Dew Drop – August 27, 2012 (#1,389)

Top Links

• Building an End-to-End Windows Store App – Part 1 (S.Somasegar)
• Public Apology to Steve Sinofsky – My Bad. and Windows 8 Search could be better. My theory. and Is Microsoft mobility still a choice for business? (Scott Barnes)
• #mvvmlight V4 update for Win8 RTM (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows 8 productivity: Who moved my cheese? Oh, there it is. (Scott Hanselman)
• Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices published (Peter Ritchie)
• Getting Started w/ Windows 8, MVVM Light and EventToCommand (Shayne Boyer)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• RavenDB 1.2 Studio Features: The New Database Wizard and Dealing with conflicts in RavenDB studio (Oren Eini)
• Yield Is Not Always the Best Choice (Chris Eargle)
• dotNetInstaller 2.2 Released (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• Visual Studio 2012 Web Deployment Projects are Dead – Long Live Publishing Profiles (Doug Rathbone)
• Team Explorer Everywhere for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (MS Downloads)
• Important Note: The Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine is Expiring Soon (Brian Keller)
• Hosting WCF service in Windows Service (Gunnar Peipman)
• So You Want To Create Windows Store Apps (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C# Yellow Book 2012 RTW – Want to learn how to program, using C#, Yellow’s your color… (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2012 – Setting the target framework in C++ Projects (Igor Milovanovic)
• Dilemma in choosing technology to create App for Windows Store? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• .Net Micro Framework v4.2 now available for Netduino (Greg Duncan)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 30: What do we mean by immutable and mutable in OO? and Free ‘book’ : User Experience Guidelines for Metro/Windows 8 style apps (WinRT apps) and ‘Stupid’ Question 31: What’s the deal with String and string in C#? (Iris Classon)
• Targeted .NET Framework in Visual Studio 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual Studio ALM by Martin Hinshelwood is now available on Kindle (Martin Hinshelwood)
• How do I create an F# Type Provider that can be used from C#? (Cameron Taggart)
• String Comparison in C# – Doing it the right way (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Converting Visual Studio Macro to Visual Studio plugin (Ricci Gian Maria)
• ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guide for Visual Studio 2012 is available (Willy-P. Schaub)
• XAML For Windows 8: Read Me First (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio 2012 Backwards Compatible with 2010 and Goodbye VS 2010 Database Project, We Hardly Knew Ye and Visual Studio 2012 Quick Launch (Deborah Kurata)
• Connecting C++ and XAML (Visual C++ Team)
• Unable to start debugging WWAHost.exe error with Windows 8 HTML Apps (Michael Crump)
• Free .NET Decompiler “JustDecompile” from Telerik is now Extensible (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 5 – Detail Screens (Andy Kung) (LightSwitch Team)
• FsCheck 0.8.3 and FsCheck.Xunit 0.3 (Kurt Schelfthout)
• Enable Remote Audio Capture to when Testing or Providing Feedback on Remote Machines (Kathryn E.)
• Getting Started With Windows 8 Development? (Jeff Blankenburg)
• NuGet Feed Performance Update (Jeff Handley)
• Using OData in Windows 8 Apps for Windows 8 RTM (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• Build Single Page Apps – Part 8 – JavaScript Data Services (John Papa)
• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Day 1 (Billy McCafferty)
• jQuery Color 2.1.0 (Corey Frang)
• A Method for Populating a Dropdown List in ASP.NET MVC (Deran Schilling)
• JavaScript improvements in ReSharper 7 (Hadi Hariri)
• List of ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient Samples (Henrik F Nielsen)
• Adding an Admin user to an ASP.NET MVC 4 application using a single drop-in file (Jon Galloway)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Providers (Ricardo Peres)
• jQuery UI 1.9 RC (Scott González)
• REST – Epic Semantic Fail (Mike Hadlow)
• Deploying an SSL Application to Windows Azure – The Dark Secret (ToStringTheory)
• Customizing the login UI when using OAuth/OpenID (Pranav Rastogi)
• Book Review: Guide to Learning Python Decorators (Amit Kumar Saha)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New MSDN Scrum Articles by Me (David Starr)
• Establish Your Own Developer Kaizen Guild (John Bubriski)
• Going Backwards to Go Forwards (John Sonmez)
• Updates on Lokad.CQRS – IDDD Branch (Rinat Abdullin)
• Git as an Environment Discovery Tool (Cori Drew)
• A Task Board That Really Sucks (Jurgen Appelo)
• Effective Risk Management That Isn’t Boring (Jesse Fewell)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Putting Windows Phone Concepts Together – Part2 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Physics Helper XAML Update (Andy Beaulieu)
• Is XAML Part of the Future? (Jesse Liberty)
• MVVM Survival Guid for Enterprise Architectures in Silverlight and WPF (Matt Duffield)
• 2000 WPF Things #633 – TextChanged Event Fires After TextBox Text Has Changed (Sean Sexton)
• Memory Profiling: The Instances View (Pratap Lakshman)
• ReactiveUI 4.0 Preview 2 is here (Paul Betts)
• Use WP8 SDK to build “Modern apps” beginning September 12? (Kip Kniskern)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 10: Welcome Ale Contenti, VC11 and Beyond with Steve Teixeira and Tarek Madkour | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 448: PAX Prime 2012, Madden NFL 13, Rock Band Blitz & more (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Developer Show Episode 081 – “How to Backup Your Kitten Pictures” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: Make a Connection with SharePoint 2010 Web Parts (Paul Ballard)
• New Screencast: Adding Touch Support to a Windows Store App using HTML and JavaScript (David Isbitski)
• TWC9: GenerationApp, Windows 8 UX, New in ASP.NET Testing WinJS and Pixies | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joel Hodgson (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Lino Tadros Is Still Building Tablet Apps (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Vergecast Special Edition 04: Apple vs. Samsung – August 24th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Episode 88 – Tips and Tricks for Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Windows Weekly 275: The Secret Beer Recipe (Paul Thurrott)
• My recent videos on YouTube (Pete Brown)
• Engadget Podcast 307 – 08.24.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Let’s Make a Drawing Game with Node.js (Martin Angelov)

