Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft – Page 1184 – Daily links for Windows and .NET developers.

Dew Drop – April 23, 2011

Top Links

ILSpy – Query Expressions (Daniel Grunwald)
ReSharper, Import Symbol Completion, XML files, and You (James Kovacs)
How to Debug XAML Data Bindings in Silverlight 5 Beta ? (Abhijit Jana)
When to avoid CQRS (Udi Dahan)
Watermark TextBox for Windows Phone (Daniel Moth)

.NET / Visual Studio

TOD : Wrapping Code Block and Statements in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
WCF Extensibility – Message Inspectors (Carlos Figueira)
How to read/write different DXCore setting files from your own plug-in and How to load/change CodeRush templates from inside your DXCore plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
Handle an event with reflection (Gian Maria Ricci)
Windows Azure for Developers Task 12: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error and Windows Azure for Developers Task 13: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error [Other Solution] (Dhananjay Kumar)
Announcing ApiStack.net (Adam Granicz)
Anonymous type equality (Jef Claes)
SL# 1.4 Released (Zor)

Web Development

Using jQuery for ASP.NET Textbox Autocomplete (Joe Stagner)
Test your ASP.NET MVC or WebForms Application on IIS 7 in 30 seconds and Better, Faster, Easier SSL testing for ASP.NET MVC & WebForms (ricka0)
The Continuing Evolution of WCF–the Web Uris Evolve (Sam Gentile)
404? 500? The Server Header Infographic (Think "Making Server Headers pretty and more understandable infographic") (Greg Duncan)
Making use of Cloud Services .NET My Services (Hailstorm) (Christian Nagel)
New Sample NancyFx App TickerViewer (Bobby Johnson)
Thoughts on when to use Canvas and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
Configuring a WCF Service to Run Via HTTPS (Steve Smith)
Storing Encrypted Data in Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A new problem for the agile testing community (Gojko Adzic)
Use CQRS When Constrained on Developers and Time (Rinat Abdullin)
NUnit Exception Assertions (Richard Carr)
Using State Diagrams to Express Robot Behaviors & Transitions (Billy McCafferty)
Best practices: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Devon Musgrave)
Integration: ETL (Paul Stovell)
Peer recognition (Steven "Doc" List)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Multiple Windows (Peter Kuhn)
Silverlight 4 Documentation Updated (Brian)
MVVM Resources (Corey Schuman)
Babylon 3D engine for Silverlight 5 Beta available for download (Davide Zordan)
Dropbox photo uploader for Windows Phone – raw bits, no third-party libraries (Dennis Delimarsky)
The Mango Marketplace (Chris Koenig)
Windows Phone Next (Don Burnett)
Windows Phone Garage part deux (Glen Gordon)
Silverlight 5 Beta – available now! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes on 9 – Raw Backstage footage before the Mix11 keynote with Jonathan Carter (Scott Hanselman)
Cloud Cover Episode 44 – Umbraco and Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Sam Abraham Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Windows Phone Radio 24 (Brian Seitz)
Microsoft Surface 2 SDK at Mix 11 (Larry Larsen)
TWC9: Mix Sessions, Async CTP Refresh, Hanselman rides the Jellybean (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
VLC MIX WMV RSS – Jon Galloway shows us an alternate way to view the MIX videos, via magic of RSS and VLC (Greg Duncan)
VBandi at MIX Part 2 – Dave Campbell and Tony Champion (András Velvárt)
Coding QA Podcast Episode 54 – Interviewing at Microsoft (Mark Berry & Jim Wang)

Community / Events

Windows Phone Student App-a-thon! (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 CTP (MS Downloads)
SQL Server Management Studio Tip: Change Defaul templates for Stored Procedures (Amit Bansal)
SQL SERVER – Using Decode in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP Available for download (Denis Gobo)
Difference between a Cumulative Update and Service Pack for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0 (MS Downloads)
Just Published: Apr. 1- 15 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (SharePoint Developer Team)
How to upload a document in SharePoint 2010 using Client Context Object Model ? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

Now in Marketplace: Groupon, Home Depot (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Retrospective 29 – Tiger Blood and Agile Chicken Guns (Peter Saddington)
Interesting .NET Links – April 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2011 – 2 — #1076 (Dave Campbell)
This Week’s Link List (April 22, 2011) (Brian Swan)

