Dew Drop – April 24, 2010

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Top Links

• Microsoft StyleCop going open! (Greg Duncan)
• Pex 0.91 is out! (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Using Vim search/replace commands (Louis Salin)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating your First Crystal Report for Use in a .NET Application (Jeff McWherter)
• Using Vim As Your C# Code Editor From Visual Studio (Derick Bailey)
• Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide (Grigori Melnik)
• It’s TFS Tool Time! TFS 2010 RTM compatibility Power Tools, MSSCCI and new Build Extension releases (Greg Duncan)
• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 2 (James Bender)
• 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How Do I Use Xbox LIVE APIs on Windows Phone? (Andre Vrignaud)
• CSLA 4 Authorization Rules (Rockford Lhotka)
• Sign a .NET Assembly with a Strong Name Without Recompiling (Ryan Farley)
• Moving from Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM (Mike Ormond)
• Show CodeRush Xpress 10.1 Menu in Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• Debugging with the Right Tools (Maoni Stephens)
• DataServiceProviderMethods – the least implemented class you’ll ever see (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Create New Code Snippets from Existing Ones (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• RTM’d today: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Accessible Showing and Hiding (Filament Group)
• Tip #103 revisited (Jimmy Lewis)
• Meet WOFF, The Standard Web Font Format (Sylvain Galineau)
• First 3 ASP.NET MVC for the Rest of Us Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Going Parallel with ForkJoin (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Is Apple Doing a Favor to HTML5? (Simone Chiaretta)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Version 3.4 in a little more than 48 hours (Daniel Waldschmidt)
• How to Stay Productive in Tough Situations as a Remote Employee (Dawn Foster)
• The Agile Visitor (Derek Greer)
• Raven performance testing (Oren Eini)
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Visualize IoC Container and Domain Dependencies – Part 2 (Rinat Abdullin)
• Think: Free Mind Maps for Newbies (Simon Mackie)

Silverlight / WPF

• Game programming in F# (with Silverlight and WPF) (Brian McNamara)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #3 – Mouse Right Clicks (Mike Snow)
• Prism Source Updated for Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4 (Bob Brumfield)
• Yet Another MVVM Locator Pattern (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight 4 enables Authorization header modification (Tim Heuer)
• Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)
• WPF : Using PRISM Regions Outside Of PRISM (Sacha Barber)
• The SpiderWebControl for Silverlight (Pavan Podila)
• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and Cormac Herley – Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users (Charles Torre)
• Updated Windows Phone 7 videos show Office doing awesome things (Chris Ziegler)
• Screencast – Git Part 2 (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Which is your favorite Nick Swan? (Rob, Nick & Brett)
• jQuery Podcast 21 – Rey Bomb 2 (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)

Community / Events

• Win a free pass to the Web Optimization Summit! (Michael Kimsal)
• I’ll be presenting [virtually] at the Philly SharePoint Saturday, May 8, 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• TEC SharePoint Conference Agenda for Speakers and Attendees (Joel Oleson)
• Cavalcade of Camps: Launch and Learn – May 15th (Jim O’Neil)
• Nothin But .Net – San Diego,CA (July 26-30, 2010) (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• First Typemock Academy – 4 days from now (Roy Osherove)
• SharePoint MVP Chats Coming Soon (Paul Andrew)
• MMS Partner Presentation: Windows Management Framework (Jeffrey Snover)
• Your Story: Interviewing at Microsoft by new hire Thom Mitchell – Part II (Thom Mitchell)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 24 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Take Database Offline – Take Database Online (Pinal Dave)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (23/30) lock escalation (Paul S. Randal)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Visio Stencils! and Creating Custom Error Pages in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Connell)
• What’s New in SharePoint 2010 Capacity Planning (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 RTM and BCS Permissions (Jon Flanders)
• Temporarily disabling List View Threshold on a large list (Dina Ayoub)

Miscellaneous

• Office Hub on Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Uzair Ghani)
• Thoughts on Microsoft History and OSS (Udi Dahan)
• Microsoft Surface Week in Review (Eric Havir)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 23-Apr-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 23, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2010 — #845 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 47 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

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