Dew Drop – October 11, 2010

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Top Links

• Using RabbitMQ with C# and .NET (Justin Etheredge)
• Yet another simplification of Prism’s EventAggregator syntax and Yet another simplification of Prism’s EventAggregator syntax part II–mocking extension methods (Glenn Block)
• Tips & Tricks: Styling Caret of a Silverlight TextBox Control (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 portal goes live (Michael Gillett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Executing WMI Queries (Richard Carr)
• Disabling Linq (Oren Eini)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Built-in support for charts and ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Caching charts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Applied Mathematics in C# via the Extreme Numerical Libraries for .NET (logicchild)
• The Watch Window: Visualizers (Zain Naboulsi)
• #NhDay – A post-mortem debugging session (Rob Ashton)
• Custom Workflow activity for business failure evaluation–Part 1 (Rory Primrose)
• MEF Contrib is live! (Davide Zordan)
• Playing with Netduino (Joaquin Jares)
• LINQPad v4.27 beta (Joe Albahari)

 

Web Development

• Using HTML5 to Let the Data Tell the Story (Andrew Trice)
• HTML5 and CSS3 Support in Komodo IDE 6 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Chart control – XML file Binding (Suprotim Agarwal)
• #Ebook Deal of the Day: PHP in a Nutshell – $9.99 – You Save 58%. Use code DDPNS (O’Reilly Media)
• 7 Rules of Thumb When You Build an API (Simon Hamp)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Feature Tip: When You Are Skipping Features Choose Wisely. (Rajiv Popat)
• Why You Don’t Need Dependency Injection In Ruby (Davy Brion)
• How-To: Change Behavior of Instance Methods with Isolator++ and How-To: Asserting A Method Was Called With Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Aspect Oriented Programming with Action<> (John Sonmez)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 4G support confirmed (Long Zheng)
• wpf loading splash screen (Amr Azab)
• Trials and Tribulations (Michael Klucher)
• Another WP7 Navigation Approach with MVVM (Geoff Hudik)
• Back-Chaining in WP7 (James Ashley)
• Testing on device (CryoDefense Team) – CryoDefense game for WP7 FTW!
• How Is Blend Extensible? (Victor Gaudioso)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #10: InputScope & TextBoxes and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #11: Accelerometer (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Omnia 7 From Samsung Has WP7 Trapped In Its 4-Inch Super AMOLED Screen [Windows Phone 7] (Kat Hannaford)
• WPF Jigsaw Puzzle (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
• Windows Phone 7 ads reveal Samsung Focus for AT&T, November 8th date and shiny new website (Sean Hollister)
• Using The Silverlight Data Pager Control With View Model / MVVM (Openlight Group)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 215 – 10.09.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 30 – The Sharepoint Episode (Richard Banks)
• .NET Gadgeteer (Clint Rutkas)
• Windows Phone Videos Posted at Microsoft Showcase Site and More Windows Phone 7 Videos Posted Online (Richard Hay)
• Let’s Play TDD #33: Value Objects Pay Off (James Shore)
• Windows Weekly 177: Find Free Food (Paul Thurrott)
• Dream.in.Code Podcast Episode #6 – Glenn Block (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Community / Events

• MSDN Simulcast Event: Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch: Jump-Start Your Mobile Development (Zhiming Xue)

 

Database

• Enabling SQL Server Management Pack Alerts with System Center Operations Manager 2007 – Enabling the Blocking Sessions Rule (Bill Ramo)
• SQL SERVER – Encrypted Stored Procedure and Activity Monitor (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Always Create Your Own Group Templates with SharePoint Ribbon Customizations (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Zune 4.7 (MS Downloads)
• MindManager 9: Taking Work from Concept to Completion (Chance Brown)
• Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why: (Mark Suster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2010 — #964 and Silverlight Cream for October 10, 2010 – 2 — #965 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 9, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 10, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 045 for 10/11/2010 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #704 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #132 (David Vidmar)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 10 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)

 

The Geek Shelf

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA by Nick Randolph