Dew Drop – November 17, 2010

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Top Links

• Windows Forms Developers: Tell me about your applications (Pete Brown)
• Basic to Basics: What is Dependency Inversion? Is it IoC? Part 2 (John Sonmez)
• F# MonoDevelop Add-In Available (Miguel de Icaza)
• Basic Windows Phone 7 Motion Design (Matthias Shapiro)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Use LINQPad To Query Entity Framework (Deepak Kapoor)
• Function composition in C# (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Are you using WCF within your organization? (Glenn Block)
• Parallel.For Method in .NET 4.0 vs the C# For Loop (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Thumbnail Previews in the IDE Navigator (Zain Naboulsi)
• Vault 5.1 (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 SDK and Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (MS Downloads)
• The Full Stack–Part 4: Back to the client (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan (Buck Woody)
• What Do You Think Of This Hack? (Davy Brion)
• Enhancing your Windows application experience with animation (Jerry Joyce)

Web Development

• Accessing Server-Side Data from Client Script: Using WCF Services with jQuery and the ASP.NET Ajax Library (Scott Mitchell)
• HTML5 Day 3: Detecting HTML5 Support via JavaScript (Chris Pietschmann)
• Article:Fulfilling the Promise of MVC (Richard Pawson)
• A Better ASP.NET MVC Mobile Device Capabilities ViewEngine (Scott Hanselman)
• Feature Detection (Martin Beeby)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Web 2.0 Architectures – $12.99 (Save 54%) Use code DDW2Z (O’Reilly Media)
• How Optimized Are High Traffic Websites? (Karl Seguin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Walk The Road With The Agile Samurai (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Evaluating Alternatives vs Reacting To Differences (Derick Bailey)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Back Door Manipulation (Giorgio Sironi)
• Key CQRS Ingredient and Lokad and Cloud CQRS Update and Plans (Rinat Abdullin)
• Agile is NOT a Methodology and [Infograph] – What Flavor of Agile Do You Use? (ScoutMaster)
• Game Theory and Agile Software Development (Vikas Hazrati)
• Getting Results Knowledge Base v2 (J.D. Meier)
• Should Story Points Be Assigned to A Bug-Fixing Story? (Mike Cohn)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a ASP.NET MVC HTML Helper for Silverlight (Bart Czernicki)
• Changing the viewport of a listbox in WPF (Charles Sterling)
• Missing ActiveSync? How To Sync and Import Contacts Into Windows Phone 7 From Outlook Using Windows Live Hotmail As A Bridge (Karsten Januszewski)
• Windows Phone 7 app development – 7 interesting points to know before you start (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MyPhotoApp: Sample project from my Windows Phone development series at Øredev and A quick look at the types of Windows Phone page transition animations (Jeff Wilcox)
• Vector Fonts (Dave)
• Windows Phone From Scratch #7–Element Binding (Jesse Liberty)
• Why don’t my application bar buttons show up? (Adam Nathan)
• New book: Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
• Using ValueConverter to Show/Hide Element in Silverlight (MVVM) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why was I decrying the evils of obfuscation earlier this year? Getting it now ?? Remember I am just a “designer” right ? ? (Don Burnett)
• Code Obfuscation and Windows Phone 7 Application Protection (Nick Randolph)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone 7 development for absolute beginners (Clint Rutkas)
• Re-Introducing a Podcast–Glenn Block on WCF and WCF Futures (Joe Stagner)
• Let’s Play TDD #49: The AlternatingRowTable (with Roy Osherove) (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Thumba, Netflix, Sound Recorder, MusixMatch, Fake Caller (Laura Foy)
• Video – Inversion of Control with StructureMap (James R. Eggers)

Community / Events

• The future of Silverlight (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight –The Future Starts Now (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Firestarter Event on Dec 2nd (Scott Guthrie)
• My take on the Øredev 2010 conference (David Starr)
• Needed: Your Vote for 501K (Karl Shifflett)
• Supercomputing 2010 (Somasegar)

Database

• Dynamically Backing Up All User Databases in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• SQL Server Team-Based Development (Grant Fritchey)
• List all Default Values in a SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – History of SQL Server Database Encryption (Pinal Dave)
• Handling Type II Dimension with the MERGE Statement (Patrick LeBlanc)

Miscellaneous

• Shiny! Sysinternals Process Explorer v14 released… (Greg Duncan)
• If You Could Only Learn 3 Programming Languages… (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Searching for Apps on the Marketplace SUX (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• .Net Magazine awards 2010 – Ubelly’s winner predictions (Andrew Spooner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #731 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net by Roy Osherove