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Dew Drop – April 12, 2010

Happy VS2010 Launch Day!

Dew Drop – Weekend Edition – April 10-11, 2010

My apologies to everyone who was hoping to attend my Philly .NET Code Camp talk this morning. An important personal matter came up late yesterday.

.NET / Visual Studio

F# April 2010 CTP (MS Downloads)
CSLA 4 highlights (Rockford Lhotka)
Finding the location of vsixInstaller.exe programmatically (Roy Osherove)
XAML IntelliSense – Extension #5 (Sara Ford)
How To Develop for the Cloud in Visual Studio 2010 (Windows Azure Team)
Make Selection Uppercase or Lowercase (Zain Naboulsi)
Binding the DXGrid to an XPO datasource (Oliver Sturm)
Fix Uninstall Issues with Visual Studio Versions (Peter Bromberg)
Upgrading Visual Studio Solutions with PowerShell (Matt Milner)

Web Development

Benefits of GPU-powered HTML5 (Frank Olivier)
Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Building a TMNT Game with jQuery (Marc Grabanski)
Using Windows Azure Drive in PHP (or Ruby) (Maarten Balliauw)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Platform Developer Creativity (Peter Ritchie)
Domain-Driven Design Review (Giorgio Sironi)
The Perils Of Finding Harry Potters Of The Software Development World. (Rajiv Popat)
Architectural changes, or “How to decide if and when to start over” (Kyle Baley)
Where we are with acceptance testing and our BDD journey today (Ian Cooper)
Maybe vs Null Object Patterns (Mark Needham)
Do you have an Action Plan to Tackle your Technical Debt? (Derik Whittaker)

Silverlight / WPF

Demos not to miss next week at NAB: 3D video in Silverlight! 1080p H.264 running on a Netbook! (Silverlight Team)
Uploading Windows Azure Blobs From Silverlight – Part 1: Shared Access Signatures (Steve Marx)
Using XNA libraries in your Silverlight Windows Phone 7 applications (Tim Heuer)
Porting NHProf from WPF to Silverlight – Day 8 (Rob Eisenberg)
Building Facebook Applications (not clients, but hosted in Facebook apps) with Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
Using commands with ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton in Windows Phone 7 (Laurent Bugnion)
Silverlytics: Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework + Windows Azure + Live Labs Pivot (Michael S. Scherotter)
Tip: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” Error in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 (Michael Sync)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes – ASP.NET MVC Contrib with Jeffrey Palermo (Scott Hanselman)
James Senior: Introducing Web Camps (Charles Torre)
TWC9 – VB 2010, Collect app usage for free, donut caching, painting with light (Dan Fernandez)
Introduction to Windows 7 Libraries and Integrating with Shell Libraries, Part 2 and Federated Search (Yochay Kiriaty)
Cloud Cover Episode 8 – Shared Access Signatures (Ryan Dunn)
endpoint.tv – AppFabric Dashboard Overview (Ron Jacobs)
jQuery Podcast 19 – jQuery in Action, 2nd Ed. (Ralph Whitbeck & Elijah Manor)
Building Windows Phone 7 Applications with Silverlight and C# 4.0 and beyond by Anders Hejlsberg (Matthijs Hoekstra)
Microsoft Shows Off Finger/Stylus Combo Multitouch Magic (Kyle VanHemert)

Community / Events

Watch Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, Silverlight 4 Launch Online (Bruce Kyle)
Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure (Charles Chen)
Visual Studio 2010 Launch Details (Don Burnett)
VS2010 Launch is Monday April 12! (Jason Zander)
Cameron Skinner Tour: Modeling and architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 (Jennifer Marsman)
Making the Most of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Zachariah Young)
Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps (Scott Hanselman)
Visual Studio Extensibility – Code Camp 2010.1 Presentation (Nick Berardi)
More Microsoft Women Worth Watching: Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
What Does Elegant Code Mean to Me? (John Sonmez)
Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps (Lawrence Moroney)

Database

MongoDB experts model the move from a relational database to MongoDB (Andy Oram)
re: NoSQL, meh (Oren Eini)
A DMV a Day – Day 10 (Glenn Berry)
A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (9/30) data file shrink does not affect performance and A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (10/30) database mirroring detects failures immediately (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

Working with the SharePoint Theming Engine (Kolby Hoover)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Has ‘Ripple’ Effect on Washington State Economy (MS PressPass)
It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor (Matt McGee/Search Engine Land) (Matt McGee)
The Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is old news, the IP TV is the new generation. (Al Pascual)
20 Ways to Fail Miserably as a Corporate Web Worker (Dawn Foster)
Mobile Development is like Console Development (Steve Tibbett)
JavaRa Updates and Removes Old and Redundant Java Versions (The How-To Geek)
Things to install on a new machine – revisited (Roy Osherove)
Daily Dose – Intel’s Mind Reader (Mitch Pronschinske)
Apple Becoming the New Microsoft? (Rob Bazinet)
Weekend Reading: Microsoft’s Women Worth Watching, Glo, Moodle and Of Course Baseball (Dominic Carr)
Mercurial: Early thoughts (Mark Needham)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action

