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Dew Drop – January 12, 2012 (#1,240)

Posted on January 12, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Eduasync part 18: Changes between the Async CTP and the Visual Studio 11 Preview (Jon Skeet)
Day 1 results from the #smokedbywindowsphone $100 challenge (Ben Rudolph)
Windows Phone 2011 Retrospective (Brandon Watson)
Adding your own callbacks to existing JavaScript functions (Dave Ward)
“Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Monday (Jan 16th) (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

Northwind Starter Kit Review: The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge (Oren Eini)
Basic Volume Control (Richard Carr)
Benjamin Day slides us into “How to be a C# ninja in 10 easy steps" and BugAid – Enhanced C# Debugging tool (and free for non-commercial open source projects too) (Greg Duncan)
Kicking off StructureMap 3 (Jeremy D. Miller)
How can I detect the language a run of text is written in? (Raymond Chen)
Kinect Apps – ensuring Kinect Runtime is installed (Rob Relyea)
With Azure SDK 1.6, Azure Diagnostics is enabled by default can cause thousands of daily transections to Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
async await and Exception Handling (Bnaya Eshet)
A brief overview of type system metadata in various languages (Dru Sellers)
VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths! (Kirill Osenkov)

Web Development

Using jQuery Deferred To Create Compound Objects From Multiple Asynchronous Data Sources (Ben Nadel)
NetAdvantage For jQuery Chart – An HTML5/jQuery Chart Designed for Performance! (Graham Murray)
Controlling Selection with CSS user-select (Sharon Newman)
jQuery Grid – Showing Row Selectors & Selection (Jordan Tsankov)
JSON serialization problems and solution in MVC3 (Nuri Halperin)
Why is there Flash in the HTML5 version of Cut the Rope? (Robby Ingebretsen)
Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development (Michael J. Ross)
CSS Buttons with Pseudo-elements (Sergio Camalich)
Advanced Random Numbers in JS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
PhpStorm 3.0: New and Noteworthy in Database Realm (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Experts advise growing Agile projects with feature teams (Anand Vishwanath)
Agile Project Management—Driving Value or Where’s the Beef? (Bob Galen)
How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek (Peter Saddington)
Forrester: Developer Testing Lowers Costs & Increases Quality (Avi Kaye)
Integration testing with Azure development storage (Rory Primrose)
Open/Closed Principle on real world code (Giorgio Sironi)
Do Tests Get Too Much Respect? (Gil Zilberfeld)
Getting started with Git and GitHub (Simone Chiaretta)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Extending XAML Applications with Custom Commands and Getting Started with Coding4Fun Button Controls (Windows Phone Geek)
Bing Maps WPF Control (Beta) and Windows Embedded Silverlight Tools (MS Downloads)
HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
2000 WPF Things #471 – How FlowDirection Works with the Image Element (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #7 – Check for Network Connections (Senthil Kumar)
Joe Belfiore interview: Windows Phone will compete on quality, not specs (Vlad Savov)
A WPF Custom Control for Zooming and Panning (Ashley Davis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
ACMQ Online Programming Competition: Jan 1- Feb 12, 2012 (Charles Torre)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 050 – “Silent and Invisible” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Boagworld: Give users a sense of control (Paul Boag)
Windows Weekly 243: Live From CES (Paul Thurrott)
Engadget Podcast 273: CES 2012 Day 3 – 01.11.2012 and The Vergecast 010: CES 2012 Day 1 – 01.11.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 281: CES 2012 – 01.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Inside Windows Phone #30 | Arturo Toledo is back (Larry Lieberman)
The Engadget Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at CES 2012 (video) (Myriam Joire)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Entity Framework Part 1 (Robert Green)
VIDEO: Watch a Galaxy Nexus get #smokedbywindowsphone (Ben Rudolph)
Phoenix Architect Day Panel Discussion – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

Magenic celebrates a few of its internal OSS developers… (Greg Duncan)
CES 2012: Two new Nokia apps for Windows Phone coming soon – Nokia Transport and Nokia City Lens (damaster)
Meet Todd Anglin – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)

Database

The SSIS Expression Way–Skipping an Unwanted File (Arthur Zubarev)
SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick – read throughput (Jack Vamvas)
SQL SERVER – Non-Clustered Index and Automatic Rebuild – Quiz – Puzzle – 11 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
Join Hint in SQL – Guest Post by Joydeep Das (Kunal Chowdhury)
Now accepting more users for the Data Explorer Cloud service! (Data Explorer Team)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites Installer Error: KB976462 Could Not Be Installed (Martin W. Angler)
On Site SharePoint Experience UI/UX Branding Class with Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Joel Oleson)
SharePoint 2010 Fluent Ribbon API Release 1.4 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

Creating a WordPress and Blogging New Year’s Resolutions List (Lorelle VanFossen)
Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Mark Cuban)
Book Excerpt: "To The Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise" (Pankaj Arora)
Using MessageBox Control Outside UpdatePanel Control (Vincent Maverick Durano)
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Mango Commercial Release 2: What’s inside (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: January 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Windows Client Developer Roundup 086 for 1/11/2012 (Pete Brown)
The Morning Brew #1020 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for January 11, 2011 – #0025 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #794 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 1/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 1/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 10-Jan-2012 and 11-Jan-2012 (Elijah Manor)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-11 (Bob Rhubart)
Daily WP7 Development News 11 Jan 2012: (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Jennifer Kyrnin

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Dew Drop – May 12, 2010

Posted on May 12, 2010 | by Alvin A.

