Dew Drop – April 14, 2011

Top Links

• Announcing the Silverlight 5 Beta Release and the Silverlight.net Redesign (Pete Brown)
• Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) (Robin Reynolds-Haertle)
• Microsoft outlines more developer features coming with ‘Mango’ update this fall (Mary Jo Foley)
• Kinect Demos with the Channel 9 team (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Duncan Mackenzie, Jeff Sandquist & Laura Foy)
• Mix11: Windows Phone 7 news (Jeremy Alles)

.NET / Visual Studio

• ExpandoObject class in C# 4.0 (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Serializing Continuations (Mike Hadlow)
• Coding Faster: Give Me Your Thoughts (Zain Naboulsi)
• Async 10: Switching Threads (Bill Wagner)
• Enabling RSS Auto Discovery (Jonathan Wood)
• Refreshing the Async CTP (Eric Lippert)
• All-In-One Code Framework is now on MSDN Code Gallery, has a new sample browser and is cooler than ever (Greg Duncan)
• Me on NHibernate 3.2 (James Gregory)
• Using VSDBCMD to deploy an Entity Framework (EF) CodeFirst (or any other) database to AppHarbor and Using VSDBCMD to deploy an Entity Framework (EF) CodeFirst database to AppHarbor with VSDBCMD (Jason Jarrett)
• Parsing Non-Standard Date and Time Formats (Ron Petrusha)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Intranet Template with "This resource cannot be found" and User.Identity.Name is blank Error (Bart Czernicki)
• ASP.NET MVC 3: Intranet Application template (Gunnar Peipman)
• Implementing validations using Data Annotations in ASP.NET MVC (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Async CTP vs. ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Refresh (Chris Koenig)
• ASP.NET web services mistake: manual JSON serialization (Dave Ward)
• MVC + Code-First + Azure Part 1: Local Development (EF Team)
• RouteDebugger 2.0 (Phil Haack)
• ASP.NET MVC: Create Custom Attributes for MetaData (Malcolm Sheridan)
• WebSockets in 5 minutes (Giorgio Sironi)
• Installing ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update (Steve Smith)
• Book Review: Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook (Trevor James)
• Smashing Book 2: Why We Love It And Why You’ll Love It, Too (Vitaly Friedman)
• Windows Azure and Microsoft SXP Serve Up to Two Million Rich Media Experiences Daily on Microsoft Showcase (Azure Team)
• Announcing YUI 2.9.0 (Jenny Han Donnelly)
• Book Review: Crafting Rails Applications (Ben Scheirman)
• Announcing datajs version 0.0.3 (Alex James)
• Windows Azure Updates SDK with New Deployment Tool, CDN Preview, Geo Performance Balancing (Bruce Kyle)
• A Better Solution For Partial View Controllers (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Rabu’s Schedule Projections Work (James Shore)
• Software development is not a relay sport (Simon Brown)
• Announcing YUI Test 1.0.0 Beta 2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Why Rules Rule (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Microsoft Research Project Emporia Digg-like Windows Phone Personal News App (Todd Ogasawara)
• Implicit DataTemplates for Control in Silverlight 5 Beta (Abhijit Jana)
• Basic XNA (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight 5 Beta – Lets deal with its features (Abhishek Sur)
• Silverlight 5 Beta has released…Get the chm! (Cheryl Simmons)
• Early Impressions of IE9 for Windows Phone 7 (Chris Love)
• Even simpler MVVM with Simple MVVM Toolkit v2 (think "NuGet’able, new features, new Project Templates, bug fixes and generally good and tasty stuff") (Greg Duncan)
• Be What’s Next with “Mango” Developer Tools and Platform (Matt Bencke)
• 5 Things You Need to Know to Start Using Video and Audio Today (Nigel Parker)
• Text Search with Ancestor Binding and Child Windows in Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)
• What’s new in Silverlight 5 beta? 3D graphics support! (John Mulhausen)
• Microsoft Media Platform Released to Web (Don Burnett)
• How to create a Silverlight 5 Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Getting started with Windows Phone 7 and Azure (with video tutorial) (Michael Crump)
• What’s next for Windows Phone? Just ask Joe (Michael Stroh)
• Silverlight 5: Advancements in Text and Silverlight 5: Supporting Double and Even Triple Click for the Mouse and Silverlight 5: Working with Operating System Windows and Silverlight 5: Using the SoundEffect Class for Low-Latency Sound (and play WAV files in Silverlight) and Silverlight 5: Working with Implicit Templates and Silverlight 5: Debugging Bindings with Xaml Breakpoints (Pete Brown)
• Use the Silverlight ListBox as an Expanding Menu (Paul Sheriff)
• Async for Windows Phone (Joel Reyes)
• Silverlight 5 3D + SLARToolkit Augmented Reality = Win! and XNA for the Web – Silverlight 5 (Rene Schulte)
• Watch my PluralSight Silverlight 5 Course for Free (for 24 hours) (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Breaking Changes (snoutholder)
• Silverlight 5 launches in beta (Tim Conneally)
• Silverlight 5 Beta–A guide to the new features (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dan Wahlin Digs Deep on Web Client Development (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Alex Turner: Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) – WP7 Demo and Mads Torgersen: Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) Overview (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone 7 Announcements & Demo’s from MIX 11 with Joe Belfiore (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #103: Test Double (James Shore)
• MIX11 Windows Phone 7 Ad by Brandon Foy (Nic Fillingham)
• This is Windows Phone Next — developers take notes (video) (Myriam Joire)
• Scott Hanselman Takes “Jellybean”, the Kinect-Controlled Lounge Chair, for a Spin (Joey deVilla)

Community / Events

• Gamefest 2011: Save the Dates! (XNA Team)
• My Take on the Silverlight 5 Part of the MIX 11 Keynote and Silverlight Tour Now Includes Silverlight 5! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Windows Phone Mango, Kinect Beta SDK for Windows and Silverlight 5 announced (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Expression Blend at Mix 2011 (Christian Schormann)
• MIX’11: Microsoft Details Future of Windows Phone and MIX’11: Microsoft Highlights Kinect SDK for Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• Windows Phone, Kinect Exemplify New Usage Scenarios and Device Capabilities at MIX11 (MS PressPass)
• Advice on applying for different roles (Eugenia Sawa)
• Surface Present at MIX 2011 (Luis Cabrera)
• The MIX 2011 Keynote on Wednesday 4/13 Recap (Jeremy Likness)

Database

• SQL Server Development Tools Advisory Program (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Transaction Log Impract Detection Using DMV – dm_tran_database_transactions (Pinal Dave)
• Advanced performance troubleshooting: waits, latches, spinlocks (Paul S. Randal)

Miscellaneous

• Kinect Audio: Preparedness Pays Off (Rob Knies)
• Published My First Course on Pluralsight (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 13, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 13 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 13th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #834 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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