Dew Drop – March 7, 2011

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Top Links

• You Really Should Be Using NuGet (Justin Etheredge)
• NuGet Package of the Week #1 – ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization (Scott Hanselman)
• Effective Tests: Introduction (Derek Greer)
• MVVM Charting – Binding Multiple Series to a Visiblox Chart (Colin Eberhardt)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using CUDA and Thrust with Visual Studio 2010 (Ade Miller)
• Adding vcard support and bookmarked URIs for specific representations with WCF Web Apis and WCF Web APIs Roundup–Volume 2 (Glenn Block)
• One Thousand Views of AppHub (Zain Naboulsi)
• Auto updating a desktop app (Louis Salin)
• A Case for WinForms (Jonathan Allen)
• EntityDataSource Control Basics (Joydip Kanjilal)
• Part 1 of a tutorial on monads (Brian Marick)
• ReSharper Easter Egg? (Chris Missal)
• ILSpy – yield return (Daniel Grunwald)
• Logging Best Practices Using Crypto Logger (G. Himangi)
• Using Code First Model Configurations Classes (Gil Fink)
• How Dynamic Language Runtime(DLR) feature in .NET Framework 4 is a boon for debugging COM objects (Abhijit Jana)
• All about .NET Timers – A Comparison (Abhishek Sur)
• Upgrading TortoiseHg to v2.0 (Igal Tabachnik)

Web Development

• Bing HTML5 preview to coincide with IE9 launch? (damaster)
• Using a custom build of MVC 3 (David Ebbo)
• What is jQuery Connect ? How to use jQuery Connect? (Hima)
• Output Caching Actions Gotcha in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Malcolm Sheridan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning about CQRS and Event Sourcing (Eric Quist)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – BDD Style Unit Tests with Jasmine-Node Sprinkled With Some Should (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Stub (Giorgio Sironi)
• A Paradox of Reification – A Tool or a Fallacy? (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Developer Driven Culture (Rob Diana)
• Quests and powerups (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
• Discovering New Keywords with a Search Combo Box (Anthony)
• Getting Up to BAT: Picking a Browser Automation Tool (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to get and edit the default Styles of the Silverlight for WP7 Toolkit controls and Mindscape Phone Elements WP7 controls released and 12 WP7 Coding4Fun Toolkit in Depth articles covering all controls (Windows Phone Geek)
• Using Mole 2010 to compare objects (Josh Smith)
• Native Extensions 2.0 For Microsoft Silverlight Released (Davide Zordan)
• Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight (Davy Brion)
• Reading files asynchronously using WebClient class in Silverlight (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A penny for your thoughts on Windows Phone 7 tombstoning (Peter Torr)
• Mole 2010 Demo Released (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 389: Dragon Age 2, Yoostar 2, Homefront (Larry Hyrb)
• Yet Another Podcast #27–Paul Betts (Jesse Liberty)
• VIDEO – WebMatrix – Improve Performance with Caching and WPF 3.5 Training Videos (Joe Stagner)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 006 –“There’s a New Kid in Town” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 141: Alexei Govorine On VS DB Tools (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 198: Smart, Very Smart (Paul Thurrott)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 51 – New Owners and Test as Dev (Federico Silva & Matthew Osborn)

Community / Events

• NYC .NET Developers Group->Next Meeting (St. Pats Day!) (Stephen Forte)
• Test Driven Development Firestarter (Kevin Griffin)
• Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2011 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• JetBrains night at Bristol .NET User Group (Hadi Hariri)
• Is your Kanban worth a new iPad? @TargetProcess (Tal Druyan)
• IE9 / WP7 Boot Camps (Joey deVilla)
• Stack Overflow and the Computer History Museum (Jeff Atwood)

Database

• Storing images in SQL Server with RIA Services (Unknown Author)
• SQL SERVER – Running Multiple Batch Files Together in Parallel and SQL SERVER – Enable PowerPivot Plugin in Excel (Pinal Dave)
• SSIS:Multi Instance Management made easy. (SQL Archer)
• Not Only SQL (Peter Ritchie)
• Best Practice: version check, data base and DB updates… how to split the db in the team? (Code Inside Team)
• XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates (Jason Strate)

Miscellaneous

• Transferring/Moving a VHD from Windows Virtual PC (Windows XP Mode) to another computer (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #806 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 03.01 ~ 03.06 (yuanjian)
• March 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, EF, .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for March 06, 2011 — #1054 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily News Digest 03/07/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the week #143 (David Vidmar)

The Geek Shelf

Advanced MVVM by Josh Smith