Dew Drop – October 21, 2010

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Top Links

• Configuring processors, a sneak peak into WCF vNext (Glenn Block)
• Two Cool Resources for Visual Studio Developers–VSSnippets and VSTemplates on CodePlex (Joe Stagner)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #21: Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Shipping Smiles on the AppStore (Miguel de Icaza)
• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 01) (Kunal Chowdhury)

.NET / Visual Studio

• C# vs. C# (Derek Greer)
• Extension methods that add fluent elegance (Rory Primrose)
• NHibernate Linq provider: dynamic filtering using lambda expressions (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number (Martin Hinshelwood)
• C# Enums – A bit of Extra Caution when working with Enums and Poor Man’s Singleton Methods via Dynamic Wrappers in C# (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example Number 2 (Rey Dacoco)
• Server Explorer: SharePoint Servers — vstipTool0123 and Show All Settings (VB) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Windows Server AppFabric Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Which Language VB or CSharp? (Dave M. Bush)
• How to track an object which is Out of Scope while Debugging ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Progress Software Releases New Entity Framework Provider (ADO.NET Team)
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited, Part One (Eric Lippert)
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XIV) – Implementing a real-time tag search (Rob Ashton)

Web Development

• Extending MVC Views with DynamicObject (Javier G. Lozano)
• A Powershell Script for Monitoring Web Site Status (Mike Hadlow)
• Using/developing web services – .NET Zone Stats (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What Makes Internet Explorer 9 Beta Fast? (James Pratt)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit test oriented mind (Al Kampfer)
• Tips for Release Planning with Distributed Scrum (Mark Levison)
• Distributed Agile: Physical story wall still useful (Mark Needham)
• Unit testing a workflow that relies on Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name (Rory Primrose)
• The Least Way: Pivoting Away from Agile Excess (Scott Bellware)
• Comments (Niki Kohari) – A nice update to AgileZen.
• Requirements are dead. Long live requirements. (Jon Archer)
• Have You Found Your Project In Technical Debt? (James Sugrue)
• Command pattern architecture, or “How to do it a little at a time” (Kyle Baley)
• Is Enum Evil? (Lorna Mitchell)
• The unknown acronym: GRASP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Technical Debt (Steven Lott)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7: If at first you don’t succeed … (Rob Tiffany)
• Windows Phone 7: The SuperSite Review (Paul Thurrott)
• Curious about Windows Phone 7–Check out this extensive review (Bob Familiar)
• The Windows Phone 7 Launch Has Started (Brian Seitz)
• Simplest way to Create a Non-Movable Silverlight Child Window (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 is here! (almost) (Luke)
• Are we human, or are we Windows Phone 7 Timedancers…? (Sara Allison)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 6 of 10: Loosely Coupled Messaging (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Offline Data Cache in Windows Phone 7 (Simon Ince)
• More Windows Phone 7 apps I’m playing with today (Steve Clayton)
• Getting the WebOperationContext of a HTTP response in Silverlight (Yavor Georgiev)
• fingerpaint – a little wp7 paint app (Sigurd Snørteland)
• Simple textbox validation wp7 (Baba)
• WP7 Don’t give false impressions. (Mike Hole)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brian Randell is Completely Virtual (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ARCast.TV: Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft (MS Podcasts)
• Web Camps TV #10 – WebMatrix Beta 2: Themes, Package Manager, NuPack, HTML 5 templates and more (James Senior)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.6 Abstraction (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Countdown to PDC10: Trick-or-Treat (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Watch PDC10 via Live Broadcast for FREE (Marc Schweigert)
• Mayor Bloomberg, Steve Ballmer announce Imagine Cup 2011 (Bob Familiar)
• Free Software for the Un/Under Employed (William Vaughn)

Database

• Execute SQL Server Agent Job Task runs asynchronously (Jeremy Carter)
• Calculate Running Total and Row Total in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Beginning SQL Joes 2 Pros: The SQL Hands-On Guide for Beginners (Pinal Dave)
• How to downgrade Integration Services 2008 packages to 2005 (Simon Sabin)
• Tokenizing filenames in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server: How to insert million numbers to table fast? (Gunnar Peipman)
• RavenDB – Defining indexes (Oren Eini)
• How Often Do You Run CHECKDB Against Your Databases? (Brad M. McGehee)
• Reading the SQL Azure tea leaves (Jamie Thomson)
• Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2 (Jen McCown)
• How I fixed “Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.sqlserver.smo, version=10.0.0.0′” issue (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• Content API for Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 BCS model deploy errors (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Command Reference (MS Downloads)
• 15 Very Useful Mobile Apps for Conferences (Aliza Sherman)
• Book Review: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (David Starr)
• Learning: Writing about simple things (Mark Needham)
• Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today (MG Siegler)
• Missed Opportunities at Microsoft and Ray Ozzie Departure (Miguel de Icaza)
• To Go Native Or Not To Go Native… That Is The Question (Nick Berardi)
• On Demand Translation (Somasegar)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #712 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2010 — #973 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action by Jeffrey Palermo