Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Top Links

• Mini Hawraman Goes Open Source (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Pinned Sites in Windows 8 (Rahul Lalmalani)
• The Top 10 Features Windows 8 Metro Developers Will Love (Jeremy Likness)
• "April 2012 Updates to Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta (x86 and x64)" available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (from VS 11.0.50214.1 BETAREL to 11.0.50323.1 QRELB) (Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• EF5: Where are my DataAnnotations? and Update to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config (Julie Lerman)
• What AnyCPU Really Means As Of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to improve performance in your Metro style app (David Tepper)
• JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Here’s Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure (Michael Collier)
• Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind (Andrea Boschin)
• WiX v3.6 RC0 (CodePlex) – Adds VS11 support.

 

Web Development

• You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors (Karl Seguin)
• What is new in NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Vol.1 (Mihail Mateev)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Brandon Satrom)
• Build a JavaScript Mocking framework in 10 minutes (Brendan Kowitz)
• HTML5 Gaming: How to Animate Sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers: The JavaScript Multi-Threading Approach (David Rousset)
• Pure CSS Tool Tips Revisited (Louis Lazaris)
• Browser URL encoding and website request validation black magic (Troy Hunt)
• Revisiting The Backbone Event Aggregator: Lessons Learned (Derick Bailey)
• Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services (Elton Stoneman)
• Drag and Drop and Automatically Send to the Server (Remy Sharp)
• Getting Started With node.js on Windows (Kevin Griffin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Virtual Scrum – Scrum Wing 3D – Open Source Agile Tool (Peter Saddington)
• Lokad.CQRS – Code Preview for "Anatomy of Distributed Systems" (Rinat Abdullin)
• Use Faker.NET To Fake Your Data (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Using github behind a firewall (Simone Chiaretta)
• Introducing the unrolled-switch anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
• Slack Is for Optional Stuff, Not for Important Stuff (Jurgen Appelo)
• In defense of reinventing wheels (Lea Verou)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Installing and Using WP7 Tool Kit for Silverlight (Karthik Anbarasan)
• How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Automatic Version Increment for Windows Phone Apps (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Flipping the Light(Switch) Fantastic in Visual Studio 11 (David Ramel)
• HackReady.Phone Episode 1 of 7: Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform (Level 100) – http://aka.ms/HackReadyPhone1 (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 293 – 04.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman (Brady Gaster)
• Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #178: I Can’t Believe That Worked (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: John Papa on Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout (Paul Ballard)
• Join Me for ‘An Evening on Azure’ in Bellevue, WA (Steve Marx)
• That Conference (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Phone 101 series kicking off in Atlanta (Glen Gordon)
• Get your apps up: upcoming Windows 8 Metro Apps activities and Write up on the first Windows 8 Developer and Hackathon event in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• Talking Cloud with Exchange Server MVP Jorge Diaz (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• How Fast Does Your SAN Need to Be for SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
• Working with packed dates in SSIS (Jim Giercyk)
• SQL SERVER – Cleaning Up SQL Server Indexes – Defragmentation, Fillfactor – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Dammit people, get to know check constraints and use them! and Downloading SQL Server Sample Databases much improved with new CodePlex changes (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Azure Labs Codename "Data Explorer" Client (Labs Release) and Microsoft Connectors v2.0 for Oracle and Teradata and Microsoft® Connectors v1.2 for Oracle and Teradata (MS Downloads)
• 11 Important Database designing rules which I follow (Shivprasad koirala)
• SSDT – What’s in a name? (Jamie Thomson)
• Dealing with the "The text, ntext, or image pointer value conflicts with the column name specified." error from Visual Foxpro (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update (Gregory Leake)

 

SharePoint

• How to retrieve Sharepoint data from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell – Validating an IP Address (Kyle Neier)
• Improved WMI experience in PowerShell 3.0 (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Three common interview mistakes (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• NetAdvantage for iOS: Native iPad & iPhone Controls for Apps (Jason Beres)
• Introducing – Standards Based Management in Windows Server "8" (Osama Sajid)
• Windows 8 RC to Get Flatter Explorer UI, Other Changes (Paul Thurrott)
• Nokia Lumia 900 Review Roundup (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily News Digest 4/3/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 26 – April 1, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1079 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for April 03, 2012 – #0064 (Dave Campbell)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–March 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Some JavaScript Resources for Web App Developers (Louis Lazaris)
• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #851 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

 

Back after a few days. I found out yesterday that I have been awarded as a Visual C# MVP for the 3rd time (4th MVP award overall). Thanks to the MVP Award program & C# Team and congrats to the other new and renewed MVPs out there!

