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Dew Drop – February 22, 2012 (#1,271)

Dew Drop – February 21, 2012 (#1,270)

.NET / Visual Studio

Limit your abstractions: The key is in the infrastructure… (Oren Eini)
Execute GIMP filters in C# (Dhanushka Madushan Peiris)
Managing Build Templates with Community TFS Build Manager (Jakob Ehn)
Visual Studio Command Prompt in Console (Jimmy Bogard)
Using Corporate ID’s with Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service (Martin Hinshelwood)
What’s the difference between Text Document, Text Document – MS-DOS Format, and Unicode Text Document? (Raymond Chen)
Telerik Report Designer (Telerik Reporting Team)
Telerik Announces “Platform Guidance for Microsoft.NET” (Lohith)
NuGet Project Uncovered: DumpToText (Jason Jarrett)
CSharp Interview Question: What is Action in CSharp (Dhananjay Kumar)
A Study of Windows 8 ‘Contracts’ – why, what and how? (Krishnachytanya Ayyagari)

Web Development

jquery-ui-rails released (Jo Liss)
ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient Available on NuGet (Henrik F. Nielsen)
The Largest jQuery Class in the World (Jeffrey Way)
Gate adds OWIN support for the new ASP.NET Web API beta and Ghost.exe – a generic host for OWIN applications (Louis DeJardin)
Accordion with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
The 7 habits of highly effective developers (Giorgio Sironi)
Supporting high-dpi pixel-dense "Retina" Displays like iPhones or the iPad 3 with CSS or IMG (Scott Hanselman)
Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed (Troy Hunt)
More on Cloud Storage/CDN pricing (Alan Mendelevich)
MooTools Bootstrap 2.0 (Aaron Newton)
Windows Azure with PHP – Deleting a Table (Puja Pramudya)
Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io) (Neil Mackenzie)
Modernization (BYOSP Part 4) (K. Scott Allen)
Creating a Horizontal CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Article: Thoughts on Test Automation in Agile (Rajneesh Namta)
Coding: Packaging by vertical slice (Mark Needham)
Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success (Dux Raymond)
CQRS Pocket Guide – Giving it a spin (Rinat Abdullin)
How Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem [Motivation] (Adam Dachis)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Include static JS / CSS / Images files from the IsolatedStorage in the WebBrowser control (Nicolas Humann)
Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator – Project Setup (Weidong Shen)
New Tutorials Series (Nigel Sampson)
PivotViewer Multi-Valued Properties (Tony Champion)
Phone Gap Tutorial #3 – Reducing the load (Daniel Egan)
Wrap Layout + UI Virtualization = RadDataBoundListBox for WP (Deyan Ginev)
Introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern – Part 1 (Anand Raja)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Derick Bailey Explores JavaScript Frameworks (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 177 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Inside Windows Phone #32 | Microsoft Developer Carlo Rivera on Making Money (Larry Lieberman)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 42 (Richard Hay)
New “Minute of Mango” tips series begins (Michael Stroh)
Minute of Mango: Custom Ringtones (Laura Foy)
Yet Another Podcast #60–Knockout.js (Jesse Liberty)
Boagworld: Sites are like billboards not books and Boagworld: Are you annoying your repeat users? (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

Calling On Windows Phone Developers To Join In At NYC PhotoHack Day II – February 25th & 26th (Peter Laudati)
Need to find your local Windows Phone Champion? Here’s an OData service, Phone app and source that will help (Greg Duncan)
MADExpo (Steven Lott)
Win a Limited Edition JustDecompile T-Shirt (Telerik Marketing Team)
Last minute GitHub drinkup in NYC! (Eric Gerhardt) – Tonight!
Maker Faire Dates Announced (Ken Denmead)
Refactoring code retreat – help needed (Brian Marick)

Database

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): PowerPivot (James Serra)
SQL Server – Powershell Active Directory search (Jack Vamvas)
Calling ProcessData in SSIS to incrementally load data into tabular partitions (Cathy Dumas)
Creating Your First SSAS 2012 Tabular Project (Sam Vanga)
SQL SERVER – Force Removing User from Database – Fix: Error: Could not drop login ‘test’ as the user is currently logged in. (Pinal Dave)
Migrating a SQL Server database to SQL Azure and Shrinking your Subtext database (Tim Heuer)
MongoDB index scripting (Nuri Halperin)
Big Data – A Microsoft Tools Approach (Buck Woody)
Where to Run DBCC on AlwaysOn Availability Groups (Brent Ozar)
Using multi-select parameters? Then you might need to do this. (David Forck)

SharePoint

How to migrate an InfoPath form from test to production in SharePoint 2010 (Kelly Jones)
CRM 2011 Online and SharePoint 2010 Integration through Business Connectivity Services (Nick Swan)
Working With SharePoint 2010 Search – Part 2 (Saifullah Shafiq)
SharePoint 2010 REST Service Syntax Diagram (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

Official screenshot confirms that web-based video chat is coming to Windows Live Wave 5 (damaster)
New SkyDrive info: point by point (Kip Kniskern)
SkyDrive and Windows 8 (Omar Shahine)
Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Custom Statuses (Scott Dorman)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript 24-Hour Trainer (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jeremy McPeak

