Dew Drop – April 4-5, 2011

Top Links

• So many interfaces! (Eric Lippert)
• How Can You Load Test WCF Services? (Chris Love)
• Extending Mole 2010’s Reach – Mole Type Loader (Karl Shifflett)
• F# Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4.1 (Visual Studio Blog)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Internals of LINQ (Abhishek Sur)
• Debugging Series: Symbol Server (Cameron Skinner)
• Dynamic query with Linq (Pranay Rana)
• Build folders for Team Explorer (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio–Build Folders extension for Team Explorer (terje)
• async samples 9: Migration from Existing APIs (Bill Wagner)
• Differences between CodeRush Pro and CodeRush Xpress (Alex Skorkin)
• New Game Development Page and Tutorials on App Hub (XNA Team)
• Optimization Note (C++) 1: push, pop, call _chkstk (Feng Yuan)
• Going from Fugly to Fabulous by giving your objects their own debugging visualizer and Connecting to Kinect (Greg Duncan)
• FluentMigrator getting started (Sean Chambers)
• ILMerge Gotcha (Jonathan Oliver)
• ISNULL or COALESCE? Sometimes it Really Does Matter (Larry Leonard)
• Open your solution files as admin (David Ebbo)
• Dynamically load embedded assemblies – because ILMerge appeared to be out. (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

• 10 ASP.NET Tips and Tricks (Abhijit Jana)
• Generic Way to Bind Enum With Different ASP.NET List Controls (Abhijit Jana)
• Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: The Shopping Cart and Google Page Speed Online Tool (Chris Love)
• Customizing ASP.NET MVC’s Required Property Validation Messages (Davy Brion)
• Expression Web Super Preview Spring 2011 Demo (Don Burnett)
• Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.5 released. (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Create a Custom ActionResult to return XML (Malcolm Sheridan)
• JavaScript numbers, bits and strings (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Lightweight PHP application deployment to Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Getting fancy with Nancy – Introduction (Andreas Håkansson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Deliberate practice, effective sketches (Simon Brown)
• Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 2 (Derek Greer)
• Can You Apply Agile for Long Processes? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• My first Scrum team in the wild (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Data on Estimation vs Number of Stories (Patrick Kua)
• NUnit Equality Assertions (Richard Carr)
• MOQ and C# (inc. synchronized and asynchronized Wcf Service calls) (Bert O’Neill)
• Elastic Leadership (Roy Osherove)
• Testing right by testing the right thing (Dror Helper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• TextBox.TextChanged event fire twice on the Phone (Rudi Grobler)
• Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Best Practices (Windows Phone Geek)
• Unable to start Debugging. The Silverlight Developer Run time is not installed. Please install a matching version (Aashish Gupta)
• WPF databinding trick (part 2) (Jeremy Alles)
• Visual Studio Item Template for Silverlight Interface (Jason Haley)
• Canvas Animations in HTML5 (Jeff Prosise)
• Metro In Motion #3 – Flying Titles! (Colin Eberhardt)
• Procedural Animations in Silverlight (Mike Taulty)
• A Complete Guide to Expression Blend 4 Shortcut Keys and How to create a Custom Control in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Fiddler and Windows Phone 7 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• New version of Mole 2010 available (Josh Smith)
• Using ReactiveUI with MVVM Light (or any other framework!) (Paul Betts)
• WPF Dynamically Generated DataGrid and WPF TemplateParts (Paul Stovell)
• Find out if you are using the Windows Phone Emulator (Rob Miles)
• How to create a Windows Phone 7 app from scratch (Update 2: Playing around) (Andrew Spooner)
• Apply a tile brush to an object’s fill or stroke (Pam)
• Keeping it regular (Pete O’Hanlon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 149: Pickering, Marinos, and Minerich on F# (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podast Show 393: Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do & C-3PO (Larry Hyrb)
• Clean Code Episode III – Contents and Release Notes. (Uncle Bob Martin)
• Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
• Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 010 – “Next Stop, Hungary!” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 4th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft adds 11 Windows Phone mystery sessions to its Mix conference lineup (Mary Jo Foley)
• Azure Camp Kolkata on 10th April 2010 (Abhishek Sur)
• Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, Check Out What Students are Creating (The Bing Team)
• Chasing inspiration: from Imagine Cup to Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Jeffrey Richter speaks about Windows Azure and Asynchronous Programming (Jeffrey Richter)
• Robert Greyling on Spark View Engine on 12 April 2011 (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• We’re Ready to Rock… (Brian Hitney)

Database

• Useful new topics in SQL Server Compact 4.0 Books Online (Erik EJ)
• Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• Isolating SQL Server from other systems (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server: Disable Table Constraints (all or some) (Madhivanan)
• Static analysis of Simple.Data code to generate databases (Rob Ashton)
• Listing Firewall rules in SQL Azure and Fetching SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically and Adding and Deleting SQL Azure firewall rules programmatically (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Leaving the relational mindset – RavenDB’s trees (Oren Eini)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Scripting Multiple Objects (Seth Phelabaum)
• Varying Results with Subquery, ORDER BY, MAXDOP (Jen McCown)
• Using STOPAT in the RESTORE DATABASE Statement (grrlgeek)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: Connect InfoPath Form Web part with Excel Web Part (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• So what was I thinking anyway? (Chris Brandsma)
• Windows Installer XML (WiX) 3.5 Makes Component Authoring Easier (Jenni Ripley)
• Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (PowerShell Team)
• Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)
• How to sniff web traffic from Marketplace-based Android applications (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #826 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 4th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 065 for 4/4/2011 (Pete Brown)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 2, 2011 and Interesting .NET Links – April 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Link Post 188 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Week Retrospective 26 – Product Owner Essentials and AOL (Peter Saddington)
• Daily News Digest 04/04/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/04/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the week #147 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links– 2010_13 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• SQL Server Denali Resources (Suprotim Agarwal)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning F# by Robert Pickering