Dew Drop – March 5, 2011

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Top Links

• Developers: Why You May Not Want To Listen To Robert Scoble (Brandon Watson)
• Using Mole 2010 to analyze collections (Josh Smith)
• cleancoders.com is live! (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! (David Hill)
• MEF 2 Preview 3 (CodePlex)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Inserting the Class Name in a Code Snippet (Richard Carr)
• Multiple Sort For Collection Using LINQ and LINQ and Nullable Values or SQL ISNULL with LINQ and Find duplicate with Linq and How to Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Code Issues – Nested code can be flattened (Alex Skorkin)
• Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection (James Michael Hare)
• Performance Troubleshooting Article and VS2010 SP1 Change (Jason Zander)
• A simple approach to hydrating the C# MongoDB Driver Objects (John V. Petersen)
• The Case of Switch-Case in C# (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) (Peter Kellner)
• "M"osetta Stone (Craig Dunn)
• Danger, Will Robinson! (Eric Lippert)
• Back to Basics – Reading a File into Memory Stream (Gil Fink)
• "Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)" from RegExLibrary and Netduino Green Squared (Greg Duncan)
• EF 4.1 Is Coming (DbContext API & Code First RTW) (EF Team)
• Book – Professional Team Foundation Server 2010 from Wrox (Ed Blankenship)
• Do you know how to move the Team Foundation Server cache (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Simple reads with Entity Framework (Matt Hinze)
• Custom IfThen activity (Rory Primrose)

Web Development

• A Self-Closing HtmlGenericControl (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET: Building tree picker dialog using jQuery UI and TreeView control (Gunnar Peipman)
• IIS not starting: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (Rick Strahl)
• Defining Default Content For A Razor Layout Section (Phil Haack)
• jQuery 1.5.1 Supports IE9 (Tony Ross)
• Web PI v3 (MS Downloads)
• Unobtrusive Client Side Validation with Dynamic Contents in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
• Basic JavaScript Part 11: Functional Initialization (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• ASP.NET Rounded Coreners AND DropShadow with jQuery. and Who to follow if your staying up to date with ASP.NET ! and Get in the Game–Orchard New Module Content ! and Dynamically Selecting WebMatrix Page Layouts & Styles (Joe Stagner)
• Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control (Mark Kendall)
• Highly Recommended Book: REST In Practice (Davy Brion)
• Using jQuery with CheckBox and ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Use Custom Resize to Make The IE9 Mobile Experience (Chris Love)
• LightSwitch vs HTML 5 ? and HTML (including HTML 5) and LightSwitch at the same time? (Michael Washington)
• IndexedDB – The Store In Your Browser (Parasuraman Narasimhan)
• Effective NHibernate Session management for web apps (Jose Romaniello)
• Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• ALM Practices Part 3: Unit Testing & TDD (Dennis Doomen)
• Simulating your way out of regression testing (Gojko Adzic)
• Book Review: Driving Technical Change (Jim Holmes)
• Want to Be an Quality Assurance Tester? – Learn to Code and Agile Software Development Doesn’t Create Secure Software (Peter Saddington)
• Entities, Transactions, and Broken Boundaries (Udi Dahan)
• WebStresser: A very simple web load testing tool (Mike Hadlow)
• What size icon am I supposed to use my for app/toolbar/menu/dialog/etc? The "Icon Reference Chart" might be just the icon cheatsheet you’ve been looking for… (Greg Duncan)
• Less Is More (JC Teague)
• Learning and games, games and learning (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Stardate 2011.63.1: Design stenches – Rigidity (Kyle Szklenski)
• xUnit.Net – Running the tests (RunAfterTestFailed Custom Attribute) (Maria Marcano)
• Thoughts On Developer Longevity (Davy Brion)
• The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1 (Andy Warren)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WPF: Advanced Jump Lists using a Single Instance Application (Brian Lagunas)
• Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Axis and Silverlight Charting: Formatting the Tick Marks (Deborah Kurata)
• "Your feedback is important to us; please stay on the line…" [Improving Windows Phone 7 application performance is even easier with these LowProfileImageLoader and DeferredLoadListBox updates] (David Anson)
• What is XAP file in Silverlight? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Silverlight Animations Made Easy with Sv Fx (Greg Gum)
• A Numeric Input Control for Windows Phone 7 (Jeremy Likness)
• Highlights of XNA development on Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Call resources by their absolute path and Windows Phone 7 Tip Of The Day: Know how app navigation works internally (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Mobile Web and Windows Phone 7 (Joey deVilla)
• Changing the Default Windows Phone 7 Deployment Target In Visual Studio 2010 (Michael Crump)
• Importing Adobe Illustrator files in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
• Phoney Tools Updated (WP7 Open Source Library) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Lync for Windows Phone 7 (Steven Bink)
• How I let the trees grow (Peter Kuhn)
• Using DockPanel in WP7 and Working with ItemsPanel in WP7 and New FREE XNA Jump Start mini-course by Microsoft and Getting data out of WP7 WMAppManifest is easy with Coding4Fun PhoneHelper (Windows Phone Geek)
• MonoDroid meet MonoTouch & WindowsPhone7 (Craig Dunn)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert() (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 2 of n and Visual C++ to (re)support C++/CLI Intellisense (Charles Torre)
• Cloud Cover Episode 38 – VM Role with Corey and Cory (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: Marketplace limit raised to 100, Automate Azure builds, TFS Power Tools (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Phone Radio 20 (Brian Seitz)
• Silverlight for Windows Phone [VIDEO]: Quick App for Push Notifications (Uses Windows Azure) (John Mulhausen)
• Silverlight TV 64: Dive into 64bit Support, App Model and Security (John Papa)
• WPF Developer Training Videos (108) and Windows 7 Specific Desktop Applications Videos (9) (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone 7 – Episode 5 – Pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
• This Developer’s Life 1.1.4 – Obsession (Rob Conery & Scott Hanselman)
• Oredev Videos on Responsibility Driven Design and Internal DSL’s with C# (Jeremy Miller)
• Video: Zoom In or Out of the Text Editor (Zain Naboulsi)
• Let’s Play TDD #91: Rendering ValidDollars (James Shore)
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notification QuickApp / Web Service (With Azure Publishing Instructions!) (JoMul)
• Defrag 001: Startup Slow Downs, Can’t Boot, Blue Screens, Homegroup, IE Logins (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #86: Science Isn’t a Matter of Opinion (Ken Denmead)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #25 with guest Chad Green (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Installing Drupal 7 on Windows Azure with the Windows Azure App Companion Tool (Craig Kitterman)