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Dew Drop – February 17, 2012 (#1,268)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio Async CTP (Version 3) Installation Issues (Brent Schooley)
ReSharper 6.1.1: New Maintenance Release Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
TFS Checkout, Search and Replace with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The SequenceEqual() Method (James Michael Hare)
Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with an Existing Database (Julie Lerman)
Book Review – .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner’s Guide (Vincent Maverick Durano)
How Understanding Assembly Language Helps Debug .NET Applications [CodeProject] (Sasha Goldshtein)
Why does the DrawIcon function draw at the default icon size? (Raymond Chen)
NuGet Project Uncovered: JsValidator (Jason Jarrett)
All in One Unity Demo and Information Series (Greg Duncan)
Red Gate Releases The Next Version of Their Performance Profiling Tool (Jeff Julian)
TryJoinads (II.): Task-based parallelism (Tomas Petricek)
NDepend Evaluation: Part 1 (Anthony Trudeau)

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released and Using HTML 5 Geolocation, Google Maps to Generate Driving Distance (Jason Gaylord)
JavaScript Closures Explained (Derek Greer)
The Enemy of My Friend Writes Bad MVC Controller Actions (Microsoft) (Doug Lampe)
jQuery Tip #3 – Using the data() Function (Dan Wahlin)
Escapes.js – Retro ANSI art in JavaScript (Paul Neave)
HTML5 Context Menu and FullScreen (Paul Rouget)
ASP.NET MVC: Add HTML5 Microdata to your applications using Metadata Providers (Rui Jarimba)
Javascript, node.js and for loops (Mikito Takada)
Detect DOM changes with Mutation Observers (Ernest Delgado)
Tech preview of Chromium with Dart engine now available (Anton Muhin, Vijay Menon & Pavel Podivilov) – Available for Mac and Linux. Coming soon for Windows.
Client-Side MVC frameworks compared (Paul Hammant)
Viewport, Device, and Document Size (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Revisiting dragging, dropping, and sorting observableArrays (Ryan Niemeyer)
Http Caching is complicated for everyone, even @ayende (Sebastien Lambla)
Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance (Steven Sinofsky)
New recommended Ruby version: Ruby 1.9.3-p125 is released (Daniel Kehoe)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Pushing Through the Pain (John Sonmez)
Let’s Scale Out CQRS Sample Project (Rinat Abdullin)
Improve Team Dynamics with the xView People Status Dashboard (Steve Porter)
A Decade of SDL (Michael Desmond)
SOLIDify your software design concepts through SOLID (Mahmud Hasan)
Stop Writing Project Proposals (Jonathan Wold)
When the Test Agent Fails on the Build Server (Eric Quist)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone Data Binding between Elements using the Designer (Windows Phone Geek)
Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 (Deyan Ginev)
Phone Gap Tutorial #2–Looking Around (Daniel Egan)
Background Agents Overview for Windows Phone (dt008)
New SilverlightShow Ebook "WP7 for iPhone and Android Devs" (Silverlight Show)
Top 10 Tips for Building a Windows Phone App (Hong Choing)
Master WPF on your iPhone (Josh Smith)
XAMLflix Episode 4 with RadDiagram for Silverlight and WPF (Michael Crump)
2000 WPF Things #497 – Use a UniformGrid to Make a Group of Buttons the Same Size (Sean Sexton)
IdeaBlade Cocktail v0.2 (CodePlex)
MVPChat : A PivotViewer Use Case (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #165: Eliminating the Double Dispatch Problem (James Shore)
Developer Diaries: Mangesh Deshpande (Laura Foy)
Team Foundation Service Preview–Updated videos are available (Gregg Boer)
Developer Smackdown Musing #64: Good Bye Brandon Satrom, Hello Brandon Satrom (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)

Community / Events

Scrum-damentals Webcast on 17th February 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
The 2012 KalamazooX Conference (Michael J. Eaton)
Getting Ready for the 2012 MVP Global Summit (MVP Award Program)
Effective Aggregate Design Part III – DDD Denver Meetup (Paul Rayner)
Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at SPTechCon 2012 in San Francisco Feb 26-29, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
Learn Simple.Data & Nancy at SkillsMatter (Mark Rendle)
Becoming a "Make Web, Not War" Warrior… Free day of cloud, mobile, design and web webinars. Attend one or attend them all…. (Greg Duncan)

Database

SQL Server – read only database status (Jack Vamvas)
SQL SERVER – Solution Part 2 – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server Installation Error – Consistency validation for SQL Server Registry keys (Ted Krueger)
RavenDB: Index Boosting (Oren Eini)
Group By in MongoDB (Jonathan Allen)
System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure – CTP (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

How to Customize Your Command Prompt (Andrew Burgess)
Code Hero Is A Game That Teaches You To Make Games (John Biggs)
Three Things You Should Never Say in a Technical Interview (Kendra Little)
Microsoft’s Windows Azure Active Directory plans takes shape (Mary Jo Foley)
This Is The Computer Setup Most Of Google’s Engineers Use (GOOG) (Matt Lynley)
Windows 8 Coming in Q4 2012 According to Fujitsu (Robert Boland)
Google Drive in the wild? Screenshot and possible logo (Todd Bishop)
Open Source and Open Source Software Are Not The Same Things (Phil Haack)

The Geek Shelf

Rails 3 Way, The (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Obie Fernandez

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Dew Drop – February 22, 2012 (#1,271)

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Dew Drop – February 21, 2012 (#1,270)

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Dew Drop – February 17, 2012 (#1,268)

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