Dew Drop – May 14, 2011

Top Links

• “Walshed” Phone Support Tool: official fix to get you back on track (Chris Walsh)
• Eduasync part 2: the shape of the caller / async method boundary and Eduasync part 3: the shape of the async method / awaitable boundary (Jon Skeet)
• Using Lazy to Solve Deadlocks in Resource Caches (Rick Brewster)
• jQuery 1.6 and .attr() (John Resig)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• MSDN Instant Answers (Cameron Skinner)
• Visual Studio 2010 Image Optimizer Extension (Gil Fink)
• Model First, Database First or Code First–Update to Data Points Column (Julie Lerman)
• Adding Visual Studio Shortcut to Close currently opened File (Kunal Chowdhury)
• BitVector32 in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Developing Android Applications in .NET (Resco Team)
• Nhibernate BatchSize and massive insert (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Introducing Real World Windows Azure Guidance (Windows Azure Team)

 

Web Development

• Getting Started with Infragistics HTML5 Video Player (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Unlocking the power of HTML5 (Giorgio Sardo)
• My first jQuery plugin: jRoll (Jef Claes)
• Contoso Karate MVC – Migrating the Theme from WebMatrix (Joe Stagner)
• ASP.Net 4.0 Social Networking book – Authored by Atul Gupta (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Two New HTML5 Tutorials (Martin Beeby)
• Hosting WCF REST Service in IIS with HTTPS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Pinify – The Site Pinning Plugin (Formerly ie9ify) (Don Burnett)
• Google Completes a Major To-Do with Tasks API (Romin Irani)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Use Getting Results the Agile Way with Evernote (JD Meier)
• Determining How Many Task Hours an Agile Team Can Accomplish (Jim Magers)
• The 4 Stages of Learning Design Patterns (Steve Smith)
• From sprints to pull-based flow (Jimmy Bogard)
• ALM Practices Part 7: Refactoring (Dennis Doomen)
• Do You Really Need a Deadline? (Michael)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• What is Character Spacing in Silverlight 5 Controls (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Adding Buy Now Functionality (Windows Phone Geek)
• WP7 Context Menus with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• There’s more than one way too…connect your Windows Phone 7 to Dropbox via SevenDrops (Greg Duncan)
• Page Layouts in Windows Phone 7 (Senthil Kumar)
• Be green with your Windows Phone (Luke)
• Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 2) (Michael Crump)
• Silverlight 5 Beta – Run Evaluated Trust Applications in Browser (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Free Silverlight 4 training kit and Build a Windows Phone 7 Game using Silverlight (Sam)
• Best Practices For Local Databases (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes on 9 – "Glimpse" at the Mix11 Open Source Fest (Scott Hanselman)
• Engadget Podcast 239 – 05.13.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 46 – Windows Azure Traffic Manager (Wade Wegner)
• Coding QA Podcast Episode 55 – SDE vs. SDET, Scenario Focused Eng (Coding QA)
• jQuery Podcast 44 – jQuery 1.5 – 1.6.1 (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)
• Windows Phone Radio 27 (Brian Seitz)
• "Technology and Friends” webcast on IE Pinned Sites (Jennifer Marsman)
• TWC9: Skype, HTML 5 Canvas, Python tools, & more (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)

 

Community / Events

• Speaking at TechEd North America (Stephen Forte)
• The 5 Things You Need to Do While at TechEd in Atlanta (Eve T.)
• The MSDN Subscriptions Team Are Listening and Coming to Cities Around the World in May (Mark Curphey)
• Upcoming Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone “Mango” and Advanced Silverlight Trainings in Redmond (Dave Campbell)
• Get Prepared for HTML5 Web Camp | Software and Labs Available to Download (Doris Chen)
• Campus tours show off unique spaces (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Why the New Guy Can’t Code (Rob Miles)

 

Database

• Why is my SQL Server being slow… Top 10 PerfMon Counters for SQL Server Performance Monitoring (Greg Duncan)
• SQLAuthority News – Restart Remote Computer – Shutdown Remote Computer (Pinal Dave)
• How to check SQL Server version – TSQL and Undocumented Extended Stored Procedures – XPs (Vishal)
• Federation in SQL Azure and SQL Azure Architecture (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Losing your identity (Pete O’Hanlon)

 

SharePoint

• From the trenches with SharePoint unit testing and Typemock (Avi Kaye)

 

Miscellaneous

• First screenshot leaked for Windows Live SkyDrive Wave 5 (damaster)
• Would You Like to Download VM’s ? (Mark Curphey)
• Speech Technology Moves From Recognition to Understanding (Steve Clayton)
• TFS 2010 Java SDK Released (Greg Duncan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 13, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 102 (Scott Banwart)
• This Week’s Link List (May 13th, 2011) (Brian Swan)
• Daily News Digest 05/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• 11-May-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Retrospective 32 – #RallyOn11 and #PMI Courses (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 13th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2011 — #1088 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Links– 2010_17 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)

 

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft® Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight® (Patterns & Practices) by Bob Brumfield