Dew Drop – August 16, 2010

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Top Links

• I don’t want your stinkin’ code comments (Robert Greyling)
• Silverlight Open File Dialog Behavior (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – New ColorPicker Control (Brian Lagunas)
• ReSharper Zencoding (David Ridgway)
• Customizing WP7 Push Notification Tiles (Chris Koenig)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• On Fluent NHibernate (Oren Eini)
• 3 Free Useful Visual Studio 2010 Add-Ins (Ben March)
• Checking for Empty Strings (Deborah Kurata)
• Contracts (Sacha Barber)
• Using .Net WCF Syndication API to Read a Comments Feed (Gil Fink)
• Advanced Code Diff from within Visual Studio (Patrick Smacchia)
• Project Euler Problem 6 and 7 in F# (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Search in Class View and Synchronize Your Class View (Zain Naboulsi)
• MongoDb NoRM MonoDevelop on Ubuntu Linux (Peter Bromberg)
• ThinkGearNET 1.1 (Brian Peek)
• How method length Affects performance in .net (Russell Ball)
• 13 books for a .NET Summer reading list (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Web Development

• Social Media Html Helpers (Nigel Sampson)
• Performance tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS 7 – part 2 (Mads Kristensen)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult in controller tests and ASP.NET MVC meets HTML5 (Gunnar Peipman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Should Unit Testing Frameworks Handle Unhandled Exceptions? (Jason Bock)
• Day 15 – Achieve a Peaceful Calm State of Mind (J.D. Meier)
• Unit Testing Secure Controller Actions with Moq (Mike Ceranski)
• How to fake C++ objects with Isolator++ (Beta) (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Don’t let your code make-work for others (Maggie Longshore)
• Pushing, Pulling, and Lean-ing (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Tutorial : Concept Binding (Abhishek Sur)
• WP7 Splash Screen Tips & Tricks (Rudi Grobler)
• Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications – IDataErrorInfo (Dan Wahlin)
• THIS is How You Do It: The USGA Golf Score App for Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Problem Resolution: Installing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools Beta (John Papa)
• Building a Search Text Box Control with WPF (Le Duc Anh)
• 7 things to consider when developing for Windows Phone 7 (at this point) and Operating with image files in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 Beta: Go Back…. No I mean the other Back (Nick Randolph)
• Understanding Windows Phone Orientation in XNA (Rob Miles)
• Cinch + Latest Enhancements = I Am Finally Done (Sacha Barber)
• What I learned about Windows Phone 7 from Android (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Querying Netflix OData Service using Silverlight 4 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• XamlQuery – The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library – Release: v1.0 Documentation (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Show 365: Lara Croft, NPD’s etc. (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 122 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones With A Script Editor Shoot-Out And Much More (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Cloud Cover Episode 22 – Identity in Windows Azure (Ryan Dunn)
• Understanding MetroUI (Steven Hodson)
• Creativity – John Cleese (Mark Needham)
• Technology & Friends Episode 110: Jeremy Likness on MEF (David Giard)
• Behind The Curtain – Episode #1 (Michael Lehman)

 

Community / Events

• Open Source & .NET OpenCamp 2010 (Caleb Jenkins)
• More votes required for Visual Studio ALM on Area51 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Stack Exchange API Contest Winners (Jeff Atwood)
• Startup – Week 1 Recap (Justin Etheredge)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 and R2 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)
• SQLAuthority News – Bookmark Link for Sync Framework for SQL Azure and SQL SERVER – Finding the Occurrence of Character in String (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Highly Recommended Book: The Ruby Programming Language (Davy Brion)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Security – Only $9.99. Use code DDBSY (O’Reilly Media)
• Around the World in Windows 7 Themes (Richard Hay)
• Detecting the STA Thread from GetToSTA (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Internet Explorer Turns 15 (Stan Schroeder)
• How to Get CineXPlayer for iPad on Your iPhone and iPod touch Right Now! , to Play Xvid AVI Videos (Taimur Asad)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 15, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 037 for 8/16/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #665 (Chris Alcock)
• Flagged Links #79 (Jason Bock)
• A Feed You Should Read #33 – The Silverlight Show (Greg Duncan)
• Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 — #926 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

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