Dew Drop – August 17, 2012 (#1,384)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available! (S.Somasegar)
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 released to the web! (Jason Zander)
• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 is RELEASED – Here’s 5 minute videos to get you up to speed quick (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows 8 RTM is available for developers (Windows 8 Team)
• Reactive Extensions v2.0 has arrived! (Rx team)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• WCF RIA Services V1.0 SP2 (MS Downloads)
• Unit Testing WinJS: First Steps (Christopher Bennage)
• “Programming Windows” 6th Edition Release Preview Now Available! (Charles Petzold)
• RavenDB Awesome Feature of the Day, Formatted Indexes (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer and Test Attachment, Version Control and Database sizes in Team Foundation server (Charles Sterling)
• Telerik Loves Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTMs! (Chris Sells)
• WCF Data Services 5.0.2-rc Prerelease (WCF Team)
• Available Now: Blend for Visual Studio 2012 (Christian Schormann)
• Out parameters and LINQ do not mix (Eric Lippert)
• Mono incorporates the Open-Sourced Entity Framework and VS2012 RTM: EF Designer New Look Since RC (Julie Lerman)
• VS2012 EDMX Defaults Now Align with EF Team Guidance re DbContext Usage (Julie Lerman)
• It Just Works in Visual Studio 2012 (Just* Team)
• Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2012 (Rahul V. Patil)
• Entity Framework and Stored Procedures Issue – Unable to determine a valid ordering for dependent operations. Dependencies may exist due to foreign key constraints, model requirements, or store-generated values (Rob Reynolds)
• More info on publish links in Visual Studio 2012 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Using JSHint inside Visual Studio – the basics (Steve Sanderson)
• Test Studio’s Love for Visual Studio 2012 (RTM) (Stoil Stoichev)
• Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness “Wave” (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Announcing Blend + SketchFlow Preview for Visual Studio 2012 (Erik Arthur)
• So You Want To Build Apps? (David Kelley)
• Building a Camera App in Mono for Android (Greg Shackles)
• Async await. Wait them All! (Samuel Jack)
• Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! (samidip)
• Few tips on implementing a Coded UI Test Plugin Extension (Tapas)
• Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) and Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Peter Kellner)
• Data Binding In Windows 8. Part 3–Element Binding and Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 4–Data Conversion (Jesse Liberty)
• Sample Browser 5.4 Feature Update (Jialiang Ge)
• EF5 Released (EF Team)
• What’s New in Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Beta 2, Compatible with Windows 8 RTM (Georgi Atanasov)
• Windows 8 App Dev For The PhoneGap Developer–Location (Glen Gordon)
• FlickrNet v3.5 Released (Greg Duncan)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 23: What is a thread? And what is multithreading? and ‘Stupid’ Question 24: Can you give me an easy to remember example of what the different access modifiers do? (Iris Classon)
• Second Preview of Kraig Brockschmidt’s free ebook is coming on Monday (Devon Musgrave)
• Contract Annotations in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Source Code for .NET 4.5 Released (Chris Eargle)
• Implementing the IDisposable pattern using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
• Using dependency properties to create reusable Windows 8 app components (Andreas Hammar)
• ReSharper hidden features – Generate Delegating Members (Andrei Rinea)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 2: Feel the Love – Defining Data Relationships and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 3: Screen Templates, Which One Do I Choose? and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data with Queries and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions and Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2012 Part 6: Go beyond the box. Customizing LightSwitch Apps with Extensions (Beth Massi)
• Visual Rx – Part 4 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Live SDK v5.2 (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework Peeves? Code it Yourself! (David Ramel)
• Up Log Creek Without a Paddle – Part 1: Windows Audit Logs (Doug Rathbone)

 

