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Dew Drop – May 15, 2012 (#1,327)

Top Links

Keeping your family safer with Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
Exclusive first look at the new Aviary photo tools & SDK for Windows Phone [Video] (Daniel Rubino)
CQRS Journey – first pseudo-production release (Grigori Melnik)
Using NuGet PowerShell to Replace Missing Macros in Dev 11 (John Robbins)

.NET / Visual Studio

Getting an App in the Windows Store: What, Why, and How (G. Andrew Duthie)
The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World (Jeremy Likness)
WinRT Sample: A quick look at Semantic Zoom (Bill Wagner)
Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer (Abel Avram)
From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app’s journey (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

JavaScript Identifier Length Distribution (Ariya Hidayat)
Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 3 Placing Stones, Accounting for Resizing & Refactoring (Chris Love)
Instant HTML/CSS Updating (Hadi Hariri)
Annotation Overlay Effect with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
Introducing Testing Domain – localtest.me (Scott Forsyth)
Azure Real World: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud (Brian Swan)
Converting WordPress blog into statically generated site with help of Pretzel (Andrei Marukovich)
Sharing Links from IE10 on Windows 8 (Alex Feldman)
Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Passport (Jan Van Ryswyck)
The Web Developer Toolbox: Raphaël (Jeremie Patonnier)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Lightweight agile test documentation (Fjodor Ekström)
Leadership is Who You Are (J.D. Meier)
Business Optimization and Human Potential (Peter Saddington)
Specing out end-to-end scenarios (Microsoft patterns & practices)
Build Automation Part 4: Database and Report Deployments (Geoff Hudik)
Mock Expectations in .NET vs Ruby (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

How to use the Infragistics Color Tuner in XAML Applications (Jordan Tsankov)
2000 WPF Things #558 – Reversing a Gradient Using Blend (Sean Sexton)
Comparison of Mobile Framework Solutions – Spring 2012 (Paul Ballard)
How to use the Infragistics Barcode Reader (Damyan Petev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Micheal Learned Tours Us Around Studio 11 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
E2E: Donna Malayeri, Gilad Bracha, Luke Hoban – Web Programming and More and Dare Obasanjo: SkyDrive – Personal Storage in the Cloud (Charles Torre)
Episode 185 – PowerScripting Podcast – Steven Murawski on v3 and the Jeffrey Snover Keynote from the 2012 Deep Dive (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
"What’s New with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11" Recording Available (Beth Massi)
Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: The Center of IT (Mark DeFalco)
Video: Logging Made Simple With The Enterprise Library Logging Application Block (Paul Ballard)
The Nerdist Podcast – Tina Fey (Chris Hardwick)
Project Detroit: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
Windows Phone Minute- Rocking the Lock Screen (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for May 14th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Upcoming Free SharePoint + Social Webinars from NewsGator (Joel Oleson)
Women in IT: Happy Mother’s Day to the thousands of working moms at Microsoft (Thomas Kohnstamm)
Visual Studio Live! NY Community Night – Wednesday 5/16/2012 and Java on Azure @ The NYC Windows Azure User Group – 5/16/2012: Cloudify: The PaaS Jailbreaker (Peter Laudati)
Join us on May 29th and May 31st for the Let’s Build Something Mobile Webcast Series! (MS Public Sector Team)
Meet the Author: Howard Dierking on REST Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
And… That’s All Folks (Davy Brion)
Webinar–Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Community Technology Preview (MS Downloads)
SQL SERVER – Get Schema Name from Object ID using OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME (Pinal Dave)
Be careful which node you install a clustered instance from (Denny Cherry)
Data Warehouse vs Data Mart (James Serra)

SharePoint

New book: Working with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Kim Spilker)
SharePoint projects need software architecture too (Simon Brown)

PowerShell

Test-Driving PowerShell v3: How To Install And Run CTPv2 (Tobias Weltner)

