Dew Drop – April 27, 2012 (#1,315)

Top Links

• Meeting Developers Where They Are (S.Somasegar)
• Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows (Claudio Caldato)
• More news from MS Open Tech: announcing the open source Metro style theme for jQuery Mobile (Abu Obeida)
• Metro OData prerelease bits and app (OData Team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Adding Lists and Tables to XML Documentation (Richard Carr)
• Dispose Pattern and “Set large fields to null” (Peter Ritchie)
• Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if and switch (Scott Hanselman)
• Relational searching sucks, don’t try to replicate it (Oren Eini)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Range() Static Method (James Michael Hare)
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Azure (Karsten Januszewski)
• Expression Trees + Generic Static Constructors (Chris Cavanagh)
• The C# project xxx is targeting .NET Framework…Profile=Full which is not installed on this machine error (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Visual Studio 11 Beta: Test Controller Goes 64 Bit!! (Rubel S.)
• Adventures getting MSBuild, TFS and SQL Server Data Tools to work together (Joel ‘Jaykul’ Bennett)
• Playing Music and Sound Effects in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript (Dave Isbitski)
• Databinding in Windows 8 JavaScript Metro style Apps (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Develop your app for everyone–localize your UI (Tim Heuer)
• Writing functional code in C++ IV – Algebraic datatypes (Luca Bolognese)
• What’s new in NHibernate Designer 2.1? (Ivan Towlson)
• GridView Control in Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Build Execution in Team Foundation Server (Mickey Gousset)
• Designing app bars for HTML Metro style apps using Blend and the WinJS AppBar control (Ruben Rios)

 

Web Development

• Test Driving a JavaScript MVC Framework (Peter Vogel)
• ASP.NET Web API Updates – April 27 (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 1 of ?) (Michael Crump)
• PHP Strings Don’t Need Quotes (Stoimen Popov)
• Closures: Front to Back (Brian Scaturro)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: CustomerAffinity (Martin Fowler)
• KanbanFlow Is a Fast, Free To-Do Manager with a Built-In Pomodoro Timer [Webapps] (Alan Henry)
• It’s Not Small Change (Series 4 of 4) (Peter Saddington)
• The API Developer Experience Baseline (John Sheehan)
• Guidelines for panning (Windows Dev Center)
• Celebrate Learning, Not Success or Failure (Jurgen Appelo)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Use built-in Windows Phone OS icon resources for your application icon (Den Delimarsky)
• Creating a DirectX XAML control using C++/CX (Morten Nielsen)
• Home Security System Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8 (Greg Duncan)
• Using Custom Objects in RadAutoCompleteBox for Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Should I learn Silverlight? Objective C? HTML 5? (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #546 – Adding Gradient Stops in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Using the Save and Query Pipeline to Flag and Filter Data with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ShopTalk Episode 15 (Chris Coyier)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 135 – 04.26.2012 and The Vergecast 028 – 04.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Boagworld: Even website owners should care about code (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Joining Telerik (Steve Smith)
• Free Jump Start: May 15-16, 2012–What can you do about the "consumerization" of IT? (Kim Spilker)
• Wade Wegner on Managing Concurrency with Multiple Instances: May 2nd, 2012 @ the NJ Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)
• Public Sector TechBytes – Win8 Online Event Series–Register today!! (Nandita)
• MADExpo (Steven Lott)
• New Visual Studio Events (Giles Davies)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Discovering XML Data Type Methods – A Primer (Pinal Dave)
• Modifying Tables Online – Part 4: Testing (Michael Swart)
• New script: When were the sp_configure options last changed? (Paul S. Randal)
• Exporting and Importing data with RavenDB (Gregor Suttie)

 

SharePoint

• Accessing SharePoint Online with the RSSBus SharePoint Data Provider. (dataintegration)

 

PowerShell

• Queueing Theory for the Busy PowerShell Admin (Lee Holmes)
• Use PowerShell to List Google Docs (dataintegration)

 

Miscellaneous

• From Smartphone to Smart Home: Automating the Modern Home (Arjmand Samuel)
• Wolfram Alpha Launches Its First Desktop App (Frederic Lardinois)
• A OneNote tip I just discovered: ALT+Click to get a definition (John Guin)
• Download Free eBooks on Windows7 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Dear Tim Cook: Apple is not the world’s tech inventor (Molly Wood)
• Google sent me a “what to know in on-site interviews” email. Here it is. (Swizec Teller)
• Ruby for the C# developer–Open Classes & method_missing and Ruby for the C# developer–The Basics (Brad Cunningham)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #868 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 27 Apr 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 4/26/2012 and Daily News Digest 4/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1094 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for April 26, 2012 – #0073 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 April 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 26 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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