Top Links
- Phoney Tools v0.7 Released (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Encapsulation: You’re Doing It Wrong (Derick Bailey)
- Modifying the default code generation/scaffolding templates in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
- Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 1 (Derek Greer)
- async samples 7: Combinators (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Difference between two Entity Set using LINQ (Abhijit Jana)
- The Visual Studio Debugger: A new series on an old topic (Cameron Skinner)
- Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 (Mike Taulty)
- TFS Integration Platform Updated Mar 11 (Shai Raiten)
- Working with the New Project Dialog in Visual Studio 2010 and Configuring Offline Help with VS2010 SP1 (Zain Naboulsi)
- How to request a daily build of DevExpress IDE Tools (Alex Skorkin)
- Optimizing Regex Performance, Part 3 (Ron Petrusha)
- An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4 (Bobby Johnson)
- MonoMac Offers .NET Style APIs for Cocoa Development (Jonathan Allen)
- Entity Framework Model Inheritance with SQL CE 4 (Arun Mahendrakar)
- New Azure Tools Roll Out to Mobile Platforms (Jeffrey Meisner)
- List Exporter To CSV (Sacha Barber)
Web Development
- LightSwitch and HTML (Michael Washington)
- High Performance Javascript (Anders Janmyr)
- A Collapsible Content Area Using jQuery UI and A jQuery Color Picker for ASP.NET Apps (Joe Stagner)
- Who Needs Classes Anyway? (Davy Brion)
- Facebook C# SDK Tutorial: Getting Started with an ASP.NET MVC 3 Website (With Javascript SDK) (Nathan Totten)
- A first look at the upcoming JavaScript modules (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler (Rick Strahl)
- Scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests with MvcScaffolding (Steve Sanderson)
- Windows Azure Worker Role and BasicHttpBinding and the Loch Ness Monster (Christian Martinez)
- WebMatrix Tutorial: Quickly Find Hosting and Deploy Your Web App (Steve Lydford)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit Testing and TypeMock Part 3 (Avi Kaye)
- The Importance of Agile Feedback Loops (Dan Puckett)
- Top 10 Essential Product Owner Characteristics (Peter Saddington)
- Why a Product Owner Team? and Product Owner Team… Who Needs to Play? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Designing For The Future Web (James Gardner)
- Stand Up Meetings Are About More Than Standing (James Kovacs)
- Model Driven Development and Domain Specific Language Best Practices (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
- Getting up to BAT: Creating Your First Smoke Tests (John Sonmez)
- New book: Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project (Kim Spilker)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
- WPF 4 DataGrid Row Drag and Drop (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Common Problem with Notifications from a View Model (Nigel Sampson)
- My 10 tips for designing phone apps (Alex Knight)
- TombstoneHelper now in NuGet (Matt Lacey)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Eric Lippert Talks About Project Roslyn (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Talkin’ C++ with Boris Jabes: C++ Intellisense, Game Development, and Boris Faces His Demons (Charles Torre)
- The Engadget Show – 019: HP’s Jon Rubinstein, Palm TouchPad demo, Nintendo 3DS, Samsung 9 Series (Chad Mumm)
- Ping 96: Mark Russinovich joins us, Zero Day: A Novel, IE9 loves Firefox, 3D app for your phone (Charles Torre & Laura Foy)
- Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials for Technical Decision Makers (Larry Larsen)
- Podcast with CodeItRight (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Community / Events
- Mobile Connections – Las Vegas, NV – April 17-21 (Wally McClure)
- Arrive a Day Early and Attend a Boot camp at MIX11 (Wes Yanaga)
- 20 Mix11 HTML5 and JavaScript Sessions (Elijah Manor)
- Nerd Nite Special Edition: The Philadelphia Science Festival! (Philly Nerd Nite)
- VOTE: Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards and MSDN Flash Mid-Atlantic Editorial for March 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Mole 2010 at the Portland Area .NET User Group (Josh Smith)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details (Pinal Dave)
- MySQL: splitting aggregate queries (Quassnoi)
- VOTE: Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards and MSDN Flash Mid-Atlantic Editorial for March 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Mole 2010 at the Portland Area .NET User Group (Josh Smith)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details (Pinal Dave)
- MySQL: splitting aggregate queries (Quassnoi)
- Does CHECKPOINT write uncommitted data to disk? (Sankar Reddy)
SharePoint
- lightning conductor 2007 web part 2.3.0.0 (Brett Lonsdale)
- Social Squared March Release (Lightning Tools)
Miscellaneous
- Happy Developers (Brandon Watson)
- Is Putting.Net on Your Resume Bad for your Career? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Getting that PDF onto your Kindle 3 so you can actually read it… and Good to meet you Source. And you, Source… And you… Using Source Meet to meet about source [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
- Browser Power Consumption—Leading the Industry with Internet Explorer 9 (Walter VonKoch, Matthew Robben & Jason Weber)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: How To Sync Multiple Notebooks in OneNote Mobile on Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
- Evernote Modernizes Web App, Adds Facebook Sharing (Jennifer Van Grove)
- Microsoft releases Windows Thin PC public test build (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Weekly Link Post 187 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- The Morning Brew #822 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 03/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2011 — #1067 (Dave Campbell)
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Dew Drop – March 25, 2011
Top Links
