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Dew Drop – August 17, 2012 (#1,384)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available! (S.Somasegar)
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web! (Jason Zander)
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED – Here’s 5 minute videos to get you up to speed quick (Scott Hanselman)
Windows 8 RTM is available for developers (Windows 8 Team)
Reactive Extensions v2.0 has arrived! (Rx team)

.NET / Visual Studio

WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 (MS Downloads)
Unit Testing WinJS: First Steps (Christopher Bennage)
“Programming Windows” 6th Edition Release Preview Now Available! (Charles Petzold)
RavenDB Awesome Feature of the Day, Formatted Indexes (Oren Eini)
Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (Beth Massi)
Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer and Test Attachment, Version Control and Database sizes in Team Foundation server (Charles Sterling)
Telerik Loves Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTMs! (Chris Sells)
WCF Data Services 5.0.2-rc Prerelease (WCF Team)
Available Now: Blend for Visual Studio 2012 (Christian Schormann)
Out parameters and LINQ do not mix (Eric Lippert)
Mono incorporates the Open-Sourced Entity Framework and VS2012 RTM: EF Designer New Look Since RC (Julie Lerman)
VS2012 EDMX Defaults Now Align with EF Team Guidance re DbContext Usage (Julie Lerman)
It Just Works in Visual Studio 2012 (Just* Team)
Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2012 (Rahul V. Patil)
Entity Framework and Stored Procedures Issue – Unable to determine a valid ordering for dependent operations. Dependencies may exist due to foreign key constraints, model requirements, or store-generated values (Rob Reynolds)
More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
Using JSHint inside Visual Studio – the basics (Steve Sanderson)
Test Studio’s Love for Visual Studio 2012 (RTM) (Stoil Stoichev)
Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness “Wave” (Willy-P. Schaub)
Announcing Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012 (Erik Arthur)
So You Want To Build Apps? (David Kelley)
Building a Camera App in Mono for Android (Greg Shackles)
Async await. Wait them All! (Samuel Jack)
Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! (samidip)
Few tips on implementing a Coded UI Test Plugin Extension (Tapas)
Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) and Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Peter Kellner)
Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding and Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion (Jesse Liberty)
Sample Browser 5.4 Feature Update (Jialiang Ge)
EF5 Released (EF Team)
What’s New in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Beta 2, Compatible with Windows 8 RTM (Georgi Atanasov)
Windows 8 App Dev For The PhoneGap Developer–Location (Glen Gordon)
FlickrNet v3.5 Released (Greg Duncan)
‘Stupid’ Question 23: What is a thread? And what is multithreading? and ‘Stupid’ Question 24: Can you give me an easy to remember example of what the different access modifiers do? (Iris Classon)
Second Preview of Kraig Brockschmidt’s free ebook is coming on Monday (Devon Musgrave)
Contract Annotations in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Source Code for .NET 4.5 Released (Chris Eargle)
Implementing the IDisposable pattern using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
Using dependency properties to create reusable Windows 8 app components (Andreas Hammar)
ReSharper hidden features – Generate Delegating Members (Andrei Rinea)
Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 2: Feel the Love – Defining Data Relationships and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data with Queries and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 6: Go beyond the box. Customizing LightSwitch Apps with Extensions (Beth Massi)
Visual Rx – Part 4 (Bnaya Eshet)
Live SDK v5.2 (MS Downloads)
Entity Framework Peeves? Code it Yourself! (David Ramel)
Up Log Creek Without a Paddle – Part 1: Windows Audit Logs (Doug Rathbone)

