reactive extensions – Page 26 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 12, 2011

Dew Drop – February 8, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Implementing Background Processes (Oren Eini)
Keyboard Shortcuts for the Book (Zain Naboulsi)
WIF & ACS Survival Guide (Valery Mizonov)
iPhone Programming with MonoTouch article in DevConnections Magazine – April, 2011 and Passing values between Activities using MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
8-part Async series by Eric Lippert (Weston Hutchins)
What is a Dynamic list? (Rory Becker)
Code Providers – Add Contract (Alex Skorkin)
Quick Script for Building .sln Files With Configurations (Jim Holmes)
Intellisense when editing Service Bus configuration files? Yes please! (Paolo Salvatori)
Hirerachy Data Source – Using Fluent API convert flat data structure to hirerachy structure (Kiran Kumar)
Strange, but legal (Eric Lippert)
LLBLGen Pro v3.1 released! (Frans Bouma)
Visual NHibernate – Using Templates (Gareth Hayter)

Web Development

Understanding CSS Selectors (Emily Lewis)
ASP.NET MVC Performance Tips (Marcin Doboz)
Why ASP.NET MVC is different than Classic ASP (Rachel Appel)
Sharp Architecture 1.9.5 Released (Alec Whittington)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Test automation strategy for legacy systems (Gojko Adzic)
Unit Test Case, Subject Matter Experts and Requirements (Steven Lott)
Message-Based Architecture Goodness (Steve Smith)
Taking a Break From Sprinting (Dan Puckett)
Behavior-Driven Development in PHP with Behat (Giorgio Sironi)
TestApi v0.6 Released! (Ivo Manolov)
5 Hints for the New Product Owner (Gil Zilberfeld)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools – January Update (Chris Koenig)
What it lacks in efficiency, it makes up for in efficiency! [Silverlight-ready PNG encoder implementation shows one way to use .NET IEnumerables effectively] (David Anson)
WP7 – Understanding Serialization (Giorgetti Alessandro)
January Update of the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools support Copy & Paste (Doug Holland)
Windows Phone 7 – Part #4: The application lifecycle (Andrea Boschin)
Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with WPF DataGrid, Entity Framework 4 and Private deployment (part 1) (Erik Ejlskov Jensen)
Communication between HTML in WebBrowser and Silverlight app (Jaime Rodriguez)
MVVM Light V4 preview (BL0014) release notes (Laurent Bugnion)
Using XXRS and XXR with XR…a how to. (Rob Relyea)
4 important things to have in your Windows Phone 7 app (Dennis Delimarsky)
Simple Error Reporting on WP7 (Rudi Grobler)
The Full Stack: The Client Side (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Andrew Russell Develops XNA Games for XBox, iPhone and More! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Let’s Play TDD #84: Parentheses (James Shore)
Ping 91: PACT for gaming, Swim on Kinect, Microsoft Cookbook, H.264 on Chrome (Laura Foy)
WP7 Minute–Episode VIII–Visual Voicemail (Daniel Egan)

Community / Events

Upcoming MSDN webcasts on TFS 2010 and Windows Phone 7 (Katrien de Graeve)
New XAML-Based User Group started in Birmingham, Alabama. (Michael Crump)
MvcConf MVC Q&A call for questions (Jeffrey Palermo)
SharePoint Connections Coast-to-Coast: I’ll be there! (San Antonio & San Diego) (Andrew Connell)
TechReady – 12 SharePoint Sessions (PubSec)
TechDays 2011: Rx talk in Paris (Jeremy Alles)
The early bird gets the…erm, discount. Ready for MIX11? and Events This Week – February 7th, 2010 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

Messing with Errors in SSIS, or does the Propagate “Property” really exist? (Julie Smith)
SSIS: Custom Folder in your Package Store (Patrick LeBlanc)
SQL SERVER – Automation Process Good or Ugly and SQL SERVER – SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD – Wait Type – Day 8 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
10 Things Every DBA Should Do (John Sansom)

SharePoint

Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 6 #SharePoint 2010 Titles from @MicrosoftPress (O’Reilly Media)

Miscellaneous

PowerShell: Download List of SQL Server MVPs (Jason Strate)
Procrastination Flowcharts (Joey deVilla)
MVPs for Office 365: Microsoft Demonstrates Commitment to Service Updates (Lonnie Webb)
More engineers at the top: Just what the doctor ordered for Microsoft? (Mary Jo Foley)

