Dew Drop – April 27, 2011

Top Links

• NuGet 1.3 Released (Phil Haack)
• ILSpy – Decompiler Architecture Overview (Daniel Grunwald)
• arealdeveloper.com (Jef Claes)
• Hulu Plus comes to Xbox 360 April 29th according to OXM (Richard Lawler)
• WP7 Animations in depth– Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Register Mono / F# executables on Linux (2#4u)
• How to automate a command line utility like DiskPart (vbscript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• Managing Talks: An F#/Office Love Story (Part 1) (Ted Neward)
• Generating a <machineKey> Element (Jonathan Wood)
• Upgrading to Entity Framework 4.1 RC (John Papa)
• New.NET Async Control Flow Explained (David Cooksey)
• Free upgrade to ReSharper 6 starts today + decompiler gets a name (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Solver Foundation on DevLabs (Somasegar)

Web Development

• Extending Your jQuery Application with Amplify.js (Elijah Manor & Andrew Wirick)
• How to Add MVC 3.01 Project Types to the Azure Cloud Service Wizard (Jason Haley)
• IIS Extensions on Windows Azure (Nathan Totten)
• Sorting Azure Table Entities by Timestamp with PHP (Brian Swan)
• Understanding Differences in Hardware Acceleration through Paintball (Seth McLaughlin)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 4: How to implement Jump List Tasks (Jennifer Marsman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Rabu Schedule Visualizations: Taking the Edge Off Hard Facts (James Shore)
• Select N+1 Is a Problem We Made For Ourselves (Rob Conery)
• Why drop the I if you’re going to just add an Impl? (Bobby Johnson)
• The Module Pattern (Kris Gray)
• The developer / DBA relationship. (Martin Catherall)
• Using Rx to Test CQRS App Engine Functionality (Rinat Abdullin)
• The Gang of Four patterns as everyday objects (Giorgio Sironi)
• Integration: Messaging (Paul Stovell)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Purely XAML coded Animated Bezier Curve via WPF (logicchild)
• XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 10 – UI Elements and Menus (Peter Kuhn)
• Creating a delete animation using Expression Blend (Nigel Sampson)
• Silverlight 5 Beta–Binding to Dynamic Properties and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Trusted Apps In The Browser (Mike Taulty)
• Breakpoints on Xaml in Silverlight 5 (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight Spy April 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• What’s behind the Windows Phone text entry system? (Steve Clayton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 145 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Hicks Managing Active Directory with PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Ultimate Gaming Pod – OVEI (Tina Wood)
• The GeekDads Episode #90: Was There Celery Involved? (Ken Denmead)
• Applying SDL Requirements practices within Windows Azure and ‘Softie Builds 737 Cockpit In His House (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Star Wars Cantina, Paper Toss, TouchStudio, Wordament, Lie Detector (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Campus Jam (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• SharePoint Connections Coast-to-Coast San Diego, CA next week! (Andrew Connell)
• Windows Phone Accelerator Labs (Chris Koenig)
• No Longer A Freak? (Alan Stevens)
• .NET Open Source Community – CodePlex / GitHub Comparision (Jonathan Wanagel)
• MVP Mondays: A Look Back (Lonnie Webb)
• Speaking at the Dev Dinner (Frank La Vigne)

Database

• MSDB in FULL RECOVERY Model in SQL Server (Amit Bansal)
• SQL Server Filegroups: The What, The Why and The How (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL Server: String operations in XML document‏ (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Azure – Creating Database and Connecting Database (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 1 – Server Configuration – MAX Memory (Ted Krueger)
• Transforming SSIS’ sysssislog Entries Into Something More Readable (Todd McDermid)
• SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD waits and the LOCK_HASH spinlock (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL Azure Use Case: Shared Storage Application (Buck Woody)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 4 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

Miscellaneous

• Communicate with your customers through Zune (Adam Nathan)
• Microsoft Sets Guinness World Record Using Kinect…. Again! (Austin Ritchie)
• Microsoft readies more retail stores: Houston and Los Angeles up next and Survey: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 a distant third in developer interest (Mary Jo Foley)
• WP7 developer interest: Different perspectives, one set of data (Brody McKee)
• Windows Phone 7 Does Not Store Your Location History Like iPhone And Android Does (Oliver Haslam)
• Microsoft Increases Exam Pricing (Spy)
• Microsoft returning to its Windows versioning hell (Steven Hodson)
• Microsoft hints built-in Windows Live Messenger support in Windows Phone “Mango” (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Weekly Link Post 191 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 26th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• SilverlightShow for April 18 – 24, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for April 26, 2011 — #1079 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #841 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

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