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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Dew Drop – March 18, 2011
Top Links
- Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part One (Eric Lippert)
- MonoMac 1.0 is out (Miguel de Icaza)
- Todo List App Using ASP.NET MVC 3 and Windows Azure Tables (Steve Marx)
- Task Parallel Library 4 of n (Sacha Barber)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Disabling SQL Server Table Constraints (Richard Carr)
- How to debug DXCore plug-ins under Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (Alex Skorkin)
- Copy TFS queries between iterations (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Just to reiterate, VS2010 is the last version of Visual Studio to support Visual Studio Deployment Projects (Greg Duncan)
- Adding Git Command Line To Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
- Want to control your drone from Surface? Now the code is available on CodePlex! (Luis Cabrera)
Web Development
- If you’re a Microsoft developer, dabbling with Rails, one… (Rob Conery)
- IE9 Supports CSS3 Transforms! (Chris Love)
- MVC Features Rumored to be Coming to ASP.NET WebForms (David Cooksey)
- Get to Know Action Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3 Using HandleError (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Book Review: Eloquent JavaScript (Elijah Manor)
- AN “Always Visible” area with JavaScript (Joe Stagner)
- JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis (John Resig)
- A Javascript game loop for multiplayer WebGL (Rob Ashton)
- Which PHP framework would you use today for a brand new application? (Giorgio Sironi)
- Internet Explorer 9 Network Performance Improvements (Eric Lawrence)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Agile Modeling and UML – The Truth is You Already Do UML (Peter Saddington)
- Humans can’t estimate tasks (Allan Kelly)
- A story about User Stories; Where do you start and what about the planning? (Dennis Doomen)
- Advice for the newbie developer (Dror Helper)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- How to deal with CPU usage in WPF application ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Hosting a WPF control in Winform with a scrollable Panel (Gian Maria Ricci)
- The Full Stack 9–MVVM and TDD on the Phone Client (Jesse Liberty)
- Observations of Microsoft Testing WP7 Applications (Derik Whittaker)
- New book: Microsoft Expression Blend 4 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
- Blend Bits 26–Use Libraries for Assemblies and Blend Bits 27–“Make it Flip” (Mike Taulty)
- Phoney Tools reaches Beta! (Shawn Wildermuth)
- How you can add custom ringtones to your Windows Phone 7 from your app (w/out Marketplace) and How to find out where the IsolatedStorage is in a Windows Phone 7 app? (Dennis Delimarsky)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Silverlight TV 66: Phoney – New Windows Phone 7 Open Source Project (John Papa)
- Dynamics CRM MVPs Talk About Being MVPs (Lonnie Webb)
- Walkthrough of a Real-World LightSwitch Application used at Microsoft (Beth Massi)
- Behind the Code: Charlie Kindel – Doing What It Takes To Make A Customer Successful (Charles Torre & Robert Hess)
- Let’s Play TDD #95: Tested, Rendered, and Isolated (James Shore)
- Michael Spayd – Agile 2010 – Coaching Coaches (Agile Toolkit Podcast)
Community / Events
- FREE 3/23 Webinar: 7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint 2010 for PM Success (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Stack Overflow MeetUps – April 6 (Rebecca Chernoff)
- Event: Microsoft Press Author Rob Miles to Speak at MIX11 (Kim Spilker)
Database
- SQL Server Reporting Services Tutorial: Designing a Basic Report using SSRS 2008 and VS 2008 BI Studio (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- SQL SERVER 2008 – 2011 – Declare and Assign Variable in Single Statement (Pinal Dave)
- Survey: what are the most common causes of performance problems? (Paul S. Randal)
- SMO Enumerations in Powershell (Martin Bell)
- Database Tools (Jason Brimhall)
SharePoint
- Some Read/Write Properties are Read-Only in Sandboxed Solutions (Ricky Kirkham)
Miscellaneous
- When your software doesn’t work in China (Igal Tabachnik)
- Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 1 (Justin Etheredge)
- The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK (John Zukowski)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming Collective Intelligence – Only $15.99 w/code DDPCG (O’Reilly Media)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2010 03.15 ~ 03.18 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/17/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/18/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- WebDev Tweets 16-Mar-2011 and 17-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #815 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for March 7-13, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
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Dew Drop – March 14, 2011
Top Links
- What to Look in an ORM Solution? (Gil Fink)
- Priceless: Online ReSharper Training from Pluralsight (Jura Gorohovsky)
- Use jQuery to extract data from HTML lists and tables (Dave Ward)
- Lighting up on Windows 7 with Native Extensions for Microsoft Silverlight (Pete Brown)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Beyond the Monad fashion (II.): Creating web forms with LINQ (Tomas P.)