Top Links

• Touch hardware and Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, and ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) open source announcements (Jon Galloway)
• Knockout.js Performance Gotcha #1–if/with bindings are not always cheap (Ryan Niemeyer)
• TWC9: VS Ultimate Roadmap, MVC/Web API/Razor Open Source, WP SDK 7.1.1 and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Compare and contrast: Performance implications of method signatures (Oren Eini)
• A LINQ Style Range Generator (Richard Carr)
• Session summary: New Features in Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 beta (Zubair Ahmed)
• Using the Implicit Operator in C# for Maximum Nerdy Good Times (Bobby Johnson)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Skip() and Take() (James Michael Hare)
• A Simpler MapReduce with MongoDB and C# (K. Scott Allen)
• And One More Thing About 1.5… (Kinect for Windows Team)
• Writing functional code in C++ II – Function composition (Luca Bolognese)
• Talk: Async Part 1 – the message-loop, and the Task type and Talk: What’s new in VB11 (VS11 Beta) (Lucian Wischik)
• TFS Service Credential Viewer and TFS Field Annotator (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 8: flickR searching demo in .NET and JS (Mike Taulty)
• Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11 – Exploring Local Workspace Concept in TEE 11 (Subodh Sohoni)
• How to get distinct values from the List<T> with LINQ (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Moles – Troubleshooting in Visual Studio 11 / .NET 4.5 (MS Research)
• LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.7 and JSON Toolkit 3.1 (CodePlex)
• WebSocket Support In Windows 8 and Is IQueryable A Bad Choice For APIs? (Roopesh Shenoy)
• A Quick Overview of .NET Reflector (Adam Driscoll)
• .NET and Metro: The Windows Runtime and the CLR on Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
• CoreImage with MonoTouch (example) (Craig Dunn)
• INotifyPropertyChanged, The .NET 4.5 Way – Revisited (Dan Rigby)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Exchange Types and RabbitMQ for Windows: Direct Exchanges (Derek Greer)
• Migrating VSIX Extensions To Dev11 (Karsten Januszewski)
• Teaching .NET Gadgeteering and Missing Macros in VS11 getting you down? John Robbins shows us how to use NuGet and PowerShell as an replacement (Greg Duncan)
• Transform app.config and web.config (Mehdi Khalili)
• Date Issue in Excel Export (Michael Sync)
• JustCode Extension Improvements in 2012 Q1 SP (JustCode Team)

 

