Dew Drop – December 8, 2011

Top Links

• Learn Windows Azure Next Tuesday (Dec 13th) (Scott Guthrie)
• Hello GitHub! (Phil Haack)
• A Windows Phone 7 Slide View with Page Pips (Colin Eberhardt)
• MVVM Light template and WCF services (or any ASP.NET application for that matter) (Laurent Bugnion)
• NuGet: little known features (Peter Kuhn)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Preview Tab in Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (Abhijit Jana)
• MSSQL & NHibernate – mapping week numbers to properties (Gunnar Peipman)
• Use Projections and a Repository to Fake a Filtered Eager Load (Julie Lerman)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 Beta 1 (CodePlex)
• Gibraltar 3.0 Beta 2 Available – More scalable, lighter weight agents, and real time data. (Kendall)
• Download .NET Reflector 7.5 EA Build 3 (RedGate)
• LINQ to Reports… As in transform your LINQ queries into reports, with extensible formats like Excel, PDF, CSV, HTML (Greg Duncan)
• A Key Code Checker for DOM Keyboard Events (Rick Strahl)
• Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games Version 1.2.0 (beta) Released (Nathan Totten)
• What is Package.appxmanifest File in Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Group Chat SDK (Steve Jones)
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta 2 (MS Downloads)
• Using a bar code scanner in .NET (Chad Z. Hower)
• Setting up your first use of the Animation library in WinJS (Adam Kinney)
• The Road To LINQ-dom Part 2–Delegates (Kyle Burns)

Web Development

• The CSS profilers are coming! (Lennart Schoors)
• HTML Forms in HTML Emails (Chris Coyier)
• Practical PHP Refactoring: Hide Method (Giorgio Sironi)
• IIS Tuner 1.1 and ProDinner ASP.net WebForms Awesome Sample Application (CodePlex)
• Set the AsyncTimeout attribute for your async controllers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Updated Live Connect API announced (Kip Kniskern)
• Moving to Standards-based Web Graphics in IE10 (Ted Johnson)
• MPNS module for Node: A simple push notification helper for the cloud (Jeff Wilcox)
• Running PHPUnit in Windows Azure (Brian Swan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing with CRM 2011 (Mark Schweigert)
• Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox’s attention to detail on their download page (Scott Hanselman)
• Design It to Build It: What to Consider When Designing for the Web (Patrick Cox)
• It’s okay for your UI to know some business process (Kyle Szklenski)
• 31 Days of Testing—Day 7: Automated Test Basics (Jim Holmes)
• A Manifesto For Sofware Team Leaders – Take 1 (Roy Osherove)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator – Project Setup (Weidong Shen)
• Building an Augmented Reality XAML control (Morten Nielsen)
• Syncing Windows Phone database with backend SQL Server (Andy Wigley)
• Have an idea for a Windows Phone Starter Kit? and Windows Phone Starter Kit for Schools v2.0 Released! (Chris Koenig)
• Debugging the Update Process for Windows Phone Apps (Doug Holland)
• Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone Survey Application and Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7.5 (Francis K. Cheung)
• WPF Elements 5 Released! (John-Daniel Trask)
• 2000 WPF Things #446 – Default Docking for DockPanel Children (Sean Sexton)
• Calling WCF REST Service with Basic authentication from Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to add and remove Secondary Tiles in Windows Phone apps (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Development Practices at Oredev (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 005 – 12.07.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
• Announcing the Learn Windows Azure Live Event! (Wade Wegner)
• Project Compatibility in Visual Studio 11 (Robert Green)
• Let’s Play TDD #148: Asynchronous Assertions (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Farm Frenzy 2, Pocket Party Game, Archie, Race & Battle, Double Jumper (Laura Foy)
• A little responsive video demo (Leigh Howells)
• SOA Made Simple – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

• Win Free Copies of Nhibernate 3 Beginner’s Guide (Oren Eini)
• Phil Haack is a GitHubber (Tim Clem)
• 5 Minutes on The Verge: Paul Thurrott (Thomas Houston)
• Nokia and T-Mobile USA making announcement on December 14th (Chris Ziegler)
• thatConference Announced! (Dave Bost)

Database

• SQL Server Storage: Files and Filegroups Video (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Error: Deleting Offline Database and Creating the Same Name (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2011 Day 7: Crosstab with PIVOT and  SQL Advent 2011 Day 8: UNPIVOT (Denis Gobo)
• Dynamic Connections in SSIS – Extract, Transform and Load and SQL Server Integration Services tools to have – Expression Editor & Tester (Ted Krueger)
• Data Explorer Feedback part 1 (Jamie Thomson)
• Community created Forward Engineer Database Diagrams Addin for Visio 2010 (Think "Diagram to T-SQL," like in past versions, but with source) (Greg Duncan)
• The Day-to-Day Tasks of the Average DBA (Brad M McGehee)

SharePoint

• Renaming SharePoint Service Apps Databases (Brian Farnhill)

Miscellaneous

• Power Tools for Windows (Steve Jones)
• Ruby On REST: Introducing the Representer Pattern (Nick Sutterer)
• Get your app in the Store on opening day (Antoine Leblond)
• I’ve got my XBox Live Avatar, right here…. on my T-Shirt! and Getting Started with Scratch – A Programmer’s Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the official Xbox LIVE iOS App (Larry Hryb)
• Just how important is Desktop App support for Windows 8 ARM tablets? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Pinworthy: 7 apps for entertaining kids during the holidays (Michael Stroh)
• Windows 8 –Trust me, we got this covered this time I promise… (Scott Barnes)
• Xbox Companion App Available Now (Control Your Xbox From Your Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
• O’ Reilly Deals on Cookbooks to Jan 19th (Tatworth)
• Welcome to the New Xbox 360 Dashboard (XNA Team)
• Rumor: Amazon Retail Stores Coming & Predatory Pricing Channel Destruction (Jason Calacanis)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #769 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #998 (Chris Alcock)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/07/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for November 28 – December 4, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 7 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 12/8/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• Interesting Finds: December 7, 2011 (Jason Haley)

The Geek Shelf

Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel