Dew Drop – April 14, 2010

 

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Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Anders Hejlsberg blows our minds! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• And Now We Know……… (Wally McClure)
• JSON Hijacking in ASP.NET MVC 2 (Matt Hinze)
• Video: Expression Encoder 4 sneak peek (James Clarke)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Basic Language Specification 10.0 (MS Downloads)
• My Favorite New Features in Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Mitchell)
• F#: Putting the ‘Fun’ into ‘Functional’ (Rob Knies)
• Free VS2010 Training (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 MSDN Subscriptions installs the trial version? (directions on Activating Visual Studio 2010 Trial) (Charles Sterling)
• Compact Framework: Global Hotkeys (Derick Bailey)
• Thumbnail toolbars in .NET (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Caveats about DeploymentCatalog (Glenn Block)
• Help ‘Generate from usage’ help you (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• CodeRush Xpress & CodeRush Ready for Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Miller)
• Track Changes in the Editor and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: How to use Reference Highlighting and Congratulations to Catto for winning today’s $100 ThinkGeek gift certificate! (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio Face-to-Face battle (Tamir Khason)
• C# Permutations (using Rx System.Interactive) (Edmondo Pentangelo)
• Implementing IObservable and extending Observable (Phil Trelford)
• Anonymous Types in C# Are a Crippled Hack (Derick Bailey)

 

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Azure: Staging and Compute-Hour Metering (David Makogon)
• OData weekly roundup #2 (Alex James)
• Visual Studio 2010 MVC 2 Upgrade Wizard (Joe Cartano)
• Explaining the difference between OData & RDF by way of analogy (Jamie Thomson)
• Daily Dose – Will Google’s VP8 Video Codec Solve HTML5 Video Dilemma? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Google’s Page Speed and invalid HTML (Mads Kristensen)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 1 (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Building an RSS Feed in ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)
• Running today’s different markup (Marc Silbey)
• Checklist: Discussing an Azure Migration (Simon Ince)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Build processes as architectural health indicators (Simon Brown)
• Why support more? The story of MSTest… (Dror Helper)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: The Art of Agile Development – Only $9.99 Use code DDAAD (O’Reilly Media)
• Parallel programming Patterns & Practices in C++ (MS Downloads)
• Gallio and VS2010 (Andrew Stopford)
• April 14 Repo Blitz: Free unlimited SVN and GIT, and much more (Andy Singleton)
• Overview of Some Readings on Events (Dru Sellers)
• Doing your first mock with JustMock (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Measuring an Interesting Fact (Patrick Smacchia)
• Quick Thoughts on Eventual Consistency (Greg Young)
• CQRS – Validation and Business Rules (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Microsoft Silverlight 4 set to be released April 15 (Brad Sams)
• Facebook Developer Toolkit and Windows Phone 7? Yep, with just dash of code hacking… (Greg Duncan)
• Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)
• Pivot from Microsoft for Silverlight (Mitch Ruebush)
• Uploading Windows Azure Blobs from Silverlight – Part 3: Handling Big Files by Using the Block APIs (Steve Marx)
• Poll, Don’t Wait for you Silverlight Applications, part II (Louis Salin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010: Undercover Series (Part 1) (jarsenau13)
• Agile 2009 – Olav Massen – Real options (Bob Payne)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #170: Moles: Mocking the Un-Mockable (Derik Whittaker)
• TechDays 2010: XNAsteroids: How to develop the asteroids game in 30 minutes with the XNA framework and TechDays 2010: ORM with ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 (kreekman)
• TechDays 2010 : A day in the life of a Silverlight/WPF Integrator (Liese Jespers)
• Pete at MIX10: Cory Plotts on Snoop for WPF (Pete Brown)
• jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer by Scott Allen (Matthijs Hoekstra)

 

Community / Events

• First jQuery DC Meetup – What’s New in jQuery UI 1.8 – 4/28/10 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NBDN Remote Course – Now $2000 Per Attendee (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2010 Road Trip (Kevin Hazzard)
• Learn How to Design an Internet Business Solution with SharePoint 2010: Free 2-Day Training for SharePoint Partners (SharePoint Team)

 

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 14 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – What is Spatial Database? – Developing with SQL Server Spatial and Deep Dive into Spatial Indexing (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Tuesday #5: My First Cube (Kalen Delaney)
• A DBA myth a day: (13/30) you cannot run DMVs when in the 80 compat mode (T-SQL Tuesday #005) (Paul S. Randal)

 

SharePoint

• Making Your SharePoint 2010 Customizations Visual Upgrade Aware (Jonathan Kern)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases "Office 2010 Menu to Ribbon Reference Workbooks" (Blake Handler)
• Communicator 2010 Attendee (Beta) (MS Downloads)
• NASA, the Spitzer Space Telescope and your Windows 7 desktop. Like chocolate chocolate chip cookies! (Greg Duncan)
• The iPad isn’t a computer, it’s a distribution channel (Jim Stogdill)
• Apple’s New iPhone SDK Licensing Changes are a Potential Win for Microsoft. (Peter Ritchie)
• Hear In Your Language in Office 2010 (Kate Kelly)
• Why Apple Fears Mono, Java, and Flash (Michael C. Neel)
• Interviewing with code (JP Hamilton)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #579 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• A Few Good Posts on WPF 4 (Ivo Manolov)
• New and Notable 412 (Sam Gentile)

 

The Geek Shelf

Pro Entity Framework 4.0