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Dew Drop – February 17, 2012 (#1,268)

Top Links

Prism 4.1 – February 2012 (MS Downloads)
ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released! (Jon Galloway)
Web API is now part of ASP.NET (and you can get it today) (Dave Ward)
ILSpy 2.0 Beta 1 (Daniel Grunwald)
Got great app ideas? (Arian Kulp)
Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners – Volume 1.5 (Addy Osmani) – Free web-based eBook. ePub/PDF coming soon.

.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)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – February 16, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #820 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1046 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 2/17/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/17/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Daily WP7 Development News 16 Feb 201 (Windows Phone Geek)
SilverlightShowTop 5 News for February 06 – 12, 2012 and Windows Dev News for February 16, 2012 – #0041 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

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

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Dew Drop – February 7, 2012 (#1,260)

Top Links

Farewell Stack Exchange (Jeff Atwood)
Farewell (Joel Spolsky)
Implementing a Code Action using Roslyn (Brian Rasmussen)
What is "binding" and what makes it late? (Eric Lippert)
Backbone.js And PhoneGap Sample App (Ben Forta)

.NET / Visual Studio

Finding solutions not covered by automated builds (Rory Primrose)
Limit your abstractions: Application Events–Proposed Solution #1 (Oren Eini)
KinectContrib 2.0 released – now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Gadgeteer Hello World (G. Andrew Duthie)
Windows 8 Composition and Content (Joe Mayo)
Using JSON.net to consume the JSON Stack Overflow API (Jonathan Creamer)
NuGet Project Uncovered: Deleporter (Jason Jarrett)
The Commodore 64 Emulator: Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed (Pete Brown)
Wrapping up Configuration Manager (Paul Sheriff)
Pinpointing a Static GC Root with SOS (Sasha Goldshtein)
JSON deserialization with JSON.net: class hierarchies (Joost van Schaik)
How to Use the Azure npm Package Locally without the Azure Compute Emulator (Aaron Stannard)
Using Entity Framework to Query Dynamic Types (David Barrett)
WAT080: Failed to locate the Windows Azure SDK. Please make sure the Windows Azure SDK v1.5 is installed. (Deepak Kapoor)
Developing for a multitude of clients – Part 1: Strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check (Kevin Dockx)

Web Development

jQuery.whenSync() Plugin For Chaining Asynchronous Callbacks Using Deferred Objects (Ben Nadel)
JS1k is back! Awesome JavaScript demos in only 1KB (Devon Govett)
Learning HTML5 & CSS3 (Martin Beeby)
PDF.js: display PDF files in your browser, without native code (Axel Rauschmayer)
Using the Battery API – Part of WebAPI (Robert Nyman)
Turbocharge your Website with Memcached (Nicolas Sebban)
Pointer Lock API Brings FPS Games to the Browser (Ilmari Heikkinen)
MSDN Article: Building a Massively Scalable Platform for Consumer Devices on Windows Azure (Bruce Kyle)
Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color (Chris Coyier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Use Hand Coding Coded UI Test For Automated Vs2010 Test Scripting (Abhishek Lohani)
Looking for the seam (Mark Needham)
The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7 (Gil Zilberfeld)
What can Enterprise Architects Learn from Steve Jobs? (Mike Walker)
Mocking ITable<T> (Chris Skardon)
Builder pattern with a twist (Uzi Landsmann)
MSTest and Calling Exe with Sample Data Files (Johan Danforth)
[Humor] – Business Roles and Designations – For a Baby (Peter Saddington)
Constraints, expectations and real estate (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Programmatically changing Visual States of HubTile controls used as ListBox Items (Windows Phone Geek)
31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | 15 Designing Windows Phone Icons (Arturo Toledo)
A Simple Pattern for Creating Re-useable UserControls in WPF / Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact (Erik EJ)
2000 WPF Things #489 – Using the InkCanvas to Recognize Gestures, part I (Sean Sexton)
Silverlight ComboBoxItem IsEnabled, SL5 Style (Tony Champion)
Introducing Rate Application Reminder for Windows Phone (Valentin Stoychev)
Why Custom Controls are underrated (Morten Nielsen)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 038: Puzzlejuice Pigs (Mark Frauenfelder)
Episode 175 – PowerScripting Podcast – Mike Wells on SQL 2012 and SQLSpade (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Defrag: Change Pinned Sites Icons, Laptop WiFi Router, Full Path for File (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

CreativeJS workshops in UK and Amsterdam (Seb Lee-Delisle)
Join the Facebook Platform team at GDC in March (Namita Gupta)
Meet Abdul Rafay – BizTalk Server MVP from Qatar (Ali Raza Shaikh)
Come Hear the STP Antarctica Crew at SPTechCon San Francisco – Feb 26 (Joel Oleson)
I’m back, baby (get it? baby?) and Windows 8 resources (Jennifer Marsman)
Azure Soup-to-Nuts Series (Jim O’Neil)
Don’t Miss FREE MSDN Webcast, Cloud Computing Soup to Nuts (Part 1) “Get Started with Cloud Computing and Windows Azure”, Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 11 am PT (Himanshu Singh)

Database

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Data Quality Services (James Serra)
SQL Server Certifications: What to Take and How to Prepare (Kendra Little)
SQL Server 2012 Free Cook Book and Training (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Installation Log Summary File Location – 2012 – 2008 R2 (Pinal Dave)
SEQUENCE… explain why and win a prize (Colin Stasiuk)
Why Every DBA is a Clown (John Sansom)
Check progress of DBCC CHECKDB (Gian Maria Ricci)
Embracing guesswork with SQL Prompt partial matches (Troy Hunt)
Code to list potential cluster key space savings per table (Paul S. Randal)
How To Copy A Schema Container To Another SQL Azure Database (Herve Roggero)

