Top Links
- Phoney Tools v0.7 Released (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Encapsulation: You’re Doing It Wrong (Derick Bailey)
- Modifying the default code generation/scaffolding templates in ASP.NET MVC (Scott Hanselman)
- Effective Tests: A Test-First Example – Part 1 (Derek Greer)
- async samples 7: Combinators (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Difference between two Entity Set using LINQ (Abhijit Jana)
- The Visual Studio Debugger: A new series on an old topic (Cameron Skinner)
- Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 (Mike Taulty)
- TFS Integration Platform Updated Mar 11 (Shai Raiten)
- Working with the New Project Dialog in Visual Studio 2010 and Configuring Offline Help with VS2010 SP1 (Zain Naboulsi)
- How to request a daily build of DevExpress IDE Tools (Alex Skorkin)
- Optimizing Regex Performance, Part 3 (Ron Petrusha)
- An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4 (Bobby Johnson)
- MonoMac Offers .NET Style APIs for Cocoa Development (Jonathan Allen)
- Entity Framework Model Inheritance with SQL CE 4 (Arun Mahendrakar)
- New Azure Tools Roll Out to Mobile Platforms (Jeffrey Meisner)
- List Exporter To CSV (Sacha Barber)
Web Development
- LightSwitch and HTML (Michael Washington)
- High Performance Javascript (Anders Janmyr)
- A Collapsible Content Area Using jQuery UI and A jQuery Color Picker for ASP.NET Apps (Joe Stagner)
- Who Needs Classes Anyway? (Davy Brion)
- Facebook C# SDK Tutorial: Getting Started with an ASP.NET MVC 3 Website (With Javascript SDK) (Nathan Totten)
- A first look at the upcoming JavaScript modules (Axel Rauschmayer)
- Setting up custom ASP.NET Routing to an HttpHandler (Rick Strahl)
- Scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests with MvcScaffolding (Steve Sanderson)
- Windows Azure Worker Role and BasicHttpBinding and the Loch Ness Monster (Christian Martinez)
- WebMatrix Tutorial: Quickly Find Hosting and Deploy Your Web App (Steve Lydford)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Unit Testing and TypeMock Part 3 (Avi Kaye)
- The Importance of Agile Feedback Loops (Dan Puckett)
- Top 10 Essential Product Owner Characteristics (Peter Saddington)
- Why a Product Owner Team? and Product Owner Team… Who Needs to Play? (Mike Cottmeyer)
- Designing For The Future Web (James Gardner)
- Stand Up Meetings Are About More Than Standing (James Kovacs)
- Model Driven Development and Domain Specific Language Best Practices (Jean-Jacques Dubray)
- Getting up to BAT: Creating Your First Smoke Tests (John Sonmez)
- New book: Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project (Kim Spilker)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Expression Blend SDK for Windows Phone 7 (MS Downloads)
- WPF 4 DataGrid Row Drag and Drop (Mahesh Sabnis)
- Common Problem with Notifications from a View Model (Nigel Sampson)
- My 10 tips for designing phone apps (Alex Knight)
- TombstoneHelper now in NuGet (Matt Lacey)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Eric Lippert Talks About Project Roslyn (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Talkin’ C++ with Boris Jabes: C++ Intellisense, Game Development, and Boris Faces His Demons (Charles Torre)
- The Engadget Show – 019: HP’s Jon Rubinstein, Palm TouchPad demo, Nintendo 3DS, Samsung 9 Series (Chad Mumm)
- Ping 96: Mark Russinovich joins us, Zero Day: A Novel, IE9 loves Firefox, 3D app for your phone (Charles Torre & Laura Foy)
- Windows Azure Platform Security Essentials for Technical Decision Makers (Larry Larsen)
- Podcast with CodeItRight (Lisa Feigenbaum)
Community / Events
- Mobile Connections – Las Vegas, NV – April 17-21 (Wally McClure)
- Arrive a Day Early and Attend a Boot camp at MIX11 (Wes Yanaga)
- 20 Mix11 HTML5 and JavaScript Sessions (Elijah Manor)
- Nerd Nite Special Edition: The Philadelphia Science Festival! (Philly Nerd Nite)
- VOTE: Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards and MSDN Flash Mid-Atlantic Editorial for March 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Mole 2010 at the Portland Area .NET User Group (Josh Smith)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details (Pinal Dave)
- MySQL: splitting aggregate queries (Quassnoi)