The Geek Shelf

Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Scott Jamison

Technorati Tags: vs2010,silverlight,windows phone 7,sharepoint,sql server,asp.net mvc,windows azure,resharper,nunit,wcf

Dew Drop – April 22, 2011

Top Links

Free Xbox LIVE Weekend and be a part of a World Record Attempt (Larry Hryb)
Update to the F# 2.0 Free Tools Release, Corresponding to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (April 2011 CTP) (Don Syme)
Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress (Scott Hanselman)
Should SQL Server Professionals Learn Oracle? (Ted Krueger)

.NET / Visual Studio

Exporting Visual Studio 2010 Pinned DataTips (Richard Carr)
Project Server 2010 and TFS 2010 Integration VM with Labs (Ed Blankenship)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: Any() and All() (James Michael Hare)
Using Kinect for NUI Part 2 – Gestures (Deborah Hanamura)

Web Development

Musing on Simpler Migrations (Rob Conery)
Sending Mail from an ASP.NET website. (Greg Gum)
Restricting Input in HTML Textboxes to Numeric Values (Rick Strahl)
Creating an Autocomplete Redirect Navigation Control using jQuery UI (Steve Smith)
CSS3 vs. CSS: A Speed Benchmark (Trent Walton)
IE Pinned Sites Part 2: Why Implement Pinned Sites? (Jennifer Marsman)
Server-Side Form Validation with WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
Geographically distributing Windows Azure applications using Traffic Manager (Maarten Balliauw)
Windows Azure for Developers Task 11: Create X.509 certificate for Windows Azure Web Role (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Professional Scrum with TFS 2010 Released! (Aaron Bjork)
How to Be Agile NOW! – With Tomatoes and [Infographic] Clean Code and Test Driven Development Cheat Sheets (Peter Saddington)
Integration: Shared Database and Integration: Scenario (Paul Stovell)
Lokad.CQRS for Windows Azure: Roadmap (Rinat Abdullin)
Using O-MaSE Methodology for Goal Modeling (Billy McCafferty)
Principles 5: End-to-End Development Process (for Large Projects) (Ivo Manolov)
Communication Bandwidth on Successful Projects (James Kovacs)
How You Help Us Improve IE’s Reliability (Herman Ng)
When race conditions & unbounded result sets are actually the solution – the resolution (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Multi-Column Layouts and Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Markup Extensions (Peter Kuhn)
Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Custom Validation Rules (Windows Phone Geek)
Things I am liking about the Blend for Silverlight 5.. (Don Burnett)
Implicit Data Templates (Silverlight 5) (Jesse Liberty)
Loving MMVM and asynchronous operations (Gian Maria Ricci)
ViewModel INotifyPropertyChanged Code Generation (Colin Eberhardt)
Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [6/6] (Dennis Delimarsky)
Today’s toolkit time with the Extended WPF Toolkit (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C9 Lectures: Yuri Gurevich – Introduction to Algorithms and Computational Complexity, 3 of 3 (Charles Torre)
Vbandi at MIX Part 1–Interview with Nokia’s Wai Seto (vbandi)
Silverlight TV 69: UX and Perceived Performance of WP7 Apps (John Papa)
Blend SIG Podcast – April 2011: David Kelley (Joel Cochran)

Community / Events

Blog Post: CodeSmith Tools Easter Sale (T. DuPont)
Announcing a free Windows Phone 7 Workshop during Internet Week at Flash and the City (Dave Isbitski)
A competition for kids: Kodu Cup (Devon Musgrave)
Winners named for Microsoft Next global video competition (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 1) and Wrapping up MIX11 (Part 2) (Ariel Ben-Horesh)

Database

A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
SQL SERVER – Potential Bottlenecks for Performance (Pinal Dave)
Connecting Microsoft Access to SQL Azure (Dhananjay Kumar)
Daily Denali Delight – Day 2 and Daily Denali Delight – Day 3 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

Silverlight Integration with SharePoint 2010 – Part I (Pravinkumar Dabade)
How to get the package name or other names of SharePoint items (Phil Hoff)

Miscellaneous

An email leads to a quick discussion on infinite page size in OneNote (John Guin)
One Step Closer to the First Nokia Device built on Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – April 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Web Dev Tweets 21-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Daily WP7 Development News April 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Geek Dad-Geek Dad(Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share)Paperback on May 04, 2010 by Ken Denmead

Technorati Tags: vs2010,f#,sharepoint,silverlight,wpf,mvvm,iis express,sql server,sql azure,windows azure,ie9,windows phone 7,tdd,linq

Dew Drop – April 21, 2011

Top Links

How To Replace Source Control With Comments (Rob Conery)
Why every language needs a language specification… (Paul Vick)
Exclusive: Microsoft’s Lees and Nokia’s Oistamo Talk About Their Just-Signed Contract (Ina Fried)
Knockout.js 1.2.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
Uses and misuses of implicit typing (Eric Lippert)
NuGet Package of the Week #5 – Debugging ASP.NET MVC applications with Glimpse (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

Configuring WCF Data Service using Lambda Expressions (Gil Fink)
WCF Extensibility – Runtime (Carlos Figueira)
Visual Studio LightSwitch Samples in the new MSDN Samples Gallery (Greg Duncan)
Supporting JSONP callbacks in WCF Data Services (Marcelo’s WebLog)
In-Place upgrade of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 with move to new domain (Martin Hinshelwood)
Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework 1.0 Released! (T. DuPont)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 (Steve Danielson)
Writing a NuGet Package That Adds A Command To The PowerShell Console (Phil Haack)
WF4 State Machine User Experience (.NET Connected Framework Team)
NuGet packages now come with Debug symbols, Sources (Roopesh Shenoy)
Name for .NET decompiler anyone? (Jura Gorohovsky)
Understanding the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus [QuotaExceededException] (Keith Bauer)
LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: the basics (Frans Bouma)
FT, then FP and SP now PU! Power Tools, Feature Packs, Service Packs, now Platform Updates – .Net 4 Platform Update 1 Released (Think WF stuff, like State Machine, persist to SQL Azure, etc) (Greg Duncan)
Replacing An If Statement With An Object (Derick Bailey)
Two great uses of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Brian Keller)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 2 Voting Control (Jon Nethercott)
Amazon Simple Pay in ASP.NET (Hajan Selmani)
FubuMVC’s Authorization Use Cases (Jeremy Miller)
HTML5 Labs now has a FileAPI (Martin Beeby)
Setting up a local SSL development environment for multiple sites (Daniel Fisher)
A DoubleClick Custom Web Control (Jonathan Wood)
Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0 BETA released (Maarten Balliauw)
Experiences with REST (Jimmy Bogard)
Quick Edit mode for YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)
What’s new in Orchard 1.1? and Orchard 1.1: what’s in it for developers? (Bertrand Le Roy)
Speed Up Azure Deployments with the New Web Deployment Feature (Beth Massi)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – The Towering Inferno (Jan Van Ryswyck)
IE Pinned Sites Part 1: What Are Pinned Sites? (Jennifer Marsman)
What I Love/Hate About PHP (Eric Hogue)
Hang Resistance in IE9 (Herman Ng)
IE Feedback: Looking Back, Forging Ahead (Justin Saint Clair)
How to Use the Storage Emulator with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
Chrome Developer Tools: Understanding Stack Traces (Yury Semikhatsky)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Paradoxes in Program Management: 5 Contradictions in Managing a Productive Scrum Team and PMI – Agile Certification Examination Outline Launched! (Peter Saddington)
Linear trees with Git rebase and Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Fixture and Exploring TDD in JavaScript with a small kata (Giorgio Sironi)
When race conditions & unbounded result sets are actually the solution (Oren Eini)
Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)
Using dotCover to Cover Applications, with or without ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Updated (Bruce Kyle)
What Is Enterprise Architecture? (Boris Lublinsky)
Using Kinect for NUI Part 1 (Deborah Hanamura)
Drawing boundaries (Jimmy Bogard)
Integration: Scenario (Paul Stovell)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Implementing a WP7 Checked ListBox in different ways and WP7 ListBox SelectedItem (Windows Phone Geek)
Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 Software Development Kit – April 2011 Update (MS Downloads)
Windows Phone App Dev Incentives (Arian Kulp)
AncestorType in RelativeSource – Silverlight 5 (Abhijit Jana)
Page-based browsing in a list on Windows Phone and Windows Phone tip of the day: MediaLibrary can be tested in the emulator with built-in songs (Dennis Delimarsky)
Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Implicit Data Templates (Peter Kuhn)
WPF binding a text with decoration (Gian Maria Ricci)
Don’t shoot the messenger [A WebBrowserExtensions workaround for Windows Phone and a BestFitPanel tweak for infinite layout bounds on Windows Phone/Silverlight/WPF] (David Anson)
Using Binding to create Panels/Pivots in your WP7 Application and Update Error 800705B4 for WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
WP7 – adding a ‘Fade to Black’ effect to a ListBox and WPF, Silverlight, WP7 and the Async CTP (Guardian)
When enough ViewModel is enough (Jeremy Alles)
Silverlight 5–Combo box type ahead and Silverlight 5–Rich Text and Overflow (Jesse Liberty)
Silverlight 5’s New RichTextBoxOverflow Control and Silverlight 5’s New Style Data Binding and Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture (Jeff Prosise)
Windows Phone 7 “Mango”: what’s coming for app developers (Katrien de Graeve)
Prism 4: Defining Custom Command Behavior for ListBox control in Silverlight 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications For Beginners (Now With Testing!) (Matthias Shapiro)
Building a better MessageBox for WP7 with the help of XNA. (Michael Crump)
The WP7 Marketplace and the Enterprise (Mike Hole)
Windows Phone 7 and WCF Don’t Play Nicely (Nick Randolph)
Silverlight – 5 easy steps to obfuscate auto-magically on the build server (Peter Gfader)
Converting SVG to XAML with IE9 and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (Synergist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes is looking through Prism 4 and .NET Rocks! – Richard Campbell Talks Tech Ed 101 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Lucian Wischik: Async Compiler – Bug Fixes, Updates and Core Improvements and Checking In: Jeff Wilcox – Writing the WP7 App Platform in C# and C++ (Charles Torre)
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 68: Why Your Career is Going Away Because You Refuse to Change, You Pansy (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
Herding Code 109: Harmony Hackathon (Jon Galloway)
Stack Overflow Podcast #88 (Alex Miller)
Let’s Play TDD #104: Cleaned Up and Ready to Move On (James Shore)
Radio TFS 32: Mailbag Episode (Martin Woodward)
Defrag 004 – Battery Life, Slow Wake, Library Problems and Mobile Photosynth Panorama App (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Harbor Master, Pomodoro, Origami, Dropdown, Shut the Box (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Announcing SharePoint Stack Exchange (SharePoint Developer Team)
Script# at MIX11 (Nikhil Kothari)
Announcing free, hands-on Windows Phone 7 developer workshops hitting the East Coast. The time for your app is now! (Dave Isbitski)
Free 2 Day Training: HTML5 and Web Development WebCamp | Register Now (Doris Chen)
NuGet Was The Star of MIX 11 (Rob Conery)
Subscribe to the MIX Newsletter (Kim Spilker)
The Pros and Cons are in – the love/hate relationship we have with our jobs and The next Bill Gates: Microsoft hosts a new generation of tech talent (Microsoft JobsBlog)
HTML5 Community Night: HTML5 and Browsers Webcast on Tuesday April 26 (Wes Yanaga)

