Dew Drop – July 21, 2010

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Top Links

• Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 2 of N (Hadi Hariri)
• Announcing the Solution Navigator (Adrian Collier)
• Recreating the PhoneListBoxItemLayout (and why we cut it) (Peter Torr)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 25, Going Postal: ActionFilters, Moq, ModelState, Oh My! (Evan Nagle)
• Understanding the Windows Phone Application Execution Model, Tombstoning, Launcher and more… – Part 3. (Yochay Kiriaty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• SL/RIA/POCO: Generated Code and SL/RIA/POCO: No Generated Code? (Deborah Kurata)
• Avoid UI freezes at all costs, if possible (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Using Entity Framework Code First (CTP4) in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
• T4 Code Generation with Visual Studio 2010 (Dane Morgridge)
• C# Yellow Book Training Course (Rob Miles)
• Building and testing WCF web service using workflow foundation 4.0 (M. Muazzam Ali)
• How To – UppercuT and Gems (Rob Reynolds)
• Command Prompt Tab Completion and Copy and Paste with the Command Prompt (Zain Naboulsi)
• Transaction Tracking Typed Datasets Using SqlTransaction (Dave M. Bush)
• The Ultimate Lib Folder (Paul Stovell)
• Fresh Mono Baked and Building apps for the Retina Display (Miguel de Icaza)
• CodePlex Publishing Plugin – Preview Release (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Maximize Your Website’s Search Engine Placement Using Microsoft’s Free SEO Toolkit (Scott Mitchell)
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Error Handling Part I (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Rethinking form validation (Janko Jovanovic)
• Get ASP.NET C# 2.0 Website Thumbnail Screenshot (gafrancisco)
• The Essential List of JavaScript, jQuery, HTML & CSS Books to Make You a Better Web Developer (Rey Bango)
• Author Notes: Writing YUI 2.8: Learning the Library, the New YUI 2 Book from Packt (Daniel Barreiro)
• HTTP and optimistic concurrency (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing LINQ to SQL (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Re-Engineering In Agile Development Can Just Be Refactoring (Rob Diana)
• Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 (Somasegar)
• Managing the Agile Team Environment (Vikas Hazrati)
• The Hardest Thing I Struggle With (John Sonmez)
• Enjoy The Doing (Dave Laribee)
• Feedback, the environment and other people (Mark Needham)
• Mono’s Git Migration (Miguel de Icaza)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Strikes an Emotional Chord (Paul Thurrott)
• WPF 4 Unleashed! (Adam Nathan)
• Hopping outside the box [How to: Leapfrog Bindings (bridge DataContexts) in Silverlight and WPF] (David Anson)
• Windows Phone 7 Panorama Controls and Clarity Consulting’s Comic Book reader for Win Phone 7 (Don Burnett)
• The duplex story: looking at duplex communication in Silverlight 4 – Part 2: Using Sockets (Gill Cleeren)
• Semi final release – Windsor 2.5 beta 2 (now with Silverlight support) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Unveiling Reuxables 4.0 + New Subscriptions (Dax Pandhi)
• Localization and Complex Validation in MVVM (Martin Joel)
• Loading, iterating, and saving photos with WP7 (Coding4Fun)
• Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework Updated (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Stringing Along to Disappointment in Silverlight (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 88: Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4 (Jon Galloway)
• PivotViewer Silverlight Control API Overview (Larry Larsen)
• Technology & Friends Episode 103: Steve Andrews on GeekGive (David Giard)
• This Week In Silverlight – Windows Phone tools in Beta (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Developing Access 2010 Hybrid Apps with Dick Moffat (Tina Wood)
• Pluralcast 20 : Technical Community and Geek Give with Steve Andrews (David Starr)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: The Overview Video (Rob Tiffany)
• Presentation:Kanban and Accelerated Emergence of High Maturity (David Anderson)

Community / Events

• A Very Interesting “Community-Focused” Project. (Ted Malone)
• How to Get Value From StackOverflow (Dave Swersky)
• 4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 #WPC11 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• The Windows Phone 7 Training Continues! Get Ready for Sessions 3 & 4 (Bob Caswell)

Database

• Calculate Age from Date Of Birth using SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Win USD 11,899 worth MSDN Subscription 5 Days to go (Pinal Dave)
• Transitioning to SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting (William Vaughn)
• Hi, my name is SA (Jen McCown)
• SQL University: Introduction to Indexes, Part the Second (Grant Fritchey)
• Easy SQL Script for handling SQL Image Data (Michael Sync)
• PowerShell and Extended Properties (Buck Woody)

Miscellaneous

• noobgaming : my rails and gaming passions combined (Karl Seguin)
• PowerGUI Editor 2.1.1 and AD cmdlets 1.4 compatibility issue (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• When CONSTants Vary (James Iry)
• Does the Cloud Need Server Virtualization? (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• MVP Guest Post: The No-confusion Time line Report (Joseph Mirabella)
• Microsoft Security Essentials 2 beta now available for download (Lee Mathews)
• Intel vPro PowerShell Module (Jeffrey Snover)
• Kodu PC build 1.0.70.0 is live! (Stephen Coy)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 21, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for July 20, 2010 — #907 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 20, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Community Engagement, Location Layers, Paying for Everything, Designing for Touch (Dave Burke)
• Tech Tweets for 20-Jul-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #647 (Chris Alcock)

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