Dew Drop – January 23, 2010

 

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Top Links

• CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial and Using Mercurial on CodePlex and First Mercurial project on CodePlex (Sara Ford)
• The WebForms Rant (Karl Seguin)
• Making DevExpress & ReSharper Play Nicely (Jim Holmes)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows Mobile 6.5 SDK (MS Downloads)
• DSLs in Boo is out! (Oren Eini)
• Develop Web Apps in F# with WebSharper (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Some Astoria tips I learnt today (Marlon Grech)
• A basic proxy for intercepting method calls (Part –2) (Mehfuz Hussain)
• Selecting Static Results with Dynamic LINQ (Keith Dahlby)
• Telerik Data Services Wizard New Feature:DataServiceKey (Stephen Forte)
• IntelliSense Suggestion Mode — vstipEdit0012 and How to customize what files to search with Find in Files — vstipFind0005 (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy (Jon Galloway)
• IIS Application Warm-Up Module (Gunnar Peipman)
• Daily Dose – YouTube and Vimeo Foster HTML5 Escalation (Mitch Pronschinske)
• When will WebForm vs MVC become like ListView vs Repeater? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Explore CSS Properties Panel in Expression Web 3 (Minal Agarwal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MbUnit AssertEx (Andrew Stopford)
• Don Reinertsen on Second Generation Lean Product Development (Christophe Louvion)
• Controls Do Not Make You More Productive (Justin Etheredge)
• Management By Intimidation Is Downright Stupid And Risky. (Rajiv Popat)
• Automapper: First thoughts (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• How can I sort data virtualized items in WPF? (Bea Stollnitz)
• Aspen – part 6 of X – Reusing ObjectContex among Repositories during a DomainSerivce operation. (Fredrik Normen)
• Known Issue – Controls Deriving From A Generic Base Class Must Be In Separate Assembly (Karl Shifflett)
• Scrubbing with Thumbnails with the SMF Player (Michael S. Scherotter)
• XamlPadSample Step 1c-Project (Rob Relyea)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV Special – Designing Multi-tenant Applications on Windows Azure (Bob Familiar)
• I. M. Wright podcast: “Spontaneous combustion of rancid management” (Devon Musgrave)
• jQuery Podcast 8 – api.jquery.com (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
• Herding Code 69: Scott Bellware on HTML Specialists (Jon Galloway)
• Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability – Connecting the Distributed Dots (Charles Torre)
• MSBuild Interview on CodeCast (Chuck England)

 

Community / Events

• Advanced Agile: Beyond the Low-Hanging Fruit – webinar by Mary Poppendieck 3 February 2010 (Christophe Louvion)
• An Introduction to Silverlight – Thursday 4th March 2010 at Microsoft, Edinburgh (Mike Perrin)
• Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects (Jeff Barnes)
• Available for Microsoft Solutions Architecture (Sam Gentile)

 

Database

• “Excel found unreadable content” when exporting a Reporting Services report (Jamie Thomson)
• Use sys.dm_os_performance_counters to get your Buffer cache hit ratio and Page life expectancy counters (Denis Gobo)

 

SharePoint

• Free SharePoint Reports with No Server Install (Joel Oleson)
• How ComponentOne Web Parts Improve the SharePoint Experience (Eve Turzillo)
• Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 (Umesh Unnikrishnan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Write better knols with object embedding and PicApp (Cedric Dupont)
• O’Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales (Cory Doctorow)
• Running MobileShell on Windows 7 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Microsoft, don’t give up on Steve Ballmer just yet (Joe Wilcox)
• Office 2010 System Requirements (Alex Dubec)
• ShellMenuNew Cleans Up the Windows Explorer "New" Menu (The How-To Geek)
• Is the Zune Phone Enough? (Stephen Forte)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 22, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 22-Jan-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 — #784 and Silverlight Cream for January 22, 2010 – 2 — #785 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Resources (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Help Me Get Started Using Visual Studio (Charlie Calvert)
• New and Notable 396 (Sam Gentile)

 

The Geek Shelf

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture