Dew Drop – February 16, 2012 (#1,267)

Top Links

• Modern Web Development – Part 5 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta (MS Downloads)
• Working with Prism 4 Part 4: Region Navigation (Brian Noyes)
• Telerik JustDecompile Announced (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Documenting Exceptions (Richard Carr)
• Feature Request: Treat TFS as an Enterprise Symbol Server (Ed Blankenship)
• The first 10 Minutes of a C# Developer Exploring a Metro Application using C++ (Michael Crump)
• XML Driven C#/T4 Code Generation with ElasticObject Nuget Package For Minimalists 😉 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Help Us Make Improvements (Visual C++ Team)
• Subversion support in MSBuild Extension Pack available (Mike Fourie)
• When does an icon handler shell extension get unloaded? (Raymond Chen)
• You’ve got your TPL in my MEF. No, you’ve got your MEF in my TPL… and Kinecting to Kodu (Greg Duncan)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: FastMember (Jason Jarrett)
• State of the Decompiler (Chris Eargle)
• A Look at MonoTouch.Dialog (Jonathan Allen)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Hierarchical Grid – Load On Demand (Damyan Petev)
• “Building Windows 8 Metro Style Apps with HTML5 & JavaScript” Book Available For Pre-order (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Tracking JavaScript execution during startup (Ariya Hidayat)
• How to check/uncheck all checkbox with Jquery (hmloo)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Hierarchy (Giorgio Sironi)
• Make your CHM Help Files show HTML5 and CSS3 content (Rick Strahl)
• HTML5: Top 10 CSS3 Animations (Vygantas Lipskas)
• ASP.NET Portal Starter Kit v4.0.0.65398 (CodePlex)
• Build Your Own Slide Presenter: Part 3 (K. Scott Allen)
• Things It Might Be Fun/Useful to Try the Universal (*) Selector On (Chris Coyier)
• Maintaining SignalR ConnectionId’s Across Page Instances (Kevin Griffin)
• Web Workbench 3.0 released (Ivan Towlson)
• Carriage Return / new line in Textareas (Code Inside Team)
• Misdirection (Alex Russell)
• Keys to understand relationship between MapReduce and HDFS (Avkash Chauhan)
• "Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure" free ebook and code (RC) (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile, Craftsmanship and Exciting News! (Cory Foy)
• The Smashing Book #3: All Good Things Come In Threes (Smashing Editorial Team)
• Introducing the New Cross-project Dashboard – TeamPulse xView (Steve Porter)
• Why you need to make your tests fail (Dror Helper)
• Easier Pull Request Creation (Jake Boxer)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• InstaCam MetroMakeover – Spacing, Margins, and Polish for your Windows Phone App (Bil Simser)
• Using Entity Framework 4.3 Database migration for any project (Fredrik Normen)
• Adding some spark to your next WPF project with WPFSpark (Greg Duncan)
• Weak Events in WPF 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• Silverlight 5: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards (Matt Duffield)
• Windows Phone Mango Game Ported to Windows 8 With 90% Code Reuse (Sagar Sawant)
• 2000 WPF Things #496 – Using a StackPanel to Make a Group of Buttons the Same Size (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Performance–Part 1 of many (András Velvárt)
• Play With Microsoft’s Lousy Old Mobile OS From Inside Their Great New One (Chris Velazco)
• Phone Gap Tutorial #1- Getting Started (Daniel Egan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out With SmartGrids (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• New & Updated Videos for Working With Visual Studio and Test Studio Express! (Jim Holmes)
• Defrag: Mem Cleaners, Syncing Favorites, Batch Image Resize (Larry Larsen)
• The GeekDads Episode #109: R2′s Freakin’ Jets (Special Guest @Stepto) (Ken Denmead)
• Hot Apps: BulletAsylum, Fragger, Purity, Skee Ball 7, Covers (Laura Foy & Golnaz)
• Boagworld: Watch out for the what if! (Paul Boag)
• Java EE Development Debate – Part 1 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• Next Seattle F# Meetup, Tuesday Feb 21, 2012 (Don Syme)
• Calgary! SharePoint! Workflows! Pigs! Action! (Bil Simser)
• A Coder Interview With Alex Tatiyants (The Code Project)
• Microsoft Developer Day at GDC: San Francisco – March 6, 2012 (Peter Laudati)
• .NET Gadgeteer Stirs Excitement in British Schools (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche & Steve Hodges)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): T-SQL Enhancements (James Serra)
• Managing Federations in SQL Azure with the SQL Server Management Studio of SQL Server 2012 RC0 (Ambrish Mishra)
• SQL SERVER – Be Different – Be Leader – An Interactive Journey – Questions and Answers – Book and Video (Pinal Dave)
• Careful Hashing (Michael Swart)
• Report Builder 3.0 – The Introduction (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Selling Data in the Windows Azure Marketplace (Joe Kunk)
• RedGate SQL Tab Magic (Stephan Lawson)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: IT Pro Evaluation Guide (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2010 Blog Site Archives Web Part Alternative (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Silverlight and SharePoint 2010 – Beating a Dead Horse and Killing Kittens (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Choosing a mobile app platform: Not so simple (Bill Wagner)
• So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1) (David Fullerton)
• What do you want me to include in my new Windows 8 books? (Mike Halsey)
• Kinect for Windows Media Center released (Tom Warren)
• Hands On With MonoStudio 2015 (Rob Conery)
• Are you bored with Windows Phone? (Joe Wilcox)
• Screenshots of Windows Phone “Tango” leaked, new features and low-memory limitations revealed (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 16, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 15 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Maker Geek Roundup 008 for 2/15/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #819 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 15 Feb 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 2/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1045 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Posts of the Week (February 6th – February 12th) (Ali Raza Shaikh)
• Daily WP7 Development News 15 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Beginning Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Windows Phone Applications Using Silverlight and XNA (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Nick Lecrenski