Web Development

• Fluent Security – Getting Started (Kristoffer Ahl)
• 3 Quick JavaScript Tips for .NET Developers (John Papa)
• Implementing an XML-RPC Service with ASP.NET MVC (Charles Cook)
• CSS layout gets smarter with calc() (Alex Danilo)
• The JavaScript “Ah ha!” Moment (Chris Coyier)
• People of HTML5: Andrew Betts on building the FT.com HTML5 app (Chris Heilmann)
• HTML 5 Games, Tooling & 3D (Code Inside Team)
• Proxies And Decorators In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Fun with ASP.NET Web API – push-like messaging from one application to multiple subscriber applications (Filip W)
• Building your first HTML Metro Style app with the Style Smooth Streaming Player walk through (Greg Duncan)
• ASP.NET MVC Now Accepting Pull Requests (Phil Haack)
• Adding AjaxOnly Filter in ASP.NET Web API (Imran Baloch)
• JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC (James Curran)
• Phaxio integration using HttpClient & ASP.NET MVC (Jarod Ferguson)
• How to fork the ASP.NET Web Stack to GitHub (Jimmy Bogard)
• New in 4.0: Easier JavaScript Library Scope Configuration (Konstantin Ulitin)
• The AT&T API Platform SDK for HTML5 (Michael Mullany)
• Building ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages source code (Michael Sync)
• ASP.Net WebAPI (Mike Stall)
• CSS: fast to load, easy to maintain (Scott Knaster)
• Introducing Grunt (Ben Alman)
• ZenGallery: a minimalist image gallery for Orchard and Overriding the Pager rendering in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Web API Design Book – Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love (Bienvenido David III)
• Moving Applications to the Cloud, 2nd Edition – Book Download and Project Silk – September 2011 (MS Downloads)
• JavaScript’s two zeros (Axel Rauchmayer)
• Service logging in JSON with Bunyan (Trent Mick)
• Detecting Touch Hardware in IE 10 (Steve Lydford)
• Redesigning my blog for adaptive layout (Tim Heuer)
• OAuth 2.0 Playground: new features (Scott Knaster)
• Getting Cozy With Underscore.js (Siddharth)
• firstImpression.js: A micro-library for detecting new visitors (Rob Flaherty)
• Codename Antares: A new Microsoft hosting platform for Web apps (Mary Jo Foley)
• Defining Dynamic Assets – PHP Project pt. I and Constructing Dynamic Assets – PHP Project pt. I (Josh Adell)
• Node.js – The objective is absolutely fast I/O (J. Vaughan)
• Web Workbench and your automated build process (Ivan Towlson)
• Just release: Azure User Management Console – AUMC (Frank)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• My Rants on Scrum (Ankush Bansal)
• Learn How to Start Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• TDD Best Practices: Don’t Mock Others (Derek Greer)
• Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 11 API (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Is Agile Stifling Introverts? (Todd Charron)
• A CQRS Journey – with and without Microsoft and P&P CQRS Journey Post Clarification (Udi Dahan)
• Inversion Of Control: An Architect’s Version of Global Variables (Rob Conery)
• “Done”. “Done Done”. When is a feature really done? (Vassil Terziev)
• Visualizing Code to Fail Faster (Jeff Atwood)
• The confusion around QA: why doesn’t the industry agree? (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Don’t be a tool (Eric Brechner)
• Practice Code Kata’s And Learn (Gregor Suttie)
• Design is Resize (Alex Giron)
• Continuous Testing (Greg Young)
• Gmail as an issue tracking system (Davor Crnomat)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Working with the Windows Phone Application Bar (Nick Randolph)
• Porting a Windows Phone application to Windows 8 – A Look from 10,000 Feet Above and Fixing a Streaming Issue in ShoutStreamSource on Windows Phone and Using the Coding4Fun ChatBubble and ChatBubbleTextBox in a Windows Phone Application and Porting Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone to Windows 8 Article Series (Den Delimarsky)
• Things I Missed So You Won’t Have To – WP7 SDK (Doug Rathbone)
• MVVM and Animations in Silverlight (Kevin Logan)
• Displaying Large Text Files in Windows Phone Apps (Bil Simser)
• The Animated Pie Slice in Windows 8 (Charles Petzold)
• Lives Tiles in XAML based Windows 8 Metro Application and Isolated Storage Helper For C# and XAML based Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• PhoneGap on WP7 Tip #7: Marketplace tricks (Glen Gordon)
• Make Your Windows Phone Vibrate with PhoneGap (Senthil Kumar)
• How to Retrieve Contact Information in WP7 using the AddressChooserTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• MVVM Light V4b1 for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (with installer) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Windows Phone 7/7.5 + Phonegap = ???? (Michael Sync)
• Attached behaviors for Windows 8 Metro Style XAML and Porting the DragFlickBehavior from Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro Style (Joost van Schaik)
• Released: New Version of Expression Blend for Silverlight 5 (Pete Brown)
• Handling Authenticated Zip Files in Windows Phone (samidip)
• 2000 WPF Things #526 – Use Adobe Kuler to Create Color Themes and #527 – Colorful Expression Add-in Connects to Adobe Kuler (Sean Sexton)
• Extended WPF Toolkit – 1.6.0 (CodePlex)
• Marketplace now open in 13 new markets. Are your apps available? (Todd Brix)
• Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)
• LightSwitch IIS Deployment Enhancements in Visual Studio 11 (Beth Massi)
• Working with Tiles for Windows Metro Applications (Derik Whittaker)
• Difference between Application created using Metro UI guidelines and Real Windows 8 Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Carl and Richard Geek Out on Solar Power (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Lucian Wischik: What’s New in VB11 (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 203: Malcolm Sheridan on MVC Lessons Learnt From Being Burnt (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 061 – “Students Support Magenta Phones” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Herding Code 137 – Mass Assignment, New New iPad, JavaScript libraries, Windows 8, Visual Studio, and Sad Trombones (Jon Galloway)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 434: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, Battlefield 3 and PAX East (Larry Hyrb)
• Bytes by MSDN: Peter Isensee and Jerry Nixon on Windows 8 and Xbox Live (MS Podcasts)
• Let’s Play TDD #177: The Time is Worthwhile (James Shore)
• Agile2011 – Adam Sroka – Jokes, JavaScript and My first Employee (Agile Toolkit)
• Inside Windows Phone # 35 | Ali Heron from Microsoft Advertising talks Ads (Larry Lieberman)
• Windows Phone Minute: Group your pals (Laura Foy)
• Jeff Sandquist Shows off Project Detroit (Don Burnett)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Chad Miller (Ryan Parsley)
• Distributed Podcast Episode 12: LMAX (Jonathan Oliver, Jonathan Matheus, Rinat Abdullin & Andreas Ohlund)
• Defrag: Moving My Docs, BluRay Troubleshooting, Change Default File Type in Paint. (Larry Larsen)
• Windows Weekly 254: The SKU Spew (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 46 (Richard Hay)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 021 – 03.28.2012 and Engadget Podcast 287 – 03.29.2012 and The Vergecast 024 – 03.30.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 132 – 03.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 74 – Autoscaling and Endpoint Protection in Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• C++: A Language for Modern Times (Robert Hess)
• On The Verge, Episode 004: Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Nilay Patel)
• Nokia Lumia 900 advert (Steve Clayton)

