Dew Drop – March 11, 2011

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Top Links

• Developing a Windows Phone 7 Jump List Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• Using HTML5 Web Storage for Interprocess Communication (Jeff Prosise)
• Using NuGet without committing packages (David Ebbo)
• .NET Reflector 7 Released (Paulo Morgado) – Winners in my Reflector contest have been selected and will be notified shortly.

.NET / Visual Studio

• YACE (Yet Another Comment Extension) for VS2010 – Small, big, bigger and Red! SharpComments and "Bart Simpson’s Guide to Windows Azure" [How can I beat that title?] (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Tuples and Tuple Factory Methods and ANTS Memory Profiler 7.0 (James Michael Hare)
• Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Uplevel NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• patterns & practices : Composite Services Guidance – CTP2 (CodePlex)

Web Development

• Introducing formlets for jQueryUI (Joel Bjornson)
• Revisiting Some (Old) Tags in HTML 5 (Kirupa)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• RegisterName for StoryBoards in WPF (NameScopes) (Abhishek Sur)
• I’m developing my own Foursquare client for the Windows Phone (Jeff Wilcox)
• Prism 4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation and Unity (Karl Shifflett)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – intro to Isolated Storage and All about Splash Screens in WP7 – Creating animated Splash Screen (Windows Phone Geek)
• Creating gradients using colors from other objects in Expression Design (Elliot Meacham)
• Phone updates: process and timing (Eric Hautala)
• Testing Network Availability (Jesse Liberty)
• Not your regular photo and video camera on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Talkin’ C++ with Kate Gregory (Charles Torre)
• Silverlight Essentials Video Training (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight TV 65: 3D Graphics (John Papa)
• Developers: a new kind of IDE arrives in Cloud9 (First look!) (Robert Scoble)
• Saving energy with the .NET Micro Framework (Fabien Royer)

Community / Events

• More FREE Windows Phone 7 training events (Rudi Grobler)
• Do You Dig Design? Announcing the New UX Lightning Series at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Steve Ballmer + Imagine Cup + Governor of PA = BEST DAY EVER! (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• A Great Week with MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
• What we wish we could show you about Microsoft TechFest (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Free Training: Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform, 4/20/2011 and Join us in Washington DC: Free One-Day Course on Parallelism, 3/25/2011 (Zhiming Xue)
• WCF RIA Services Validation Webinar (Brian Noyes)
• GitHub on LinkedIn (Chris Wanstrath)
• Interview with SQL Server MVP Joe Webb (Brad M. McGehee)

Database

• SQL Server: SSMS 2008 Intellisense Stops Working after Installing VS 2010 SP1 (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Latch Statistics (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• SharePoint: Create Dashboards with KPI, Scorecard and Report using Excel Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Dynamics CRM 2011 and SharePoint 2010 (Wesley Bakker)

Miscellaneous

• CodePlex: Pull Request Conversations, Inline Diff Enhancements (Matt Hawley)
• Retro gaming on Windows Phone 7 (Luke)
• Safer and Faster Downloads in IE9 (Ritika Virmani,)
• The problem with calling legacy/native apps from PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #810 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 10th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for March 10, 2011 — #1058 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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