Miscellaneous

Amazon hiring 1,000 new tech workers for Seattle offices (Emily Parkhurst)
Please Don’t Learn to Code (Jeff Atwood)
Adding a file to a OneNote page via extensibility (John Guin)
A list of common HRESULT error codes (Kirill Osenkov)
Windows Phone Marketplace up to 90,000 apps (Phone Arena Team)
Programmer Competency Matrix (Sijin Joseph)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2012 05.04 ~ 05.15 (yuanjian)
Smashing Daily #1: Mobile Device Lab, Browsers and Animated GIFs (Smashing Editorial)
Double Shot #880 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1105 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-15 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 5/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #46 (Frank)
Windows Dev News for May 14, 2012 – #0081 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 14 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily Big Data Feed – May 14, 2012 (CloudFeed)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services 4/E by Brian Larson

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Dew Drop – April 23, 2012 (#1,311)

Top Links

Windows Store for Metro style apps – How do I get invited? (G. Andrew Duthie)
jQuery Documentation Resources to Speed Up Your Development (Dan Wahlin)
Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part Two) (Colin Eberhardt)
Simple Metro Style Panorama Control For WPF (Sacha Barber)
Class Warfare (Alex Russell)
F#, MSTest, and FsUnit 1.1.0.0 (Dan Mohl)
Microsoft and Roslyn – An Example of How It Will Impact .NET Developers (Den Delimarsky)

.NET / Visual Studio

RavenDB 1.2 work has started (and a road map) and The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization–Getting documents from disk (Oren Eini)
Use The Bit.Ly API From a C# Application – Authentication (Christopher Geers)
WCF Data Services 5.1.0-rc Prerelease (WCF Team)
Asynchronous method using C#: Part II (Himanshu Manjarawala)
Fast Image Scrolling in C# (Tarsem Mittal)
Simple Windows 8 Metro style ‘Maps App’ and Background Downloads in a Windows 8 Metro style app (Mike Taulty)
Getting FetchXML from LINQPad (Marc Schweigert)
“World of C#-craft”: an Achievement-Based Classroom? and World of C#-craft part 2: What Does the Audience Think? and Using Delegates, Func and Lambdas: A Tutorial With Soldiers (Tim Dams)
What does INIT_ONCE_CTX_RESERVED_BITS mean? (Raymond Chen)
Limitations of the WebView in Windows 8 Metro Apps (Nick Randolph)
Declaring an ICommand in Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Laurent Bugnion)
RestSharp and Windows Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
MEF Review OR If you’re building your own custom plug-in frameworks and not using MEF, you might be a … (Greg Duncan)
Getting started with Windows 8 application development (Andrew Spooner)
Attention Developers– Here’s how to get an invite to the Windows Store (Dave Isbitski)
The MetroPad Project: Designing and Building for Win 8 (Don Burnett)
Using SqlDataReader’s new async methods in .Net 4.5 Beta (Daniel Paoliello)
Electronics for developers with Netduino Go (Bertrand Le Roy)
Metro App Developers receive your invitation to the Windows Store (Bob Familiar)
Hidden Improvements in Visual Basic 11 (Joe Kunk)

Web Development

Using Ajax.BeginForm() with ASP.NET MVC (Jonathan Wood)
Simple CRUD using Backbone.js in ASP.NET MVC Razor (Baliah Senthilkumar)
Click highlights with CSS transitions (Chris Heilmann)
RSS & Atom MediaTypeFormatter for ASP.NET WebAPI (Filip W)
ASP.NET MVC 4 NUnit template (Geoff Hudik)
References vs. Pointers in Javascript (Hans Schmucker)
ASP.NET Web API Content Negotiation and Accept-Charset (Henrik F. Nielsen)
18 Months of HTML5 – Will this work for me? and On the Love for JavaScript (Ingo Rammer)
Decoupling HTML From CSS (Jonathan Snook)
How to bind to custom objects in action signatures in MVC/WebAPI (Mike Stall)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Maintainable JavaScript – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC (Paul Hammant)
how to remove CSS outlines in an accessible manner? (Steve Faulkner)
Supershape.js (Sebastian Sadowski)
Ws.js – A ws-* Implementation of Node.js (Yaron Naveh)
ASP.NET Web API: Query string based content formatting (Gunnar Peipman)
Using Sencha Architect and Previewing a JSON feed For Inclusion In The App and Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores (Peter Kellner)
Create an Animated 3D Bar Chart/Graph (Kendra Schaefer & Ken Breeden)
KnockoutJS Value Converter to Deal with JSON Dates (Steve Michelotti)
Send email from your Windows Azure (Nicolas Humann)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.1 RC (117.257) (Alexey Gopachenko)
The Big Opportunities in the Cloud (Ben Kepes)
Demo of Handlebars, and Why You Should Consider a Templating Engine (Raymond Camden)
The 10 Biggest Mistakes Made With Amazon Web Services (Zev Laderman)
2D Canvas Transforms: Wow, these things are fast (Hans Schmucker)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Looking Back at Looking Ahead, Gloom for Agile in 2012? (David Bulkin)
Quantation: How to Present Numbers with Skill and 10 Ways to Make Information More Useful (JD Meier)
Guidelines for Building Touch-friendly Sites (Jacob Rossi)
Linking Flow, Value and Capability (Karl Scotland)
DDD: Evolving Business Processes a la Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
Sunday Thought: Patient / Fast (Dru Sellers)
Rules of the Road (Redux) (Peter Provost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Navigation (8 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
Using the Windows Phone 7 Turnstyle Control (Chris Smith)
Official SkyDrive app for Windows Phone gets updated to version 2.0 (Daniel Rubino)
Get You Some Azure, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 Sample Apps (Zhiming Xue)
[Windows 8] CSharp targets not found in Blend 5 after Windows Phone SDK (Håkan Reis)
Adding touch support to WP7 Apache Cordova and Metro SplashScreen animation in WP7 Apache Cordova (Jesse MacFadyen)
XAML Spy Preview available (Koen Zwikstra)
How to Retrieve Email Address in WP7 using the EmailAddressChooserTask? and How to Compose SMS in WP7 using the SmsComposeTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
#mvvmlight V4RC available on #nuget (Laurent Bugnion)
Getting Rid of the “Plug-in Not Responding” Message when Debugging Silverlight Applications in Chrome (Michael Crump)
EvenTiles from Start to Finish: 256-MB Windows Phone Devices – Part 18 (Maarten Struys)
10 Quick Real-World Windows Phone Developer Performance Tuning Tips (Samidip Basu)
2000 WPF Things #542 – Most Recently Used Asset (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Major Nelson Podcast – Trials Evolution Interview (Larry Hyrb)
The Tablet Show – Billy Hollis Digs Into UI Design, Metro and Beyond (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
[Podcast] Agile Q&A Panel – Part 2 with Joel Semeniuk and Steve Porter (Zero to Agile Podcast Series)
Video: Get To Know the Windows Phone 7.5 Contacts Data Model (Paul Ballard)
TWC9: Azure Media Services, C9 for Win8, MAVIS and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
The JavaScript Show – Semicolons (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Arian Kulp (Ryan Parsley)
Windows Weekly 257: Pocket Paul (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 49 (Richard Hay)
GeekWire Radio: Paul Allen’s sub, Ray Ozzie’s legacy, and more from our live events (Todd Bishop)
Engadget Podcast 290 – 04.20.2012 and The Vergecast 027 – 04.20.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

Imagine Cup USA People’s Choice Awards (G. Andrew Duthie)
Please join us for the MoDev Developer TechCast on April 24, 2012: Resources overview for porting your iPhone/Android government apps (Joel Reyes)
Hack for Good! Join us at the VIP Hackathon on April 30, 2012 – DC – Register today! (Nandita)
What is Wilder Minds? (Shawn Wildermuth)
ImagineCup US Finals in Redmond – What’s happening? (Dennis Delimarsky)
patterns & practices Global Online Symposium 2012 (Grigori Melnik)
MoDev Developer TechCast on April 24, 2012 – Port iPhone/Android Apps to Windows Phone (PubSec)
Developer Interview: Pratik Kothari of Techark Solutions (Rich Edmonds)
FREE VIP Windows8 Developer Event – 4/23/2012 – Club Nokia @ LA Live… or you can attend the event online if you can’t make it! (Surf4Fun)
From the MVPs: Meet the “Paulovich Brothers”! (Devon Musgrave)
Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Introduction To Raven DB (Paul Ballard)

