Dew Drop – October 28, 2010

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Top Links

• A Function That Forces (Chris Sells)
• More Free Training on Making Windows Phone 7 Apps & Games (Bob Caswell)
• Monotouch: your C# app on a real iPhone (Peter Van Ooijen)
• RIA Services V1.0 SP1 Beta Released!! (Deepesh Mohnani)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Has Changed Me (Chris Sells)
• Creating Performance Counters Programmatically (Richard Carr)
• Extending Visual Studio 2010 Web Test (Al Kampfer)
• C# Coding Standards, What Standards Do You Use? (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• F# video interviews with Don Syme (parts 1-4) (Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.)
• Optimizing Your Project Code (Zain Naboulsi)
• Parallelism in .NET – Part 20, Using Task with Existing APIs (Reed Copsey)
• Microsoft Sync Framework 4.0 CTP1 and Biztalk Server 2010 Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• Update Configurations Without Replacing Them Using Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API (Gil Fink)
• OData Primer – A human curated OData resource just for you… (Greg Duncan)
• Continuation Passing Style Revisited Part Five: CPS and Asynchrony (Eric Lippert)
• Generating the Collection Data (Howard Dierking)

Web Development

• HTML5 Is Taking Off (Abel Avram)
• Chart Web Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
• jQuery and YUI 3: A Tale of Two JavaScript Libraries (Mark Rall)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript Patterns – $11.99 (Save 50%) Code DDJPT #pdc10 (O’Reilly Media)
• Sueetie Version 2.0 Now Available! (Dave Burke)
• Tardis Bank – online pocket money banking for parents and kids (Mike Hadlow)
• Book Review: Learning Ext JS 3.2 (Loiane)
• MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.0 released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Your Apps to APIs (Alex Stone)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Distributed Agile: Communication (Mark Needham)
• Testing for Performance (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Zombie Projects (Derek Huether)
• Interview:Elizabeth Hendrickson on the State of Functional Testing Tools (Elizabeth Hendrickson)
• Test Lab Guide: Fabrikam Base Configuration (MS Downloads)
• Developer Blog Banter – How do you test your applications? (Peter Gfader)
• Primitive Obsession (Giorgio Sironi)
• What makes a framework ‘heavyweight’? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Use Interfaces for Metadata and Comments and When To Comment Your Code and The Message Is The Message Received (Steve Smith)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft gives you the chance to win a Windows Phone 7 device (Phone Arena)
• Windows Phone 7 Line of Business App Dev :: Consuming an Azure WCF REST + JSON Service (Rob Tiffany)
• Why I Would no Longer Choose Silverlight (admin)
• Microsoft releases Xbox Live Extras update for Windows Phone 7 (Byron Hinson)
• Feature Focus: Windows Phone 7 – Zune (Byron Hinson)
• Windows Phone 7 How-To Index (Karsten Januszewski)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #28: Advertising in Your Apps (Jeff Blankenburg)
• WP7 vs Android – Part Two: Communication (Owen Williams)
• How to Host your Silverlight application on Amazon S3 for Free (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7 in France: a tale of frustration and fulfillment (Pierre)
• Windows Phone 7 – Top 10 Games (Sara Allison)
• Jounce Part 4: Region Management (Jeremy Likness)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Phil Haack on Razor, MVC, NuPack and More! and .NET Rocks! – Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner Disagree About C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Quest Software’s Azure Services (Larry Larsen)
• Code Camp Video Interview (Jeff Atwood)
• We’re All In at PDC10 (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)

Community / Events

• PDC 2010 Live from the Microsoft Redmond Campus Tomorrow 5am! (Nigel Parker)
• Entity Framework and OData @PDC10! (EF Team)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Performance Session at PDC! (orena)

Database

• Tons of SQL Server “free stuff” – Utilities, scripts, eBooks, add-ins, databases, doc’s and more (Greg Duncan)
• Generate Numbers Between two Numbers in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Bulk Insert Permissions (Gethyn Ellis)
• SQL Compact 4.0 CTP + NuPack = Painless project package plus’age (Greg Duncan)
• MySQL Limitations Part 4: One thread per connection (Baron Schwartz)
• MySQL/HandlerSocket and VoltDB: Contenders to NoSQL (Abel Avram)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Easy SharePoint 2010 Setup Scripts for Windows 7 (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Lync Released to Manufacturing (Arneh)
• How good are you with Regexes? Try http://rise4fun.com/rex (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Zune Elements Windows 7 Theme (Richard Hay)
• Could Microsoft have bought itself a Windows 7 tablet user interface? (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 27, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #717 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 27, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 27 , 2010 (admin)

The Geek Shelf

Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code (Pragmatic Programmers) by Paul Butcher