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

MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) (Jeremy Likness)
Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth (Scott Mitchell)
Code contracts and inheritance (Gunnar Peipman)
Visual Studio 2010: How to understand your code using Dependency Graphs, Sequence Diagrams, and the Architecture Explorer (Jennifer Marsman)

.NET / Visual Studio

Updated C# all-in-one file (Kirill Osenkov)
Service Operations for Any and All (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Think .Net Cache = System.Web.Caching? .Net 4 has a present for you, System.Runtime.Caching. and Extra .Net 4 Parallel Extension goodness in the Parallel Extension Samples, with RTM updates and a few new Projects (Greg Duncan)
Book Review – Essential C# 4.0 (Brandon Cannaday)
Assembly Resolution in MSBuild and Visual Studio Series Introduction (Chris Mann)
Break Multiple Processes (Zain Naboulsi)
Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services (Chris Sells)
ADO.NET Survey Results (Luiz Fernando Santos)

Web Development

F# in ASP.NET, mathematics and testing (Gunnar Peipman)
Using the Sueetie Cross-Application Footer Menu Control (Dave Burke)
Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC (Ali Bastani)
Becoming a Great Web Developer (Marc Grabanski)
New book: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
DOM Range and HTML5 Selection (Jon Seitel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Information is the Most Transient Form of Power and ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure and Application Scenarios and Solutions (J.D. Meier)
Agile: Chasing a points total (Mark Needham)
Responsibility And Disaster (Michael Nichols)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Updated Bing App for Windows Phone (Justin Jed)
IIS Media Services 4 – Changing the Game (Nigel Parker)
Event-based property changes in pure XAML (Dennis Delimarsky)
We’ve secretly changed this control’s DataContext – let’s see if it notices! [Workaround for a Silverlight data binding bug affecting various scenarios – including DataGrid+ContextMenu] (David Anson)
Embedding the Silverlight version of the Open Media Player (Joe Stagner)
Silverlight Tip of the Day #18 – Elastic Scrolling (Mike Snow)
IIS Media Services to Include a Version of PlayReady DRM for HTTP Streaming (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Corrinne Yu – Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One and Office Casual: OneNote – An all too brief introduction (Tina Wood)
Webcast: NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB (Michael Kennedy)
Video Interviews Part 2 – Nicholas Zakas, Principal Front-end Engineer at Yahoo! on jQuery Performance and Menno van Slooten on his Automated UI Testing Framework for jQuery (Rey Bango)
Silverlight TV 25: No More Boxes! Exploring the PathListBox (John Papa)
MSDN Radio: SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Emily Gibson)
JP Boodhoo’s Introduction to Machine.Specifications (Bobby Johnson)
Executive Thoughts on SharePoint 2010 (Eric Swift)
Silverlight Week – How to Choose a Mobile Platform (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
Kelly Cassidy: Effective Prototyping with SketchFlow (Eric Hagan)

Community / Events

“Unplugged” Chat with Me this Thursday (Scott Guthrie)
It’s time to Party like is SharePoint 2010 Launch Day! (Joel Oleson)
Women In Web Design: Group Interview (Smashing Editorial)
Microsoft’s greatest strength: people (Eugenia Sawa)
Deep dive on Silverlight unit testing at Tech Ed next month (Jeff Wilcox)

Database

SQL Azure vs. SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (MS Downloads)
5 Things SQL Server Should Truncate (Brent Ozar)
Five things SSIS should drop (Jamie Thomson)
Trusting Database Engine Tuning Advisor for Query Tuning and Five things wouldn’t miss in SQL Server (Ted Krueger)
SQL SERVER – Understanding ALTER INDEX ALL REBUILD with Disabled Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)
SQL Meme: Tagged: 5 things SQL Server should drop (Denis Gobo)
Why LOB data makes shrink run slooooowly (T-SQL Tuesday #006) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

Using Filters in BCS Meta Man (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) 2.0 Released – New Cmdlets, PowerShell 2 and XCopy, oh my and “If you want users to RTFM, write a better FM” (Greg Duncan)
Microsoft and LG partner to release Xbox 360 3D gaming (Matt Blowes)
Firefox 3.7 will become 4.0 — Firefox 4, with updated Gecko, confirmed for later this year (Sebastian Anthony)
Snagit 10 Released With New Capture Tools (Simon Mackie)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 12, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Daily Cloud Feed – May 11, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
Tech Tweets for 11-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #598 (Chris Alcock)
New and Notable 415 (Sam Gentile)
Silverlight Cream for May 11, 2010 — #859 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Programming C# 4.0: Building Windows, Web, and RIA Applications for the .NET 4.0 Framework (Animal Guide)

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Dew Drop – November 23, 2009

Posted on November 23, 2009 | by Alvin A.