 

Community / Events

• Great Places to Work: Microsoft Employees Always First to Use New Software (MS JobsBlog)
• What you need to know about the Microsoft MVP Award (Rachel Appel)
• Indy Hall 3.0 – The Future of Indy Hall (Alex Hillman)
• The HackReady.Phone WebCast Series (Bob Familiar)
• eLearning event on HTML5 for Mobile with jQuery Mobile (Wally McClure)
• Code Academy: the student developers building the Windows Phone ecosystem (Tom Warren)
• Build apps with the experts at Windows 8 Dev Camps (Neil Hutson)
• Get (Hack)Ready to Develop for Windows Phone (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL Server Monitoring Management Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Difference between DATABASEPROPERTY and DATABASEPROPERTYEX and SQL SERVER – Online Index Rebuilding Index Improvement in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – sp_describe_first_result_set New System Stored Procedure in SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Illusion – Confusion – April Fools’ Day and SQL SERVER – Use ROLL UP Clause instead of COMPUTE BY (Pinal Dave)
• You don’t need to shrink a database to get a smaller backup (Denis Gobo)
• Automated SSRS deployment with the RS utility (Stacy Vicknair)
• Improve SQL Performance – Know Your Statistics (Ian Stirk)
• Truncating Tables in SQL Server (Richard Carr)
• Let’s Talk About Joins (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Introducing SharePointR (Bil Simser)
• SharePoint 2010 Upgrade – Important Updates (Joel Oleson)
• SharePoint 2010: Connecting to SQL Server Using the External Content Type Feature (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Updates to Retrieve Distribution Groups, Update User Addresses, and More (Josh T.)

 

Miscellaneous

• Skills Cloud Résumé (Derek Greer)
• Don’t cry for me, Steve Ballmer (Joe Wilcox)
• Sneak Preview – New CodePlex UI (Mark Groves)
• The Windows 8 Power Users Guide Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon (Mike Halsey)
• If your software matters, you will write it in C++ (Chris Smith)
• Software is not epic (Scott Berkun)
• Who and What makes a Good Customer? (Wally McClure)
• How to Avoid the Common Pitfalls of Mobile App Development (Christine Erickson)
• Why Arrays Normally Start At Zero (Karl Seguin)
• Microsoft Looks to Create App-parity Between Windows Phone and iOS (Jason Lefevers)
• Official and unofficial apps in the iOS, WP7, and Android marketplaces (Bil Simser)
• How to control access to apps on your kid’s Windows Phone (Jac Fitzgerald)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 30, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 31, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 2, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 03.23 ~ 03.31 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 148 (Scott Banwart)
• Maker Geek Roundup 010 for 4/1/2012 (Pete Brown)
• Double Shot #847 and Double Shot #848 and Double Shot #849 (Mike Gunderloy)
• MVP Friday Five: March 30, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Monthly Summary – March 2012 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Pie in the Sky (March 30, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #12) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 3/29/2012 and Daily News Digest 3/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1075 and The Morning Brew #1076 and The Morning Brew #1077 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for March 28, 2012 – #0060 and Windows Dev News for March 29, 2012 – #0061 and Windows Dev News for March 30, 2012 – #0062 (Dave Campbell)
• Re-blog – March 23 – March 29 (Jason Strate)
• Retrospective 78 – CAO, Certified Agile, Tester, RIP (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 30 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland

 

No Dew Drop post tomorrow. I’m taking the day off for my birthday.

Top Links

• Visual Studio Ultimate Roadmap (Jason Zander)
• ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source (Scott Guthrie)
• ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing a Build Service for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Updated Visual Studio 2010 ALM Virtual Machine (Brian Keller)
• Difference Between Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio Test Professional (Ed Blankenship)
• 5 1/2 F# features every C# programmer should lust after (Ivan Towlson)
• The Entity class(es) and Descriptor objects : Exposing the structure and business logic to consumers and Customizing Business Rules at runtime (Peter Blum)
• Team Foundation Service – Build in the cloud! (Richard Erwin)
• Build on the Team Foundation Service (Aaron Bjork)
• .NET vs Windows 8 (Simon Cooper)
• Simplified UI Development with MonoTouch.SQLite (Jonathan Allen)

 

Web Development

• Custom Slider Value Display with jQuery UI (K. Scott Allen)
• The return of Vim (Giorgio Sironi)
• Some points to consider while working on ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (Rahul Bandopadhyaya)
• Using Modernizr to detect HTML5 features and provide fallbacks (Tom Leadbetter)
• REST Resources (Howard Dierking)
• Using "Natural": A NLP Module for node.js (Chris Umbel)
• Creating a Todo List App With Node.js and Geddy (Daniel Erickson)
• Asset packaging in browser-based games (Rob Ashton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Testing on Mobile devices (Ryan Seddon)
• The End of Pagination (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing Advanced Merge Requests for Git (Andy Singleton)
• What’s in a burndown? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Code Simply (Jim Cooper)
• Testing: Trying not to overdo it (Mark Needham)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Homebrew: The new Samsung Diagnostics app appears to be blocking GPRS profile switching (Den Delimarsky)
• WPF Hierarchy MVVM Application (DevLake)
• New Html Editor Control in Silverlight Elements (Jason)
• How to Save Contact in WP7 using the SaveContactTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Tip: Binding an Image element’s Source property to a Uri in WinRT XAML (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #524 – Using the Zoom Tool to Zoom on the Artboard (Sean Sexton)
• LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 Beta Resources (Beth Massi)
• Hacking PivotViewer : Pan (Tony Champion)
• INotifyPropertyChanged with Compile Time Checking (Michael Ceranski)
• LightSwitching to StakeOverflow’s OData data (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 7: VC11 Auto-Vectorizer, C++ NOW, Lang.NEXT (Charles Torre)
• Neowin Gaming Podcast 012 – 03.27.2012 (John Callaham)
• Office 911: Get your Office Game on and Hot Apps: Toy Soldiers Booot Camp, Flashlight-X Pro, BuildDown, MealTimer, Puzzle Time (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 292 – 03.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Introducing Xaml TV (Brian Lagunas)
• Let’s Play TDD #176: Combustible Lemons (James Shore)
• Todd Anglin – HTML5 WEB & Mobile VP, Telerik – Uncut & Unedited (Lohith G N)

 

Community / Events

• Top Jobs in IT: Why I left Google – and returned to Microsoft (Microspotting)
• Microsoft and the open source community (Charles Young)
• Windows Developer Camps (Jennifer Marsman)
• Philly .NET Win 8 and VS 11 Recap (Tony Verguldi)
• New Virginia INETA Mentor (Kevin Griffin)
• Talking Cloud with Office 365 MVP David Greve (MVP Award Program)
• Real World Azure: April 4th, 2012 @ the NJ Windows Azure User Group (Peter Laudati)

 

Database

• SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 3 (Glenn Berry)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Constructs – *= and += – SQL in Sixty Seconds #009 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Contained Databases, Temporary Tables and Collations (Axel Achten)
• SQL Azure and Trust Services (Buck Woody)
• Accessing RavenDB Studio when using Embedded Mode (Gregor Suttie)
• AdventureWorks2012 now available for all on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell – Adding accounts to Local Security Policy (Kyle Neier)
• What Compiled PowerShell Might Look Like (Adam Driscoll)
• "An Omega Geek’s Guide to Learning PowerShell" (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Hybrid Tablet from Microsoft (George Garza)
• All Wrox.com Wrox e-books DRM-free in 3 formats: PDF, Mobi, ePub (Jim Minatel)
• How to hire a product manager (Ken Norton)
• What’s coming in Microsoft’s Kinect for Windows 1.5 (Mary Jo Foley)
• 10 Things you Probably Didn’t know about Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• Why Windows 8 Should Not Abandon the START button (Peter Kellner)
• Nodeload Metrics (Rick Olson)
• Consuming The Netflix OData Service Using App Inventor (Michael Washington)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 27, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 27 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1074 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 3/27/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 19-25, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for March 27, 2012 – #0059 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 27 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam