Dew Drop – November 6, 2010

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Top Links

• Using EventTrigger in XAML for MVVM – No Code Behind (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 40% Off Selected .NET Manning Books! (Joey deVilla)
• Silverlight Data Template Selector using Managed Extensibility Framework (Jeremy Likness)
• Ready for take-off? Top 10 things to check when you think you are done with your application. (Alfred Astort)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The BigInteger Structure (Richard Carr)
• F# 2.0 Compiler – Released as open-source in the context of the latest F# PowerPack code drop (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Custom Diagnostic Data Adapter capture the Webcam (Clemens Reijnen)
• Change the Templates That Appear in the New Project or Item Dialogs (Zain Naboulsi)
• MSDN Magazine – A Coder’s Guide to Writing API Documentation (jwalk)
• Do you ORM? (Al Kampfer)
• SOA with .NET and Windows Azure: Realizing Service-Orientation with the Microsoft Platform (Azz Rahman)
• Reflection – Slow or Fast? Demonstration with Solutions (Abhishek Sur)
• Parallel Extensions to the .NET 4.0 Runtime (logicchild)

Web Development

• Supporting the HTML 5 Video Tag with Fallback and Web Storage in HTML 5 and Offline HTML 5 Apps (appcache) and Microformats and HTML 5 Part 1 and AI to Canvas by the Mix Online Folks (Don Burnett)
• JavaScript Event to an Object Instance (Jason McDonald)
• Package that speeds up loading of JavaScript, CSS and image files (Matt Perdeck)
• A Status Check on the YUI 2-to-3 Transition (Eric Miraglia)
• Feature Detection for Better Compatibility in Web Development (Gil Fink)
• Same Mark-up: Cross-Browser Web Development (Andrew Spooner)
• Tuning Add-on Performance: Windows Live Messenger Companion (Herman Ng)
• 5 Tips to Make your Blog or Site More Social (Joel Oleson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Week in Review 5 – The State of Agile Finishes (ScoutMaster)
• Fighting Confirmation Bias (Phil Haack)
• Virtual Villages: Cultivating a Shared Practice Community (Sumeet Moghe)
• Successful Teams: Capable Backups (K. Brian Kelley)
• Retrospectives: Actions and Retrospectives: General observations (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A couple of more data-related Silverlight Quickstarts for you (Cheryl Simmons)
• 7 Coding4Fun Windows Phone 7 applications released! (Coding4Fun)
• Silverlight DataTrigger is the Answer to View Model / MVVM issues (Michael Washington)
• What XAML Information Do You Need? (Kim Spilker)
• Silverlight: less cross-platform, more cross developers (Laila Lofti)
• Science of Great UI & Windows Phone 7 (Mark Miller)
• The whole Silverlight Brouhaha after PDC (Markus Egger)
• Customize the Silverlight Installation Experience in about 15 Minutes (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight (with full .NET programming model support) is coming to Slate devices? (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• TED for Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• TWC9: Phone Updates, BizSpark graduation, PDC Videos and WCF (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• The basics on navigating the Kinect (Tina Wood)
• Cloud Cover Episode 31 – Startup Tasks, Elevated Privileges, and Classic ASP (Steve Marx)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode Seven (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• Live Streaming Keynotes From PASS Summit 2010 (Glenn Berry)

Database

• SSIS: Using a Script Component as a substitute OLEDB Destination (Josef Richberg)
• Use an OUTER LOOP JOIN for faster performance when one of the tables is much smaller (Denis Gobo)
• Recursive Queries with Common Table Expressions (Ken Downs)

SharePoint

• Including the *.XAP Generated by One Project in a SharePoint 2010 Project (Andrew Connell)
• Critical Information about the SharePoint Server 2010 October Cumulative Update (SharePoint Team)

Miscellaneous

• Tufts University XNA Gaming Projects Showcased on App Hub (Bob Familiar)
• Assistance At Microsoft.com and Booting from a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) (Richard Hay)
• XmlLists with Psake / Powershell (Naeem Khedarun)
• PowerGUI Scripting Challenge (Jeffrey Snover)
• XNA Game Studio Connect 4.0 and XBLIG Submission Update (Team XNA)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 6, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 06, 2010 — #986 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 5, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• November 5th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)

The Geek Shelf

Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck