Dew Drop – April 7, 2011

Top Links

• Mono Android and iPhone Updates (Miguel de Icaza)
• Happy birthday Channel 9! (Eric Lippert)
• Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.3 Released (New Message Prompt, Password Prompt controls and Toast fixes + now NuGet’able too) (Greg Duncan)
• LinqPad, Linq Queries and IEnumerable (Jesse Liberty)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preventing check-ins to TFS that contain code analysis warnings (Andrew B. Hall)
• Debugging Series: Symbols Server and Your Symbols (Cameron Skinner)
• CodeRush Tip– Create a Select / Switch statement with branches for each element of an enumeration (Rory Becker)
• How to enumerate solution and source code items using DXCore (Alex Skorkin)
• Attribute Based Caching for .NET (David Cooksey)
• Customizing Team Build 2010 post series in 16 (to-date) parts and Translating for fun and… fun… (Greg Duncan)
• Getting a Windows Azure account for Rock, Paper, Azure (Brian Hitney)

 

Web Development

• Images in a web page: meh… Images *in* a web page: cool! [Delay.Web.Helpers assembly now includes an ASP.NET web helper for data URIs (in addition to Amazon S3 blob/bucket support)] (David Anson)
• Bing Maps JavaScript Intellisense Helper Now Available as Nuget Package (Chris Pietschmann)
• Automatically Including Current Language In Generated URLs With ASP.NET MVC (Davy Brion)
• Checking whether page is secure or not in ASP.NET or JavaScript (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• MvcScaffolding: Overriding the T4 Templates (Steve Sanderson)
• Eight HTML5 Drafts Updated (W3C Staff)
• Live datajs sample showing OData.read (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• C++ Unit Testing Roundup (Avi Kaye)
• Problems with Agile? Check your Culture! (Michael Sahota)
• Unit Test Logging for Builds with Xcode 4 and Team City (Scott Densmore)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: Hiding global state (Oren Eini)
• Reference Architecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturing (MS Downloads)
• On Leadership – Lead by Example (K. Brian Kelley)
• Windows Git Tip: Hide ^M (Carriage Return) in Diff and posh-git Release v0.3 (Keith Dahlby)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7: Right alignment bug for item templates with grids (Håkan Reis)
• How to implement Template Binding in Silverlight Custom Control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WP7 – How To Extend ListBox When Reaching Last Item (Shai Raiten)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio with Oleg Sych (MS Podcasts)
• Checking In: Eric Lippert – On Compiler Evolution, Designing C# and Blogging (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 67: Tips on how to be an Independent Software Consultant with Michael Eaton (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)

 

Community / Events

• Free HTML5 Event on 4/26: HTML5 and Browsers (Doris Chen)
• Attending MIX 2011? There’s an app for that! (niravi)
• I’ll be presenting at the Atlanta SharePoint Saturday! (Andrew Connell)
• A bookshelf on your Careers 2.0 profile (Matt Sherman)
• A Punctuated Life (Christopher Bennage)
• Catch the MIX11 Sessions, Even if You’re Not in Vegas (Joey deVilla)
• Pluralsight’s Weekly Webcast: ReSharper Tips and Tricks (Jura Gorohovsky)
• MSDN Events Presents ‘Understanding Azure’ for Developers, Architects (Bruce Kyle)

 

Database

• What does the lock icon mean in SSMS when looking at a stored procedure? (Denis Gobo)
• Data Modelling: My Favourite Example (Michael Swart)
• SQL University: Index Usage (Grant Fritchey)

 

SharePoint

• Developing Applications for SharePoint 2010 (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• LinkedIn Launches Revamped Developer Platform (Ben Parr)
• Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 4 (Justin Etheredge)
• Automatically map similar schemas in BizTalk 2009 (and earlier!) [BizTalk] (David Vidmar)
• Authors! Here are our updated proposal guidelines (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows 8 to feature adaptive Aero colorization, get it now on Windows 7 (Lee Mathews)
• Microsoft Executives In A Heated Battle Over Opening More Retail Stores (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Taking Proper Screenshots in Windows for Blogs or Tutorials (Scott Hanselman)
• GNOME 3 released, ushers in an interesting amalgam of iOS and OS X (Sebastian Anthony)
• Think about your presentation and who reviews it (Ted Krueger)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 6, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 6th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #829 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 04/06/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/07/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• WebDev Tweets 6-Apr-2011 and 5-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)

 

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