Dew Drop – November 3, 2011

4 years ago yesterday, I attempted my first linkblog post. You can read it here, but please do not. 

Top Links

• Updating live tiles without draining your battery (Steven Sinofsky)
• Photoshop in METRO style (Antoni Dol)
• Media on the Windows Phone Platform (Nick Lecrenski)
• Working with LiveTiles in Metro Applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Really silly things to do with C# expression trees (Ryan Rauh)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting started with the Azure Hosted TFS (aka TFSPreview): Creating a New Team Project (Enrique Lima)
• Don’t be difficult, DiffMerge! Using the free DiffMerge with SourceSafe, TFS & SVN (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Debugging and Remote Debugging (Maria Marcano)
• New Pluralsight Course: Introduction to Building Windows 8 Metro Applications (Dan Wahlin)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October 2011 Update (Himanshu Singh)
• Review – InRule: A Business Rules Management System for .NET (James Michael Hare)
• Windows Azure SDK Error when launching compute emulator – Encountered an unexpected error Illegal characters in path (Avkash Chauhan)
• This Is Not How You Port Java Code To .NET (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Using FluentValidation with FubuMvc (Jon Canning)
• Using JsViews + MVCHaack Prototype to update multiple records in ASP.NET MVC (Per Ökvist)
• Uncurrying ‘this’ in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• APress Deal of the Day – 3/Nov/2011 – Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 (Tatworth)
• Running Scripts at the "Right" Time (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Working with Wijmo expanders and jQuery (Joel Cochran)
• Introduction To URL Rewriting (Paul Tero)
• Using the West Wind Web Toolkit to set up AJAX and REST Services (Rick Strahl)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.293 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• DotNetNuke Community Edition 05.06.04 (CodePlex)
• Making HTML5 Video work with IIS Express (Harish Ranganathan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD – Static Methods (Mark Pearl)
• The CQRS dilemma and related random thoughts (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• In Retrospect: About Bugs (Dennis Doomen)
• EventStore v3.0 Release (Jonathan Oliver)
• Remote pair-programming with Screen (Dalibor Nasevic)
• Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 2 (Johanna Rothman)
• The best way to research your next web project (Paul Boag)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 Marketplace Beta – new app downloadable delay (Andreas Hammar)
• How to bind Data to ListBox in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #422 – Setting Minimum Height and Width on Rows and Columns in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
• Getting bytes from continuous streams on Windows Phone 7 and Pandora – hidden endpoints (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Full Stack, Phase 2–Overview (Jesse Liberty)
• Author news: Andrew Whitechapel article on “Mango” apps (Devon Musgrave)
• Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone Toolkit MultiselectList in depth| Part2: Data Binding (WindowsPhoneGeek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: WCF Extensibility with Scott Reed and Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Using Isolated Storage and Visual Studio 2010 Ecosystem Series: Telerik Toolbox for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Allen Builds Web Pages With Modernizr (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 Coding Dojo video… A 66 minute journey to a LOB WP7 app (Greg Duncan)
• What The Tech 91: Future Of Computing (Paul Thurrott)
• Bing for Mobile Goes HTML5 (Santanu Basu)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Analyzing Your Code (Robert Green)
• Start Up Success Postcast Show #124: Corey Maass, theBirdy.com (Bob Walsh)
• Information Integration – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• SE Podcast #25 – Mark Russinovich (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• Web Camps Belgium: Hands-on HTML5 and Web Apps announced and Register now for TechDays 2012 and benefit from 15% Early Bird discount (Katrien de Graeve)
• Viral video lands Brandon Foy at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Inside Microsoft Research: Students Get Creative with Touch Mouse (Rob Knies)

Database

• How do I remove a named instance of sql server 2008 on the same mssql server? (Paula DiTallo)
• SQLAuthority News – New Book Released – SQL Server Interview Questions And Answers (Pinal Dave)
• Code to list index counts per table (Paul S. Randal)
• Data Explorer Team’s Vision for Data Discovery (Data Explorer Team)
• Using Table Valued Parameters (Bunch)

SharePoint

• Block Application pages and Form Pages in Sharepoint 2010 (Gino Abraham)

PowerShell

• Local Account Management PowerShell Module (with C# Source) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Google Graveyard? Microsoft throws stones from its glass house (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows Server "8" Preview (Unedited, Complete Version) (Paul Thurrott)
• The miracles that brought Kinect to life (Steve Clayton)
• WP7 Xbox Live Game of the Week: Kinectimals (officially) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Windows Phone App Flow: Blogging on The Go (Travis Pope)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 2, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #973 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/02/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• Interesting .NET Links – November 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Geek Reading November 2, 2011 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #744 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/2/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for November 01, 2011 — #1160 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Galloway