Web Development

Orchard CMS running on ASP.NET MVC 4 (David Hayden)
Let’s Talk about CSS Variables (Tab Atkins Jr.)
Custom schemas in VS2012 CSS editor and Web Essentials 2012 released (Mads Kristensen)
Visual Studio Extensions for the Windows Library for JavaScript (MS Downloads)
ELMAH.MVC 2.0.1 Update is Out (Alexander Beletsky)
IIS Express Error: "Could not determine which version of ASP.NET Web Pages to use" (Chris Love)
jQuery 1.8 box-sizing: width(), css(“width”), and outerWidth() (Dave Methvin)
Building Beautiful and Interactive Windows 8 apps with JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3: Presentation|Demo|Video Soon (Doris Chen)
ASP.NET Web API is released! What’s new in Web API RTM and how to use it! (Filip W)
CSS Variables, why we drop the $foo notation (glazou)
Full-page Animations Using CSS (Charilaos “Harris” Papadopoulos)
ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 2012 for web developers: Part 1 (Jon Galloway)
Levels Of Abstraction In An MVC View (K. Scott Allen)
How to Add WebSharper JavaScript to an ASP.NET MVC Web App (Cameron Taggart)
Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript (Paul Ferson)
jQuery UI 1.8.23 (Scott González)
Backbone.js: Internals Summary (Alex Young)
Version 0.8.7 (stable) (node.js Team)
Migration for user accounts from the SqlMembershipProvider to the Universal Providers (Xiaohong Tang)
Adding Bundling and Minification to Web Forms and Adding Web Optimization to a Web Pages Site (Rick Anderson)
Working with elements before the DOM is ready (Keith Clark)
Using the Cloudant Data Layer for Windows Azure (Doug Mahugh)
Using CNAME With Azure (Chris Missal)
Bing APIs: the Empire Strikes Back (Ajay Ohri)
Migrating Drupal to Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
Extending Knockout.js Session From ThatConference (Ryan Niemeyer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Is TDD a Silver Bullet? (Jim Cooper)
Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2012) (Jurgen Appelo)
Using TFS 2012 and SCRUM to Run the Sprint (Subodh Sohoni)
Effective Shelfsets: A Primer (Pete Seale)
Time Management Tips #21 – Create an Achievements List (JD Meier)
Entities, Models, and Architecture (Chris Eargle)
Why type-first development matters (Tomas P.)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit ImageTile Control (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone 8 and Continuous Location Tracking and Windows Phone 8 and Continuous Location Tracking in the Background (Pt.2) (Adam Benoit)
Windows Phone 8 Battery API (Sébastien Lachance)
24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #19 Tips for Designing Tiles (Arturo Toledo)
Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications (Gill Cleeren)
Data virtualization in Silverlight and Implementing a VirtualizingWrapPanel (Samuel Jack)
2000 WPF Things #624 – Information Available to Key Up/Down Events and #625 – Converting a Keypress Timestamp to a DateTime and #626 – Key Up/Down Sequence When Using CTRL Key and #627 – Detecting Whether The Ctrl Key Is Pressed In a KeyDown Event Handler (Sean Sexton)
Getting Started With Windows Phone and MVVM Light – Part 2 of 2 (spboyer)
Free! Building Games: Data Structures in C++ Presentation in XAML or HTML 5! Free yourself! (Surf4Fun)
Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications Part 3: ViewModels and MVVM Light Toolkit (András Velvárt)
Memory Profiling: The Types View (pratapl)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.7 and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.6.1 and Self-Tracking Entity Generator v 2.0.0 for VS11 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 064: Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Mark Frauenfelder)
Inside Windows Phone #39 | What’s new on the Windows Phone Developer Center | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
Ping 150: BUILD, Office 13, Windows Phone dev portal, NFL & Microsoft | Ping! (Laura Foy)
Bart De Smet: Rx 2.0 RTM and RTW | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
Episode 197 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vaibhav Bhandari on Microsoft Health Vault and HVPosh (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 080 – that Conference 2012 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Agile 2012 – Diana Larsen and James Shore – Agile Fluency (Bob Payne)
Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Managing lab environments for testing | Visual Studio 2012 Premium and Ultimate Overview and Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Understand your code dependencies through visualization | Visual Studio 2012 Premium and Ultimate Overview (Alvin Ho)
SDU Show 50 with guest Louis Davidson (Greg Low)
Designing Windows 8 Apps | Windows 8 Developer Camp – Redmond (Chris Mayo)
Edge Show 33 Windows Final Code Available | Edge (David Tesar & Joey Snow)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Antony Francis (Ryan Parsley)
[Podcast] Phil Japikse and Lee Brandt on Collaboration (Phil Japikse)
Windows 8 Tips 1: Shortcuts | Windows 8 Tips and Windows 8 Tips 2: Charms | Windows 8 Tips (Larry Larsen)
Hot new Windows 8 content hits Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
Introducing the Windows 8 platform | Windows 8 Developer Camp – Redmond (John Lam)
SOA, Cloud, and Service Technologies – Part 4 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: Stephen Forte on Agile Estimation and Meet the Author: Dominick Baier on Introduction to Identity and Access Control in .NET 4.5 (Paul Ballard)
Geek Graduates: Top 3 tips for getting the most out of your internship (MS JobsBlog)
Virtual Hackathon for Windows 8 (Doris Chen)
Philly Geek Awards: The Official After Party @ National Mechanics (Eric Smith)
Question 25: Am I too stupid to ask and answer questions? (Iris Classon)
Richmond Code Camp 2012 Call For Speakers (Kevin Griffin)

Database

Using nmap to scan for SQL Servers on a network (K. Brian Kelley)
SSIS Reporting Pack update (Jamie Thomson)
SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 Released To Web (Erik EJ)
SQL Server 2012 – Binding Sequence to a Column‏ (Madhivanan)
Ease your Visual Studio development with a SQL Server alias (Peter Gfader)
SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – Part 1 of 2 and SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – T-SQL Example – Part 2 of 2 (Pinal Dave)
Windows Azure Database (SQL Azure) Development Tip (Buck Woody)
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Basit Farooq)

SharePoint

Troubleshooting Publishing & Executing Workflows in SharePoint 2013 Beta 2 (Andrew Connell)
New with SharePoint 2013 Series (Kunaal Kapoor)
A Sample Approval Workflow Which can be Recalled by the Initiator (JongHwa Lim)

PowerShell

Drive Size – PowerShell Script (Vinoth NM)

Miscellaneous

Get your Windows 8 up to speed fast (Maarten Balliauw)
Dear JobsBlog: Which role at Microsoft is the best for me (MS Jobsblog)
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
My next book (Adam Nathan)
Quick Tip: Activating your Windows 8 Installation (Jeremy Likness)
Turns Out Windows 8 is “The Most Secure OS” on The Planet. (Jerry Nixon)
Windows Server 2012 Now Available in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery (Mike Neil)
Windows 8 RTM Reviews Collection (Richard Hay)
Introducing Bing on Windows 8 (The Bing Team)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 168 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading August 14, 2012 and Geek Reading August 15, 2012 and Geek Reading August 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #935 and Double Shot #936 and Double Shot #937 and Double Shot #938 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 8/14/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/15/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/17/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for August 6 – 12, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-14 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-15 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-16 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #1167 and The Morning Brew #1168 and The Morning Brew #1169 and The Morning Brew #1170 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for August 13, 2012 – #0114 (Dave Campbell)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Aug 201 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Aug 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Links to ASP.NET WebAPI blog posts and Data Access blog posts (Web Development Tools Microsoft)
Cheatsheet: 2012 08.01 ~ 08.16 (juanjian)

The Geek Shelf

Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques: Michael Michalko: Kindle Store

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Dew Drop – November 3, 2010

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

Top Links

Mo controls, mo controls, mo controls… [Announcing the second release of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit!] (David Anson)
Windows Phone 7 Jump Start–Reloaded! (Andy Wigley)
Microsoft Press ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die) (Simone Chiaretta)

.NET / Visual Studio

Asynchronous C# and F# (II.): How do they differ? (Tom)
Using Tuples (Richard Carr)
Working with Tuple in C# 4.0 (Abhishek Sur)
Extending Visual Studio 2010 web test–Custom loop (Al Kampfer)
Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Three: Composition (Eric Lippert)
ILMerging assemblies with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
Microsoft Test Manager Hotfix available: VS10-KB2387011 (Clemens Reijnen)
Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta is available for download! (Shai Raiten)
Team Foundation Server and Azure (Pieter de Bruin)
Microsoft Help Viewer – Updates Planned for Visual Studio SP1 (Kathleen McGrath)
WCF 4.0 – A More Pleasant Experience for Devs (Mitch Pronschinske)
Orchestration vs WF 4.0 (Jon Fancey)
NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook EBook on Sale This Week (David Hayden)
ILMerge – How to Merge Assemblies After A Build (Keith Elder)
Touched ( Part 3 )–Manipulation and Gesture Support (Mike Taulty)
Why, oh why is pooling turned off in Entity Framework 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 (Wally McClure)
Show Advanced Build Configurations and Edit and Continue (Zain Naboulsi)
Create an Entity Data Model From a Database – Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
Getting the most out of user events and Windows Server AppFabric Monitoring (Emil Velinov)

