Dew Drop – November 24, 2010

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Top Links

• Streaming over HTTP with WCF (Glenn Block)
• A Microsoftie builds a better browser for Windows Phone 7 (Todd Bishop)
• Bart De Smet: LINQ to Z3 (Charles Torre)
• Fun with .NET 4 expressions (Henning Krause)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Sharing Files Between Projects (Richard Carr)
• WCF by Example – Chapter XII – WCF Implementation (Enrique Albert)
• Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C# (Peter Kellner)
• TFS API Part 32 – Add and Remove Users From Application Groups (Shai Raiten)
• HowTo: Open MSTest with MSBuild (Code Inside Team)
• Placing the Call Stack and Call Hierarchy Windows (Zain Naboulsi)
• Debugging: Failed to Enable Constraints (Rhonda Tipton)
• RavenDB – The Image Gallery Project (XVI) – Adding Edit Functionality (I) (Rob Ashton)
• Distributed Cache in Azure: Part III (Brian Hitney)

Web Development

• Updating My Online Boggle Solver Using jQuery Templates and WCF (Scott Mitchell)
• The Small Things: Converting a Existing Web Application to a MVC Web Application (Eric Quist)
• Moq Sequences Revisited (Phil Haack)
• Case-insensitive XPath query search on XML Document in ASP.NET (Hajan Selmani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Enjoy the Struggle (J.D. Meier)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• How Would You Name CQRS + DDDD + Cloud Architecture? (Rinat Abdullin)
• Being a Change Agent (Bill Wagner)
• Be The Headlights Not The Handbrake (Malcolm)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Commercial Grade Code Obfuscation? Really Microsoft ?? Really ? (Don Burnett)
• Unlocking a Windows Phone 7 device for development (Peter Kuhn)
• Moonlight Leaps Ahead of Silverlight with Hardware Accelerated Pixel Shaders (Jonathan Allen)
• Deep Zoom for WPF (Roberto Sonnino)
• Best of breed Page rotation animations (Andy Wigley)
• Not every library will work on Windows Phone 7 and Just for fun: your PC webcam showing images on your Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Hidden tricks of Windows Phone 7 (Steve Clayton)
• Cropping in Expression Design, Part II (Elliot Meacham)
• Top picks from a honkin’ big list of Windows Phone 7 tips (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 UX Introduction: Part 6 (Jesse Freeman)
• Coded UI testing for Silverlight 4 now available (Tim Heuer)
• Blend Bits 17–Coding in Blend (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Keynoters at Øredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Setting Up a SharePoint Developer Virtual Machine (Donovan Follette & Paul Stubbs)
• Let’s Play TDD #55: The Color of Failure (with Kim Gräsman) (James Shore)

Database

• How Do I Change SSRS Report Credentials with Powershell? (David Levy)
• Dynamic Management Views (DMV) for SQL Server Performance and Tuning (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Is NoSQL for me? I’m just a small fish (Hadi Hariri)
• Column Based Indexing in Denali (Brian K. McDonald)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan – Storage (Buck Woody)
• SQLAuthority News – What’s New in SQL Server “Denali” (Pinal Dave)
• Using SSIS to import a directory of images (Ted Krueger)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Exist and XQuery for the Non-Expert – Resources (Jason Strate)

SharePoint

• Getting started with BI in SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint and Azure? (Bill Zack)

Miscellaneous

• Your Internet Driver’s License (Jeff Atwood)
• Choose your Cloud on Capability, Not Cost! (David Lemphers)
• The Vail debacle: Why Microsoft still doesn’t get the consumer (Kip Kniskern)
• Cloud computing talent: Where do I grow from here? (Part 5 of 5) (Sandeep Sood)
• Google Wave looks set to be rescued by Apache (Sebastian Anthony)
• Aviary Adds an HTML5 Photo Editor to Its Suite of Online Tools (Simon Mackie)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 24, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2010 — #998 (Dave Campbell)
• Blogs to follow – WPF Disciples (Rudi Grobler)
• The Morning Brew #736 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/24/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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