Database

SQL Server 2012 Management Studio – Darker Shades of Blue Theme and SQL Server 2012 – SQLCLR .NET Framework Version (Doug Holland)
SQL SERVER – Working with FileTables in SQL Server 2012 – Part 3 – Retrieving Various FileTable Properties and SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Guide for SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Security – A Primer (Pinal Dave)
Reporting Services Migration Tool (MS Downloads)
Setup database mirroring and log shipping together (James Xu)
Run SSMS as different Windows user (Vishal Gajjar)
SQL Server Transaction Savepoints (Richard Carr)
Scripting your SQL database (using SMO and the command line) (Matt J. Cowan)

SharePoint

Little Trick for Building/Opening SharePoint Projects in Client OS’ w/o Installing SharePoint (Andrew Connell)
SharePoint 2010 and unit tests (from Visual Studio 2010/MSTest.exe) (Chris O’Brien)
Two Best SharePoint Utility Methods Ever Written (Doug Lampe)

PowerShell

PowerShell Deep Dive 2012 – PowerShell Module (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Android in Practice: Implementing User Stories as Functional Tests (Charlie Collins, Michael D. Galpin & Matthias Kaeppler)
The latest on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 4 (Brian Bondy)
Now in Marketplace: Skype 1.0 (Michael Stroh)
The Need for a Third Mobile Ecosystem: The Need for Windows Phone (Nick Landry)
Windows Phone will gain serious market share this year (Mike Feibus)
Windows Phone holds back Nokia? (Joe Wilcox)
Windows Phone 8 devices confirmed for Verizon (Andy Weir)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 21, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #1090 (Chris Alcock)
Maker Geek Roundup 011 for 4/21/2012 (Pete Brown)
Double Shot #864 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five: April 20, 2012. (MVP Award Program)
Pie in the Sky (April 20, 2012) (Larry Franks)
Collective #8 (Mary Lou)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #15) (Himanshu Singh)
Daily News Digest 4/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-23 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for April 22, 2012 – #0070 (Dave Campbell)
Retrospective 81 – Publishing an Agile Book and CSI (Peter Saddington)
Daily WP7 Development News 20 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit (Sams Teach Yourself — Hours) by Scott Mitchell

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Dew Drop – March 20, 2012 (#1,290)

Top Links

Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web (Scott Hanselman)
Metro: Introduction to CSS 3 Grid Layout (Stephen Walther)
Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #3 (Larry Sullivan)
Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Updates in March, 2012 (Jialiang Ge)

.NET / Visual Studio

C#/.NET Little Wonders: Of LINQ and Lambdas – A Presentation (James Michael Hare)
A Simple MapReduce with MongoDB and C# (K. Scott Allen)
Mono for Android Book has been Released!!!!! (Wally McClure)
Ninject: Auto-registration is changing in version 3 (John Rayner)
LOLCode Parser (Chris Cavanagh)
How not to join tables in LightSpeed (Ivan Towlson)

Web Development

JavaScript code coverage and Esprima (Ariya Hidayat)
Foursquare Autocomplete jQuery Plugin (Joseph Guadagno)
Client-side messaging in JavaScript – Part 3 (anti-patterns) (Jim Cowart)
Make External Links Open in a New Window With This jQuery Plugin (Michael Kennedy)
Learning HTML5 – Getting Started with WebSharper (Cameron Taggart)
PHP objects in MongoDB with Doctrine (Giorgio Sironi)
Introducing Peter’s Business Driven Logic UI and DES 5.0 and How BLD differs from ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Peter Blum)
What Are the Most Popular JavaScript Keywords? and What This Means for ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
Using HTML5 Today part 3– Using Polyfills (Steve Albers)
Lessons learned building a multiplayer game in NodeJS and WebGL (Rob Ashton)
Introduction to HTML (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Make IIS Express the Default for VS2010 Web Projects (Steve Smith)
New in WebStorm/PhpStorm 4.0: Easier debugging of remote PHP command line scripts (Nikolay Matveev)
@home with Windows Azure : Can I Deploy Multiple Instances? (Peter Laudati)
The Zen Of Python (Deepak Kapoor)
Build Facebook style infinite scroll with knockout.js and Last.fm API (Filip W.)
WebSockets in Windows Consumer Preview (Brian Raymor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

