Dew Drop – November 18, 2010

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Top Links

• Removing Repetitive Boiler Maker Code From View Models (Karl Shifflett)
• Entity Framework Repository Pattern (Nick Berardi)
• HTML5, and Real World Site Performance: Seventh IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Quick Timesaver When Coding Xaml (Jesse Liberty)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Converting Between RGB and HSL Colour Models (Richard Carr)
• Raven MQ – The Real API (Oren Eini)
• GitHub Organizations for IronLanguages and F# (Miguel de Icaza)
• TFS API Part 30 – Working With Queries and TFS API Part 31 – Working With Queries – Part 2 and Coded UI Editor – Guide (Shai Raiten)
• Great Resource for Learning Entity Framework 4 and Searching in the Toolbox (Zain Naboulsi)
• Spec Explorer 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Back to Basics – Null-Coalescing Operator (Gil Fink)
• Three T4 Cheat sheets (General Overview, @Template Details and Examples)… (Greg Duncan)
• The Black Art of P/Invoke and Marshaling in .NET (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Web Development

• Using HTML5’s New Semantic Tags Today (Emily Lewis)
• IE9 Platform Preview 7 is out (Martin Beeby)
• Sorting and filtering an HTML table using ASP.NET MVC technology (Zoltan Aszalos)
• HTML5 Day 4: Add Drop Down Menu to ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Template using CSS and jQuery (Chris Pietschmann)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Head First Python – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDFST (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Free Webinar: Be a legacy code unit test ninja with Typemock Isolator (Roy Osherove)
• [Tool Review] – GoMockingBird for Wireframes – Now Out of Beta! (ScoutMaster)
• Making it Easier to Test Platform Applications (Harshdeep Singh)
• The best tools for writing UML diagrams (Giorgio Sironi)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Performance of Sterling Database for Windows Phone 7 (Andreas Hammar)
• Discover the perfect Windows Phone 7 app with Bing (Bing Team)
• Windows Phone – Getting Started and Windows Phone – Application Lifecycle and Windows Phone – Phone Navigation (Arian Kulp)
• Extended WPF Toolkit: New DateTimeUpDown control (Brian Lagunas)
• Touched ( Part 5 )–Touch-Ready Controls (Mike Taulty)
• FlickrUploader – simple & fast photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 and PhoneApplicationPage & PhoneApplicationFrame – so what exactly is the difference? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Issues with ListPicker (Nigel Sampson)
• Gergely Orosz on Cocktail Flow WP7 application and Garry McGlennon on ezyTip WP7 application and René Schulte on Pictures Lab WP7 Application (Svetla Stoycheva)
• You can’t see me, I’m obfuscating (on Windows Phone) (Sebastian Holst)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 4 (Jesse Freeman)
• Prism Training Kit – 1.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – .NET Luminaries at OreDev! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Standard Template Library (STL), 8 of n and Dean Hachamovitch: IE9 – Questions and Answers (Charles Torre)
• Let’s Play TDD #50: Code Monkey (with Roy Osherove) (James Shore)
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7: HTML5 Galactic and Internet Explorer 9 and Real World performance and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 7: A look at the new IE Test Drive samples and UC Managed API 3.0 with Lync Server 2010 (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Radio Episode Eight is Live (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

• NYC Give Camp (Steve Andrews)
• Leaving Microsoft (Stephen Walther) – Good luck, Stephen!
• YUIConf 2010 Summary (Jenny Han Donnelly)
• MVPs Set the Bar in the French Windows Phone 7 Applications Challenge (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• Dynamically Backing Up All User Databases in SQL Server (Glenn Berry)
• CouchDB – Replication Test – between CouchDB servers on Android 2.2.1 and Windows 7 (Manish Agrawal)
• Useful SQL Server System Stored Procedures You Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Performance Tuning Made Easy (Thomas LaRock)
• TSQL Error Handling Enhancements in SQL11 – Using the THROW command (Jacob Sebastian)

SharePoint

• Migration Ugliness – SharePoint 2010 Content Migration Limitations (Joel Oleson)
• Social Squared November Release (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

• Template for Tracking Professional Development (Andy Warren)
• Powershell: Calculating Seven Day Retention for Security Event Logs (K. Brian Kelley)
• Work Item Keyboard Shortcuts, Resolving Mercurial Work Items, WikiPlex 2.0 (Matt Hawley)
• Microsoft Lync: Ushering in a new generation of communications (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
• Small Basic V0.91 is more international than ever! (Sandra Aldana)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 17, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #732 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/18/2010 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone 7 Resources List Updated (Mike Ormond)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Imar Spaanjaars