Database

SQL Server: Transfer Objects From One Schema to Another (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Prevent Constraint to Allow NULL (Pinal Dave)
Phill’s SQL Monitoring Suite (Phill)
Identity Columns Aren’t Automatically Primary Keys (Andy Warren)
The Little MongoDB Book epub (Karl Seguin)
PostgreSQL Update Internals (Jeremiah Peschka)
NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
SQL Azure Use Case: Web-based Applications (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

Custom SharePoint Ribbons and Current List Item in JavaScript (Bil Simser)
SharePoint Foundation Logger RTW!!! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
SharePoint 2010: Track User Profile Changes Over Time Using MERGE (Steve Novoselac)

Miscellaneous

Office 365 Beta Released (Chris Koenig)
Microsoft and Nokia signs partnership agreement (damaster)
Now Available: April 2011 CTP the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (Windows Azure Team)
Windows Phone (post Walshie) gets a “Samsung update” (Kip Kniskern)
One Step Closer to the First Nokia Device built on Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 04.11 ~ 04.19 (yuanjian)
Interesting .NET Links – April 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 066 for 4/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
The Morning Brew #837 and The Morning Brew #838 and The Morning Brew #839 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 04/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Phone at MIX (Dave Bost)
SilverlightShow for April 1 – 17, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2011 – 2 — #1075 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News April 19th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News April 20th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
April 19th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg

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