Dew Drop – September 13, 2012 (#1,400)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Launch (S.Somasegar)
• Visual Studio Update this Fall (Brian Harry)
• Announcing F# Tools for Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web! (Don Syme)
• Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop is Here (Jennifer Leaf)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Problems with .Net 2.0 Mixed Mode Assemblies inside Visual Studio .Net 4.5 Test Projects (Doug Rathbone)
• The new Reflector 7.6.1 release (Ruchika Raj)
• Windows Store now open to developers from 120 different markets! (Duncan Mackenzie)
• Static analysis of "is" (Eric Lippert)
• Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2736182) (MS Downloads)
• Odin ships Axe 3.4 simultaneously with Visual Studio 2012 and TeamCompanion 4.7 for Visual Studio 2012 releases and they celebrate their 5th anniversary with a giveaway bonanza (Charles Sterling)
• Hey, Developers! Microsoft Has Launched Visual Studio 2012 & .Net 4.5 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Continuous Feedback using Storyboarding, Code Reviews, and the Feedback Tool in Visual Studio 2012 ALM (Mike Douglas)
• Wiring up TopShelf, Windsor and EasyNetQ (Mike Hadlow)
• Chocolatey featured on LifeHacker! (Rob Reynolds)
• FREE: Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop (Scott Hanselman)
• APress deal of the day 13/Sep/2012 – Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming (Tatworth)
• Arduino 1.x for Visual Studio 2012, 2010 and 2008 (CodePlex)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit v1.2 for Windows 8 RTM – One Library, tons of features… (Greg Duncan)
• Integrating your cloud service with the file picker contracts (Scott Hoogerwerf & Derek Gebhard)
• The Windows Store… why did I sign up with this mess again? (Frans Bouma)
• So when will I be able to do .Net Micro Framework Dev in VS 2012? Soon… (Greg Duncan)

 

Web Development

• Head First HTML and CSS 2nd Edition Book Review (David Hayden)
• Expressions versus statements in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• PhpStorm 5.0 released: more robust PHP editor, new Symfony2 MVC view, better SQL support (Eugene Toporov)
• Preventing modification of JavaScript objects (Piotr Walat)
• ASP.NET Data Access Guidance Published (Tom Dykstra)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: YUI 3 Cookbook – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Mapping AngularJS Routes Onto URL Parameters And Client-Side Events (Ben Nadel)
• More Advances in the Windows Azure Active Directory Developer Preview (Alex Simons)
• The Windows Azure Software Development Kit (SDK) and the Windows Azure Training Kit (WATK) (Buck Woody)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I’m done with Scrum (Jimmy Bogard)
• 5 Key User Experience Design Principles (Jackie Kmetz)
• Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided By Tests Book Review (Steve Smith)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Preparing for Windows Phone 8 SDK release (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #646 – Detecting a Key’s Toggle State in a Keypress Handler (Sean Sexton)
• Improvements coming to our online app store (Todd Brix)
• Coming soon: A new website and online app store (Mazhar Mohammed)
• XamDockManager–A Prism RegionAdapter (Brian Lagunas)
• Future proofing your apps (Andrew Whitechapel)
• Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services… and WP7… and Mac (Craig Dunn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Software Engineering Radio Episode 188: Requirements in Agile Projects (SE-Radio Team)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Verge Mobile Show 016 – September 11th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• CollegeHumor Presents Apple’s Latest Press Conference Where It Announces Nothing (Matt Burns)
• Video: Cloud Scripting with Node.js on Azure (Paul Ballard)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 152 – 09.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint 2013 Developer Roadshow – First stop – Boston! (Andrew Connell)
• Visual Studio 2012 Launch Event Today and Exclusive Interview with Jason Zander (Paul Ballard)
• TechWomen (Laura Yecies)
• Geek of the Week: Chris Stanchak, Founder & CEO of TicketLeap (Michaelangelo Ilagan)

 

Database

• VSDB to SSDT Part 2 : SQL Server 2008 Server Project … with SSDT and VSDB to SSDT Part 1 : Converting projects and trimming excess files (Etienne Giust)
• SQL SERVER – Core Concepts – Elasticity, Scalability and ACID Properties – Exploring NuoDB an Elastically Scalable Database System (Pinal Dave)
• Master Data Services Terminology Overview (James Serra)
• Key Points from NoSQL Distilled (Martin Fowler)

 

PowerShell

• Microsoft Script Explorer Reference Implementation(s) for Windows PowerShell (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous

• Apple iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S III vs Nokia Lumia 920 specs comparison (Phone Arena Team)
• Microsoft finally comes clean(er) on post-Metro naming plans (Mary Jo Foley)
• Jobs in IT: Three easy tips to make your resume “Microsoft ready” (Kevin Lamsback)
• Command Line Love 101 (David Starr)
• RTM’d today: Windows 8 Administration Pocket Consultant (Karen Szall)
• Apple’s dock connector change is awful, don’t kid yourselves (Molly Wood)
• The Idiots Are Coming: A Windows 8 Review (Peter Martin)
• Is Windows Phone 8…. late? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #957 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1188 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-13 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Geek Reading September 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Free Windows 8 help and software tools (Surf4Fun)

 

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