Top Links
- Announcing Jounce 1.0 RTM – It’s here! (Jeremy Likness)
- Adding Runtime Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Application (Derik Whittaker)
- Preview Drop #3 of Enterprise Library Silverlight Integration Pack (Grigori Melnik)
- NuGet 1.2 Released (Phil Haack)
.NET / Visual Studio
- C# API Design: Type Inference, Named Parameters, and Generic Delegates (Jonathan Carter)
- TFS and WF4: The diff noise problem and Beware of lifetime manager policy locks in Unity (Rory Primrose)
- Blog Post: PLINQO for Entity Framework Templates, Beta 1 Released! (Blake Niemyjski)
- Microsoft NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio & VWD (Joe Stagner)
- My Visual Studio snippets (Shawn Burke)
- I love R# because it reduce mouse usage (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Enabling Parallelism for Productivity Programmers (Ade Miller)
- I spy with my little eye… ILSpy (Greg Duncan)
- async 8: creating combinators (Bill Wagner)
Web Development
- JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part I) and JavaScript for C# developers: callbacks (part II) (Julian M. Bucknall)
- Making a Mobile MVC Music Store Part 5: Designing the Genre and Album Pages (Chris Love)
- HTML5: What Is It, Why Should I Care, and What’s Microsoft Doing About It? (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET (Matteo Slaviero)
- Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 (Scott Hanselman)
- What Firefox 4 means to web developers? and The PHP frameworks poll results (Giorgio Sironi)
- RockPaperAzure Coding Challenge and Rock, Paper, Azure Deep Dive: Part 1 and Creating a Quick Progress Visual like UpdateProgress (Brian Hitney)
- YUI 2.9.0 Release Candidate Is Now Available (Jenny Han Donnelly)
- Composite C1 CMS 2.1 (2.1.4087.22991) and patterns & practices: Project Sile Community Drop 4 – 28 Mar 2011 (CodePlex)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- IT Turf Wars? Agile Can Help (Peter Saddington)
- One Real-Life Product Owner Team and Product Owner Team Design Considerations (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Improving Meetings (K. Brian Kelley)
- Effective Tests: How Faking It Can Help You (Derek Greer)
- Organising NUnit Tests (Richard Carr)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Add Facebook Like to your Silverlight Application and Nullable ComboBox for Silverlight and WPF (Mircea Deliu)
- A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter (Brandon Watson)
- Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
- Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
- Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
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- Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread (Mike Taulty)
- Getting control of your numbers (Pete O’Hanlon)
- Each one is the best – for different definitions of “best” [The BestFitPanel collection of layout containers provides flexible, easy-to-use options for Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone applications] (David Anson)
- Make capturing Windows Phone 7 Marketplace app submission screenshots simple and easy with the “WP7 Simulator Cropper” (Greg Duncan)
- Design/performance – WP7 in blend and code (Håkan Reis)
- Silverlight Scaling and Anti-Aliasing Issues (Jeremy Likness)
- Worth Reading: “Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development” by Wrox (Joey deVilla)
- Start-to-Finish Guidance for Windows Phone 7 Application Development (Karl Erickson)
- Capturing Screenshots on Windows Phone 7 (Mike Ormond)
- WP7 TombstoneHelper (Rudi Grobler)
- How to install LightSwitch Beta 2? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- MVVM Light – what’s the Messenger? (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Adding WP7 Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- C9 Lectures: Stephan T Lavavej – Advanced STL, 3 of n (Charles Torre)
- Supercharged Spreadsheets – PowerPivot in Office 2010 and A Few Minutes with Nolan Bushnell – Creator of Pong and Atari (Tina Wood)
- PDC Sessions now published on Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
- Technology & Friends Episode 148: G Andrew Duthie on Community Megaphone (David Giard)
- endpoint.tv – Parent / Child Workflows (Ron Jacobs)
- Let’s Play TDD #98: One Beeellion Dollars (James Shore)
- Spaghetti Code – March 2011 (Jeff Brand)
- The GeekDads Episode #88: Moderately Misplaced Teen Pop Song (Ken Denmead)
- Countdown to MIX11: Get Your Science On (Larry Larsen)
Community / Events
- WP7 App Challenge competition – get a free ride to WPC 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Communities and Networks: What are you building? (Bill Wagner)
- Mono and Google Summer of Code (Miguel de Icaza)
- MSDN Virtual Lab: A Lap Around IE9 (Wes Yanaga)
- Lightning tools webcasts (Brett Lonsdale)
- Event: New Sessions Released, Learn from the Best at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
- UX at MIX11: Full Speed Ahead (Jason Alderman)
- I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla (Scott Mitchell)
Database
- Snapshot Synchronization with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- T-SQL, SQL Administration and SSRS Articles Link List – March 2011 (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQL SERVER – TechEd 2011 – Random Question and Answers and SQL SERVER – ‘Denali’ – A Simple Example of Contained Databases (Pinal Dave)
- March Madness – SQL Server System Tables – syscomments (Thomas LaRock)
- MySQL: GROUP BY in UNION (Quassnoi)
- (Not a) CHECKDB error “Unable to deallocate a kept page” (Paul S. Randal)
- Building Our Own Federated Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell (Eric Humphrey)
SharePoint
- Using the Builder Pattern To Create SharePoint Lists (Bil Simser)
- Connected Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 – an Architectural Framework (Mark Kendall)
