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Dew Dump – February 16, 2010

Posted on February 16, 2010 | by Alvin A.

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

Top Links

Learning about MEF in SL4 from Mike Taulty (Glenn Block)
Microsoft "Finally" Announces Windows Phone 7 Series (^_^) (Blake Handler)
The Vision of an Educational iPhone Application (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Pex 0.23.50215.2: Visual Studio 2010 RC support (Jonathan de Halleux)

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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Dew Drop – Early Edition – December 21, 2009

Posted on December 20, 2009 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

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

Top Links

TWC9: 2009 – The Year in Review (Dan Fernandez) – The Channel 9 crew wraps up the series for 2009.
Azure Blob Storage plugin for Windows Live Writer now available (James Clarke) – A cool new plugin for WLW.
Windows Azure AppFabric SDK v1.0 Released (Service Bus and Access Control) (Greg Duncan) – Greg spots the v1.0 SDK release on MS Downloads.
ASP.NET MVC 2 and Visual Studio 2010 (Phil Haack) – Phil gives an update on MVC v2 following the announcement of the delay of VS2010 and its upcoming RC release.

.NET / Visual Studio

Dminor (MS Research)
An RSS Dashboard in F#, part two (IObservables) (Brian McNamara)
Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer Missing… (Doug Holland)
WCF RIA Service – How to configure the WCF Service maximum items returned by the Query (Fredrik Normén)
OR-ing criteria with NHibernate, or “How to include it all” (Kyle Baley)
Securing WCF REST Service using Windows Authentication (Mahesh Sabnis)
When using LINQ don’t forget about deferred execution (Mark Meyerovich)
What’s A PkgDef? And Why? (Bill Weinberger)
F#: The use keyword and using function and F#: Word Count – A Somewhat Failed Attempt and F#: Word Count using a Dictionary (Mark Needham)
Another Cool Resharper Refactoring (Peter Kellner)
The Sieve of Eratosthenes and F# (Scott Seely)
Visual Studio Code Formatting (Steve Andrews)
Enabling Logging In Your Agatha Service Layer and Agatha 1.0 (Davy Brion)

Web Development

Adding a bit of Spark to Nerd Dinner and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Pt2 [Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Pt2] and Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Part 1 [Extending ASP.NET MVC – Replacing the View Engine Part 1] (Mike Ormond)
want brevity in .net mvc code? switch to f#. (Alex Pedenko)
JavaScript Part 5 – The Client Side (Leon Gersing)
.closest(Array) in jQuery 1.4 (John Resig)
Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part I (Harish Ranganathan)
Google Sites Data API Prototype (Kris Gray)
Extreme Web UI Scalability – Part 2 (Jonathan Oliver)
Passing anonymous objects to MVC views and accessing them using dynamic (David Ebbo)
Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information? (Anh Phan)
SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments (Rick Strahl)
What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS (Tim Wright)
Using conventions with Passive View (Mark Nijhof)
OData gunning for ubiquity across Microsoft products (Jamie Thomson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Practices of an Agile Developer (Chris Missal)
Effectus: Building UI based on conventions and Effectus: Fatten your infrastructure (Oren Eini)
Open Source Licensing, Copyright Notices, Contributions: What To Do? (Davy Brion)
Agile Tenet #2 – Welcome Changing Requirements (Julie Stickler)
Pex 0.20.v0.20.41218.2: Beavers, new Event View and bugs fixes (Jonathan de Halleux)
Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapters 12 & 13 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
If Value is the Problem, What Can I Do About It? (Mike Cottmeyer)
Leadership Tip: The Best Management Is Management You Cannot See. and Career Tip: Focus On Being A Happy Hedgehog Over The Long Term. (Rajiv Popat)
The Polyglot Tester (Uncle Bob Martin)
Advanced Unity: Connecting Implementations to Open Generic Types (Jarod Ferguson)
Coding: An outside in observation (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF

HVP – Core Scaffolding and Updated News (Jesse Liberty)
The Completion of the 31 Days of Silverlight and Day #20: Adding Audio to Silverlight Events (Jeff Blankenburg)
Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM – Part 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
View-the-box (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Weekly 135: Sleeping With Scissors (Paul Thurrott)
Entity Framework Unit Testing with TypeMock Isolator (Muhammad Mosa)
MSDN Flash Podcast 017 – Behavior Driven Development (Eric Nelson)
Wes Dyer: Controlling Concurrency in Rx (Jeffrey van Gogh)
Silverlight 4 tutorial : adding avatar support to the business template (David Rousset)
Major Nelson Show 344: VGA’s, GH Van Halen, Borderlands and Splinter Cell Conviction (Larry Hyrb)
Channel 9 Live at PDC09: Coding 4 Fun (Nic Fillingham)
Codecast interviews about the Editor and Extensibility (Quan To)

Database

SQLAuthority News – Migrating to SQL Server from Other Database Products and SQLAuthority News – Migrating DTS Packages to Integration Services (Pinal Dave)
AdventureWorks Community Sample Databases available for SQL Azure (Stephen Forte)
XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 (Shawn Wildermuth)

SharePoint

***NOW AVAILABLE*** MSDN: SharePoint Administrator’s and Developer’s Guide to Code Access Security (Andrew Connell)
My First SharePoint 2010 feature! Adding jQuery… (Wesley Bakker)
Visualizing Data using XSLT: Following up on SPC 2009’s session on Building SharePoint Mashups With SPD, Bing Maps and REST Services (Doreen Grieb)

