Dew Dump – February 19, 2010

This is the last Dew Dump… back to the standard, categorized Dew Drop format on Sunday or Monday. I had a great week at the MVP Global Summit. Tune in to DZone’s .NET Zone next week for more Summit thoughts and such.

Shut Up, Bob (David Starr)

Hanselminutes – The Making of a Hanselminutes Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy (Scott Hanselman)

Windows 7: Taskbar Icon Overlay (Kirupa)

Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 (MS Downloads)

Drivers for NOSQL (Jimmy Nilsson)

John Papa and I discuss the MIX10K winners on SilverlightTV (Adam Kinney)

Decoupling Your System with Messaging (Me)

Microsoft on Google Apps (Alex Chitu)

IndyHall Member Profiles: Bill Jones (Alex Hillman)

How I use Social Media: Part 3–Blogging (Amy Blankenship)

Interesting Finds: February 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Interesting Finds: February 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)

AutoMapper for Silverlight 3.0 Alpha (Jimmy Bogard)

10-4 Episode 41: Downloading and Installing the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (Brian Keller)

SQL Server Service Packs Scheduled (Bruce Kyle)

Restarting the SQL Server Service Account – Why? (Buck Woody)

iMindMap for the iPhone (Chance Brown)

C9 Lectures: Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#, 3 of 3 (Charles Torre)

Avoiding Uninstall/Reinstall when Debugging Out-of-Browser Apps (Cheryl S.)

The Morning Brew #542 (Chris Alcock)

The Morning Brew #543 (Chris Alcock)

Extend your Master Pages (Chris Brandsma)

DAWG-fight, Optimizing text search in F# II (Chris Smith)

TweetCraft 2.0 source code posted! (Coding4Fun)

Silverlight Cream for February 18, 2010 — #800 (Dave Campbell)

Have You Jumped On The Bandwagon Yet? (Davy Brion)

No trees were harmed in the making of this blog post [How to: Successfully print a Chart with the Silverlight 4 Beta] (David Anson)

My object to object mapper source released (Gunnar Peipman)

Code Metrics: Lines of Code (LoC) (Gunnar Peipman)

Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 Now Available (EF Team)

Entity Framework POCO Template updated for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (Diego Vega)

Seven big questions about the new Windows Phone 7 Series (Ed Bott)

Tech Tweets for 17-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

Tech Tweets for 18-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

What’s the difference between ternary and tertiary? (Eric Lippert)

NOT EXISTS vs NOT IN (Gila Monster)

The Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management video tour – Six videos, 30 minutes, toward Lab Management guru’ism (Greg Duncan)

Los Techies Fiesta Invitation (Gregory Long)

Search Providers: Best Practices on Setting the Default (IE Blog)

F# Webcast (I.) – Introducing functional concepts (Jan Steberl)

F# Webcast (II.) – Using .NET libraries (Jan Steberl)

F# Webcast (IV.) – Developing standard .NET libraries (Jan Steberl)

F# Webcast (III.) – Using Asynchronous Workflows (Jan Steberl)

Strategy Diamond (JD Meier)

Add post-backs to MVC –or- add front controller to Web Forms (Jeffrey Palermo)

Preview of the new StoryTeller Test Editor — Looking for Feedback (Jeremy D. Miller)

Quirks in .NET – Part 1 (Kevin Jones)

Azure Book Reviews (Jimmy Skowr)

Interactive Sorting Using a Tablix in Reporting Services (Joe Webb)

Episode #5 – Jesse Liberty on Silverlight Hyper Video (Joe Stagner)

Silverlight TV 9: MIX 10K Challenge (John Papa)

Herding Code 73: Daniel Plaisted on Model-Based Testing in Action on the MEF Team (Jon Galloway)

CQRS: An Introduction for Beginners (Jonathan Oliver)

Advanced MVVM is now available for the Kindle (Josh Smith)

How to download and crack a Xap in Silverlight (Josh Twist)

EF4 Breaking Change: EF4 inner joins affect eager loading many to many (Julie Lerman)

Looking for Astoria aka ADO.NET Data Services aka WCF Data Services in VS2010? (Julie Lerman)

MSDN/TechNET Publishing System (MTPS) Rendering Subsystem Release Plan (Kimberly Wolk)

Silverlight MVP of the year (Laurent Bugnion)

Jump in! camp – Call for participants (Maarten Balliauw)

Three Ways to Populate a Select Element with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)

TED Talk: Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero (Mark Frauenfelder)

C#: Causing myself pain with LINQ’s delayed evaluation (Mark Needham)

The Ubiquitous Language is not Ubiquitous (Mark Nijhof)

App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health) (Mark Suster)

First code profiler for Silverlight (Martin Esmann)

What Do Ada Lovelace, Barbie and I All Have in Common? (Microsoft Blog Admin)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 7 – HTTP & Forms Auth (Mike Taulty)

Daily Dose – 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated (Mitch P.)