Web Development

• Orchard CMS running on ASP.NET MVC 4 (David Hayden)
• Let’s Talk about CSS Variables (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Custom schemas in VS2012 CSS editor and Web Essentials 2012 released (Mads Kristensen)
• Visual Studio Extensions for the Windows Library for JavaScript (MS Downloads)
• ELMAH.MVC 2.0.1 Update is Out (Alexander Beletsky)
• IIS Express Error: "Could not determine which version of ASP.NET Web Pages to use" (Chris Love)
• jQuery 1.8 box-sizing: width(), css(“width”), and outerWidth() (Dave Methvin)
• Building Beautiful and Interactive Windows 8 apps with JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3: Presentation|Demo|Video Soon (Doris Chen)
• ASP.NET Web API is released! What’s new in Web API RTM and how to use it! (Filip W)
• CSS Variables, why we drop the $foo notation (glazou)
• Full-page Animations Using CSS (Charilaos “Harris” Papadopoulos)
• ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, and Visual Studio 2012 for web developers: Part 1 (Jon Galloway)
• Levels Of Abstraction In An MVC View (K. Scott Allen)
• How to Add WebSharper JavaScript to an ASP.NET MVC Web App (Cameron Taggart)
• Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript (Paul Ferson)
• jQuery UI 1.8.23 (Scott González)
• Backbone.js: Internals Summary (Alex Young)
• Version 0.8.7 (stable) (node.js Team)
• Migration for user accounts from the SqlMembershipProvider to the Universal Providers (Xiaohong Tang)
• Adding Bundling and Minification to Web Forms and Adding Web Optimization to a Web Pages Site (Rick Anderson)
• Working with elements before the DOM is ready (Keith Clark)
• Using the Cloudant Data Layer for Windows Azure (Doug Mahugh)
• Using CNAME With Azure (Chris Missal)
• Bing APIs: the Empire Strikes Back (Ajay Ohri)
• Migrating Drupal to Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
• Extending Knockout.js Session From ThatConference (Ryan Niemeyer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is TDD a Silver Bullet? (Jim Cooper)
• Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2012) (Jurgen Appelo)
• Using TFS 2012 and SCRUM to Run the Sprint (Subodh Sohoni)
• Effective Shelfsets: A Primer (Pete Seale)
• Time Management Tips #21 – Create an Achievements List (JD Meier)
• Entities, Models, and Architecture (Chris Eargle)
• Why type-first development matters (Tomas P.)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Getting Started with the Coding4Fun toolkit ImageTile Control (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 8 and Continuous Location Tracking and Windows Phone 8 and Continuous Location Tracking in the Background (Pt.2) (Adam Benoit)
• Windows Phone 8 Battery API (Sébastien Lachance)
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #19 Tips for Designing Tiles (Arturo Toledo)
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 7: The application lifecycle of Windows 8 applications (Gill Cleeren)
• Data virtualization in Silverlight and Implementing a VirtualizingWrapPanel (Samuel Jack)
• 2000 WPF Things #624 – Information Available to Key Up/Down Events and #625 – Converting a Keypress Timestamp to a DateTime and #626 – Key Up/Down Sequence When Using CTRL Key and #627 – Detecting Whether The Ctrl Key Is Pressed In a KeyDown Event Handler (Sean Sexton)
• Getting Started With Windows Phone and MVVM Light – Part 2 of 2 (spboyer)
• Free! Building Games: Data Structures in C++ Presentation in XAML or HTML 5! Free yourself! (Surf4Fun)
• Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications Part 3: ViewModels and MVVM Light Toolkit (András Velvárt)
• Memory Profiling: The Types View (pratapl)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.7 and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.6.1 and Self-Tracking Entity Generator v 2.0.0 for VS11 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 064: Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Inside Windows Phone #39 | What’s new on the Windows Phone Developer Center | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Ping 150: BUILD, Office 13, Windows Phone dev portal, NFL & Microsoft | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Bart De Smet: Rx 2.0 RTM and RTW | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Episode 197 – PowerScripting Podcast – Vaibhav Bhandari on Microsoft Health Vault and HVPosh (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 080 – that Conference 2012 (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Agile 2012 – Diana Larsen and James Shore – Agile Fluency (Bob Payne)
• Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Managing lab environments for testing | Visual Studio 2012 Premium and Ultimate Overview and Visual Studio Ultimate 2012: Understand your code dependencies through visualization | Visual Studio 2012 Premium and Ultimate Overview (Alvin Ho)
• SDU Show 50 with guest Louis Davidson (Greg Low)
• Designing Windows 8 Apps | Windows 8 Developer Camp – Redmond (Chris Mayo)
• Edge Show 33 Windows Final Code Available | Edge (David Tesar & Joey Snow)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Antony Francis (Ryan Parsley)
• [Podcast] Phil Japikse and Lee Brandt on Collaboration (Phil Japikse)
• Windows 8 Tips 1: Shortcuts | Windows 8 Tips and Windows 8 Tips 2: Charms | Windows 8 Tips (Larry Larsen)
• Hot new Windows 8 content hits Channel 9 (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Introducing the Windows 8 platform | Windows 8 Developer Camp – Redmond (John Lam)
• SOA, Cloud, and Service Technologies – Part 4 of 4 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: Stephen Forte on Agile Estimation and Meet the Author: Dominick Baier on Introduction to Identity and Access Control in .NET 4.5 (Paul Ballard)
• Geek Graduates: Top 3 tips for getting the most out of your internship (MS JobsBlog)
• Virtual Hackathon for Windows 8 (Doris Chen)
• Philly Geek Awards: The Official After Party @ National Mechanics (Eric Smith)
• Question 25: Am I too stupid to ask and answer questions? (Iris Classon)
• Richmond Code Camp 2012 Call For Speakers (Kevin Griffin)

