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Dew Drop – April 20, 2010

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 11, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Tips and Tricks: Clipboard Ring and Toolbox Snippets (Weston Hutchins)
Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# – Pre Order now (Wally McClure)
Printing in Different Fonts and Colors (Zain Naboulsi)
Reducing overloading ceremony with C# 4.0 optional parameters (Russell Ball)
Controlling the DGML Double-Click (Cameron Skinner)
VS2010 TMap Testing Template | Initial Work Items #1 (Clemens Reijnen)
Sharing Code Analysis files between projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Derik Whittaker)
RTM’d today: Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step (Devon Musgrave)
POCO Template Code Generation Options (Sheetal Gupta)

Web Development

Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action (Me)
One Year of Production ASP.NET MVC (Chris Missal)
We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way (Scott Hanselman)
ASP.NET MVC And Convention Based Forms – Part 1 (Torkel Ödegaard)
Javascript: Function scoping (Mark Needham)

Design / Methodology / Testing

mnmal: designeriphone: “Good design means never having to say… (Leon Gersing)
#Ebook Deal of the Day: Designing Social Interfaces – Only $9.99! Use code DDDST (O’Reilly Media)
Does an organization need to be fully committed to agile/lean/scrum? (Mark Needham)
Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF

Article: The Essential WPF/Silverlight/XNA Developer and Designer Toolbox and Article: How to Get Started in WPF or Silverlight (Pete Brown)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Stories from the Dallas GiveCamp (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 1 of 3) and ARCast.TV: An Overview of MVC4WPF (Part 2 of 3) (MS Podcasts)
Brian Beckman: On Analog Computing, Some Beckman History, and Life in the Universe (Charles Torre)
Video: Microsoft listens to the MVPs (Joseph Mirabella)
Techfest 2010: Mobile Surface (Larry Larsen)
Windows 7 Text-to-Speech from .NET 4 and WPF with Pete Brown (Don Burnett)
TechFest 2010: Microsoft ICE – Image Composite Editor (Laura Foy)
Don’t be original, just be good (Scott Berkun)

Community / Events

Boston Geek Dinner – March 23, 2010 (Jason Haley)
Where to See Me At MIX10 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts (Paul Andrew)
NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California! (Peter Kellner)
pluralsight office hours 3/11/2010 with dan sullivan (Meagon Marshall)
The Microsoft Silverlight Analytics Framework at Mix (Michael S. Scherotter)
SXSW 2010: The Complete Social Media Guide (Matt Silverman)
My program at #MIX10 (Laurent Bugnion)
Spend a Day with Miller in Vegas! (Free CodeRush Training) (Mark Miller)
Speaking at MIX! (Glenn Block)

Database

ORMs – A Developer’s Dream, A DBA’s Nightmare? (Mike Ormond)
SQL SERVER – Force Index Scan on Table – Use No Index to Retrieve the Data – Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
New e learning course on Business Intelligence and Did you know you can shrink a transaction log even when log shipping? (Simon Sabin)
How to script all stored procedures in a database (Naomi)
Asp.Net Membership/Role/etc Provider scripts for SqlAzure (Jason Haley)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 & RBS: Just because you can doesn’t mean you should (Andrew Connell)
Lightning Storm Forums release 1.0.0.14 (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

Adobe, Microsoft "working closely" on Flash for Win Phone 7 (Electronista Staff)
New Kodu build! (Stephen Coy)
Use Windows Live Writer with Posterous (Sarah Perez)
Making your PowerShell ISE cool with SQL Ice – SQLIse now available as part of the SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) v2.1 release and Using PowerShell to demo PowerShell via PowerShellPoint! (aka “PowerPoint for PowerShell’ers…” or “We don’t need no stink’n PowerPoint to present PowerShell!”) (Greg Duncan)
PowerShell in the Enterprise (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Insert Tag Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer (that works with Windows 7) (Jeff Wilcox)
Finding awesome stuff online with Google Reader Play (Garrett Wu)
Now playing: Apps Script for Google Docs (Evin Levey)
Create Outlook Appointments from PowerShell (Buck Woody)

The Geek Shelf

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

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