Web Development

Examining ASP.NET 2.0’s Membership, Roles, and Profile – Part 18 (Scott Mitchell)
XHTML in IE9 (Tony Ross)
PROs and CONs of Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
5 features of PHP that seem hacks, but save your life (Giorgio Sironi)
Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 3 (Emily Lewis)
Microsoft Folks Submit Grid model for HTML/CSS to the W3C. (Joe Stagner)
ASP.NET: Converting X-Forwarded-For To REMOTE_HOST (Jon Davis)
Introducing MVC Development w/the Razor View Engine for Visual Studio Developers (Rachel Appel)
How to Scroll Video using JQuery in 9 steps (Martin Beeby)
Lucene.NET could use the community’s support (Ian Cooper)

Design / Methodology / Testing

SOLID Motivational Calendar (Derick Bailey)
Seven key ideas of real quality assurance (Gojko Adzic)
The State of Agile – Lisa Crispin (Lisa Crispin)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Automation Framework (Giorgio Sironi)
Lean Principles #4 – Defer Commitment (Kelly Waters)
Agile Manifesto 2.0 – Updates to Come? and 10 Years of Agile – Are We Better Yet? and Tool Review – TinyPM – Nothing Small About It (Peter Saddington)
Motivating the Unmotivated (Michael Norton)
Who Wants This User Story? (Dan Puckett)
Developer Guidance Maps Roundup for ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Azure and Windows Phone (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Caliburn.Micro Contest (Rob Eisenberg)
Silverlight Framework – All Historical Tool Releases and What is New (Bart Czernicki)
Windows Phone Partners With PreEmptive Solutions For Analytics (Brandon Watson)
New OData Tools Feed Windows Phone 7 App from Windows Azure Platform (Bruce Kyle)
New Version of the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit (Cheryl Simmons)
Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 of 2 and Input box? On Windows Phone 7? Indeed. (Dennis Delimarsky)
Invoking the Keyboard in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Chris Love)
Sync Framework 4.0 CTP now supports clients like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight (Hanu Kommalapati)
F# with WPF : Fun with async {} or Asynchronous Workflow – bouncing ellipse (Imran Khatri)
Running a Windows Phone Application under the lock screen and Hail to the swiss army knife of Silverlight Windows Phone Apps LongListSelector (Jaime Rodriguez)
Jounce Part 5: Navigation Framework and Silverlight and HTML5: Microsoft’s Official Stance (Jeremy Likness)
Committed to Silverlight (John Papa)
Silverlight : Stop Blaming Microsoft For Your Stupidity (Karl Seguin)
Creating a Tile using theme’s color as background (Windows Phone 7) (Katrien de Graeve)
Document Toolkit maintenance release (Koen Zwikstra)
Dotfuscator for Windows Phone Released (Michael S. Scherotter)
Microsoft Shifts Silverlight Focus (Mitch Pronschinske)
Tracking Sales Statistics with the Silverlight Analytics Framework for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
Styling A ContextMenu In Expression Blend (Sacha Barber)
WP7 Code: Using the Accelerometer API (Dragos Manolescu)
Silverlight is dead. Long live Silverlight! (Tim Heuer)
Detecting Whether the Dark or Light Theme is in Use and Making Your Images Change Color Based on the Theme (Adam Nathan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ted Neward and Dierk Konig Compare .NET and JVM Evolution (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Let’s Play TDD #44: Dis Approvals and Let’s Play TDD #45: Looking for Keys in All the Wrong Places (James Shore)
Herding Code 96: Eric Sink on Veracity and DVCS (Jon Galloway)
Episode 130 – PowerScripting Podcast – Core Show with Hal and Jon (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The Full Stack, Part 2: Setting up the UI for our Windows Phone client (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
Video & Podcast: Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Joel Oleson)
Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #9 – Charlie Kindel (Dennis Delimarsky)
Coding QA Episode 50 End of an Era (Matthew Osborn & Federico Silva)
Inside Windows Phone#11:Obfuscation And Analytics (Jaime Rodriguez)
Ping 81: PDC is here, Pixar uses Azure, IE9 Preview, Zunes & Phones and Behind the Scenes at PDC 2010 (Laura Foy)
Sparkling Client Show 110: Silverlight is Dead. Long Live Silverlight. (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Tsitsi Gora on User Experience Design for Silverlight (Pete Brown)
ARCast.TV – Creating Windows Phone 7 Apps Using a Configuration Tool and ARCast.TV – Designing and Deploying SharePoint 2010 for a Global Audience (Zhiming Xue)
Medical “gaming” and simulation—new on Microsoft Health Tech Today (Bill Crounse)

