Dew Drop – November 13, 2010

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Top Links

• Prism 4.0 For Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, WPF & Silverlight 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• A WPF behavior to improve grouping in your ListBox (Jeremy Alles)
• Mobile Learning – 7 Interesting Patterns (Sumeet Moghe)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 7 of 10: Data on the Wire(less) (Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• HowTo: build MSBuild Solutions (Code Inside Team)
• Min, Max, Between, Limit (Keith Brown)
• C# 5.0 vNext – New Asynchronous Pattern (Abhishek Sur)

Web Development

• IIS and ASP.NET 404 redirects and GoDaddy (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using the ViewStart Page in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta (Malcolm Sheridan)
• jQuery: How to make a simple tool tip plugin (Raghav Khunger)
• Adding IE9 Site Pinning Support To Your Web Sites (Dani Diaz)
• How to create a mystery missile trail with HTML5 and jQuery 1.4.4 Released with new fadeToggle feature and Fonts on the web, typekit, and now CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
• Sueetie Miniature v2.0.0.2 Released (Dave Burke)
• jQuery 1.4.4 Released – New .fadeToggle() (David Hayden)
• How to Test Against an External HTTP Dependency (Karl Seguin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Apparently, Agile Is NOT Dead! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Grow Your Craft as a Professional – Agile Reading (ScoutMaster)
• Top Ten Misconceptions About Agile Development (Wittawat Chaisaraseree)
• Layout and Presentation Advice for the UX Designer (Abel Avram)
• NCover 3.4.14: Improvements Galore (Alan Johnson)
• Plays Well With Others – Influence versus Authority (Kevin Kline)
• Could sealing a class be a sign of a good design (Andreas Håkansson)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Adding / Removing the Multi-Touch Blend Behavior using C# code-behind (Davide Zordan)
• Scheduling tasks on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• In Honor of Silverlight NOT Dying…. (Dan Wahlin)
• Catel – Part 2 of n: Using WPF controls and themes (Geert van Horrik)
• The Windows Phone platform and Windows Phone devs are both doing great (Jaime Rodriguez)
• Customized Scrolling in Silverlight using Expression Blend (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners (The parts you care about) (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Developing Indie Games for Xbox 360 and XNA with George Clingerman (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners (Coding4Fun)
• TWC9: Denali, MVC 3 RC, OData programming, Instant Feature Builder (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• New DevNugget: WebMatrix Beta 3 – New Features (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Silverlight TV 52: Entity Level Validation, Defining MetaData and Nested ComboBoxes with WCF RIA Services (John Papa)
• Engadget Podcast 219 – 11.13.2010 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Reminder: Philly (Malvern) ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter Next Week! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• After Silverlight Firestarter: WCF RIA Services Campfire (Colin Blair)
• Silverlight Futures (Jim O’Neil)
• MSDN Flash Poll #12: If I had a pound (Mike Ormond)
• Presenting at the jQuery Summit Online Conference on November 17th (Rey Bango)
• Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 15, 2010 (K. Brian Kelley)

Database

• The new Execute Package Task in SSIS in Denali and SSIS Server, Catalogs, Environments & Environment Variables in SSIS in Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• tempdb, Please allow me to shrink you (Pradeep Adiga)
• Microsoft coaches NoSQL options for Azure cloud (Gavin Clarke)
• New Path to MCM: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 includes Wrox Professional SQL Server 2008 Internals and Troubleshooting (Jim Minatel)
• SSIS : Using variables as a source in a Data Flow Component (Josef Richberg)
• SQL SERVER – Reducing CXPACKET Wait Stats for High Transactional Database (Pinal Dave)
• Database Skills (Ken Downs)
• ORDER BY in Denali (David Dye)

Miscellaneous

• Snippet manager in PowerGUI Script Editor (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Docs.com now supports Facebook Groups, makes office work more social (Lee Mathews)
• Experiments in not using the mouse (Mark Needham)
• The Presenter’s Fallacy: Lack of Context (Markus Egger)
• Zen and the Art of Software Craftsmanship (Steve Smith)
• Quick Search for all Windows Phone 7 Apps (John Papa)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 76 (Scott Banwart)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 13, 2010 (Jian Zhen)

The Geek Shelf

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt