Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – August 14-15, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

 

Top Links

• IE9 will tell just how agile Microsoft really is (Ed Bott)
• First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Design Day Recordings (Jaime Rodriguez)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reading F# Projects, Part III: The F# math providers. (Yin Zhu)
• Are you the Chuck Norris of C#? Code Contest – win a Gyroscope Powerball! (Jonathan Cogley)
• Create Folders in Class View (Zain Naboulsi)
• Customizing process guidance for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• ReaderWriterLockSlim: Conquering Mismatched Enter and Exit Calls (Daniel Vaughan)

 

Web Development

• Unobtrusive JavaScript with Prototype.js (Boyan Kostadinov)
• Hate To Break It To You, But The Browser Is A Tier (Jon Davis)
• An HTML5 Remote Desktop – Part II (Gustavo Ricardi)
• Named Routes with ASP.NET MVC (Dane Morgridge)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Global action filters and ASP.NET MVC 3: Introducing Razor view engine (Gunnar Peipman)
• Json.NET 3.5 Release 8 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New Scrum Process Template for Team Foundation Server Online Presentation (Charles Sterling)
• Day 14 – Carve Out Time for What’s Important (J.D. Meier)
• Working from Home (Without Looking Like It) (Steve Adams)
• Powers of Why (Patrick Kua)
• Two different ways to create bad logic in unit tests (Roy Osherove)
• API Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid Common REST Mistakes (Tomas Vitvar)
• Coding Without A Net (Jesse Liberty)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Debugging Silverlight in Firefox (Corey Miller)
• “Fade in” Screen in Silverlight 4 (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight RIA Helpers for MVVM (Alpha Version 1) and WPF resizable grid (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: How do I save an image to the Pictures Hub (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone Applications: Timing using DispatcherTimer (Ricky Tan)
• Working with files in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 208 – 08.13.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: Windows Phone samples and controls, SQL Cop, WCF for large data (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Weekly 169: Riding The Bear (Paul Thurrott)
• endpoint.tv – Meet SO-Aware (Part 2) (Ron Jacobs)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The Yoda of Windows Phone (Nic Fillingham)
• jQuery Podcast 31 – Filament Group (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Security in Provisioning and Billing Solutions for Windows Azure Platform (Emily Gibson)
• Pano versus Pivot: Windows Phone Design Days content available (Tim Heuer)
• Silverlight TV Upcoming Schedule for August+ 2010 (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• Q&A: Microsoft’s Lisa Feigenbaum Talks About C# and VS 2010 Presentation: A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 for C# & VB Developers (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Microsoft BizSpark Does Not Care About Startups (Chris Pietschmann)
• Philly XAML Meeting – Windows Phone 7 (Lindsay Lindstrom)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Why SQL Server is better than any other RDBMS Applications? (Pinal Dave)
• Transferring Logins to a Database Mirror (Robert L Davis)
• Who is accessing my backup file ? (Pradeep Adiga)
• Allowing Table Re-Creation in SQL Server 2008 (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word 2010 & OneNote 2010 (Blake Handler)
• The Entire Star Wars Saga Is Finally Coming To Blu-ray in 2011 [Starwars] (Casey Chan)
• Manage Email addresses without Exchange cmdlets (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Calder Search for Mac,PC, Web and Facebook (Don Burnett)
• Objective C: Expected ‘(‘ before ‘Project’ (Mark Needham)
• How to "break in" to gaming & entertainment (Jason Pankow)
• [WinDbg Script] Displaying Parameters for Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing (Roberto Farah)
• Mexico Windows 7 Theme (Richard Hay)
• Major Update for Fav Media Center Plugin, TunerFreeMCE (Sarah Perez)
• Screencast and Podcast Recording Gear (Steve Smith)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Death by Facebook, Pissed at the Wrong Guy, Limits are Good (Dave Burke)
• Silverlight Cream for August 13, 2010 — #924 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

WPF 4 Unleashed by Adam Nathan