Dew Drop – June 11, 2010

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Top Links

• Announcing: Silverlight Reporting on CodePlex (Pete Brown)
• A Train of Thought: Innovation and .Net Edition (Jeremy D. Miller)
• What Executives at Microsoft Taught Me (J.D. Meier)
• Are daily stand-ups necessary? (Jimmy Bogard)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Windows Services in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fixing RIA Services’s “An EntityKey value cannot be null” with a CodeProcessor (Ingo Rammer)
• MDA: Callback On Garbage Collected Delegate (Sasha Goldshtein)
• SOLID By [C#] Example Or “Stop talking about SOLID and show me the code…” (Greg Duncan)
• Show the Full File Path in the Task List (Zain Naboulsi)
• Tech Ed New Orleans– The Goods (Michele Leroux Bustamante)
• Model First in ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 (Wriju Ghosh)
• NHProfiler Integration (Torkel Ödegaard)
• Cache Layer (Gil Fink)
• .NET Framework Reference Enhancements Preview (Kimberly Wolk)
• Don’t repeat yourself; consts are already static (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET MVC (Devon Musgrave)
• Same Markup: Explaining "@_jscript_version" and Styling New HTML5 Elements (Tony Ross)
• Creating a custom View Engine for ASP.NET MVC leveraging Text Template (T4) engine for rendering the view (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Browser Speed: It’s Not All About JavaScript and 20 Tips and Tricks For Writing Fast Web Applications (Pete LePage)
• Web Custom Control Behavior and Authoring (John Dundon)
• jQuery Globalization Plugin from Microsoft (Scott Guthrie)
• Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework (Steve Sanderson)
• Using an iPhone with the Visual Studio development server (Dave Ward)
• Bing Health Map Shows Promise of Open Government Data (Adam DuVander)
• When can I use … is a great resource for browser compatibility advice (Erez Zukerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Energized Work" Now Online (James Shore)
• NCover 3.4.8: NUnit and IIS Improvements (Alan Johnson)
• Beyond Unit Testing => Specification of Intent (Bobby Johnson)
• You Need a Static Organizational Model (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Eric Evans: Domain driven design redefined and Udi Dahan: the biggest mistakes teams make when applying DDD and Evolution of DDD: CQRS and Event Sourcing (Gojko Adzic)
• Mockups 1.8: Editable Groups and much more (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Lokad.CQRS – Getting Started (Rinat Abdullin)
• Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process (Vladimir Gitlevich)
• Performance and Security (Pieter de Bruin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.12 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #30 – Sending Email from Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Microsoft releases Alpha version of IIS streaming for Silverlight and Apple devices (Steven Bink)
• Hosting cross-domain Silverlight applications (XAP) (Tim Heuer)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 – 32-bit and IIS Media Services 4.0 – 64-bit (MS Downloads)
• Tips and Tricks for INotifyPropertyChanged (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Using TFS for Source Control with InfoPath 2010 (Laura Har)
• Creating Rich Interactions Using Blend 4: Transition Effects, Fluid Layout, and Layout States (Silverlight TV #32) (John Papa)
• WebDev Radio Episode 78: Bob Silverberg on ColdFusion, ORM, testing and more (Michael Kimsal)
• Boagworld 214. When to hire a web designer (Paul Boag)
• New Videos in the Tailspin Spyworks series live. (Joe Stagner)

Community / Events

• Telerik Wins Best of TechEd! (Stephen Forte)
• Employee of the year…#Typemock (Tal Druyan)
• Wrox Wins 2010 Code Project Members Choice Award (Jim Minatel)

Database

• Log Shipping for cheap DR (Ted Krueger)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between DATETIME and DATETIME2 (Pinal Dave)
• What are events SQL profiler eventclass numbers 65527,65528,65533,65534 (Simon Sabin)
• Stored Procedure vs Parameterized Query (Joel Cochran)
• Determine Permission for all Users at Object Level (Suprotim Agarwal)
• PowerShell I Heart You (Jorge Segarra)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Releases Three Free Outlook 2010 PST File Management Tools (Blake Handler)
• Aviary Launches Online Music Creation Tool (Barb Dybwad)
• Seeing Microsoft in the big picture (Cal Evans)
• Small Basic V0.9 is here! (Vijaye Raji)
• Multiple Default Printers in Windows 7 (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Live Sync beta blends the best of Sync and Mesh (David Treadwell)
• PowerGUI 2.1 is available (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Adobe releases AIR 2, standalone SDK download coming soon (Jay Hathaway)
• Apple and Microsoft will face off for June 24 retail showdown (Joe Wilcox)
• Box.net finally gets a desktop sync client (Lee Mathews)
• Daily Dose – iPad Owners Exposed to Spam and Hacks (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Hackers: 25th Anniversary Ed. Only $9.99 Use code DDHAC (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft Small Basic is an ideal programming language and environment for small people and beginners (Sebastian Anthony)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 11, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jun 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #619 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for June 10, 2010 — #879 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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