Dew Drop – January 31, 2012 (#1,255)
Top Links
- Modern Web Development – Part 3 (Shawn Wildermuth)
- Acting on file management feedback (Steven Sinofsky)
- Anonymous Types Unify Within An Assembly, Part Two (Eric Lippert)
- Currying vs partial function application (Jon Skeet)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating a Useful Task List in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
- Ask Ayende: What about the QA env? (Oren Eini)
- Roslyn CTP Introduces Interactive Code for C# (Visual C# Team)
- Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build and Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
- Building a Windows 8 Metro App, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
- OData Service Validation Tool Update: 7 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
- Entity Framework Membership Provider 2.0 (CodePlex)
- Metro Snack #2: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
- Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in the 2010s: Part 3, C++/CLI and Other Options and Analysis of a Mobile Redirection Framework and Obfuscated Regular Expressions (Sasha Goldshtein)
- Installing Mono on Windows (Paul Stack)
- What Code Comments are Not For. (Peter Ritchie)
- Entity Framework vs. LightSpeed (John-Daniel Trask)
- How to force Nuget not to update log4net to 1.2.11 (Krzysztof Koźmic)
- The .NET Gadgeteer Diaper Alarm Part 1 (Moisture Sensor) (Pete Brown)
- More on the New OData T4 Template: Service Operations (Glenn Gailey)
- NuGet Project Uncovered: VerifyArgs (Jason Jarrett)
Web Development
- How to Access jQuery’s Internal Data (Elijah Manor)
- Translating JavaScript to Dart (Aaron Wheeler & Marcin Wichary)
- ASP.NET MVC DropDownList, MultiSelect and jQuery (Rick Anderson)
- Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC using Clickable HTML 5 Canvas Elements (Sumit Maitra)
- Trying out Underscore on Node.js (Axel Rauschmayer)
- jsfiddle Keyboard Shortcuts (Ryan Sukale)
- Scalable web apps: the complexity issue (Ariya Hidayat)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- The Science of Kanban – People (Karl Scotland)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Mobile Interfaces – $19.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Code reviews in the 21st Century (Alex Staveley)
- QA: A Hillbilly Love Story (Kyle Baley)
- Getting started with a Mocking Framework (Filip Ekberg)
- Finding Files by Name With Git (Christopher Bennage)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Getting latest Tweets in Windows Phone apps using Twitter REST API and JSON.NET (Windows Phone Geek)
- MarketPlaceSearchTask in Windows Phone and WebBrowserTask and MediaPlayerLauncher in Windows Phone and Code to search location on Bing Map and Launchers related to MarketPlace in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Windows 8 and the future of XAML: Part 2: The Windows Runtime (WinRT) (Gill Cleeren)
- Refactoring Windows 8 Code-Behind to MVVM (Joe Mayo)
- Microsoft delivers developer kit for linking Amazon web services to Windows Phone (Mary Jo Foley)
- Using the Live SDK in Windows 8 XAML/C# Metro Applications (Michael Crump)
- HTML5 on Windows Phone: A Simple Boilerplate (Rob Tiffany)
- 2000 WPF Things #484 – InkCanvas Contains a Collection of Strokes (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Jeremy Likness is all Silverlight 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Ping 130: Xbox LIVE for Droids and iPhones, Where’s MIX, Microsoft points, SQL Server Party (Laura Foy)
- Boagworld: Tips for getting design signoff (Paul Boag)
- Quick news: Free Step by Step videos (Kim Spilker)
Community / Events
- Upcoming Events for January 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
- Part 2 of the Webinar ‘Metro and WinRT for Silverlight/WPF’ scheduled for Feb 9th (Silverlight Show)
- I’ll be presenting at the SharePoint Connections FREE Virtual Conference – February 16, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
- Windows 8 Metro style app recap (Tony Verguldi Jr.)
- Android Developers on Google+ (Tim Bray)
- NYC’s Own Chevon Christie Named ‘Microsoft Tech Student of the Month’ (Peter Laudati)
- 3 Reasons to Attend Prairie Dev Con–West (D’Arcy Lussier)
Database
- SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes (Jack Vamvas)
- Complex reporting off a SSAS cube (James Serra)
- SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 Merge Replication hotfixes (Erik EJ)
- SQL SERVER – Advantages of Partitioning – Quiz – Puzzle – 30 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
- SQL Compact data and schema script utility – Version 3.5.2 (CodePlex)
- Crunching Big Data with “Data Explorer” and “Social Analytics” (Data Explorer Team)
SharePoint
- SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model Software Development Kit and Upgrade worksheet for SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
PowerShell
- Invalid JSON results via Powershell 3 (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
Miscellaneous
- Looking ahead to Windows 8: five big questions for Microsoft (Ed Bott)
- Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off (Mary Jo Foley)
- Keeping Your Documents Safe (Debra Littlejohn Shinder)
- MIT brings Google App Inventor Back As Open-Source Project (Phillip Torrone)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: January 31, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Double Shot #807 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily Links 30 Jan 2012 (Jax)
- The Morning Brew #1033 (Chris Alcock)
- ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-01-30 (Bob Rhubart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 30 Jan 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #4) (Himanshu Singh)
- SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week January 23-29, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
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