Month: May 2011

Top Links

• Async 12: Expressions within await (Bill Wagner)
• NuGet Package of the Week #6 – Dynamic, Malleable, Enjoyable Expando Objects with Clay (Scott Hanselman)
• MVVM Light V3 on NuGet (now with WP7 support) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Game Changing Features in the Silverlight 5 Beta (Part 1) (Michael Crump)

.NET / Visual Studio

• LINQ Zip Operator (Richard Carr)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox standalone – including all managed DLLs in a single .exe (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
• MongoDB quickstart tutorial in C# and Linqpad (Lawrence Botley)
• Data Structures in C# (Rob Miles)
• Pushing Code to NuGet (Rob Conery)

Web Development

• Rethinking JavaScript Object Enumeration (Angus Croll)
• Getting Started with the HTML 5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• ASP.NET jQuery Cookbook – Review (Hajan Selmani)
• Galactic: Building a 3D Solar System with HTML5 (ieblog)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting up to BAT: Scaling Out (John Sonmez)
• Guaranteed Success With Scrum (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Criteria for Success (Peter Ritchie)
• Discussing the Undiscussable: Book Review (Mark Needham)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• TCommand: A WPF Compatible Command Pattern (L. Benini)
• What is AppManifest.xaml in Silverlight? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• More clarity and self-test help on our Content Policies and Technical Requirements (Todd Brix)
• TouchStudio – Script Your Phone on Your Phone Reloaded (Jonathan de Halleux)
• Blog Reader QA: A simple example of INotifyPropertyChanged. (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Answering Niners Questions about Jelly Bean—The Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair (Tina Wood)
• Episode 175: Game Development with Andrew Brownsword (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget Podcast 238 – 05.06.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Devdays Sessions now on Channel 9 (Rob Miles)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast: Wally McClure Interview (Ryan Parsley)
• Windows Weekly 207: You’ve Been Walshed (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Local Mid-Atlantic Events YOU should attend! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Excellent List of FREE Webcasts around our new Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools! (Angela Binkowski)
• Seattle/Redmond Drinkup on Sat, May 7 (S. Chacon)
• More Free State of .NET Events Coming Up! (Markus Egger)
• Announcing a Prism, Unity, WPF, MVVM Training Event (Karl Shifflett)

Database

• SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2008 R2 – Create Script to Copy Database Schema and All The Objects – Data, Schema, Stored Procedure, Functions, Triggers, Tables, Views, Constraints and All Other Database Objects (Pinal Dave)
• Match your defaults with your trigger values to prevent horrible fragmentation on your indexes and tables (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server DBA Tip 9 – SQL Server Monitoring – Default Trace (Ted Krueger)
• Removing OS Files Through a Stored Procedure (Kim Tessereau)
• Multiple Server Query Execution – Management Studio (Vishal)
• Which Database Is Right for Me? (Jeremiah Peschka)

Miscellaneous

• Installing a Fresh Windows OS to a New Bootable VHD with no Host OS for Boot to VHD (John Papa)
• Programming and Age (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Windows Phone 7 App Pick: Tasks At Last (Paul Thurrott)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 6, 2011 and Interesting Finds: May 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 6 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Distributed Weekly 101 (Scott Banwart)
• Weekly Links– 2010_17 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Silverlight Cream for May 05, 2011 — #1085 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action by Wictor Wilen