Daily Dose – Google Getting Sued Over Buzz (Mitch P.)

Table sizes (Niikola)

The 18th of Diduary: Did you know you can manage multiple items in your clipboard? (Jeff Blankenburg)

10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 12. The NamingPartsSubsystem (Mike Hadlow)

Office 2010 Application Compatibility Sweepstakes (Office Team)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First C# – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFC (O’Reilly Media)

SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant 2008 for MySQL v1.0 CTP1 (Pinal Dave)

jQuery Podcast 12 – Rey Bomb 1 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

.NET WebRequest.PreAuthenticate – not quite what it sounds like (Rick Strahl)

Running Rails 2.3.x on IronRuby (Rob Bazinet)

Magenic Studios Silverlight/WPF Contest (Rockford Lhotka)

Return of the Becoming a Better Developer Meme: My 2010 SMART Goal (Russell Ball)

Facebook for Windows Phones Updated (Sarah Perez)

Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

Why you should be a team of one (Scott Berkun)

The Weekly Source Code 50 – A little on "A generic error occurred in GDI+" and trouble generating images on with ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)

FIX: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition=’MachineToApplication’ beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS (Scott Mitchell)

50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms) (Smashing Magazine)

Links (2/16/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

Silverlight MVPs of the Year (2009) (Tim Heuer)

Build Extensibility with .NET Framework 4 (VS Blog)

State of the Mono (Wally McClure)

Creators Club Communiqué 42 (Kathleen Sanders)

Type-Ahead Selection Support in Solution Explorer — vstipTool0010 (Zain Naboulsi)

Automatic Symbol Renaming When You Rename a File in Solution Explorer — vstipTool0011 (Zain Naboulsi)

 

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Dew Dump – February 17, 2010

 

SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 3 of 8): Customizing Search Results (MS Podcasts)

Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website (Scott Mitchell)

Watch our for this Azure billing issue (James Clarke)

Review: Windows Live Writer Backup (Andy Warren)

Announced: Windows Phone 7 Series (Christian Schormann)

VersionControlTools (Martin Fowler)

Microsoft’s Education Labs Releases "Microsoft Flashcards" (Blake Handler)

.NET Rocks! – NASA Pathfindier Innovation Challenge (Carl Franklin)

AutoPex (Jason Bock)

New tutorials page aggregating recent work, 34 for launch (Adam Kinney)

Silverlight Template Launched (Alex Knight)

How I use Social Media: Part 3–Blogging (Amy Blankenship)

Data Binding SharePoint 2010 List Items in Silverlight 3 (Andrew Connell)

Roadmap (or lack there of) of my Visual Studio DX CodeRush/Refactor SharePoint Extensions (Andrew Connell)

Redirect from Http to Https in ASP.NET (ASP.NET Daily Articles)

Intermittently the Server sends back 0 byte WebResource.axd and ScriptResource.axd files (Tom)

Interesting Finds: February 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)

10-4 Episode 41: Downloading and Installing the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (Brian Keller)

SQL Server Service Packs Scheduled (Bruce Kyle)

Code that Writes Code – A Good Idea or Not? (Buck Woody)

The Morning Brew #541 (Chris Alcock)

Customize the ribbon programmatically from web parts and field controls (Chris O’Brien)

TweetCraft 2.0 released! (Coding4Fun)

TweetCraft 2.0 source code posted! (Coding4Fun)

Episode 45: Making Sense of What Was Oslo with Lars Corneliussen (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)

Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2010 — #799 (Dave Campbell)

Episode #163: Larning how to use the Extract Interface Technique (Derik Whittaker)

Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions (Devon Musgrave)

User controls should never make redirects during GET request (Gunnar Peipman)

Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC): Sneak peek into “on-boarding” (Dynamic DC Alliance)

Seven big questions about the new Windows Phone 7 Series (Ed Bott)

Tech Tweets for 16-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

Tech Tweets for 17-Feb-2010 (Elijah Manor)

CQRS, Task Based UIs, Event Sourcing agh! (Greg Young)

“Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions” – The free, 466 page, eBook (only available until the end of February 2010) (Greg Duncan)

Weakly Typed Dynamic Languages and Natural Selection (Harry Pierson)

New Show! Microsoft Health Tech Today (hlthblog)

Search Providers: Best Practices on Setting the Default (ieblog)

System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrosException “Unrecognized element ‘setting’” and other unrecognized elements (Tess Ferrandez)

VMs for Web and Worker Roles in Windows Azure (J.D. Meier)

Git E-VAN recording (James Gregory)

Run XP Mode on Windows 7 Machines Without Hardware Virtualization [Virtualization] (Jason Fitzpatrick)

Favorite VS2010 Features: Layer Validation (Jason Zander)

Suggest and Vote for WPF v.Next Features (Jay Esguerra)

Sites I Follow for Insight and Inspiration (JD Meier)

A Simple Refactoring – Functions in the WHERE Clause (Jeremiah Peschka)

Entrenched Developers (Julian M. Bucknall)

Aggregate Roots and Shared Data (Jonathan Oliver)

Domain Models, Aggregate Roots, and Lookup Tables (Jonathan Oliver)

1,300 arrive in Redmond today for the 2010 MVP Summit (Joseph Mirabella)

Entity Framework Lazy Loading by Context or by Property? (Julie Lerman)

Bruce McKinney on Visual Basic.NET (Kathleen Dollard)

Alcatel-Lucent Empowers Developers With A Sandbox On The Cloud (Krishnan Subramanian)

XBMC Integration Integrates XBMC with Windows 7 Media Center [Downloads] (Lisa Hoover)

Jump in! camp – Call for participants (Maarten Balliauw)

Rules of Thumb: Don’t use the session (Mark Needham)

Google Buzz Now Available via Yahoo’s YQL (Matthew Casperson)

Microsoft Office 2010 Gets More Social (Microsoft Blog Admin)

Three days in the Pacific Northwest: the Microsoft Interview (Microsoft JobsBlog)

Sacred Cows? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 5 – HTTP Methods/Stacks (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 6 – HTTP and Basic Authentication (Mike Taulty)

Dynamic Master Pages in MVC (Mike Ceranski)

New MEF Drop (Preview 9) on CodePlex! (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight Bootcamp at MIX10 (Mike Taulty)

DZone Tutorial – Rapid Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3 (12 Part Series) (Nitin Bharti)

Connecting Visual Studio 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010 (Nick Berardi)

The 17th of Diduary: Did you know you can now control the behavior of the Start Page in Visual Studio? (Jeff Blankenburg)

Office 2010 Application Compatibility Sweepstakes (Office Team)

More odd behavior – DynamicObject this time (Oliver Sturm)

Mirroring: Witness misconceptions in High-Performance (Ted Krueger)

NDepend v3 RC available (Patrick Smacchia)

Getting Started with WPF : Button Control Part 2 – Basic Styling (Pete Brown)

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Technical Article – The Data Loading Performance Guide (Pinal Dave)

SQL SERVER – Plan Recompilation and Reduce Recompilation – Performance Tuning (Pinal Dave)

XamlSchemaContext/XamlType/XamlMember – a command line example (Rob Relyea)

Applying MVVM in the VS10 XAML designer (Rockford Lhotka)

Facebook for Windows Phones Updated (Sarah Perez)

Are We Training Our Customers to Be Dumb? (Sasha Goldshtein)

Speaking at the Lean Software and Systems Consortium Conference in April (Scott Bellware)

Wednesday linkfest (Scott Berkun)

Hanselminutes Podcast 200 – Jon Skeet! (Scott Hanselman)

Building an Embodied Social Proxy or Crazy Webcam Remote Cart Thing (Scott Hanselman)

FIX: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition=’MachineToApplication’ beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS (Scott Mitchell)

Filtering by joining is difficult to optimise (Simon Sabin)

Enabling a Button on the Ribbon Based on Selection (SharePoint Team)

SSIS 2008 Script Component variable gotcha.. (sqlrunner)

Links (2/16/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

HTC HD2 Caught Running Windows Phone 7 Series (Taimur Asad)

Help me pick the mini-apps that we?ll design together at MIX10 (The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site)

Improve Your Blogging Abilities With a New e-Book (Thursday Bram)

WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 1 : Introduction (visualstudioblog)

CodeStock 2010 – Call For Speakers (Wally McClure)

New Video Series Helps Illustrate "Why Windows Azure?" (WindowsAzure)

JavaScript Code Snippets — vstipEdit0019 (Zain Naboulsi)

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Dew Dump – February 16, 2010

 

I’m going uncategorized this week while I’m at the MVP Global Summit.

