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Dew Drop – December 20, 2011 (#1,223)

Posted on December 20, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

SOLID JavaScript: The Open/Closed Principle (Derek Greer)
Using the JavaScript Prototype Property to Structure and Extend Code (Dan Wahlin)
What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 5? (Alok & Nick)
Optimizing picture password security (Steven Sinofsky)
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and his impact on Azure: A six month report card (Mary Jo Foley)
No gaps for Windows Phone 7 with latest PhoneGap (Greg Duncan)

.NET / Visual Studio

Obtaining the Week Number for a Date (Richard Carr)
Windows 8 Metro App Tip of The Day – reading/writing files without CAP declarations (Dennis Delimarsky)
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Three (Eric Lippert)
F# Pattern Matching (Ganesan Senthilvel)
The Road To LINQ-dom Part 3–Anonymous methods (Kyle Burns)
CXXI: Briding the C++ and C# worlds. (Miguel de Icaza)
Sharing with CompositionScopeDefinition in MEF 2 (Alok)
Tpl Dataflow (IDataflowBlock) – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
Great Windows Azure announcements and fresh content! (Glen Gordon)
MonoGame – Write Once, Play Everywhere and .NET Client Library for Google+ (Both in original binary form and decompiled/source version too) (Greg Duncan)
What is the Lifecycle of Windows 8 Metro Style Application? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Bugs in System.Diagnostics.Process Class (Giorgi Dalakishvili)

Web Development

Be Careful When Using The jQuery Proxy() Method Outside Of A jQuery Context (Ben Nadel)
JavaScript for C# developers: calling functions and the ‘this’ variable (Julian M. Bucknall)
CSS and mobile device orientation (Dave Mahon)
Using CORS to access ASP.NET services across domains (Dave Ward)
Solving Duplicate Content with Distinct URLs Issue in ASP.NET MVC (Imran Baloch)
Experimental CSS3 Animations for Image Transitions (Pedro Botelho)
Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 1 – Introduction (G. Andrew Duthie)
Creating an Awesome Search Box (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List (Chris Pietschmann)
Windows Azure Resource: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition – eBook Download and Windows Azure: Hands on Lab for Moving Applications to the Cloud (Avkash Chauhan)
Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page: My Solution (Davy Brion)
WebSocket servers on Windows Server (Nathan Evans)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Are You A Unit Testing Ninja? Stuck with Legacy Code? (Avi Kaye)
Can software succeed even if Agile failed? and 3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
The Process of Change – The Agile Change Agent [Part 1/4] and The Process of Change – 3 Levels of Change-Implementation [Part 2/4] (Peter Saddington)
Four cool colour tools (Paul Boag)
31 Days of Testing-Day 16: Testing Web Services (Jim Holmes)
Management Models, Values & Principles? (Jurgen Appelo)
Article: Succeeding with Dependency Injection (Mark Seemann)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

PAARC: Milestone Reached (Peter Kuhn)
Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)
Block Diagram on Windows Phone 7 Application Life Cycle Events (Dhananjay Kumar)
Book Review: Window Phone 7 Silverlight Cookbook (Matt Lacey)
Is Windows Phone moving to the Windows org? (Kip Kniskern)
2000 WPF Things #454 – UseLayoutRounding vs. SnapsToDevicePixels (Sean Sexton)
The Case of the ModelBinding Failure (Shawn Wildermuth)
Trying To Put A Horseshoe On A Car (Michael Washington)
Muted audio even when the playback rate is set to a supported audio playback rate (Nitya Ravi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kathy Malone is a Green Developer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
YOW! 2011: Mike Lee – The Road to Appsterdam (Charles Torre)
Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 34 (Richard Hay)
Gweek 031: The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (Mark Frauenfelder)
Start-Up Success Podcast Show #127: Brad Feld on the Startup Marriage (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

A Revolution in My Lifestyle (Keyvan Nayyeri)

Database

SQL SERVER – A Quick Trick about SQL Server 2012 CONCAT function (Pinal Dave)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
Update Available for SSDT CTP4 (Adam Mahood)
SQL: Calculated Fields (Shannon Lowder)
The Mythical MySQL DBA (Sean Hull)
Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)
Where, Oh Where, Is My Mashup Running? (James Terwilliger)

SharePoint

Information Architecture in a SharePoint Context | Architecture d’Information dans un contexte SharePoint (Alain Lord)

PowerShell

Configure Git in PowerShell So You Don’t Have to Enter Your Password All the Damn Time (Phil Haack)

Miscellaneous

A Metro Themed PowerPoint Template (Colin Eberhardt)
Code Signing For Individual Developers (Roopesh Shenoy)
Android: Watch out for XmlPullParser.nextText() (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Double Shot #777 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1006 (Chris Alcock)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/19/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
Daily News Digest 12/19/2011 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week December 12-18, 2011 and Daily News Digest 12/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 19-Dec-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Reading Notes #25 (Franky)
Windows Dev News for December 19, 2011 – #0013 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 19 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Querying by Itzik Ben-Gan

