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Dew Drop–August 23, 2011

Dew Drop – August 21, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

ThreadLocal storage in .NET and What is SynchronizationContext all about (Abhijit Jana)
Using Custom Classes with Application Settings (Richard Carr)
NuGet’ing inside the firewall, with TFS Continuous Integration bonus power too (or "How to go from TFS CI to your Private NuGet server with TeamBuild") and Kinect to transform video training/podcasting/teleconferencing? and Adding awesome lighting effects to your XNA game… and Flight Kintroller (Greg Duncan)
New e-book: FRIENDLY F# with game development and XNA (Joh)
Kinect: Using VC++ with Kinect (Surf4Fun)
TeamPulse R2 2011 is Here! (Team Pulse Team)
Using Rollback in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools and Using Work Item Tracking Search in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools (Mike Fourie)
The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for .NET Developers (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
Slow OracleConnection Creation (Geoff Hudik)
Thoughts on MassTransit on other languages (Dru Sellers)

Web Development

Trigger update to jQuery Tablesorter on dynamically modified table (Hajan Selmani)
Video Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Changing Selection Color using CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Using and Writing Polyfills for Building Modern Applications (Rey Bango)
Fetching Web Roles details using Windows Azure Management API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Pain Driven Development (Mark Needham)
The Pomodoro Technique Summary (Evgeny Goldin)
New book: Solid Code (Optimizing the Software Development Life Cycle) (Devon Musgrave)
Generate easy, up-to-date Rails API docs with Cucumber (Matthew Nielsen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Writing inline Code in WPF (Abhijit Jana)
Using WCF RIA Services With LightSwitch: I Know You’re Scared, I Understand (Michael Washington)
Upload Files from Windows Phone (Chris Koenig)
Nested ListBox binding in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Frameworks used inside my WP7 application (Pieter de Rycke)
Publishing a Mango Update to an Existing App (Mike Ormond)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Major Nelson Podcast Show 408: Pre-Pax, Cake and more (Larry Hyrb)
Engadget Podcast 253 – 08.19.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 100 – 08.21.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Cloud Cover Episode 56 – Logging, Tracing, and ELMAH in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
TWC9: August 19 2011 (Brian Keller & Nic Fillingham)
Windows Phone Radio – 39 (Brian Seitz)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Building 4 Refurb (Nic Fillingham)
Windows Weekly 222: Bye Bye webOS (Paul Thurrott)
The GeekDads Episode #98: Chaotic Evil is the Best Kind of Evil (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
This is my next Podcast 020 – 08.19.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)

Community / Events

We Need Your Help! (Kevin Griffin)
Speaking at BUILD (Josh Twist)

Database

Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer – Book Review (Mark Broadbent)
Repeating Column Headers on Every Page in SSRS Doesn’t Work! …Or Does It? (Melissa Coates)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Introduction to Page Split – Day 20 of 35 and SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – All about SQL Statistics – Day 21 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – "Denali" – PERCENT_RANK() Analytic Function (Vishal)
What Will Be New for Reporting Services in 2012? (Paul Turley)
Thoughts on DBA Professional Development (Jeffrey Yao)
Methods for populating a data warehouse (James Serra)
Free online class, "Introduction to Databases," coming this fall from Stanford University (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

Simple guide to running Git server on Windows, in local network (kind of) (Krzysztof Koźmic)
How to REALLY hurt yourself with PSEXEC – Deleting the Undeletable Registry Key and More (Scott Hanselman)
I’ve Built A Windows Azure Application… How Should I Market It? (Yvonne Muench)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

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Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Use of SpinLock for ThreadLocking and Use of Interlocked in Race Condition and Barrier in .NET 4.0 and Not able to view all the running Worker Process in Visual Studio – Process Attach Window – Resolution (Abhijit Jana)
Parallel ForEach Loop (Richard Carr)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ReferenceEquals() method (James Michael Hare)
Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part I (Luca Bolognese)
Kinect Reception–Introduction (Shai Raiten)
Unity Auto Registration (Jimmy Larkin)
RavenDB Lazy Requests (Oren Eini)
Declaring various properties using CodeRush code generation tools (Alex Skorkin)
Do you want a faster File.Exists / FileInfo.Exists / Directory.Exists ? I do ! (Jonathan Antoine)
Blog Post: How To: Activate & Deactivate (Autumn Wilkins)
A gentle introduction to dependent types (Cédric Beust)
Adding translation to your apps is a dot away with the "Bing Translator .NET Extension Methods" open source project (Greg Duncan)
PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) (James Curran)
Going Asynchronous (Chris Eargle)
Updated Course: Developing Windows Concurrent Applications (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

The HTML5 Paradigm Shift–Don’t Miss The Next Wave (Chris Love)
HTML5-Powered VNC Implementation noVNC Let’s You Access Remote Systems (Rey Bango)
Bug and Fix: ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error or maintain FF5 scrollbar position (Scott Hanselman)
Call ASP.NET Page Methods using your own AJAX (Abhijit Jana)
Announcing YUI 3.4.0 and the new YUILibrary.com (George Puckett)
A New Era in Application Development, Part II: Kendo UI (Stephen Forte)
Powerful PHP: Less Known String Manipulation (Stoimen Popov)
AJAX Series Part 1: Building a Web Applications with Third-party Controls in Real Time (Carl Bergenhem)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum basics: The sprint (John Rayner)
Compliance – Development Teams are Product-Oriented (Peter Saddington)
A Brief Introduction of Fundamental OOP (Chris Eargle)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

RadJumpList for Windows Phone extended: Support for Sticky Header (Deyan Ginev)
Who says you can’t run Silverlight on Android ? (Don Burnett)
Building A Windows Phone App From Scratch–Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
Windows Phone Design Tips #3 (Andrew Spooner)
Brand new Mango release of Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
2000 WPF Things #368 – Specifying Blackout Dates in a Calendar Control (Sean Sexton)
TouchDevelop v2.1: integrated script bazaar (Nikolai Tillmann)
RadChart for Windows Phone – going to the pole (Georgi Atanasov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #129: Root Cause Analysis (James Shore)
G4 TV’s Jessica Chobot tours Microsoft (Steve Clayton)
Defrag: 4k Drive Backup, Office Add-on in IE, Forcing Aero Glass On (Larry Larsen)
Hot Apps: Beards & Beaks, Kill The Duck, Fantastic Finger Fun, Angry Birds Scoop, Eventful (Laura Foy)
A little PowerShell a day to keep the scripting doctor away… "PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast" (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone Dev Pocast Episode 030 – “Phonies vs. Ninjas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Charlie Wood Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

FREE Course On Ruby’s Cross Platform GUI App Toolkit Course (Satish Talim)
HTML5 Web Camps – Special Guest Announcement (G. Andrew Duthie)
The Social Media Collective @ NERD (Jim O’Neil)
Philly Geek Awards: The Sponsors (Michaelangelo Ilagan)
Hire and Pay a Designer and Be Happy (Scott Hanselman)
Announcing the Speaking Lineup for Philly Day of Agile (Philip Japikse)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Cumulative Update 9 (Glenn Berry)
How to report a SQL Server performance problem (Jack Vamvas)
SQL Server: Last Day Previous Month without DATEADD and DATEDIFF (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – The Clustered Index – Simple Understanding – Day 19 of 35 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST() (Vishal)
[SSIS] OnPipelineRowsSent event (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

SP2010 Continuous Integration – Installing TFS2010 (inc. Build and Test agents) (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

Windows 7 Tool Roundup: Small But Explosive, Just Like Dynamite (Pete Seale)
Slides from PowerShell Deep Dive sessions (Dmitry Sotnikov)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

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Dew Drop–August 23, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 21, 2011

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Dew Drop – August 19, 2011

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