Dew Drop – April 29, 2011

Top Links

• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10425 and Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.10425 (Experimental Release) (MS Downloads)
• Signature Series 40% off until May 15 (Martin Fowler)
• IE Pinned Sites Part 6: How to implement Overlay Icons (Jennifer Marsman)
• Dynamic Types to Simplify Property Change Notification in Silverlight 4 and 5 (Jeremy Likness)

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF Extensibility – IParameterInspector (Carlos Figueira)
• WCF 4.0 Features: Part #1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ElementAt() and Last() (James Michael Hare)
• TFS – Fail a build when the warning count increases (Peter Gfader)
• Calling Roles.GetRolesForUser in a WCF service (Rockford Lhotka)
• Planning Mogade v2 (Karl Seguin)
• Table Compares Windows Azure Developer Offerings (Bruce Kyle)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – April Update (Windows Azure Team)

Web Development

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC 3 (ambilykk)
• Getting Started with Script# (Nikhil Kothari)
• Single Action Controllers with ASP.Net MVC (Derek Greer)
• How To Scroll To Validation Summary ? (Abhijit Jana)
• All you want to know about Web Storage (Giorgio Sironi)
• Modules and namespaces in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Fun With WebMatrix Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Lydford)
• Walking Through the Orchard Part 2 – Conversion from Graffiti (John Papa)
• Recovering the admin password in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• JavaScript Events (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Long Feedback Loops (Patrick Kua)
• Reactive Extensibility of Lokad.CQRS App Engine (Rinat Abdullin)
• When to Use White Text on a Dark Background (Anthony T.)
• Performance from Day 1 (Paul Stovell)
• Agile or Scrum? (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. (Rachel Appel)
• Using Perspective Transforms inside ListBox ItemTemplate and WP7 Master – Detail Navigation with Repository Pattern (Windows Phone Geek)
• Loading data during WP7 Page navigation – the slow, the fast and the incremental (Andreas Hammar)
• Tooling in Mango and What’s Coming In Mango–Reminders (Jesse Liberty)
• XNA for Windows Phone 7: a 3-day Online Training Course (Svetla Stoycheva)
• The Case of the Confused ComboBox – A WPF/MVVM Bedtime Story (James Kovacs)
• The science behind the Windows Phone keyboard (Michael Stroh)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• End User Adoption of SharePoint 2010-Episode 59 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• jQuery Podcast 42 – jQuery Mobile Keynote (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Silverlight TV 70: Sockets Unplugged (John Papa)
• Windows Phone Radio 25 (Brian Seitz)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Rasesh Shah Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

• Free “State of .NET” Events! (Chris Koenig)
• Dream.Build.Play Developer Twitter Chat on May 11 (XNA Team)

Database

• SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Feature Pack CTP Bring New Features and Tools (Abel Avram)
• SQL SERVER – Denali – Executing Stored Procedure with Result Sets (Pinal Dave)
• How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment (sognibene)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 3 – Server Configuration – Model Database (Ted Krueger)
• SQL University: SQL Azure & PowerShell (Grant Fritchey)
• Better Living Through Caching (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Daily Denali Delight – Day 6 (Justin Hostettler-Davies)

SharePoint

• Incrementing the feature version through MSBuild (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

• Bliki: CrossPlatformMobile (Martin Fowler)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2011 04.20 ~ 04.29 (yuanjian)
• Daily News Digest 04/28/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 27-Apr-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily WP7 Development News April 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server DMVs in Action: Better Queries with Dynamic Management Views by Ian W. Stirk