Dew Drop – August 4, 2010

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Top Links

• Using EF “Code First” with an Existing Database (Scott Guthrie)
• Prism 4.0 CTP Available on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Somasegar)
• MonoTools 2 for VisualStudio has been released (Miguel de Icaza)
• Introducing Microsoft Ribbon for WPF and Building a Simple Ribbon Application in WPF and Add more content to my Simple Ribbon Application (Varsha Mahadevan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Microsoft.Data and Positioning and NHibernate is lazy, just live with it (Oren Eini)
• Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part II: Taking Charge of Backtracking (Ron Petrusha)
• Sudoku Solver and Generator (Jörgen Pramberg)
• Better grilling with topological sorting (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Link an entity to a hierarchy with different Id type (Al Kampfer)
• Microsoft.Data – Let’s Inject Some Love Into the Conversation (Evan Nagle)
• Introducing Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ (Jason Zander)
• Quick Access Extension (Weston Hutchins)
• OData Synchronization with WCF Data Services (Nick)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Creating New Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Defining Descriptive Text for Enumeration Members (Scott Mitchell)
• Parallel Tasks – .net 4.0 feature (Arun Mahendrakar)
• UIGlassButton Generator in MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• Using ILMerge Internalization with Caution (Abel Avram)
• Netduino – .NET Micro Framework, open source, electronics platform, free (software), code walk though, cool… (Greg Duncan)
• How to use the ArcGIS iPhone SDK with MonoTouch (Al Pascual)

Web Development

• Free ASP.NET Source Code – Tailspin Spyworks gets a new landing page. (Joe Stagner)
• Now Available: Azure Security Notes PDF (J.D. Meier)
• Is ASP.NET MVC A Gateway to Ruby on Rails? (Dane Morgridge)
• Tell Me the Development Problems that Script Junkie Can Try to Solve via Solutions-based Content (Rey Bango)
• Add-on Performance Part 1: Measuring Add-on Performance (Herman Ng)
• Orchard – Release v0.5 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s change the tune (Gojko Adzic)
• Using Reactive Extensions (Rx) to Simplify Asynchronous Tests (Jeremy Likness)
• Day 3 – Daily Outcomes – Use Three Stories to Drive Your Day and CRUD for Content (J.D. Meier)
• What Enterrpise Architects can Learn from Designers (Mike Walker)
• Container-friendly domain events (Jimmy Bogard)
• Going Down the CQS Rabbit Hole (Russell Ball)
• Open Thread: Does Working from Home Make You More Productive? (Simon Mackie)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Visualizing Data – Only $9.99. Use code DDVDT. Slashdot rated 9/10 (O’Reilly Media)
• Crowdsourced Testing, Changing the Game (Vikas Hazrati)
• I Took A Shot At Object Calisthenics (Pete Seale)
• Building Touchable Interactivity (Andrew Trice)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• I Started a CodePlex Project: The Extended WPF Toolkit (Brian Lagunas)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: The Sample (Davy Brion)
• Today’s Adventure: Getting the FourSquare Codeplex Project working on the latest Windows Phone Tools Beta (Don Burnett)
• Make sure the web.config pages/namespace can be used together with ASP.NET MVC 3 P1 and Razor (Fredrik Normen)
• Windows Phone 7 Game: BulletAsylum (Joey deVilla)
• No accelerometer support in the Windows Phone 7 emulator? Not the end. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Document Toolkit 2.0.0.4 (Koen Zwikstra)
• WP7 + XNA Tips, part 1 – Running The Emulator From the Command Line (Chris Williams)
• Simple Page Navigation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Some Best Practices for Silverlight Application Development (XAML) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Michael Crump)
• MVVM, MVP, or code behind–all ok, as long as you build a great Ux (Rob Relyea)
• Cinch V2 Article 5 Is Out There (Sacha Barber)
• What Codecs are supported in Windows Phone 7? (Wes Yanaga)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Enterprise Social Networking with SharePoint-Episode 48 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Booking your travel in Outlook with the new Bing add-in (Tina Wood)
• Jay Schmelzer: Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch (Dan Fernandez)
• Windows Phone gets back in the game with “7” (Don Burnett)
• ASP.NET Membership Training – 3 new Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Technology & Friends Episode 107: Michael Kimsal on JavaScript (David Giard)
• Polymorphic Podcast – 2010.08.03 Software Craftsmanship with David Starr (Craig Shoemaker)
• Countdown to PDC: Developers, Developers, Developers (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• GitHub Jobs Pre-Launch (Kyle Neath)

Database

• Getting started with PIVOT Queries in SQL Server 2005/2008 and SQL Server FILESTREAM feature and Differential Backups (Jacob Sebastian)
• SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Sync Framework for SQL Azure (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Backup File Confusion – Log Shipping (Steve Jones)
• Order of Nested SCOPE Statements (Chris Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8, a repeat of Windows 7’s success? (Brody McKee)
• Why The IDE Has Failed Us (John Sonmez)
• Objective C: Parsing an XML file (Mark Needham)
• The new Hotmail is now available to everyone! (Mike Schackwitz)
• Microsoft hardware teasing us (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #657 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 3, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 3-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for August 03, 2010 — #917 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher