Dew Drop – March 26, 2011

Top Links

• New Book Available: Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 (Karl Shifflett)
• Visual Studio 2010 Books on C#, Visual Basic, F#, VS IDE, and VS Extensibility (Lisa Feigenbaum)
• Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00 (Jeff Wilcox)
• Task Parallel Library: 5 of n (Sacha Barber)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Working with TypeDescriptor in C# (Jonathan Wood)
• Handling Updates with the WCF Data Services Toolkit (Jonathan Carter)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #4 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Fun with F# – Life, the solar system and everything (in 101 samples) (Greg Duncan)
• How To Fix Visual Studio File Templates (Steve Smith)
• An efficient format for OData (Alex James)
• Getting Lazy with .NET 4.0 and Collection Initializers in .NET (Abhijit Jana)
• A random walk in Rx (John Rayner)

Web Development

• jQuery Modal Dialog in an ASP.NET page. (Joe Stagner)
• HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
• Round tripping a timestamp field with EF4.1 Code First and MVC 3 (Julie Lerman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Free Agile & Scrum Tools for Project Planning and Prioritizing (Mike Cohn)
• 10 Tips for Learning How to Run a Virtual Team (Thursday Bram)
• Find Code Cyclomatic Complexity with NDepend (Hajan Selmani)
• Building An Awesome Organization – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
• Mapping to Your Database is a Private Affair (Peter Ritchie)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 8 – Music and sound effects (Peter Kuhn)
• Pixel Scrolling for WPF Lists (Abhijit Jana)
• WPF databinding trick (part 1) (Jeremy Alles)
• Hack: OAuth security flaw for Windows Phone 7, iPhone and other Mobile platforms (Nick Randolph)
• Microsoft’s Belfiore spins on about Windows Phone updating mess (Steven Hodson)
• How to Disable Pivot / Panorama swipe gesture: Sliding inside Pivot Item (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Dutch Double Touch (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
• Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
• What’s new with WCM with Andrew Connell-Episode 58 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi and Countdown to MIX11: Joe Belfiore Talks Phone (Larry Larsen)
• The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Cloud Cover Episode 41 – Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Wade Wegner)
• Silverlight Show: Recording of webinar ‘Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight’ by Gill Cleeren (Silverlight Team)
• Chatting with the Kinect Team’s Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Tina Wood)
• Boagworld: Live ‘end of season one’ show (Paul Boag)
• TWC9: New Mix Sessions announced, dissecting IE9 Performance, Azure Toolkit for WP7 (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

• Gamefest 2011 – Open to All! (XNA Team)
• You’re Invited: 10 Tips to Supercharge Your Unit Tests – Thursday, March 31 (Avi Kaye)
• Don’t Miss this Opportunity! Agile Scrum Development Practices with the Experts – April 28th (Public Sector Team)
• Are you up to the challenge? (Dani Diaz)

Database

• Does SSIS in Denali solve the “relative paths” problem? (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server: Count based on Condition (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How Many Bytes Are In My Column? – T-SQL Functions (Steve Jones)
• NOLOCK for Developers (Eric Humphrey)

Miscellaneous

• Thoughts on Visual Complexity from Bing UX designer (Steve Clayton)
• Bing Feature Update: Bing News with Real-Time Twitter feed and Enhanced Entertainment Sharing (Betsy Aoki)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 95 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News March 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Weekly Links– 2010_12 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 and Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 — #1065 (Dave Campbell)
• Week Retrospective 25 – Scrum Backlog Tips and 3 Types of Scrum (Peter Saddington)
• WebDev Tweets 24-Mar-2011 and 23-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold