Dew Drop – April 3, 2012 (#1,298)
Top Links
- .NET Versioning and Multi-Targeting – .NET 4.5 is an in-place upgrade to .NET 4.0 (Scott Hanselman)
- Working with Forks on GitHub or CodePlex (Jimmy Bogard)
- Making your ASP.NET Web API’s secure (John Petersen)
- First Release of SSDT Power Tools (Janet Yeilding)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Performance implications of method signatures (Oren Eini)
- Installing on-premise component against TFS Service (TFS On Azure) (Gian Maria Ricci)
- TFS 11 Power Tools Beta Available (Brian Harry)
- Wrapping Begin/End Async API Into C#5 Tasks (Toni Petrina)
- Udi Dahan and Oren Eini (Ayende) on NServiceBus 3.0 (Jon Arild Tørresdal)
- Using Reactive Extensions for Streaming Data from Database (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
- Refactoring PagedResult (Chris Eargle)
Web Development
- New in ASP.NET MVC4: Bundling and Minification (Alexander Beletsky)
- jQuery Samples (Dan Wahlin)
- Check for local file browsing with JavaScript (Jef Claes)
- Large-scale JavaScript (John D. Cook)
- Pure CSS Tool Tips Revisited (Louis Lazaris)
- Creating a JSONP Formatter for ASP.NET Web API (Rick Strahl)
- 67% of ASP.NET websites have serious configuration related security vulnerabilities (Troy Hunt)
- Code Reuse with External Templates and Knockout.js (John Papa)
- Building API Jobs, Part 1: Python and Flask (John Sheehan)
- Writing a Node Module (Anders Janmyr)
- ASP.NET MVC 4 AllowAnonymous Attribute and Authorize Attribute (David Hayden)
- What’s Wrong With This Code? (#29) (K. Scott Allen)
- Script Junkie: Fluid Grids for Flexible Web Sites (Michael Desmond)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- 101 of the Greatest Insights and Actions for Work and Life (J.D. Meier)
- Lean tools: Feedback (Giorgio Sironi)
- Exploratory Testing using Microsoft Test Manager 11 (Visual Studio 11) (Gouri Sohoni)
- Separation of Concerns (Paul Ballard)
- A Pair is not a Crowd (Keith Brown)
- In defense of reinventing wheels (Lea Verou)
- Gmail as an issue tracking system (Davor Crnomat)
- Common Reuse Principle (Brendan Enrick)
- Instantly Beautiful Project Pages (Jake Boxer)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Things I Missed So You Won’t Have To – WP7 SDK (Doug Rathbone)
- SHIPPED!!! Windows Phone Developer Guidance updated for Mango (WP SDK 7.1) (Francis Cheung)
- XAML Authoring in Blend and VS: Workflow, tools, and tasks (Joanna Mason)
- Globalizing and Localizing a Windows Phone App (Kim Cameron)
- 2000 WPF Things #528 – Using the Eyedropper Tool in the Color Editor (Sean Sexton)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – Bill Wilder Does Hadoop on Azure (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- ASP.NET Web API and Open Source with Brad Wilson (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
- Video: Cleaning Up SQL Server Indexes with Defragmentation (Paul Ballard)
- Ping 136: Windows Phone update, School for Apps, I am Paul Allen, Microsoft is mega cool (Laura Foy)
- ShopTalk Episode 12 (Chris Coyier)
- The power of introverts (Susan Cain)
Community / Events
- Get (Hack)Ready to Develop for Windows Phone (Jim O’Neil)
- The Road to Windows 8 – NEW YORK CITY! and NYC Women in Tech Connect Event (Rachel Appel)
- Nokia’s having a Lumia 900 launch party in New York City this Friday (Daniel Rubino)
- GitHub Drinkup, Ventura Edition (Scott Chacon)
- Powering into PowerShell fame via the 2012 Windows PowerShell Scripting Games (Greg Duncan)
- Awarded with Microsoft MVP Award: 3rd time in Row (Dhananjay Kumar)
Database
- Install SQL Server 2012 Book online on local disk (Xu James)
- SQL Server 2012: SSAS enhancements (James Serra)
- SQL Server 2012 Now Generally Available (Bruce Kyle)
- Schema View for SQL Server Data Tools (Gert Drapers)
- Looking under the hood of SSRS (Jim Giercyk)
- SQL SERVER – FIX: ERROR Msg 5169, Level 16: FILEGROWTH cannot be greater than MAXSIZE for file (Pinal Dave)
- Is SQL Server secure? (Tim Hibbard)
- Which product was purchased the most? T-SQL (Steve Jones)
- Big AdventureWorks2012 (Jamie Thomson)
SharePoint
Miscellaneous
- A working Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype, status update 3 (Brian R. Bondy)
- White House to Developers: Help Us Build Job Search Apps (Alex Fitzpatrick)
- Installing Windows 8 Metro Applications without needing to download from the store (Eric Nelson)
- System Center 2012 a Cloud Product Released to Volume Manufacturers (George Garza)
- RecImg.exe is to your Windows 8 as Not having to reinstall some Desktop apps when doing a Win8 Refresh is to your sanity (Greg Duncan)
- O’Reilly deals to April 5, 2012 14:00 PT on books on "where" (Tatworth)
- Developer of official Plex app shares view on Windows Phone development (Rich Edmonds)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- The Morning Brew #1078 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot #850 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Reading Notes #40 (Frank)
- Windows Dev News for April 02, 2012 – #0063 and SilverlightShow Top 10 for March 19 – April 1, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- Daily WP7 Development News 2 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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