Dew Drop – June 1, 2011

Top Links

• MyGet now supports pushing from the command line (Maarten Balliauw)
• Atomicity, volatility and immutability are different, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Quality is in the eye of the customer (Eric Brechner)
• The mystery of Windows 8’s new ‘Protogon’ file system and Could E3 be Microsoft’s launch pad for Project ‘Orapa’? (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

• “Not able to view the solution file in Visual Studio” – Hide and Show solution file in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• A Simple Windows Service Template for F# (Don Syme)
• Coded UI Test (CUIT) – Variations and Editing with Visual Studio 2010 (Gouri Sohoni)
• What is the Tfs Automation Platform and What about hosting the Tfs Automation Platform and How might we implement the Change Iteration Automation for the Tfs Automation Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Change Visual Studio Compare Tool To WinMerge (Shai Raiten)
• Virtual properties – they’re just dumb (Kyle Szklenski)
• A Broker Pipeline Component for End-To-End Ordered Delivery (Paolo Salvatori)
• Performance of Non-Zero lower bound Single Dimensional Array (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 3 + Entity Framework + Infragistics jQuery Grid (Murtaza Abdeali)
• Using the jQuery Template Plugin for Consistant User Notifications (Bobby Johnson)
• The Orchard CMS Gazette (Jason Gaylord)
• jQuery ASP.NET MVC Controls – Release: v1.4.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Content Update: New Guidance Available on Using SSL Certificates with Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
• Windows Azure SDK for PHP features Open Source Libraries (Bruce Kyle)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 2: Extension Methods (Chad Myers)
• Record Visual Studio Web Test Using Fiddler (Steve Smith)
• Which .Net Web Framework? Let’s at least ask the question. (Jeremy Miller)
• Build Canvas-based Heatmaps with Heatmap.js (Rey Bango)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Derived Value (Giorgio Sironi)
• Start All Your Meetings in Pole Position (John Sansom)
• Mindmapping Today is About More Than a Visual Diagram (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using Microsoft Expression Blend 4.0 to implement MVVM (Gildon Opao)
• IE9 for Windows Phone Mango in the Spotlight (Joe Marini)
• Where is RichTextBox in the Mango beta? (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• How Do I: Create .NET Compact Framework controls with a Gradient Background? (MS Podcasts)
• .NET Rocks! – Stories from Tech Ed US! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 148 – PowerScripting Podcast – Matt Hester and Sarah Dutkiewicz (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• SharePoint Implementation at United Airlines-Episode 61 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Let’s Play TDD #110: Create a Beautiful, Simple Result (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Hydro Thunder GO, DNA Roulette, Easy Animator, Apple Bin, Grandma’s Secrets (Laura Foy)
• Podcast- Don Smith on Project Silk (Joe Stagner)
• The Thirsty Developer 101: Oh JavaScript, My JavaScript (Dave Bost)

Community / Events

• Three-time intern Tessa Palmer on how to rock your Microsoft internship (Microsoft JobsBlog)
• Announcing – CodeRush Feature Workshop (Rory Becker)

Database

• Top 10 Keys to Deploying SQL Server on VMware (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Creating All New Database with Full Recovery Model (Pinal Dave)
• Generate a GUID/newid() in SSIS 2008 (Scott Herbert)
• My head hurts from hitting it against a wall–SSMS log viewer and Do you use schemas? would you like keyboard shortcuts in SSMS to work with them (Simon Sabin)
• Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 book available as a free download (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Server Quiz June 2011 (William Vaughn)
• Identity Reseeding (Steve Jones)
• SQL Exercise During Candidate Interview Process (aszwickart)

SharePoint

• Creating client applications with Microsoft.SharePoint libraries (Arian Kulp)
• MVPs for SharePoint 2010: Debugging Techniques for SharePoint Online Applications (Lonnie Webb)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox: Now That’s Entertainment (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Microsoft Teases New Device — Could It Be A TV Box? (MSFT) (Matt Rosoff)
• Windows Phone "Mango" concepts that never made the cut (damaster)
• The Kindle is ready for programmers (Giorgio Sironi)
• My First Experience with Windows Azure Support (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• On the road again… with TFS On the Road. A free WP7 TFS App (using the TFS OData Services) (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 31, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #863 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 05/31/2011 and Daily News Digest 06/01/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting .NET Links – May 31 , 2011 (admin)
• Daily WP7 Development News May 31st 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for May 23-29, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for May 31, 2011 — #1097 (Dave Campbell)
• Monthly News Digest @SilverlightZone – May 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• .NET Tips – Links on ASP.NET C# MVC Visual Studio Tips – May 2011 (Abhijit Jana)
• Weekly Links– 2010_19 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Top 9 posts from 6 months of microsoft.com/next (Steve Clayton)

The Geek Shelf

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