Dew Drop – November 14, 2010

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Top Links

• Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Development and Migrating a Silverlight Application to Windows Phone 7 (Dan Wahlin)
• Debugging the PhotoChooserTask and other Media Hub Related Tasks on WP7 (Daniel Vaughan)
• F# Math: Microsoft Solver Foundation 3.0 Released (Don Syme)
• Breaking the Web’s Cookie Jar (Jeff Atwood)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Euclid’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
• C# 5.0 vNext – Asynchrony in Synchronous flow style code (Abhishek Sur)
• Aysnc Read Challenge (Oren Eini)
• T4 – Good, Bad and Ugly (Kathleen Dollard)
• Building Extensible WCF Service Interfaces With DataContractResolver (Kelly)
• Creating a Class Diagram from Class View (Zain Naboulsi)

 

Web Development

How to create a jQuery rollover like the one on Dribbble.com (Martin Beeby)

Canvas Tag Rant (was too long for Twitter) (Shawn Wildermuth)

HTML5 Day 1: New tags work in older browser? Awesome! (Chris Pietschmann)

Making the Text in the DynamicData List Pages GridView Wrap. (Steve Naughton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visuals for Getting Results the Agile Way (J.D. Meier)
• Agile: Increasing team sizes (Mark Needham)
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 1 (John Sonmez)
• A Rulebook For Your Organization – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Zen and the Art of Software Craftsmanship (Steve Smith)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Linking to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace (Nigel Sampson)
• How to Use ASP.NET “Property Pages” to create or host a Silverlight application in ASP.NET Site ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Custom image cropping – a Windows Phone 7 solution and Custom image cropping in Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 of 2 (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Weekly 182: So I Got That Going For Me (Paul Thurrott)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 377: Kinect Launch, COD Black Ops, Your Shape Fitness and NFS HP (Larry Hyrb)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 35 – Oren Eini – Part 2 (Richard Banks)

 

Community / Events

• PASS Summit Day 2: The Aftermath (Chris Webb)

 

Database

• SQL Server Code-Named “Denali”–Getting Started with Availability Groups and Keyboard Customization (Bill Ramo)
• TSQL Enhancements in SQL11 (SQL Server 2011 / Denali) to support Server Side Paging (Jacob Sebastian)
• Convert an integer seconds value into words in VBScript : Reporting Services (Jamie Thomson)
• Full text search with MongoDB and Lucene analyzers (Johan Rask)
• Create Your Own SQL Server Server Roles (Mike Walsh)
• Find Column Default Value using T-SQL – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – ERROR – FIX – Msg 3702, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 Cannot drop database “MyDBName” because it is currently in use (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Review of my Windows Phone 7 (HTC HD7) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Small Basic (MS Downloads)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #134 (David Vidmar)
• Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 14, 2010 (Jian Zhen)
• Everyman on Where a Website Fits, Minimum Project Rate, Benefit-Driven, Broken Screens (Dave Burke)
• Cheatsheet: 2010 11.01 ~ 11.14 (yuanjian)
• Silverlight Cream for November 13, 2010 — #991 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler