Dew Drop – August 11, 2010

Another dump-style post today… physical therapy on my Achilles this morning and more debugging training at the office today.

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Top Links

• Looking ahead: Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone developers (Jeff Wilcox)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to call CryptEncodeObject in .NET (C#) and P/Invoking CryptoAPI in .NET. Part 2 (C#) (alejacma)
• Moving to a deploy system based on Tfs Build (alkampfer)
• Playing with Entity Framework Code Only (Oren Eini)
• Getting started with the TFS and Project Server Integration CTP (briankel)
• IronRuby (Mike Ormond)
• This Week in Fail (Rod Paddock)
• Query Zune Music Collection with F# (Cameron Taggart)
• Understanding Commands: Arguments and Switches and Understanding Commands: Running Commands (Zain Naboulsi)
• Nhibernate query only properties and many-to-one (Al Kampfer)
• Chris Woodruff of Deep Fried Bytes Explores OData (Don Burnett)

Web Development

• Filtering Data Using ASP.NET 4’s QueryExtender Control (Scott Mitchell)
• Versioning Issues With Optional Arguments (Phil Haack)
• Book Review: Object-Oriented JavaScript (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Media Gallery as Document Management System : New Sueetie Expanded View (Dave Burke)
• Bing Maps WordPress Plugin (Sarah Perez)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD is more than just writing unit tests (Dror Helper)
• Day 10 – Feel Strong All Week Long (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• More Windows Phone 7 Tutorials (Unknown Author)
• Blogs to follow – WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone 7 Development Tip: Discovering and Using Default Styles (Karsten Januszewski)
• Sharing Silverlight Commands with the Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Today Only: 50% off Manning’s Silverlight Books (Joey deVilla)
• Tips & Tricks: How to change the output location of the Silverlight XAP? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Xaml Toolkit: Manipulation of Xaml (Lester Lobo)
• WP7 Mini-Tutorial Lists & Master/Detail (Jesse Liberty)
• Implementing Video Brush and Transparent Brush in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Mixing WPF and WinForms (Michael Sorens)
• Windows Phone 7 Wheel Control and Windows Phone 7 MVVM Template for Visual Studio (Nick)
• Getting Diagnostic Output from your Windows Phone programs (Rob Miles)
• Unit testing for Windows Phone 7 and CSLA 4 WP7 progress update 2 (Rockford Lhotka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jay Schmelzer unveils Microsoft LightSwitch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 121 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jay Dave from Microsoft on UAC and AppLocker (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Advanced Functional Programming – The Expression Problem (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 109: Layla Driscoll on Being a PM (David Giard)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: Don’t Let August Pass You By! (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 Coffee and Code: Downtown Toronto, Thursday, August 12th (Joey deVilla)
• SQLAuthority News – MSDN Subscription Giveaway Announced (Pinal Dave)
• How I Feel About The .NET World Lately (Davy Brion)
• “PowerShell for .NET Developers with Doug Finke (Level 200)” Webcast (Greg Duncan)

Database

• Deadlocking in SSIS – yes you can get deadlocks with variables (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit is Available for Download (Wes Yanaga)
• Houston there is a database (Stephen Forte)
• Creating a Conceptual Data Model (tarwn)
• PostgreSQL Tutorial – Inserting Data (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL Sever Installer does not like my Server Name (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• Lightning conductor 2010 web part – additional features (Lightning Tools)

Miscellaneous

• August 2010 Security Release ISO Image (MS Downloads)
• 7 Discipline-builders for Remote Workers (Georgina Laidlaw)
• Exploring FubuCore: Convert a string value to any type of .Net class with the ObjectConverter (Jeremy D. Miller)
• 10 Programming Books You Absolutely Want Within Easy Reach (Jesse Liberty)
• Learning Microsoft WebMatrix – Chapter 3 Video Live. (Joe Stagner)
• Getting Send to OneNote working with Chrome (John Guin)
• Presentation:Demystifying Monads (Josh Graham)
• Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer (John Sonmez)
• Bing Maps user contributed content, on the way? (Kip Kniskern)
• Bing Dynamic–RSS updated Bing Windows 7 Wallpaper (Kip Kniskern)
• NoSQL At A Glance And Poll Results (Dane Morgridge)
• 3 Top Tips for Database Naming (lornajane)
• Coding: Using a library/rolling your own (Mark Needham)
• #Best of #Ebook Deal of the Day. Top 10 Titles – Only $9.99 each. Use code DDBST (O’Reilly Media)
• SQL Reporting Services – Line Graph with a Vertical Bar (Patrick LeBlanc)
• Better ways to work with clients video (Paul Boag)
• Release: Bullets, SHIFT+Drag, l0rem and Bug Fixes (Peldi)
• Adventures with Water Cooling the Ultimate Dev PC 2.0: the Equipment (Pete Brown)
• Windows Live Writer Plug-In Submission Process Changes (Richard Hay)
• Book Review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Russell Ball)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Excel 2010 Inside Out (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #662 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Advanced MVVM by Josh Smith