- VOTE: Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards and MSDN Flash Mid-Atlantic Editorial for March 28th, 2011 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Mole 2010 at the Portland Area .NET User Group (Josh Smith)
Database
- SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : The request failed or the service did not respond in timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details (Pinal Dave)
- MySQL: splitting aggregate queries (Quassnoi)
- Does CHECKPOINT write uncommitted data to disk? (Sankar Reddy)
SharePoint
- lightning conductor 2007 web part 2.3.0.0 (Brett Lonsdale)
- Social Squared March Release (Lightning Tools)
Miscellaneous
- Happy Developers (Brandon Watson)
- Is Putting.Net on Your Resume Bad for your Career? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Getting that PDF onto your Kindle 3 so you can actually read it… and Good to meet you Source. And you, Source… And you… Using Source Meet to meet about source [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
- Browser Power Consumption—Leading the Industry with Internet Explorer 9 (Walter VonKoch, Matthew Robben & Jason Weber)
- MVPs for Windows Phone 7: How To Sync Multiple Notebooks in OneNote Mobile on Windows Phone 7 (Lonnie Webb)
- Evernote Modernizes Web App, Adds Facebook Sharing (Jennifer Van Grove)
- Microsoft releases Windows Thin PC public test build (Mary Jo Foley)
More Link Collections
- Weekly Link Post 187 (Rhonda Tipton)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 28 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 28th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- The Morning Brew #822 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily News Digest 03/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 03/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2011 — #1067 (Dave Campbell)
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C# 4.0 Unleashed by Bart De Smet |
Dew Drop – March 26, 2011
Top Links
- New Book Available: Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Prism 4 (Karl Shifflett)
- Visual Studio 2010 Books on C#, Visual Basic, F#, VS IDE, and VS Extensibility (Lisa Feigenbaum)
- Jeff Wilcox’s “Metro” design guide for developers, v1.00 (Jeff Wilcox)
- Task Parallel Library: 5 of n (Sacha Barber)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Working with TypeDescriptor in C# (Jonathan Wood)
- Handling Updates with the WCF Data Services Toolkit (Jonathan Carter)
- Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #4 from CLR via C#, Third Edition (Devon Musgrave)
- Fun with F# – Life, the solar system and everything (in 101 samples) (Greg Duncan)
- How To Fix Visual Studio File Templates (Steve Smith)
- An efficient format for OData (Alex James)
- Getting Lazy with .NET 4.0 and Collection Initializers in .NET (Abhijit Jana)
- A random walk in Rx (John Rayner)
Web Development
- jQuery Modal Dialog in an ASP.NET page. (Joe Stagner)
- HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
- Round tripping a timestamp field with EF4.1 Code First and MVC 3 (Julie Lerman)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 5 Free Agile & Scrum Tools for Project Planning and Prioritizing (Mike Cohn)
- 10 Tips for Learning How to Run a Virtual Team (Thursday Bram)
- Find Code Cyclomatic Complexity with NDepend (Hajan Selmani)
- Building An Awesome Organization – Part 1. (Rajiv Popat)
- Mapping to Your Database is a Private Affair (Peter Ritchie)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
- XNA for Silverlight developers: Part 8 – Music and sound effects (Peter Kuhn)
- Pixel Scrolling for WPF Lists (Abhijit Jana)
- WPF databinding trick (part 1) (Jeremy Alles)
- Hack: OAuth security flaw for Windows Phone 7, iPhone and other Mobile platforms (Nick Randolph)
- Microsoft’s Belfiore spins on about Windows Phone updating mess (Steven Hodson)
- How to Disable Pivot / Panorama swipe gesture: Sliding inside Pivot Item (Windows Phone Geek)
- Double Dutch Double Touch (Jesse Liberty)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
- Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
- What’s new with WCM with Andrew Connell-Episode 58 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
- Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi and Countdown to MIX11: Joe Belfiore Talks Phone (Larry Larsen)
- The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
- Cloud Cover Episode 41 – Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 (Wade Wegner)
- Silverlight Show: Recording of webinar ‘Switching on the Cloud for Silverlight’ by Gill Cleeren (Silverlight Team)
- Chatting with the Kinect Team’s Alex Kipman, Kudo Tsunoda, and Darren Bennett (Tina Wood)
- Boagworld: Live ‘end of season one’ show (Paul Boag)
- TWC9: New Mix Sessions announced, dissecting IE9 Performance, Azure Toolkit for WP7 (Brian Keller & Dan Fernandez)
Community / Events
- Gamefest 2011 – Open to All! (XNA Team)
- You’re Invited: 10 Tips to Supercharge Your Unit Tests – Thursday, March 31 (Avi Kaye)
- Don’t Miss this Opportunity! Agile Scrum Development Practices with the Experts – April 28th (Public Sector Team)
- Are you up to the challenge? (Dani Diaz)
Database
- Does SSIS in Denali solve the “relative paths” problem? (Jamie Thomson)
- SQL Server: Count based on Condition (Suprotim Agarwal)
- How Many Bytes Are In My Column? – T-SQL Functions (Steve Jones)
- NOLOCK for Developers (Eric Humphrey)
Miscellaneous
- Thoughts on Visual Complexity from Bing UX designer (Steve Clayton)
- Bing Feature Update: Bing News with Real-Time Twitter feed and Enhanced Entertainment Sharing (Betsy Aoki)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 25, 2011 and Interesting Finds: March 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 95 (Scott Banwart)
- Interesting .NET Links – March 26 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 25th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Weekly Links– 2010_12 (50 for Web Devs & Other Geeks) (Joe Stagner)
- Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 and Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2011 — #1065 (Dave Campbell)
- Week Retrospective 25 – Scrum Backlog Tips and 3 Types of Scrum (Peter Saddington)
- WebDev Tweets 24-Mar-2011 and 23-Mar-2011 (Elijah Manor)
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Microsoft Silverlight Edition: Programming Windows Phone 7 by Charles Petzold |
Technorati Tags: vs2010,tpl,wpf,silverlight,windows phone 7,entity framework,asp.net mvc,sql server,wcf,bing,html5,css,jquery
Dew Drop – March 25, 2011
Top Links
- Introducing the Kinect WPF Toolkit (András Velvárt)
- How to Capture User Signatures on WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
- Crawling the Windows Phone Marketplace (Brandon Watson)
- When Should a Method Be a Property? (Rob Conery)
- async Samples 6: Declaring async methods (Bill Wagner)
.NET / Visual Studio
- How to update “Run only specified windows applications” GPO programmatically (VBScript) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
- Trigger-Start Services Recipe (Yochay Kiriaty)
- New Training for Visual Studio 2010 and Notepad for Workitems: how to programmatically create workitems in Visual Basic for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Charles Sterling)
- A Guide to Sandcastle – Part 3 – Customizing the build process [Help File] (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Implementing the virtual method pattern in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
- Cloud Sync/Backup your Visual Studio settings with Pepper (Greg Duncan)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The ToLookup() LINQ Extension Method (James Michael Hare)
- Improving CLRProfiler 3: Double the speed of profile loading (Feng Yuan)
- A Friendly DateTime Formatter (Jonathan Wood)
Web Development
- Getting Your Feet Wet with HTML 5 (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
- Throwing Stars – a new HTML5 game (Adam Kinney)
- Want to work on datajs? (Phil Haack)
- IE9 and Network Capture for Diagnostics (Mike Taulty)
- IE9’s Document Modes and JavaScript (Gaurav Seth & Paul Chapman)
- Basic JavaScript Part 12: Function Hoisting (Jan Van Ryswyck)
- Using jQuery UI DatePicker in an ASP.NET Application. (Joe Stagner)
- HTML 5 and CSS 3 Support for Expression Web (Jonathan Allen)
- Using Translation Services within ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery (Malcolm Sheridan)
