Dew Drop – April 25, 2010

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Top Links

• S#arp Architecture 1.5 released (Alec Whittington)
• Use Office 2010 to map a local drive letter to your free 25GB Live SkyDrive (Lee Mathews)
• An introduction to MEFedMVVM – PART 1 and Leveraging MEFedMVVM ExportViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 2 and IContextAware services to bridge the gap between the View and the ViewModel – MEFedMVVM Part 3 (Marlon Grech)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Reference Highlighting (Richard Carr)
• How to get REALLY fast benchmarks (Oren Eini)
• Set or Remove a Breakpoint (Zain Naboulsi)
• Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes (John Papa)
• Iron Ruby: ‘unitialized constant…NameError’ (Mark Needham)

Web Development

• How to use Personal Web Packages in Microsoft Expression Web (.NET Curry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Will Vanilla Scrum Work for You? (Mike Cottmeyer)

Silverlight / WPF

• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming (Pete Brown)
• When Implementing ICommand don’t forget to Hookup RequerySuggested (Derik Whittaker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 153: You’re Made of Corn (Paul Thurrott)
• TWC9: Silverlight 4, SQL Server R2 & Ent Library 5.0 all RTM, Why code comments aren’t bad (Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Feeling @Home with Windows Azure, at Home (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• A DMV a Day – Day 25 (Glenn Berry)
• Using Table Value Constructors aka Row Constructors in SQL Server 2008 to insert multiple rows using a single statement (Suprotim Agarwal)
• A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (24/30) twenty six restore myths and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (25/30) fill factor (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 Milestone 3 screenshots leaked (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 theme for iPhone released! (Imran Hussain)
• Attn: Google – Amount due: USD$307.50 (FOURTH AND FINAL NOTICE) (Michael S. Kaplan)
• How to Install Android on iPhone – Step by Step Guide [Video] (Taimur Asad)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 24, 2010 and Interesting Finds: April 25, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 04.19 ~ 04.25 (yuanjian)
• Weekly Links #102 (Grant Palin)
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 — #846 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master