Dew Drop – August 6, 2010

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Top Links

• Overlapping Display Elements in Silverlight (Rob Miles)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 Source Code (CodePlex)
• Details, screenshots of the Windows Phone 7 app marketplace on Zune (Brody McKee)
• Handling the SelectionChanged event in WP7 using MVVM Light (Derik Whittaker)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Data access is contextual, a generic approach will fail (Oren Eini)
• NHibernate Linq Eager Fetching (Mike Hadlow)
• Testing a Command (Zain Naboulsi)
• Microsoft.Data: Why It’s Not All Bad (Dane Morgridge)
• Four chapters that didn’t make the “"Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed” book are being given to you free… (Greg Duncan)
• SystemMenu does not show correctly when Ribbon application is run against .Net 4.0. (Varsha Mahadevan)
• Custom Configuration Sections FTW (Mike Ceranski)
• ReSharper PowerToys for ReSharper 5.1 and OData Helper – Release: v1.0 (CodePlex)
• Developing multi-threaded workflows (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• Creating Copies of Attributes (Phil Haack)
• Tips and Tricks for Error Handling in ASP.NET Web Applications (Jacob Sebastian)
• Book Review: A Book Apart’s HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith (Rey Bango)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Programming the Mobile Web – Only $9.99. Use code DDPMW (O’Reilly Media)
• Getting (partial) color on Razor pages (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Announcing the OData Helper for WebMatrix (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Stories" Now Online (James Shore)
• Day 5 – Hot Spots – Map Out What’s Important (J.D. Meier)
• Patterns in Parallel Programming (Lyndsey Clevesy)
• Guerilla TDD (Matt Stine)
• Balsamiq Mid-Summer Release: Colors, Notifiers and Bug Fixes (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• 5 Organizational Tools I Can’t Work Without (Amber Singleton Riviere)
• Tips for creative success from Pixar (Garr Reynolds)
• Organizing and Sharing Knowledge (Marc Grabanski)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to use the DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode method to populate controls with design time data in WPF using Expression Blend and How to use the DesignerProperties.IsInDesignTool property to populate controls with design time data in Silverlight using Expression Blend (Jag Reehal)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – New MessageBox Control (Brian Lagunas)
• Get Early User Feedback for Your Windows Phone Application (Bruce Kyle)
• Building a RSS reader for Windows Phone 7 – Developing the functionality (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Implementing The Details UserControl (Davy Brion)
• Unit Testing XAML Data-Bindings in Silverlight (Jeremy Likness)
• Tired of Typing in a Search Box??? Get Human! (Don Burnett)
• Game Music and Sound Effects – Lesson 7 and Just worth shouting about! (Simon Jackson)
• ZoomableApplication1: Scale and Offset (Kael Rowan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• endpoint.tv – Making of The Lab – Intro to WF4 (Ron Jacobs)
• Advanced Silverlight Navigation Scenarios – Part 2 (Silverlight TV #39) (John Papa)
• Jonathan Edwards: Programming Futures and Declarative Objects (Charles Torre)
• Introducing the New Features of the August Labs Release of the Access Control Service (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Adam Kinney and Karl Shifflett talk about developer/designer workflow in Portland! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• ACS Labs Walkthrough (Justin J. Smith)

Community / Events

• Open Source Support Is Not Just Code (Javier G. Lozano)
• Chat Now In Public Beta (Jeff Atwood)
• Microsoft extends employee pricing to PDC 2010 attendees (Lee Mathews)

Database

• New PHP Drivers for SQL Server Support Improved BI, Connection to SQL Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Testing Native Backup Compression in Combination with SQL Server 2008 R2 Data Compression (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server – Server-side paging with Row_number() function (Jacob Sebastian)
• Different ways to get Identity of New Inserted Rows in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Parallelism Query in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts For DBAs (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Azure@home Part 3: Azure Storage (Jim O’Neil)
• Baseline, Performance Reporting and being a proactive DBA (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• ShowMe for SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• 10 Things Microsoft did right during fiscal 2010 (Joe Wilcox)
• My customized quick access bar (John Guin)
• Mozilla Labs’ Contacts add-on for Thunderbird is a social networking superstar (Lee Mathews)
• A behind-the-scenes look at designing the new Hotmail: part two (Michael Kopcsak)
• Objective C: Back to being a novice (Mark Needham)
• When terminology affects satisfaction (Michael S. Kaplan)
• Microsoft’s Live Labs launches zoom.it (Steve Clayton)
• Try Windows Azure for One Month for FREE! (Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #659 (Chris Alcock)
• Tech Tweets for 5-Aug-2010 (Elijah Manor)
• Distributed Weekly 62 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Application Architecture Guide (Patterns & Practices) by Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team