December 2011 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 16, 2011 (#1,221)

Top Links

Link-bait Hacker Slash News Dot Considered Cancerous Request For Call To Action (Scott Hanselman) – Obligatory Top Links placement because of author’s status.
Keynote: Getting Started with Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
A Simple Multi-Page Windows Phone 7 PhoneGap Example (Colin Eberhardt)
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
Visual Studio 11 Platform Tooling Advances (S. Somasegar)
Node.js in Windows Azure, to the cloud and beyond! (Glenn Block)

.NET / Visual Studio

toying with lazy sequences and the fixed-point combinator in F# (Dieser Eintrag)
Not even making it to the airtight hatchway: Execution even before you get there (Raymond Chen)
What is the cost of async/await? and Tpl Dataflow – Part 4 (Bnaya Eshet)
Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools for Eclipse (MS Downloads)
Tip for using the Kinect for Windows SDK with XNA (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Create ASP.NET Application with WebMatrix (Chris D.)
Learning HTML 5: HTML Design Principal and New tags and Learning HTML 5: Detecting HTML5 feature supported in browser using ModernIZR (Dhananjay Kumar)
ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview: Display Modes (Malcolm Sheridan)
Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To (Divya Manian)
Azure On GitHub (Phil Haack)
CSS3 Patterns, Explained (Lea Verou)
Rotate an ASP.NET Image Control using HTML 5 Canvas (Suprotim Agarwal)
Mozilla Developer Tools 2012 Roadmap (Kevin Dangoor)
New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
Openness Update for Windows Azure (Maor David-Pur)
7 Steps will help you to write or migrate your application to Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
Some JSON Resources For You (Bil Simser)
Searching With A BackboneJS Collection (Derick Bailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Good Summary of Bad Security Assumptions (Steven Lott)
Goals and Your New Year’s Resolution (JD Meier)
31 Days of Testing—Day 14: Tests as Specifications (Jim Holmes)
A prototype is worth a thousand words (Leigh Howells)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Meet the Team Behind Windows Phone’s Breakthrough Design (MS PressPass)
How to check application returning from dormant state in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Phone testing for sensors and WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
"Windows Phone Toolkit In Depth" 2nd edition, free Windows Phone 7.1(5) PDF now available (Greg Duncan)
Silverlight 5 Tutorials – A Collection of Beginner Level Articles you may want to Read (Kunal Chowdhury)
Getting Started Video Series for our New Controls in WP7 (Michael Crump)
Create a Windows Phone web browser app in Expression Blend (Pam Keesey)
Log4Net AppDomain Logging (Sacha Barber)
2000 WPF Things #452 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, Part V (Sean Sexton)
7 WP7 Dev Tools You Might End Up Using Frequently (Tim Dams)
Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
Beginning LightSwitch Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data with Queries (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes Framework Series: The eXpand Framework with Apostolis Bekiaris (Scott Hanselman)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 046 – “Making Wealth Down Under” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Fever Pitched Episode 4: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 14 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
Channel 9 Cloud Cover Show Live (Steve Marx & Wade Wegner)
Let’s Play TDD #151: Mockito (James Shore)
Recording of yesterday’s webinar ‘Unit Testing for Windows Phone’ now available (Silverlight Show)
Defrag – Page File Needed, Image Tags, Fast Gaming PC (Larry Larsen)
Developer Smackdown Musing #63: Organizing a Conference with CodeManiacs Ian Randall and Ben Gracewood (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)

Community / Events

2011: Tell me how you used Mono this year (Miguel de Icaza)
Blue Pill vs Red Pill (Davy Brion)
Own Your Community (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

Perk Up Your Career with the SQL Server Troubleshooting Checklist (Kendra Little)
SQL SERVER – 2012 Auditing Enhancement – On Audit Log Failure Options – Maximum Rollover Files (Pinal Dave)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 14: EXCEPT and INTERSECT SET Operations and SQL Advent 2011 Day 15: Joins (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Configuration File Editor (Ted Krueger)
SQL Azure Management Portal Tips and Tricks: Part I and SQL Azure Management Portal Tips and Tricks: Part II (R Syam Kumar)
Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database (Rodney Vinyard)

PowerShell

Working around a Powershell Call Depth Disaster With Trampolines (Jon Galloway)

Miscellaneous

A poweruser tip to moving OneNote files around to free hard drive space (John Guin)
Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project (Mary Jo Foley)
Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
A Bad Presentation Can Hurt More Than Help (Rob Conery)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #775 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily WP7 Development News 15 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Morning Brew #1004 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 12/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 14-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Windows Azure Development Cookbook by Neil Mackenzie

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Dew Drop – December 15, 2011 (#1,220)

Top Links

Protecting your digital identity (Steven Sinofsky)
Starting work on Prism 4.1 (Blaine Wastell)
Beginning LightSwitch Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? (Beth Massi)
Some HTML5 Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #4: The Application Bar (Glen Gordon)

