Dew Drop – January 11, 2011

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Top Links

• .Net Reflector 7 Beta released, with added Jason Haley Power Commands goodness right in the box! (Greg Duncan)
• Unit Test Naming Convention (Steve Smith)
• Exploring Ribbon Control for Silverlight (Part – 1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Server and Tools chief Muglia to leave Microsoft in summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# agents with timeouts (Gordon Hogenson)
• Cannot obtain Metadata from https using WCF (Derik Whittaker)
• Video on Default EndPoint in WCF 4.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Using F# 2.0 Powerpack ArgParser from C# (Steve Gilham)
• Allowing Access to HttpContext in WCF REST Services (Rick Strahl)
• Accessing the Menu Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
• Programmatically Reading Work Item Comments (Aaron Bjork)
• EF Feature CTP5: Pluggable Conventions (Rowan Miller)
• TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details (Shai Raiten)

Web Development

• Namespacing in JavaScript (Angus Croll)
• Find odd and even rows using $.inArray() function when using jQuery Templates (Hajan)
• FubuMVC, Routing, and the Front Controller Pattern and FubuMVC’s Configuration Strategy (Jeremy Miller)
• HTML5 & CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Joey deVilla)
• Sueetie .NET 4.0 Upgrade Pack Available. Sueetie v3.0 Coming Soon. (Dave Burke)
• Bogus Windows Phone 7 User Agent String (Nick Randolph)
• goo.gl gets an official API (You hear that rapid typing? That’s a ton of dev’s already pounding out the code to use it…) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Azure and the PaaS Context (Adron Hall)
• Adding Your Application To The Graph (Nick Berardi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 12 Keys to Success with Agile and Blending Scrum and Kanban to Create an End-to-End Agile Enterprise and Tools for Disciplined Thinking (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Why use Test Driven Development (Amy Blankenship)
• How Discipline Can Save You! (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Stardate 2011.10.1: Revenge of the Commons (Kyle Szklenski)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 comes to Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” and Media Center set-top boxes (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 Design Tips: Navigation, Tombstoning, and Data Loading (Karl Erickson)
• Integrating IE9 Pinning with Microsoft Silverlight (Leon Braginski)
• Embedding a Sound File in Windows Phone 7 app (Silverlight) (Matthias Shapiro)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 0 – Why should I care? (Peter Kuhn)
• WP7: Background execution – really? (Håkan Reis)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Boris Scheiman Waves His Hands at nKinect! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Office 2010 & Windows Phone at CES 2011 (Laura Foy)
• CES 2011: Kinect and Live Mesh (Tina)
• The Engadget Podcast Show 005: CES 2011 Part 5 – 01.10.2011 (video) (Trent Wolbe)
• DimeCasts.NET Episode #185: WP7: Learning how to handle Tombstoning (Derik Whittaker)
• Pluralcast 33 : Catching up with Ken Schwaber (David Starr)
• A Look at Microsoft’s Surface Computer V.2 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• Register Now for a Free Day of Silverlight from the Experts! (John Papa)
• DevTeach/SQLTeach Montreal 2011 Registration is Now Open (Brad M. McGehee)
• Microsoft is Launching WebMatrix, Thursday, January 13th, 2011 (Public Sector DPE Team)
• WebMatrix will Release Thursday, Jan 13th (Doris Chen)

Database

• Reducing SQL Server Sync I/O Contention :: Tip 3 (Rob Tiffany)
• Fun with Extended Properties in SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
• 31 Days of SSIS – Pivot Transformation (10/31) (Jason Strate)
• Rollback Transaction in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Performance Tuning Resolution (Pinal Dave)
• SSAS – Hiding Unknown Member (Devin Knight)
• How to Identify Bad Queries in MySQL (Baron Schwartz)

Miscellaneous

• 12 MORE Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers (Jesse Liberty)
• Powertoys from the OneNote Test Team for 2010 (John Guin)
• Microsoft releases Windows Embedded Handheld 6.5 (Microsoft Blog Admin)
• Is Avatar Kinect the Star Trek Holodeck in beta? (Steve Clayton)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Step by Step (Valerie Woolley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 10, 2010 (Jason Haley)
• Tech Tweets for 10-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #767 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #136 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Link Post 177 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Interesting .NET Links – January 10 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 01/10/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 10/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

IronPython in Action by Michael J. Foord