Dew Drop – August 20, 2010

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Top Links

• Windows Phone 7 Jump Start (Session 1 of 12): Introduction and (Session 2 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 1 and (Session 3 of 12): Building a Silverlight Application, Part 2 and (Session 4 of 12): Building Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform and (Session 5 of 12): Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 1 and (Session 6 of 12): Building XNA Games for the Windows Phone 7 Platform, Part 2 and (Session 7 of 12): Advanced Application Development, Part 1 and (Session 8 of 12): Advanced Application Development, Part 2 and (Session 9 of 12): Advanced Application Development, Part 3 and (Session 10 of 12): Marketing Your Windows Phone 7 Application and (Session 11 of 12): Working with Media and (Session 12 of 12): Final Silverlight Topics and Wrap-Up (Emily Gibson)
• Exploring List capacities and growth on the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Debugging Tips with Visual Studio 2010 (Scott Guthrie)
• Visual Studio Lab Management (Somasegar)
• Porting Applications from C# to Android and iPhone just got easier.. (Don Burnett)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting F# Running on a Continuous Integration Server (Ade Miller)
• NH Prof & usage data (Oren Eini)
• Sync Framework 2.1 has Arrived! (Rob Tiffany)
• Book Review: WCF 4.0 multi-tier services development with LINQ-to-Entities (Peter Ritchie)
• Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management has officially released (Brian Keller)
• Setting WinForms Colors to a Named, RGB, or Hex Value (Deborah Kurata)
• How to run IronPython code from C# (Dror Helper)
• The First Hour With Lightswitch –BETA- (Michael Washington)
• DevForce “Blends” (Ward Bell)
• WCF Web Services The Easy Way (Justin Etheredge)
• Optional Parameters in C# 4 and Know Your Debugger (Dane Morgridge)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta1 now available for the MSDN Subscribers (Kunal Chowdhury)
• C# String Extension Methods (Luke Lowrey)
• Reactive Extensions for .NET ( “stuff happens” ) (Mike Taulty)
• StyleCop – Release: v4.4.1 Preview (CodePlex)
• How to send an email via GMail using .NET (Mike Hadlow)
• OpenWrap late changes and release date (Sebastien Lambla)
• endpoint.tv – Troubleshooting WCF – Bad Address on Client (Ron Jacobs)
• Awesome Visual Studio Command Prompt and PowerShell icons with Overlays (Scott Hanselman)
• Understanding the File Open Location and Sharing Snippets with Your Team and Show Previous Versions (Zain Naboulsi)
• Distributed VS Server Based Version Control Systems (Dave M. Bush)
• Highlighting Custom Patterns with ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Getting meaningful exceptions from WF (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) (Scott Mitchell)
• LABjs & RequireJS: Loading JavaScript Resources the Fun Way (Kyle Simpson)
• Don’t let jQuery’s $(document).ready() slow you down (Dave Ward)
• S#arp Architecture 1.6 Released! (Billy McCafferty)
• HttpHandlerWrapper (Karl Seguin)
• The Big Boy MVC Series — Part 26: It’s Codeplex Time! (Evan Nagle)
• RequestValidation Changes in ASP.NET 4.0 (Rick Strahl)
• Using the File API for reading file information & multiple file uploads – another sister specification to HTML5 (Rob Nyman)
• Tip #107 Did you know … How to improve debugging performance for MVC2 application in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? (Xinyang Qiu)
• Microsoft Introduces WebMatrix (Rick Strahl)
• Buzz API is Buzzing with New Features (Romin Irani)
• Implementing YUI on the Assembla.com Agile Planner (Joachim Larsen)
• Spark Bindings – are you tired of eating “Tag Soup” yet? (Robert Greyling)
• Azure Throughput Analyzer (MS Research)
• Quick Edit mode for YUI 2 DataTable (John Lindal)
• Facebook Location API Launches: Read Only For Now (Adam DuVander)
• Use APIs to Explore Your Town (Alex Stone)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Customer Tests" Now Online (James Shore)
• Day 18 – Add Creative Hours to Your Week and Day 19 – Who are You Doing it For? (J.D. Meier)
• Code Analysis Techniques (Steve Smith)
• Tools for disparate teams: AgileZen Edition (Kyle Baley)
• Coding Standards and Best Practices : Dealing with strings Part (1) (Peter Bahaa)
• Navigating the Five Levels of Conflict – The Agile Way (Lyssa Adkins)
• Top Agile Books (Vikas Hazrati)
• Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive (Mark Suster)
• Design Through Testability – An Example (Karl Seguin)
