Dew Drop – August 12, 2011

Top Links

• Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector (Phil Haack)
• C# Performance Pitfall – Interop Scenarios Change the Rules (Reed Copsey)
• NuGet Support for Visual Studio 2008 (Scott Hanselman)
• HTML5 Boilerplate hits 2.0! (Paul Irish)
• MonoCross – A cross-platform MVC pattern for mobile development in .NET/C# and Mono (Google Code)

.NET / Visual Studio

• nHibernate LINQ workaround for System.NotSupportedException (Jag Reehal)
• Enable Address Level Debugging in Visual Studio and What is the use of IsBackground property of Thread? (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Automatic File Recovery (Richard Carr)
• Getting Started with the F# PowerPack (Daniel Mohl)
• Visual Studio and Orphan Child Window–How to Fix the Issue (Derik Whittaker)
• Dynamic in C# is Broken (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• How to get DTE from Visual Studio process ID? (Kirill Osenkov)
• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours in F# – Part VII (Luca Bolognese)
• Running Visual Studio (and Resharper) on a Mac (Peter van Ooijen)
• Configuring a TFS Environment with Test Controller, Test Agent, and Build Server (Kirk Evans)
• Code Metrics: Code Metrics Results Exporting (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tip: Access to modified variable in closures (Arian Kulp)
• Lambdas for Junior Developers and Building a Tree Class (Chris Eargle)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Beta 1 Released! (Eric Smith)
• Windows Server AppFabric adds Read-Through and Write-Behind Support (Jonathan Allen)
• Photo Mosaics Part 3: Blobs (Jim O’Neil)
• I Get NuGet. You Get NuGet? (Jeff Handley)
• A Wide Array of New Features in Windows Azure Tools 1.4 (Jenni Ripley)
• Total Commander SkyDrive File System Plugin 0.8.9b (CodePlex)

Web Development

• The Backbone.js Todo List Sample, Refactored – Part 1 (Rob Conery)
• A simple pattern for AJAX with MVC (Avi Pilosof)
• HTML5 WebCamp Lab Setup Instruction (Doris Chen)
• jWorldmaps: The Anatomy of a jQuery Mapping Plugin (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Developing Rich Applications for the Diverse Internet (Joe Stagner)
• How to Implement 2-Step Verification in ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Making HTML tables easier on the eye- CSS Structural Pseudo-classes (Phil Factor)
• ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Universal Map of Resources (Rick Anderson)
• HTML 5 Updates for .NET 4 (Scott Hunter)
• Running ASP.NET MVC 3 Applications on Azure (Mark Berryman)
• Hardening PHP: SQL injection – Complete walkthrough (Krzysztof Kotowicz)
• IE Microsoft JScript runtime error: ‘JSON’ is undefined (Raghav Khunger)
• Facebook Wins “Worst API” in Developer Survey (Sarah Perez)
• Video encoder and metadata reading by using Windows Media Foundation (Tamir Khason)
• Windows Azure Inter-Role Communication Using Service Bus (Valery Mizonov)
• A Simple Example For Backbone.ModelBinding (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Having Trouble Adopting Agile? (Phil Japikse)
• Creating a command line tool for source code metrics analysis (Alex Skorkin)
• Why is mercurial hanging during adding file changes? (Anne Epstein)
• The LOB Chronicles – Exploring User Experience (UX) (Evan Hutnick)
• Do yourself a favor… Trust No One (Paul S. Randal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• MathConverter – How to Do Math in XAML (Ivan Krivyakov)
• Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): [Index] attribute (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone Pivot and loading content (Andrej Tozon)
• TouchDevelop – Getting Started (Jonathan de Halleux)
• WPF: Dictionary Value Converter (Arik Poznanski)
• How can you detect Browser Information in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #362 – Changing the Text on a ToggleButton When a User Clicks On It and #363 – Calendar Control Basics (Sean Sexton)
• Using on View Ready in Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• FlickR Searching with Silverlight & Rx (Mike Taulty)
• Get List of all Control Types in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
• Detecting a Windows Phone physical drop – Part 1 – Intro and theory (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Show a minimized panorama application bar (Håkan Reis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Space Out! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 118: Paul Betts on SassAndCoffee (Jon Galloway)
• Ping 112: ESPN & Xbox LIVE, Foy works for Windows Phone, G mail man, IE Hoax (Laura Foy)
• SE Podcast #15 (Alex Miller)
• Thomas Fennel and Windows Phone Mango’s Push Notifications and Live Tile Support (Robert Hess)
• Silverlight TV 81: Four Great Windows Phone UX Tips (John Papa)
• Interview: Thomas Erl and Anne Thomas Manes – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• This Developer’s Life 2.0.4 Taste (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – David Kelley Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Boagworld – The big decisions about design and how to make them (Paul Boag)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 029 – “Aussie Kids Are Weet-Bix Kids” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Hot Apps: Cro-Mag Rally, Numerix, Wild West, Activity Roulette, HoloPhone 3D (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Someone is selling my Foundations of Programming ebook on Amazon.com (and it isn’t me) (Karl Seguin)
• FubuMVC Webinar: F102 – FubuMVC In Action (Josh Arnold)
• MVPs Bring Together Hundreds of Developers to Hack Kinect and Build Games in Sydney (Nick Ellery)
• Google + Hangouts (Grant Fritchey)
• I Blame Brent Ozar (Mike Hillwig)
• The Open Group Certified Architect (Open CA) Program Distilled (Mike Walker)

Database

• Viewing SQL statements created by Entity Framework with SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server “Denali”: Distributed Replay (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Advanced Aggregates with the Over Clause – Day 11 of 35 and SQL SERVER – SafePeak – The Plug and Play Immediate Acceleration Solution and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Ranking Functions – RANK( ), DENSE_RANK( ), and ROW_NUMBER( ) – Day 12 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #21 – A trigger can do that! (Ted Krueger)
• Query window custom colouring now works properly [SSMS] (Jamie Thomson)
• When was the Last Time You Removed an Index Because it was Never Used? (Brad M. McGehee)
• Reset Identity Column in SQL (Bradley Schacht)
• We Are TOTALLY Amused: A T-SQL Error (Jen McCown)

Miscellaneous

• Steal Ideas From These psake Scripts (Pete Seale)
• OneNote tip: getting OneNote to prompt you for where to store stuff (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Functional Programming for Java Developers – Only $8.49 w/code DD241 (O’Reilly Media)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 115 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for August 10, 2011 — #1129 and Silverlight Cream for August 11, 2011 — #1130 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 Aug 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_27 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) and Weekly Links– 2010_28 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Today’s Links (8/10/2011) and Today’s Links (8/11/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #914 and The Morning Brew #915 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 08/11/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 9-Aug-2011 and 10-Aug-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Geek Reading August 11, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Link dump for August 10th and Link dump for August 11th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily Links 11/08/2011 (Jax)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders & Pitfalls: The Complete Collection (so far…) (James Michael Hare)

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