- Introducing the Kinect WPF Toolkit (András Velvárt)
- How to Capture User Signatures on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
- Crawling the Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)
- When Should a Method Be a Property? (Rob Conery)
- async Samples 6: Declaring async methods (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- How to update “Run only specified windows applications” GPO programmatically (VBScript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
- Trigger-Start Services Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
- New Training for Visual Studio 2010 and Notepad for Workitems: how to programmatically create workitems in Visual Basic for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
- A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 3 – Customizing the build process [Help File] (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
- Cloud Sync/Backup your Visual Studio settings with Pepper (Greg Duncan)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ToLookup() LINQ Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
- Improving CLRProfiler 3: Double the speed of profile loading (Feng Yuan)
- A Friendly DateTime Formatter (Jonathan Wood)
Web Development
- Getting Your Feet Wet with HTML 5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game (Adam Kinney)
- Want to work on datajs? (Phil Haack)
- IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics (Mike Taulty)
- IE9’s Document Modes and JavaScript (Gaurav Seth & Paul Chapman)
- Basic JavaScript Part 12: Function Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Using jQuery UI DatePicker in an ASP.NET Application. (Joe Stagner)
- HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
- Using Translation Services within ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
- Web Workers, for a responsive JavaScript application (Giorgio Sironi)
- Windows Azure and scaling: how? (PHP) (Maarten Balliauw)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Write clearer Unit Tests (Gian Maria Ricci)
- 3 Scrum Types – Your Flavor of Scrum? and Kanban Elevator Pitch – Help Craft It (Peter Saddington)
- Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part III: Moving away from Scrum (Stephen Forte)
- Bus and Broker Pub/Sub Differences (Udi Dahan)
- The Essential Product Cookbook–The First Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- Sharing An IE Instance Among Multiple Tests With WatiN And MS Test (Davy Brion)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
- Windows Phone: Touch (Jesse Liberty)
- Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Complex Theme (Windows Phone Geek)
- Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 1) (Michael Crump)
- Phone Tools v0.6 Released – Breaking Change! (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Free “no code” WP7 App Dev and also Marketplace registration from AppMakr and Microsoft (limited time) (Think “App’ify your RSS feed in just a few clicks, with a good number of customization options too”) (Greg Duncan)
- Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Jeremy Likness)
- Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
- A Batch File for Closing Zune and Launching the WPConnect Tool (Daniel Vaughan)
- Getting Total Memory on Win7 Mobile Devices (Mike Snow)
- Designing hubs, being creative. (Alfred Astort)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes: Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty (Scott Hanselman)
- geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
- Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
- Webcast: Brief introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
- Let’s Play TDD #97: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (James Shore)
- Silverlight TV 67: Bill Buxton Talks about Speed Dating at MIX11 (John Papa)
- Cloud Plumbing: Brian Noyes Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi (Larry Larsen)
- The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
- Innovate both technology and your own career at Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
- Trigger Started Services on Windows 7 (John Bristowe)
- Blend SIG Podcast: February 2011: Adam Kinney and March 2011: Frank LaVigne (Joel Cochran)
- endpoint.tv – AppFabric WCF HTTP Template (Ron Jacobs)
- Community Megaphone Show #26 FoxPro Reunion (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Community / Events
- Job Opportunities (Cameron Skinner)
- Webinar: Amplify JavaScript Library with Scott González (Elijah Manor)
- Come Demo your Cool Robotics, Microcontroller, or other Hardware Hacking at MADExpo (Pete Brown)
- IE is MIXing it up in Vegas! (Ziad Ismail)
- Russian GM speaks at MVP Organized MCP Meeting (Lonnie Webb)
Database
- PostgreSQL Row Storage Fundamentals (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Looking at the RavenDB structure (Oren Eini)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Roundup (Avi Kaye)
- DeliverPoint versus well known Sharepoint administration tools (Lightning Tools)
- Microsoft: We’re adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day (Mary Jo Foley)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (MS Downloads)
- 20 percent time spent coding in the clouds (Dave Burke)
- Comparison: Xcode 3 vs. Xcode 4 (Austin Ritchie)
- Manifesto Manifesto: a recipe for manifestae (Cory Doctorow)
- Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop (Dirk Metzmacher)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Show: Daily News Digest 03/25/2011 (Svetla Stoycheva)
- The Morning Brew #820 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 (Dave Campbell)
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Dew Drop – March 22, 2011
Top Links
- *Free to Choose* Deal/Day to Support #Japan Disaster Relief – Save 50% – Ebooks & Videos (O’Reilly Media)
- MEFing up John Papa’s MVVM code from Firestarter (Colin Blair)
- Using EntityFramework with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Rob Conery)
- Effective Tests: Test First (Derek Greer)
