Dew Drop – October 16, 2010

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Top Links

• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #16: The Panorama Control (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework and Prism to create MVVM Applications – Introduction (Slobodan Pavkov)
• TWC9 – Illustrator-to-Canvas, msPerformance, ExtensionMethod.net, (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Element Operators (Richard Carr)
• Hidden Facts of C# Structures in terms of MSIL (Abhishek Sur)
• LINQ Grouping with C# and Visual Basic (Christian Nagel)
• BOO! For Visual Studio 2010… (Alpha, but still a Boo!’able VS) (Greg Duncan)
• Actual *dynamic* dispatch through the DLR from C#? (Oliver Sturm)
• Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack (Shai Raiten)
• Using Smart Tags from the Keyboard (Zain Naboulsi)
• 3 Gems in Mono for .NET Programmers – The hidden potential of Mono.CSharp, Mono.Cecil And Mono.TextTemplating (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• CodeRush Screenshot of the Week – Rotate 90 Degrees (Mark Miller)
• CSLA .NET branching and tagging strategy (Rockford Lhotka)
• Creating Desktop Applications with Messenger Connect (Archis Gore)
• Reactive Extensions in .NET – ConnectableObservable (Sankarsan Bose)

Web Development

• ASP.NET with F# and Mono (2#4U)
• ASP.NET MVC Controller Action Unit Test Extension Methods (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: jQuery in Action (2nd Edition) (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET WebMatrix Beta 2 – Getting Started (Malcolm Sheridan)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Simple image manipulations using WebImage helper (Gunnar Peipman)
• Adoption Program Insights: Sending Emails from Windows Azure (Part 2 of 2) (Norman Sequeira, Patrick Butler Monterde & Tom Hollander)
• DOMParser and XMLSerializer in IE9 Beta (Tony Ross)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Software Development in Regulated Environments (Bob Nadler)
• The Purpose of Unit Testing (John Sonmez)
• Requirement Analysis – Fact Finding Techniques (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Mock, Service Locator, Automocking container and the hard life of testers (Al Kampfer)
• Introduction to Static Analysis (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• "No one uses the table of contents anymore" – is that really true? (Wolf Schmidt)
• The Planning Fallacy (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Systems Design: Making a New Feature (Nearly) Too Much Trouble (James Iry)
• Elegant Documentation Never Lies (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Composing away from friction (Naeem Khedarun)
• Understanding Genuine Geeks And Nerds – Part 3. (Rajiv Popat)
• Zombie Projects (Derek Huether)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Moving your WCF REST + JSON Service to Windows Azure (Rob Tiffany)
• SqueakBox for Windows Phone 7 (Brian Hitney)
• MEF Powered Silverlight – a simple walkthrough and A Caliburn.Micro Recipe – Silverlight Navigation and A Horizontal List box (Greg Gum)
• Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 (Katka Vaughan)
• Book Review: Foundation Expression Blend 4 by Victor Gaudioso (Michael Crump)
• My Windows Phone 7 Applications in the Marketplace! (Shawn Wildermuth)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• WinExtra on Windows Ep 23: Microsoft gets something right. Seriously. (Steven Hodson)
• Cloud Cover Episode 30 – Coordinating Work and Load Testing (Ryan Dunn)
• Spaghetti Code – October 2010 – Show 1 (Jeff Brand)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: TechNet Gets Its Edge On (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• DreamSpark: Free Software And Tools for Tech Students (Richard Hay)
• From NERD to One to Watch (Ariel Meadow Stallings)

Database

• SQL SERVER – StreamInsight and SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL SERVER – System Stored Procedure sys.sp_tables (Pinal Dave)
• Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL (Brian K. McDonald)
• Writing c# in custom code or reports and SQL Intellisense doesn’t work with CAST (Simon Sabin)
• RavenDB – The great simplification (Oren Eini)
• What exactly is Fragment_count? (Rami Reddy)
• Using sp_rename (Martin Bell)

Miscellaneous

• 99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call Bullshit! (Alan Skorkin)
• NoReplyAll Outlook Addin – Flips the bit to disable recipients from ReplyAll’ing (and also adds goof checks, like missing attachments, subject’s, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• Perks that make jobs better – The Flynny Sequel (Michelle Flynn)
• Ray Ozzie is back blogging (Steve Clayton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 15, 2010 and Interesting Finds: October 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for October 15, 2010 — #968 and Silverlight Cream for October 16, 2010 — #969 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 15, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 16, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

WPF in Action with Visual Studio 2008 by Arlen Feldman