Dew Drop – April 12, 2011

Top Links

• MVC 3 and EF 4.1 Code First: Here are my classes, now you do the rest, kthxbai (Julie Lerman)
• Happy 1st Birthday, Visual Studio 2010! (Somasegar)
• Native HTML5: First IE10 Platform Preview Available for Download (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Caliburn.Micro RTW, NuGet Support, Mix Open Source Festival! (Rob Eisenberg)
• EF 4.1 Released (EF Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Extensions Magic: Automatic Updates. and Want to learn more about Azure? Want to win prizes doing it? (Rachel Appel)
• OData Service for TFS 2010, try it out on CodePlex (Colin Thompkins)
• “Search Work Items” VS2010 Extension source now available (Greg Duncan)
• How to parse source code using the DXCore integrated code parsers (Alex Skorkin)
• Smarter DateTime.AddMinutes (Tim Hibbard)
• CodeRush Tip– Enhance Studio’s Find command. (Rory Becker)
• Microsoft rolls out new Azure cloud services and features and Microsoft readies new Surface 2.0 developer kit for summer 2011 (Mary Jo Foley)

Web Development

• IBM getting into the HTML5 authoring game with open source Maqetta (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Phil Haack)
• A Little Something for Those Getting Started with CSS… (Joey deVilla)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: HTML5 and CSS3 Support (Zain Naboulsi)
• Building Epic Win With Backbone.js (Justin Etheredge)
• InfoQ: Learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl (Rob Bazinet)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Some Node.js Goodies (Jan Van Ryswyck)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns and Practice: Project Silk (Don Burnett)
• BDD Antipattern: The technical spec (or why geeks need to speak business) (John Rayner)
• Refactoring toward frictionless & odorless code: What about transactions? (Oren Eini)
• How IT deals with Test Automation … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Why Repository SaveUpdate is a smell (Ian Cooper)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building WP7 Custom Validation Control – Validation Logic (Windows Phone Geek)
• Becoming a Windows Phone 7 Developer (Joel Cochran)
• Tips: How to use Gradient Color Picker in Expression Blend? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2010 Seattle Simulcast (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development with Visual Studio 2010 (MS Podcasts)
• Let’s Play TDD #102: Heresy, Revisited (James Shore)
• .NET Rocks! – Luca Passani Builds Mobile Web Pages with WURFL (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hanselminutes: ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack (Scott Hanselman)
• Episode 144 – PowerScripting Podcast – Kirk Munro on Automating Visio with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MIX11 Interviews: The appendTo Team (Rey Bango)
• First Look: Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview (Larry Larsen)
• Imagine Cup: The Redmond Judging and Hot Apps: Super Monkey Ball, You Got Served, Pinball League, Fantasia Painter, Soothr (Laura Foy)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 6: Interview with Jimmy Bogard (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)

Community / Events

• Windows Azure News from MIX11 (Windows Azure Team)
• New SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course (SharePoint Developer Team)
• US Imagine Cup Finals Day 4–Final Presentations, Showcase and Awards (Bob Familiar)
• MIX 2011 – IE10 Platform Preview 1 Available Now (Shai Raiten)
• MIX 2011 Keynote – IE10 Platform Preview Announced (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Microsoft Research at MIX 2011 (Andrew Spooner)
• NYC .NET Developer User Group–> Next Meeting (Stephen Forte)
• Orchard demoed at Mix 11 (Don Burnett)
• 10 Deadly Sins of Software Estimation: Free Webinar (Steve McConnell)
• Monospace has a home! (Louis Salin)
• The MIX 2011 Tuesday 4/12 KeyNote Recap (Jeremy Likness)
• Microsoft debuts IE10, announces PDC 2011 dates (Joe Wilcox)
• ImageThink’s Renditions of MIX11’s Day 1 Keynotes (Joey deVilla)
• Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing (MICWIC) 2011 (Jennifer Marsman)
• INETA gets a new Board Member (James Johnson)

Database

• FORCESEEK hint in SQL Server 2008 – Part I (Amit Bansal)
• SQL SERVER – Query to Recent Query on Server with Execution Plan Function to Get SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Reporting Services 2.0 Tip – Pimp up your report with data bars (Peter Gfader)

SharePoint

• Using Features and Solutions to Deploy your SharePoint Customizations (Dave McMahon)
• SharePoint Foundation 2010 with ADO.NET Data Services (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• How-To: Implement Facebook Credits (Daniel Schultz)
• Updated OData Client for Objective-C (Abu Obeida Bakhach)
• Windows 8 Build 7850 Leaks! (Imran Hussain)
• Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN: New and improved (Jim O’Neil)
• Your Resume: Go Visual (Jim Holmes)
• Video is a poor medium for learning to program (Karl Seguin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #832 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 12th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/12/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Michael Hartl