Dew Drop – May 14, 2010

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Top Links

• Hello MEF in Silverlight 4 and VB! (with an MVVM Light cameo) (Glenn Block)
• 30 Tips for Successful Communication as a Remote Worker (Scott Hanselman)
• Class Definitions: Binding Contracts And Agreements To Get Things Done (Derick Bailey)
• A really simple ViewModel base class with strongly-typed INotifyPropertyChanged (Daniel Cazzulino)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series:Dynamic Primitive Type Part 1 (Sam Gentile)
• Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview II) (Devon Musgrave)
• Entity Framework 4 New Operations (Jason Short)
• How to create a great online project template (or how to make applications that speak) (Michael Leonard)
• Announcing: Collapse Selection in Solution Explorer extension (Richa Prasad)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to understand the domain using UML designers (Jennifer Marsman)
• Show Error Help from Error List Window (Zain Naboulsi)

Web Development

• The CSS Corner: CSS3 Selectors (Sharon Newman)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Head First Rails – Only $9.99 use code DDHFR (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Ubiquitous Language" Now Online (James Shore)
• Principles Of Minimalist Web Design, With Examples (Cameron Chapman)
• WCF Security Scenarios on Azure (J.D. Meier)
• Mocking property sets (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using FluidMoveBehavior to animate grid coordinates in Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• Gettin’ blobby with it [Sharing the code for a simple Silverlight 4 REST-based cloud-oriented file management app for Azure and S3] (David Anson)
• Augmented Reality Domino Knock-Down Game (Ohan Oda)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #20 – Using Tooltips in Silverlight (Mike Snow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• An Interview with Robert Bowling on the MW 2 Resurgence Package (Larry Hyrb)
• Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 1 of 6): Keynote and (Part 2 of 6): ALM and (Part 3 of 6): SharePoint and Office Development and (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development and (Part 5 of 6): Web and Cloud Development and (Part 6 of 6): Windows Phone 7 Development (Emily Gibson)
• Silverlight TV 26: Exposing SOAP, OData, and JSON Endpoints for RIA Services (John Papa)
• Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone in 90 seconds! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Excuse Me While I Pinch the Sky (CNN on MS Research)
• First 3 Videos – Building Tailspin Spyworks (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Interview with Charles Petzold on WP7 development and more (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Join in Microsoft Web Camps Worldwide (Bruce Kyle)
• What Would You Ask the IE9 Team if you had the Chance? (Rey Bango)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Review (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Find Most Expensive Queries Using DMV (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Injection prevention (Simon Sabin)
• That No SQL Thing: Column (Family) Databases (Oren Eini)
• db4o 8 Looks Great (Mitch Pronschinske)
• SQL Azure and T-SQL (Dukagjin Maloku)

SharePoint

• Tips for building SharePoint 2010 base VM images (Chris O’Brien)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: Visio SharePoint Workflow (Brian Farnell)
• Upgrade Business Data Catalog files for using with Business Connectivity Services (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• WorldWide Telescope Turns 2 (Marius Oiaga)
• Real World Functional Programming – Book Review (Andrzej Grzesik)
• Pluralsight On-Demand Update – The Online .NET Training Resource (Bob Familiar)
• It’s Official: Office Live Workspace is upgrading to Windows Live SkyDrive (damaster)
• Automating Merges w/ TortoiseSVN (Derik Whittaker)
• Every Program There Is, Part Six (Eric Lippert)
• Health IT Future is in the Cloud—Part 2 (Bill Crounse)
• Why the world is a mess: a theory (Scott Berkun)
• Emotional commitment colors everything (Ted Neward)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #600 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – May 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 13-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2010 — #861 (Dave Campbell)
• Creators Club Communiqué 54 (Kathleen Sanders)
• Links (5/13/2010) (Steve Pietrek)

The Geek Shelf

Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#