Dew Drop – April 5, 2012 (#1,300)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Bart de Smet has Reactive Extensions (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• NuGet 1.7 available – Easy installation of Rx v2.0 Beta (Rx team)
• Become a Visual Studio 11 Master Detective – A Look into the Page Inspector (Carl Bergenhem)
• WebApiContrib is Alive (Chris Missal)
• New certification requirement: Application Testability (Peter Kuhn)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• F# IntelliSense Improvements in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Brian McNamara)
• Documenting Namespaces with Sandcastle Help File Builder (Richard Carr)
• How to get info from client certificates issued by a CA (C#, VS 2010) and How to export issued certificates from a CA programatically (C#) (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
• metro c#–simple transform using touch (babaandthepigman)
• 10+ powerful debugging tricks with Visual Studio (Ivan Shcherbakov)
• TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release (Willy-P. Schaub)
• dotCover 2.0 Early Access Open (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Performance for Metro style app (Marcelo Lopez Ruiz)
• MSBuild Extension Pack – April 2012 (Mike Fourie)
• Blog Post: Announcing CodeSmith Generator 6.5 Beta (Eric J. Smith)
• Image Processing in Metro (gregtheross)
• Using T4 templates with the NHibernate Designer (Ivan Towlson)
• Try Writing Try Methods (Brendan Enrick)
• Rx TOC and Rx – Join (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript syntax tree visualization with Esprima (Ariya Hidayat)
• HTML5 audio and audio sprites – this should be simple (Chris Heilmann)
• HTML5 drag and drop asynchronous multi file upload with ASP.NET WebAPI (Filip W)
• jQuery UI Autocomplete and Automatic Form Submit (K. Scott Allen)
• Tips! ASP.NET MVC – JavaScriptSerializer – 3 Questions and 3 Answers (Michael Sync)
• 2 years of Vim and PHP distilled (Giorgio Sironi)
• A graphic demonstration of information leakage through security misconfiguration (Troy Hunt)
• Getting Acquainted with Node.js on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
• Moving from Action Filters to Message Handlers (John Petersen)
• The Gmail Public Labels API (Tim Bray)
• Why I’m Not Using Bundling.. Yet (Alexander Beletsky)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 Beta (EAP 117.132) (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Why it is important to set proper content-type HTTP header for blobs in Azure Storage (Avkash Chauhan)
• Getting Started with the Windows Azure Cache (Brian Hitney)
• Measuring Site Speed with Navigation Timing (Ilya Grigorik)
• The Era of Friends Begins in Sueetie (Dave Burke)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Tooling Guides BETA has shipped! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• To mock or not to mock (Wolfram Kriesing)
• Beware the common infrastructure (Oren Eini)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Conversion strategy (2 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
• wp7–JSON parsing (babaandthepigman)
• Microsoft and Best Buy hosting Windows Phone developer events (John Callaham)
• 2000 WPF Things #529 – Using the the Paint Bucket Tool to Copy Attributes and #530 – Creating a Linear Gradient in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Starter Kit Updated (Chris Koenig)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 84: Getting Past the Buzz about HTML5 with Todd Anglin (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 97: Mass assignment, vulnerabilities and fun fun fun (Michael Kimsal)
• Video: Entity Framework 5 New Features Sneak Peek (Paul Ballard)
• What The Tech 111: To The Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 022 – 04.04.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 133 – 04.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Inside MSR’s Chronozoom with Rane Johnson. (Larry Larsen)
• Yet Another Podcast #62–Joe Stagner (Jesse Liberty)
• Architect Meet-Up – Part 2 of 3: Mobile Security, Availability, and Usability (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• @home with Windows Azure Webcast: – Debugging and Troubleshooting in the Cloud – 4/5/2012 12:00pm EDT (Peter Laudati)
• A Coder Interview With Elijah Manor (The Code Project)
• What the MVP Award is not… (Chris Shaw)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012: Multidimensional vs tabular (James Serra)
• SQL Server – ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH for this file. (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL Server – Index Fragmentation – Understanding Fragmentation (Nelson John A)
• Customizing the Test Status on the TFS 2010 SSRS Stories Overview Report (Bob Hardister)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft® Windows® Azure Marketplace DataMarket Add-in for Excel® Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP 3) (MS Downloads)
• Uh-oh, iPhone fanboys and Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Nokia Lumia 900 is a fair comparison (Joe Wilcox)
• America’s Best CEO: Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos (John Cook)
• Stop comparing unlike objects. RIGHT. NOW. (Tim Conneally)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1080 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 4/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 April 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #852 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy