September 2011 – Page 3 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – September 21, 2011

Posted on September 21, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Metro Business Apps (Ward Bell)
My Windows 8 slate has split personalities–and what Microsoft could do to improve that (Laurent Bugnion)
Reengineering the Windows boot experience (Steven Sinofsky)
Analyzing Windows 8 and WinRT (Steve Smith)

.NET / Visual Studio

Creating Deep Zoom Images through c# code and Adding message in a Windows Azure Queue (Dhananjay Kumar)
Confirmed: Juneau is in the next version of Visual Studio (Jamie Thomson)
TFS vNext – Falls Short of the Mark (Paul Stack)
TFS Workbench v2.2.0.8 (CodePlex)
Community Callout: CodePlugIn_INotifyPropertyChanged (Rory Becker)
New HTML Editor feature in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Web Platform and Tools Team)
Python Tools for VS (Mike Stall)
Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Neil Mackenzie)
GPU Debugging with VS 11 (Daniel Moth)
Dependency Management in .Net: Get (Derek Greer)
Windows 8 applications and JSON data (Andrej Tozon)
Using the Windows Runtime from a Non-Metro Application and Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application (Jeffrey Richter)

Web Development

Save a tree with TreeSaver.js (Think "JavaScript framework for creating magazine-style layouts using standards-compliant HTML and CSS") (Greg Duncan)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Type Code with Class (Giorgio Sironi)
Quasi-literals: embedded DSLs in ECMAScript.next (Axel Rauschmayer)
Adding filters to your ELMAH installation (Doug Rathbone)
Things the W3C Should Stop Doing (Alex Russell)
A Visual History Of The Usefulness Of Ruby On Rails (Derick Bailey)
SVG – an introduction (Josh Reuben)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Premature Optimization (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Why would anyone use MSTest over NUnit? (Drew Peterson)
Three Book Reviews (Jim Holmes)
Why you should care about encapsulation (Greg Moeck)
Touch Input for IE10 and Metro style Apps (Jacob Rossi)
Scrum for Team System v3.0.4281.00 (CodePlex) – v3.0 is now open source.

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 7: Performance Monitoring (Peter Kuhn)
WPF 4.5 – Part 3 : New methods of the Dispatcher (Jonathan Antoine)
Azure Services connecting Windows Phone to Data (Samidip Basu)
Nokia Developers: learn Windows Phone even faster (JC Cimetiere)
Enabling Frame Rate Counters for XAML Applications in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
Windows Phone Power Tools 1.1 (Oren Nachman)
Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango) – Tcp Socket acts differently on emulator and device (HTC Mozard) (Michael Sync)
Enumerating MIDI Interfaces using Silverlight 5 PInvoke (Pete Brown)
Build a GOVERNMENT Windows Phone App Today!!! (Joel Reyes)
2000 WPF Things #391 – Anti-Aliasing Can Lead to Fuzzy GUI Elements (Sean Sexton)
Submit Windows Phone 7.5 Apps today; Update 7.0 Apps in October (Todd Brix)
An Alternate Approach to a GridView (Paul Sheriff)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Manipulations and UML with VS 2010 Part 6: Designing a Project’s Physical Structure (MS Podcasts)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 23 (Richard Hay)
Engadget HD Podcast 266 – 09.20.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Yet Another Podcast #49–Jon Galloway: What’s New In ASP.NET (Jesse Liberty)
Let’s Play TDD #141: Domain-Specific Language (James Shore)
Ping 117: Xbox gives back, Win 8 boots fast, Ballmer sees bright future, More MATH please! and Hot Apps: Fight Game Rivals, Bad Trip, Multi Browser, Showcase’d, Bulls n Cows (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Charlotte .NET User Group – Mono for Android #monodroid (Wally McClure)
A few Mozillians to read and follow. (Joe Stagner)
Just Added: HTML5 Training at jQuery Conference Boston! (Leah Silber)
Agile .NET 2011 Europe happens in 3 weeks and discount code (Simone Chiaretta)
Windows Phone Camps (Chris Koenig)
Microsoft Employee Who Tweeted About Unreleased Nokia Windows Phone Now an Ex-Employee (Ina Fried)
A good day: “Day of Caring” volunteering (Devon Musgrave)
f8 is almost here! (Kathleen Loughlin)

Database

Microsoft Releases Two Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 (Glenn Berry)
SQL SERVER – Denali – 14 New Functions – A Quick Guide (Pinal Dave)
Query SQL Azure and On-Premise Data in One Codeset (Buck Woody)
Roman Numerals to integers, and Vice Versa, in SQL: (Phil Factor)
Stored Procedures – Common Security Practice (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

7 New Wonders of the SharePoint World (Joel Oleson)
New book: Customizing My Site in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

Applying NTFS Permissions (Tobias Weltner)
Cross-Post: Announcing the Release of Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets 2.0 (Windows Azure Team)
PowerPack for non-Windows management in SCCM and SCOM (Dmitry Sotnikov)
Win7 SP1/Win2008 RC SP1 get some PowerShell 3 CTP love… Or PS gets WF (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

Introducing App Sites (Ben Scheirman)
NYC 2.0 on PBS (Becky Stern)

More Link Collections

Tip on Writing Reflector Addins (Jason Haley)
Interesting .NET Links – September 21 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Geek Reading September 20, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Today’s Links (9/20/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
The Morning Brew #942 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for September 20, 2011 — #1146 (Dave Campbell)
Double Shot #713 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 09/21/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 19-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Link dump for September 20th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

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Dew Drop – September 20, 2011

Posted on September 20, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows 8, What Does It Mean to Me? (Peter Ritchie)
Decoding Windows 8 UX Principles– Let Context breathe instead of the UI! (Scott Barnes)
Inheritance and Representation (Eric Lippert)
Dependency Management in .Net: Using NuGet without Visual Studio (Derek Greer)
Microsoft’s new Windows 8 contracts: The debut of the developer clipboard (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

More on Async, Win8, and C# (Bill Wagner)
Checking Password Strength (Richard Carr)
How SignalR killed RavenMQ (Oren Eini)
What’s new in WCF Web API Preview 5 – introducing the test client (Alexander Zeitler)
F# type providers – as if by magic… (Ivan Towlson)
Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
Database changes between TFS 2010 and TFS 2011 (Tarun Arora)
O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 20/Sep/2011 – CLR via C#, Third Edition (Tatworth)
Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part IV) – Connecting Multiple Kinect Devices with System and Navigate Code Using Code Definition Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
Use EF 4.0 or not ? (Ankit Agrawal)
Review of InRule v 4.0 Business Rule Authoring system (Bill Osuch)
Quick tip: Adding objects in resources. (Laurent Bugnion)
Running C++ AMP kernels on the CPU (Daniel Moth)
SharpDevelop 5 – NRefactory 5 + semantic highlighting (Daniel Grunwald)
Are .Net programmers planning to abandon Win 8? (Don Burnett)
Using Netduino to monitor Twitter and Kinect Panorama Viewer (Greg Duncan)
Mono for Android Release 1.2.0 (Xamarin Team)

Web Development

Practical Google+ Api (Giorgio Sironi)
JSHint – a JavaScript code quality checker (Axel Rauschmayer)
Tip #110 Did you know … How to referencing root project’s master page’s properties from sub project’s content page? (Xinyang Qiu)
Calling the Yahoo Term Extraction from C# to generate keywords (for web page, etc) (Greg Duncan)
How to Get Diagnostics Info for Azure/PHP Applications–Part 1 (Brian Swan)
How do I use Sinatra to access the Google+ API? (Satish Talim)
Creating an OData Server Quickly (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Parenting (Jag Reehal)
Goal Setting and Routines (John Sonmez)
Technical Anti Patterns Arising from Social Inadequacy (Roy Osherove)
The Purpose of Time Tracking (Jurgen Appelo)
IT Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Building a Reminder Application in Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
Phone7.Fx : How to use the IOC Container and MVVM (Nicolas Humann)
Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Release Candidate (Michael Crump)
Windows 8 and what it means for Silverlight and the coming Slate Wars (David Kelley)
2000 WPF Things #390 – Scrollbar Visibility in a ScrollViewer (Sean Sexton)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.0.0.400 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 017: David Hahn (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Jay Schmelzer Builds Apps With LightSwitch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
How Do I: Cross Domain Requests (xdr) and How Do I: Use the Animation Control in MFC? and How Do I: Use Implicit Line Continuation in Visual Basic 10? (MS Podcasts)
Community Megaphone Show #31 with Guest David Giard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Live at BUILD – interview with Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Phone Radio–42 (Foursquare video) (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

