Dew Drop – November 20, 2010

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Top Links

• Visual Basic Prism 4 Reference Implementations, QuickStarts, and Hands-on Labs (MS Downloads)
• TWC9: Scott Hanselman, IIS7 live streaming, WP7 for Beginners, SQL Azure + EF (Dan Fernandez & Scott Hanselman)
• Going Mobile with Silverlight (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Service in F# (Ted Neward)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Changing the Text Case in Visual Studio (Richard Carr)
• Raven Suggest (Oren Eini)
• Debugging with Async (Abhishek Sur)
• Async Programming with .NET and C# v.next (Christian Nagel)
• Associating Code with a Tag using Delegates and Associating Code with a Tag using Delegates II (Deborah Kurata)
• Asynchrony in C# 5, Part Seven: Exceptions (Eric Lippert)
• A glimpse at the future of Visual Studio ALM (Greg Duncan)
• ViM Emulation (Zain Naboulsi)
• NuGet Package Transformations (Phil Haack)
• NuGet Package Management for .NET (George Chatzimanolis)
• CodeRush – Common StringProviders (Rory Becker)
• Aimee.NET – Refactoring Lucene.NET: Setting up the Project (Matthew Dennis)

Web Development

• Reducing Code by Using jQuery Templates (Dan Wahlin)
• Install WebMatrix helpers to your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with NuGet (George Chatzimanolis)
• HTML5 Web Messaging Draft Published (W3C Staff)
• RTM’d today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-515): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Rosemary Caperton)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Threads vs. Events (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Install WebMatrix helpers to your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with NuGet (George Chatzimanolis)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (John Sonmez)
• Pedant Corner: Clarifying IoC, DIP and DI (Mike Hadlow)
• Tracking Value – How do you do it? (ScoutMaster)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Radio Number Nine (Brian Seitz)
• Simple, Blendable, DI driven ViewModels (Joel Cochran)
• Using the LongListSelector control on Windows Phone 7 and Page orientation not changing? There is a solution for that! (Dennis Delimarsky)
• How to Reposition a Silverlight Child Window? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Copy files to a Windows Phone 7 device in Windows Explorer (Lee Mathews)
• Photoshop Action for Windows Phone 7 Dithering (Robby Ingebretsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 378: The one we recorded at the grand opening of the Seattle area Microsoft Store (Larry Hyrb)
• ARCast.TV – Extending SharePoint Capabilities to the Mobile Platform (Public Sector DPE Team)
• Video: HTML5 Primer with Scott Stanfield (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
• Cloud Cover Episode 32 – AppFabric Caching (Ryan Dunn)
• This Developer’s Life 1.0.8 Motivation (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Xbox Indies: Come Play With Us (Michael C. Neel)

Database

• Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free? (David Levy)
• Synchronous execution of SSIS packages using T-SQL : Denali (Jamie Thomson)
• Could not Allocate space for Object because Primary Filegroup Is Full Error – SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Beginning T-SQL 2008 by Kathi Kellenberger (Pinal Dave)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Nodes (Jason Strate)
• Tapping Into Your Reporting Services Database (thirster42)
• SSMS Enhancement in SQL11 (Denali) – Support for Code Snippets (Jacob Sebastian)
• A Second in the Life of a Query Operator (Brad Schulz)
• Using Powershell to not script database collations for columns (Martin Bell)

SharePoint

• How SharePoint 2010 Changes the Metadata Game (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Parsing a URL with a Regex (Chad Myers)
• Paint.NET Updated (Richard Hay)
• 25 years of Windows! (Steven Bink)
• CryoDefense Version 1.4 is live! (Tree)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 19, 2010 and Interesting Finds: November 20, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 77 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for November 20, 2010 — #995 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Expert F# 2.0 (Expert’s Voice in F#) by Don Syme