Dew Drop – July 26, 2012 (#1,372)

Top Links

• Announcing BUILD 2012 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• ReSharper 7.0 is Released (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Exclusive: Screenshots of upcoming Metro-style SkyDrive leaked and A first look at the Metro-style Web Messenger experience – and you can try it out now! (damaster)
• Interview: Brian Rasmussen on Building Language Tools With Project Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
• Let’s Get it Started – The New JustCode Getting Started Wizard in Action (JustCode Team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2012 does not support BI (James Serra)
• Breaking Changes In Argument List Evaluation In C# 5.0 (Paulo Morgado)
• LINQ Query Workaround for Comparing Dates (EF, LINQ2SQL,CodeFirst) (Peter Kellner)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Querying Unmapped Properties With LINQ (Ricardo Peres)
• Running Sandcastle and FXCOP on projects using Crystal Reports for VS 2010 (Tatworth)
• Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 5 (K. Scott Allen)
• One way to make sure you pass an array of the correct size (Raymond Chen)
• Example Metro app /WinRT: How to add more Segoe UI Symbol symbols as icons (Iris Classon)
• The Truth About .NET Objects And Sharing Them Between AppDomains (Alois Kraus)
• Reader Question: Member Initializers vs. Constructors (Bill Wagner)
• Code Generation Improvements in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• XNA is Dead? Maybe, maybe not. Here’s a post shining a light on the future of XNA (and it’s looks pretty bright) (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Routes and Namespaces (Alexander Beletsky)
• JavaScript Challenge #1 (Christopher Pitt)
• How to Create an AdRotator using JavaScript? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How to Build Asteroids With the Impact HTML5 Game Engine (Rob Hawkes)
• Free ASP.NET Training Videos from aspConf now available for download or streaming (Scott Hanselman)
• APress Deal of the Day – 26/Jul/2012 – Pro jQuery (Tatworth)
• node.js Version 0.8.4 (Stable) (node Team)
• ASP.NET MVC: Creating user configurable charts (Gunnar Peipman)
• Creating A Lazy Loading Utility Module For RequireJS (Ben Nadel)
• Windows Azure now offers HIPAA BAA compliance for healthcare-industry users (Mary Jo Foley)
• On Server-Side Performance, .NET 4.5, and Bing (Jonathan Allen)
• An Introduction to WebGL (Josh Reuben)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mini book: An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide (Michael Sahota)
• Lean Tools: Conceptual Integrity (Giorgio Sironi)
• I do not like Git, if you want blame me for this and Convention over configuration, Domain Event and Commanding (Ricci Gian Maria)
• When did my test plan get deleted? Who deleted my test suitetest run? (Shyam Gupta)
• Windows Azure Visio Shapes (Buck Woody)
• Time Management Tips #5 – Reduce the Friction in Your Day (JD Meier)
• Playful UX Design: Building A Better Game (John Ferrara)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List – Complete Example (Colin Eberhardt)
• 3 Augmented Reality Frameworks for Windows Phone (Simon Jackson)
• Building Dashboards With WPF Elements Part 4: Hooking up the view and model (Jason Fauchelle)
• WPF 4.5 – Part 1 : Asynchronous Data Validation (Jon Antoine)
• 8 quirks Windows 8 XAML developers should understand before starting their Metro app (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Phone: Save, Update and Delete Using Web API (Sumit Dutta)
• 2000 WPF Things #611 – Set Application Exit Code in Exit Event Handler (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Jon McCoy Hacks .NET (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft’s Modern Web Stack, Starring ASP.NET Web API (Brad Wilson)
• Designing Metro Style Line of Business Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• SOA, Cloud, and Service Technologies – Part 1 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)
• The Verge Mobile Show 009 – July 24th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Ping 147: Bing Fund, Maccabees Kinect Video, Bing Maps, MSNBC | Ping! (Larry Larsen, Laura Foy, Paul Mestemaker & Golnaz)
• What The Tech 126: A Crowded Field (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• New series of UK Windows Phone DevCamps announced for August, September (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 8 consumer features to be unveiled at Nokia World on September 5? (damaster)
• Windows 8 DevCamp Public Sector Series (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• SSIS aggregate transformation and Introducing PowerView with Excel 2013 (Katie & Emil)
• Installing SQL Server 2012 on Multi-Subnet Cluster Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• The Not-So-Secret SQL Server Agent – Free Video (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL Server 2012 IIF and CHOOSE (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Answer – How to Convert Hex to Decimal or INT (Pinal Dave)
• Joining on NULLs (Dave Ballantyne)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell Scripts for DBA (Jack Vamvas)
• Console2 and Posh-Git (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package (Michael Ceranski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazon’s New Obsession: Developers (AMZN) (Alistair Barr)
• Simplifying printing in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 25, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #923 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1154 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 7/25/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for July 25, 2012 – #0108 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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