Dew Drop – May 24, 2011

Top Links

• MVVM Backlash (Ward Bell)
• Coding4Fun WP7 ColorSlider in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
• Read-only and threadsafe are different (Eric Lippert)
• Build data-driven sites using the MVC 3 Tools Update with MvcScaffolding (Rachel Appel)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• 3 Easy Ways to Learn About Visual Studio vNext Application Lifecycle Management (Brian Keller)
• NuGet Package of the Week #7 – ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers) with SQL Server Compact (Scott Hanselman)
• Coordinating "Embarrassingly Parallel” .NET4 Workflow Processes (Suren Machiraju)
• DXCore Components – SmartTagProvider and How to use DXCore SmartTagProvider control and create your own Popup menu entry (Alex Skorkin)
• MJPEG Decoder (Brian Peek)

 

Web Development

• Integrating Twitter with your ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor Web Application (Harish Ranganathan)
• ASP.NET 4.0 Web Control ClientID (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• IE9 Pinned Sites Info and Video (Richard Hay)
• Install the Ajax Control Toolkit from NuGet (Stephen Walther)
• How to retrieve HTTPModule details from HttpModuleCollection ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Anatomy of a CSS Style 101 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Orchard list customization: first item template (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Rails 3.1: Release Candidate Is Ready To Go (Jim Moscater)
• Phaxio the First JSON-enabled Fax API (Garrett Wilkin)
• The Easy API: Lessons Learned Scaling an API (Chad R. Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What The 5th Agile Principle Really Means (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Leadership Checklist and Portfolios, Programs, and Projects (JD Meier)
• New TDD Kata – Interactions (Roy Osherove)
• Agility and following a "Strictly Agile" approach (S. Lott)
• Getting Enterprise Architects to the Business Decision Making Table (Mike Walker)
• The Illusion of Control (Jurgen Appelo)
• The Infinite Version (Jeff Atwood)
• Git Branches: A Pointer, With History And Metadata (Derick Bailey)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Deep linking pages on Widows Phone (Rudi Grobler)
• A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example (Colin Eberhardt)
• Things to consider when building a browser-based WPF application and Building a relatively simple download manager in a Windows Phone 7 application (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Silverlight 5 Multiple Window Support (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Adding synchronous methods to WebRequest on Windows Phone 7 (Pieter de Rycke)
• The Basics of MVVM (Paul Sheriff)
• The Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Update, Codename Mango is Almost Here (Savi Thomas)
• Creating Custom Markup Extensions with Silverlight 5 (Jeremy Likness)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Arteaga Talks Windows Phone 7 and Mango (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #36 Mary Jo Foley (Jesse Liberty)
• Ping 102: PhotoDNA & Facebook, Xbox update, Give-aways for students, Windows Phone on Verizon (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
• Boagworld Podcast season 2: Getting our hands dirty (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Events This Week – May 23rd, 2011 and Azure Tech Jam and Windows Phone Garage (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th (Scott Guthrie)
• SPTech Conference Full Day Developer Workshop (Paul J. Swider)
• Tune in to our press conference tomorrow (Michael Stroh)
• Leon Wong: from Microsoft to Google and back (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Steven Sinofsky to appear at All Things D’s D9 conference (Kip Kniskern)
• Community Podcast CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (Jen McCown)
• Join us at WebVisions Conference Next Week and Free 3-Day Windows Azure Training in San Francisco and HTML5 and Web Development WebCamp Training Available to Download |Free Presentation, Demo, and Labs (Doris Chen)
• New Windows Phone 7 Developer Contest for XDA Developers (Senthil Kumar)

 

Database

• SQL Server Denali: Analysis Services Roadmap update (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Azure – Article Links by Dhananjay Kumar (Pinal Dave)
• Let’s Get Visual – The Art of Report Design (Paul Turley)
• SQL Azure Query Tuning (Grant Fritchey)

 

SharePoint

• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Rolling up News Articles in SharePoint Server 2010 with the Content Query Web Part (Lonnie Webb)
• Creating Custom SharePoint Workflows (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

PowerShell

• PoshConsole – Release v2.1 (Q2 2011) (CodePlex)
• Renaming Files Puzzle – And Three Golden PowerShell Rules (Tobias Weltner)
• Fix: Powershell „File cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system“ (Code Inside Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Livescribe Connects Its Digital Pen With Google Docs, Evernote (Ina Fried)
• Rumor: Xbox 360 to get full stereoscopic 3D support (John Callaham)
• Microsoft’s Ballmer says next-gen Windows systems due in 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Vote on Windows Azure Content Ideas (Windows Azure Team)
• How to bomb a technical talk (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Phone 7.1 is the likely name for Mango OS update (Vlad Savov)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 23, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Links of the week #150 (David Vidmar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2011 — #1093 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 23rd 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #858 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft® Silverlight® Edition: Programming Windows® Phone 7 by Charles Petzold