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Dew Drop – December 28, 2011 (#1,228)

Top Links

Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta (Kevin Montrose)
GUI REPL for Roslyn (Chris Sells)
Windows Phone Marketplace Has Reached 50,000 Apps (Antonio Hernandez)
Charlie Kindel, ex-Microsoft, posts thoughts on Windows Phone’s successes and failures (Chris Ziegler)
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Five (Eric Lippert)

.NET / Visual Studio

Cancelling Parallel Loops (Richard Carr)
Renaming Project Files in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
Integrating Red Gate SmartAssembly Into TFS 2010 Build (Ed Blankenship)
VSColorOutput – Visual Studio Output Coloring Extension (Think "Adding color to the Build/Debug Output window text") and Virtual Postcard with Kinect and The Android Eye for the .Net Guy… The Android for .NET Developers Series by Dino Esposito (Greg Duncan)
StyleCop 4.7.0.0. is out (Tatworth)
Extending Unity (Robert May)
Features Nuget Would Benefit From (Paul Stack)
Why is the file size reported incorrectly for files that are still being written to? and Using the MNS_DRAGDROP style: Dragging out (Raymond Chen)
Yield Operator Fun (Sebastian Dau)
ReSharper 6.1: Improvements in IntelliSense Options (Hadi Hariri)
TPL – Continuation (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
Deploying a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 to Azure with SQL Server Compact (Al Pascual)
Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.41 (CodePlex)
Get Value of CSS Rotation through JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
Working with the JavaScript “this” Keyword (Dan Wahlin)
CSS3 Images Pre-Last Call WD Published (Elika J. Etemad)
Little HTML5 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
CSS3 Lightbox (Manoela Ilic)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Field and Practical PHP Refactoring: Pull Up Method (Giorgio Sironi)
Microsoft helps extend JavaScript (Sara Allison)
Performance testing with Selenium and javascript (JP Castro)
Packaging a JavaScript Library with Nuget (Sumit Maitra)
Microsoft Developers finally get a .NET Framework for HTML5 Mobile Applications (Webgui)
Binding And Handling JSON Field In jQuery Repeater and 30 Minutes To Grasp ASP. NET jQuery Repeater and Using jQuery Repeater to Mark a Multi-line EMail Message As Spam and Show Progress (zoyobar)
Day 2 – GPU accelerate your DOM elements (Seb Lee-Delisle)
Windows Azure Trial Account Spending Limit and The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial (Jim O’Neil)
Knockout.js Observable Extensions (Josh Bush)
Orchard Hands-On Lab available (Greg Duncan)
Making the First Letter Stand Out (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Introducing filer.js (Eric Bidelman)
Deployment of Applications with Infragistics Reporting in Windows Azure (Mihail Mateev)
knockoutjs: Uncaught Error: ko.applyBindings: first parameter should be your view model; second parameter should be a DOM node (Alexander Zeitler)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0.1 Beta (Alexey Gopachenko)
Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github and The Responsibilities Of The Various Pieces Of Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
First Experience Building Something With Clojure (Gareth Rushgrove)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
Introduction to bddify and Method name conventions in bddify (Mehdi Khalili)
NOT Doing Scrum – Back to the Basics and Teams Over Processes – Don’t Be Insane (Peter Saddington)
Example of Self-documenting Unit Test with Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
Introducing the for-if anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
31 Days of Testing—Day 20: Refactoring a Monster Test, Part 2 and 31 Days of Testing—Day 21: Data Driving Your Functional Tests (Jim Holmes)
Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test (Gautam Goenka)
How-To: Returning a Class By Value with Isolator++ (Gil Zilberfeld)
Expanding your horizons: Actions (Oren Eini)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Testing Windows Phone 7 Apps with Typemock (Avi Kaye)
Silverlight & XNA – A Tale of Two Cities (Simon Jackson)
Adding the “Pinch-to-zoom” feature to your pictures with RadSlideView for Windows Phone (Georgi Atanasov)
23 skins and counting with v1.1 of the Windows Phone 7.1(5) Emulator Skin Switcher and Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.5.0 Now Available… (Greg Duncan)
Windows Phone and PhoneGap – Article #2 – Installing PhoneGap and Getting Started (Senthil Kumar)
Book Review: Fun with Silverlight 4 authored by Rajesh Lal (Kunal Chowdhury)
Real World Windows Phone Dev Part 4: The Panorama (Matt Hidinger)
Adding an Easter Egg to your WP7 Application (Michael Crump)
My Top Frameworks for Windows Phone Development (Pieter de Rycke)
2000 WPF Things #458 – Properties to Set When Using a Horizontal or Vertical GridSplitter and #459 – Using Two (or More) GridSplitter Elements in the Same Grid and #460 – A GridSplitter Can Share a Cell with Another Control (Sean Sexton)
Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone – Final notes before the beta and Addition to the Coding4Fun Toolkit – MetroFlow (Dennis Delimarsky)
Caliburn.Micro: RadTransitionControl custom convention (Mikael Koskinen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices and The Tablet Show – Richard Griffin Programs in WinJS (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell and YOW! 2011: Martin Thompson – On Concurrent Programming and Concurrency Folklore and GoingNative 5: Inside the Visual C++ IDE, Meet Raul Pérez (Charles Torre)
Technology & Friends Episode 189: Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran on Geeks Giving Back (David Giard)
What The Tech 99: Wishlists and Predictions For 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
Gillmor Gang Live 12.28.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 118 – 12.26.2011 and Engadget HD Podcast 280 – 12.27.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Let’s Play TDD #154: Save and Cancel… Done! (James Shore)
Gweek 032: Bitter Seeds and the Game of Go (Mark Frauenfelder)

