Dew Drop – November 5, 2010

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Top Links

• Testing Strategies Involving Async Functions (Peter Ritchie)
• Announcing the F# Compiler + Library Source Code Drop (Don Syme)
• How I made the ‘myChannel9′ wp7 app (source code included) – Part 1 (Sigurd Snørteland)
• Marketplace Tips for Windows Phone 7 Developers: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Adam Nathan)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Display complex information in TFS 2010 Build log (Al Kampfer)
• Asynchrony in C# 5.0 part Four: It’s not magic (Eric Lippert)
• C#/.NET Fundamentals: Returning an Immutable Collection (James Michael Hare)
• C# in Depth, Second Edition (Ferdinando Santacroce)
• TaskWsdlImportExtension–a hidden gem in the C# vNext async CTP samples (Lars Wilhemlsen)
• Creating Tray Applications in .NET: A Practical Guide (Michael Sorens)
• Using Table Valued Parameters with VB.net (Leidago Noabeb)
• Using the Task Parallel Library with ASP.NET MVC for scalable web applications (Mike Hadlow)
• Composing Sequential Tasks With Linq (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual F# 100 Examples: Example Number 7 and Visual F# 100 Examples: Example 8 to 10 (Rey Dacoco)
• Writing a Compiler in C#: Parsing, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The ResetSettings Switch (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to modify NHibernate mappings at Runtime (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Kalifescope and Monotouch, from idea to the AppStore (Peter Van Ooijen)
• CodeRush Templates – The ‘Templates’ options page. and CodeRush Templates – Creation Basics (Rory Becker)

Web Development

• A Sordid Little Tale Of Unexpected Security Exceptions (Phil Haack)
• Using the Model Keyword in Razor – ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Tardis Bank is now live and An ASP.NET HttpModule to set the current culture to the user’s locale (Mike Hadlow)
• How To Format Bytes in GridView Using ASP.NET (Custom asp:BoundField Server Control) (Peter Kellner)
• Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust (Simone Chiaretta)
• PDC10: Building a Blog with Microsoft "Unnamed Package of Web Love" (Scott Hanselman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Friday: "Release Planning" Now Online (James Shore)
• Tobias Mayer on Scrum Alliance; Part 2 (Dan Mezick)
• State of Agile – David Hicks (Dave Hicks)
• Choosing to Start Small or Go All In when Adopting Agile (Mike Cohn)
• Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages (Victor Noagbodji)
• Head First Design Patterns (Prashant Khanwale)
• Reuse Myth – can you afford reusable code? (Allan Kelly)
• Learning Culture Makes a Big Difference (Sumeet Moghe)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF Window “Native” Behavior: Metro Window (Joel Bennett)
• Delivering the message. Using MessageBox in Windows Phone 7. (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight and HTML5 (Al Kampfer)
• Touched–(Part 4)-Simple Example and Silverlight–Displaying Tookit Charts from XML Data and “I like Silverlight but I also like HTML5…which is best?” (Mike Taulty)
• WP7 Code Camp Tour 2010 – Slides, hands-on labs and samples (CodePlex)
• Silverlight Attendance Demo using Sterling Silverlight Database (Michael Washington)
• My Thoughts on the Silverlight vs HTML5 Debate (Frank La Vigne)
• Guessing if the SIP is visible in a Windows Phone application (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone: First Look (James Ashley)
• CHART OF THE DAY: Windows Phone 7 Getting As Much Attention As iPad From Publishers In 2011 (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, HPQ) (Jay Yarow & Kamelia Angelova)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #4 – First Xaml (Jesse Liberty)
• A Potentially Informative Article about the WPF Engine and Drawing Fractals via WPF (logicchild)
• IIS Media Services 4.0 released, support for multiple devices (Katrien de Graeve)
• Integrating Your App into the Music + Videos Hub (Mark Hopkins)
• Silverlight Guys, What should we do next? (Michael Sync)
• JavaScript Can’t Do Math – SilverlightCalculator A New Silverlight OSS Project (Rod Paddock)
• Understanding Browser-Based Silverlight Project Architecture (Shailesh Patel)
• Silverlight Mobile Phone Text Styles (Mike Snow)
• InfoStrat.VE and the Bing Maps 3D end-of-life (Josh Blake)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ASP.NET Podcast Show 145 – Windows Azure Part III – Visual Studio Tools – Audio (Wally McClure)
• Let’s Play TDD #46: Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing and Let’s Play TDD #47: Spike-a-riffic (James Shore)
• PDC10 Recap: First Impressions from Windows Phone 7 Developers (Brian Keller)

Community / Events

• Local PDC Recap comes to Reston, VA on November 12th and Office Hours: Come Test Your Windows Phone 7 App at CMAP Code Camp! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Speaking at Tech Ed Europe 2010 in Berlin (Pete Brown)
• Raphael Mun: translating dreams to Xbox (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• Join in Windows Azure Firestarter Events in Eastern US (Bruce Kyle)
• INETA Community Speakers Stats for October (Chris Williams)

Database

• A Brute Force Way to Compress a Database (David Levy)

SharePoint

• SP2010 AJAX part 3– using jQuery AJAX with a HTTP handler (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• OMG Stop the presses! There are line-ups for Microsoft products (Art Lindsey III)
• JAMS Job Scheduler PowerPack (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Helping a user who opened a folder as a notebook (John Guin)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Security Power Tools – $21.99 (Save 54%) Code DDPWR (O’Reilly Media)
• BizSpark Graduation Offer for Startups (Somasegar)
• Erlang OTP In Action (Paul Umbers)
• Windows Azure Pricing Options (Windows Azure Team)

More Link Collections

• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 4, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• The Morning Brew #723 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/05/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Silverlight Cream for November 04, 2010 — #985 (Dave Campbell)
• Distributed Weekly 75 (Scott Banwart)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7 Secrets by Paul Thurrott