.NET / Visual Studio

Integrating RoboHelp with TFS Source Control (Shai Raiten)
Surround with a Code Snippet (C# Only) (Zain Naboulsi)
NuGet PowerShell Downloader Update – Adding Failed Download Retries, Better Paging Support (Jon Galloway)
Manage Your Dependencies with Rake and NuGet (Josh Bush)
Possible pitfall when using EF Migrations (Per Ökvist)
I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! (Peter Kellner)
Getting the most of the Kinect SDK (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

CSS3 Animations (Gil Fink)
Interoperable HTML5 Quirks Mode in IE10 (Tony Ross)
Debugging Application_Start and Module Initialization with IIS and Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
Getting Started with SSRS – Part 8 -Show SSRS Report in ASP.NET Web Page (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
Item Blur Effect with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Encapsulate Downcast (and Wrapping) and jQuery plugins with jsTestDriver (Giorgio Sironi)
Decoding jQuery – OOP and jQuery part 6 (Shi Chuan)
DotNetNuke Community Edition 06.01.02 (CodePlex)
Good Summary of Bad Security Assumptions (S. Lott)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP Availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Process Reality Check (Ralf Westphal)
31 Days of Testing—Day 13: Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) and Test Studio Webinar on Functional Test 201 (Common Problems) (Jim Holmes)
Asserting a mock with test framework (Mehfuz Hossain)
E is for Estimable (Mike Cottmeyer)
Annotated Source Code As Documentation, With Docco (Derick Bailey)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Is there a future for Microsoft Expression Blend for XAML? (Andrei Marukovich)
Windows Phone LINQ to SQL and Data Virtualization (Andy Wigley)
Just Published on Codeplex SDNavigation WP7 + MVVM + Navigation Framework (Braulio Díez Botella)
Windows Phone testing for sensors (Daniel Egan)
2000 WPF Things #451 – Data Binding Elements in a Collection to a Grid, Part IV (Sean Sexton)
Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Basic User Comparison (Dennis Delimarsky)
Working with the Data Grid – Day 2 (Callum G.)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Communicating at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Technology & Friends Episode 187: Charles Stacy Harris III on the Microsoft Technology Center (part 2 of 2) (David Giard)
Grantophone LIVE! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Visual Studio Toolbox: Performance Profiling (Robert Green)
The Verge Mobile Podcast 006 – 12.14.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
What The Tech 97: Best of 2011 (Paul Thurrott)
A Look Behind the Art of Touch Site (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

Dream.Build.Play 2012 – Adding Windows Phone (XNA Team)
A Coder Interview With Phil Haack (The Code Project)

Database

Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components (Jose Chinchilla)
SQLAuthority News – Online Session Practical Tricks and Tips to Speed up Database Queries Today (Pinal Dave)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 14: EXCEPT and INTERSECT SET Operations (Denis Gobo)
Troubleshooting Merge Replication Performance – Indexing Publications (Ted Krueger)
Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database (Rodney Vinyard)
Deleting Leading Zeros in a String (SQL) (Madhivanan)

SharePoint

Installing SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2012 RC0 (Bradley Schacht)

PowerShell

A short round-up of PowerShell Quick Reference Guides & Cheat Sheets (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

The best way to handle unrelated experience on your resume (Eugenia Sawa)
Moving My Data To The Cloud: Stormy Weather (Chris Sells)
Thoughts on ExcelMashup.com (and a rant) (Jamie Thomson)
The peculiar cadence of executive mail messages (Raymond Chen)
More Android Games that Play Nice (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 14, 2011 (#2,100 or so) (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – December 15 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #773 and Double Shot #774 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1003 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 12/14/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/15/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Dev News for December 13, 2011 – #0011 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 13 Dec 2011 and Daily WP7 Development News 14 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Web Dev Tweets 14-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 & CSS3 For The Real World by Estelle Weyl

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C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #2 – Create Field

This is the second in a series of quick how-to posts on ReSharper.

Tip #2 – Create Field

Use: Within the body of a class or property, you can type the name of a non-existent variable name. When you place your cursor on the variable, ReSharper provides several options to resolve the impending compilation error. Create Field is one of the options.

Before

   1:          public void AddAlbum(string album)

   2:          {

   3:              if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(album))

   4:                  throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("album",

   5:                                                        album,

   6:                                                        "Please provide an album name.");

7:

   8:              _albums.Add(album);

   9:          }

Press <Alt+Enter>

After

        private IList<string> _albums = new List<string>();

        public void AddAlbum(string album)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(album))
                throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("album",
                                                      album,
                                                      "Please provide an album name.");

            _albums.Add(album);
        }

Note: I chose the type IList<string>. The default type selected by ReSharper in this case was object. I also added the initializer to the field to avoid null reference exceptions. Please don’t take any of these examples as best coding practices, they are contrived to demonstrate a particular refactoring.

Happy coding!

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