Dew Drop – June 4, 2011

Top Links

• The Hard Thing (Rob Conery)
• So where do we go from here? (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Windows 8: HTML5 and AJAX/JavaScript == Modern UIs: HTML5, AJAX/JavaScript/jQuery (Sam Gentile)
• System Tray Progress Indicator (Jaime Rodriguez)
• TombstoneHelper V2.0 released (Matt Lacey)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Dynamically updating WCF endpoint addresses in WSDL meta data (Pieter de Rycke)
• Collecting Module Specific Debugging Information using IntelliTrace (Abhijit Jana)
• Playing with Reflection and Async (Abhishek Sur)
• Code snippet for Fetching Data from Excel using ADO.Net (Dhananjay Kumar)
• What do you do with a Work Item History Not Found Conflict Type Details (Martin Hinshelwood)
• JustCode makes coding just better (Nick Berardi)
• Slow .NET Reflector 7.1 startup? Try this (Rick Brewster)
• Baby Steps in Windows Device Driver Development: Part 2, “Hello World” Driver (Sasha Goldshtein)
• OpenAccess Quick Start for Oracle using the Visual Designer (Telerik OpenAccess Team)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Internals : “Clearing ASP.NET Session Variables” a in-depth look (Abhijit Jana)
• Windows 8 – HTML 5, JavaScript Windows Azure (Christian Nagel)
• HTML5 Presentation and Demo for WebVision Conference | Available to Download (Doris Chen)
• Replacing the Ajax Control Toolkit DragPanel Control Extender with jQuery (Joe Stagner)
• Windows 8 Previewed – HTML5 and JavaScript Apps (Ralph Whitbeck)
• Displaying CSV in an Excel Worksheet from ASP.NET (Steve Lydford)
• Never a Cloudy day in DC? Not if the NIST has anything to say about it… "DRAFT Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations" (Greg Duncan)
• Customize Orchard CMS with the Designer Tools Module (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Grow Your Website using Orchard (Jayson Gaylord)
• Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 5: Easy Configuration (Chad Myers)
• Is your REST assured? (Johan Haleby)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Questions from a Power User on the Road to Programmer (Bobby Johnson)
• When should a project start implementing clean test driven code? (Tomas Malmsten)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• NTK 2011 Sample Code: What’s new in Silverlight 5 (Unknown Author)
• Windows Phone Radio 30 (Brian Seitz)
• Yet Another Nail In Silverlight’s Coffin? (Davy Brion)
• Skinning your Windows Phone 7 Screenshots… and A couple of my favorite things… Paint.Net and Windows Phone 7 (and using the one to create App and Tile icons for the other) and Windows Phone Game Bootcamp (Free, on-demand version) (Greg Duncan)
• Document Toolkit June 2011 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 5 – Design Guidelines for Application Bar (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows 8 and the future of Silverlight (Laila Lotfi)
• NUI Using Silverlight (Surf4Fun)
• "Really good!" or how I just rated an app I didn’t buy (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Fast Switching and Page State in Mango (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Connected Show #34: Apache Stonehenge M2 and Think Like A Developer & Designer (Episode 05): Video (MS Podcasts)
• TRON:Legacy – An HTML5 Graphic Novel by Disney and Scott Guthrie: Power To and For The People (Charles Torre)
• Show 400: E3, Geoff Keighley, The Darkness II and more (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 242 – 06.03.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• TWC9: Windows 8, Code Formatting Macro, You will love Debugger Canvas (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
• Make: Live Episode 10: Hackerspace Roadshow (preview video) (Becky Stern)
• Community Megaphone Podcast Show #28 with Guest Steve Presley (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Lync IM an Expert – Part 1 of 2 (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• MSDN Webcast June 14, 2011: Using Windows Azure DataMarket to Explore the Power of Local Weather (Windows Azure Team)
• The HTML5 Web Camps come to NYC and Waltham, Mass! (Rachel Appel)
• Have you ever typed code on a job interview? Results (Jef Claes)

Database

• "Data Quality and Master Data Management with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2" Free 226 page eBook (Greg Duncan)
• FLOOR a DateTime in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Question to You – When to use Function and When to use Stored Procedure and SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit – Download – May Update (Pinal Dave)
• Use PowerShell to Add a Login to a Database Role in all Databases (Allen M. White)
• Using Built-in system functions – COALESCE() (Vishal)
• Analysis Services Operations Guide Released (Paul Turley)

SharePoint

• Inserting Multiple Rows in SharePoint list using SharePoint 2007 Web Services (Dhananjay Kumar)

Miscellaneous

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens with joyous party (Todd Bishop)
• Windows 8 Preview: An Analysis of the Computex Announcements (Paul Thurrott)
• Rumor: Windows 8 video service to be called "Chatter" (Brad Sams)
• Xbox LIVE Diamond with IPTV service for Xbox 360 to debut at E3 (damaster)
• LARRY ELLISON: How He Tried To Disrupt Microsoft And Failed (ORCL) (Jay Yarow)
• A tour of the new Music +Video Hub (Josh Phillips)
• Microsoft should bundle Sysinternals tools into Windows — or should they? (Larry Seltzer)
• Microsoft to launch Office 365 on June 28 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft and Nvidia Have Acquisition Pact (Timothy)
• OAuth and REST in Android: Part 2 (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 105 (Scott Banwart)
• Interesting .NET Links – June 4 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
• Weekly Links– 2010_20 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News June 3rd 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Silverlight Cream for June 03, 2011 — #1099 and Silverlight Cream for June 04, 2011 — #1100 (Dave Campbell)
• Retrospective 35 – Scrum Master Interview and Games (Peter Saddington)

The Geek Shelf

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