Dew Drop – October 26, 2010

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Top Links

• Taking HTTP support in WCF to the next level (Glenn Block)
• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part–2) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Insider: Ozzie’s Memo Was A Slap In The Face (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• .NET Rocks! – Rocky Lhotka is CSLA and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

.NET / Visual Studio

• 10 Tips you should know about “Watch Window” While debugging in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Synchronization primitives, MulticastAutoResetEvent (Oren Eini)
• NBehave VS2010 Plugin: New Builds (Naeem Khedarun)
• Returning Dynamic Types from an Ajax Web Service Using C# 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
• Attach To Process (Tools vs Debug Menu) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Anatomy of the Windows 7 taskbar – Progress (Rudi Grobler)
• Inheritance Mapping: A Walkthrough Guide for Beginners (Pedro Ardila)
• Using System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class to measure the elapsed time (Hajan Selmani)
• Communication: Logging levels (Mark Needham)
• StreamInsight V1.1 is released (.NET Sequences / IObservable, side-by-side installation and perf improvements) (Mark Simms)
• An introduction to Tuple (Niladri Biswas)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map (J.D. Meier)
• Creating Helpers for ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix (Rachel Appel)
• HTML5 Recipes : Drawing Text (Romin Irani)
• Upgrading Orchard (Rudi Grobler)
• At Least Four Ways to Search Twitter Via API and Amazon Accidentally Bites Some Developer Hands with API Limits (Adam DuVander)
• Announcing YUI 2.8.2 — Important Security Update for All Users of YUI 2.4.0-2.8.1 (Eric Miraglia)
• How To: Send SMTP Email Through GoDaddy (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New Agile Content Aggregator: BlogNotions (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Testing capabilities in TFS 2010 (Al Kampfer)
• INVEST in user stories (Giorgio Sironi)
• Agile Goal Setting (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 5 least known things – Windows Phone 7 development (Dennis Delimarsky)
• A Few More Windows Phone 7 Apps (Mike Ormond)
• How To Add An Animated 3D WPF Splash Screen (Gary Miller)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #26: Sharing Your App With Other Developers (For Free) (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Phone App Challenge #2: Area Gas Prices (Joey deVilla)
• Silverlight and JSON – Consume JSON Services for Performing DML Operations in Silverlight 4 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• International UTF-8 Characters in Windows Phone 7 WebBrowser Control (Matthias Shapiro)
• A DoubleBorderDecorator to simplify rounded-border decorations (Pavan Podila)
• The Windows Phone Developer Tools October 2010 Update (Michael Saffitz)
• Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Full Stack, Part 1 – Building the Admin Site with ASP.NET MVC 3, NuPack and EF Code First (Jon Galloway & Jesse Liberty)
• Pluralcast 27 : CQRS with Chris Tavares (David Starr)
• The Engadget Show – 014: Aaron Woodman, Windows Phone 7, Google TV, MacBook Airs, Palm Pre 2, Halloween Costumes, and more! (Chad Mumm)
• Inside Windows Phone #08: Taking a look inside Windows Phone Programming Model Architecture (Jaime Rodriguez, &Yochay Kiriaty)
• StartUp Success Show #87 Lisa Gansky, The Mesh (Bob Walsh)
• Ping 80: Office 365, Ozzie blogs, Oprah loves Kinect, Re-Tweeting Fail (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 32 – A Chat with Greg Low, Part.1 (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint Connections 2010 Edition (Andrew Connell)
• Data at PDC 2010 (Chris Sells)
• FREE SilverlightShow Webinar Tomorrow – 10 things you didn’t know about Silverlight 4 (Silverlight Show)
• Conf for PDC10 on Windows Phone 7 (Craig Dunn)
• ALM Summit Nov 16th-18th (Charles Sterling)
• Don’t miss PDC 2010, wherever you are (Katrien De Graeve)
• What to Watch and How to Stay Connected at PDC10 (Windows Azure Team)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight 1.1 (MS Downloads)
• Impact of the sort buffer size in MySQL (Yves Trudeau)
• Return of Index Analysis Part 5 (Jason Strate)
• SQL Table Cleanup Job (Steve Smith)
• Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Solid State Storage Basics (Wesley Brown)
• Why CONTROL SERVER Doesn’t Cut It (K. Brian Kelley)
• Survey: what is the highest wait on your system? (Paul S. Randal)
• Add/Remove Checkpoints manually on a Cluster (Pradeep Adiga)

SharePoint

• Import SharePoint List and Lightning Data Masher Deployment (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Broadening Horizons (Jason Bock)
• MVPs for Office and SharePoint 2010: Using PowerPivot with Excel 2010 to Mash Up Data (Lonnie Webb)
• Importing and exporting PST’s from Exchange 2010 SP1, the new, improved and full flavored PowerShell way… (Greg Duncan)
• Google’s FeedBurner RSS analytics service gets real-time stats (Jay Hathaway)
• Is Ray Ozzie going down fighting? (Kip Kniskern)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Art of SEO – $14.99 (Save 58%) Code DDART (O’Reilly Media)
• Internet Explorer 9 and Pinned Sites (Scott Seiber)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 25, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #715 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 10.10 ~ 10.25 (yuanjian)
• Links (10/25/2010) (Steve Pietrek)
• Weekly Link Post 167 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for October 25, 2010 — #978 (Dave Campbell)
• 5 Interesting C# Articles – Fluent Interfaces, Anon Types, ‘dynamic’ keyword, Lambda Expressions, Type Inference etc (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Daily News Digest 10/26/2010 (Silverlight Show)

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