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Dew Drop – December 19, 2011 (#1,222)

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

Top Links

Free eBook: OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers (Troy Hunt)
Castle Windsor 3.0 is released (Krzysztof Koźmic)
Top Three Reasons Phil Haack Quit Microsoft (D’Arcy Lussier)
MVVM Light installers and Nuget (including Silverlight 5) #mvvmlight (Laurent Bugnion)

.NET / Visual Studio

Resources to write .Net based MapReduce jobs for Hadoop using F# (Avkash Chauhan)
Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce and Using Hadoop on Azure JS Console for Data Visualizations (Carl Nolan)
Tip of the day – Windows 8 Metro apps & frame navigation failure (Dennis Delimarsky)
[Rumor] Pex and Moles to be part of Visual Studio 11? and Getting Started with the Netduino (Really) and Avoiding some Kinect SDK for Windows gotchas (Greg Duncan)
Developing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio (Jay Schmelzer)
Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011 (Shai Raiten)
Examples of depth API improvements coming in v1 (Rob Relyea)
Programmatically controlling which handles are inherited by new processes in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
Nuget Update Error (Michael Sync)
ReSharper 6.1 Improves Performance, Adds Async Support (Jenni Konrad)
Craig’s Utility Library 3.0 (CodePlex)
Tpl Dataflow (block structure) – Part 4 and Task != Thread (Bnaya Eshet)

Web Development

What’s next in 2012 for the Telerik AJAX and MVC products (Stefan Rahnev)
New features for HTML5 video playback in Firefox (Chris Heilmann)
The rise and rise of JavaScript (Dan North)
Composite JavaScript Applications With Backbone And Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
Custom Blank ASP.NET MVC Project Template (Joe Mayo)
Choosing a CSS Framework (Joe Stagner)
MVC: Handling file uploads (John Rayner)
Book review: HTML & CSS (Nicholas C. Zakas)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Replace Error Code with Exception (Giorgio Sironi)
Handling CSS by using jQuery (R S Dodiya)
"I want to optimize my JS application on V8" checklist (mraleph)
How to Check if a Date is More or Less Than a Month Ago with PHP (Stoimen Popov)
New in 3.0: Support of profiling with Zend Debugger (nnmatveev)
Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project (Rob Hawkes)
Sass: Introducing mixins (John-Daniel Trask)
fubu new project (Josh Arnold)
Online Javascript Compression Tool (BrightBit)
A Case For Using CoffeeScript (Justin Etheredge)
New book: Integrating PHP with Windows (Kim Spilker)
Querying The Archivist API With JSON.NET (Karsten Januszewski)
Announcing the Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs Release (Itai Raz)
Taking Baby Steps with Node.js – Linking Local Packages with npm (Jan Van Ryswyck)
Challenge: Displaying Feed Items On A Web Page and Node.js For Dummies (Davy Brion)
WebSockets versus REST… fight! (Nathan Evans)
Create a Node.js App on Azure in 3 minutes (Ryan Lowdermilk)
How you can store decimal data in Windows Azure Table Storage? and Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI – first public CTP availability (Avkash Chauhan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum Alliance to Strengthen ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification (David Bulkin)
From Agile to Elastic (Ralf Westphal)
TDD Workflow (Sinatra / Haml / jQuery) Part 1 (Brian Marick)
Learning Distributed Systems: Sockets and Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN (Yann Trevin)
The Lean Startup: Book Review (Mark Needham)
31 Days of Testing—Day 15: Cucumber is Not A QA Tool (Jim Holmes)
Building Social Software for the Anti-Social (Jeff Atwood)
Building Scalable Cloud Applications (David Aiken)
3 Signs That Tests Are Not Effective (Gil Zilberfeld)
Test Driven Evolutionary Design with Entity Framework (Bobby Johnson)
Getters are an antipattern? (Gian Maria Ricci)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Don’t forget about the databinding features of Silverlight 4 that you get with Mango! (Cheryl Simmons)
Trying out jQuery Mobile on Windows Phone (UPDATED) (Chris G. Williams)
Building Async WCF Services in Silverlight with Channelfactory (Derik Whittaker)
Video on How to work with Live Tiles in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
WP7 Isolated Storage Snapshots and Windows Phone Alerts and Reminders (Daniel Egan)
SkyDrive usage through Live SDK on Windows Phone (Samidip Basu)
Displaying image inside Panorama Title in Windows Phone applications (Jevgeni Tšaikin)
Kunal’s 13 for 5… 13 Silverlight 5 tutorials… and Pick up your pace on Silverlight 5 with Michael Crump’s 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Greg Duncan)
Decoding Portable Bitmap (PBM) files in C# and displaying them in WPF (J. Broun)
Want to change your Windows Phone emulator? (Jeff Blankenburg)
Resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps (Lindsay Lindstrom)
2000 WPF Things #453 – The UseLayoutRounding Property Aligns Things to Pixel Boundaries (Sean Sexton)
Step by Step WPF Data Binding with Comboboxes (Steve Aube)
Dell Venue Pro – AT Commands while searching for interop unlock (Dennis Delimarsky)
6th Day of Silverlight : Binding in Style Setters (Tony Champion)
Working with the Data Grid – Day 3 (Callum G.)
Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #1: Intro (Windows Phone Geek)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 188: Paul Litwin on ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding (David Giard)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 423: We get ready for Christmas (Larry Hyrb)
Episode 169 – PowerScripting Podcast – Don Jones on PowerShell v3 and Button Monkeys (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery Plugins, Amber.js (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Karsten Wysk Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Expert Panel Q&A featuring Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich (Scott Guthrie, Mark Russinovich & Dave Campbell)
Gillmor Gang Live 12.16.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.17.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Video: Microsoft’s Steve Kaneko on design unification and the challenges of moving to Metro (T.C. Sottek)
Engadget Podcast 268 – 12.16.2011 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 117 – 12.17.2011 and The Vergecast 006 – 12.16.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Windows Weekly 239: Outside My Wheelhouse (Paul Thurrott)
The Engadget Show – 028: Boeing’s 787, the Tokyo Motor Show and the year in review (Brian Heater)
Community Megaphone Podcast Show #32 with Guest Pete Brown (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Yet Another Podcast #55–David Plat on Why Software Sucks (Jesse Liberty)
Unwrapping Oracle WebLogic Server 12c – Part 1 (Bob Rhubart)
The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Builds XAML Apps on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
TWC9: December 16th – Silverlight 5, Azure, TFS PowerTools and XMPP (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

