Dew Drop – July 12, 2012 (#1,362)

Top Links

• Get ReSharper 7.0 Beta! (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Is the laptop doomed? (Rockford Lhotka)
• Jason Zander Unplugged | TechEd Europe 2012 (Jason Zander)
• The Writable Google Plus API Developers May Not Want (Adam DuVander)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating Metro style apps that stand out from the crowd (Bonny Lau)
• LINQ to Twitter for Windows 8 Samples (Joe Mayo)
• Fear and Loathing in Visual Studio 2012 at 256 Colors (William Wegerson)
• Windows 8 HTML5 Metro Style App: How to create a small RSS reader in 30min (part 1/2) (David Rousset)
• What .NET Developers Must Know about C++ Classes (Diego Dagum)
• What does the HTOBJECT hit-test code do? (Raymond Chen)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 Metro Beta is now Available (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Getting started with Telerik RadControls for Metro – diving into the Examples Application (Georgi Atanasov)
• Want to write a new Notepad? Here’s a Notepad Clone Project Template to get you started… (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Common Logging, Log4Net, Castle Windsor and ASP.NET MVC (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• It’s Time To Stop Blaming Internet Explorer (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Html Agility Pack 1.4.5 (CodePlex)
• Clean up your MVC app with SignalR (Yngve Bakken Nilsen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• It’s Not Just a “Team Effort” (J.D. Meier)
• Becoming an Agile Coach – Get a Mentor! + 6 Tips for Mentors (Peter Saddington)
• BETA: Veracity 2.0 and onVeracity.com (Eric Sink)
• Lean Tools: Expertise (Giorgio Sironi)
• The Art of Making User Stories (Tarun)
• RTM’d today: Visual Models for Software Requirements (Carol Vu)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Button Default Style and Custom Styles and Templates in Windows Phone: Button and Windows Phone Button Custom Style (Windows Phone Geek)
• ColorPicker Control for Windows Phone (Coding4Fun) (Senthil Kumar)
• 2000 WPF Things #601 – The RoutedEventHandler Delegate Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Uncle Bob Talks about the Future of Object Orientation (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Developing a RockPaperAzure Windows 8 app (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Video: Keep an Eye On Your Data With WCF Message Inspection (Paul Ballard)
• The Role of the Cloud Architect – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Show 007 – July 10th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Windows Azure Web Sites | Learn Windows Azure at TechEd Europe (Karandeep Anand & Nir Mashkowski)
• What The Tech 124: Paul’s Principals (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming SilverlightShow Webinar: Windows 8 Metro Questions and Answers (Silverlight Show)
• API Contest winners (AppHarbor Team)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster (Edwin Sarmiento)
• How to start SQL Server Agent when Agent XPs show disabled (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER : SQL Server Scheduler (John A. Nelson)
• Video – Planning for SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups (Brent Ozar)
• SSIS Catalog, Windows updates and deployment failures due to System.Core mismatch (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server 2012 – First Value Last Value (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Effect of Case Sensitive Collation on Resultset (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Product Review: Scinaptic OnePlaceMail – Increasing User Adoption by Bringing SharePoint to the End User (Joel Oleson)
• Software Architecture for SharePoint Developers (Simon Brown)

 

Miscellaneous

• Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS (Jason Clark)
• The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework: Five million downloads, three years and one new blog… (Greg Duncan)
• Apple co-founder Wozniak gives Microsoft props for design (Molly Brown)
• What do Sony and Yahoo! have in common? Passwords! (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 11, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #913 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1144 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 7/11/2012 and Daily News Digest 7/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for July 10, 2012 – #0102 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 11 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Link List for July 12, 2012 (Andy Warren)

 

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