Dew Drop – February 10, 2011

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Top Links

• Red Gate’s Decision to Commercialize Reflector (Kevin Hazzard)
• Partitioning Your Code Base through .NET Assemblies and Visual Studio projects (Patrick Smacchia)
• Prism for Silverlight/MEF in Easy Samples. Part 1 – Prism Modules (Nick Polyak)
• Introducing Coding4Fun toolkit for Windows Phone 7 – Part 1 and Introducing Coding4Fun toolkit for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 (Dennis Delimarsky)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Checking for Anagrams with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• Multipurpose Find Combo Box in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Replying to TFS E-Mail Alerts (Ed Blankenship)
• How Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server enable Compliance (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Cecil.Decompiler and F# (Steve Gilham)
• Developing Windows Services in Visual Studio (Peter Ritchie)
• Setting a Breakpoint in the Call Stack Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• New Tekpub Series In The Works: Mastering C# 4.0 With Jon Skeet (Rob Conery)
• Creating a Sparse Matrix in .NET (Jonathan Wood)
• I Did Say I was an OData Newbie (Mike Ormond)
• NBehave v0.5 Released! (Naeem Khedarun)
• MJPEG Decoder (Brian Peek)
• HowTo: deactivate #regions on Interface implementations (Code Inside Team)
• Self-Tracking Entities: Original Values and Update Customization (Jeff Derstadt)
• AlphaFS v1.5 Released (think "The ‘Long Path’ IO support the BCL doesn’t yet have…" or "Don’t ‘W’ [Wide/Unicode API/etc] P/Invoke your Path API’s when AlphaFS has done it already for you…" or "How I learned to love and use Volume Shadow Service paths from .Net") (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Mobl – A New DSL for Creating HTML5 Mobile Applications (Abel Avram)
• Attack of the pseudo-frames (Jimmy Bogard)
• Repost – SP2010 AJAX part 8: Migrating existing apps to jQuery/AJAX (Chris O’Brien)
• Windows Azure for Developers task 2: Adding Cloud Service project to existing ASP.Net Web Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Feature Detect Placeholder to Adjust jQuery Mobile Layout (Elijah Manor)
• Respond to Different Devices With CSS3 Media Queries (Emily Lewis)
• HTML5 Privacy: Transparency in a Complex On-Line World (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Instapaper API Goes Read/Write, But Only For Paying Users (Adam DuVander)
• Summarizing Common Browser Tests (John Hrvatin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kanban workshop for Leaders/Managers (Dror Helper)
• Agile Beyond Software – Team Development (Peter Saddington)
• My thoughts on Side Scrolling Design (Luke)
• Increase Web Test Reponses Size (Shai Raiten)
• Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset (Michael Sorens)
• Six Steps for Enterprise Architecture as Strategy (JD Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Disable right click popup menu in a MVVM silverlight 4.0 application. (Vasudevan Kannan)
• What I learned about being a Windows Phone 7 Developer (Dave Isbitski)
• Silverlight Spy – Free Edition (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• MEF Silverlight Control Extensions – at CodePlex (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Enhancing the WPF Screen Capture Program with Window Borders (Pete Brown)
• Introducing FeedTso, a social news reader for Windows Phone 7 (Simone Chiaretta)
• Windows Phone 7 From Around The Web 09.02 (Steven Hodson)
• WP7 CustomInputPrompt control with Cancel button (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 – A DataContractSerializer Bug ? (Giorgetti Alessandro)
• Creating An Application Bar–Don’t Panic (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Joe O’Brien Does Ruby on Windows (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• mvcConf 2011 – Scott Guthrie Keynote (Jon Galloway & Nic Fillingham)
• endpoint.tv – WF4 Workflow Episodes – a Task Based API (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• Light up your Silverlight Applications for Windows 7 Firestarter content available for download (Dave Isbitski)
• Visual Studio Live! – Las Vegas (Brian Peek)
• Multiparadigmatic C# (Ted Neward)
• Pinal Dave: Blogger, MVP and now Interviewee (Michael Swart)
• Diversity and Inspiration at Microsoft (Microspotting)
• MVP Summit Taste Test and Venue Tour (Lonnie Webb)
• What developer conferences are you going to this year? (Michael Crump)
• Join us for an Exciting Event! Microsoft SharePoint as a Development Platform in Federal Government (MS PubSec)

 

Database

• View Object Dependencies in SQL Server 2008 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 10 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
• Renaming Physical Database Files (Ted Krueger)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Appoints Satya Nadella as President of Server and Tools Business (MS PressPass)
• HP webOS 3.0 SDK released to developers (Lee Mathews)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Data Source Handbook – $7.49 (Save 50%) Code DDDHB (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 9, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 9 February 2011 – #25 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Daily News Digest 02/10/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #789 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News Feb 9th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Midweek Download: Feb. 9th Edition – Windows Phone 7, Internet Explorer 9 Tries to Break the Sound Barrier, Hotmail and More (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2011 — #1044 (Dave Campbell)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer) by Mark Russinovich