• Must Windsor track my components? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Book Review: Debug It! (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Planning Meetings Are Essential (Jared Richardson)
• The 4-contact points of software development (Brett Schuchert)
• Comments are the Devil (Chris Missal)
• 7 Ways to Humanize the Distributed Team Experience (David J. Bland)
• Once Again: Comments In Code Aren’t Necessarily Bad (Davy Brion)
• Isolator++ Beta News (Gil Zilberfeld)
• "Creative Evolutionary Systems" (Jason Bock)
• Are additional layers of abstraction warranted? (Billy McCafferty)
• 7 Key Principles of Lean Software Development (Kelly Waters)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WAF and Caliburn: 2 WPF Application Frameworks (Abel Avram)
• How to Render Bitmap or to Print a Visual in WPF (Abhishek Sur)
• Ribbon Browser Application without the title row (Varsha Mahadevan)
• Loading Microsoft CDN Hosted OpenStreetMap Imagery in Silverlight Bing Maps Control and Use New Bing Maps Road Imagery In Silverlight Map Control (Unofficially and Unsupported) (Chris Pietschmann)
• Make your Windows Phone 7 application dependent on the network connection type and Windows Phone 7 – Testing applications both on the device and the emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
• BindingNavigator for WPF (Part 1 – Creating) (Christian Nagel)
• Simulating and Mocking Location Data in the Windows Phone 7 Emulator (Mike Ormond)
• Improving a control–Windows Phone 7 Wheel Control (Clint Rutkas)
• Multitasking on Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• Silverlight Getting Worse When It Comes To Memory Leaks (Davy Brion)
• Fade Into You [Code to easily animate orientation changes for Windows Phone applications now supports fade, too!] (David Anson)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices – Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide and Check out SilverMotion 3D for Silverlight and XBAPs can talk to your web page after all (Don Burnett)
• Simplifying Silverlight Web Service Calls with Reactive Extensions (Rx) (Jeremy Likness)
• Book Review: .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Data-Driven Applications (Joel Cochran)
• Creating Application using WPF Commanding and ADO.NET Entity Framework – (Part 2) Inserting Data (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone 7: Monitoring Application Startup Performance (Nick Randolph)
• EA a notable holdout on Xbox Live for Windows Phone 7, doesn’t have much to say on the subject (Paul Miller)
• Windows Phone Applications – Map, Pivot and Panorama controls and Downloading Images and Indeterminate ProgressBar in Windows Phone and Launchers and Choosers for Windows Phone (Ricky Tan)
• Windows Phone Phone Calls (Rob Miles)
• Debugging Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Announces Impressive list of Game Titles for Xbox LIVE on Windows Phone 7 (Tauqeer)
• Early look at the Panorama and Pivot controls for Windows Phone (Cheryl Simmons)
• WP7 Catto Free App – Windows Phone 7 .NET Silverlight Sample App (CodePlex)
• Windows Phone 7 Ready To Change The Game (your mkop editor)
• ZoomableApplication3: When not to ApplyTransform (Kael Rowan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Andrew Stellman’s C# “Inner Circle” Discussion, Game Challenge and C# Video Q&A (Joey deVilla)
• .NET Rocks! – Scott Stanfield Advertises Online (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Advanced Functional Programming – Type Classes and Garrett Serack – Open Source on Windows and the CoApp Project (Charles Torre)
• DeepFriedBytes Episode 59: Moving Applications to the Cloud on Windows Azure (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Windows Phone 7 Training now Live (Rob Miles)
• Video on why Scrum and Kanban are both good (Michael Sahota)
• Calling All Phone Developers: Free On Demand Training for Windows Phone 7 (Bob Caswell)
• Herding Code 91: Listener-Powered Lightning Round (Jon Galloway)
• Video: 6 Valuable Lessons You’ll Learn From Dux @ #BPC10 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• Silverlight TV 41: Top Tips for WCF RIA Services (John Papa)
• 17 Xbox LIVE Games for Windows Phone in 90 seconds! (Laura Foy)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 166: Living Architectures with John Wiegand (SE-Radio Team)
• Pluralcast 22 : How Pluralsight.com gets built with Keith Brown (David Starr)
• Facebook Chat Now Available in Windows Live Messenger (Nic Fillingham)
• Technology & Friends Episode 111: Mike Wood on Moving to the Cloud (David Giard)
• The GeekDads Episode #74: Sir Doug the Infrequent (Ken Denmead)
• Pivot Tables with Tons of Developer Resources (Gus Class)

