Dew Drop – April 6, 2011

Top Links

• My Focus-themed Windows Phone emulator theme (Jeff Wilcox)
• Of memory and strings (Jon Skeet)
• Silverlight coming to Xbox, bringing WP7 games along with it? (Tim Stevens)
• Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight (Walid Abu-Hadba, Scott Guthrie & S. Somasegar)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Getting the CLR Version (Richard Carr)
• How to use a WCF custom channel to implement client-side caching (Paolo Salvatori)
• DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 1, Calling Functions and DBX vs. Visual Studio and WinDbg: Part 2A, Configuring Multiple Breakpoints (Sasha Goldshtein)
• IronPython Fully Implements Python 2.7 (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Productivity Power Tools – Enhanced Scroll Bar (Arian Kulp)
• MEF Logger – Creating plugins using MEF (fmsalmeida)
• Reference Architecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturing (MS Downloads)
• BizTalk Best Practices & Coding Guidelines for the IT Services Industry (Ambar Ray)
• Building a Nuget Server with gold plating (Mike Ceranski)
• Executing SQL queries on SQL CE 4 through Entity Framework (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Getting Started with Azure AppFabric Service Bus: Creating Namespace (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) (David Vidmar)

Web Development

• Convert HTML to Text (Jonathan Wood)
• ASP.NET MVC ActionResults explained (Rachel Appel)
• ASP.NET Deployment Needs To Be Fixed (Rob Conery)
• Image Manipulation With jQuery and PHP GD (Andy Croxall)
• Running JavaScript when the Web Page loads. (Joe Stagner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Utility Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• jQuery.unbind() (Stoimen Popov)
• What Is New in EcmaScript 5? (Anders Janmyr)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Pumping Data Between Streams (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Tracking JavaScript Events using Google Analytics (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Adding Smoke Tests to Your Build (John Sonmez)
• CQRS: Out of Sequence Messages and Read Models (Jonathan Oliver)
• Long Feedback Cycle on a 4 Year Old Project (Patrick Kua)
• [Guide] – Create the Perfect Agile Workshop (Peter Saddington)
• Agile with a Little Bit of Lean (sciske)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: The baseline (Oren Eini)
• "Necessary" Refactoring (Michael ‘Doc’ Norton)
• Mocks and Tell Don’t Ask (Ian Cooper)
• Code Management versus Project Management (Andy Singleton)
• Updating another automation test to increase stability (John Guin)
• It Takes Complexity to Handle Complexity (Jurgen Appelo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Resharper 6 WPF binding validation (Daniel Fisher)
• All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Read and Save Images and Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Architecture & Basic Prototype (Windows Phone Geek)
• Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [4/6] and Developing SevenDrops – A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [5/6] and Using Pandora’s Artist Explorer service to discover new music on Windows Phone 7 and Pandora – hidden endpoints (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Phone 7 – Creating Trial Applications (Pencho Popadiyn)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Here, HTML 5, Sterling Feedback and More (Jeremy Likness)
• Silverlight, HTML5, The Web, The Phone and All That (Joey deVilla)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Building Location Service Applications in Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 3) and A Silverlight Developer’s look at TFS 2010 Remote Hosting. (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono I: Getting Started and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono II: Basic Navigation and Windows Phone 7, Android and iOS with Mono III: Shared Libraries (Nick Randolph)
• HTML vs. Silverlight vs. WPF (Paul Stovell)
• Windows Phone 7 XNA Game Tutorial For Ya (snoutholder)
• New Book: Building Enterprise Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and the Model View ViewModel Pattern (Kim Spilker)
• How to design a Custom Control by editing the Part Template? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Cory Fowler Runs PHP on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 150: Darcy Lussier on WP7 Offline Storage (David Giard)
• Episode 143 – PowerScripting Podcast – Chris Harris from Microsoft on SCOM 2012 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 202: Opera Not Oprah (Paul Thurrott)
• Let’s Play TDD #100: Twenty-Five Hours (James Shore)
• Lyssa Adkins – Coaching Agile Teams Agile 2010 (Agile Toolkit Podcast)
• Yet Another Podcast #30 Abby Fichtner–Microsoft Evangelist (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag 003 – Win7 Shutdown Slowdowns, Prob Step Recorder, MSI Failures (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Parachute Panic, Dog-A-Pedia, Hairdo For You, Chicks’n’Vixens, Soundtrckr (Laura Foy)
• The Thirsty Developer 100: The Meta Episode (Dave Bost)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 50 – David Tchepak and Richard Banks (Richard Banks)

Community / Events

• Announcing Conshohocken.rb (Dane Morgridge)
• 14 Free SharePoint 2010 Webinars by Critical Path Training (Andrew Connell)
• Speaking at SharePoint Connections 2011 in Boston (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• ImagineCup 2011 Finals coming to Redmond (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MSDN Events Presents: WebMatrix to ASP.NET MVC Web Camp (Angela Binkowski)
• Windows Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter: Explore the Benefits of Windows Azure Data Storage and Compute Services (Jeffrey Richter)
• Learning Opportunities to Embrace the Cloud (Jim O’Neil)
• NUI at MIX11 (Josh Blake)
• Behind the Scenes in Japan, Windows Azure MVPs Help Drive Vital Communications (Lonnie Webb)

Database

• Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data (Justin Hostettler-Davies)
• SQL Server: First and Last Day of Year, Quarter, Month and Week (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL University – Performance Week (Ted Krueger)
• SQLAuthority News – Win Windows Phone from Idera in 140 Characters – A Cartoon Challenge of SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Use a database how it was intended to be used (Denis Gobo)
• Announcing the Metro Early Adoption Program for SQL Server Code Name “Denali” (Wes Yanaga)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Data Hub (Buck Woody)
• To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS (GilaMonster)
• Is ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN NOT NULL to NULL always expensive? (Sankar Reddy)
• How I Avoid Two-Phase Commit (Jonathan Oliver)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 SDK Offline SDK (*.CHM) Updated (Andrew Connell)
• New Book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Home Server 2011, Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Now on MSDN, TechNet (Paul Thurrott)
• Calling Excel Math Functions From PowerShell (Doug Finke)
• Tekpub Download Upgrade Low-down (Rob Conery)
• Jetbrains announced appCode (CIDR) EAP – an Objective-C IDE for Mac and iOS development (Michael Hunger)
• Scaling and Queuing PowerShell Background Jobs (Travis Jones)
• Microsoft Customers Abandoned Again: SharedView No Longer Supported (William Vaughn)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #827 and The Morning Brew #828 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 5, 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily News Digest 04/05/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets: 4-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2011 — #1070 and SilverlightShow for March 28-April 3, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 05, 2011 — #1071 (Dave Campbell)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 Picks for March 28 – April 3, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 5th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

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