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Dew Drop – December 18, 2010

Dew Drop – November 10, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

Reorganize the Default Item Templates (Zain Naboulsi)

Adding Multi-Value properties to untyped providers (Vitek Karas)

If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown) (Peter Kellner)

eBay Adds Microsoft’s OData Protocol for API Access (Daniel Luxemburg)

Creating Entity Data Model Without A Database With Entity Framework 4 (Deepak Kapoor)

Discovering race conditions using PostSharp (Dror Helper)

mogade.com: a free platform for casual game developers (Karl Seguin)

Web Development

Formatting Dates, Times and Numbers in ASP.NET (Scott Mitchell)

Writing HTML5 Applications with Google App Engine, Google Closure Library and Clojure (Jean-Jacques Dubray)

Notes on The Big View Engine Comparison (Louis DeJardin)

Simple Semantics With Microformats, Part 4 (Emily Lewis)

Creating an HTML5 Game (Robby Ingebretsen)

Introducing the New YUI Test (Nicholas C. Zakas)

Web Page Performance in a Standards Compliant and Interoperable way (Anderson Quach)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Info Please: Tdd and Pair Programming (Brett Schuchert)

Beyond basic TDD (Gojko Adzic)

Effective Agile Meetings (Vikas Hazrati)

Chris Ducker: The Art of Managing a Virtual Team (Thursday Bram)

Mockingbird’s Wireframe Tool Now Sings To The Tune Of Real-Time Collaboration (Jason Kincaid)

Back to Basics: Cohesion and Coupling Part 2 (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 Development Tip: Use Concurrent Programming Techniques (Bart Czernicki)

Creating the slider toggle control for Windows Phone 7 – external state change (Dennis Delimarsky)

Blend Bits 16: Real Data (Mike Taulty)

A WPF Lab right in Visual Studio! (Carole Snyder)

Microsoft is in the driver’s seat for Windows Phone updates (Ed Bott)

Page Transition Animations and Windows Phone 7 (Karsten Januszewski)

Windows Phone From Scratch #5 – Data Binding (Jesse Liberty)

All-day Windows Phone Event in Albany–11/16 (Jim O’Neil)

Netflix Browser for Windows Phone 7 – Part 2 (Katka Vaughan)

RTM’d today: Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)

Windows Phone day one sales: 40k (so what does that mean?) (Kip Kniskern)

MVP Award Program Interviews MVP Ginny Caughey on Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)

Windows Phone 7 U.S. Release Day Review (Richard Hay)

WPF vs Silverlight, really? (Rockford Lhotka)

Using the Device Panel (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

This App Makes Use of Your Phone’s Data Connection (Adam Nathan)

Writing windows phone apps for SharePoint (Sudheer Kovalam)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ASP.NET Podcast Show 147 – WebMatrix/Razor Part II – audio (Wally McClure)

jQuery Podcast 39 – jQuery Mobile (Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango)

New Xbox 360 Transformer controller (Tina Wood)

Community / Events

Community, Community, Community, Community! (Mike Walsh)

Database

November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Glenn Berry)

What’s new in SSIS in Denali? (Jamie Thomson)

#Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on 10 Top SQL & Data Books – Celebrate #sqlpass Code DDDTA (O’Reilly Media)

Comparing MongoDB and SQL Server Replication (Jeremiah Peschka)

Drop all Connections to SQL Server Database (Suprotim Agarwal)

SQL SERVER – Get Database Backup History for a Single Database (Pinal Dave)

Download SQL Server Denali CTP and SQL Server Denali – Whats new for full text? and SQL Server Denali – Column Store indexes – The biggest thing in Denali (Simon Sabin)

First look at SQL Server Management Studio Denali and A first look at sequences in SQL Server Denali and Screenshots of the new look and feel of BIDS in Denali and Debugging In SQL Server Denali and Using OFFSET N ROWS FETCH NEXT N ROWS ONLY In SQL Server Denali for easy paging and Don’t install Denali BIDS side by side with a 2008 instance and The new Dynamic Management Views in SQL Server Denali (Denis Gobo)

SSMS Tools Pack 1.9.3 is out! (Mladen Prajdić)

SharePoint

SharePoint Server 2010 Search Architecture (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

Improving the Reach of Healthcare Through Mobile Technology (Tony Hey)

One Year Later: Windows 7 Deployment Trends (Paul Thurrott)

My Kinect Review (Christopher Bennage)

The Wonder of Light at The Smithsonian (Eric Havir)

