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Dew Drop – May 3, 2012 (#1,319)

Top Links

More fun with DateTime (Jon Skeet)
Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined (Steven Sinofsky)
Delivering Rich Mobile Web Experiences in Windows Phone 7.5 (ESPN.com Case Study) (Amin Lakhani)
Windows Phone ‘Developer Summit’ June 20th… Details on Windows Phone 8? (Antonio Hernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

How Visual Studio 2010 toolbox works (Alexander Vezenkov)
Connecting to WCF RIA Services in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using Upshot.js and Knockout.js (Dave Isbitski)
An Uncertain Future for Visual Studio Express (Jonathan Allen)
EasyNetQ: Topic Based Routing (Mike Hadlow)
Auto-Vectorizer – New Posts (Jim)
Custom events in WinJS (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)

Web Development

Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 1 (Chris Love)
Article: HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
Enhance Required Form Fields with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
Behind the Sencha Command Utility and the Build Process (Jacky Nguyen)
Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing using Twilio for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kata – The only way to learn TDD (Peter Provost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7 sports application with Apache Cordova, jQuery Mobile Metro and ESPN API (Filip W)
Wave hello to WAF – WPF Application Framework (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #550 – Converting a Brush into a Resource in Blend (Sean Sexton)
Creating Windows Phone, iPhone and Android Apps with iFactr in Visual Studio 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
The web Marketplace launches in 22 new countries (Mazhar Mohammed)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Catching Up with Ted Neward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Oracle IT Architect Certification – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
Defrag: Return of Gov, Removing Network Drives, Security Essentials 4 (Larry Larsen)
The Verge Mobile Podcast 026 – 05.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Video: Put the Wraps on Your Exceptions with Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

Registration Details… “SharePoint 15” Inside info at #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
Meet the Author: Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar on SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics (Paul Ballard)
Inside Microsoft Research: Start Spreading the News … Announcing Microsoft Research New York City! (Jennifer Chayes)

Database

Miscellaneous

Interested in the dirty depths of Windows 8? Check out this 83 page Windows 8 Forensic Guide (Greg Duncan)
Windows 8 Metro Firefox mockups revealed (John Callaham)
Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!) (Kip Kniskern)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Node: Up and Running – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
How to get paid to speak (Scott Berkun)
Is there hope for Windows Phone? (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #872 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1098 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting Finds: May 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-03 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 5/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Daily WP7 Development News 2 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Cheatsheet: 2012 04.25 ~ 05.03 (gOODiDEA.NET)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development by Jayaram Krishnaswamy

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Dew Drop – May 1, 2012 (#1,317)

Top Links

DevLabs: C++, Cloud Services, and You (S.Somasegar)
GUID guide, part two (Eric Lippert)
Filling in the UX Gaps in Metro style Apps – TechBash Edition (Brent Schooley)
A New Look for CodePlex (Mark Groves)

.NET / Visual Studio

And sometimes Things Just Works (Oren Eini)
TFSPreview update (Brian Harry)
Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges (Gill Cleeren)
Run Your Own Group Chat with AppHarbor and JabbR (AppHarbor)
Making Mayhem with Volume Control (Eli White)
Announcing Casablanca, a native library to access the cloud from C++ (Casablanca Team)
Announcing Casablanca, a Native Library to Access the Cloud From C++ (Vikas Bhatia)
Marshaling native arrays back as managed arrays without copying (Rick Brewster)
Entity Framework 4.3.1 Migrations and non English locale (Simone Chiaretta)
Context-Aware Dialogue with Kinect: Part 2 of our Q&A with Leland Holmquest (Michael Desmond)
Development Based on C + + Runtime in the Windows 8 Metro Interface News Reader (Cheng Yin)
Knowing your Metro Style App package details (Arun Mahendrakar)
RavenDB CRUD – How To (Gregor Suttie)

Web Development

Simple JavaScript Notifications with toastr (John Papa)
Learning HTML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery interactively via WebGrid (Greg Duncan)
Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.49 (CodePlex)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Backbone.js Applications – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
node.js Version 0.6.16 (stable) (Isaac Schlueter)
Dissecting 3.5.0 DataTable, Part 1 (Luke Smith)
Google Drive API: It’s Kind of a Big Deal (Curtis C. Chen)
Web Performance Tip: Make Sure You Have a FavIcon (Chris Love)
Render Action (Christopher Bennage)
Why you should care about CSS page performance (Doug Stewart)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Building Better UX Using Patterns (Ambrose Little)
Achievements: An Agile Whitepaper (Peter Saddington)
The architect as a leader, and other specialists and You’re not self organizing if you have a go-to architect and Grow your "feature teams" into just "teams" and Do new startup leaders need to grow their teams? (Roy Osherove)
Hired help (Eric Brechner)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Need get a GW-Basic fix? Here’s GW-Basic running in Silverlight (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #548 – Change the Offset of a Gradient Stop in Blend (Sean Sexton)
Building A Test Texting System On Windows Phone With TextBelt API and Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha (Den Delimarsky)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.4 (CodePlex)
Four ways we’re improving Marketplace (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

GoingNative 8: Introducing Casablanca – A Modern C++ API for Connected Computing (Charles Torre)
Video Demo: Overview of XAML authoring features in Blend and Visual Studio (Joanna Mason)
Video: Chaining Down Unruly JavaScript (Paul Ballard)
Firefox work week Windows 8 talk (Brian Bondy)
Project Mayhem – an overview (Clint Rutkas)
Project Mayhem – Creating a module (Clint Rutkas & Eli White)
On The Verge, Episode 005: Tony Fadell and Chris Grant (Creighton DeSimone)

Community / Events

Free Windows Phone Game Training in Portland – 5/11 (Kelly White)
Best of Luck to Derek! (Robby Ingebretsen)
Vote for the Imagine Cup People’s Choice Award (Peter Laudati)
May Tech Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
Upcoming Web Camps (Jon Galloway)
Great Place to Work: turning ideas into technology at "The Garage" (Liz)

Database

Thank God I Chose SQL Server part II: How to Improperly Install Oracle 11gR2 (Stevan Bolton)
SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house (Jorge Segarra)
SQL SERVER – Maximum Allowable Length of Characters for Temp Objects is 116 – Guest Post by Balmukund Lakhani (Pinal Dave)
You need to run DBCC CheckDB regularly and Creating a Sequence in SQL Server 2012 (Steve Jones)
How to Configure Database mail (geniiius)
The most unappreciated feature in Sql Server 2008? (Emil Tabakov)

SharePoint

Product Review: Real Time Collaboration on SharePoint with Sazneo (Joel Oleson)
How to: Hide the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010 (Rajeswari Mohandas)

Miscellaneous

Making Animations over the Canvas for Android (Carlos Sessa)
Generalizing Code Through Functional Programming (John Lindal)
Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)

More Link Collections

Daily WP7 Development News 30 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Interesting Finds: May 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Double Shot #870 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #44 (Frank)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-01 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 04/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Dev News for April 29, 2012 – #0076 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Metro Revealed: Building Windows 8 apps with HTML5 and JavaScript by Adam Freeman

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Dew Drop – April 30, 2012 (#1,316)

Top Links

Modern Web Development – Part 9 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Introducing the jQuery Mobile Metro Theme (Colin Eberhardt)
Windows 8 and ASP.NET Web API – Part 1 – Getting Started (Jon Galloway)
PhoneGap – migrating iOS applications to Android (Part 1) (Davy De Waele)

.NET / Visual Studio

Relational searching sucks, don’t try to replicate it (Oren Eini)
Reflecting Nested Type Information and An Extensible Appointment Scheduling Library (Richard Carr)
Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2011 Beta (Anthony Grace)
Getting feedback on your Visual Studio 11 Storyboards (Rich Erwin)
Code Analysis with Project Roslyn (Jeff Martin)
Using Shims in Visual Studio 11 to test untestable code. (Ricci Gian Maria)
Installing TFS 2011 Beta in a Virtual Machine (Ryan Abrahamson)
Visual Studio 11 – Awesome New Features for Web Developers (Sumit Maitra)
Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook (Zain Naboulsi)
i got mono (Mo Khan)
Metro RSS Reader: Free and open source Metro Application for Windows 8 (Zubair Ahmed)
NDepend Evaluation: Conclusion (Anthony Trudeau)
Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 4: TaskHelpers (Brad Wilson)
Getting Started with the Live SDK: Authorization (Christopher Geers)
OData on Windows 8: Part 2—The OData Client Library for Metro (Glenn Gailey)
Controlling a .NET Gadgeteer Device with your mind… (Greg Duncan)
Michael’s .NET Suggested Reading List (Michael Kennedy)

