Dew Drop – August 5, 2010

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Top Links

• IronRuby and the Reactive Extensions for .NET Together at Last (Matthew Podwysocki)
• Coding4Fun: Jeopardy! (Brian Peek)
• ZoomableCanvas: Preface (Kael Rowan)
• HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Adding more goodies in MEFedMVVM (Marlon Grech)
• Games: Silverlight 4 XNA Platform Game Level Editor for Windows Phone 7 (Wes Yanaga)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Signed Assemblies Using ILMerge (Richard Carr)
• LightSwitch Arrives (William Vaughn)
• LightSwitch: The Return Of The Secretary (Oren Eini)
• Some nice code editor features provided by the VS 2010 Power Tool Extensions (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version (Shai Raiten)
• Keyboard Shortcuts: Reset All Your Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft Aims Its Latest Tool, LightSwitch, at Professionals. Is it a Tool for Pros? (Abel Avram)
• Intellisense Enhancements I want (Deepak Kapoor)
• Microsoft.Data, LightSwitch and WebMatrix are the Next Step of Evolution (Rinat Abdullin)

 

Web Development

• Commonly Confused Bits Of jQuery (Andy Croxall)
• Tips and Tricks for Error Handling in ASP.NET Web Applications (Jacob Sebastian)
• Final Internet Explorer 9 preview released — tons of fixes, speed-ups, and only 8 weeks until the beta (Sebastian Anthony)
• IE9 Train Reaches Platform Preview 4 (James Pratt)
• JSON Query Languages: 5 special purpose editors (Leon Bambrick)
• oData call debugging. (Mike Hole)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Studies that Validate Agile and Lean Methodologies (Dan Puckett)
• Day 4 – Let Things Slough Off (J.D. Meier)
• Evolving Architectures – Part V – Leaps (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Do You Estimate Your Project? (Stoimen Popov)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Avoid using strings in CODE PLEASE! (Peter Bahaa)
• Learn Decorator Design Pattern in Easy Steps (Ananth.tm)
• Tech Lead Checklist to Kick your Team into Gear (Andy Singleton)
• Technical Debt in Medical Software (Bob Nadler)
• The 3 Questions (Ivo Manolov)
• Defect Driven Testing: Your Ticket Out the Door at Five O’Clock (Jared Richardson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Tutorials : Apps Amuck (Nigel Sampson)
• How design time data will save you time designing Silverlight and WPF applications and How to use a DesignInstance to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use DesignData to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF and How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight and WPF (Jag Reehal)
• Data-Centric WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Data-Centric Silverlight Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch (Christian Nagel)
• Experimenting with PRISM 4, Silverlight, MEF (Mike Taulty)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Overview UserControl (Davy Brion)
• Why didn’t I think of that in the first place? [Windows Phone 7 Charting example updated to include reusable, platform-consistent Style and Templates] (David Anson)
• New book: Microsoft Silverlight 4 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
• Great Article on Writing a Bing Maps Location-Aware App for Windows Phone 7 (Frank La Vigne)
• Windows Phone 7 Programming For Silverlight Developers – Reloaded (Jesse Liberty)
• Using RichTextBox in Silverlight 4 (Mamta)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: My Application Won’t Start After Renaming Project (Nick)
• Silverlight Blackjack for Windows Phone 7 (Rob Miles)
• Bring on Bing for Windows Phone 7 (My Kind of Phone)
• Windows Phone 7 App Development (Richard Hay)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 89: Vaidy Gopalakrishnan on IIS Developer Express (Jon Galloway)
• Nikolai Tillmann and Aaron Shaver – Coding Duels at pexforfun.com (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at SVG in IE9 and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at the New IE Test Drive Samples and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: A Look at Hamster Dance in IE9 and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 4: The IE9 Rocks HTML5 Audio Support (Larry Larsen)
• VSLive 2010 Day 2 Keynote: An Insider’s Perspective of Visual Studio 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management and Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management announce and VSLive 2010 Day 1 Keynote: Visual Studio 2010 and a Glimpse of the Future (Brian Keller)
• geekSpeak Recording – Business Intelligence for the .NET Framework Developer with Andrew Brust (Emily Gibson)

 

Community / Events

• Typemock Sponsors #devLink2010, August 5 – 7th (Britt King)
• Chat Now In Public Beta (Jeff Atwood)

 

Database

• Testing Native Backup Compression in Combination with SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Compression (Glenn Berry)
• PowerShell for the DBA: Search the Windows Event Logs for Errors (Buck Woody)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Referring to Other Tables (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Configure hMailServer for SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

 

Miscellaneous

• Aurora Monitoring with PowerShell (Lee Holmes)
• Google Wave dies of acute unpopularity at age 1 (Jay Hathaway)
• YouTrack Adds Importing from Trac and CSV Files (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Masterminds of Programming – Only $9.99. Use code DDMMP. 2010 Jolt Award Winner (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it (Steve Clayton)
• Jive Software takes the first step towards a social enterprise app market (Steven Walling)
• Microsoft’s mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 4, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #658 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Tech Tweets for 4-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010, VSTS Articles Link List (.NET Curry)
• Flagged Links #77 (Double Issue) (Jason Bock)
• Silverlight Cream for August 04, 2010 — #918 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours by Rob Eisenberg