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)
- (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)
- 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 – March 9, 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
- NuGet Action Plan – Upgrade to 1.1, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer (Scott Hanselman)
- Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Jason Zander)
- WCF Data Services March 2011 CTP 2 (MS Downloads)
- Async Samples Part 1 (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Use credential manager to use TFS shell extension in a workgroup or outside a domain (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Support dynamic fields with NHibernate and .NET 4.0 (Oren Eini)
- Visual Studio 2010 and HW acceleration on Windows XP… (Jeremy Alles)
- Visual Studio Find in Files Overwhelmed With External JavaScript (Kathleen Dollard)
- Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and More (Zain Naboulsi)
- Working with unmanaged and IDisposable resources in WF (Rory Primrose)
- IronPython – Release: v2.7 RC2 (CodePlex)
- New Book by Windows Azure MVP David Pallmann, "The Windows Azure Handbook, Volume 1: Strategy & Planning", Now Available (Windows Azure Team)
- Monad tutorial, part 2 (Brian Marick)
- Windows Azure Use Case: Infrastructure Limits (Buck Woody)
- "A Day of Multicore Programming on the .NET Platform" (Joe Hummel)
Web Development
- Creating PDF Documents with ASP.NET and iTextSharp (Scott Mitchell)
- ASP.NET Custom Repeater Control with EmptyTemplate, ShowHeaderWhenEmpty,ShowFooterWhenEmpty,ShowCount Properties (Abhijit Jana)
- TextBox Input Watermark using jQuery and Is it the end for the AJAX Control Toolkit ? (Joe Stagner)
- Comparing Hardware Accelerated SVG across Browsers with Santa’s Workshop (Seth McLaughlin)
- Improving User Experience: Preload Images (Jan Lehmann)
- datajs now available on NuGet (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Kanban, System Archetypes and Limits to Success (Karl Scotland)
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Test Spy (Giorgio Sironi)
- How to test a class member that is not public using Visual Studio 2010 ? (Abhijit Jana)
- Unit Testing (Richard Carr)
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coding Convensions (Dror Helper)
- Productivity Tip: Dry Erase Markers and Mirrors (G. Andrew Duthie)
- How Can I Make This More Testable? (Howard Dierking)
- Lessons learnt from failure (Grigori Melnik)
- At Microsoft, NUI goes beyond fun and games (Mary Jo Foley)
- Testing conventions (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 Notification Control (Nigel Sampson)
- XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 6 – Input (accelerometer) (Peter Kuhn)
- Native Extensions further to blur the boundary between Silverlight and WPF (Jonathan Allen)
- Creating a Custom Markup Extension in WPF (and soon, Silverlight) (Pete Brown)
- Silverlight 4: SketchFlow for Prototyping UI using Expression Blend 4 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- ChainedPropertyObserver (Sacha Barber)
- An Update on Windows Phone Marketplace; new tips, policies and regional access program (Todd Brix)
- WP7 PerformanceProgressBar in depth (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Technology & Friends Episode 142: Matt Casto on Offline Applications (David Giard)
- DimeCasts.NET Episode #190: Rake: Learning to use Rake With MSBuild (Derik Whittaker)
- Let’s Play TDD #92: InvalidDollars Gets an Icon (James Shore)
- Hot Apps: Tiki Towers, Flickr, Bubblegum, Royalty, Word Tangle FREE and TechFest 2011: ShadowDraw and TechFest 2011: Mobile Photography- Capture, process and View (Laura Foy)
- Windows Client VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 Training Videos (23) and VIDEO – WebMatrix – Roles & Membership (Joe Stagner)
Community / Events
- SQLAuthority News – Stay Connected and Social Media (Pinal Dave)
- The official Xbox PAX East Schedule (Larry Hyrb)
- Get DevReady with MVVM (Dani Diaz)
- The need for participation, compassion, & community in the classroom (and lecture hall) (Garr Reynolds)
- Celebrating International Women’s Day (Microsoft JobsBlog
)
Database
- T-SQL Tuesday #016 – TOP N Percent for the group (Naomi)
- Geek City: What gets logged for index rebuild operations? (Kalen Delaney)
- Links to the Shard’s – Linking to Sharded SQL Azure Databases (Greg Duncan)
SharePoint
- Technical reference for SharePoint Foundation 2010 (MS Downloads)
- SharePoint 2010 – Starter Taxonomies Now Available (Andrew Connell)
- Create SQL Server Dashboard in SharePoint (Pravinkumar Dabade)
- Just Published: Feb. 14-Mar. 7 | 2010 SharePoint Dev content (SharePoint Developer Team)
Miscellaneous
- Useful Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Photo Retouching (Dirk Metzmacher)
- Sale: Save 40 Percent on Books from Microsoft Press (Kim Spilker)
- IE9 final release due next week, will you use it? (Kip Kniskern)
- The & in Microsoft R&D (Steve Clayton)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 8, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #808 (Chris Alcock)
- SilverlightShow for Feb 28 – March 06, 2011 and Silverlight Cream for March 08, 2011 — #1056 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 8th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Daily News Digest 03/09/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Community Curators, your one stop link shops (Greg Duncan)
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C# in Depth, Second Edition by Jon Skeet |
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Dew Drop – February 23, 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
- Mole 2010 Released (Karl Shifflett)
- Productivity Power Tools introduces Find, Organize Imports for VB, Enhanced Scrollbar, Middle-Click Scrolling and more! (Sean Laberee)