Web Development

Overcoming Asynchronous Anxiety By Testing JavaScript’s Event Loop (Ben Nadel)
JavaScript on the XBox 360 (Dominic Szablewski)
Different MediaTypeFormatters for same MediaHeaderValue in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
ASP.NET MVC3 Using Code First Entity Framework Without Database Generation (Phil Fresle)
KineticJS – An HTML5 Canvas JavaScript Library (Hirvesh Munogee)
Using Razor V2 in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
Zerg rush in JavaScript (James Padolsey)
Infinite Scrolling In ASP.NET With jQuery (Prashant Khandelwal)
GZip/Deflate Compression in ASP.NET MVC (Rick Strahl)
Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
The Essentials of Zepto.js (Siddharth)
Introduction to JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App: Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

What Agile or Lean Process Do You Use: Poll Results (Giles Davies)
Design and UX assets for Windows 8 (Andrew Spooner)
Huboard – New feature overview (Ryan Rauh)
Dependency Injection vs. Service Locator (Kyle Burns)
Metro design inspiration (Laurent Bugnion)
Building a Team to Last (Matt Van Horn)
Check out the new Exploratory Tool! (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Introduction to the Infragistics Undo / Redo Framework for XAML applications (Damyan Petev)
Using Visual Studio LightSwitch To Orchestrate A Unity 3D Game (Michael Washington)
WinRT XAML Toolkit available on CodePlex (Davide Zordan)
Using WPF Elements from F# (Ivan Towlson)
Eye Dropper control in WPF (Jawahar Suresh Babu)
101 How to on Windows Phone #11 – Web Browser Task in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask? and How to Save Ringtones in WP7 using the SaveRingtoneTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Managing Data and Media in Silverlight (David Kelley)
2000 WPF Things #547 – Specifying Colors by Name in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 049: "I’m the son of Tinkerbell" (Mark Frauenfelder)
Windows Phone Minute: Custom Focusing (Laura Foy)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 437: Ken Levine and more (Larry Hyrb)
The Metro Developer Show Episode 065 – “I’m Going to Take My Clothes Off Too” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Video recording of my talk about my open source app Metro RSS Reader (Zubair Ahmed)
ShopTalk Episode 15 and ShopTalk Episode 16 (Chris Coyier)
TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, SkyDrive, PhoneGap Build and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
WPCentral 141 – Stormtroopers and the Cloud (Daniel Rubino)
The GeekDads Episode #113: The Avengers Is Not a Failure (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
The Tablet Show – Thomas Gravgaard Ports Unity 3D Games to WP7 with FFWD (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Weekly 258: Now With Better Remediation (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 50 (Richard Hay)
GeekWire Radio: Mining asteroids in space, and finding the best food on Earth (Todd Bishop)
Engadget Podcast 291 – 04.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
The Campus Coder Show #1: Chevon Christie (Glen Gordon)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: Andrew Brust on Understanding NoSQL (Paul Ballard)
Anthony Borton and ALM Training releases two new Visual Studio 11 courses (Charles Sterling)
TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Training Courses in June & July (Giles Davies)
Free Jump Start: May 15-16, 2012–What can you do about the "consumerization" of IT? (Kim Spilker)
Celebration! 120’000 downloads for #mvvmlight, 2 copies of Expression Studio to win (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) (Rachel Appel)
SSIS Data Flow Tuning (Jose Frichberg)
SQL Server – Four-part object names (Vishal)
SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
SQLAuthority News – Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering and Availability Groups from Prior Clustering and Mirroring Deployments – Part 1 and SQL SERVER – Microsoft Certification – SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – A Brief Introduction to expressor Studio 3.6 (Pinal Dave)
Appending New Rows Only (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

SharePoint Profile Cleanup and the My Site Cleanup (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

How To Live Your Values at Microsoft (JD Meier)
If one had to choose which group at Microsoft should spontaneously combust… (Michael S. Kaplan)
Dear Tim Cook: Apple is not the world’s tech inventor (Molly Wood)
A process shutdown puzzle, Episode 2 (Raymond Chen)
When I first came to the Microsoft community in 2007, I was (Scott Barnes)
Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)
That thing about upgrading current Windows Phones to Windows Phone 8, continued… (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 152 (Scott Banwart)
Friday Five: April 27, 2012. (MVP Award Program)
Double Shot #868 and Double Shot #869 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1094 and The Morning Brew #1095 (Chris Alcock)
April 27th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-27 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 4/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Everyman on First Visit, At Social Business Core, Better than Everyone, To Apollo and Beyond (Dave Burke)
Windows Dev News for April 27, 2012 – #0074 and Windows Dev News for April 28, 2012 – #0075 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 27 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (4/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Retrospective 82 – Agile Product Marketing Series & SEO (Peter Saddington)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #16) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook by Devlin Liles

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