Dew Drop – April 23, 2010

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Top Links

• Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action (Eric Hexter)
• Rant: HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Display Market: Or, I want my pixels and DPI now! (Pete Brown)
• Expressive Code: Good Variable Names Instead Of Magic Values And Calculations (Derick Bailey)
• Finding Your Strengths (J.D. Meier)
• Digging into the NET Parallel Framework (Kevin Jones)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ReportViewer Projects in Visual Studio 2010—Missed the Mark (Again) (William Vaughn)
• Using the Code Snippets Manager and The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Adding comments to a DataTip (Zain Naboulsi)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Using TortoiseSVN From the Command Line (Jim Holmes)
• Every Tree There Is (Eric Lippert)
• Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API (Gil Fink)
• Buying a Visual Studio 2010 product key or extending the Visual Studio 2010 Trial Edition (Charles Sterling)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 – Part II (Gouri Sohoni)
• Generating Business Logic “Hooks” for EF4 Entities (Dan Simmons)
• Git, Gitosis, Putty and Windows (Dave M. Bush)
• New Psscor2 commands – Dealing with Dates and Times (Tom)

Web Development

• Amethyst Marries Flash Platform and Visual Studio and Daily Dose – App Engine 1.3.3 Released (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Is Apple doing a favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)
• Running Rails in IIS7 with IronRuby Rack (Bobby Johnson)
• Client Script Patterns: Predictive Fetch (Simon Ince)
• Queryable OData Metadata (Alex James)
• Editing a Variable Length List, ASP.NET MVC 2-Style (Steve Sanderson)
• IIS Compression in Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
• Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File (Nichole Baker)
• IE9 Developer Tools: Network Tab (Andy Sterland)
• WhiteHouse.Gov gives Drupal an open source stimulus – Three WhiteHouse.Gov projects released to Drupal as Open Source (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Estimating" Now Online (James Shore)
• #Nose 1.1 Released (Dror Helper)
• Study on the State of Code Review (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Granularity: Architecture’s Nemesis (Kirk Knoernschild)
• Lured in by the complexity (Mark Needham)
• Reworking It. (Rob Bazinet)
• Messaging: At-Least-Once Delivery and Message Idempotency Patterns and Disk Usage (Jonathan Oliver)
• Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out (J.D. Meier)
• Standards: Grow Them, Don’t Make Them (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF

• Upgrade to Expression Studio v4 for free – now in writing! (Adam Kinney)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #2– Attach to Process Debugging and Silverlight: Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight managed debugging package isn’t installed. (Mike Snow)
• Silverlight 4 Training Kit (Scott Guthrie)
• Resolution of Dependency Properties (Umair Saeed)
• Transactions with MVVM (Jeremy Likness)
• WCF RIA Services – Hands On Lab (John Papa)
• Nobody likes a show-off [Today’s DataVisualizationDemos release includes new demos showing off stacked series behavior] (David Anson)
• Using a webcam in a WPF application (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• DZone Interview – MVVM and Prism (Brian Noyes)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield Live in Redlands, CA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Thirsty Developer 90: Silverlight 3 in the Enterprise (Dave Bost)
• Pete at MIX10: Josh Blake on Natural User Interface and WPF Multi-touch (Pete Brown)
• Interactive Storytelling on Microsoft Surface (Eric Havir)
• Using the new sensor and location API from Silverlight 4 (Martin Esmann)
• Silverlight TV 21: Silverlight 4 – Customer Perspectives (John Papa)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #171: Exploring how to use List Binding in MVC2 (Derik Whittaker)

Community / Events

• SQL Server and Reporting Services Foundations (William Vaughn)
• A Diabetic Product Review for Non-Diabetics – The Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm "Revel" Insulin Pump and CGM (Scott Hanselman)
• Horror stories from the trenches: My very first project (Oren Eini)
• Contributing to OSS, a Git Bootcamp (Karl Seguin)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Update Statistics are Sampled By Default (Pinal Dave)
• Stripping rows out of file imports (Ted Krueger)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (22/30) resource governor allows IO governing (Paul S. Randal)
• The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB – Oh My! (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

• I call him Mini-SharePoint! – SharePoint Foundation 2010 (i.e. new version of WSS/Windows SharePoint Services with a new name) (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration (Dux Raymond Sy)

Miscellaneous

• IntelliJ and TeamCity Load Up on New Features (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Apple seeking to acquire ARM? (Sadat Karim)
• eBay Simple Lister Beta Now Available (John Papa)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #586 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 22, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 22, 2010 — #844 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 51 (Kathleen Sanders)
• New and Notable 414 (Sam Gentile)
• Four Great Online Resources for Learning Silverlight (Michael S. Scherotter)

The Geek Shelf

Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4