Dew Drop – June 16, 2011

I will be on vacation starting tomorrow. The Dew Drops will be sporadic until I return on Monday, June 27th.

Top Links

• Announcing the Web Standards Update – HTML5 Support for the Visual Studio 2010 Editor (Scott Hanselman)
• Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Web Standards Update – behind the scenes (Mads Kristensen)
• Microsoft Kinect gets more awesome = Win SDK (xpert360)
• Composite Services Guidance–Release Candidate and Composite Services Guidance: External Routing Configuration sample (Francis Cheung)
• Introducing The MVC Wijmo CTP (Kevin Griffin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Using __arglist to send parameters to a Method and Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Abhijit Jana)
• Portable Library Tools Now RTM – VS2010 RTM SP1 (Don Burnett)
• Entity Framework 4.1: Code First and WCF Data Services (Glen Gailey)
• LINQ Intersect() 2.7x faster with HashSet (Patrick Smacchia)
• Debugger Canvas and Code Bubbles (Zain Naboulsi)
• Safer asynchronous workflows for GUI programming (Tomáš Petříček)
• New Book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-516): Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
• Microsoft Platform Ready Website Updated to Include Office 365 (Wes Yanaga)
• Help yourself in Debugging by using Call Stack and Immediate Window (Pranay Rana)
• Portable Library Tools RTW (think "One library binary, many platforms") (Greg Duncan)
• C++ AMP Provides Massive Parallelism (Abel Avram)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Plugin: FunkyFocus v1.1 (Deran Schilling)
• jQuery versus the Ajax Control Toolkit–Why should I use jQuery Instead ? and Replacing the ACT PagingBulletedList with the jQuery ListNav Plugin. (Joe Stagner)
• Using HTML App Host Tasks from the ECMA Script Context (David Kelley)
• Equality in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Book Review: Drupal Web Services (Michael J. Ross)
• The Rise Of The API, The Future Of The Web (Rob Diana)
• Network capture with Internet Explorer (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• Official boat-load, as in supertanker, sized OpenXML content list (Insert "One OpenXML content list to rule them all" here) (Greg Duncan)
• Binding A Backbone View To A Model, To Enable and Disable A Button and Solving Backbone’s “this.model.view” Problem With Underscore.js (Derick Bailey)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Clean Coder – sharpen your professional skills (Gojko Adzic)
• The Challenge of Personal Change (J.D. Meier)
• Free Version of YouTRACK Issue and Bug Tracker from JetBrains (David Hayden)
• Agile and Architecture Conflict (Vikas Hazrati)
• Automated code reviews for PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Unit Testing Raised Events (Richard Carr)
• Collective note taking – More value from your test notes? (Sigurdur Birgisson)
• Why the New YouTrack Matters (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Should we get this tool? (Jef Claes)
• Why Your Form Checkboxes Should Always Use Label Tags (Anthony)
• Testing Chromium: AddressSanitizer, a fast memory error detector. (Kostya Serebryany)
• Caching, the funny way (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Silverlight Drag and Drop for Business Applications (Michael Varey)
• In-app purchase coming to Windows Phone "Mango" and Windows Phone "Mango" developer handsets for serious developers only, available next week (damaster)
• Windows Phone 7 (Mango) Tutorial – 13 – What is Tombstoning? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer Game using Sockets in XNA (Ricky Tan)
• Silverlight 5 and HTML 5 (Surf4Fun)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Aspect Oriented Programming at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ICSE 2011: John Rushby – Formal Methods, Verification and Some Computing History (Charles Torre)
• Hot Apps: Doodle Jump, Lo-Mob, NBA GameTime 2011, PotatoGrid, Alchemy (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #115: Wrapping Up the Icon Spike (James Shore)
• The Thirsty Developer 102: These are Exciting Times (Dave Bost)
• AppFabric.tv – How To Build Workflow Services with a Database Respository (Ron Jacobs)

 

Community / Events

• Looking Forward to Next Week’s SQL Server JumpIn! Camp (Brian Swan)
• Join Us Tomorrow For A Special Channel 9 Live Kinect Event (Nic Fillingham) – That’s today.

 

Database

• New Microsoft SSIS transform (James Serra)
• SQL SERVER – Free Online Training on .net and SQL (Pinal Dave)
• Dark color theme for SQL Server Management Studio (Raghav Khunger)
• SSIS: The Ninth Circle of Merge Hell (Russell Ball)
• Help us select the new RavenDB logo (Oren Eini)
• Things That Should Be In TSQL (Don Halloran)

 

SharePoint

• Recapping my webinar w/Idera: Understanding SharePoint Server 2010 Managed Metadata (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 2010 is One Year Old Today (Paul Thurrott)
• You probably won’t buy Google Chromebook, but should reconsider and When do you want Windows 8? (Joe Wilcox)
• TidyFS: Microsoft’s simpler distributed file system (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Zoho Docs – Google Chromebook integration (Naveen Venkat)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Getting Started with the Internet of Things – Only $9.99 w/code DDGST (O’Reilly Media)
• What I look for in Peer Review Feedback at Microsoft (Pete Brown)
• Daily Dose: Microsoft Adding More Support for C++ (Ross Jernigan)
• Developer Week in Review: Are .NET programmers going extinct? – Microsoft embraces HTML5, selling a startup at 15, and a new version of Java looms. (James Turner)
• Selling More Shopify Apps, Part 1: The Decision-Making Process (Joey deVilla)

 

More Link Collections

• Link dump for June 15th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
• Daily News Digest 06/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Web Dev Tweets 15-Jun-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• The Morning Brew #874 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf

Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4: Building Modular MVVM Applications with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight (Patterns & Practices) by Bob Brumfield et al