 

Community / Events

• Looks like I’ll be speaking at DevReach 2012 in Bulgaria (Iris Classon)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 R2 – Service Pack 2 (Derik Hammer)
• New Tool: Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Performance Dashboard Reports (Scott Mattie)
• Let’s Explore Excel add-in of Master Data Services of SQL Server 2012 – Part 2 (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – Download PSSDIAG Data Collection Utility and SQL SERVER – Answer – Value of Identity Column after TRUNCATE command (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Apple won’t be the big 2012 growth winner, despite iPhone 5, neither will Android (Phone Arena Team)
• Building a great Windows 8 developer & gaming desktop for $900-$1500 (Damien Guard)
• Evernote Smart Notebooks: Moleskines with a digital twist (David Pierce)
• OneNote Tip: multiple levels of Undo (John Guin)
• Microsoft’s 10 Best Products Of All Time (MSFT) (Kevin Smith)
• 5 Days of Windows 8: The Reports of Windows’ Death are an Exaggeration (Paul Ballard)
• Runtime Representation of Generics—Part 1 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Computer Algorithms: Finding the Lowest Common Ancestor (Stoimen Popov)
• Microsoft Surface street art in New York: Pricing next? (Todd Bishop)
• Eight good reasons to upgrade to Windows 8 (Wayne Williams)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 25, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 24, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (August 24, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #943 and Double Shot #944 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five–August 24, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 8/24/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (8/24/2012) and Daily News Digest 8/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #59 (Frank)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #33) (Himanshu Singh)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for August 23, 2012 – #0117 (Dave Campbell)
• 8 Node.js Links: HTML5 Games, Javascript Array, and More (Tim Spann)
• Visual studio ALM links (week 34/2012) (Ricci Gian Maria)

 

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