.NET / Visual Studio
- A C# Command-Line Parser (Jonathan Wood)
- A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 1 – Introduction (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Using WCF Data Services with Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First (Jeff Derstadt)
- Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
- Book Review: C# in Depth–2nd Edition (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Setup Switches (Zain Naboulsi)
- Windows Azure and scaling: how? (.NET) (Maarten Balliauw)
- Windows Restart and Recovery Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
- Entity Framework 4.1 gets DbContext API – but no Database Evolution, SPs or Cached queries (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Code contracts – Is it only about argument validation? (Peter Gfader)
- Monad tutorial, Part 4 (Brian Marick)
- Profile a profiler using a profiler (Feng Yuan)
Web Development
- Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 1: Creating a Common Service Layer (Chris Love)
- In JavaScript, curly brace placement matters: An example (Dave Ward)
- Quick tip: Microsoft Expression Web 4 SP1 available, new SuperPreview online service for Safari (Katrien de Graeve)
- Facebook C# SDK Tutorial–ASP.NET MVC3 Website with Facebook Authentication (Nathan Totten)
- Bring your web sites to the desktop with IE 9 Pinned Sites (Rachel Appel)
- JSConsole Remote Debugging and JSBin Live Preview (Elijah Manor)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The wages of sin: Proper and improper usage of abstracting an OR/M (Oren Eini)
- Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone? (Vitaly Friedman)
- Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released (Slobodan Pavkov)
- Meet Microsoft’s Guru of ‘Design Matters’ (Sharon Pian Chan)
- User Experiences: An Insight into Our Design Process (Mirko Mandic)
- IQ Isnt Enough. Enterprise Architects Must Balance with EQ Driven Approaches (Mike Walker)
- Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 2 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Issue with RadioButtons and Binding for MVVM (Abhishek Sur)
- Creating “Cool” Buttons with Expression Blend (Alex Mukora)
- Windows Phone 7 – Part #8: Using Sensors (Andrea Boschin)
- Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #8 (Jeff Prosise)
- NuGet Package of the Week #3 – PhoneyTools for Windows Phone 7 (Scott Hanselman)
- Jeremy Likness on Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
- WP7Contrib – Page Transitions and Navigation Service (Richard Griffin)
- I was joking about the penny, but how about some tombstoning sample code? (Peter Torr)
- All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Text files and Customizing WP7 Slider in different ways (Windows Phone Geek)
- WP7 Common Image Templates (as Paint.Net/PDN files) (Greg Duncan)
- Adding an Application Bar (Jesse Liberty)
- ApplicationIcon must be in root directory (Mike Ormond)
- Metro In Motion – Fluid List Animation (Colin Eberhardt)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Adam Driscoll Does PowerShell with TFS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Episode 142 – PowerScripting Podcast – Richard Giles from Idera on PowerShell Plus (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Pluralcast 38 : Liam McLennan on JavaScript (David Starr)
- TWC9: Expression Web SP1 adds HTML5 support, New Events section, Task.Show (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
- Yet Another Podcast #29 Jon Galloway on MVC 3 (Jesse Liberty)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 48 – Tatham Oddie on What IE9 Means for Developers (Richard Banks)
- Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 5 – Secure Networking using Windows Azure Connect (Larry Larsen)
- Hot Apps: Burn It All, Lunchbox, Urban Dictionary, Simon, Apict (Laura Foy)
- WP7’s IE9 implementation shown off on video (Brody McKee)
Community / Events
- Just Announced: First Set of Windows Azure Sessions at MIX11 (Windows Azure Team)
- Joel Oleson in Ireland for the 1st time with Microsoft and SharePoint User Group in Dublin (Joel Oleson)
- Events This Week – March 21st, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas Giveaway (Brendan Tompkins)
- Deeper in .NET 2011 in Review with Pictures (Chris Pietschmann)
- Windows Phone 7 Workshops–Register Now! (Mike Ormond)
- Xbox LIVE community patrolled by Enforcement Unicorn Ninja (Microsoft JobsBlog)
Database
- SQL Server Compact Toolbox 2.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- SSRS Red-Yellow-Green Indicators: An Alternative Approach? (Jen Stirrup)
- SSIS Foreach File Enumerator returns more files than expected by appending a wildcard (*) to the file mask (Jose Chinchilla)
- SQL Server: Move Table to a new File Group (Madhivanan)
- SQLAuthority News – Solid Quality Journal – Importance of Statistics (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Server DENALI: Service Broker Troubleshooting made easy (Sankar Reddy)
Miscellaneous
- Review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (Brian Bondy)
- Kindle info, links, blogs, tools, and more… (Think “One Boat Load of Kindle Links”) (Greg Duncan)
- Certification: Why Exam Development Is Separate from Training Development (Kim Spilker)
- Microsoft “Video Kinect” Chat Review – Video Chat on the Big Screen, The Good and The Bad (Scott Hanselman)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Syncing Outlook 2010 and Window Phone (Lonnie Webb)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 21, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 21, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #817 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 21th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Client Developer roundup 064 for 3/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
- Daily News Digest 03/21/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Weekly Link Post 186 (Rhonda Tipton)
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