Community / Events

Changes, changes, changes and CodeMash 2.0.1.2 (Ted Neward)
Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011 (Phil Haack)
Kinect Accelerator Program Seeking Innovators (Kinect for Windows Team)

Database

Dynamic Sorting in SSRS (Unknown Author)
SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 15138 – The database principal owns a schema in the database, and cannot be dropped and SQL SERVER – Target Recovery Time of a Database – Advance Option in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Effect of Compressed Backup Setting at Server Level on Database Backup (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Database Specification (SQLArcher)
Free O’Reilly eBook "Oracle Essentials, 4th Edition" (Tatworth)
Case Sensitive search with SQL (koolprasad2003)
Performance Impacts of Unicode, Equals vs LIKE, and Partially Filled Fixed Width (Eli Weinstock-Herman)
Why Management Studio forces you to know SQL (Gian Maria Ricci)

SharePoint

Three Degrees of the SharePoint Community Challenge (Joel Oleson)
Understanding Business Connectivity Services (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

10 New Year’s Resolutions Every Web Developer Should Make (Andrew Burgess)
Here are three Ruby functions… (Brian Marick)
Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone? (Chris Velazco)
The Case For Developer Platforms (James Yu)
Moving to the Cloud Part 2: Mostly Sunny (Chris Sells)
Preliminary Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 12 Release Dates (Vygantas)
Windows 8 Slate Review (Jeremy Likness)
iOS Rich Text Editing : Sample Project (Josh Garnham)
Learning Android: WebView character encoding (Mark Needham)
How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 and Kindel: Yes, Windows Phone is Superior, But Here’s Why It’s Not Selling (Paul Thurrott)
So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)
My next year TOP5 wishlist for Windows media, WP7 and XBox teams in Microsoft (Gunnar Peipman)
Results of the reverse engineering poll – people do it, whether you want it or not (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 26, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 27, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 12.20 ~ 12.28 (yuanjian)
Interesting .NET Links – December 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – #0016 and Windows Dev News for December 26, 2011 – 2 – #0017 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #781 and Double Shot #782 and Double Shot #783 (Mike Gunderloy)
2011 Yearly Link Roundup (Jeremiah Peschka)
Daily News Digest 12/27/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 12/27/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 22-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
The Morning Brew #1010 (Chris Alcock)
Backbone Fundamentals, Three.js Boilerplate, zoom.js and Node Roundup: Clarinet, Sandbox, actionHero and jQuery Roundup: jQuery-inlog, -prefix-free, jquery.animate-enhanced (Alex Young)
Daily WP7 Development News 28 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Recently in Web Development (December Edition) (Siddharth)
MVP Mondays: Popular Posts from 2011 (MVP Award Program)

The Geek Shelf

HTML5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) by Jeremy Osborn

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Dew Drop – December 21, 2011 (#1,224)

Top Links

Knockout 2.0.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
Windows Phone Beats Out Blackberry World – Marketplace Now 4th Largest (Antonio Hernandez)
Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro (Daniela Panfili)
ReSharper 6.1, dotCover 1.2 and dotTrace 4.5.2 Performance Released (Hadi Hariri)
OData: iOS Client Library goes Open Source (Arlo Belshee)

.NET / Visual Studio

Stupid smart code: Solution (Oren Eini)
Search in Tfs Work Items never was so easy 🙂 (Gian Maria Ricci)
TFS + NuGet =’s? TFS NuGetter of course! and Kinect + 3D = Fusion4D (Greg Duncan)
The PacMan problem (Julian M. Bucknall)
New CodeRush Plugin – CR_ImportNamespace (Rory Becker)
Live Data and Source Code in JustTrace (Just* Team)
New Book: Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications (Kim Spilker)
Facebook C# SDK 5.4.1 (CodePlex)

