Dew Drop – February 8, 2011

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Top Links

• Capturing Screen Images in WPF using GDI, Win32 and a little WPF Interop Help (Pete Brown)
• WCF.AsParallel() using ReactiveUI and Rx.NET (Paul Betts)
• A Dynamic Data Utility for WebMatrix (Rob Conery)
• Task Parallel Library Ported to Silverlight 4 (Damon Payne)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing Background Processes (Oren Eini)
• Keyboard Shortcuts for the Book (Zain Naboulsi)
• WIF & ACS Survival Guide (Valery Mizonov)
• iPhone Programming with MonoTouch article in DevConnections Magazine – April, 2011 and Passing values between Activities using MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• 8-part Async series by Eric Lippert (Weston Hutchins)
• What is a Dynamic list? (Rory Becker)
• Code Providers – Add Contract (Alex Skorkin)
• Quick Script for Building .sln Files With Configurations (Jim Holmes)
• Intellisense when editing Service Bus configuration files? Yes please! (Paolo Salvatori)
• Hirerachy Data Source – Using Fluent API convert flat data structure to hirerachy structure (Kiran Kumar)
• Strange, but legal (Eric Lippert)
• LLBLGen Pro v3.1 released! (Frans Bouma)
• Visual NHibernate – Using Templates (Gareth Hayter)

Web Development

• Understanding CSS Selectors (Emily Lewis)
• ASP.NET MVC Performance Tips (Marcin Doboz)
• Why ASP.NET MVC is different than Classic ASP (Rachel Appel)
• Sharp Architecture 1.9.5 Released (Alec Whittington)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test automation strategy for legacy systems (Gojko Adzic)
• Unit Test Case, Subject Matter Experts and Requirements (Steven Lott)
• Message-Based Architecture Goodness (Steve Smith)
• Taking a Break From Sprinting (Dan Puckett)
• Behavior-Driven Development in PHP with Behat (Giorgio Sironi)
• TestApi v0.6 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
• 5 Hints for the New Product Owner (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools – January Update (Chris Koenig)
• What it lacks in efficiency, it makes up for in efficiency! [Silverlight-ready PNG encoder implementation shows one way to use .NET IEnumerables effectively] (David Anson)
• WP7 – Understanding Serialization (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• January Update of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools support Copy & Paste (Doug Holland)
• Windows Phone 7 – Part #4: The application lifecycle (Andrea Boschin)
• Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with WPF DataGrid, Entity Framework 4 and Private deployment (part 1) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• Communication between HTML in WebBrowser and Silverlight app (Jaime Rodriguez)
• MVVM Light V4 preview (BL0014) release notes (Laurent Bugnion)
• Using XXRS and XXR with XR…a how to. (Rob Relyea)
• 4 important things to have in your Windows Phone 7 app (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Simple Error Reporting on WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
• The Full Stack: The Client Side (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Andrew Russell Develops XNA Games for XBox, iPhone and More! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Let’s Play TDD #84: Parentheses (James Shore)
• Ping 91: PACT for gaming, Swim on Kinect, Microsoft Cookbook, H.264 on Chrome (Laura Foy)
• WP7 Minute–Episode VIII–Visual Voicemail (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming MSDN webcasts on TFS 2010 and Windows Phone 7 (Katrien de Graeve)
• New XAML-Based User Group started in Birmingham, Alabama. (Michael Crump)
• MvcConf MVC Q&A call for questions (Jeffrey Palermo)
• SharePoint Connections Coast-to-Coast: I’ll be there! (San Antonio & San Diego) (Andrew Connell)
• TechReady – 12 SharePoint Sessions (PubSec)
• TechDays 2011: Rx talk in Paris (Jeremy Alles)
• The early bird gets the…erm, discount. Ready for MIX11? and Events This Week – February 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Messing with Errors in SSIS, or does the Propagate “Property” really exist? (Julie Smith)
• SSIS: Custom Folder in your Package Store (Patrick LeBlanc)
• SQL SERVER – Automation Process Good or Ugly and SQL SERVER – SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD – Wait Type – Day 8 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• 10 Things Every DBA Should Do (John Sansom)

SharePoint

• Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 6 #SharePoint 2010 Titles from @MicrosoftPress (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

• PowerShell: Download List of SQL Server MVPs (Jason Strate)
• Procrastination Flowcharts (Joey deVilla)
• MVPs for Office 365: Microsoft Demonstrates Commitment to Service Updates (Lonnie Webb)
• More engineers at the top: Just what the doctor ordered for Microsoft? (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 07, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 058 for 2/7/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #787 (Chris Alcock)
• WebDev Tweets 4-Feb-2011 and 7-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 7th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 7 February 2011 – #23 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Silverlight Cream for February 07, 2011 — #1043 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 02/08/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

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