Learn from Windows Azure Experts at the Seattle Interactive Conference, November 2-3, 2011 (Windows Azure Team)
Here’s the one Microsoft Windows 8 slide that everyone wants to redo (Mary Jo Foley)
Business Intelligence Code Camp–October 15th (Jim O’Neil)
WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program officially Announced! (Windows Phone Geek)
Some Thoughts About My Week at Build and Windows 8 (Robby Ingebretsen)
BUILT: Post-Conference Conversations After Microsoft BUILD (Mike Desmond)
Webinar: Top 5 Unit Testing Problems in C++ Legacy Code and How to Solve Them and Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator to speed the development of SharePoint Web Parts (Typemock)
Visual Studio BUILD sessions and Tips & Tricks Cheat Sheet (Weston Hutchins)

Database

SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Delimiter (Arthur Zubarev)
Building a Visual Studio project from an existing SSAS database (James Serra)
SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – EOMONTH() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
Performance Tuning – Over the Top Biz Logic (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

Client Object Models Operation in SharePoint Online Solutions (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #1 Available for Download (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

Android > iOS (And Other Statistics) (Alex Miller)
Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration (Charles Young)
Windows 8 and the up and coming Hardware Revolution (Keith Elder)
New book: Microsoft OneNote 2010 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
Take Control of Windows 8 with Metro UI Tweaker (Mark Wilson)
Microsoft: Desktop apps will run on Windows 8 on ARM (Mary Jo Foley)
Recent Thoughts On Hiring and Being Hired (Jay C. Fields)
Preparing for Handsets (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 19, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Today’s Links (9/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
Afternoon Tea – Monday 19th September and The Morning Brew #941 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 09/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Double Shot #712 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for September 12-18, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
Link dump for September 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Azure in Action by Chris Hay

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Dew Drop – September 19, 2011

Posted on September 19, 2011 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Released: Project Silk Client-Side Web Development for Modern Browsers (Karl Shifflett)
Using System.Reflection.Emit in a Windows 8 Metro style Application (Jason Bock)
WinRT is your friend (Josh Smith)
Demystifying the Windows 8 Grid Application (Bil Simser)
PlayStation Suite SDK beta coming in November, offering new games in spring 2012 (Richard Lai)

Windows 8

The 300+ Features We Weren’t Shown In Windows 8 (Robert Boland)
Windows8 StartMenu v1.0.0 (CodePlex) – Win8 gadget to switch Metro start menu on/off.
Microsoft to release Windows 8 Beta on September 30th? (Zac)
Windows 8 Gives New Life to Older Hardware (Karl Shifflett)
First look at Windows 8 application as a developer (Andrej Tozon)

.NET / Visual Studio

Data Schema Comparison in Visual Studio 2010 (Atul Verma)
F# Type Providers – Querying StackOverflow (Daniel Mohl)
Queued WCF Services, MSMQ, IIS7 and NetMsmqActivator. Oh My. (Lars Wilhelmsen)
TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure (Tarun Arora)
Learning about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and how they embrace products announced at //BUILD/ (Willy P. Schaub)
WinRT and .NET and WinRT and business apps and CSLA on WinRT (project start) (Rockford Lhotka)
Under the Covers of WinRT Using C++ and Metro .NET Framework Profile (“Windows Tailored”) and Improvements in the CLR Core in .NET Framework 4.5 (Sasha Goldshtein)
New Versions of StyleCop have been released (Tatworth)
Welcome to Zombieland, the Metro Style Land of WinRT and the Undead (Rene Schulte)
NHibernate Pitfalls: Merge and NHibernate Pitfalls: SELECT N + 1 and NHibernate Pitfalls: Fetch and Lazy (Ricardo Peres)
Developing for WinRT and Windows8 – Basic Concepts (Anoop Madhusudanan)
Dependency Management in .Net (Derek Greer)
ROSLYN: Complier as Service ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Code Navigation and Search with Telerik Just Code (Dhananjay Kumar)
Sort Generic List Using Lambda Expression For Dynamic Type And Dynamic Property (Jebarson Jebamony)
Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part II) – Using NUI APIs with Camera and Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part III) – Adjusting the Kinect Camera Angle (Abhijit Jana)
First example of a very simple type provider (Robert Pickering)
Deep dive in Process template’s states and transitions (Gian Maria Ricci)
Windows 8 Development Tip – ObservableCollection doesn’t work and Windows 8 Development Tip – Packaging and loading files (Avi P)
Links to C++ AMP and other content (Daniel Moth)

