Top Links
- Announcing Jounce 1.0 RTM – It’s here! (Jeremy Likness)
- Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application (Derik Whittaker)
- Preview Drop #3 of Enterprise Library Silverlight Integration Pack (Grigori Melnik)
- NuGet 1.2 Released (Phil Haack)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# API Design: Type Inference, Named Parameters, and Generic Delegates (Jonathan Carter)
- TFS and WF4: The diff noise problem and Beware of lifetime manager policy locks in Unity (Rory Primrose)
- Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released! (Blake Niemyjski)
- Microsoft NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio & VWD (Joe Stagner)
- My Visual Studio snippets (Shawn Burke)
- I love R# because it reduce mouse usage (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Enabling Parallelism for Productivity Programmers (Ade Miller)
- I spy with my little eye… ILSpy (Greg Duncan)
- async 8: creating combinators (Bill Wagner)
Web Development
- JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part I) and JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part II) (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: Designing the Genre and Album Pages (Chris Love)
- HTML5: What Is It, Why Should I Care, and What’s Microsoft Doing About It? (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET (Matteo Slaviero)
- Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 (Scott Hanselman)
- What Firefox 4 means to web developers? and The PHP frameworks poll results (Giorgio Sironi)
- RockPaperAzure Coding Challenge and Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 1 and Creating a Quick Progress Visual like UpdateProgress (Brian Hitney)
- YUI 2.9.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Jenny Han Donnelly)
- Composite C1 CMS 2.1 (2.1.4087.22991) and patterns & practices: Project Sile Community Drop 4 – 28 Mar 2011 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- IT Turf Wars? Agile Can Help (Peter Saddington)
- One Real-Life Product Owner Team and Product Owner Team Design Considerations (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Improving Meetings (K. Brian Kelley)
- Effective Tests: How Faking It Can Help You (Derek Greer)
- Organising NUnit Tests (Richard Carr)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application and Nullable ComboBox for Silverlight and WPF (Mircea Deliu)
- A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter (Brandon Watson)
- Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
- Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
- Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
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- Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
- Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
- Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
- Design/performance – WP7 in blend and code (Håkan Reis)
- Silverlight Scaling and Anti-Aliasing Issues (Jeremy Likness)
- Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox (Joey deVilla)
- Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development (Karl Erickson)
- Capturing Screenshots on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
- WP7 TombstoneHelper (Rudi Grobler)
- How to install LightSwitch Beta 2? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- MVVM Light – what’s the Messenger? (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
- Supercharged Spreadsheets – PowerPivot in Office 2010 and A Few Minutes with Nolan Bushnell – Creator of Pong and Atari (Tina Wood)
- PDC Sessions now published on Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
- Technology & Friends Episode 148: G Andrew Duthie on Community Megaphone (David Giard)
- endpoint.tv – Parent / Child Workflows (Ron Jacobs)
- Let’s Play TDD #98: One Beeellion Dollars (James Shore)
- Spaghetti Code – March 2011 (Jeff Brand)
- The GeekDads Episode #88: Moderately Misplaced Teen Pop Song (Ken Denmead)
- Countdown to MIX11: Get Your Science On (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- WP7 App Challenge competition – get a free ride to WPC 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Communities and Networks: What are you building? (Bill Wagner)
- Mono and Google Summer of Code (Miguel de Icaza)
- MSDN Virtual Lab: A Lap Around IE9 (Wes Yanaga)
- Lightning tools webcasts (Brett Lonsdale)
- Event: New Sessions Released, Learn from the Best at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
- UX at MIX11: Full Speed Ahead (Jason Alderman)
- I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla (Scott Mitchell)
Database
- Snapshot Synchronization with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- T-SQL, SQL Administration and SSRS Articles Link List – March 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – TechEd 2011 – Random Question and Answers and SQL SERVER – ‘Denali’ – A Simple Example of Contained Databases (Pinal Dave)
- March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – syscomments (Thomas LaRock)
- MySQL: GROUP BY in UNION (Quassnoi)
- (Not a) CHECKDB error “Unable to deallocate a kept page” (Paul S. Randal)
- Building Our Own Federated Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell (Eric Humphrey)
SharePoint
- Using the Builder Pattern To Create SharePoint Lists (Bil Simser)
- Connected Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 – an Architectural Framework (Mark Kendall)
- Update Taxonomy Field Values in a List Item using SharePoint Web Services (Sridhar Raghunathan)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Co-Founder Blasts Bill Gates in Memoir (Paul Thurrott)
- Careers 2.0 now does GitHub (Matt Sherman)
- New in Marketplace: ESPN ScoreCenter (Michael Stroh)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning #Android – Only $15.39 (Save 45%) w/code DDLAN (O’Reilly Media)
- Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm (asgard4)
- Announcing Group Plans for Tekpub (Rob Conery)
- Windows Phone Mobile Studio: A reincarnated (and de-hipsterized) Kin Studio? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Microsoft DreamSpark – now with a free Microsoft Certification Exam (Dennis Delimarsky)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #823 and The Morning Brew #824 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 29th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2011 — #1068 (Dave Campbell)
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Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 by Peter Ritchie |
Dew Drop – March 29, 2011
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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C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet |
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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