Dew Drop – May 17, 2011

Top Links

• Announcing Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio vNext at Teched (Jason Zander)
• Making your own WP7 Angry Birds – Part 6 – Impact! (Jo de Greef)
• FubuMVC Beta (0.9) is Released! (Jeremy Miller)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Linq: Relationship Code Sample (sabindas k s)
• Visual Studio ALM and TFS vNext Announcements at TechEd 2011 (Ed Blankenship)
• Code Metrics – Cyclomatic Complexity (Zain Naboulsi)
• RTM’d Today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• CodeRush Coding Helpers and Code Providers list (Alex Skorkin)
• Using guid id in nhibernate, index fragmentation (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Workaround for: Cannot assign lambda expression to a range variable (Patrick Smacchia)
• Optional argument corner cases, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Spec Explorer 2010 Version 3.5 Adds Improved Change Detection, Batch Processing (Jenni Ripley)
• The Death and Rebirth of Mono (Jonathan Allen)

Web Development

• Tekpub’s ASP.NET MVC 3 – Suggested Outline (Rob Conery)
• Code Templates – ASP.NET MVC development (Alex Skorkin)
• What are jQuery Class Selectors and ID selectors Explain them? (Hima)
• Update to the WebSockets prototype on HTML5 Labs site and Adding a site wide Log In Features to an ASP.NET MVC Web Site. (Joe Stagner)
• Web dev that’s as smooth as Silk… Project Silk (Greg Duncan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #HTML5 Applications – Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM96 (O’Reilly Media)
• The Browser Touch Events API (Chris Love)
• Don’t Kid Yourself, Size Does Matter…Least when talking about Web Service Messages (Derik Whittaker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Impact of Screen Clutter on the User Experience (Tobias Komischke)
• 5 Benefits of Sponsoring Employee Coworking (Darrell Etherington)
• Focus on the Why, not the How (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Mango Rumours (2011/05/17) (Rudi Grobler)
• LINQ Deferred Execution–Oops! (Jesse Liberty)
• Dis-(and re-)assembling the default Windows Phone YouTube library. Official YouTube in a third-party app. and How to trick Windows Phone OS into believing your app is the YouTube app and Integrating Pandora API with MediaLibrary on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
• New Windows Phone 7 Control – TileSlider (Think “Tile++” or “Tile that has much more text and can ‘slide’ that into view”) and Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2.0 released – Apple Push, Azure Storage Queue, ACS2 and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Load Data on Demand with TabControl and TabItems in WPF (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Multi Column Text support in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Choosers (Paul Sheriff)
• Free and excellent learning courses on how to use Expression and Silverlight (Sam)
• JUST ANNOUNCED: Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2 (Windows Azure Team)
• Metro In Motion #5 – SandwichFlow (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• First Look: New ALM Tools for VC++ Developers (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 156: Jon Galloway and Jesse Liberty on Remote Pairing (David Giard)
• Windows Weekly 208: Fake Hustle (Paul Thurrott)
• Clint Rutkas and "Where’s My Car" on Windows Phone 7 (Robert Hess)
• Ping 101: The Skype deal, Bill Gates & Fashion, Phishing on Facebook, Microsft Research (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #35–Silverlight, HTML5 and Developers (Jesse Liberty)

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 16th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming Conference talks in Norway, Germany and the UK (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows Phone 7 Developer Offer (Dani Diaz)
• Outercurve Foundation: Partnering with the open source community (Somasegar)

Database

• SQL Server DBA Tip 15 – SQL Server Agent – Job ownership (Ted Krueger)
• Exciting Features in CouchDB (Marc Grabanski)
• Scripting image column data for INSERT statements (Erik EJ)
• Usage of “Unknown Member” Rows in a Data Warehouse (Melissa Coates)

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Modifying Ribbon Fonts and Styles for Publishing Page HTML Field Controls (Lonnie Webb)
• SharePoint 2010 Development Platform Stack (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Site Provisioning – Is SSC good enough and Site Provisioning – Should I go Self Service? (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office Web Apps to officially support Chrome with Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Productivity takes a big step forward in Mango (Paul Bryan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 16th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #853 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Article Digest 05/16/2011 and Daily News Digest 05/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed by Mike Snell