tl;dr (Ryan Lowdermilk)
Tales from the MNC: The team behind Windows Phone’s breakthrough design (MS JobsBlog)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0 with JRE7 getDate compatibility (MS Downloads)
Import Data from Excel into SQL Server Using SSIS (Keshav Singh)
SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR : Msg 3201, Level 16 Cannot open backup device.Operating system error 3 (The system cannot find the path specified.) and SQL SERVER – Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 RC0 – Samples Database for SQL Server 2012 RC0 and SQLAuthority News – Introduction to expressor Connectivity to Salesforce – expressor Data Integration Applications (Pinal Dave)
Bulk Insertion of Data Using C# DataTable and SQL server OpenXML function (Pranay Rana)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 16: CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY and SQL Advent 2011 Day 18: Table-valued Parameters and SQL Advent 2011 Day 19: Filtered Indexes (Denis Gobo)
Import Data from excel to SQL server using C# in ASP. NET (Suraj S Koneri)
Building Apps Using SQL Azure and SQL Azure Reporting (Content) (Zhiming Xue)
Why is RAID So Important for Databases? (Suprotim Agarwal)

Miscellaneous

Sells Manor: Running 64-bit Win8 on My MacBook Air (Chris Sells)
Microsoft Touch Mouse Review (Michael Crump)
Your New Year’s Resolution – Put an end to spinning rust and buy yourself a SSD (Scott Hanselman)
Ever wonder what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956? (Steven Hodson)
Signing in with a picture password (Steven Sinofsky)
Introducing Android Training (Tim Bray)
Android 4.0.3 Platform and Updated SDK tools (Xavier Ducrohet)
Connecting Windows Home Server to web through two routers (Gunnar Peipman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 16, 2011 and Interesting Finds: December 17, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2011 12.13 ~ 12.19 (yuanjian)
The Morning Brew #1005 (Chris Alcock)
Distributed Weekly 133 (Scott Banwart)
Interesting .NET Links – December 16,2011 and Interesting .NET Links – December 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #775 and Double Shot #776 (Mike Gunderloy)
MVP Friday Five: December 16, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
Daily News Digest 12/16/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/16/2011) (Silverlight Show)
Pie in the Sky (December 16, 2011) (Brian Swan)
Windows Dev News for December 18, 2011 – #0012 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 5 – 11, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 16 Dec 2011 and Windows Phone Development Weekly Bulletin 12-18 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Great Sites and Blogs for Learning about .NET Gadgeteer (G. Andrew Duthie)
Retrospective 63 – The Kanban Man and Agile Army (Peter Saddington)
Reading Notes #25 (Franky)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

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C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

Posted on December 16, 2011 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

This is the third in a series of quick how-to articles on Resharper.

Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

Use: ForEach blocks that perform simple bits of logic can often times be rewritten as lambda expressions. This reduces the number of lines of code and usually makes the code more readable.

Before

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             var badAlbums = new List<Album>();

             foreach (Album album in albums)
             {
                 if (album.Genre == "Country")
                     badAlbums.Add(album);
             }

             return badAlbums;
         }

Press <Alt+Enter>

After

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             return albums.Where(album => album.Genre == "Country").ToList();
         }

Happy coding!

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