Dew Drop – April 6, 2012 (#1,301)
Top Links
- Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 11 Beta – .NET Portable Class Libraries (Scott Hanselman)
- Everything you wanted to know about databinding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7 (Part One) (Colin Eberhardt)
- Tackling performance killers: Common performance problems with Metro style apps (Dave Tepper)
- jQuery Mobile 1.1.0 RC2 Released (Todd Parker)
- NUnit 2.6.0 has been released (Tatworth)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Reflecting All Type Members (Richard Carr)
- Reason behind a request – response service in WCF (Ricci Gian Maria)
- TFS API Part 43–Delete Work Item Tool (Shai Raiten)
- How to fetch selected item of ListView in HTML based Windows 8 Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
- Entity Framework CodeFirst Important Tip For SQL Execution Efficiency (Peter Kellner)
- You can use an OVERLAPPED structure with synchronous I/O, too (Raymond Chen)
- EF5 Performance Considerations (David Obando)
- Increase Performance of Metro Apps by 46% with 2 Lines of Code (Ryan Lowdermilk)
- What is Metro, really? (Brandon Satrom)
Web Development
- Lowercase JSON with ASP.NET Web API (Alexander Zeitler)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Supercharged JavaScript Graphics – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Physical Directories vs. MVC View Paths (Rick Strahl)
- Cleaning Up Deep Callback Nesting With Node’s EventEmitter (Rob Conery)
- Why Is My Web Service API Crappy? (Christopher Miles)
- Mvc Controls Toolkit 2.0.0 (CodePlex)
- Windows Azure Trust Center Launched (Stevan Vidich)
- Build a Contacts Manager Using Backbone.js: Part 5 (Dan Wellman)
- Composite Views: Tree Structures, Tables, And More (Derick Bailey)
- If I built a physics engine… (Brandon Jones)
- Announcing New Datacenter Options for Windows Azure (Cameron Rogers)
- Slideshow with jmpress.js (Manoela Ilic)
- 3D Tetris with Three.js tutorial – part 4 (Sebastian Poręba)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Lessons Learned from Crucial Conversations (J.D. Meier)
- Fictitious Characters in Agile Development? (Peter Saddington)
- Monika: A lesson in component based design (Oren Eini)
- Impact, Outcome and Output (Karl Scotland)
- The Difference Between Automated and Manual Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
- 8 Reasons Users Don’t Fill Out Sign Up Forms (Anthony)
- An Introduction to Software Quality (Abel Avram)
- The Bar Is Even Higher Now (K. Scott Allen)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Using T4 to Generate Windows Phone WMAppManifest Files (Daniel Vaughan)
- RadAutoCompleteBox with Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
- Designing Silverlight Business Applications Officially Released (Jeremy Likness)
- Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK, pt. 2 (Larry Lieberman)
- How to work around a possible XNA Game Studio or Windows Phone SDK install failure on Windows 8 and Fixing the #mvvmlight code snippets in Visual Studio 11 (Laurent Bugnion)
- 7 Deadly Sins for Windows Phone Developers: Wrath (Samidip Basu)
- 2000 WPF Things #531 – Adjusting a Gradient Using the Gradient Tool (Sean Sexton)
- APress Deal of the Day – 6/April/2010 – Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development (Tatworth)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 062 – “Typography and Bedwetting” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
- Let’s Play TDD #179: Eventually You Can’t Rely on Your Tests Anymore (James Shore)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with XAML (Robert Green)
- Countdown to TechEd North America 2012: 20 Years of TechEd (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
- Video: Sprint Ahead with Team Foundation Server 2010 ALM (Paul Ballard)
- Dimecasts.NET Episode #204: Self Hosting Web Api (Derik Whittaker)
Community / Events
- Microsoft is a Great Place to Work: A-List Entrepreneur seeks Long-Term Relationship (LTR) (MS JobsBlog)
- Windows Azure Webcast: Hadoop on Windows Azure 4/10 (Zhiming Xue)
- NYC Women in Tech Connect Event – Saturday, May 5th, 2012 (Peter Laudati)
- April 17, 2012 Meeting – Node on Azure (Philly ALT.NET)
- Congratulations April MVP Awardees! (MVP Award Program)
- Register for Web Camp Special Edition on May 3 – All New Content (Katrien de Graeve)
- The One Where I Mention Imagine Cup (Jeff Blankenburg)
- Learn The Cloud. Make A Difference. @home with Windows Azure (Dave Isbitski)
Database
- SQL Server 2012: Data Quality Services (Steve Novoselac)
- SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Excel Prerequisites Error (Bradley Schacht)
- Dense Rank – MySQL vs SQL Server (Madhivanan)
- Please don’t use blacklists, use parameterized queries or stored procs instead (Denis Gobo)
- BACKUP LOG with TRUNCATE_ONLY is discontinued (Jack Vamvas)
- Importance of how you run consistency checks (Paul S. Randal)
- Quick news: The only tech book currently in the Top 100 Free list (Devon Musgrave)
SharePoint
- How to: Localize Custom Script Resources in SharePoint 2010 (Abhishek Verma)
Miscellaneous
- Speed Hashing (Jeff Atwood)
- New book: Windows Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1 (carolvu)
- Windows 8 Cheat Sheet: Get Started Easily! (Doris Chen)
- How a Programmer Lost 46 Pounds and Survived (Elijah Manor)
- Git tips and tricks (Mikito Takada)
- Free Course: An Introduction to JRuby (Satish Talim)
- Microsoft and Open Source (Sebastien Lambla)
- Nokia Windows Phone with 41MP PureView camera render leaks, flaunting high-end specs (Phone Arena Team)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 6, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Daily News Digest 4/5/2012 and Daily News Digest 4/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Daily WP7 Development News 5 April 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
- Double Shot #853 (Mike Gunderloy)
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