Dew Drop – November 9, 2010

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Top Links

• “NASA Be A Martian” application on Windows Phone 7 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Logical and Physical Architecture (Udi Dahan)
• Windows Phone 7 Gets Unleashed (Agen Schmitz)
• Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC (Mike Ceranski)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use Shortcut or Context Menu for “Open Containing Folder” in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Understanding C#: Nullable Types (Andrew Stellman)
• Raven.Munin and Raven MQ – Principles (Oren Eini)
• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part 3) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Asynchrony in C# 5 Part Five: Too many tasks (Eric Lippert)
• Using PowerShell to tweak PowerShell’s Console using .Net (on which PowerShell is based) (Greg Duncan)
• Image Optimizer (beta) – VS2010 extension (Mads Kristensen)
• Code Contracts (Greg Gum)
• Reorganize the Default Project Templates and Organizing Your Custom Project Templates and Organizing Your Custom Item Templates (Zain Naboulsi)
• Adding Multi-Value properties to untyped providers (Vitek Karas)
• Decoding standard output and standard error when redirecting to a GUI application (Dennis Dietrich)
• Converting DOT graphs to SVG using the rise4fun REST services and Getting QuickGraph using Nuget (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Exploring how the Entity Data Model (EDM) Generates Code and Executes Queries – Entity Framework 4.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using CSLA 4: CSLA .NET Overview (Rockford Lhotka)
• Hosted workflow service with content correlation and Managing content correlation failures (Rory Primrose)
• New book: Microsoft ADO.NET 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

 

Web Development

• Enable editing of enumerable data in ASP.NET MVC (Daniel Fisher)
• Spark and jQuery Templates learn how to play nice and Don’t just get the Spark View Engine – NuGet it now (Robert Greyling)
• HTML5 Recipes: Circles and Arcs (Romin Irani)
• How to Rotate a video using CSS3 and How to rotate HTML5 Video (Martin Beeby)
• How to solve JavaScript IntelliSense problems in VS2010 (Xinyang Qiu)
• Streaming Live or On-Demand Video from IIS7 to iOS Devices (iPhone/iPad) and Silverlight Clients (Scott Hanselman)
• Configure Secure Socket Layer (SSL) in IIS 7 or IIS 7.5 in Windows 7 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Introduction (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Sammy.js (Mark Nijhof)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• iPhone Development with Unit Testing (Brett Schuchert)
• What Agile Metrics Should We Report? (Dan Puckett)
• Beyond basic TDD (Gojko Adzic)
• The Secret of Confident People (J.D. Meier)
• Distributed Agile: Communication – Reliance on one person (Mark Needham)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Standard Fixture and The Dark Side of Lean (Giorgio Sironi)
• Mockingbird’s Wireframe Tool Now Sings To The Tune Of Real-Time Collaboration (Jason Kincaid)
• Body Language (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• ExpandoObject Explained In Tests (Except For One Mystery) (K. Scott Allen)
• Traditional Estimating and Individual Accountability (Mike Cottmeyer)
• A book Review of Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Stephen Robillard)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 “Neurons” App (Justin Angel)
• New Developer Education for WP7 Games Today on App Hub (Team XNA)
• Perst Database for Windows Phone 7: Demo Updated to RTM (Andy Wigley)
• One of many reasons to get your hands on Windows Phone 7 (Bing Team)
• Windows Phone 7 for Flash Developers (Mike Ormond)
• Extended WPF Toolkit–Release 1.2.0 (Brian Lagunas)
• Coding4Fun: Rubik’s Cube for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 using Balder (Einar Ingebrigtsen)
• Going to Market with Windows Phone 7 (Charles Petzold)
• Getting bytes from continuous streams on Windows Phone 7 and Going to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace – getting the app out there and Creating the slider toggle control for Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• What is the Extended WPF Toolkit? and Prism 4.0 Drop 10 (Don Burnett)
• Submitting a Windows Phone 7 Application to the Market. (Michael Crump)
• New QuickStart: Silverlight Install and Upgrade Experience (Karl Erickson)
• Promoting your Windows Phone 7 application (Nick Randolph)
• Worm Hole and White Hole Space Effects in Silverlight (Nokola)
• Windows Phone 7: some thoughts and Microsoft Tag arrives on Windows Phone 7 and Your essential Windows Phone 7 apps (Steve Clayton)
• Cache is KING (Rudi Grobler)
• Windows Phone US Availability Brings New Features to Marketplace (Todd Brix)
• "Published to Marketplace." Now What? (Adam Nathan)
• There and Back again “A Tombstoning tale”–The return of the application. (Simon Jackson)
• Disabling the flick gesture on a Pivot Control in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WP7 Development–Skip the Documentation (Joel Reyes)
• WP7 1st day report: enough phones to go around? (Kip Kniskern)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV: Jeffrey Palermo on ASP.NET MVC (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Tim Huckaby Live at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget Podcast 218 – 11.07.2010 (Trent Wolbe)
• Office Mobile on Windows Phone 7 (Tina Wood)
• Technology & Friends Episode 124: Jeff Blankenburg on Windows Phone 7 Features (David Giard)
• ASP.NET Podcast Show 146 – WebMatrix/Razor Part I – audio (Wally McClure)
• PDC ’10: Student Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Ping 82: Paul’s Secret SQL Project, Kinect Launch, LG Apps, Microsft Atlanta (Laura Foy)
• Windows Weekly 181: Only Kinect (Paul Thurrott)
• Pluralcast 28 : Talking Business and Objectification with Rocky Lhotka (David Starr)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 34 – Oren Eini – Part 1 (Richard Banks)
• Ask the Experts – Evan Lew (Larry Larsen)
• Yet Another Podcast Show #12–Buying My Phone (a 2-minute special) (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – November 8th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Future Of PASS Elections (Joe Webb)
• Create a tech video and win an MSDN Universal subscription (David Giard)
• SQLAuthority News – Why I am Going to Attend PASS Summit Unite 2010 – Seattle (Pinal Dave)
• AgiliTrain announces 1H 2011 Schedule and New Early Bird Pricing! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone 7’s Wonder Woman: KC Lemson (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
• A Few Upcoming Windows Phone 7 Related Webcasts (Mike Ormond)

