Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – May 15-16, 2010

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Top Links

• Your Suggestions Wanted: Silverlight, WPF, WCF RIA Services, ASP.NET Planning (Pete Brown)
• Redefining the Code Editor (Arian T. Kulp)
• ReSharper PowerToys gone OSS (Hadi Hariri)
• Getting Started with Parallel Programming in .NET 4 (David Lemphers)
• MVC Turbine – Release v2.1 for MVC2 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Suppressing C# Compiler Warnings (Richard Carr)
• Rx Contrib – Release v1.4 (CodePlex)
• Not So Hidden Gems of NHibernate – Formula Discriminators (Tuna Toksoz)
• A guide to .vcxproj and .props file structure (Pavan Adharapurapu)
• Raven and client linq indexes, or: We hate strings, too (Oren Eini)
• Tell me what you don’t like about TFS 2010 (David Starr)
• Feature Builder Power Tool Preview updated for VS2010 RTM – Think “Extension to help build Extensions,” or “Power Tool for Power Tools…” (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2010: How to extend the architecture tools (Jennifer Marsman)
• Public courses listed for WCF and WF in .NET 4 (Matt Milner)
• Help Viewer Power Tool Provides Index and Standalone Window (Carole Snyder)
• Just How Fast Is That Code? and Mutating Expressions (Jason Bock)
• Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature (Peter Kellner)
• Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008 (Scott Hanselman)
• Using a GUID as an EntityKey in Entity Framework 4 (Lee Dumond)
• Musings on the 9-cell grid and its uses in software (Pete Brown)
• How To Change Default Language In Visual Studio (Shai Raiten)
• Ordering and Multi-Column Sorting in the Error List Window and Hide or Show Error List When the Build Finishes with Errors (Zain Naboulsi)
• Consuming An Agatha Service From A Non-Agatha-Aware Client (Davy Brion)

Web Development

• Forrester: HTML5 Not Viable For RIAs Yet (Ben Forta)
• Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing (Peter Kellner)
• ASP.NET Page Curls using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• The Aspnet Compiler Build Task in Visual Studio 2010 ASP.Net MVC 2 Projects (Joe Cartano)
• Serving Your Website From a Windows Azure Drive (Steve Marx)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Bug Fixes Across Multiple Releases With Git Cherry-Pick (Derick Bailey)
• My Thoughts on Pex (James R. Eggers)
• Component Oriented Design and why it be retired (Oren Eini)
• REST with ACS (J.D. Meier)
• Slides of My Austin Code Camp 2010 Session on Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Deciding On Features For Open Source (Rob Reynolds)
• The Intranet Value (Daniela Panfili)
• Code Contracts Primer – Part 6 Interface Contracts (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Self-Tracking Entities in Silverlight (Jeff Derstadt)
• Silverlight Profiling PowerShell helper. (Jason Jarrett)
• Using Silverlight 4 features to create a Zune-like context menu (Jeff Wilcox)
• WebClient and DeploymentCatalog gotchas in Silverlight OOB (Jeremy Likness)
• Devexpress – WPF Project Wizard (Rob Relyea)
• My Thoughts on the Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• More on Image Resizing in .NET 4 vs .NET 3.5sp1: Bilinear vs Fant (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ramp Up Web Development with ASP.NET: Programming Web Forms VB.NET (MS Podcasts)
• Skillsmatter Progressive .NET Tutorials May 12-14th 2010 (Mike Hadlow)
• TWC9: Office & SharePoint 2010, Runtime Intelligence, and Windows Phone controls (Dan Fernandez)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 55: What Windows Server AppFabric Means For Developers (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Engadget Podcast 196 – 05.14.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Weekly 156: Phoenix Lights (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Cover Episode 11 – Drives and IIS Hostable Worker Core (Ryan Dunn)
• Boagworld 211. Give your users a nudge (Paul Boag)
• Security Talk: Simplified SDL with David Ladd (Larry Larsen)
• Talking Architects with Kim Cameron (Matt Deacon)

Community / Events

• Worldwide Web Camps (Scott Guthrie)
• Nerd Dinner was a hit! (Brad Cunningham)
• Eric Evans’ DDD Immersion Course (Brian Donahue)
• ISV Software Architecture Workshop on 5/20 at Reston (Zhiming Xue)
• A Feed You Should Read #30 – Shai Raiten (Greg Duncan)
• Compiling Tales of Open Space (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

Database

• Inequality joins, Asynchronous transformations and Lookups : SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• Taking BackUp of SQL Server Database on a USB Drive and Group and Count Records in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – List All the DMV and DMF on Server and SQLAuthority News – Storage and SQL Server Capacity Planning and configuration – SharePoint Server 2010 (Pinal Dave)
• MSSQL: Copying data from one database to another (Gunnar Peipman)
• Chris Date on "SQL and Relational Theory – How to Write Accurate SQL Code" (Martin Bell)
• How to get information about all databases without a loop (Naomi)

Miscellaneous

• Office Maven’s Windows Home Server Software Add-in Now Supports Outlook 2010 (Blake Handler)
• Teaching development to kids (Arian T. Kulp)
• Old-school Collaboration Tools That Rock (Dawn Foster)
• Author news: Ed Bott’s deep dive into Office 2010 (Devon Musgrave)
• [Proof of Concept] Windows 7 ThemePack Builder (with three test/sample themepacks for you) (Greg Duncan)
• New Page Tab Powertoy for OneNote 2010 (Jeff Cardon)
• PowerShell V2 IS Available (Jeffrey Snover)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: May 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 14-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• alt.msdn – What Media Says on MS Development (MSDN Magazine)
• Weekly Links #105 (Grant Palin)
• Distributed Weekly 50 (Scott Banwart)
• F# Discoveries This Week 05/14/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2010 — #862 (Dave Campbell)
• Interesting Post… 5/10/2010 through 5/16/2010 (Mike Cottmeyer)

The Geek Shelf

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