Dew Drop – November 17, 2011

Top Links

• MassTransit v2.0.1 Available (Chris Patterson)
• NOW AVAILABLE: Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.1 (Nathan Totten)
• Detecting HTML5/CSS3 Features using Modernizr (Dan Wahlin)
• Ajax Control Toolkit November 2011 Release (Stephen Walther)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• StatFactory: FCore maths & statistics library, designed for use with F# (Don Syme)
• I shall call you… Mini…C# Course (Greg Duncan)
• DevForce Code First Walkthrough: From New Project to Running (John Lantz)
• How can I tell whether a COM pointer to a remote object is still valid? (Raymond Chen)
• Adding Compiled .ResX Resources To NuGet Packages (Jon Davis)
• Publishing symbol packages for a MyGet feed (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dynamic LINQ to NHibernate (Felice Pollano)

 

Web Development

• TreeList for ASP.NET AJAX Enhanced with Keyboard Navigation and Export to PDF in Q3 2011 (Telerik ASP.NET AJAX Team)
• Experiment: Building and Publishing an HTML5 Game for iPad and HTML5 vs. CSS3 vs…background-image? (John Esposito)
• ASP.NET 4.5 – New Model Binding Feature Keeps the Web Form and Model Separate (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Building Your Rails Box on OS X For Softies (Rob Conery)
• Running JavaScript… With Sneakers! (Sharon Cichelli)
• Simple Async HTTP Module for Appcelerator (Sean Biefeld)
• Calling the Windows Azure Service Management API with the New .publishsettings File (Steve Marx)
• The whole web is confused by mobile (Rob Borley)
• 6 Tips to Help You Build a Great Web Application (Greg & Adrian)
• Better UX Through INPUT Tags And Why They Are Important For Mobile (Chris Love)
• MVC Controls Toolkit 1.5.5 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: PolyglotPersistence (Martin Fowler)
• The Yin and Yang of Sources of Insight (J.D. Meier)
• Make a distinction: Errors vs. Alerts (Oren Eini)
• The Mojito Method (Jurgen Appelo)
• Assuming Leadership In Your Design Agency (Jeremy Girard)
• Design Decisions: Guided learning approach (Brent Schooley)
• Identify Risk Early (Andy Warren)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• WP7 getting started (6) – Make your application come alive (Anders Poulsen)
• Hands On With New Breed Of Windows Phones (Chris Love)
• Introducing a new WP7 control: RadAutoCompleteBox (Deyan Ginev)
• Facebook Graph API and Silverlight Part 2 – Publishing data (Lazar Nikolov)
• RadControls for Windows Phone Q3 2011 – new SlideView, Auto-Complete plus more (Georgi Atanasov)
• PhoneGap on WP7 tip #1: Handling Orientation (Glen Gordon)
• Get a free and open source physics library in BEPUphysics (for Windows, XBox and WP7) (Greg Duncan)
• Databinding an Auto Complete Box in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Nokia Windows Phone Competition (Nick)
• It’s a wrap! I’ve completed writing Silverlight 5 in Action (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #432 – Height and Width vs. ActualHeight and ActualWidth (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone App Flow: Watching Video (Travis Pope)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #17: Using Windows Azure (Jeff Blankenburg)
• LightSwitch Tutorial – Adding Image to a LightSwitch Screen (Chris D.)
• CODE Framework v4.0.11115.0 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – WinRT Panel Discussion at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Roslyn Project – Meet the Design Team (Charles Torre)
• SE Podcast #27 – Dave Winer (Alex Miller)
• How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server (Video) (Brent Ozar)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 002 – 11.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Online video tutorials for HTML 5 (Steve Albers)
• Defrag – Driver Store, Touch Tips, Defragging HDD (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Test ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC Web Applications (Avi Kaye)
• Silverlight In The Enterprise This Friday in NYC (Matt Van Horn)
• Want to party on with Ubelly at the .Net Awards? (Luke)
• Kinect at the Maker Faire (Greg Duncan)
• Mind Blown at Defrag (Dave Michels)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle to Win Print Book and Free 30 Days Online Training Material (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Triggers – An Introduction (Vivek Johari)
• Reviewing the New Oracle NoSQL Database (John Esposito)

 

SharePoint

• Redirect SharePoint Natively with a Content Editor Webpart (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Recruiter advice: How to navigate the in-between years (MS JobsBlog)
• Quick news: New survey on certification released (Devon Musgrave)
• Amazon Puts Kindle Fire Source Code Up for Download (Kyle Wagner)
• Microsoft drops Dryad; puts its big-data bets on Hadoop (Mary Jo Foley)
• MediaMonkey 4 now supports video (Nick Peers)
• MSFT v.Next: Clues to the Future at Microsoft’s Annual Shareholder Meeting (Paul Thurrott)
• Evernote Clearly Knows How To Make Web Reading, Clipping Easier (Robin Wauters)
• 60 Days as a Linux user by a recovering Windows Guy. (Joe Stagner)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #754 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/16/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Morning Brew #983 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Links– 2011_36 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow for November 07 – 13, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for November 16, 2011 — #1167 (Dave Campbell)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• Daily News Digest 11/17/2011 (Silverlight Show)

 

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