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Dew Drop – March 9, 2012 (#1,283)

Dew Drop – March 2, 2012 (#1,278)

.NET / Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta Visualization & Modeling SDK (MS Downloads)
INotifyPropertyChanged, The .NET 4.5 Way (Dan Rigby)
Beginning F#: Records (Ian Voyce)
Taking a look at S#arp Lite, Part II–the domain (Oren Eini)
That Controversial Visual Studio 11 Beta UI Isn’t So Bad After All (Filip Ekberg)
Telerik & Visual Studio 11 Beta: State of Affairs (Telerik Marketing Team)
Visual Studio 11 Upgrade Health Check (Martin Hinshelwood)
Windows 8 JavaScript – Message Dialog (Shai Raiten)
How do I make it so that users can copy static text on a dialog box to the clipboard easily? (Raymond Chen)
dotTrace 5.0 Performance Beta Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
Windows8 Consumer Preview and VisualStudio11 Beta – Process Lifetime Management (Part 11/11) (Kunal Chowdhury)
Why NetAdvantage Reporting instead of ______? (part one) (Brent Schooley)
TryJoinads (V.) – Implementing the option joinad (Tomas Petricek)
WinJS – how to cancel the navigation from a page ? (Jonathan Antoine)

Web Development

The "Windows Azure Service Bus Developer Guide" eBook in HTML, PDF and CHM now available… (Greg Duncan)
Asynchronous File Upload using ASP.NET Web API (Henrik F. Nielsen)
SharpDevelop 4.2: Now with Improved ASP.NET MVC 3 Support (Jonathan Allen)
New in 4.0: JavaScript.next syntax support (Konstantin Ulitin)
Box: A New, Responsive, Very Lightweight CSS3 Framework (Vladimir Carrer)
New time saving features for Web projects in Visual Studio 11 Beta (John Wen)
Unit Testing Backbone.js Apps With QUnit And SinonJS (Addy Osmani)
Backbone and Ember (Boris Smus)
Backbone.js and Chrome Extensions (Mike)
Responsive web design in 3 minutes 42 seconds (Martin Beeby)
A NancyFx Content-Negotiation Extension (Richard Cirerol)
Rails 3.2.2 has been released (Daniel Kehoe)
Resizing KendoUI Splitter To Fill Screen Vertically (Derick Bailey)
WebApi and Json Deserialization into an object model (Derik Whittaker)
Build a Contacts Manager Using Backbone.js: Part 1 (Dan Wellman)
KnockoutJS’s Built-in Bindings (John Papa)

Design / Methodology / Testing

What Does a Good Test Suite Look Like? (James Shore)
Visual Studio 11 Beta – Unit Testing Plugins List (Peter Provost)
DRY is about Ideas, not Text (Dan Bergh Johnsson)
Unit Testing with SqlException in .NET: Only with help from Reflection (Chris Pietschmann)
You can’t stack rank hierarchical work items? (Martin Hinshelwood)
Local builds and build servers (Jimmy Bogard)
Case Studies (Greg Young)
The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part III (Bob McIlree)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Implement Sharing to Facebook, Twitter in Windows Phone (Windows Phone Geek)
P&P Windows Phone Guidance Released (Chris Koenig)
Accessing Your Visual Studio 2011 LightSwitch Application Using OData and Learn How To Make OData Calls In LightSwitch 2011 (Michael Washington)
Hello World on IPhone, Android, and WP7 (Daniel Egan)
PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #6: Trial Mode (Glen Gordon)
Build your first Windows Phone App Article Published on NetMagazine (Michael Crump)
Build HTML Metro style apps with Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Pam Keesey)
2000 WPF Things #506 – Using a ComboBox as GroupBox Header (Sean Sexton)
Using SalesForce and Dynamics CRM with Visual Studio LightSwitch (xpert360)
Multi-cell editing with the XamDataGrid and XamDataGrid Cell Adorner Framework (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #169: Defect Prevention (James Shore)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – SFTA Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

My Experience as a Developer at Startup Weekend (Friday) (Jason Haley)
Why Microsoft is a Great Place to Work: Congo Refugee Earns Full Ride Scholarship (MS JobsBlog)
Save The Date: SharePoint Saturday NYC 2012 Coming July 28, 2012 (Peter Laudati)
What I do… (Shawn Wildermuth)
Introducing MongoDB and LINQ at Mongo Seattle 2011 (Michael Kennedy)
Interviewing Beth Massi about LightSwitch 2011 and the Community Program (Michael Washington)
Do You Have the Passion? (Chris Love)
From the MVPs: The MVP Global Summit and Consumer Camp (Devon Musgrave)
FREE events covering Windows 8 for Application Developers start 30th March (Eric Nelson)

Database

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Database Recovery Advisor (James Serra)
SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 CTP1 available (Erik EJ)
SQL Server – SafePeak “Logon Trigger” Feature for Managing Data Access (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 11 – Part I: What’s New in SharePoint Developer Tools for Visual Studio 11 Beta (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Beta Available for Download (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) (Scott Hanselman)
Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US (Soulskill)
5 Tips on How to Spot a Bad Developer and Team Member (Stoimen Popov)

The Geek Shelf

Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Pablo Cibraro

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Dew Drop – February 22, 2012 (#1,271)

.NET / Visual Studio

Limit your abstractions: And how do you handle testing? (Oren Eini)
Managing Build Templates with Community TFS Build Manager (Jakob Ehn)
APress Deal of the Day – 22/Feb/2012 – Expert F# 2.0 (Tatworth)
Good Ol’ Visual Aid With a Twist in JustCode (JustCode Team)
A Study of Windows 8 ‘Contracts’ – why, what and how? (Krishnachytanya Ayyagari)
NuGet Project Uncovered: EventAggregator.Net (Jason Jarrett)

Web Development

The 7 habits of highly effective developers (Giorgio Sironi)
Writing clean code in PHP 5.4 (Giorgio Sironi)
Alt.Tekpub: Moving to MongoDB (Rob Conery)
Building an ASP.NET MVC app using RavenDB as a Backing Store (Sumit Maitra)
What is HTML5 Anyway? (Sam Gentile)
EmberJS: Initial Impressions (Compared To Backbone) (Derick Bailey)
Windows Web Applications: Objects, Inheritance, and Mixins (Stephen Walther)
Web-Drawing Throwdown: Paper.js Vs. Processing.js Vs. Raphael (Zack Grossbart)
New in 4.0: Code Coverage for PHPUnit (nnmatveev)
The ol Element and Related Attributes: type, start, value, and reversed (Oli Studholme)
Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io) (Neil Mackenzie)
Media Queries (BYOSP Part 5) (K. Scott Allen)
A simple design pattern for feature detection with non-dependant Modernizr support (Joe Lambert)
Windows Azure Blob Upload Scenarios (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Article: Thoughts on Test Automation in Agile (Rajneesh Namta)
Importance of Execution (Rinat Abdullin)
Developers need to understand interfaces, interfaces, interfaces! (Rob Addis)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Construct XAML Forms at Runtime with Resource Files (Peter Vogel)
WP7 Unit Testing – getting started (Giorgetti Alessandro)
Just Released: Windows Phone 7 Guidance – patterns & practices (Maor David-Pur)
The Last Silverlight Post – Coming Out of the Closet (David Kelley)
2000 WPF Things #499 – Interacting with the Control That Initiated an Event (Sean Sexton)
Silverlight 5 writers like to say: You can reuse your XNA skills, but can you? (Surf4Fun)
TouchDevelop v2.6: enhanced user profiles, libraries, access devices in your home network, and more (Nikolai Tillmann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C++ AMP: Daniel Moth – Overview and GoingNative 6: The D Episode with Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu (Charles Torre)
Let’s Play TDD #166: Overkill (James Shore)
Start Up Success Podcast Show #133: Sailesh Ramasray, BizFusion (Bob Walsh)
Ping 132: Facebook app, Windows 8 app names, Touch Screen through clothes, Game rankings (Laura Foy)
Hot Apps: NFS Hot Pursuit, TextTwist 2, Cruise Control, Red Bull TV, FhotoRoom (Laura Foy & Golnaz)
Engadget HD Podcast 287 – 02.21.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

Pluralsight – 30 day subscription give away! (Cigdem Patlak)
Quick news: Microsoft MVPs blogging with us (Devon Musgrave)
Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Wely Lau (MVP Award Program)
RavenDB training: The euro tour (Oren Eini)
What Is The Spirit of Open Source? (Phil Haack)

Database

Is the SSIS Catalog going to be enough? (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – Declaration and Initialization – SQL in Sixty Seconds #003 – Video (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Just released: WHS YouTube Downloader beta (Gunnar Peipman)

The Geek Shelf

HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett

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