Dew Drop – September 4, 2012 (#1,393)

Top Links

• Using LINQ ForEach To Populate Generic List in C# AND Enum to List (Peter Kellner)
• Adventures in Windows 8: Placing items in a GridView with a ColumnSpan or RowSpan (Laurent Bugnion)
• ASP.NET MVC DisplayTemplate and EditorTemplates for Entity Framework DbGeography Spatial Types (Scott Hanselman)
• A .NET 4.5 Parallel Dataflow Primer (Eric Vogel)
• Data mining local radio with Node.js (Evan Muehlhausen)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Ensuring WCF Routing Flexibility (Peter Vogel)
• RavenDB Role Playing with RPG With Me and NugGet Perf, Part V–Searching Packages and NuGet Perf, Part VI AKA how to be the most popular dev around (Oren Eini)
• A LINQ Operator to Select Multiple Values from Sequences (Richard Carr)
• How to: Change the Start Page of a Windows 8 App in Visual Studio 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Working with Timelines with LINQ to Twitter (Joe Mayo)
• Connect Visual Studio 2008 to TFS2012 or Team Foundation Service Preview (Peter Foot)
• Nullable Types in C# – A Beginner’s Tutorial (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Masstransit and dispatching of messages (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Aspect-Oriented Programming with PostSharp (Joe Kunk)
• Preventing Tab Bloat with Visual Studio 2012 and Solution Explorer Filtering in Visual Studio 2012 and Solution Explorer Scoping in Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012: Did You Call Me? (Deborah Kurata)
• Variable-sized grid items in Windows 8 apps (Andrej Tozon)
• Windows 8 Apps With HTML5 Published in Visual Studio Magazine (September 2012) (Michael Crump)
• Editing assemblies using ReflexIL (Arun Mahendrakar)
• WinRT app guide: Step 5: Adding the model and some helper classes (Iris Classon)
• Announcing Coded UI Support for Windows Forms (Jason Beres)
• WP to W8: API Mapping (Jared Bienz)
• C++ AMP Resources (Daniel Moth)
• Getting Your XNA Content Pipeline into your MonoGame Project and SpriteSheet Animation in MonoGame for Windows 8 (Dave Bost)
• Asserting Object Graph Equivalence Using Fluent Assertions 2.0 (Dennis Doomen)
• Create App Package for Windows Store (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Huge discounts on personal licenses for .NET tools (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Showing 4 Data Points At Once: Financial Chart (Jesse Liberty)
• Download the Free ‘DNC Magazine for .NET Professionals’ – September Issue (Suprotim Agarwal)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript’s Ascendance Within Microsoft (Andrew J. Brust)
• Windows Azure Solution Cookbook (Zain Naboulsi)
• JavaScript: the glass is half full (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Developing Backbone.js Applications (Addy Osmani)
• Effective JavaScript (David Herman)
• Constructors in JavaScript and What is strict mode in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Exploring the Online Templates: Creating a Web API with F# and ASP.NET and Microsoft Codename “Cloud Numerics” Lab Refresh and Sneak preview (Don Syme)
• Using Azure Mobile Services in your web apps through ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• CSS :target for Off-Screen Designs (Matty Collins)
• Supporting the OPTIONS verb in ASP.NET Web API (Jef Claes)
• Is JavaScript Tragically Important? (Jim Cowart)
• Retrieving SQL Server data with type providers and exposing it with ASP.NET Web APIs in F# (Luca Bolognese)
• Detect Whether a Font is Installed and Drawing Circles on a Canvas (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Looking at Windows Azure Mobile Services with Fiddler (Shayne Boyer)
• BookBlock: A Content Flip Plugin (Pedro Botelho)
• The evolution of a blog, the race for responsiveness and even a little support from WP Engine (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Washington Post’s First APIs Lets Devs Get Political (Eric Carter)
• YUI 3.7.0pr1 – Event Performance (Eric Ferraiuolo)
• A Unified Approach to Client-Side Storage (John Papa)
• Keeping JS Sane (Rob Ashton)
• ActiveRecord and Azure (Vladimir Sarić)
• Going deep with Mobile Services data (Josh Twist)
• Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services… and Mono-for-Android (Craig Dunn)
• Netflix Removing Rental History from Public API (Curtis C. Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Made Easy With NCrunch (Ayobami Adewole)
• Avoiding Procrastination Through Pairing (John Sonmez)
• More Value Agile Affect (Karol McCloskey)
• Manual Test-Driven Development (Giorgio Sironi)
• Concrete Dependencies (Mark Seemann)
• Architecting a composite UI application (Jon Curtis)
• Book Review: The Retrospective Handbook – Pat Kua (Mark Needham)
• From IoC to require (Dru Sellers)
• Review: A Practical Guide To Information Architecture (Barnaby Walters)
• Namespaces are obsolete (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Build Documentation from your Tests (Chris Missal)
• Regular VS Simulated Clicks (Stoil Stoichev)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• The XAML Project, the One Stop Free XAML Clip Art Shop? (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #638 – PreviewTextInput Is Not Fired In Many Cases and #639 – Default Tab Order Is Sensible (Sean Sexton)
• Using vector data for AppBar icons in XAML (Tim Heuer)
• A Visual Studio LightSwitch Picture File Manager (Michael Washington)
• The target “GetCopyToOutputDirectoryContentProjectItems” does not exist in the project (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Starter Kit News (Chris Koenig)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Phil Trelford Codes in F# 3.0 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey – Clojure and Datomic (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 90: Going through the 7 R’s of Hypermedia with Darrel Miller (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Major Nelson Podcast – PAX Prime 2012 Show (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 082 – “Alert Withdrawl” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Creating a Game Loop in a Windows Store Game using HTML and JavaScript and Tools for creating a Windows Store Game using HTML and JavaScript (David Isbitski)
• Video : Find which Panorma Item is selected in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Tablet Show – Rocky Lhotka Builds Windows 8 Tablet Apps for the Enterprise (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Harry Shearer (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 045 – August 30th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: WAMS! Windows Store End to End, Reflection, VS2012 ALM VM and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Rewind: The GeekDads Episode #119: You Can Say That on Network TV Now (Ken Denmead)
• Episode 89 – Windows Azure Mobile Services | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Engadget Podcast 308: IFA Edition – 08.31.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 151: IFA Edition – 09.01.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• js-lang, a group for discussing JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Announcing this year’s Dream.Build.Play challenge winners for Windows Phone (JC Cimetiere)
• jQuery Developer Summit 2012 (Adam J. Sontag)
• September 13th, 2012 Meeting – Couchbase (Philly ALT.NET Team)

