Dew Drop – April 21, 2011

Top Links

• How To Replace Source Control With Comments (Rob Conery)
• Why every language needs a language specification… (Paul Vick)
• Exclusive: Microsoft’s Lees and Nokia’s Oistamo Talk About Their Just-Signed Contract (Ina Fried)
• Knockout.js 1.2.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Uses and misuses of implicit typing (Eric Lippert)
• NuGet Package of the Week #5 – Debugging ASP.NET MVC applications with Glimpse (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Configuring WCF Data Service using Lambda Expressions (Gil Fink)
• WCF Extensibility – Runtime (Carlos Figueira)
• Visual Studio LightSwitch Samples in the new MSDN Samples Gallery (Greg Duncan)
• Supporting JSONP callbacks in WCF Data Services (Marcelo’s WebLog)
• In-Place upgrade of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 with move to new domain (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework 1.0 Released! (T. DuPont)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 (Steve Danielson)
• Writing a NuGet Package That Adds A Command To The PowerShell Console (Phil Haack)
• WF4 State Machine User Experience (.NET Connected Framework Team)
• NuGet packages now come with Debug symbols, Sources (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Name for .NET decompiler anyone? (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Understanding the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus [QuotaExceededException] (Keith Bauer)
• LLBLGen Pro QuerySpec: the basics (Frans Bouma)
• FT, then FP and SP now PU! Power Tools, Feature Packs, Service Packs, now Platform Updates – .Net 4 Platform Update 1 Released (Think WF stuff, like State Machine, persist to SQL Azure, etc) (Greg Duncan)
• Replacing An If Statement With An Object (Derick Bailey)
• Two great uses of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Brian Keller)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 2 Voting Control (Jon Nethercott)
• Amazon Simple Pay in ASP.NET (Hajan Selmani)
• FubuMVC’s Authorization Use Cases (Jeremy Miller)
• HTML5 Labs now has a FileAPI (Martin Beeby)
• Setting up a local SSL development environment for multiple sites (Daniel Fisher)
• A DoubleClick Custom Web Control (Jonathan Wood)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0 BETA released (Maarten Balliauw)
• Experiences with REST (Jimmy Bogard)
• Quick Edit mode for YUI 3 DataTable (John Lindal)
• What’s new in Orchard 1.1? and Orchard 1.1: what’s in it for developers? (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Speed Up Azure Deployments with the New Web Deployment Feature (Beth Massi)
• Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – The Towering Inferno (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 1: What Are Pinned Sites? (Jennifer Marsman)
• What I Love/Hate About PHP (Eric Hogue)
• Hang Resistance in IE9 (Herman Ng)
• IE Feedback: Looking Back, Forging Ahead (Justin Saint Clair)
• How to Use the Storage Emulator with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
• Chrome Developer Tools: Understanding Stack Traces (Yury Semikhatsky)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Paradoxes in Program Management: 5 Contradictions in Managing a Productive Scrum Team and PMI – Agile Certification Examination Outline Launched! (Peter Saddington)
• Linear trees with Git rebase and Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Testcase Class per Fixture and Exploring TDD in JavaScript with a small kata (Giorgio Sironi)
• When race conditions & unbounded result sets are actually the solution (Oren Eini)
• Refactoring is Not About Reducing Code (Krishna)
• Using dotCover to Cover Applications, with or without ReSharper (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Updated (Bruce Kyle)
• What Is Enterprise Architecture? (Boris Lublinsky)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 1 (Deborah Hanamura)
• Drawing boundaries (Jimmy Bogard)
• Integration: Scenario (Paul Stovell)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Implementing a WP7 Checked ListBox in different ways and WP7 ListBox SelectedItem (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 Software Development Kit – April 2011 Update (MS Downloads)
• Windows Phone App Dev Incentives (Arian Kulp)
• AncestorType in RelativeSource – Silverlight 5 (Abhijit Jana)
• Page-based browsing in a list on Windows Phone and Windows Phone tip of the day: MediaLibrary can be tested in the emulator with built-in songs (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Implicit Data Templates (Peter Kuhn)
• WPF binding a text with decoration (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Don’t shoot the messenger [A WebBrowserExtensions workaround for Windows Phone and a BestFitPanel tweak for infinite layout bounds on Windows Phone/Silverlight/WPF] (David Anson)
• Using Binding to create Panels/Pivots in your WP7 Application and Update Error 800705B4 for WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• WP7 – adding a ‘Fade to Black’ effect to a ListBox and WPF, Silverlight, WP7 and the Async CTP (Guardian)
• When enough ViewModel is enough (Jeremy Alles)
• Silverlight 5–Combo box type ahead and Silverlight 5–Rich Text and Overflow (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 5’s New RichTextBoxOverflow Control and Silverlight 5’s New Style Data Binding and Silverlight 5’s New and Improved Threading Architecture (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows Phone 7 “Mango”: what’s coming for app developers (Katrien de Graeve)
• Prism 4: Defining Custom Command Behavior for ListBox control in Silverlight 4.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Windows Phone 7 Push Notifications For Beginners (Now With Testing!) (Matthias Shapiro)
• Building a better MessageBox for WP7 with the help of XNA. (Michael Crump)
• The WP7 Marketplace and the Enterprise (Mike Hole)
• Windows Phone 7 and WCF Don’t Play Nicely (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight – 5 easy steps to obfuscate auto-magically on the build server (Peter Gfader)
• Converting SVG to XAML with IE9 and the Microsoft XPS Document Writer (Synergist)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes is looking through Prism 4 and .NET Rocks! – Richard Campbell Talks Tech Ed 101 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Lucian Wischik: Async Compiler – Bug Fixes, Updates and Core Improvements and Checking In: Jeff Wilcox – Writing the WP7 App Platform in C# and C++ (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 68: Why Your Career is Going Away Because You Refuse to Change, You Pansy (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Herding Code 109: Harmony Hackathon (Jon Galloway)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #88 (Alex Miller)
• Let’s Play TDD #104: Cleaned Up and Ready to Move On (James Shore)
• Radio TFS 32: Mailbag Episode (Martin Woodward)
• Defrag 004 – Battery Life, Slow Wake, Library Problems and Mobile Photosynth Panorama App (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Harbor Master, Pomodoro, Origami, Dropdown, Shut the Box (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Announcing SharePoint Stack Exchange (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Script# at MIX11 (Nikhil Kothari)
• Announcing free, hands-on Windows Phone 7 developer workshops hitting the East Coast. The time for your app is now! (Dave Isbitski)
• Free 2 Day Training: HTML5 and Web Development WebCamp | Register Now (Doris Chen)
• NuGet Was The Star of MIX 11 (Rob Conery)
• Subscribe to the MIX Newsletter (Kim Spilker)
• The Pros and Cons are in – the love/hate relationship we have with our jobs and The next Bill Gates: Microsoft hosts a new generation of tech talent (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• HTML5 Community Night: HTML5 and Browsers Webcast on Tuesday April 26 (Wes Yanaga)