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
- Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010 (Shai Raiten)
- Defining .NET Components with Namespaces (Patrick Smacchia)
- CodeRush Pro clipboard tools overview (Alex Skorkin)
- To box or not to box, that is the question (Eric Lippert)
- Internals of Events (Abhishek Sur)
- Introducing .Net Perf Timing. A FREE timing profiler for .Net (.NET Perf Team)
Web Development
- Creating Custom HTML Helpers in ASP.NET MVC (Abhijit Jana)
- Cascading DropDown with jQuery – WebMatrix Version (Joe Stagner)
- How data annotations for ASP.NET MVC validation work (Rachel Appel)
- Why WebGL and node.js (and websockets) are important (Rob Ashton)
- WebSockets Release Interoperates with Firefox, Eclipse’s Jetty (Joe Stagner)
- Secret Agent Man (Bil Simser)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Everybody is an architect, except when they’re not (Simon Brown)
- 6 Tips for Turbocharging Your Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
- Effective Tests: A Unit Test Example (Derek Greer)
- The Perfect ScrumMaster Job Description (Peter Saddington)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Mock Object (Giorgio Sironi)
- Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part II: Scrum, but (Stephen Forte)
- A Great Process is Continuously Evolving (Bill Wagner)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- WPF Themes now available on NuGet and Making the ApplicationBar bindable (Rudi Grobler)
- All about WP7 Isolated Storage – Files and Folders (Windows Phone Geek)
- Air Hockey for Windows Phone 7 (Andy Beaulieu)
- A Silverlight Resizable TextBlock (and other resizable things) (Colin Eberhardt)
- From Android to Windows Phone (Jesse Liberty)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: Quick Tips (Lonnie Webb)
- Dan Wahlin on Understanding the Role of Commanding in Silverlight (Silverlight Team)
- Golf Tracker and DailyAwesome – New WP7 tutorials on the Toolbox Site (Adam Kinney)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes on 9 – Digging into Entity Framework 4 Code First (Magic Unicorn Edition) (Scott Hanselman)
- Talking Shop Down Under Episode 47 – Task Army on Rails with Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli (Richard Banks)
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 007 – “NoDon’t Make Me Wait” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Ping 94: Charlie Sheen & Microsoft, Killing IE6, Outlook tone checker, Fan Love for WP7 (Laura Foy)
- Technology & Friends Episode 143: Tiberiu Covaci on Parallel Computing (David Giard)
- Coding QA Episode 52 – Testing – Done Differently (Mark Berryman & Jim Wang)
Community / Events
- Announcing: DevReady with MVVM; Coming to NYC! (Rachel Appel)
- Speech manager blends art and technology to share Microsoft’s future computing vision (Microsoft JobsBlog)
- Calling West Midlands WP7 Enthusiasts! (Andy Wigley)
- Why to Join a Software Craftsmanship Group (Brendan Enrick)
Database
- Have SSIS’ differing type systems ever caused you problems? (Jamie Thomson)
- SSRS: Shared DataSet, Not So Shared!!! (Patrick LeBlanc)
- SQL SERVER – Guest Post – Architecting Data Warehouse – Niraj Bhatt (Pinal Dave)
- Restore and Relocate Database Files Using PowerShell (Chad Miller)
- Stored Procedure Definitions and Permissions (Gethyn Ellis)
- Ever had poor performance saving files in SSMS over slow network? (Paul S. Randal)
Miscellaneous
- WebM Plugin for Internet Explorer 9 (Alex Chitu)
- Windows PC vs. Xbox: Which gets the starring role in Microsoft’s living room hub of the future? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Figuring out why my SVCHOST.EXE is at 100% CPU without complicated tools in Windows 7 (Scott Hanselman)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 14, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2011 03.07 ~ 03.14 (yuanjian)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 14 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Windows Client Developer Roundup 063 for 3/14/2011 (Pete Brown)
- The Morning Brew #811 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for March 13, 2011 — #1059 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 14th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/14/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 03/14/2011 (Silverlight Show)
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