June 2011 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – June 30, 2011

Posted on June 30, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Reactive Extensions v1.0 Stable and v1.1 Experimental available now! (Rx team)
Site-ready HTML5: Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
Developers Get Goody Basket Full of Mangos (Brandon Watson)
ReSharper 6 is Released! (Hadi Hariri)

.NET / Visual Studio

Working with Co-Variance and Contra-Variance in .NET 4.0 and Lazy Initializer to defer expensive Object creation in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
Think NuGet is only for Visual Studio (or IDE)? Think again… (Greg Duncan)
Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-4 (Jalpesh Vadgama)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Reporting Performance Issues with PerfWatson (Robert Green)
Eduasync part 14: Data passing in coroutines (Jon Skeet)
Client Side Tracing for Windows Azure AppFabric Caching (Windows Azure Team)
Microsoft – Domain Oriented N-Layered .NET 4.0 App Sample – Release: v2.01 Alpha (CodePlex)
Customize State and Transitions of a Work Item (Gian Maria Ricci)
Use it or lose it! [New Delay.FxCop code analysis rule helps identify unused resources in a .NET assembly] (David Anson)
Manual Validation with Data Annotations (K. Scott Allen)

Web Development

JavaScript: an acceptable use of double-equals? Just. (Julian M. Bucknall)
Developers: just a few lines of JavaScript connects your site to Hotmail, Messenger, and SkyDrive (Dare Obasanjo)
IE 10 PP2 now available for download – HTML5 nears tipping point (Ryan Gavin)
The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far (Simone Chiaretta)
Lockdown Pt 1– Assessing and Securing Legacy Client-side Applications (Tim Kulp)
datajs – JavaScript Library for data-centric web applications – Release: v1.0.0 (CodePlex)
Exploring CoffeeScript Part 2 – Variables and Functions (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Pass cookie from Web Request to WebBrowser (Gian Maria Ricci)
Facebook: A New Take on the Developer App (Alan McConnell)
Cloud Coding and Beyond: Web Development Apps in the Chrome Web Store (Michael Mahemoff & Paul Kinlan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Do the Opposite (J.D. Meier)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Split Temporary Variable (Giorgio Sironi)
Event-Driven SOA: Events meet Services (Guido Schmutz)
What is User Experience Design (UX Design) ? (David Kelley)
Ninject and Convention Based Assembly Bindings (Derik Whittaker)
Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part I and Review: Microsoft N Layer App Sample, Part II–getting lost in the architecture (Oren Eini)
Utilization and the Myth of Shared Resources (Cory Foy)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Breaking News: Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit updated to v1.4.4 (Windows Phone Geek)
SLJS.org – a Silverlight -> Html/JS converter (Rob Ashton)
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ OS beta available today! (Chris Koenig)
Download Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2 (Mango) – Web and Offline Installer and Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 24 – Local Database Support, CRUD operation with Demo (Kunal Chowdhury)
Microsoft Advertising SDK Update is Now Available (Doug Holland)
Love Android – Take a look at this (Andy Robb)
Mango OS Beta Coming to Retail Devices (Dani Diaz)
WP7 Cascade Behavior (Erik Klimczak)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Guthrie at NDC! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Rx Workshop: Event Processing and Rx Workshop: Introduction (Charles Torre)
The Fear Of Failure And What To Do About It (Roy Osherove)
YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Probably, Maybe, No: The State Of HTML5 Audio” (51 min.) (Jenny Donnelly)
Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: Web Workers Demo and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Positioned Floats in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Web Worker Fountains in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at Magnetic Poetry in IE10 and Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 2: A look at How Stuff Works in IE10 and Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Evan (Larry Larsen)
OTN Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 3 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)
SE Podcast #10 (Alex Miller)

Database

Can you query a SSAS cube while it is processing? (James Serra)
SQL Server: Grouping ID Example (Madhivanan)
SQL Excursions Sessions – Powershell (Thomas LaRock)
Poking Around Inside Management Studio (Michael Swart)
The mystery of the NULL bitmap mask (Klaus Aschenbrenner)

Miscellaneous

An API Isn’t Enough: You Need an App Directory (Alex Willen)
Hex Conversion via a Batch File (Josh Poley)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Head First iPhone and iPad Development – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJN8 (O’Reilly Media)
Photosynth App Update and Best of Bing Maps Summer Xbox & Kinect Contest (The Bing Team) – Where’s Photosynth for WP7??

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 29, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 06.20 ~ 06.30 (yuanjian)
Weekly Link Post 199 (Rhonda Tipton)
Daily News Digest 06/29/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Today’s Links (6/29/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #884 (Chris Alcock)
Link dump for June 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2011 — #1112 and SilverlightShow for June 20 – 26, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 29 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

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Dew Drop – June 29, 2011

Posted on June 29, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Xamarin Joy Factory (Miguel de Icaza)
Google+ invite received, we go hands-on (Brian Heater)
I Don’t Have Time for Unit Tests (Mike Hadlow)
Reflector v7 Add-Ins (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

Working with Co-Variance and Contra-Variance in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Speed up (Gian Maria Ricci)
Executing SQL Query using LINQ to SQL (Dhananjay Kumar)
Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010-Part 3 and Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 Part-4 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
"Continuously" testing with Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Gfader)
AppHarbor Announces Add-On API For .NET Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
One step closer still (Sebastien Lambla)
Autocomplete ForeignKey Field Template Now on NuGet (Steve Naughton)
RTFM–the tale of ReaderWriterLockSlim (Dror Helper)
Delegate feed privileges to other users on MyGet (Maarten Balliauw)
Book Review – Programming Windows Azure by Siriram Krishnan (Buck Woody)
ReSharper 6 RC2; EAPs for dotCover, dotTrace Performance (Jura Gorohovsky)
No more regions on implementing interface (Jef Claes)

Web Development

Using jQuery to auto add image captions (John Whish)
jQuery SearchBox AutoComplete Widget (Slavko Parezanin)
Html5 Snooker Club (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
CSS 2.1 Complete: Unblocking Faster Web Standards Progress (Adrian Bateman)
Leave the Past Behind: Switch to CSS3 (Nick Baker)
#Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile – Only $6.49 w/code DD3JN (O’Reilly Media)
Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5 (Scott Knaster)
Announcing Four New F# Projects For Creating Web Apps (Robert Pickering)
A Better Razor IsNullOrEmpty Statement (K. Scott Allen)
Pass cookie from Web Request to WebBrowser (Gian Maria Ricci)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Easy Unit Testing in C++ for Linux (Avi Kaye)
Article: Agile Schools: How Technology Saves Education (Just Not the Way We Thought it Would) (Steve Peha)
Git: Deleting a remote branch on a gitolite configured repository (Mark Needham)
Study: Dads turning to web work to relieve work-life conflict (Jessica Stillman)
Why Teams Fail (JD Meier)
Introducing the Expected Objects Library (Derek Greer)
Git for Personal Projects (Ashod Nakashian)
Book Review: Uncle Bob’s "The Clean Coder" (Ben Linders)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

New Coding4Fun Toolkit v1.4.3 officially released with an important appbar fix (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone codenamed "Tango" coming after Mango? (damaster)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 23 – Local Database Support, Configuring Project (Kunal Chowdhury)
Windows Phone 7 Push Notification For Beginners–The Device (Matthias Shapiro)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ICSE 2011: Danny Dig – Retrofitting Parallelism into a Sequential World (Charles Torre)
The Engadget Show – 022: Gadgets get smashed, Rick Karr talks broadband, Peter Rojas and Ryan Block tell us what moved them (Tim Stevens)
Let’s Play TDD #118: Coupling vs. Complexity (James Shore)
Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Lambda (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Sonic 4, Robozzle, Career Tips, Chicken Implosion, TatZooom (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for June 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Develop Awards 2011: The Finalists for Technical Innovation (Develop Staff)