 

Database

• Capture SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events (Basit A. Farooq)
• Stored Procedure – SQL Server vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Weekend Experiment with NuoDB – Points to Pondor and Whitepaper and SQL SERVER – DQS Error – Cannot connect to server – A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate “SetDataQualitySessions” – SetDataQualitySessionPhaseTwo and SQL SERVER – Step by Step Guide to Beginning Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 – Introduction to DQS (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL CASE functions (Axel Achten)
• Bug: INSERTing into a MySQL Database via Linked Server (Derik Hammer)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script To Find Where SharePoint 2007 Features Are Activated (Brian T. Jackett)
• Using PowerShell to Audit for Blank SA Passwords (K. Brian Kelley)
• Updating TortoiseSVN with PowerShell (David Vidmar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Learn to build a Raspberry Pi operating system, courtesy of Cambridge University (Adi Robertson)
• Nokia Lumia 820 and 920’s wireless charging pad revealed (Chris Ziegler)
• “Windows Mail Desktop” and “Windows Writer” might live on in Windows Essentials? (damaster)
• SkyDrive Pro – Hype or Potential (Joel Oleson)
• Preparing for an iOS Developer Job Interview (Josh Smith)
• Free Nokia Music streaming service comes to Lumia 900 and 710 in the US (Louis Goddard)
• Win a free copy of RadioTunes SDK – Single App License (Mark Petherbridge)
• Win a Free Copy of Regex Cookbook 2nd Edition (Steven Levithan)
• Microsoft’s Windows 8 companion app for Windows Phone gets a first look (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows Phone 8 is the best idea Microsoft has had in phone tech (Mihaita Bamburic)
• Screencasting Like a Pro: The Demos (Rob Conery)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 2, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 08.17 ~ 08.31 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 31, 2012 and Geek Reading September 3, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Visual studio ALM links (week 35/2012) (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Friday Five–August 31, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (August 31, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1180 and The Morning Brew #1181 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #27 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #949 and Double Shot #950 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #34) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 9/3/2012 and Daily News Digest 9/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #60 (Frank)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-03 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for September 02, 2012 – #0122 and Windows Dev News for September 03, 2012 – #0123 (Dave Campbell)

 

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