On Writing Unit Tests for C# (Patrick Smacchia)
Should code contracts be tested? (Rory Primrose)
Good Teams Focus on the Team (Brendan Enrick)
Why do we (really) program to interfaces? (Kyle Burns)
Is Threat Modeling Overrated ? (Mark Curphey)
Integrating and isolating the container in tests (Jimmy Bogard)
Collaboration: Let’s Start Focusing on the How-To’s (Jacob Morgan)
Embracing GitHub (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Configurable Dependency (Alistair Cockburn)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Correcting the Invisible Events Tab Issue in the Properties Window for Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
Silverlight Document Toolkit March 2012 Update and Document Toolkit for LightSwitch 1.5 (Koen Zwikstra)
Flexible Metro-style icons in WPF with Embedded Fonts (LearnWPF)
Unit Testing Your Windows Phone Mango App (Rabeb Othmani)
2000 WPF Things #518 – Change Points in a Path Using the Direct Selection Tool (Sean Sexton)
TCP-based sockets on Windows Phone with support for large amounts of data (Dennis Delimarsky)
LightSwitch Cosmopolitan Shell and Theme for VS 11 Beta (Beth Massi)
Part 4: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)
LongListSelector walkthrough (JustAnotherAppDeveloper)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 044: Sarah Vowell interviewed about her book Unfamiliar Fishes (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Mike Diehl Fixes Us Up with Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
C9 Lectures: Donna Malayeri – F# 3.0 – Information Rich Programming, 1 of 1 (Charles Torre)
SharePoint 2010 Application Lifecycle Management-Episode 70 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for March 19th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
F# as a Platform for Quantitative Finance: Thursday, March 22, SkillsMatter, London (Don Syme)
Join us online on April 24 for the patterns & practices Symposium 2012 (Pete Brown)
Tour of Windows 8 Consumer preview, Visual Studio 11 beta at Microsoft Gulf, 31st March 2012 (Zubair Ahmed)
Meet the Author: Scott Seely on Windows Azure AppFabric (Paul Ballard)
Meet Telerik at TechEd India Live and win exciting prizes (Dhananjay Kumar)
Free Introducing Windows 8/Metro Event for Developers and Designers (Doris Chen)
Philly Phorum 2012: A Conference On Cloud Technology (Eric Smith)

Database

SQL Server 2012: xVelocity (James Serra)
Where are the Data Sources and Data Source Views in SSIS 2012? and Here are my SSIS 2012 Data Sources (Axel Achten)
T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012 (Jonathan Allen)
Video: Not All Queries Are Created Equal – Using Having and Where Clauses in SQL Server (Paul Ballard)
Database Backups ~ Good or Bad? (Chris Yates)
RavenDB Sharding–Data Driven Sharding (Oren Eini)
How to Succeed in Database Development Without Really Trying (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

SharePoint Development and Application Lifecycle Management (Jeremy Thake)

PowerShell

Executing timer jobs from Powershell (Reidar Husmo)
Powershell – Working with Cluster Resources – Byte Arrays (Kyle Neier)
Scheduling Background Jobs in Windows PowerShell 3.0 (Travis Jones)
Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (Jonathan Allen)

Miscellaneous

Windows Azure App Platform: We’re hiring strong developers! (Jeff Wilcox)
Report: Five Windows 8 ARM devices for October launch (John Callaham)
Whatever happened to the Microsoft Office 15 Moorea app? and A Windows 8 e-reader: If someone builds it, will they come? (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft Lining Up Windows 8 For October 2012 Release (Robert Boland)

More Link Collections

Reading Notes #38 (Frank)
The Morning Brew #1068 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News 19 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone / SQL Server Compact resources (Erik EJ)

The Geek Shelf

Head First C#, 2E: A Learner’s Guide to Real-World Programming with Visual C# and .NET (Head First Guides) by Andrew Stellman

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