Dew Drop – March 25, 2011

Top Links

• Introducing the Kinect WPF Toolkit (András Velvárt)
• How to Capture User Signatures on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Crawling the Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)
• When Should a Method Be a Property? (Rob Conery)
• async Samples 6: Declaring async methods (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How to update “Run only specified windows applications” GPO programmatically (VBScript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Trigger-Start Services Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
• New Training for Visual Studio 2010 and Notepad for Workitems: how to programmatically create workitems in Visual Basic for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 3 – Customizing the build process [Help File] (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
• Cloud Sync/Backup your Visual Studio settings with Pepper (Greg Duncan)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ToLookup() LINQ Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
• Improving CLRProfiler 3: Double the speed of profile loading (Feng Yuan)
• A Friendly DateTime Formatter (Jonathan Wood)

Web Development

• Getting Your Feet Wet with HTML 5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game (Adam Kinney)
• Want to work on datajs? (Phil Haack)
• IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics (Mike Taulty)
• IE9’s Document Modes and JavaScript (Gaurav Seth & Paul Chapman)
• Basic JavaScript Part 12: Function Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Using jQuery UI DatePicker in an ASP.NET Application. (Joe Stagner)
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
• Using Translation Services within ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
• Web Workers, for a responsive JavaScript application (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Azure and scaling: how? (PHP) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Write clearer Unit Tests (Gian Maria Ricci)
• 3 Scrum Types – Your Flavor of Scrum? and Kanban Elevator Pitch – Help Craft It (Peter Saddington)
• Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part III: Moving away from Scrum (Stephen Forte)
• Bus and Broker Pub/Sub Differences (Udi Dahan)
• The Essential Product Cookbook–The First Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Sharing An IE Instance Among Multiple Tests With WatiN And MS Test (Davy Brion)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone: Touch (Jesse Liberty)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Complex Theme (Windows Phone Geek)
• Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 1) (Michael Crump)
• Phone Tools v0.6 Released – Breaking Change! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Free “no code” WP7 App Dev and also Marketplace registration from AppMakr and Microsoft (limited time) (Think “App’ify your RSS feed in just a few clicks, with a good number of customization options too”) (Greg Duncan)
• Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Jeremy Likness)
• Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
• A Batch File for Closing Zune and Launching the WPConnect Tool (Daniel Vaughan)
• Getting Total Memory on Win7 Mobile Devices (Mike Snow)
• Designing hubs, being creative. (Alfred Astort)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes: Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty (Scott Hanselman)
• geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
• Webcast: Brief introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
• Let’s Play TDD #97: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (James Shore)
• Silverlight TV 67: Bill Buxton Talks about Speed Dating at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Cloud Plumbing: Brian Noyes Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi (Larry Larsen)
• The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Innovate both technology and your own career at Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Trigger Started Services on Windows 7 (John Bristowe)
• Blend SIG Podcast: February 2011: Adam Kinney and March 2011: Frank LaVigne (Joel Cochran)
• endpoint.tv – AppFabric WCF HTTP Template (Ron Jacobs)
• Community Megaphone Show #26 FoxPro Reunion (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)

Community / Events

• Job Opportunities (Cameron Skinner)
• Webinar: Amplify JavaScript Library with Scott González (Elijah Manor)
• Come Demo your Cool Robotics, Microcontroller, or other Hardware Hacking at MADExpo (Pete Brown)
• IE is MIXing it up in Vegas! (Ziad Ismail)
• Russian GM speaks at MVP Organized MCP Meeting (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• PostgreSQL Row Storage Fundamentals (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Looking at the RavenDB structure (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Roundup (Avi Kaye)
• DeliverPoint versus well known Sharepoint administration tools (Lightning Tools)
• Microsoft: We’re adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day (Mary Jo Foley)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (MS Downloads)
• 20 percent time spent coding in the clouds (Dave Burke)
• Comparison: Xcode 3 vs. Xcode 4 (Austin Ritchie)
• Manifesto Manifesto: a recipe for manifestae (Cory Doctorow)
• Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop (Dirk Metzmacher)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Show: Daily News Digest 03/25/2011 (Svetla Stoycheva)
• The Morning Brew #820 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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