 

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The Rest of ‘Em

Windows Azure Platform at a Glance (J.D. Meier)

Diagnostic Trace Display Using WPF (Don Kackman)

ARCast.TV – Using Architectural Skills to Increase Solution Adoption Success Rates (Bob Familiar)

Pluralsight at the MVP Summit 2010 and MVPs receive free Standard subscription to Pluralsight On-Demand! (Aaron Skonnard)

Windows Phone 7 Series: An Exciting Journey (Christian Schormann)

Tech Twitter Roundup!! (Angela Binkowski)

Interesting Finds: February 15, 2010 and Independent Consultant Notes: February 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: February 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 02.16.2010 (Bob Familiar)

The Morning Brew #539 and The Morning Brew #540 (Chris Alcock)

Windows Phone Series 7 Link Roundup (Chris Sells)

Silverlight Cream for February 14, 2010 — #798 (Dave Campbell)

Links of the week #108 (David Vidmar)

Weekly Links #92 (Grant Palin)

When It Comes To IOC Containers, We Seem To Be Pretty Loyal (Davy Brion)

New book: CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)

Back to Basics – Using MasterType Directive (Gil Fink)

Event Storage and Persistence Ignorance (Greg Young)

Mind that collation : SSAS (Jamie Thomson)

PowerShell – background task that speaks to me (Jason Jarrett)

Our “Extension Properties” Story (Jeremy D. Miller)

Silverlight TV 8: Inside Look at the Code for the Silverlight for Facebook App (John Papa)

Advanced MVVM is now available in paperback (Josh Smith)

Entity Framework ObjectContext and Reporting (Julie Lerman)

Defining Constraints in an EF4 model that don’t exist in the database (Julie Lerman)

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate WPF & Silverlight Designer Known Issues (Karl Shifflett)

Windows Phone 7 Series: Bold move for Microsoft (Kip Kniskern)

New Castle Windsor feature – typed arguments (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Security in GWT, or “How to lay the foundation” (Kyle Baley)

Ping 48: Windows Phone 7, Bill Gates, Hayden Planeterium, Norwegian Google Prank (Laura Foy)

Flickr API Tips From an Expert (Matthew Casperson)

Digg’s Read-Write API (Matthew Casperson)

Introduction to the Reactive Extensions to JavaScript (Matthew Podwysocki)

Book Review: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know (Michele Mauro)

Introducing Windows Phone 7 Series (Deb Sommer)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 1 – WebClient and XML (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 2 – RSS,ATOM,JSON (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 3 – HTTP POST (Mike Taulty)

Silverlight 4 Beta Networking. Part 4 – Cross Domain HTTP (Mike Taulty)

Setting the Page Editor Options in Microsoft Expression Web 3 (Part II – Code Formatting) (Minal Agarwal)

Daily Dose – Hibernate 3.5 CR1 JPA 2 Compliant (Mitch Pronschinske)

Daily Dose – Will a Unified App Store Work This Time? (Mitch Pronschinske)

The 16th of Diduary: Did you know Intellisense has different modes? (Jeff Blankenburg)

#Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Data Analysis – Only $9.99! Use code DDHFD (O’Reilly Media)

Weekly Release: Flash Player 10 and more (Peldi Guilizzoni)

WPF Tip: Identifying WPF Applications (Pete Brown)

SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Optimization Tips – Best Practices (Pinal Dave)

Episode 102- PowerScripting Podcast – James Brundage from Microsoft (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

Announcing Spec Explorer 2010, Release 3.1! (Robert DuWors)

Weekly Link Post 132 (Rhonda Tipton)

AutoMapper question…any ideas… (Scott Galloway)

Patch for VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue Now Available (Scott Guthrie)

Pluralcast #9 : Pex from Microsoft Research (David Starr)

Why do teams succeed? (Stephen Forte)

Windows Phone 7 Series Video Walkthrough (Taimur Asad)

Behind the scenes at Xbox LIVE (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

CodeBlog: Writing a Blogging Extension for Visual Studio 2010 (Weston Hutchins)

Visual Studio 2010 IDE Settings Tips and Tricks (Wriju  Ghosh)

HTML Code Snippets — vstipEdit0018 (Zain Naboulsi)

 

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