PowerShell

List failed SQL server Jobs with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)
Announcing Windows PowerShell 3.0 Firstlook! (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Android–Create a ListView with rounded corners (Bill Osuch)
Looking at Office 365 Security Holistically (Mike Halsey)
ASCII Table Reference Sheet (Richard Carr)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – February 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #5) (Himanshu Singh)
Double Shot #812 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 2/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1038 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News 6 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Scripting Microsoft’s New Command Shell by Lee Holmes

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Dew Drop – February 3, 2012 (#1,258)

Top Links

Windows Phone 8 Preview (Paul Thurrott)
Setting Up Git on Windows in Four Easy Steps (Adam Feber)
A Handy Script For Compiling CoffeeScript On The Fly (Rob Conery)
Clean Up NuGet Dependencies With Chewie (Ian Davis)

.NET / Visual Studio

Limit your abstractions: Application Events–the wrong way (Oren Eini)
Retrieve and Update YouTube Content in C# (Amir Ahani)
Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process (Martin Hinshelwood)
Visual Expression Builder for Dynamic Linq (Rabb Moshe Plotkin)
30+ Useful Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts (Rajiv Nishtala)
How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11 (Willy-Peter Schaub)
NuGet Project Uncovered: Burro (Jason Jarrett)
Naming Conventions in JustCode (JustCode Team)
Reviewing 70-562 .NET Framework 3.5 Preparation Kit from uCertify (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
Blog Post: CodeSmith Generator 6.0-Intellisense Improvements (Blake Niemyjski)
Rx – DistinctUntilChanged (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

Node.js, Require and Exports (Karl Seguin)
The Telerik Q1 2012 MVC Beta is here with new Area chart and galore of charting features (Stefan Rahnev)
HTML5 and the Web Audio API are BFFs! (Eric Bidelman)
CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10 (Jennifer Yu)
Inside the CSS WG: A New Reality Series (Molly E. Holzschlag)
HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive (Peter Kellner)
Creating a Vertical CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers (Swizec)
Umbraco v5 released (The "OMG, it’s really fast now" version) (Greg Duncan)
Using PHP to Add Content to Plain Text (Scott Eiler)

Design / Methodology / Testing

An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer (Giles Davies)
The Science of Kanban – Conclusions (Karl Scotland)
Article: Your Brain on Scrum (Michael de la Maza)
Mark Twain on Agile – He Knew What Was Up (Peter Saddington)
Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests (Piotr Solnica)
Talking to Customers: What a Concept (Patrick Foley)
How To: Get all test points assigned to you? (Gautam Goenka)
A Few Thoughts on the Economics of Software Product Development (Mike Cottmeyer)
When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need the information for (Raymond Chen)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Daddy, tell me a story of how VB, WP7, Azure and my photos can be combined in the cloud to create a video story… (Greg Duncan)
Using Skydrive in your Windows Phone applications: part2 (Rabeb Othmani)
2000 WPF Things #487 – Specify DrawingAttributes When Drawing to an InkCanvas (Sean Sexton)
How to Databind SelectedItems of the ListPicker and RecurringDaysPicker (Andy Wigley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 053 – “5.9″, QUAD CORE, NFC, 3D, LTE, 128GB Windows Phone” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Let’s Play TDD #161: The UserEnteredDollars Value Object (James Shore)
Inside Windows Phone #31 | Windows Phone Partners (Jean-Christophe Cimetiere & Larry Lieberman)
Slides, Notes and Recordings for Week 1 and 2 of #6weeksazure are all now available (Eric Nelson)

Community / Events

MADExpo 2012 Call for Speakers is Open! (G. Andrew Duthie)
Meet Bill Wagner – Visual C# MVP from United States (Ali Raza Shaikh)
I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012 (Andrew Connell)
Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do (Jeff Atwood)
Sharpen your Ninja Skills with Telerik Webinars from Feb20 – Feb 22 (Dhananjay Kumar)

Database

SQL Server – COPY TABLE from another SQL Server (Jack Vamvas)
Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude (Richard Erwin)
SQL Server NOLOCK (Tom Stickel)
Don’t Splint Your Database Server To Death (Mike Walsh)
Sniff that Parameter (Chris Yates)
Ready for SQL Azure? New Service Tells You (David Ramel)
Quick Review of Backup tools for SQL Azure (Herve Roggero)

SharePoint

So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products – Happy Days (Joel Oleson)
Using Twilio with SharePoint to send SMS messages (Nick Swan)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8 consumer preview (Beta) installation screenshots leaked (Ankur Mittal)
The GeekDad Arduino Guide: Introduction (Brian McLaughlin)
Microsoft, Apple, and Google: where does the money come from? (Ed Bott)
I’m from the Cloud and I’m here to help… No really, trust me… Looking at Microsoft Codename "Trust Services" (Greg Duncan)
New Social APIs in Android ICS (Tim Bray)
Dear business people, an iOS app actually takes a lot of work! (Kent Nguyen)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: February 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – February 2 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #810 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 2/3/2012 and Top 5 SilverlightShow Ebooks for January, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1036 (Chris Alcock)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-02-02 (Bob Rhubart)
Windows Dev News for February 02, 2012 – #0035 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 2 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2012 (Beth Massi)

The Geek Shelf

Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus by Juval Lowy

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