Dew Drop – October 25, 2010

Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf

Top Links

• Dawn of a New Day (Ray Ozzie)
• .NET MEAP Books at Half Price! (Joey deVilla)
• Introducing the Prism Navigation Framework for Silverlight MVVM Applications (Slobodan Pavkov)
• Silverlight Report Viewer using View Model (MVVM) (Michael Washington)
• Taco Bell Programming (Ted Dziuba)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Generation Operators (Richard Carr)
• Reactive, parallel and concurrent programming in F# (PADL 2011) (Tom)
• Environment Setup for Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) using TFS and Visual Studio 2010 (Abhijit Zanak)
• Why RavenDB is OSS (Oren Eini)
• Exposing a Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service (Gil Fink)
• Managed DirectX via F# (logicchild)
• Step by step introduction to Calling Iron Python Function From C# 4.0 (Niladri Biswas)
• Show External Code and Understanding Just My Code (Zain Naboulsi)
• DLR using Reflection.Emit (In Depth) Part 2 and Create Enumeration as Bit Flags (Abhishek Sur)
• Recommended Book: NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook (Davy Brion)
• Rangers Team Build Customization Guide (Mike Fourie)
• A Basic Tour To Dynamic Keyword (Niladri Biswas)
• To IntelliSense or not to IntelliSense, is that even a question? (Krzysztof Koźmic)
• Sharing data between windows forms (Shahin Khorshidnia)
• RavenDB–The Image Gallery Project (XV) – Improving Tag Search with AutoComplete (Rob Ashton)

Web Development

• "Articles of the day" @ ASP.Net on Interactive ToolTip using Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Charting with JavaScript (Mike Ceranski)
• Member Dashboard Emerges in Sueetie v2.0 (Dave Burke)
• Quick tip: Changing document and browser mode with developer toolbar (Internet Explorer 9) (Katrien De Graeve)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s Not Motivation (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Scripted Test (Giorgio Sironi)
• Mobile User Interfaces – Less Is More! (Wally McClure)
• Book Review: Managing Humans (Jim Holmes)
• How-To: Running Custom Code With DoMemberFunctionInstead Clauses Using Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Leadership Tip: Stopping Those Status Meetings And Leaving Your Team Alone. and Productivity Tip: Developing The Courage To Stop And Throw Stuff Away. (Rajiv Popat)
• Feedback loops: Overcompensating (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Blend Bits 15: The Data Store (Mike Taulty)
• The Future of Silverlight (Colin Blair)
• Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 16 – UI – User Authentication and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7 – Part 17 (Final) – Showing Profile Info and Flickr API for Windows Phone 7–The Complete Set (Dennis Delimarsky)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #24: Embedding Fonts and 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #25: Talking To External APIs (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Quick tip [link]: the PerformanceProgressBar (Windows Phone 7) (Katrien De Graeve)
• How to Develop MVVM Silverlight applications with Prism (Ariel Ben Horesh)
• Download Progress Bar for Silverlight Media Framework Player (Michael S. Scherotter)
• Windows Phone 7 and Simulation Sickness (Ken Cox)
• Another Free App brought to you by the WP7 team (Flashlight) (Dave Campbell)
• Wire up your ViewModels using a Service Locator (Brendan Enrick)
• Work-Around for DataContractJsonSerializer ArgumentNullExceptions (Daniel Vaughan)
• Inertia Processing (Dave)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 375: Call of Duty: Black Ops MP, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Fable III (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 179: The Momentum Moment (Paul Thurrott)
• Technology & Friends Episode 121: Sam Nasr on Application Security (David Giard)
• WinExtra on Windows #24: Things that go thud on launch day, or not (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft Health Tech Today—The Future of Natural User Interface (NUI) (Bill Crounse)

Community / Events

• WP7 Developer Launch Event: Question & Answer. (Michael Crump)
• CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG November Meeting: Windows Phone 7 In Person (Frank La Vigne)

Database

• Investigating Multiple Transaction Log Files in SQL Server (Lee Everest)
• List all System Stored Procedures in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Corrupted Backup File and Unsuccessful Restore and SQL SERVER – A Brief Introduction to DW 2.0 (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Recursive and Folder-Scoped LINQ Queries in SharePoint 2010 (Ayman M. El-Hattab)
• Extensible free SharePoint 2010 admin tool (Dmitry Sotnikov)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft vs. Apple: Who’s winning? The numbers don’t lie (Ed Bott)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Making Software: What Works, and Why – $19.99 (Save 44%) Code DDMKS (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Free eBooks from Microsoft Press (Richard Hay)
• Adobe AIR 2.5 announced, supports smartphones, tablets, TVs and desktops (Samuel Gibbs)
• Encrypting Passwords in PowerShell (Part 2) (Tobias Weltner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 047 for 10/25/2010 (Pete Brown)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 24, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Links of the week #133 (David Vidmar)
• The Morning Brew #714 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 24, 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for October 23, 2010 — #976 and Silverlight Cream for October 24, 2010 — #977 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Introducing HTML5 (Voices That Matter) by Bruce Lawson