Web Development

Model Binding with Dropdown List in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
WebStorm 3.0: The JavaScript IDE! (Alexey Korsun)
Building a jQuery Mobile Application, Part 3 (Jorge Ramon)
Using jQuery’s .pushStack() for reusable DOM traversing methods (Karl Swedberg)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Exception with Test (Giorgio Sironi)
The output element (Richard Clark)
Espresso Tip: Changing those nasty constraint names in Code First (Jonathan Creamer)
What’s been happening in the Web Workbench world (Ivan Towlson)
My book is now available (HTML5 games) (Jacob Seidelin)
An Introduction to EAI Bridges (Harish Agarwal)
Important Announcements Regarding the Access Control Service (Himanshu Singh)
Let It Snow… Faster! (Rob Mauceri)
Create a Scalable Widget Using YUI3: Part 2 (Dan Wellman)
Use the W3C Geolocation API to create location aware web sites (Rachel Appel)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Kanban Isn’t the Answer to Bad Product Ownership (Mike Cottmeyer)
Unit Testing MySQL-Bound Code (Omer van Kloeten)
Metro: Typography trumps chrome–debunked. (Scott Barnes)
31 Days of Testing—Day 17: Rules for Effective Data-Driven Tests (Jim Holmes)
Final Designs are Always the Simplest and Most Practical (Anthony)
The Process of Change – Handling Resistance to Change [Part 3/4] (Peter Saddington)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #2: Installing the Tools (Windows Phone Geek)
TouchDevelop v2.5: new tutorial, artwork, forum, and more (Nikolai Tillmann)
Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
Updates to the Windows Phone docs (Cheryl Simmons)
WP7 Saving To Isolated Storage (Daniel Egan)
Stopping the WP7 Emulator Skin file copy/replace madness… Windows Phone 7 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0 [Beta] (Greg Duncan)
Finding the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone 7 (And Device Manufacturer And Anonymous Windows Live ID) (Matthias Shapiro)
2000 WPF Things #455 – Using ItemContainerStyle to Bind Data Elements in a Collection to a Grid (Sean Sexton)
7th Day of Silverlight : Ancestor Relative Source Binding (Tony Champion)
Ways To Pass Time On Window Phone – TouchDevelop (Tim Murphy)
WriteableBitmapEx 1.0 Coming Soon, Test it Now! (Rene Schulte)
Beginning LightSwitch Part 5: May I? Controlling Access with User Permissions (Beth Massi)
patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 2 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

YOW! 2011: Damian Conway – Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming Made Easy (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #152: No-ckito (James Shore)
Engadget HD Podcast 279 – 12.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Video Tutorial PhoneGap for Windows Phone – Getting Started (Windows Phone Geek)
New Video: Common Functional Testing Problems (Jim Holmes)
SDU Show 48 with guest Roger Doherty (Greg Low)

Community / Events

A day in the life of a Developer Evangelist! (Harish Ranganathan)

Database

SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT Function – PRINT (Pinal Dave)
All 15 SQLBits Training days have been announced (Simon Sabin)
SQL Server Audits: Introduction and SQL Server Auditing: Creating a Server Specification (SQLArcher)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 20: Indexes with Included Columns (Denis Gobo)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010, ALM and Continuous Integration Resources (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Apple is a patent troll now (Joe Wilcox)
‘Roswell’: Another key component of Microsoft’s cloud strategy (Mary Jo Foley)
Microspeak: Offline (noun) (Raymond Chen)
Out with the Old, In with the New: Bing Takes Stock of 2011 and The Year Ahead (Kari Dilloo)
Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
RSS feed that can be filtered–would you use it? (Jason Haley)
Microsoft forgets Windows Phone in Windows Live Messenger ad (Phone Arena Team)
Face Swap For Windows Phone Swaps Faces Of Two People In A Photo – Download Now (Edward Marquez)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 20, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Daily WP7 Development News 20 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Weekly Link Post 215 (Rhonda Tipton)
Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #778 (Mike Gunderloy)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/20/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew#1007 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 20-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)

The Geek Shelf

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Mark Michaelis

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C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

This is the third in a series of quick how-to articles on Resharper.

Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

Use: ForEach blocks that perform simple bits of logic can often times be rewritten as lambda expressions. This reduces the number of lines of code and usually makes the code more readable.

Before

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             var badAlbums = new List<Album>();

             foreach (Album album in albums)
             {
                 if (album.Genre == "Country")
                     badAlbums.Add(album);
             }

             return badAlbums;
         }

Press <Alt+Enter>

After

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             return albums.Where(album => album.Genre == "Country").ToList();
         }

Happy coding!

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