Database

SQL Server: Grouping ID Example (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Find Details for Statistics of Whole Database – DMV – T-SQL Script (Pinal Dave)
My Favourite SQL Server Myths and Realities (Ramkumar)
HASHBYTES – A T-SQL Function (Steve Jones)
SQL Functions – ORIGINAL_LOGIN(), SUSER_SNAME() & SESSION_USER (Vishal)
Instead Of Trigger and OUTPUT clause headache (Jakub Dvorak)
Pain of the Week: Understanding Your Indexes (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1 Now Available–What’s New? (Andrew Connell)
Top Software for SharePoint Development (Avi Kaye)

Miscellaneous

Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web (Vic Gundotra)
Google Takeout Liberates Your Google Data in One Click [Video] (Adam Pash)
Ringing in Mango (Alice Luu)
4th & Mayor v2 is now released (Jeff Wilcox)
Uh-oh, Google Apps, Office 365 launches in 40 countries (Joe Wilcox)
Windows Gets an App Store of Its Own: Avenue (Jolie O’Dell)
Tibbr, the new OS. Integrating is the new Operating. (Martijn Linssen)
Microsoft launches Office 365: Here’s what you need to know (Mary Jo Foley)
Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part (MG Siegler)
Deal/Day: Save 50% on all #Perl Ebooks & Videos – Celebrate #OSCON (O’Reilly Media)
Google+ is much more than a Facebook killer (Tim Conneally)
Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social (Steven Levy)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Weekly Link Post 199 (Rhonda Tipton)
Today’s Links (6/28/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #883 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 06/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
June 28th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
Daily WP7 Development News 28 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight Cream for June 28, 2011 — #1112 (Dave Campbell)
Link dump for June 28th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox Beginning Guides) by Steve Fox

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Dew Drop – June 28, 2011

Posted on June 28, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Windows 8 to RTM in April 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
Sending text messages from a Dell Venue Pro. Directly from the app and without SmsComposerTask. (Dennis Delimarsky)
5 jQuery Scripts To Create a Great First Impression (Rob Diana)
Microsoft Office Division to Make Announcement, June 28, 2011 (Zhiming Xue)

.NET / Visual Studio

Enabling conditional Basic HTTP authentication on a WCF OData service (Maarten Balliauw)
LINQ Partitioning with Indexes (Richard Carr)
Using Complex Numbers in .NET 4.0 (Abhijit Jana)
Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Speed up (Gian Maria Ricci)
Turning off Pluralization of classes in LINQ to SQL O/R designer and Using O/R designer to bind a Windows Form in LINQ and Fetching different values in LINQ Concurrency conflict (Dhananjay Kumar)
Code refactoring with Visual Studio 2010-Part 3 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Configuring a PowerShell Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
RabbitMQ, Subscription, and Bouncing Servers in EasyNetQ (Mike Hadlow)
Visual Studio ALM Video & Two Updates for TFS/VS You Should Install (Shai Raiten)
You can’t cache DateTime.Now (Oren Eini)
.Net Micro Framework Codeplex’apluza (i.e. a .Net MF Codeplex Project Round-up) (Greg Duncan)
Correlating a Non-Delivery-Notification to its original message with the Exchange Managed API (Henning Krause)
Using the Task Parallel Library (TPL) for Events (Jeremy Likness)
Creating an Internet Explorer Add-in Toolbar Button using C++ and ATL: Update (Pete Brown)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 3 Docs In Nine Languages (Phil Haack)
Hosting Services with WAS and IIS on Windows Azure (Tom Hollander)
New Windows Azure Traffic Manager Features Ease Visibility Into Hosted Service Health (Windows Azure Team)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 2.1.1 released! (Alexey Gopachenko)
Microsoft: full speed ahead into the cloud with fileupload & Node.js (Code Inside Team)
Book Review: Hands-on Node.js (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Using Code Signing Certificates to sign downloaded MSIs and build reputation with IE9 SmartScreen (Scott Hanselman)
A brief history of ECMAScript versions (including Harmony/ES.next) (Axel Rauschmayer)
Building a Better Web Application: Part 1 and Part 2 (Tobin Titus)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Introduce Explaining Variable (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

