Dew Drop – March 24, 2010

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Top Links

• regarding the Windows Phone 7 series, XNA and Visual Basic (Chris G. Williams)
• JetBrains to Launch dotCover EAP Next Week (Jura Gorohovsky)
• iPhone SDK vs Windows Phone 7 Series SDK Challenge, Part 1: Hello World! (Shawn Burke)
• Amanda takes umbrage…. (Ted Neward)
• Introducing QuickUnit (Roy Osherove)

.NET / Visual Studio

• No VB6 to VS2010 direct upgrade path (Chris G. Williams)
• Interview Questions – Change For a Dollar (James Johnson)
• Changed Limit on the Number of Applications Per Windows Azure Subscription (Azure Team)
• Announcing the Visual Studio Tip of the Day Extension (Zain Naboulsi)
• Planning to Create a Beginners Guide to VS 2010, .NET 4, etc. (Mitch Reubush)

Web Development

• Data Web Controls Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Applauding Microsoft’s Shift to Improve jQuery! (Chris Love)
• Don’t Delete That Azure Service! (David Makogon)
• Introducing IE9’s User Agent String (Marc Silbey)
• How To – Use ASP.NET Forms Auth with SQL Server (J.D. Meier)
• Upgrading Suteki Shop to ASP.NET MVC 2 (Mike Hadlow)
• Podlogger – Half Baked Code, but yours for free. (Joe Stagner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Fail Safe (Simon Brown)
• Checklist for Developing Message-Based Systems (Billy McCafferty)
• VS20 next, test frameworks and what you want to see? and TDD and your emerging design (Andrew Stopford)
• Cohesive Releases (David Laribee)
• I. M. Wright: “I’m deeply committed” (Eric Brechner)
• DDDD, CQRS and Other Enterprise Development Buzz-words (Rinat Abdullin)
• The Case of the Caffeine Overdose: A CQS Mystery (Russell Ball)
• How Do *YOU* Think About the Problem? (Stephen Bohlen)
• 7 Approaches to Competence Development (Jurgen Appelo)
• Nuggets of performance wisdom (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• TDD: Consistent test structure (Mark Needham)
• Take the Pledge and Ship Great Code (Mitch Reubush)
• Cheat Sheet – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF

• View/ViewModel Interaction – Bindings, Commands and Triggers (Nikhil Kothari)
• Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Validating Data (Brad Abrams)
• Changing Templates with the Silverlight Designer (and seeing the changes immediately) (Cheryl Simmons)
• Do one thing, and do it well [Tip: The CLR wrapper for a DependencyProperty should do its job and nothing more] (David Anson)
• Understanding InputScope with Silverlight on Windows Phone 7 (Dave Bost)
• Soft-Body Physics for Windows Phone 7 (Chris Cavanagh)
• WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 5 : Window Management (Matthew Johnson)
• Silverlight 4 RC – Signing trusted apps with home made certificates and Silverlight 4 RC and the “silent installation” (Mike Taulty)
• Rotating and cropping an image in WPF (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Live Meeting – Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update (Anthony de Bruyn)
• Pro Scrum Developer Intro (Charles Torre)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #86 (Jeff Atwood)
• Pete at MIX10: Your Favorite Things at MIX (Pete Brown)
• My 0reDev Video Is Up (Shawn Wildermuth)
• An Extended Look at Project Gustav – Immersive Digital Painting (Nic Fillingham)
• Coding 4 DNA (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Critiquing Free Events (Andy Warren)
• Charity Fragathon II (Jason Bock)
• Why I write this stuff (Mike Hadlow)
• First NUI Camp Announced (James Chittenden)
• Three upcoming WPF trainings (Jaime Rodriguez)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 8501 MSDTC on server is unavailable. Changed database context to publisher database (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Google Bookmarks Lists (Alex Chitu)
• You Don’t Need Math Skills To Be A Good Developer But You Do Need Them To Be A Great One (Alan Skorkin)
• Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time… [Announcing a new "Development Tips" series on my blog!] (David Anson)
• Running Ruby And Rake (and albacore) Without Installing Them (Derick Bailey)
• PowerShell – Show a Notification Balloon (Buck Woody)
• 82 Top Free/Open Source Windows Applications, two clicks away via ZeuApp, a portable downloader and installer (Greg Duncan)
• Adobe Releases Lightroom 3 Beta 2 (PSN Editorial Staff)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Complete Web Monitoring – Only $9.99! Use code DDCWM (O’Reilly Media)
• Adobe to launch Creative Suite 5 April 12 (Scott M. Fulton, III)
• Windows Phone 7 desktop wallpapers (Steve Clayton)
• Accessing your Office files from any computer with Windows Live SkyDrive (Rich Grutzmacher)
• What if I can’t upgrade to IE8? (Mike Ormond)
• Cold Turkey (Kevin Jones)

More Link Collections

• LINKBLOG for Mar 24, 2010 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Interesting Finds: March 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #566 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 23, 2010 — #818 (Dave Campbell)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Mar-2010 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

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