Community / Events

Hello, Microsoft (Steve Sanderson)
MVPs Discuss the MVP Award and PDC (Lonnie Webb)
Virtual Brown Bag Sessions with Claudio Lassala (Zain Naboulsi)
PDC and Silverlight (Bob Muglia)
My take from PDC 2010 (Christian Nagel)
Silverlight and Windows Phone sessions at Øredev next week (Jeff Wilcox)
Busy November in the Works, Several Speaking Engagements (Chris Love)
Microsoft Webcast: Overview of Windows Azure & Visual Studio 2010 (Public Sector DPE Team)
MSDN Flash Poll #11: What would you like to be doing? (Mike Ormond)

Database

Format Phone Numbers in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Are you a Database Administrator or a Database Developer? and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: MS Jet OLEDB 4.0 cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is used to run in apartment mode. (Pinal Dave)
When to use SQL Mirroring Timeout (Ryan Adams)
Disaster Recovery for AppFabric Caching V1.0 (SQL Mirroring) (Jaime Alva Bravo)
Mixed ASC/DESC sorting in MySQL (Quassnoi)
Combining Validation of Transactional and Persisted Data (James Allderidge)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 customErrors mode (Greg Galipeau)
How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Status Bar Changes in Outlook 2010 (Lonnie Webb)
Xbox 360 Dashboard update is now available (Larry Hyrb)
Microsoft + open source = loving relationship? (Andy Robb)
Incorporating 3rd Party Libraries in iPhone apps (Ben Scheirman)
Book review: DSLs in Action (Dror Helper)
Automate your PowerShell demos (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Using Author Names to track which machine I used to edit OneNote pages (John Guin)
#Ebook Deal/Day – Beautiful Security – $14.99 (Save 53%) Code DDBSC (O’Reilly Media)
Free Microsoft Tools for Educators and Teachers and Halo Reach Noble Map Pack Release is This Month (Richard Hay)
Drupal Founder on Why Open Source is Good for Business [INTERVIEW] (Sarah Kessler)
Becoming An Independent Consultant (Derick Bailey)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 1, 2010 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #720 and The Morning Brew #721 (Chris Alcock)
Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 1, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 2, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Silverlight Cream for November 02, 2010 — #984 (Dave Campbell)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 048 for 11/1/2010 (Pete Brown)

The Geek Shelf

DSLs in Action by Debasish Ghosh

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Dew Drop – April 21, 2010

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Top Links

SQL Server Modeling CTP (November 2009 Release 3) for Visual Studio 2010 RTM Now Available (Chris Sells)
Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Released! (Grigori Melnik)
Project Natal caught in the wild (Tauqeer Ahmed)
Microsoft SQL Server2008 R2 RTM – Express with Advanced Services (MS Downloads)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Basic 2010 Language Enhancements (Scott Mitchell)
Conditional UIHint for Dynamic Data 2 and .NET 4 (Stephen Naughton)
GAX 2010 and GAT 2010 (MS Downloads) – These two were in the MS Downloads ‘unofficial’ RSS feed, but the links are not currently working. I am guessing that they are coming soon, so try again later if they don’t work for you.
Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (MS Downloads)
[Insert Three Hour Tour and/or TPL Report Joke Here] – “A Tour of Various TPL Options” – 28 page free ebook about parallel programming options in .Net via the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and A trip down the .Net 4 System.Xml path, some pitfalls and how you can avoid them (Greg Duncan)
HashSet, equality and identity (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Inserting Code Snippets and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Searching Breakpoints and Surround with a Code Snippet and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to Import and Export Breakpoints (Zain Naboulsi)
Querying Literals in Entity SQL (Julie Lerman)
Visual studio color styles (Torkel Ödegaard)
NHibernate Get vs Load and Sub Types (Mike Hadlow)
Modify VS 2010 Template to Reference System.Configuration (Peter Ritchie)
Towards a Smaller .NET 4 – Details on the Client Profile and Downloading .NET (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

jQuery + MVC = Progressive Enhancement (Simon Ince)
Introducing Shrinkr The URL Shrinking Service built with ASP.NET MVC 2 (Muhammad Mosa)
Put Blob Without Overwrite and Build Your Own Web Role: Running Hosted Web Core in Windows Azure and Changing Advanced FastCGI Settings for PHP Applications in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
One-Click Publish – What’s New Since Beta 2 (Yugang Wang)
Asynchrony in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Handle JSON Exceptions Gracefully in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How Easy Is Unit Testing Code Analysis Rules? (Jason Bock)
Jeff Sutherland: How to make your team hyperproductive (Gojko Adzic)
Partial Book Review: Beautiful Teams. (Derick Bailey)
The R.E.A.L.I.T.Y. principles of Agile Software Certification. (Uncle Bob Martin)
Best-kept Secret in DDD Community (Vladimir Gitlevich)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Effective UI – Only $9.99 use code DDEUD (O’Reilly Media)
Focusing on the controller’s responsibility (Matt Hinze)

Silverlight / WPF

Aero Glass WPF Window (Dennis Delimarsky)
Phone-y charts [Silverlight/WPF Data Visualization Development Release 4 and Windows Phone 7 Charting sample!] (David Anson)
WPF: Validation Feedback with ValidationDecorator (Mike Strobel)
Tip of the Day #111 – How to Configure your Silverlight App to run in Elevated Trust Mode (Mike Snow)
New WPF Showcase Addition: Alfa Ebooks Manager (Jay Esguerra)
Free Training – Building Silverlight Business Applications and Get Silverlight 4 – Simplified! (John Papa)
Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development (Martin Hinshelwood)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Must See – Typemock Balloons Bash (TypeMock Team)
Agile 2009 – Johanna Rothman – Manage Your Project Portfolio (Bob Payne)
Herding Code 78: Ruby on Rails, View Engines, Web Security, Section 3.3.1 and Visual Studio 2010 with Rob Conery (Jon Galloway)
MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 2 of 3) and MSDN Simulcast: Techniques in Advanced .NET Debugging with John Robbins (Part 3 of 3) and MSDN Radio: XNA and Windows Phone 7 Series with Michael Klucher (Emily Gibson)
Security Talk: MSF Agile + SDL (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

.toolbox events in May – Free Blend training in Chicago, New York, Boston and Austin (Adam Kinney)
Second SharePoint MVP Chat Brought to you by MSDN (Andrew Connell)
My Last Day at Microsoft (Brad Abrams)
More Drupal 7 Details at DrupalCon (Mitch Pronschinske)
[ANN] DC ALT.NET – 4/27/2010 – What has Mono done for the .NET developer lately? (Matthew Podwysocki)
Devscovery 2010 <- April 27-29 (Rachel Appel)
Schedule for the Redmond WPF for LOB & Windows 7 and .NET 4 Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

That No SQL Thing: Modeling Documents in a Document Database (Oren Eini)
New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition (Karen Szall)
Ted Kummert to make significant announcement related to SQL Server (Jamie Thomson)
A DMV a Day – Day 21 (Glenn Berry)
A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (20/30) restarting a log backup chain requires a full database backup (Paul S. Randal)
SQL SERVER – When are Statistics Updated – What triggers Statistics to Update (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

So You’d Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) (Jeff Atwood)
Handy Categories on NSString (Ben Scheirman)
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 Now Available for Download (Taimur Asad)
Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx – Part XI (Dave Campbell)
Top 10 Benefits of PowerPoint 2010 (Office Team)
Windows Live completes the Windows Experience (Piero Sierra)
Thinking More Functionally with PowerShell (Russell Ball)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Innovation Showcase Headlines – 04.20.2010 (Bob Familiar)
Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2010 — #842 (Dave Campbell)
The Morning Brew #584 (Chris Alcock)
Tech Tweets for 20-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
Learning Windows Azure platform Resources (Paul Mehner)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

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