toolbox: Adding a ToHashSet() Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
• Working with DataTips in Visual Studio 2010 (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hardening Server Applications (Immo)
• Compound Assignment, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
• MSBuild Extension Pack Update and MSBuild Explorer v2 Update (Mike Fourie)

Web Development

• JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part III) (Julian M. Bucknall)
• PowerShell and HTML5 Prototype (Lee Holmes)
• XPath, CSS, DOM and Selenium; The Rosetta Stone (Michael Sorens)
• Tip #108 Did you know … How to improve reference efficiency in JavaScript files inside a web project? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Capturing Code First Fluent API ValidationResults to Display in MVC 3 (Julie Lerman)
• YUI Test waitFor function (Kris Gray)
• How to strip away the super powers of borders in IE (Kyle Baley)
• Displaying JSON in your Browser (Rick Strahl)
• A Recipe for a YUI 3 Application (Satyam)
• Windows PowerShell & ColdFusion Setup (Steve Good)
• Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus (Sebastian Anthony)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Gee Scrum Method Owners! (Brad Appleton)
• Not Just Another Kanban Board (Michael)
• The Agile Doctor? (Peter Saddington)
• Writing with Agile Style (Rob Bazinet)
• Code Review: SharpArchitecture.MultiTenant (Oren Eini)
• Limiting Work in Process… Are There Any Other Options? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Panorama Tombstone Caveat (Rudi Grobler)
• Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)
• Changing CSS Using JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New Docs for Windows Phone 7 Development (Cameron Skinner)
• LowProfileImageLoader with GIF support for WP7 (Andreas Hammar)
• Analytics and automatic app feedback: A slippery but interesting slope for Windows Phone apps (Jeff Wilcox)
• App Rating for Windows Phone 7 Source Code Released (Nokola)
• Using Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern in Windows Phone 7 projects (Per Ola Sæther)
• How Copy/Paste Works on WP7-Nodo (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #99: Valid Range (James Shore)
• Monads! European Virtual ALT.NET. Video is now available (Mike Hadlow)
• Cloud Plumbing: Jonas Stawski Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Microsoft Rock! Events in SoCal (Cigdem Patlak)
• Attend One of Stack Overflow’s 250+ World-Wide MeetUps (Rebecca Chernoff)
• Are you going to MIX11? (Mike Ormond)
• Learn how a career at Microsoft can impact others (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge and You Could Win a Free Kinect and Xbox 360! (Windows Azure Team)

SharePoint

• Deliverpoint 12.4.0.1 and 14.4.0.1 released (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

• Hotmail on the Taskbar (IE Team)
• Why I’d Never Charge For A Tech Book (Karl Seguin)
• Bing Maps Android SDK (Sunshine)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 03.19 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 31st March 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 31th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #825 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 04/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for March 31, 2011 — #1069 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars