Dew Drop – June 10, 2010

I am back after rebuilding my system yesterday.

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Top Links

• Code Contracts LiveTemplates for ReSharper (Kevin Hazzard)
• Code Analysis and Code Contracts Integration (Jason Bock)
• Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions (Scott Guthrie)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Detecting Processes that are not Responding (Richard Carr)
• Checking For Empty Enumerations (Oren Eini)
• Review: NHibernate in Action (Grant Palin)
• Introducing Project HILO (Aseem Datar)
• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack and Power Tools (Chris Koenig)
• Managed Extensibility Framework for Line of Business Applications in .NET 4.0 (Jeremy Likness)
• Updated Prism Template Pack for Visual Studio 2010 RTM (David Hill)
• Developer’s Guide to Enterprise Library – Release Candidate (Gregori Melnik)
• Add Live ID support to your managed, desktop/rich/full client app with the Windows Live ID Client v1.0 SDK (Greg Duncan)
• Using LINQ to XML to query XML data (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Build Customization using Visual Studio 2010 (TFS 2010) – Creating Custom Activity (Gouri Sohoni)
• MEF, IServiceProvider and Testing Visual Studio Extensions and How to install Visual Studio 2010 Search References and Pro Power Tools side by side and Add References with Search (Daniel Cazzulino)
• The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions (Scott Hanselman)
• Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoad Ignores Assembly Binding Redirects (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How Fluent Cassandra Handles Runtime Types (Nick Berardi)
• Checking For Empty Enumerations (Phil Haack)
• Disable the Prompt for Deleting Items from the Task List and Create Custom Tokens for the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• VSIX Best Practices (Gary Horen)
• Document Well 2010 Plus (Radames Cruz Moreno)
• Transactional File Manager Is Now On CodePlex (Chinh Do)
• Use Extension Methods to find first and last day of the month (Tim Hibbard)

 

Web Development

• Preventing Users From Copying Text From and Pasting It Into TextBoxes (Scott Mitchell)
• Keeping Configurations Consistent with web.config Transformations (Rachel Appel)
• Six great resources for budding JavaScript coders (Erez Zukerman)
• Experiments in Wackiness: Allowing percents, angle-brackets, and other naughty things in the ASP.NET/IIS Request URL (Scott Hanselman)
• RSS Feed Generation From a Custom RssResult (Mike Brind)
• Subtext 2.5 is released! and What’s new in Subtext 2.5: full-text search, related posts and more (Simone Chiaretta)
• PHP on Windows (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Interview:David Anderson Talks Kanban, Agile and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium (David Anderson)
• Retrospectives: Some thoughts (Mark Needham)
• Git: D’oh! I Meant To Create A New Branch First! and Git: Oops. I Forgot To Add Those New Files Before Committing (Derick Bailey)
• patterns & practices Performance Guidance Roundup (J.D. Meier)
• Scaling Agile Past the Team – Agile Dev Practices Edition (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Handling Team Changes (Vikas Hazrati)
• Adding custom interfaces to your mock instance. (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Capturing Rhino Mocks arguments in C# 4.0 (Jimmy Bogard)
• TestDriven.Net 3.0 – All Systems Go (Jamie Cansdale)
• Embrace Your Inner Stupid! (Jared Richardson)
• Don’t Snub the Code Review (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 reasons why Silverlight sucks in LOB (compared to WPF) (Nikola Malovic)
• Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud (Charlie Kindel)
• ToC for the Book Club RIA Services Application (Nikhil Kothari)
• Expression Blend 4 SDK for Silverlight and Expression Blend 4 SDK for .NET 4 (MS Downloads)
• SketchFlow: Firing Actions when a Storyboard is Complete (Christian Schormann)
• Windows Phone 7 Devices (Brandon Watson)
• The source code IS the executable, RTM edition [Updated CSI, a C# interpreter (with source and tests) for .NET 4 RTM] (David Anson)
• Tales from the Trenches – Building a Real-World Silverlight Line of Business Application (Dan Wahlin)
• Why Developers Should, Must, Do Care About The New Expression Blend (Jesse Liberty)
• Obfuscating Silverlight with SmartAssembly (Khawar Yunus)
• Document Toolkit 1.1 update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Two small issues with Windows Phone 7 ApplicationBar buttons (and workaround) (Laurent Bugnion)
• MVVM Instantiation Approaches (Paul Stovell)
• New Forums on Silverlight.net (Pete Brown)
• Silverlight MergedDictionaries – using styles and resources from Class Libraries (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Basic XAML Framework on CodePlex (Rockford Lhotka)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #29 – Configuring Service Reference to Back to LocalHost (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft talks up Phone 7 smartphone apps at Internet Week (Jacqueline Emigh)
• Prism Prevents One Incomplete Feature from Derailing an Entire Release (Jonathan Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• VBA, Programmability, and Open File Format for Office 2010 with Brian Jones (Tina Wood)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 142 – iPhone Development with MonoTouch & .NET/C# – audio (Wally McClure)
• StartUp Podcast Show #70 Steve Rubel on the evolution of Social Media (Bob Walsh)
• Wizards of Smart – Episode 7 Performance (Jonathan Birkholz)
• First Drop: Prism v4 – First Drop is Available (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Talking about Windows deployments with System Center and Orinoko (Video) (Matt McSpirit)
• Video: GeekGive Habitat for Humanity Project New Orleans TechEd 2010 (Joseph Mirabella)
• Sketchables for Sketchflow- Video Demos (Don Burnett)
• Technology & Friends Episode 92: Drinking from the Firehose (David Giard)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – June 9th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• TechEd 2010 Day Two – No SQL Server in Sight (Buck Woody)
• TechEd 2010 – Tuesday Morning and TechEd 2010 – Interview With Herain Oberoi and TechEd 2010 – Afternoon (Andy Warren)
• Underbelly Thinking Digital Wall of Fame (Sara Allison)
• TechEd Day 1: Keynote (Matt McSpirit)
• Microsoft’s Visual Studio Product Group Joins Twitter (Blake Handler)
• Save the Date – SharePoint Conference 2011 (SharePoint Team)
• Getting to SVG 2.0: A report from the SVG Working Group Face-to-Face (May 24th – June 1st 2010) and Microsoft Attending SVG Open 2010 Conference (ieblog)

 

Database

• Need just some parts and pieces of the SQL Server 2008 R2? Like SMO, the Native Client, Report Builder v3, the SQL CLR Types, JDBC/PHP/DB2 Driver, etc, etc? Then you need the “Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Feature Pack” (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Fastest Way to Restore the Database and SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB – Initial Thoughts (John V. Petersen)

 

Miscellaneous

• RTM’d today: Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step (Carol vu)
• 25 Safari Extensions You Can Install Now (Chris Ryan)
• Google Chrome Frame – Now in Beta (Amit Joshi)
• Our book SOA with .NET and Windows Azure is now available! (Hanu Kommalapati)
• IE9 Responds To Safari 5 With A Side-By-Side Hardware Acceleration Video (MG Siegler)
• Free Book Sampler: Hackers – Heroes of the Computer Revolution – 25th Anniversary Edition (O’Reilly Media)
• QuicklyCode: A Collection of Useful Free Cheat Sheets (Simon Mackie)
• Office 15 Details Revealed: Possible New UI, Office Mobile 15, Release Date Implication, and More (Stephen Chapman)
• Microsoft Office is now on the web (Steve Clayton)
• Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6 (Steven Bink)
• Making it easier to video chat, voice chat, and group chat in Gmail (Josh Teague)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 9, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0-related blogs (Lars Wilhelmsen)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 8, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 9, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 8-Jun-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2010 — #877 and Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2010 — #878 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #617 and The Morning Brew #618 (Chris Alcock)