Community / Events

• Philly Nerd Nite No. 4, March 10, 2011 (Nerd Nite)
• Code Project Mobile Virtual Conference with MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
• Bill Gates Talks About Knowledge Revolution at TED [LIVE BLOG] (Sarah Kessler)
• The State of Tekpub, 2011 (Rob Conery)
• Long term value of acceptance testing: Webinar, March 22nd (Gojko Adzic)
• Speaking at Cincinnati Day of Agile on 3/26 (Jim Holmes)
• I Give Up: What IS an MVP? (Jen McCown)
• MIX it up at the Open Source Fest at MIX11 (Greg Duncan)
• INETA NorAm Component Code Challenge (Chris Williams)

Database

• SSRS – Creating and Using Shared Schedules Part 3 (Brian McDonald)
• SQL Server: WAITFOR Statement (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SQL SERVER – Demo Script – Keeping CPU Busy and SQL SERVER – Concurrancy Problems and their Relationship with Isolation Level and SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide (Pinal Dave)
• New Collection of SQL Server Videos on Channel 9 (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

• Configuration connection properties for the External Content Type in BCS MetaMan (Lightning Tools)
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Developer Tools Overview Presentation (Mike Morton)
• US West Region MSDN Events Presents: SharePoint (Wes Yanaga)

Miscellaneous

• Intellisense patch for PowerGUI Script Editor 2.4 (Dmitry Sotnikov)
• Pastebin updated to V3, releases Windows app (Erez Zukerman)
• Ebooks: List of our free books (Kim Spilker)
• What is the best job search tip you’ve received? (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• A Few Deep Dive Abstracts (Travis Jones)
• Paint.NET v3.5.8 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• JetBrains market IDE to iPhone Devs (Tobin Harris)
• Microsoft begins work on IE9 RTM-Escrow build (Tzvi Friedman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 92 (Scott Banwart)
• Silverlight Cream for March 05, 2011 — #1053 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 22 – Writing Better User Stories (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 2th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 3th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• 2-Mar-2011 and 3-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Weekly Links– 2010_09 (Joe Stagner)
• This Week’s Link List (March 4, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #804 and The Morning Brew #805 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Eric Carter