 

Database

• 11-07-2010 – SetFocus BI/SQL Master’s Program Tip: SSRS 2008/SSRS 2008 R2 OLAP reports and overwriting MDX parameters (Kevin Goff)
• SQL SERVER – Recycle Error Log – Create New Log file without Server Restart (Pinal Dave)
• Upgrading from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2 – Fails if default data folder doesn’t exist and SQL Server Denali – Whats new ? and FTP doesn’t work with proxy accounts in SQL Agent – calloc error (Simon Sabin)
• T-SQL INSERT INTO SELECT and SELECT INTO (Richard Carr)
• The CHECK_POLICY and CHECK_EXPIRATION options cannot be turned OFF when MUST_CHANGE is ON (Pradeep Adiga)
• I don’t get the Data and Log File Location Policy. (John Sterrett)
• Converting Deadlock Reports to Graphs (Martin Bell)

 

SharePoint

• Don’t install SharePoint 2010 October 2010 CU and SharePoint and the MS Cloud Strategy – Are you confused yet? (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010 October Cumulative Update Issue: Details and Workaround (SharePoint Team)
• Using Silverlight Chart Controls With SharePoint 2010 (Abhijit Jana)
• Modifying external list forms with infopath 2010 (Brett Lonsdale)
• Writing windows phone apps for SharePoint (Sudheendra Kovalam)

 

Miscellaneous

• Key Kinect Technology Devised in Cambridge Lab (Ben Rooney)
• Never Underestimate The Power Of A Message (Davy Brion)
• Microsoft opens “App” Store for Microsoft Windows (Don Burnett)
• Interview Questions – Google Style (Greg Duncan)
• “Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials” Think “Windows Home Server Meets the Home Office/Small Business” (Greg Duncan)
• Stack Overflow Homepage Changes (Jeff Atwood)
• My thoughts on certification exams (John V. Petersen)
• The Looming Data Wars (Krishnan Subramanian)
• #Ebook Deal/Day – Cloud Security and Privacy – $14.99 (Save 46%) Code DDCSP (O’Reilly Media)
• Adding a Windows Firewall rule using PowerShell (Tom Hollander)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2010 and Interesting Finds: November 8, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #724 and The Morning Brew #725 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 7, 2010 and Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 8, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Involving Software, More Valuable than Facebook, Spreading Your Ideas (Dave Burke)
• Weekly Link Post 169 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Silverlight Cream for November 07, 2010 — #987 and Silverlight Cream for November 08, 2010 — #988 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Phone 7 U.S. Release Day Review (Richard Hay) – A nice roundup of all the WP7 release day coverage.

 

The Geek Shelf

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) by Jez Humble