Jump to: .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | Book of the Day

.NET / Visual Studio

Announcing: Reflector Addin Toolkit on Codeplex (Jason Haley)
.NET Projects: Versioning Builds (Grant Palin)
Framework Multi-Targeting for VC++ Projects (Pavan Adharapurapu)
Bye Bye .NET Services! Hello AppFabric (Bill Zack)
Visual Studio Color Scheme (Mark Nijhof)
Fixing Visual Studio 2010 and Blend Preview for .NET 4 integration (Tim Heuer)
Command Line Parsing with Mono.Options (Rob Reynolds)
Inter-process Mediator and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 1) and Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Jumplist (Part 2) (Rudi Grobler)
Combining NHibernate, NH Spatial and SQL Server 2008 Fulltext Queries (Jak Charlton)

Web Development

Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions (Adam DuVander)
Building High Performance Web Applications (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Simple site sanity testing with Cassini and friends (Aaron Jensen)
TestApi v0.4 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams (J.D. Meier) – Link of the Day
Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf) (Ted Neward)
Pair Programming/Helping/Working Collaboratively and Requirements: The story points focus (Mark Needham)
Leadership Tip: Every Time They Are Lost And Confused It Probably Is Your Fault. (Rajiv Popat)
Applying Strategy Pattern Instead of Using Switch Statements (Gil Fink)

Silverlight / WPF

CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
RIA Services: A DomainService IS A WCF Service – Add Service Reference (Brad Abrams)
Caliburn Hello World (Christopher Bennage)
From code-behind to MVVM in 90 Minutes – Jason Dolinger on MVVM (Greg Duncan)
Silverlight: Building a Grid and StackPanel in Code (Deborah Kurata)
Fishbowl: A WPF Front-end for Facebook, with Full Source (Pete Brown)
RIA Services templates not showing in Visual Studio 2010? and Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications (Tim Heuer)
Silverlight 4 and Asynchronous Validation with INotifyDataErrorInfo (Fredrik Normén)
10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching (John Papa)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 131: PDC 2009 (Paul Thurrott)
ARCast.TV – Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too (Bob Familiar)
A Feed You Should Read #12 – DimeCasts.Net (Greg Duncan)
Recent Podcasts (Phil Haack)
Major Nelson – A bonus show….with lollip0p and friends (Larry Hyrb)
Herding Code 64: Phil Haack on MVC 2 (Jon Galloway)
Life at Microsoft – The Truth Revealed…again! (Tina Wood)
Episode 93 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Atwood from ServerFault and StackOverflow (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Phone Company CRM & Azure Demo (Girish Raja)

Community / Events

Favorite Photos from PDC09 (Adam Kinney)
My 65 Favorite Tweets of PDC09 (Dave Burke)
Azure IT PAC Tour and Bring a Friend, Get a Book (Jim O’Neil)
Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting, Edinburgh – Thursday 26th November (Martin Bell)
LIDNUG: Online chat with me Monday Nov 23rd (Scott Guthrie)

Database

SQL Server Case Conversion Functions and SQL Server Trimming Functions (Richard Carr)
Twitter Search Term Extraction (Jamie Thomson)
Confused.bol? (Martin Bell)
Testing backup compression in SQL Server 2008 (Denis Gobo)
SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas and SQL SERVER – A Common Design Problem – Should the Primary Key Always be a Clustered Index (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Apple Releases Magic Mouse "multi-touch" Drivers for Windows and How to View RAW Camera Images in Windows 7? Download the Proper Driver and Microsoft Updates "Office Outlook Connector" for Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/11/23 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Keeping a Product Launch Secret (Stephen Forte)
Microsoft Store visit (Steve Clayton)
You Don’t Have to Be An Administrator to Run Remote PowerShell Commands (Jeffrey Snover)
Five Best Screencasting Tools [Hive Five] (Jason Fitzpatrick)
Getting your OSS binaries with Horn (Hadi Hariri)
Make working with open source a breeze with Hornget (Mike Hadlow)
Manually Upgrading your Hudson CI Server (Derik Whittaker)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: November 22, 2009 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #482 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: 2009 11.17 ~ 11.22 (yuanjian)
Weekly Links #80 (Grant Palin)
Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 — #738 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 2 — #739 and Silverlight Cream for November 22, 2009 – 3 — #740 (Dave Campbell)
Links of the week #98 (David Vidmar)
Links (11/22/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Microsoft PDC09 and Silverlight Round-up (Tim Heuer)
Weekly Link Post 120 (Rhonda Tipton)
Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009 (Rick Minerich)

Book of the Day

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (9781934356289): Paul Butcher, Butcher Paul: Books

ISBN: 193435628X
ISBN-13: 9781934356289

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