Dew Drop – January 14, 2011

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Top Links

• Thoughts on WebMatrix (Rob Conery)
• Monads in C#-4. Linq loves Monads! (Mike Hadlow)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released – The Microsoft January Web Release in Context (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Variables and Function in F# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SharpDevelop 4.0 Final (Christoph Wille)
• So you want to get that TFS-powered project from CodePlex… (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Constraining Generics with Where Clause (James Michael Hare)
• Query to find methods with parameters having default values (Jason Haley)
• Fast String Sort in C# and F# (Stefan Savev)
• Customize the Debugging Windows : Change Debugging Window View as per your requirements (Abhijit Jana)
• Hey .NET Developers! Its Christmas All Over Again! (Mike Ceranski)
• Not as easy as it looks (Eric Lippert)
• Mono Releases Mono Packager for Mac (James Vastbinder)
• Phonetic String Comparison with Soundex (Jonathan Wood)
• Your Own Sandbox (Miguel de Icaza)
• UppercuT v1.0 and 1.1–Linux (Mono), Multi-targeting, SemVer, Nitriq and Obfuscation, oh my! (Rob Reynolds)
• RTM’d today: Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: Learn Programming Now! (Valerie Woolley)

Web Development

• When we can use HttpContext.Current.Items to stores data in ASP.NET? (Abhijit Jana)
• MVC Music Store v2.0 (CodePlex)
• WebMatrix, Razor, MVC3 and Orchard Release Today! (Chris Koenig)
• Creating a Code 39 Barcode using HTML, CSS and Javascript (Connect Code)
• Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running (Gil Fink)
• WebMatrix and Web Deploy v2.0 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 and NuGet 1.0 Released (Including Source Code!) (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor Syntax – RenderBody, RenderPage and RenderSection (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Unobtrusive jQuery and HTML 5 MSDN Flash Article (Simon Ince)
• Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding package and MvcScaffolding: Standard Usage (Steve Sanderson)
• Table footer statistics for YUI 2 DataTable (Matt Parker)
• Gritty Technical Info on Windows Azure Web Roles (Part I) (Adron Hall)
• Orchard 1.0 – We’re ready for production ! (Joe Stagner)
• Getting Started with WebMatrix (Wes Yanaga)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mocks, Stubs and Unreadable Tests: Clearly I’m Doing This Wrong (Derick Bailey)
• Back to Basics: Unit Testing, Automated Blackbox Testing, and Conclusions! (John Sonmez)
• Challenges in Agile Adoption: Distributed Teams and Getting Left Behind (Mitch Pronschinske)
• How Developers Should ‘Read’ Exceptions (Davy Brion)
• Stardate 2011.14.1: Friday’s Book (Kyle Szklenski)
• The Product Owner and Governance? and The Adoption Side of the Story (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Keeping The Crowds Out For The First Couple Of Sprints. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Posting A Photo From Windows Phone 7 To A Web Service (Chris Love)
• 6 of 10 – Embedding web content should be done with extreme caution. (Alfred Astort)
• There’s a blob on your web page – but don’t wipe it off [New Delay.Web.Helpers assembly brings easy Amazon S3 blob access to ASP.NET web sites!] (David Anson)
• How to change the StartPage of the Windows Phone 7 Application in Visual Studio 2010? (isenthil)
• Silverlight TV 57: Performance Tuning Your Apps (John Papa)
• Kinect hand tracking with WPF 4 and Bing Maps 3-D (Josh Blake)
• Windows Phone 7 App Submission Checklist (Matthias Shapiro)
• Silverlight 4 receives InfoWorld’s 2011 Technology of the Year Award (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• On WebMatrix with Rob Conery (Scott Hanselman)
• New Home Page, Smooth Streaming added to Channel 9 today (Cara, Duncan Mackenzie & Geoffrey)
• E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer – Perspectives on C++ (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 384: CES, Cruises, Ducks, M&M’s and Eminem (Larry Hyrb)
• Excel 25th Anniversary – Part Two (Tina Wood)
• The One Thing: Paul Swider and SharePoint 2010 (Paul J. Swider)
• CodeMash 2011 – WebMatrix Launch Keynote (James Senior & Nic Fillingham)
• Cloud Cover – Hard Hat Edition (Wade Wegner)
• The Office Show – Social Networking with Office (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone 7 and XBox 360 Game Camps in NY (Bob Familiar)
• Online YUI 3 Introductory Course Fri, Jan 21st (Luke Smith)
• Speaking at DC .NET on Jan 18th (Kevin Griffin)
• Last Call for Speakers 24 Hours of PASS (Jason Strate)
• CodeMash Day 0: Craft, Podcasts, music and games (Bill Wagner)

Database

• 31 Days of SSIS – Create XML Document (13/31) and 31 Days of SSIS – Instant Excel Spreadsheet (14/31) (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications (Pinal Dave)
• Removing Time From A Datetime Value (Joe Webb)
• Identity Columns: Are You Nearing The Limits? (Michelle Ufford)

SharePoint

• How to pass InitParams to Silverlight Application which is hosted as SharePoint 2010 web parts? (Abhijit Jana)
• Using the Dialog Platform (Dallas Tester)

Miscellaneous

• Ballmer, Microsoft and the future (Todd Bishop)
• Steve Ballmer finally shows who’s in charge of Microsoft (Joe Wilcox)
• The Amazing Life Of Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• It’s Official: 2010 the Biggest Year in Xbox History (Microsoft Blog Admin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: January 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 85 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for January 13, 2011 — #1026 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #770 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 01/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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