Database

• SQL Server: Transfer Objects From One Schema to Another (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Prevent Constraint to Allow NULL (Pinal Dave)
• Phill’s SQL Monitoring Suite (Phill)
• Identity Columns Aren’t Automatically Primary Keys (Andy Warren)
• The Little MongoDB Book epub (Karl Seguin)
• PostgreSQL Update Internals (Jeremiah Peschka)
• NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Web-based Applications (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• Custom SharePoint Ribbons and Current List Item in JavaScript (Bil Simser)
• SharePoint Foundation Logger RTW!!! (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• SharePoint 2010: Track User Profile Changes Over Time Using MERGE (Steve Novoselac)

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Beta Released (Chris Koenig)
• Microsoft and Nokia signs partnership agreement (damaster)
• Now Available: April 2011 CTP the Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Phone (post Walshie) gets a “Samsung update” (Kip Kniskern)
• One Step Closer to the First Nokia Device built on Windows Phone (Jeffrey Meisner)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 19, 2011 and Interesting Finds: April 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.11 ~ 04.19 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 19 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows Client Developer Roundup 066 for 4/21/2011 (Pete Brown)
• The Morning Brew #837 and The Morning Brew #838 and The Morning Brew #839 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 04/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Phone at MIX (Dave Bost)
• SilverlightShow for April 1 – 17, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 20, 2011 – 2 — #1075 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 19th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News April 20th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• April 19th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)

The Geek Shelf

C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Anders Hejlsberg