Web Development

Stability in Insertion Sort (Julian M. Bucknall)
What about Metro JS Projects and jQuery? (Shawn Wildermuth)
Unobtrusive AJAX with Rails 3.1 (Samnang Chhun)
Creating Gradients With Compass and SASS (Paul Cowan)
todomvc – MVC Todo apps for JavaScriptMVC, SproutCore, Backbone.js, Spine.js, YUILibrary, Knockout.js and more (Addy Osmani)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Render unto Caeser the things which are Caeser’s and unto the Designer… (Daniela Panfili)
Enterprise Service Buses, Brokers, Message Queues, Oh My! (Peter Ritchie)
Announcing Gallio and MbUnit 3.3 (Yann Trevin)
Connector: Simple, zero friction Github –> AppHarbor integration (Krzysztof Koźmic)
How to Setup Sprint or Iterations in a Telerik TeamPulse Project? (Kunal Chowdhury)
The Worst Code I Ever Wrote, And Why I’m Still Happy About It (Davy Brion)
Observations on the Play! framework (James Gregory)
The Little Things Add Up (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager (Jonathan Antoine)
How to use WPF controls in DXCore Tool Window plug-in (Alex Skorkin)
Windows Phone 7.5 or Mango Phone Application Performance analysis (Dhananjay Kumar)
Binding Image, Brush or Color to Background property in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
HelloTiles – A Simple C# Xaml Application for WinRT/Windows8 to demonstrate Metro Tile Updates (Anoop Madhusudanan)
2000 WPF Things #389 – Wrap a Panel in A ScrollViewer to Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)
Win8, Metro Apps and Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
Phone7.Fx is now available on codeplex (Nicolas Humann)
Why all the "WPF/SL is gone" claims make no sense (Dennis Delimarsky)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How Do I: Cross Document Messaging (xdm) and How Do I: Create Ribbon Controls (Part 1) and MSDN Radio: Exploring SharePoint and Silverlight with Paul Stubbs (MS Podcasts)
Technology & Friends Episode 174: K Scott Allen on MVC3 (David Giard)
Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 034 – “Live from BUILD 2011″ (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 411: Deus Ex, Gears of War 3 and more (Larry Hyrb)
A Look At Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta (Larry Larsen)
Windows Weekly 226: Live From Anaheim and the BUILD Conference: Windows 8 Revealed (Paul Thurrott)
Microsoft interns are the first Windows 8 developers (MS JobsBlog)
This is my next Podcast 024 – 09.17.2011 (Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller)
The GeekDads Episode #100: The First Internet Streamed Murder (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)

Community / Events

Windows Phone Camps (Boston, Burlington, New Paltz, and more!) (Jim O’Neil)
All Good Things (John Papa) – Good luck, John!
SharePoint Conference Party Best Practices #SPC11 (Joel Oleson)

Database

SharePoint

10 Top Resources for SharePoint Developers (Avi Hein)
Opening Files in the Browser with SharePoint and Adding Ratings and Comments to SharePoint Publishing Pages (Bil Simser)

PowerShell

PowerShell Script To Traverse All Sites In SharePoint 2010 (or 2007) Farm (Brian Jackett)

Miscellaneous

Paint.NET v3.5.9 Beta (build 4278) is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 17, 2011 and Interesting Finds: September 18, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #940 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting .NET Links – September 18 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Geek Reading September 18, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 11-September-2011 to 17-September-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Double Shot #711 (Mike Gunderloy)
Link dump for September 16th (Jeff Schoolcraft)
Daily News Digest 09/17/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 09/19/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/19/2011 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler

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