UX + Agile (Caleb Jenkins)
Fear, Courage and Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
Personal Strengths Vocabulary (J.D. Meier)
Be Teachable, Be Command-able, Be Critique-able (John Sonmez)
When Testing Fails … (Shrini Kulkarni)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Getting ready for the Windows Phone 7 Exam 70-599 (Part 4) (Peter Kuhn)
#7 How to use AddressChooserTask in a Windows Phone Mango and Dynamically updating a data bound LongListSelector in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
MMPPF – Getting started guide for the Silverlight Microsoft Media Platform (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 22 – Local Database Support, Create DataContext (Kunal Chowdhury)
Michael’s “Mega Collection of Silverlight 5 Beta” Demos (Michael Crump)
MarketPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application (Pete Brown)
Extensibility interfaces for Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight 3 (Carlos Figueira)
Unexpected Debugging with WP7 (Simon Jackson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ingo Rammer Builds Native HTML 5 Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 151 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeremy Kelly Announces Script Explorer (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Bytes by TechNet: Scott Hanselman and Matt Hester (MS Podcasts)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 60 – Continuous Delivery with Stephen Godbold (Richard Banks)
Pluralcast 45 : Mario Cardinal on Agile Architecture (David Starr)
Kinect Code Camp 2011: Team Constellation and A Look at Tabbed Conversations in Lync SDK and Kinect Code Camp: Team Redhawk (Larry Larsen)
Ping 106: Nuads on Kinect, Mozaic, Mozilla, Facebook (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Pablo’s Fiesta 2011 (Chad Myers)
F#unctional Londoners, July 4: Monads in .Net & F# in the Cloud (Don Syme)
Teaching Computer Programming at Home (Michael Scherotter)
This year, I’ll be at the Agile Alliance Conference – you should go to the Dallas Tech Fest (Caleb Jenkins)
DevDays is Back! (Joel Spolsky)
Lynn Langit: Evangelist and Intrapreneur (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Girl Geek Dinners: Meet Up to Talk About Games, Gadgets & Geekery (Nicole Kline)
The Developer’s Workplace (K. Scott Allen)
New SSIS features and enhancements in Denali – a webinar on 28th June in association with Pragmatic Works (Jamie Thomson)

Database

SQL Server “Denali”: Details on the next version of SSAS (James Serra)
SQL Server: Check if Date is End of Month (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQLAuthority News – Monthly list of Puzzles and Solutions on SQLAuthority.com (Pinal Dave)
SQL Functions – LOGINPROPERTY() (Vishal)

SharePoint

10 Reasons Users Should Care About Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 (Joel Oleson)
New Book: Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure (Kim Spilker)
PerformancePoint Services Architecture in SharePoint Server 2010 (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

Disabling Events in ShowUI (Joel Bennett)
Google Health and HealthVault – why and when it matters and to whom (Bill Crounse)
A Browser for All Windows Customers: it’s about and, not or (Dean Hachamovitch)
Why should Google wait for Microsoft to launch Office 365 tomorrow, when it can diss today? (Joe Wilcox)
Summer of Arcade dates and prices (Larry Hryb)
MVPs for Office 365: Lync Online Federation (Lonnie Webb)
#Ebook Deal/Day: iPad 2: The Missing Manual, 2nd Ed. – Only $9.99 w/code DDPD2 (O’Reilly Media)
An open letter to speakers (Scott Berkun)
Nokia – devices, design and developers (Steve Clayton)
Get ready – Office 2010 SP1 coming your way (Steven Hodson)
KickoffLabs is Open for Business! (Scott Watermasysk & Josh Ledgard)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – June 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Today’s Links (6/27/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #882 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 06/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 06/27/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/28/2011 and Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for June 20-26, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 074 for 6/27/2011 (Pete Brown)
Daily WP7 Development News 27 June 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine

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