- Update Taxonomy Field Values in a List Item using SharePoint Web Services (Sridhar Raghunathan)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Co-Founder Blasts Bill Gates in Memoir (Paul Thurrott)
- Careers 2.0 now does GitHub (Matt Sherman)
- New in Marketplace: ESPN ScoreCenter (Michael Stroh)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning #Android – Only $15.39 (Save 45%) w/code DDLAN (O’Reilly Media)
- Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm (asgard4)
- Announcing Group Plans for Tekpub (Rob Conery)
- Windows Phone Mobile Studio: A reincarnated (and de-hipsterized) Kin Studio? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Microsoft DreamSpark – now with a free Microsoft Certification Exam (Dennis Delimarsky)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 29 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- The Morning Brew #823 and The Morning Brew #824 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 29th 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News March 30th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/30/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2011 — #1068 (Dave Campbell)
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Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 by Peter Ritchie |
Dew Drop – January 21, 2011
Jump to: Top Links | .NET / Visual Studio | Web Development | Design / Methodology / Testing | Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone | Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos | Community / Events | Database | SharePoint | Miscellaneous | More Link Collections | The Geek Shelf
Top Links
- Coding4Fun Toolkit for WP7 Overview and Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
- Microsoft Web Farm Framework 2.0 (Scott Guthrie)
- XamlQuery – The Write Less, Do More, Silverlight Library – at CodePlex (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Installing NuGet packages directly from the command line (David Ebbo)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Tie the scrolling between two controls (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Notion Solutions is providing free VS2010 ALM Web Based Training. Four subjects, three session schedule choices, two companies, one great value (Greg Duncan)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: Comparer<T>.Default (James Michael Hare)
- Visual Studio Testing Extensions now available on NuGet (Jeremiah Clark)
- Monads in C#-6. Introducing a simple parser (Mike Hadlow)
- Unknown breaking change in .NET 4? (Frans Bouma)
- An Autofac Lifetime Primer (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- NuGet-enabled WiimoteLib and ThinkGearNET (Brian Peek)
- Internals of loops (While, For and ForEach) (Abhishek Sur)
- CUDA – A basic parallelised task (Rob Ashton)
Web Development
- Falling for HTML5: Finding Love in the Little Things (Felicity Evans)
- How to get Razor intellisense for @model in a class library project (Deepak Verma)
- Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 -Beta (x86) and Microsoft Web Farm Framework Version 2 for IIS 7 -Beta (x64) (MS Downloads)
- Wolfram Alpha opens up API, makes it free for personal use (Erez Zukerman)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Manifesto 2.1 – “MoreAgile Manifesto” (Peter Saddington)
- Listening to feedback mechanisms (Mark Needham)
- Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Manual of Style (in code) (JP Hamilton)
- Interface Segregation Principle (Richard Carr)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Using styles and resources to simplify your xaml (Nigel Sampson)
- Blend, Visual Studio and compile in x86 (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Simple Drag Selection in WPF (Ashley Davis)
- A classic memory game: Part 2 – The game logic, connecting the ViewModel and the View (Levente Mihály)
- New F# Empty Web Application (Silverlight) Template (Daniel Mohl)
- The Coding4Fun team has done it again, released another “Kit” that is… The Coding4Fun Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
- Writing an Orchard widget: LatestTwitter (Maarten Balliauw)
- Does your Silverlight application really have to end in .XAP? (Michael Crump)
- Building Touch Interfaces for Windows Phones, Part 4 (Jeff Prosise)
- WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
- zTop app for WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- C9 Lectures: Dr. Ralf Lämmel – Going Bananas (Charles Torre)
- Silverlight TV 58: Windows Phone Design Tips With Corrina (John Papa)
- Announcing Windows Azure Jump Start Training Videos (Katrien de Graeve)
Community / Events
- February 23rd Microsoft Developer Dinner for Partners: Take your SharePoint Solutions to the Cloud (Public Sector DPE Team)
- Let’s Chat Friday at the Linked In .NET User Group – Jan 21 (John Papa)
- Competition: win a free place in our class in February! (Paul S. Randal)
- A brain dump after reading Alt.Next (Dru Sellers)
Database
- SSRS – How to find all the reports that use one or more given columns? (Jacob Sebastian)
- 31 Days of SSIS – No More Procedures (20/31) (Jason Strate)
- Create a Business Intelligence Solution in SQL Server 2008 R2 – Free Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
- SQLAuthority News – 1600 Blog Post Articles – A Milestone (Pinal Dave)
- How to Delete Large amounts of data in a Batch. (Paul Theriault)
- Solving the ‘Events in Progress’ problem in MDX, Part 1 (Chris Webb)
SharePoint
- Deployment guide for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
- Eliminating large JS files to optimize SharePoint 2010 internet sites (Chris O’Brien)
- Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010: Support at Last (Dave McMahon)
- Why do my new list fields not appear on the New, Edit, or Display forms? (Ricky Kirkham)
Miscellaneous
- Google’s New CEO: Larry Page (Alex Chitu)
- Looking Up Email Addresses with PowerShell (David Levy)