- Flatten your architecture: Simplicity as a core value (Oren Eini)
- Windows Phone Shake Gestures Library (Yochay Kiriaty)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Open XML 2.0 Code Snippets for VS2010 (and VS2008 too) (Greg Duncan)
- IronPython 2.7 Release Candidate 1 (CodePlex)
- Attach to Process – Macro for Visual Studio 2010 (Ingo Rammer)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machines (Zain Naboulsi)
- Different approaches to Casting and Use “Shift+Enter” to add “;” automatically at end of the line (Abhijit Jana)
- Five Windows 7 taskbar features available to developers (Brian Bondy)
- How could I work without resharper (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Windows 7 Taskbar Integration for MFC Applications (John Bristowe)
- Oracle Releases Beta of Entity Framework Provider (EF Team)
- FileSystemHelper Update and Release (Jason Strate)
- Free Alternatives to Reflector (Kevin Hazzard)
Web Development
- Using ASP.NET, Membership, and jQuery to Determine Username Availability (Scott Mitchell)
- How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development (Christina Warren)
- Recommended Book: HTML5 And CSS3: Develop With Tomorrow’s Standards Today (Davy Brion)
- ASP.NET Security Videos & Tutorials (29) (Joe Stagner)
- HTML5 and JavaScript tools: What could (and should) Microsoft do? (Mary Jo Foley)
- Custom Data Annotation Validator Part II: Client Code (K. Scott Allen)
- A jQuery Plug-in to monitor Html Element CSS Changes (Rick Strahl)
- Styling ASP.NET GridView using jQuery Theme Switcher Widget (Suprotim Agarwal)
- How much traffic does your website create with each request? Use IISExpress 7.5 to find out. (John V. Petersen)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Practical PHP Testing Patterns: In-Line Teardown (Giorgio Sironi)
- Versioning strategies for the sane (Jimmy Bogard)
- Espoused theory, theory in action & hypocrisy and Pair Programming: “What are you trying to learn?” (Mark Needham)
- How You Should Align Your Form Buttons (Anthony)
- Windows Azure Use Case: Hybrid Applications (Buck Woody)
- The Impact of Accidental Complexity on Estimates (Jay Fields)
- In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else (Shrini Kulkarni)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Index was outside the bounds of the array when Obfuscating a LARGE WP7 application and How to Obfuscate your WP7 application via nant and build scripts (Derik Whittaker)
- Enhancing the general Zune experience on Windows Phone 7 with Zune web API (Dennis Delimarsky)
- OpenXLive – A social network (SNS) platform for Windows Phone 7 games (or "Don’t write your own Leaderboard, Achievements, Online Gaming, Social Networking, and Cloud Store if you don’t have too") and Windows Phone 7 Development QuickStarts (Greg Duncan)
- Silverlight Sans Xaml? and Asynchronous Callbacks with Rx and When Isolated Storage Isn’t Enough (Jesse Liberty)
- HTML5 versus Silverlight–Is Silverlight Dead? (Joe Stagner)
- Mole 2010 has shipped (Josh Smith)
- New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.2 officially released and How to define and reuse resources in WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Episode 65: What does Open Source have to do with Windows Azure? (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
- Herding Code 106: Mark Rendle on Simple.Data (Jon Galloway)
- Hot Apps: iBlast Moki, Life Lights, OK!, MonsterUp, Classic Valentine (Laura Foy)
- The Garage Science Fair (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
- Technology & Friends Episode 138: Chris Eargle on Fluent Interfaces (David Giard)
- ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available (Scott Guthrie)
- Let’s Play TDD #88: Cascading Failures (James Shore)
- Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3 and Razor (Dan Wahlin)
Community / Events
- What lots of students miss when they start software development and ImagineCup @ Facebook – now with team pages (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Free TDD Class Seat in March – Here’s How (Roy Osherove)
- Come to MIX & show off your .NET Open Source App (Joe Stagner)
- Mobile Connections Event – early bird pricing ends February 25th (Wally McClure)
- From Zero To Deployed Contest – Prizes Announced (Rob Reynolds)
- Event: MIX11 Open Call Speakers & Sessions Announced (Kim Spilker)
- A Conference I want to go to (Dru Sellers)
- Hug an Engineer – It’s National Engineers Week (Doug Cornelius)
Database
- SQL SERVER – OLEDB – Link Server – Wait Type – Day 23 of 28 (Pinal Dave)
- Is SQL Server Express Enough for the Job? (William Vaughn)
- Survey: how is your tempdb configured? (Paul S. Randal)
SharePoint
- New book: Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)
- Calling a WCF Service using jQuery in SharePoint (Anweshi Deverasetty)
Miscellaneous
- Explore Zoho Reports Series: Part I – Formula Column (Arvind Natarajan)
- Extending the Omnibox (Christos)
- Craig Mundie’s TechForum: A Look Ahead (Jeffrey Meisner)
- Android 3.0 SDK Now Available to All Developers (Stan Schroeder)
- Could we see a Zune powered tablet from Microsoft? (Steven Hodson)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: February 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily News Digest 02/23/2011 and SilverlightCream top picks for Feb 14 – 20, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
- WebDev Tweets 22-Feb-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- The Morning Brew #798 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News Feb 22th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Cream for February 22, 2011 — #1050 (Dave Campbell)
The Geek Shelf
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Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET by Rebecca M. Riordan |
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