Month: October 2010

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Top Links

• Get patterns & practices Books Cheap! (Ade Miller)
• Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie To Step Down As Chief Software Architect (Leena Rao)
• Jounce Part 2: Getting Started (Tagging and Binding) (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Compound From with C# and Visual Basic (Christian Nagel)
• Visual Studio 2010 UML doesn’t support State models. This extension does (add State Models to Visual Studio that is)… and An unusual code generation scheme… via the Bing API and MSDN. (Greg Duncan)
• TMap® mit Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 – Scrum 1.0-Prozess-Template (Clemens Reijnen)
• LINQ Query Syntax Tutorial (Jon Preece)
• Configuration support for custom IErrorHandler in WCF (Rory Primrose)
• Toggle Designer (Zain Naboulsi)
• Code Contracts (Part II): In Action (Oleg Smirnov)
• Enhancing OData support for streams (Alex James)
• Using the command help subsystem in OpenWrap (Sebastien Lambla)
• A Refactoring I Should Have Been Doing for Years but Forgot, AppSettings (Peter Kellner)
• On Dynamic Objects and DynamicObject (Chris Burrows)

Web Development

• Using The jQuery Template Plugin tmplItem Feature (Chris Love)
• HTML5 Recipes: Strokes and Fills (Romin Irani)
• In the YUI 3 Gallery: Extensions for SVG, Created for SVG Wow! (Vincent Hardy)
• Support for Http PATCH (Alex James)
• Google Maps API: Now Serving 350,000 Websites (Adam DuVander)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Razor views support comments now (Gunnar Peipman)
• Getting Started w/Helpers for the Razor View Engine & WebMatrix (Rachel Appel)
• Azure@home Part 9: Worker Role Run method (Jim O’Neil)
• Intro to jQTouch: Creating Your First Application in jQTouch (B.M. Harwani)
• Campaign Finance API, Version 3: This Time It’s Congressional (Curtis C. Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Service Locator Design Pattern (Richard Carr)
• Unit Testing Is Spooky! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Model Driven Development with StatePatternModeler (Halllo Welt)
• Why We Should Care About Software Craftsmanship, Part 1 (Gael Fraiteur)
• Architecting UI plug-ins for PRISM applications (Marcin Kaluza)
• Duck : Delete Update Create Killer (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Coding: Context independent code (Mark Needham)
• I’ll be that guy – future directions and so on and so forth (Adam Kinney)
• Mock, Service Locator and Automocking Container to the rescue (Al Kampfer)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Choosing existing & taking new pictures on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Paging WCF Ria Services entities in MVVM applications (Andrea Boschin)
• Enabling your WP7 application to be installed in Trial Mode (Derik Whittaker)
• Conditional Logic During Start Up of a Windows Phone App (Karsten Januszewski)
• 31 Days of Windows Phone | Day #19: Push Notifications (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Applying data templates dynamically by type in WP7 (Badea Florin)
• Announcing Pictures Lab for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Windows Phone 7 marketplace is fillin’ up (Steve Clayton)
• Phone 7 madness (Pieter De Bruin)
• New WP7 Games Educational Content on App Hub: Performance! (Team XNA)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Future of Web Apps from Tech Ed New Zealand (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #38: Torturing Rob (with Rob Myers) (James Shore)
• Ping 79: Facebook & Bing, Windows Phone 7 ads, Geek Fashion, Boats for Kinect (Laura Foy)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 31 – Steve Nagy and the Cloud (Richard Banks)
• Bill Buxton on NUI: What’s in a Name? (Frank La Vigne)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – October 18th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Announcing OpenSpaceBeers, the open-space for all developers, whatever the platform (Sebastien Lambla)
• New Job, WPF Training Books and more (Jason Rainwater)
• Debreefing the NHDay (Simone Chiaretta)
• We’re Looking for Canadian Windows Phone 7 Apps (Joey deVilla)
• Goodbye Microsoft! (Sara Ford)
• More Free “State of .NET” Events Announced (Markus Egger)
• Annoucing the Malvern PDC10 Viewing Party (Dave Isbitski)

Database

• Database Mirroring Connection Strings – Automatic Failover (Steve Jones)
• Analyze and validate T-SQL code using SQL Enlight (Suprotim Agarwal)

SharePoint

• Book Review: Microsoft Silverlight 4 and SharePoint 2010 Integration (Steve Pietrek)

Miscellaneous

• Phone and Tablet Apps as the Next Platform (Bill Evjen)
• Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing (Grant Fritchey)
• Ten Tips for Process Explorer Triumphant Tweaking (Greg Duncan)
• It’s a shame about Ray Ozzie (Joe Wilcox)
• Zoho Tasks Integrates Tasks from Zoho Projects (Raju Vegesna)
• Shortcut Your Way to Prizes in the bit.ly API Contest (Romin Irani)
• Ray Ozzie, Microsoft and change (Scott Berkun)
• Microsoft opening Bellevue store on November 18 (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #710 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 18, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• F# Discoveries This Week 10/18/2010 (Rick Minerich)
• Weekly Link Post 166 (Rhonda Tipton)
• A List of Resources to help jumpstart your ASP.NET WebMatirx Development. and A quick list of resources Developers using IIS (Joe Stagner)
• Interesting .NET Links – October 18 , 2010 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2010 — #971 (Dave Campbell)
• Recent NUI videos and links (Josh Blake)

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Enterprise Library, C# Edition (Patterns & Practices) by Alex Homer