Thought Leaders in the Cloud: Talking with Charlton Barreto, Technology Strategist at Intel (Robert Duffner)

Breathe With Skill to Dramatically Improve Your Health (J.D. Meier)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework, Second Edition (Expert’s Voice in .NET) by Steven Sanderson

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Dew Drop – August 25, 2010

.NET / Visual Studio

WCF, NSubstitute, and Autofac (Jason Bock)
Mindscape releases LightSpeed 3.11 ORM (John-Daniel Trask)
Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 Database Guide (Martin Hinshelwood)
Using the right tool for the job – introducing WebMatrix and LightSwitch (Mike Ormond)
Find Symbol Results Shortcuts (Zain Naboulsi)
CodeRush Notifications (Rory Becker)

Web Development

Internet Explorer Developer Tools: The CSS Tab (Pete LePage)
Implementing the Store Locator Application Using ASP.NET MVC (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
Using the SEO Feature in Expression Web 4 (Minal Agarwal)
New MapQuest Directions API Built on Open Data (Adam DuVander)
Redirect Tcp Connections in Windows Azure (Rinat Abdullin)
Feels like a new day – implementing the MetaWeblog API (Josh Twist)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Your Agile isn’t my Agile! (Bob Hartman)
An effective testing strategy (Jimmy Bogard)
Day 24 – Bounce Back with Skill and Day 25 – Fix Time, Flex Scope (J.D. Meier)
Should the Best Scrum Team Be Rewarded? (Mark Levison)
Practical PHP Patterns: Implicit Lock (Giorgio Sironi)
Commenting Methods Using Liskov Substitution Principle (Brendan Enrick)
Read and Recommended: A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum (Stephen Forte)
How To Do Large Scale Refactoring (Vikas Hazrati)
Quality assurance is not testing (Jeffrey Palermo)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Working with CollectionView in WPF(Filter,Sort, Group, Navigate) (Abhishek Sur)
WCF on the Windows Phone 7–The How to Guide (Simon Jackson)
Sending tile push notifications on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Acceptable Windows Phone 7 Movie Sizes and How to Generate Them.. (Don Burnett)
TimeZone patch to WPF Performance Profiling Tools for WPF 4 is now available (Jossef Goldberg)
First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–II) (Kunal Chowdhury)
Stay away from Windows Phone 7, Blendtec! (Luke)
Windows Phone Screen Stealing Status Bar (Rob Miles)
Windows Phone 7’s short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter? (Ross Miller)
An easy sell… sneak preview of new Windows Phone 7 apps (Sara Allison)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ARCast.TV – David Chappell on Effective IT Innovation (Bob Familiar)
Sparkling Client Show 104: Windows Phone Dev Tools Nearing Release! (Monica Mork & Erik Mork)
ASP.NET MVC in 4 minutes! (Jonathan McCracken)

Community / Events

Looking Back (Nate Kohari)
Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Event (Sara Ford)
BI Immersion Event in Bellevue, WA in October! (Paul S. Randal)

Database

Changing the size of a column in SQL Server Management Studio (Josh Twist)
Change an Existing Index in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Does Order of Column in WHERE clause Matter? (Pinal Dave)
Service Update to SQL Azure Now Supports Database Copy (Bruce Kyle)
Searching for ranges when you have quarters and years (Denis Gobo)
The Lazy DBA Series: Email me, I’m broke! and The Lazy DBA Series: High Availability (Ted Krueger)
Use ReadOnlyVariables and ReadWriteVariables properties in Scripts (Todd McDermid)
Property Owner is not available for Database (Pradeep Adiga)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Updates Office 2010 Web Apps (Blake Handler)
I wanted to start my best-practices series… (Joel Bennett)
Developer Survey: Challenges and New Technologies (Dave West)
How to Make Money With Your API (Daniel Jacobson)
How I Bonded with my Windows Phone – a cycling misadventure (Sara Ford)
Daily Dose – Adobe’s McAllister Speaks Out Against Oracle (Mitch Pronschinske)
Your Top 10 #Ebook Deal of the Day-Geek Beach Reads-Only $9.99 ea. Use code DDGRD (O’Reilly Media)
Taking Docs back to school (Pat Kinsel)
Windows 95 Turns 15 Years Old (Richard Hay)
Inspecting Local Root Lifetime (Sasha Goldshtein)
Adobe updates Photoshop.com, releases Express Editor, Organizer and Android app (Sebastian Anthony)
Expression Is Hiring (Christian Schormann)

The Geek Shelf

Introducing Windows Azure (Expert’s Voice in .Net) by Henry Li

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