- Scotty looks at the monitor and says, “Computer…” Ok, our tech still isn’t 23rd century, but we’re getting closer, and here’s a free ebook that shows you how, “The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7” (Greg Duncan)
- Microsoft codenames: Do all roads really lead to ‘Rome’? (Mary Jo Foley)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Best #iPad Apps – $8.99 (Save 50%) w/Code DDBSP (O’Reilly Media)
- Parsing Serial MIDI Messages with the Netduino (Pete Brown)
- New File menu in Zoho Sheet and IE 9 support (Ramesh)
- Microsoft Pivot Gets Re-Released (Richard Hay)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 86 (Scott Banwart)
- Tech Tweets for 20-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #775 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Headline @SilverlightZone – 20 January 2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Daily News Digest 01/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Geek Shelf
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Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Lisa Crispin |
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Dew Drop – January 13, 2011
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Top Links
- SQL Server Compact 4.0 released! (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
- ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM and ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax and IIS 7.5 Express (MS Downloads)
- WebMatrix Released to Web (Markus Egger)
- WP7 “Phantom Data” Source Possibly Revealed? (Bil Simser)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2010 designer error: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: objectType (Giorgetti Alessandro)
- 25% discount on all Microsoft books from Packt (Silverlight Show)
- ANTS Memory Profiler Review (Sasha Goldshtein)
- RTM’d Today: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Valerie Woolley)
- Enterprise Library Extensibility (Grigori Melnik)
- Reference of namespaces in OData (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
- Phonetic Comparisons using the Soundex Algorithm (Jonathan Wood)
- DXCore abstract source tree structure (Alex Skorkin)
- Visual Basic is Losing Its Runtime Library (Jonathan Allen)
Web Development
- Writing a Custom HTTP Handler in ASP.NET (Jonathan Wood)
- Geomap Project – HTML Extensions for Rendering Map Displays (Chris Pietschmann)
- The CSS Corner: CSS3 Media Queries (Sharon Newman)
- HTML5 “standard”? (Rockford Lhotka)
- IntelliSense for Razor Hosting in non-Web Applications (Rick Strahl)
- ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage (Stephen Walther)
- Announcing YUI 3.3.0 (Satyen Desai)
- Adding a Multi-Column Search to the Default List page in Dynamic Data (Steve Naughton)
- WebMatrix shipping January 13, 2011 (Lawrence Moroney)
- Developing Applications for the Cloud – Hands on Labs and Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
- How to use IIS Manager to get Worker Processes (w3wp.exe) details information ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Feature Sample for Microsoft WebMatrix with Razor – Beta 3 (Joe Stagner)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Bliki: IntegrationContractTest (Martin Fowler)
- 12 Key Agile Thinking Tools (Mike Cottmeyer)
- TDD for algorithms: the state of the art (Giorgio Sironi)
- Polymorphism and Messaging (Udi Dahan)
- Programming is not a Craft: My Take (David Starr)
- Stardate 2011.12.1: Hasty Decisions (Kyle Szklenski)
- Secrets of rapid release cycles, from the Google Chrome team (Andy Singleton)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- HTML5: The WebSockets prototype with Silverlight, HTML Bridges and JavaScript (Jef Claes)
- How to run multiple instances of the Windows Phone 7 emulator (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Working with gradients in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
- Windows Phone 7: Pinch Gesture Sample (Peter Kuhn)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Phil Japikse is All About BDD (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Programming Streams of Coincidence with Join and GroupJoin for Rx (Charles Torre)
- Excel 25th Anniversary – Part One (Tina Wood)
- Talking with Don Knuth, software pioneer (Robert Scoble)
- Microsoft Research: Opportunities and innovation (Kelly Fife
) - WP7 Minute Episode VI–Find My Phone (Daniel Egan)
Community / Events
- Mobile Connections in Las Vegas April 17-21 (Wally McClure)
- CodeMash Precompiler Morning Thoughts (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
- WebMatrix Launch–Today at CodeMash (Jim O’Neil)
- Paul Culmsee and 21 Apps join up for Information Mapping & Info Architecture Master Classes (Joel Oleson)
Database
- 31 Days of SSIS – UnPivot Alternative (12/31) (Jason Strate)
- SQL SERVER – A Quick Note on DB_ID() and DB_NAME() – Get Current Database ID – Get Current Database Name (Pinal Dave)
- Investigation: Can different combinations of components effect Dataflow performance? and Always use dtexec.exe to test performance of your dataflows. No exceptions. (Jamie Thomson)
Miscellaneous
- #Video Deal/Day: Crap Detection 101 – $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDCRP (O’Reilly Media)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 12, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Tech Tweets for 12-Jan-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- Interesting .NET Links – January 12 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- SilverlightShow for Jan 3-9, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2011 — #1025 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #769 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 01/12/2011 and Daily News Digest 01/13/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Ten Great Articles on WCF RIA Services (Frank La Vigne)
The Geek Shelf
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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook by Gill Cleeren |
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