- Web Workers, for a responsive JavaScript application (Giorgio Sironi)
- Windows Azure and scaling: how? (PHP) (Maarten Balliauw)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Write clearer Unit Tests (Gian Maria Ricci)
- 3 Scrum Types – Your Flavor of Scrum? and Kanban Elevator Pitch – Help Craft It (Peter Saddington)
- Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part III: Moving away from Scrum (Stephen Forte)
- Bus and Broker Pub/Sub Differences (Udi Dahan)
- The Essential Product Cookbook–The First Ingredient (Gil Zilberfeld)
- Designing a Short Course on IoC: Day 4 (Nicholas Blumhardt)
- Sharing An IE Instance Among Multiple Tests With WatiN And MS Test (Davy Brion)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Bing Maps Silverlight Control SDK (MS Downloads)
- Windows Phone: Touch (Jesse Liberty)
- Creating WP7 Custom Theme – Complex Theme (Windows Phone Geek)
- Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application (Part 1) (Michael Crump)
- Phone Tools v0.6 Released – Breaking Change! (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Free “no code” WP7 App Dev and also Marketplace registration from AppMakr and Microsoft (limited time) (Think “App’ify your RSS feed in just a few clicks, with a good number of customization options too”) (Greg Duncan)
- Clean Design-Time Friendly ViewModels: A Walkthrough (Jeremy Likness)
- Attaching an External DataSource in LightSwitch Application (Kunal Chowdhury)
- A Batch File for Closing Zune and Launching the WPConnect Tool (Daniel Vaughan)
- Getting Total Memory on Win7 Mobile Devices (Mike Snow)
- Designing hubs, being creative. (Alfred Astort)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Hanselminutes: Inside Entity Framework 4.1 CodeFirst with Jeff Derstadt and Tim Laverty (Scott Hanselman)
- geekSpeak: Web Application Testing with Jeff McWherter (MS Podcasts)
- Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design (Jon Galloway)
- Webcast: Brief introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (Gunnar Peipman)
- Let’s Play TDD #97: Where the Rubber Meets the Road (James Shore)
- Silverlight TV 67: Bill Buxton Talks about Speed Dating at MIX11 (John Papa)
- Cloud Plumbing: Brian Noyes Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Defrag 002: Gov’s Probs, Media Center, Dropped WiFi (Larry Larsen)
- The Office Show – Finances (Laura Foy & Tina Wood)
- Innovate both technology and your own career at Microsoft (Microsoft JobsBlog)
- Trigger Started Services on Windows 7 (John Bristowe)
- Blend SIG Podcast: February 2011: Adam Kinney and March 2011: Frank LaVigne (Joel Cochran)
- endpoint.tv – AppFabric WCF HTTP Template (Ron Jacobs)
- Community Megaphone Show #26 FoxPro Reunion (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Community / Events
- Job Opportunities (Cameron Skinner)
- Webinar: Amplify JavaScript Library with Scott González (Elijah Manor)
- Come Demo your Cool Robotics, Microcontroller, or other Hardware Hacking at MADExpo (Pete Brown)
- IE is MIXing it up in Vegas! (Ziad Ismail)
- Russian GM speaks at MVP Organized MCP Meeting (Lonnie Webb)
Database
- PostgreSQL Row Storage Fundamentals (Jeremiah Peschka)
- Looking at the RavenDB structure (Oren Eini)
SharePoint
- SharePoint Roundup (Avi Kaye)
- DeliverPoint versus well known Sharepoint administration tools (Lightning Tools)
- Microsoft: We’re adding 20,000 new SharePoint users a day (Mary Jo Foley)
Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (MS Downloads)
- 20 percent time spent coding in the clouds (Dave Burke)
- Comparison: Xcode 3 vs. Xcode 4 (Austin Ritchie)
- Manifesto Manifesto: a recipe for manifestae (Cory Doctorow)
- Photo Retouching Tips And Tricks In Photoshop (Dirk Metzmacher)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: March 24, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Daily WP7 Development News March 24th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Silverlight Show: Daily News Digest 03/25/2011 (Svetla Stoycheva)
- The Morning Brew #820 (Chris Alcock)
- Silverlight Cream for March 24, 2011 — #1064 (Dave Campbell)
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Coding4fun: 10 .Net Programming Projects for Wiimote, Youtube, World of Warcraft, and More |