Dew Drop – January 4, 2011

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Top Links

• Mono for Android (Miguel de Icaza)
• Windows Phone 7 Weaknesses that I See for Developers (Wally McClure)
• VS 2010 SP1 (Beta) and IIS Express (Scott Guthrie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Find Selected Text (Richard Carr)
• How to Project in WCF RIA Services While Staying IQueryable (Colin Blair)
• Using Stored Procedure in LINQ (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using Friendly DNS Names in Your TFS Environment (Ed Blankenship)
• WCF RIA Services Part 10 – Exposing Domain Services To Other Clients (Brian Noyes)
• Beginners Guide to Visual Studio LightSwitch (Part – 5) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pigeon (Paul Stovell)
• Work Item Spell Checker Custom Control for VS 2010 (Shai Raiten)
• An Error Message Control (Unknown Author)
• Entity Framework 4 Session (Gil Fink)
• In-depth look at Customizing Type Layout with ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• How to remove Hyperlink from ASP.NET TreeView Control Nodes ? (Unknown Author)
• Neovolve.BlogEngine.Extensions 2.0 released (Rory Primrose)
• Dependency Injection with StructureMap in ASP.Net MVC (Dr. Song Li)
• That dreaded M in ASP.NET MVC (Hadi Hariri)
• Using Helper Methods with ASP.NET Web Matrix Beta 3 (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Learning Ext JS 3.2 From PACKT Is Another Winner! (Peter Kellner)
• Creating an HttpHandler to handle request of your own extension (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• [Agile Guide] – Implementing Scrum and 3 Potential Blockers and Agile Scrum and 3 Core Reminders for Success and Capacity and Over-Committing Your Resources! (Peter Saddington)
• Designing Tab Navigation the Right Way (Anthony)
• That Huge Estimate May Be a Vote of No Confidence (PTRSchuh)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Creation Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• Manage Yourself with Measures (Jurgen Appelo)
• Test First Development Course Online (K. Scott Allen)
• Business Logic: From Working Definition to Rigorous Definition (Ken Downs)
• xUnit.Net – Running the tests (ClassInitialize – ClassCleanup) (Mariange Marcano)
• Lessons Learned in Execution (J.D. Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Capabilities (Unknown Author)
• A "little snake" leads us through the most important features of the Windows Phone 7 (69Icaro)
• Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [2/4] and Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [3/4] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Physics Helper 4.2 using Farseer 3.2 (Andy Beaulieu)
• A ReorderListBox for Windows Phone 7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MEFedMVVM with PRISM 4 (Marlon Grech)
• What is the best book on Silverlight 4? (Michael Crump)
• Cinch V2 : Question For The Reader and PRISM 4 Custom Transitioning Region (Sacha Barber)
• Architecting WP7 – Part 8 of 10: Toast Push Notifications and Look What I Built: GooNews for WP7 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone 7: my first comments (Simone Chiaretta)
• Detecting Users Win7 Mobile Theme Color and Selecting an Item in a ComboBox after Adding Items (Mike Snow)
• WP7 Tutorial – Part 2: Managing Courses (Silverlight Show)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Gus Issa Has a Micro .NET Framework! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Pluralcast 32 : Business Intelligence with Andrew Brust (David Starr)
• Video Webcast: 10 Tips you should know about “Watch Window” While debugging in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #184: Entity Framework: Intro to Model First Design (Derik Whittaker)
• Introducing Distributed Podcast (Rinat Abdullin)
• Let’s Play TDD #70: Reflections on Incremental Design (James Shore)
• Episode 2: CQRS Building Blocks (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)

Community / Events

• 24 Hours of PASS Wants You… (Jason Strate)
• Microsoft in 2011 – it starts at CES (Kip Kniskern)
• CodeMash 2011 is Nearly Here! (Jim Holmes)
• The New Silverlight Tour – Now With MVVM and Unit Testing (Shawn Wildermuth)
• CodeMash, here we come! (Hadi Hariri)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Using Breakpoints (2/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Data Flow Breakpoints?! (3/31) (Jason Strate)
• Select TOP With TIES in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Unused Index Script – Download (Pinal Dave)
• RTFM365, Week 4 (Jen McCown)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 Milestone 2 already compiled (Andrew Lyle)
• Automating Pivot Trade Card Creation (Howard Dierking)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Fonts & Encodings – $23.99 (Save 50%) Use code DDFED (O’Reilly Media)
• An intimate Microsoft, no candles or warming oils required (Steven Hodson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 2, 2010 and Interesting Finds: January 3, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET links – January 2 , 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – January 3 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for January 03, 2011 — #1021 (Dave Campbell)
• Silverlight Zone: News Archive – #2 – 3rd January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #762 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #135 (David Vidmar)
• Daily News Digest 01/03/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Azure Learning Plan – Application Fabric (Buck Woody)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Brian Knight