Dew Drop – March 28, 2012 (#1,296)

No Dew Drop post tomorrow. I’m taking the day off for my birthday.

Top Links

• Visual Studio Ultimate Roadmap (Jason Zander)
• ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing a Build Service for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
• Difference Between Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio Test Professional (Ed Blankenship)
• 5 1/2 F# features every C# programmer should lust after (Ivan Towlson)
• The Entity class(es) and Descriptor objects : Exposing the structure and business logic to consumers and Customizing Business Rules at runtime (Peter Blum)
• Team Foundation Service – Build in the cloud! (Richard Erwin)
• Build on the Team Foundation Service (Aaron Bjork)
• .NET vs Windows 8 (Simon Cooper)
• Simplified UI Development with MonoTouch.SQLite (Jonathan Allen)

 

Web Development

• Custom Slider Value Display with jQuery UI (K. Scott Allen)
• The return of Vim (Giorgio Sironi)
• Some points to consider while working on ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Rahul Bandopadhyaya)
• Using Modernizr to detect HTML5 features and provide fallbacks (Tom Leadbetter)
• REST Resources (Howard Dierking)
• Using "Natural": A NLP Module for node.js (Chris Umbel)
• Creating a Todo List App With Node.js and Geddy (Daniel Erickson)
• Asset packaging in browser-based games (Rob Ashton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Testing on Mobile devices (Ryan Seddon)
• The End of Pagination (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Advanced Merge Requests for Git (Andy Singleton)
• What’s in a burndown? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Code Simply (Jim Cooper)
• Testing: Trying not to overdo it (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Homebrew: The new Samsung Diagnostics app appears to be blocking GPRS profile switching (Den Delimarsky)
• WPF Hierarchy MVVM Application (DevLake)
• New Html Editor Control in Silverlight Elements (Jason)
• How to Save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Tip: Binding an Image element’s Source property to a Uri in WinRT XAML (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #524 – Using the Zoom Tool to Zoom on the Artboard (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 Beta Resources (Beth Massi)
• Hacking PivotViewer : Pan (Tony Champion)
• INotifyPropertyChanged with Compile Time Checking (Michael Ceranski)
• LightSwitching to StakeOverflow’s OData data (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 7: VC11 Auto-Vectorizer, C++ NOW, Lang.NEXT (Charles Torre)
• Neowin Gaming Podcast 012 – 03.27.2012 (John Callaham)
• Office 911: Get your Office Game on and Hot Apps: Toy Soldiers Booot Camp, Flashlight-X Pro, BuildDown, MealTimer, Puzzle Time (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 292 – 03.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Introducing Xaml TV (Brian Lagunas)
• Let’s Play TDD #176: Combustible Lemons (James Shore)
• Todd Anglin – HTML5 WEB & Mobile VP, Telerik – Uncut & Unedited (Lohith G N)

 

Community / Events

• Top Jobs in IT: Why I left Google – and returned to Microsoft (Microspotting)
• Microsoft and the open source community (Charles Young)
• Windows Developer Camps (Jennifer Marsman)
• Philly .NET Win 8 and VS 11 Recap (Tony Verguldi)
• New Virginia INETA Mentor (Kevin Griffin)
• Talking Cloud with Office 365 MVP David Greve (MVP Award Program)
• Real World Azure: April 4th, 2012 @ the NJ Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)

 

Database

• SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 3 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – *= and += – SQL in Sixty Seconds #009 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Contained Databases, Temporary Tables and Collations (Axel Achten)
• SQL Azure and Trust Services (Buck Woody)
• Accessing RavenDB Studio when using Embedded Mode (Gregor Suttie)
• AdventureWorks2012 now available for all on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell – Adding accounts to Local Security Policy (Kyle Neier)
• What Compiled PowerShell Might Look Like (Adam Driscoll)
• "An Omega Geek’s Guide to Learning PowerShell" (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Hybrid Tablet from Microsoft (George Garza)
• All Wrox.com Wrox e-books DRM-free in 3 formats: PDF, Mobi, ePub (Jim Minatel)
• How to hire a product manager (Ken Norton)
• What’s coming in Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 (Mary Jo Foley)
• 10 Things you Probably Didn’t know about Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• Why Windows 8 Should Not Abandon the START button (Peter Kellner)
• Nodeload Metrics (Rick Olson)
• Consuming The Netflix OData Service Using App Inventor (Michael Washington)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1074 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 3/27/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 19-25, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for March 27, 2012 – #0059 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

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