May 2011 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – May 19, 2011

Dew Drop – May 18, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Introducing LINQ to HPC (MS Downloads)
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Of Lambdas and LINQ (James Michael Hare)
TFS API Part 37 – Create Builds and TFS API Index Parts 1 To 37 (Shai Raiten)
Sequential GUID are Unique (Gian Maria Ricci)
JSON and .NET Nirvana Hath Arrived (Karsten Januszewski)
Memory Corruption, GC, and Overlapping Objects (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

F# and HTML5: WebSharper Professional 2.2 Released (Don Syme)
Understanding the Publish/Subscribe Pattern for Greater JavaScript Scalability (Addy Osmani)
Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 1) and Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Pages, Web Forms, and MVC (Christian Nagel)
How to Deploy a Hadoop Cluster on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
Quick Tip – Including Empty Directory While Deploying a Web Application (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Code Templates – NUnit testing (Alex Skorkin)
Great Expectations of Success and Visualizing Roadmaps for Execution Excellence (JD Meier)
Estimation in consulting (Jimmy Bogard)
Book Review: Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking (Patrick Kua)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Lookup (Giorgio Sironi)
Diffing Files to Avoid Easy Goofs (Sharon Cichelli)
Its all about communication, not processes….! (Derik Whittaker)
Development Practice: Design Ideas Board (Michael)
How and why I changed my coworker’s code (Zubair Ahmed)
Cloud Computing and the Code-Based Infrastructure (Buck Woody)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation (Windows Phone Geek)
Expression Blend: Introduction to the Layout System (Alex)
How to trick Windows Phone OS Part II – Adobe Reader’s turn and a general conclusion (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 RTM and Using the Windows Phone 7 Advertising SDK (Doug Holland)
TouchStudio – Plotting Math Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 to Display JSON Data (Jeremy Likness)
Silverlight 5 Beta–Combining Implicit Data Templates & Multiple Windows (Mike Taulty)
Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Xpert360 PivotViewer Blog Article Index and PivotViewer Shorts Part 3: Hide Collection path (xpert360)
Reactive Extensions–FromAsync (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How Do I: Use Reflection to Access Private Members in .NET Compact Framework Types? and How Do I: Create And Use an Azure Service Bus Message Buffer? (MS Podcasts)
Silverlight Show Webinar: ‘Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta’ (Michael Crump)
Let’s Play TDD #106: Back from the Dead (James Shore)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 55 – Erlang with OJ Reeves (Richard Banks)
Hot Apps: Glider; Adventure Worlds, Wordrix, Rowi, Training Buddy, Text Text Revolution (Laura Foy)
Using Taxonomies in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)

Community / Events

CMAP GiveCamp (G. Andrew Duthie)
Are you interested in speaking at usergroups or conferences, how about some free training (Simon Sabin)
Join the SQL Server Developer Tools Advisory Program! (Tiffena Kou)
MVPs Chat It Up on Twitter (Lonnie Webb)
Win .NET EBooks, Training and Products in our GiveAway – 5 days left! (.NET Curry)

Database

SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU14 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 CU4 Released (Glenn Berry)
SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR – Service Logon Failure (ObjectExplorer) (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server DBA Tip 16 – Working with Files and Folders (Ted Krueger)
On Transactions, errors and rollbacks (GilaMonster)

SharePoint

SharePoint Lifecycle Management Solution with Project Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 1 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
The LDS Church and the Strong Embrace of Social Media (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8 Moorea app reveals a sliver of its tablet-friendly interface (Phone Arena)
Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets (Alex Chitu)
SmartScreen® Application Reputation in IE9 (Jeb Haber)
Chrome OS is only a failure to people living in the past (Joe Wilcox)
VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis (Krishnan Subramanian)
More good times for app developers? (Mike Hole)
Microsoft’s Bill Gates gave big thumbs up on the Skype deal (Steven Hodson)
VMware unveils Web app management service for Google apps, Salesforce, more (Tim Conneally)
What do we do now? "It’s over man, Wormer dropped the big one" – #MonoTouch and #MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
Are you REALLY leveraging your MSDN benefits? If not, let me help you! (Angela Binkowski)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler

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Dew Drop – May 17, 2011

.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)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Unleashed by Mike Snell

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Dew Drop – May 18, 2011

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Dew Drop – May 17, 2011

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