Community / Events

• p&p Symposium Keynote Speakers Announced (Ade Miller)
• Speaking at Tech.Ed Next Week (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Summer in Seattle: Just another reason to move here (Kelly Fife)
• MVPs Going Beyond the MVP Award! and MVPs Take Over the Microsoft Store! (Lonnie Webb)
• Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training On-Demand and Windows Phone 7 Deployment Labs / Clinics (Mike Ormond)
• Early Bird is Open for the Patterns and Practices Symposium (John Papa)
• Blend-O-Rama Update (Joel Cochran)

Database

• How Do You Defragment Your SQL Server Indexes (Brad M. McGehee)
• Proper Usage of MAXDOP Setting When Compressing Indexes in SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 (Glenn Berry)
• Be wary of using UNC paths in SSIS packages (Jamie Thomson)
• Convert VarChar to Currency in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Download SQL Server 2008 Interview Questions and Answers Complete List and SQL SERVER – Function to Retrieve First Word of Sentence – String Operation (Pinal Dave)
• 10 things you shouldn’t do with SQL Server and Contribute to SQL v.Next (Denali) planning (Simon Sabin)
• Making SSIS Dynamic: Configuration Management (Ted Krueger)
• Application databases and external integration points (Oren Eini)
• Database configuration: Just like any other change (Mark Needham)
• Undocumented Stored Procedures and Hunting down those expensive SPs (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• Integer List Splitting: A SQL Fable (Brad Schulz)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Decision Tree and Updated Guidance on SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and the FAB 40 application templates (Joel Oleson)
• save money and time with the lightning conductor web part (Brett Lonsdale)
• There are no business data types loaded in the catalog and SharePoint Forums – Anonymous Posting (Lightning Tools)
• Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Steve Pietrek)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Live Essentials 2011 Now Includes "Facebook Chat in Messenger" and Supports German & Russian (Blake Handler)
• Microsoft Announces Microsoft Flight – A New Flight Simulator for Windows (Imran Hussain)
• Android Presenter To Activity Using Guice (John Sonmez)
• Hello Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform (James Sugrue)
• Gemsets, Bundler and Versioning (Mark Nijhof)
• MSBuild Hands-On (Mike Fourie)
• OCaml, Where Art Thou? (Mitch Pronschinske)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: Google Analytics – Only $9.99. Use code DDGAE (O’Reilly Media)
• What Would You Like to See in Windows 8 (Richard Hay)
• Why Microsoft Connect Really, Really SUX (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Why you fail at writing (Scott Berkun)
• One of the best and classiest Microsoft web pages yet and The first six years of Microsoft compared to Apple and Google (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Has Been Finally Unveiled !! (Uzair Ghani)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2010 and Interesting Finds: August 19, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #667 and The Morning Brew #668 and The Morning Brew #669 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 17, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 18, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 19, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 08.01 ~ 08.18 (yuanjian)
• Building a Virtual Development Server (Grant Palin)
• Links of the week #127 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for August 18, 2010 — #927 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend: Sketch Your Ideas…And Bring Them to Life! by Chris Bernard