Dew Drop – May 25, 2011

Top Links

• MVVM Light Toolkit patch for WP7 Mango Beta (Laurent Bugnion)
• The next version of Windows Phone has the sweet taste of “Mango” (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Multi-Targeting with Windows Phone 7 Mango tools (Simon Jackson)
• New Game Development Education on App Hub for the Windows Phone Mango Tools Release (XNA Team)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Projecting Indexes with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• Thoughts on installing and updating NuGet packages outside of Visual Studio (David Ebbo)
• Code Metrics – Class Coupling (Zain Naboulsi)
• Your Voice is Important (ADO.NET Team)
• LINQ to LDAP – Release v1.5 (CodePlex)
• Compress data in sql server 2008 standard thanks to FILESTREAM and NHibernate (Gian Maria Ricci)
• The Darkness Behind DateTime.Now (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Creating your NuGet enterprise server (Al Pascual)
• Getting Started with FSRepository 2.0 (Daniel Mohl)
• NuGet for the Enterprise: NuGet in a Continuous Integration Automated Build System (Scott Hanselman)
• Dealing with blob data in HealthVault XML (Eric Gunnerson)

Web Development

• HTML5 and Accessibility (Bruce Lawson & Steve Faulkner)
• Creating a Line Chart using the HTML 5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• Creating a Data Access Layer using Dynamics in WebMatrix (Steve Lydford)
• NOW AVAILABLE: New Windows Azure Platform Pricing Calculator (Windows Azure Team)
• About Obsolete Features in HTML5 (Louis Lazaris)
• To the end of bloated code and broken websites – Nicole Sullivan on how CSS is evolving to meet performance and device needs. (Jenn Webb)
• Working with the $(this) object in jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Desigining CSS3 Navigation in Expression Web 4 SP2 (Pad Gallagher)
• How to retrieve HTTPModule details from HttpModuleCollection ? and How to return 404 Http status code from ASP.NET MVC Application? (Abhijit Jana)
• Consuming OData via JSP in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)
• Internet Explorer Mobile 9 is DOA Without Touch Support (Chris Love)
• Azure Throughput Analyzer from Microsoft Research (Hanu Kommalapati)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Software Testers Scrum (David Starr)
• Microsoft Test Manager – Test Runner–Playback error with C:fakepath (Clemens Reijnen)
• Running JustMock profiler outside of Visual Studio (Mehfuz Hossain)
• Don’t Do Role-Based Authorization Checks; Do Activity-Based Checks (Derick Bailey)
• Estimating our Work (Michael Norton)
• Chaos Monkey is your friend (Peter von Lochow)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Mango – Sockets and Windows Phone 7 Mango – BingMapsTask and Windows Phone 7 Mango – BingMapsDirectionsTask and XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 11 – Tombstoning (Peter Kuhn)
• Mango, the Next Windows Phone, Is Packed with New Features (Abel Avram)
• Metro List View double line – from PSD to Silverlight (Adam Kinney)
• wp7 pathlistbox (babaandthepigman)
• Microsoft says WP7 will have 4G devices this fall (Brad Sams)
• Windows Phone "Mango" finally supports multiple calendars, calendar subscriptions, and to-do lists (damaster)
• Bytes by MSDN Interview: Jason Jacobs talks about developing for Windows Phone 7 (Kim Spilker)
• Silverlight 5 Window : The things those I did not like (Kunal Chowdhury)
• “Mango” from the trenches part 1: Adding a new live tile to the start page #wp7dev (Laurent Bugnion)
• Augmented Mango – SLARToolkit for Windows Phone (Rene Schulte)
• Powerful 3D in new British Airways Windows Phone 7 Application (Ubelly)
• Windows Phone Developer Tools 7.1 (Beta) install (xpert360)
• Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Official feature set revealed. and New Windows Phone application types (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Use wildcards to include resource files in a project (Ward Bell)
• Managing the Back Stack and Full Stack #11–We’ve Been Busy (Jesse Liberty)
• Mango’s new GameStateManagement (Jo de Greef)
• The one where we gather up all the Mango news in one post (Kip Kniskern)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 112: Josh Arnold and Jeremy Miller on FubuMVC (Jon Galloway)
• Joe Belfiore Announces Next Release of Windows Phone, Code-Named ‘Mango’ and Windows Phone "Mango" Developer Tools Release (Laura Foy)
• New Features in Windows Phone "Mango" – with Video! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Northwind Seating Company Demo with Kinect (Don Burnett)
• The GeekDads Episode #92: Bob, Are You a Cereal Masticator? (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

• LASLUG – May meeting tomorrow: Awesome prizes + live streaming! (Cigdem Patlak)
• ImagineCup Wordwide Finalists Announced (USA) (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Upcoming Academy Live Sessions Cover Partner Solutions Powered by Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)

Database

• SQL Server CLR User Defined Function using Visual Studio 2010 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Benchmarking: Multiple data files on SSDs (plus the latest Fusion-io driver) (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

• ComponentOne Announces Launch of Software Development Kit for Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 (Eve Turzillo)
• Deciding Which SharePoint 2010 API to Use (Jim Crowley)

Miscellaneous

• Announcing The Techy Mobile App.. (Don Burnett)
• Building a MIDI Thru Box Part 1 (Pete Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• The Morning Brew #859 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 24 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Silverlight Cream for May 24 2011 — #1094 (Dave Campbell)
• Quick Links for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango Developer Tools (John Papa)

The Geek Shelf

101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Volume I: Developing Apps 1-50 by Adam Nathan