Dew Drop – November 29, 2011
Top Links
- Farewell to Google’s CodeSearch (Miguel de Icaza)
- OData, RSS, Ifttt.com for your Nuget’s (Greg Duncan)
- Why have a stack? (Eric Lippert)
- Composing Entity Framework Fluent Configurations (K. Scott Allen)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Three new TFS Training Modules at MSDN Virtual Labs and QFEs and Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager 2010 (Charles Sterling)
- PowerGUI brings PowerShell scripting support to Visual Studio (David Cooksey)
- Making CopySourceAsHtml add-on work with VS2010 (Gunnar Peipman)
- .NET assembly merging, three different approaches… and Multitouch at your fingertips, with the Touch Mouse and Sensor API (Greg Duncan)
- A Map for the Microsoft Application Development Platform (JD Meier)
- Duplicate Detection and Consolidation in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
- Numerical Computing with F# (Roopesh Shenoy)
- Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Multiple / Floating Tab Wells (Zain Naboulsi)
- Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Book Review (John Papa)
- Why is CLIPFORMAT defined to be a WORD rather than a UINT? (Raymond Chen)
- MSDN Magazine December Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
- How to use Application Bar in windows 8 (Abhishek Sur)
- WinRT File Based Database 0.9.1.5 and FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – 2.0.0 RC (CodePlex)
Web Development
- People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas (Chris Heilmann)
- staticHTML property (Gareth Heyes)
- Using the Infragistics jQuery Tree (Jordan Tsankov)
- Firefox – tons of tools for web developers! (Robert Nyman)
- Web Audio API how-to: Playing audio based on user interaction (Eric Bidelman)
- Supported Token Format and Protocol in ACS (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Windows Azure Queue can have 64KB message content and how 64KB content is calculated? (Avkash Chauhan)
- Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue) (Maarten Balliauw)
- Tutorial: jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Shaun Dunne)
- PhpStorm 3.0: Keep Your Code in Its Best Shape! (Alexey Korsun)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Are Scrum and Waterfall The Same? (Gil Zilberfeld)
- The Sprint is a container for Planning and not necessarily for Delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)
- PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010: Perfect Partners for Tracking Projects (Glenna Shaw)
- Dealing with transactions (Jimmy Bogard)
- Designing a great API (Damien Guard)
- The two worlds – a project retrospective (Rob Ashton)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Using JSON With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
- Launching a WPF Window in a Separate Thread, Part 1 (Reed Copsey)
- 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 8 of 10) (Michael Crump)
- Windows Phone Local Database tip: Viewing the SQL generated by LINQ to SQL (Erik EJ)
- Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.01 for Mac (Paul Thurrott)
- Castle Func Injection (Sacha Barber)
- 2000 WPF Things #439 – Using a DropShadow with a Border, part II (Sean Sexton)
- New Windows Phone 7 Stencil For Cacoo (Tim Murphy)
- WPF: Thriple (xamlnotes)
- Integrating Infragistics Reporting in Visual Studio LightSwitch Applications (Mihail Mateev)
- 31 Days of Mango | Day #29: Globalization (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Windows Phone Power Tools 1.4.9 (CodePlex)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Dr. Neil Roodyn on Vision-Based Systems (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Episode 166 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf talks PowerCLI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
- Ping 125: Windows Phone Fangirls, Nokia Lumia sales, Kinect on PC, Xbox 360 update (Laura Foy)
- Printing web pages. Often ignored, always important. (Paul Boag)
Community / Events
- Rock Paper Azure Is Back with a BANG (Dani Diaz)
- Departures (Phil Haack) – Best of luck to Phil on his new journey!
- Adobe Photoshop Philadelphia User Group Meeting on December 1st (Jo)
- Random Hacks of Kindness: Geeks Giving Back (Jim O’Neil)
- Google I/O 2012 extended to three days from June 27-29, 2012 (Scott Knaster)
- Early Bird Pricing for TechDays 2012 Extended to December 20. Register now! (Katrien de Graeve)
- Q3 2011 Webinar Week, This Week! (Telerik Marketing Team)
- Great contests for Windows Phone apps! (Arian Kulp)
- The Kinect Accelerator – Turn your awesome idea into a product (and get investment from Microsoft to do so) (Greg Duncan)
- Author news: Interview with Microsoft researcher Richard Banks (Devon Musgrave)
Database
- Some interesting links for SQL Server 2012 data tools (Gian Maria Ricci)
- Importing CSV Files to SQL Server with PowerShell (Chad Miller)
- SQL SERVER – Using expressor Composite Types to Enforce Business Rules (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Dirty Pages (Jack Vamvas)
- Role-playing Dimensions (James Serra)
- Execution plan warnings–The final chapter (Dave Ballantyne)
- Windows and SQL Azure Best Practices: Affinity Groups (Buck Woody)
SharePoint
- Infragistics Solutions for Visualizing Data in Sharepoint (Akshay Luther)
- SharePoint Business Connectivity Services Dataflow Model (SharePoint Developer Team)
- Tools for SharePoint: Reset SharePoint Configuration Cache (CodePlex)
Miscellaneous
- Top 10+1 Free Skype Add-ons (Greg Duncan)
- Alien Autopsy: Dissecting a Fijit Friends Sage (Pete Brown)
- Microsoft is in trouble (Robert Johnson)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: November 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
- Robert’s read: links and suggestions November 29th 2011 (Robert Nyman)
- Double Shot #762 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 11/28/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 11/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #991 (Chris Alcock)
- Web Dev Tweets 28-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
- 11/24/2011 and WIndowsDevNews for November 28, 2011 – #0001 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 28 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
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