The Geek Shelf

Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco

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Dew Drop – February 6, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Updating Data in a Silverlight Application: EF (Deborah Kurata)
Do you know about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers Guidance? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Hierarchy flattening of interfaces in WCF (Arun Mahendrakar)
Enterprise Library on Windows Azure: Key Learnings from Customer Project and Transient Fault Handling Framework for SQL Azure, Windows Azure Storage, AppFabric Service Bus and Instrumentation Best Practices for High Performance BizTalk Solutions (Valery Mizonov)
Fast Text Search with Boyer-Moore (Jonathan Wood)
Code Metrics From The Command Line – Power Tools (Shai Raiten)
Profiling and Logging Entity Framework Queries (Suprotim Agarwal)
Metaprogramming in the .NET Micro Framework (Kevin Hazzard)
Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 11: Load and AsNoTracking and Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 12: Automatically Detecting Changes (Arthur Vickers)
Get Reflected use TypeDescriptor and Internals of Anonymous Types (Abhishek Sur)
Working with regions using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)

Web Development

HowTo: jQuery hosted CDN version & local „Fallback“ (Code Inside Team)
Functions inside page using Razor View Engine – ASP.NET MVC (Hajan Selmani)
ASP .NET MVC Dependency Injection Into Views (Sacha Barber)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – CommonJS and Creating Custom Modules (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Using JSON serialization outside a web context (Jef Claes)
Applying data restrictions to route authorization (Joshua Flanagan)
How to change GridView column alignments for dynamic data source ? and How to remove a persistent cookies before Expiration time ? (Abhijit Jana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Every Open-Source .NET Project should have its own public OneNote (Paul Betts)
Test-Driven Product Design and Scenario Scoreboards for Testing Your Product Success and Product Success Frame for High Customer Impact (JD Meier)
To Thine Own Self Be True (Gregory Long)
iMindmap 5 Takes It to the Next Level (Chance Brown)
Feedback: Making the request specific (Mark Needham)
The difficult definition of professional software development (Ryan Svihla)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Serialization Gotcha on the Windows Phone 7 (Nigel Sampson)
Windows Phone Developer Tools January Update (Brandon Watson)
Quick run through of the WP7 Developer Tools January 2011 (Michael Crump)
"Windows Phone 7 Interoperability" and the "Interoperability Bridges and Labs Center" (Think "Dogs and cats living together…" ) (Greg Duncan)
Things I wish I learned about Live Tiles a little earlier (Geoff Taylor)
Windows Phone 7 Sockets and File System Libraries and A Simple DirectCanvas Tutorial (Jeremiah Morrill)
Real-World Tombstoning in Silverlight for Windows Phone, Part 2 and Silverlight for Windows Phone Programming Tip #4 and Real-World Tombstoning in Silverlight for Windows Phone, Part 3 (Jeff Prosise)
Silverlight for keyboard junkies (Peter Kuhn)
Ten Pet Peeves of WP7 Applications (Shawn Wildermuth)
January 2011 Update for Windows Phone 7 dev tools – New Emulator & Utilities (Dennis Delimarsky)
Creating Sample Data from a Class (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Back button press when using webbrowser control in WP7 (Jaime Rodriguez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes: ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework (Rx) with Paul Betts (Scott Hanselman)
Engadget Podcast 231 – 02.05.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Learning OData? MSDN and I Have the videos for you! (Shawn Wildermuth)
Video: how to do test reviews (Roy Osherove)
TWC9: Nineys, MIX Open Call, WP7 GPS Emulator, & lots of new software releases (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)

Community / Events

Suggested Edits and Edit Review (Jeff Atwood)
Microsoft Game Camp to Motivate New York Students to Design New Software (Dave Isbitski)
Beware of “Aging Tech Star” Syndrome (Don Burnett)

Database

Fastest Way to Update Rows in a Large Table in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – Capturing Wait Types and Wait Stats Information at Interval – Wait Type – Day 5 of 28 and SQL SERVER – CXPACKET – Parallelism – Usual Solution – Wait Type – Day 6 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
A thought on Hard vs Soft (Dru Sellers)
Querying the Report Server Execution Log (Melissa Coates)

SharePoint

patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – SharePoint Guidance 2010 Hands On Lab (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

The big picture of how Khan Academy development works (Brian Bondy)
Halo: Combat Evolved remake coming this holiday (Alexander Sliwinski)

The Geek Shelf

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler

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