Dew Drop – April 18, 2011

Top Links

• Spec Explorer 2010 Release 3.5 now available! (Xiang Li)
• async 11: Control Flow and await (Bill Wagner)
• New April 2011 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Office 365 Marketplace and the Open Beta (Joel Oleson)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Default Extension methods and Dynamic query with Linq (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2010 and UML(Unified Modeling Language) Part-I (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
• Accessing ObjectContext Features from EF 4.1 DbContext (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio (Joe Stagner)
• MSBuild Extension Pack April 2011 Release (Mike Fourie)
• Closures in CSharp (Abhishek Sur)
• Coding Helpers – Smart Parentheses and Smart Brackets (Alex Skorkin)
• ReSharper 6 Enhances Razor Support (Hadi Hariri)

Web Development

• Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI (Rachel Appel)
• Presentation Tips Learned From My (Many) Mistakes (Phil Haack)
• Get your FREE ASP.NET Razor Templates (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.NET MVC: Defining short URL-s for root level pages and ASP.NET MVC 3: Using controllers scaffolding (Gunnar Peipman)
• MVC Extension Method for Hosting Static Content on a CDN (Nathan Totten)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Feature (Giorgio Sironi)
• Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest (Steve Smith)
• HTTP is great (Rob Ashton)
• Exploring ECMAScript 5 with a Simple Game of Poker (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• NUnit Type Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Developer Chronicle: Lasagna is not a good role model (Jimmy Nilsson)
• .gitconfig (Nick Berardi)
• "I’ll Whack Your Fingers"-Oriented Programming (Joh)
• Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What the new App Hub in Windows Phone Mango means for the Enterprise (Rob Tiffany)
• WriteableBitmapEx goes NuGet (Rene Schulte)
• New Coding4Fun Phone Toolkit v1.3.2 officially released and Coding4Fun WP7 Message Prompt in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• A Fast Loading Windows Phone 7 NavigationList Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• The WPF Renaissance (James Ashley)
• ReactiveUI posts now in PDF format (Paul Betts)
• Family.Show [Insert a Sixth Sense quote here] (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone 7 Mango: My feedback as I peel it apart (Kelly Sommers)
• Working with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta and Issues with Multiple Click (ClickCount) in Silverlight 5 Beta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Out of Box Experience – Windows Live ID and the Benefits to Having One For Your Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Multiple Window Support and LightTouch–Silverlight Touch Library from Wintellect (Mike Taulty)
• Social Viewer Template for Windows Phone 7 Published (Nick Randolph)
• Awesome Windows Phone Resource (PubSec)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MSDN Radio: Coding4Fun with Clint Rutkas (MS Podcasts)
• Technoloby & Friends Episode 152: Randy Pagels on Visual Studio Test Professional (David Giard)
• XNA: Game Development – The Game Loop (Tina Wood)
• Windows Weekly 204: I’m In A Cab (Paul Thurrott)
• Podcast- Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi- ASP.NET Tools Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Talking Shop Down Under Episode 51 – Xerxes Battiwalla talks Shouldly (Richard Banks)
• Deploying PHP Applications to Windows Azure without Visual Studio (Karsten Januszewski)
• Yet Another Podcast #31–Laurent Bugnion Live at Mix (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials: Module 6 – Windows Azure Role Security (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 012 – “MIX’n It Up” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The GeekDads Episode #89: Awesomest of Awesome Events Ever Awesomely Possible (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – April 18th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mix 11 Videos – Download them all with RSS (Scott Hanselman)
• My Annual Arizona .NET Speaking Event this Friday (Scott Guthrie)
• Vote for your favorite love song playlist and win a fab Windows Phone and music package (Luke)
• MIX11 for the Silverlight Guy (Mike Taulty)
• MIX11 Session feedback: WCF Web APis: "There’s a URI for That" (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Thoughts on the MIX 11 announcements (Nigel Parker)
• Seacoast .NET Inaugural Meeting–Apr. 20th (Jim O’Neil)
• INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd 2011 and Help me go to Tech Ed 2011 (Chris Williams)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Making Database to Read Only – Changing Database to Read/Write and SQL SERVER – Appling NOLOCK Hint at Query Level – NOLOCK for whole Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• SSMS Tips & Tricks – Registered Server Groups (Seth Phelabaum)
• Why do we need error handling? (Kim Tessereau)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Health Score – Something to add to your SharePoint-based applications and SharePoint 2010 Ribbon Customization Deep Dive (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Office 365 Public Beta: Available Now! (Joey deVilla)
• Coding While You Commute (Leon Bambrick)
• Balancing work and kids: real advice for real life (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• PowerShell Language now licensed under the Community Promise (PowerShell Team)
• Paint.NET in 24 more languages?! tl;dr … Yes (Rick Brewster)
• My Top 10 Programming Quotes (Senthil Kumar)
• Photosynth Team releases iPhone App (Joe Stagner)
• Update progress for AT&T Windows Phones (Eric Hautala)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 — #1073 and SilverlightShow for April 4 – 10, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 17, 2011 – 2 — #1074 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Link Post 190 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Weekly Links– 2010_15 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• The Morning Brew #836 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 18th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/18/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 04/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)

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