Miscellaneous

Diagram of Geek Culture (Ibrahim Evsan)
Looking for that perfect icon? Search a repository of 125,723 or easily browsing 331 icon sets at Icon Finder (Greg Duncan)
Trying MonoDevelop On OS X, Part Two (Davy Brion)
Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 GM Versions (PSN Editorial Staff)
Readable Regular Expressions Revisited (Joshua Flanagan)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 18, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 19, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 20, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Silverlight Cream for December 17, 2009 — #758 (Dave Campbell)
Everyman Links for December 19, 2009 (Dave Burke)
Tech Tweets for 18-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)
Weekly Links #84 (Grant Palin)
Interesting Finds: 2009 12.15 ~ 12.20 (yuanjian)
Interesting Post… 12/13/2009 through 12/20/2009 (Mike Cottmeyer)
Links (12/20/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
So you want to write a Storage Engine… (Paul S. Randal)
Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Good Blogs (Peldi Guilizzoni)
Not another NDepend review, link roundup (Peter Eysermans)

The Geek Shelf

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

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Dew Drop – December 4, 2009

Posted on December 4, 2009 | by Alvin A.

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

.NET / Visual Studio

Changing log4net connection string at runtime (Ben Scheirman)
New Book: Developing for Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
Exact rules for variance validity (Eric Lippert)
One-Way (Or Fire And Forget) Requests With Agatha (Davy Brion)

Web Development

Resolving ASP.NET Web.Config Inheritance (Tom Hearn)
jQuery, Each() and Async Gets (Dave M. Bush)
Configuring a Sueetie Blog to Support Microsoft LiveWriter (Dave Burke)
Google Wave API Articles: Extensions Debugging & Robot-to-Gadget Communication (Pamela Fox)
What’s New in Expression Web 3.0 Service Pack 1.0 (Minal Agarwal)
How important is medium trust to you? (Bertrand Le Roy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

More WebSequenceDiagrams.com Awesomeness (Charles Chen)
So Now You’re an Agilist, What’s Next? (Video) (Jurgen Appelo)
Applied Modularity – Retrospectives (Kirk Knoernschild)
Setting Architecture Review Board Member Expectations (Mike Walker)
How To Use Windsor to Change a Deployed Application’s Behavior Without Touching a Single Line of Existing Code (Rob Reynolds)
Stop the assembly line! Fix that software deployment! (Andy Singleton)
ÜberProf and Continuous Integration (Oren Eini)
Persistence model and domain anemia (Jimmy Bogard)
Book Club: Working Effectively With Legacy Code – Chapter 11 (Michael Feathers) (Mark Needham)
First QuickNet Release Is Out (Davy Brion)
What’s a better game than Devshop? (Leon Bambrick)

Silverlight / WPF

BugCamSmash – Motion Detection with Silverlight 4 Beta (Adam Kinney)
Silverlight 4 Augmented Reality Proof Of Concept (Rene Schulte)
Caliburn Silverlight Navigation Walkthrough: Introduction (Rob Eisenberg)
Hacking Kaxaml to work on .NET 4.0 (Mike Taulty)
RIA – Should a service return the IQueryable<T>? (Fredrik Normén)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

PDC09 Backstage during the keynote (Ben Riga)
C9 Lectures: Dr. Erik Meijer – Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter 10 of 13 (Charles Torre)
Stack Overflow Podcast #76 (Jeff Atwood)
This Week in Testing Episode 6 – Analyze This! (Gil Zilberfeld & Dror Helper)
VSX212: Adding a Language Service into Visual Studio 2010 and VSX106: Introduction to DSL (Sherry Toly)
Fabrikam Jets – Integrating Codename "Dallas" with AppFabric Access Control (Jack Greenfield)
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? (Min Li Chan)

Community / Events

Testing with Pex and QuickCheck – 7th January 2010 @ Microsoft’s offices, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
You Can Benefit From Open Sourcing Your Code (Davy Brion)

Database

SQL Server Best Practices: Protect CmdExec (Buck Woody)
SQL SERVER – 2008 Star Join Query Optimization (Pinal Dave)
TwitterCache now hosted on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

Fantastic blog series on SharePoint 2007 Content Deployment (Andrew Connell)
Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010 – a key ECM enhancement (Chris O’Brien)
Walkthrough of creating a SharePoint 2010 external list using Visual Studio 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team)
BCS Meta Man – upscale SPD External Content Type (Lightning Tools Team)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Targets Programming Newbies with New Vedea Visualization Language (Mary-Jo Foley)
Microsoft’s Updated List of FREE Windows Holiday Software (Blake Handler)
Introducing Google Public DNS (Prem Ramaswami) – Link of the Day
DZone Daily Dose – 2009/12/4 (Mitch Pronschinske)
Motorola Droid 2.0 Details Leaked (Taimur Asad)
Get those pixels working for you (Scott Hanselman)
Sometimes you just need to CodingHorror it! (Nick Berardi)
Minimizing the Ribbon: Exposed (Jon Gordner)
Techniques for Being Ready-to-Publish at Any Time (Julie Stickler)
PowerGUI 1.9.6 Released (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Normal booting is old school [Windows 7 tricks detailed: USB key install, VHD creation, and native VHD boot/dual-boot!] (David Anson)
Microsoft’s Bing Bar takes the clutter and complexity out of browser toolbars (Joe Wilcox)
OpenCV cvLoadImage IOError (Tony Rasa)

More Link Collections

The Morning Brew #491 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for December 03, 2009 — #747 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: December 3, 2009 and Interesting Finds: December 4, 2009 (Jason Haley)
Links (12/3/2009) (Steve Pietrek)
Tech Tweets for 3-Dec-2009 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) (9780470410950): Nick Berardi, Al Katawazi, Marco Bellinaso: Books

ISBN: 0470410957
ISBN-13: 9780470410950

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