Dew Drop – April 28, 2011

Top Links

• Feedback Request for using NuGet Without Committing Packages (Phil Haack)
• XNA RPG – Learning XNA while building a RPG, a 26 part tutorial series (Greg Duncan)
• Project Silk (Karl Shifflett)
• Why use the command processor pattern in the service layer (Ian Cooper)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Important counter sets for monitoring ASP.NET performance using Perfmon Tool (Abhijit Jana)
• Facebook C# SDK – Release: v5.0.10 (RC) (CodePlex)
• Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #5 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
• Windows Azure Kit Adds WP7 Authentication, Traffic Manager, SQL Azure Reporting (Bruce Kyle)
• Programmatically calling validation in a rehosted Workflow 4 designer (Patrick D. Fletcher)
• Creating tag cloud using ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework (Gunnar Peipman)
• VS2010 SP1 New Features: Performance Wizard Support for Silverlight (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to create a WF4 WorkflowServiceHostFactory for AppFabric Auto-Start (Ron Jacobs)
• New Content: Code Quick Start: Capturing Diagnostics in your Windows Azure Application and Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh Issue Resolved (Windows Azure Team)
• Dynamically Loading .NET Assemblies using Interfaces and Reflection (Scott Bentley)
• The Windows Native Ribbon Part 1.5: Laying out Controls and Groups (Michael Dunn)
• An Introduction to Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Part I (Niladri Biswas)
• Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1 (MS Downloads)

Web Development

• ContosoKarate (WM) – The HTML Theme and ASP.NET Web Pages Integration (Joe Stagner)
• Caching Data in ASP.NET Applications (Nathan Totten)
• An Introduction to CSS 3 in Expression Web (Pad Gallagher)
• CSS3 Media Queries Explained (Andrew Spooner)
• Editable lines in Google Maps using the Javascript v3 API (Tobias Södergren)
• WebDeploy tip for WebMatrix…watch out for port blocking (G. Andrew Duthie)
• IE9 Compat Inspector (Tony Ross)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 5: How to implement dynamic Jump List Categories (Jennifer Marsman)
• HTML 5: Specification news! Latest specifications released! Silverlight Impacted? (Sam)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 3 Ways to Maintain Quality in Your Unit Tests (Avi Kaye)
• Visualising quality: initial ideas (Gojko Adzic)
• BDD Antipattern: Specs with concealed intent (John Rayner)
• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Helper (Giorgio Sironi)
• Templates for SDL Practices (MS Downloads)
• Integration: Coupling (Paul Stovell)
• Using Kinect for NUI Part 4 – Buttons (Deborah Hanamura)
• Using Stubs (Richard Carr)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Get a visual parent of an element in Silverlight and Windows Phone App – Where’s My Car (Arian Kulp)
• Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11 (John Papa)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate (Windows Phone Geek)
• An elegant ThreadLocal for Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Application Bar for your Windows Phone 7 and Async support for Silverlight and WP7 (Abhishek Sur)
• Supporting Non-Supported Entities like IEnumerable in Sterling (Jeremy Likness)
• Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta (Michael Crump)
• Fix: Calling WCF Methods with Parameters Synchronously on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Randolph)
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Linked RichTextBoxes and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Composition Thread? and Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes–Debugging Data-Binding (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Pat Hynds Plans for Disaster Recovery (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 4 of n (Charles Torre)
• Microsoft SDL Requirements Phase – Security Practices and Campus Tours: Fuse Labs with Lili Cheng (Larry Larsen)
• SE Podcast #02 (Alex Miller)

Community / Events

• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• Introducing the BarCamp Tour (Joey deVilla)
• Download Videos, Presentations from MIX11 (Bruce Kyle)
• Microsoft and Wintellect Present – Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter (Jeffrey Richter)

Database

• A Palindrome Program in SSIS using Copy Column, Derived Column, Character Map and Conditional Split Transformation. (Niladri Biswas)
• A SQL Server Hardware Nugget A Day – Day 27 (Glenn Berry)
• Sorting on Multiple Columns in SSRS (Luke Hayler)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to find out when a DB recovery model was changed (Simon Sabin)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 2 – Server Configuration – Data/Log Files (Ted Krueger)
• SSMA for MySQL 5.0 and SSMA for Oracle 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 5 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• How to Connect SharePoint 2010, Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Where are all the SharePoint Testers? (Joel Oleson)
• Design Workflow using SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath Form 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 cloud roaming options via Windows Live revealed (damaster)
• Get your interview skills in shape (Microsoft JobsBlog)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – April 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 27th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 04/27/2011 and Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #842 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

The Security Development Lifecycle by Michael Howard