Dew Drop – May 18, 2010

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Top Links

• Code Contracts Part 1 – Introduction (Kevin Hazzard)
• BizTalk Server 2010 Beta (MS Downloads)
• Technical Computing (Somasegar)
• Silverlight 4 Tools, WCF RIA Services and Themes Released (Tim Heuer)
• Final Release of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (WPF developers you need this also) (Karl Shifflett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Ranger projects (Pieter de Bruin)
• C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Optional Parameters (Sam Gentile)
• Applying XDT magic to App.Config (Vishal Joshi)
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: The data model (Oren Eini)
• MSDEV Updates Visual Studio 2010 Developer Training for RTM (Bruce Kyle)
• Visual Studio Window | New Window (Deborah Kurata)
• Code for “Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” DRAFT ebooks (Devon Musgrave)
• Visual Basic 2010 Samples gets some WCF/WF Sample JuJu – We’re talking 27MB of WF/WCF samples, that’s JuJu! (Greg Duncan)
• Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Ritchie)
• C# Interfaces, what are they and why use them? (Richard McCutchen)
• An interesting bit of F# behaviour (Steve Gilham)
• Jump to the Top or Bottom of the Current View in the Editor (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

• How to Manage ObjectContext Per Request in ASP.NET (Gil Fink)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – The Final Countdown Timer and Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Custom Schedulers (Matthew Podwysocki)
• HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die (Luke Reimer)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming Windows Azure – Only $9.99 use code DDPWA (O’Reilly Media)
• Dynamically Loading jQuery plugins (Sam Tyson)
• JavaScript local alias pattern (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows Azure Guest OS (Brian Hitney)
• Book review: PHP 5 E-commerce Development and Extension methods for PHP (Maarten Balliauw)
• Expert PHP 5 Tools review (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum for Team System version 3 (TFS 2010), aka (SfTS v3) RTM released (Greg Duncan)
• Lessons Learned from Mike Kropp (J.D. Meier)
• Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing In C# with NUnit (2nd Edition) (Keith Dahlby)
• The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them (Roy Osherove)
• What Is Great Software? (Jared Richardson)
• Why You Shouldn’t Expose Your Entities Through Your Services (Davy Brion)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RIA Services – v1 Shipped! (Nikhil Kothari)
• F# for Silverlight 4 available (Brian McNamara)
• Silverlight 4 Application Themes and WCF RIA Services v1.0 and WCF RIA Services Toolkit (MS Downloads)
• SLARToolkit Beginner’s Guide (Rene Schulte)
• Scaling circles – loading animation in WPF (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released (Scott Guthrie)
• UxMagic.Com gets the Silverlight 4 “Metro-Style” Makeover (Don Burnett)
• WCF RIA Services v1.0 and Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2010 are Here! (John Papa)
• Workaround for accessing some ASMX services from Silverlight 4 (Yavor Georgiev)
• Custom Attached Properties in Silverlight (Umair Saeed)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Ping 58: Gates & Cloud Computing, Bing for Mobile, Microsoft concept Phone (Laura Foy)
• Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Launch: New Designer Capabilities (Silverlight TV 27) and WCF RIA Services v1.0 Launch! (Silverlight TV 28) (John Papa)
• The Thirsty Developer 92: ASP.NET to Silverlight, A Case Study (Dave Bost)
• Boxcar Case Macro in Visual Studio 2010 – Video (David Starr)
• endpoint.tv – Activities and Designers with Matt Winkler (Part 1) (Ron Jacobs)
• Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Marcus Wendt)
• jQuery Podcast 23 – Nicholas Zakas (Ralph Whitbeck)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 17th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The First European NHibernate Day is next fall in Italy: announcement and call for speakers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Typemock Sponsored The VS 2010 Community Launches Poland tour (Maciej Grabek)
• Richmond Code Camp 2010.1 Is This Weekend (Justin Etheredge)
• Resigning from the .NET Community (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Girls in Tech Chicago-land Chapter Meets May 27th in Downers Grove! (Angela Binkowski)

 

Database

• The SQL Server Setup Portal (Buck Woody)
• 5 Features SQL Server Doesn’t Need (Jack Corbett)
• SQLAuthority Book Review – DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA (Pinal Dave)
• Why Raven DB? (Oren Eini)
• MSSQL: Copying data from one database to another (Gunnar Peipman)

 

SharePoint

• Open BCS Model Created in SharePoint Designer 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 (Hrayr Diloyan)
• Move Forum Topics – Lightning Storm Forums (Nick Swan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases PowerPivot for Excel 2010 Business Intelligence Samples (Blake Handler)
• 2010 Best Tech to Work For (Joe Smith)
• Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail – the next generation of personal email (Dick Craddock)
• Copying Files Over Remote Desktop (Phil Haack)
• Every Program There Is, Part Seven (Eric Lippert)
• 10 Days for Office 2010: A Typical Day with Microsoft Office (Chester Coronel)
• Modeling the World (Bill Hilf)
• Small Basic Sample of this Week: Simon (Vijaye)
• MSDN Widget Generator (MSDN)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman on Micro Magazines, Cornerstone Pages, Predictive Horizons (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 17-May-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #602 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2010 — #863 (Dave Campbell)
• links worth clicking… (Chris Williams)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)