 

Database

• Using nmap to scan for SQL Servers on a network (K. Brian Kelley)
• SSIS Reporting Pack update (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 Released To Web (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server 2012 – Binding Sequence to a Column‏ (Madhivanan)
• Ease your Visual Studio development with a SQL Server alias (Peter Gfader)
• SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – Part 1 of 2 and SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – T-SQL Example – Part 2 of 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure Database (SQL Azure) Development Tip (Buck Woody)
• Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Basit Farooq)

 

SharePoint

• Troubleshooting Publishing & Executing Workflows in SharePoint 2013 Beta 2 (Andrew Connell)
• New with SharePoint 2013 Series (Kunaal Kapoor)
• A Sample Approval Workflow Which can be Recalled by the Initiator (JongHwa Lim)

 

PowerShell

• Drive Size – PowerShell Script (Vinoth NM)

 

Miscellaneous

• Get your Windows 8 up to speed fast (Maarten Balliauw)
• Dear JobsBlog: Which role at Microsoft is the best for me (MS Jobsblog)
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
• My next book (Adam Nathan)
• Quick Tip: Activating your Windows 8 Installation (Jeremy Likness)
• Turns Out Windows 8 is “The Most Secure OS” on The Planet. (Jerry Nixon)
• Windows Server 2012 Now Available in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Gallery (Mike Neil)
• Windows 8 RTM Reviews Collection (Richard Hay)
• Introducing Bing on Windows 8 (The Bing Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 15, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 16, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 168 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading August 14, 2012 and Geek Reading August 15, 2012 and Geek Reading August 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #935 and Double Shot #936 and Double Shot #937 and Double Shot #938 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 8/14/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/15/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/16/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/17/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for August 6 – 12, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-14 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-15 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-16 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1167 and The Morning Brew #1168 and The Morning Brew #1169 and The Morning Brew #1170 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for August 13, 2012 – #0114 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 14 Aug 201 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Aug 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Links to ASP.NET WebAPI blog posts and Data Access blog posts (Web Development Tools Microsoft)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 08.01 ~ 08.16 (juanjian)

 

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