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Dew Drop – March 17, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro (Scott Seely)
Cleaning up a folder structure from Visual Studio artifacts from the shell (Simone Chiaretta)
Collapsing or Expanding All Your Code with Outlining (Zain Naboulsi)
Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 (Kirill Osenkov)
Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration (James Bender)
TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained… (Clemens Reijnen)
Protecting PowerShell Scripts with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Coding4Fun Cannon – Project Overview (Clint Rutkas)
XNA Tutorial Gets Game Developers Ready for Windows phone 7 (Bruce Kyle)

Web Development

Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 (Scott Mitchell)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Building Social Web Applications – Only $9.99! Use code DDBSW (O’Reilly Media)
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing deeper (Matthew Podwysocki)
IE9 Finally Ready to Join the HTML5 Party (Mitch Pronschinske)
Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs (Kip Kniskern)
Announcing the OData Explorer (Phani Raj)
OData.org updated, gives clues about future SQL Azure enhancements (Jamie Thomson)
Windows Phone 7 user agent (Mads Kristensen)
OData rocking at MIX10 (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Microsoft <3 jQuery (James Senior)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on Design (Ina Fried)
Take a look at the Windows Phone 7 Series “Metro” book (Devon Musgrave)
Parallel Pair Programming (Mark Needham)
Measuring Technical Debt (Mitch Ruebush)
The Complexity Hammer (Steve Rowe)

Silverlight / WPF

Blend 4: About Path Layout, Part I (Christian Schormann)
Silverlight 4: GPU Accelerated PlaneProjection (Andy Beaulieu)
Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 is NOT the same full Silverlight 3 RTM (Bart Czernicki)
Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll (Ben Hall)
Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Exposing OData Services and Silverlight 4 + RIA Services: Ready for Business: Updating Data in the Client (Brad Abrams)
Silverlight for Symbian Beta available now (Sunshine)
WPF in Visual Studio 2010 – Part 4 : Direct Hosting of WPF content (Paul Harrington)
Building your first Silverlight for Windows Phone Application (Pete Brown)
Control input focus from ViewModel objects (Josh Smith)
MVVM Light V3 released at #MIX10 and What’s new in MVVM Light V3 and Sample code for my #mix10 talk online (Laurent Bugnion)
Silverlight 4 RC News (Don Burnett)
Some steps for moving WCF RIA Services Preview to the RC version. (Fredrik Normen)
Windows Phone 7 Series will have themes… sort of (Nilay Patel)
WPF : Re-usable MVVM Ready Breadcrumb control (Sacha Barber)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

In your hands: IE 9 – Surfing on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5 and In your hands: IE9 and SVG – Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web and In your hands: IE 9 Performance – From JS to COM to DOM to HTML5 on GPU and In your hands: Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview (Charles Torre)
“Build Your Own MVVM Framework” is Online (Rob Eisenberg)
J.B. Rainsberger – Value Objects (Corey Haines)
Covariance and Contravariance in .NET 4.0 (Martin Esmann)
Silverlight TV 16: Top Features in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight TV 17: Build a Twitter Client for Windows Phone 7 with Silverlight (John Papa)

Community / Events

MIX10 Day 2 Keynote – IE9, OData and Azure (Me)
MIX10 – Day 1 and MIX10 – Day 2 – First IE9 Platform Preview, OData SDKs, “Dallas” CTP2 (Sunshine)
Getting Started With nServiceBus on VAN Mar 31 (Zachariah Young)
Philly.Net Code Camp 2010.1 is Coming… (Mitch Ruebush)
IE9 Platform Preview Feedback (Justin Saint Clair)
Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc. (Derick Bailey)
What’s Up at Mix: IE9, JQuery and Open Data (Jim O’Neil)

Database

Using linked servers, OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY (Buck Woody)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE and WITH NO_WAIT during ALTER DATABASE (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint Chat Web Part for SP 2010 – Sandbox Solution (Lightning Tools)
Advanced donut caching: using dynamically loaded controls (Gunnar Peipman)

Miscellaneous

Zune 4.2 (MS Downloads)
An Interview Question That Prints Out It’s Own Source Code (In Ruby) (Alan Skorkin)
Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office Released – Automate Office documents without Office (Greg Duncan)
Daily Dose – IBM Stops Disclosing Number of U.S. Employees (Mitch Pronschinske)
Office 2010 Assessment & Planning (Brian Shiers)
About the Platform Preview (Justin Saint Clair)
Microsoft Bing: Behind the Scenes of the Decision Engine (Stefan Weitz)

The Geek Shelf

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

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