Dew Drop – April 23, 2011

Top Links

• ILSpy – Query Expressions (Daniel Grunwald)
• ReSharper, Import Symbol Completion, XML files, and You (James Kovacs)
• How to Debug XAML Data Bindings in Silverlight 5 Beta ? (Abhijit Jana)
• When to avoid CQRS (Udi Dahan)
• Watermark TextBox for Windows Phone (Daniel Moth)

.NET / Visual Studio

• TOD : Wrapping Code Block and Statements in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• WCF Extensibility – Message Inspectors (Carlos Figueira)
• How to read/write different DXCore setting files from your own plug-in and How to load/change CodeRush templates from inside your DXCore plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
• Handle an event with reflection (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Windows Azure for Developers Task 12: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error and Windows Azure for Developers Task 13: SetConfigurationSettingPublisher needs to be called before FromConfiguration Setting can be used error [Other Solution] (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Announcing ApiStack.net (Adam Granicz)
• Anonymous type equality (Jef Claes)
• SL# 1.4 Released (Zor)

Web Development

• Using jQuery for ASP.NET Textbox Autocomplete (Joe Stagner)
• Test your ASP.NET MVC or WebForms Application on IIS 7 in 30 seconds and Better, Faster, Easier SSL testing for ASP.NET MVC & WebForms (ricka0)
• The Continuing Evolution of WCF–the Web Uris Evolve (Sam Gentile)
• 404? 500? The Server Header Infographic (Think "Making Server Headers pretty and more understandable infographic") (Greg Duncan)
• Making use of Cloud Services .NET My Services (Hailstorm) (Christian Nagel)
• New Sample NancyFx App TickerViewer (Bobby Johnson)
• Thoughts on when to use Canvas and SVG (Patrick Dengler)
• Configuring a WCF Service to Run Via HTTPS (Steve Smith)
• Storing Encrypted Data in Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A new problem for the agile testing community (Gojko Adzic)
• Use CQRS When Constrained on Developers and Time (Rinat Abdullin)
• NUnit Exception Assertions (Richard Carr)
• Using State Diagrams to Express Robot Behaviors & Transitions (Billy McCafferty)
• Best practices: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention (Devon Musgrave)
• Integration: ETL (Paul Stovell)
• Peer recognition (Steven "Doc" List)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight 5 Tidbits–Multiple Windows (Peter Kuhn)
• Silverlight 4 Documentation Updated (Brian)
• MVVM Resources (Corey Schuman)
• Babylon 3D engine for Silverlight 5 Beta available for download (Davide Zordan)
• Dropbox photo uploader for Windows Phone – raw bits, no third-party libraries (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Mango Marketplace (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Phone Next (Don Burnett)
• Windows Phone Garage part deux (Glen Gordon)
• Silverlight 5 Beta – available now! (Silverlight Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes on 9 – Raw Backstage footage before the Mix11 keynote with Jonathan Carter (Scott Hanselman)
• Cloud Cover Episode 44 – Umbraco and Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Sam Abraham Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows Phone Radio 24 (Brian Seitz)
• Microsoft Surface 2 SDK at Mix 11 (Larry Larsen)
• TWC9: Mix Sessions, Async CTP Refresh, Hanselman rides the Jellybean (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• VLC MIX WMV RSS – Jon Galloway shows us an alternate way to view the MIX videos, via magic of RSS and VLC (Greg Duncan)
• VBandi at MIX Part 2 – Dave Campbell and Tony Champion (András Velvárt)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 54 – Interviewing at Microsoft (Mark Berry & Jim Wang)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Student App-a-thon! (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 SP1 CTP (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Management Studio Tip: Change Defaul templates for Stored Procedures (Amit Bansal)
• SQL SERVER – Using Decode in SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CTP Available for download (Denis Gobo)
• Difference between a Cumulative Update and Service Pack for SQL Server (Ted Krueger)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit v2.0 (MS Downloads)
• Just Published: Apr. 1- 15 | 2010 SharePoint Dev Content (SharePoint Developer Team)
• How to upload a document in SharePoint 2010 using Client Context Object Model ? (Abhijit Jana)

Miscellaneous

• Now in Marketplace: Groupon, Home Depot (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Retrospective 29 – Tiger Blood and Agile Chicken Guns (Peter Saddington)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 22 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for April 23, 2011 – 2 — #1076 (Dave Campbell)
• This Week’s Link List (April 22, 2011) (Brian Swan)

The Geek Shelf

Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) by Scott Jamison