I may not have Dew Drop posts every day next week. I will be in Bellevue/Redmond, WA for the MVP Global Summit all week. However, I will do my best. There will be big news with the beta release of VS11 and Windows 8 Consumer Preview. There could be Windows Phone news coming out of MWC too.
Top Links
- Introducing the New Developer Experience (Monty Hammontree)
- The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta (S. Somasegar)
- "Visual Studio 11" Beta and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta Make Software Development Fast, Collaborative and Focused (MS News)
- Sneak Preview of Visual Studio 11 and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta (Jason Zander)
- ASP.NET Web API (Part 1) (Scott Guthrie)
- Coming Soon: TFS Express (Brian Harry)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Using Dynamics To Call PowerShell in C# (Adam Driscoll)
- .NET 4.5 and C# 5 is approaching to matureness (Bnaya Eshet)
- RavenDB Tutorial – part 3 – tips for development (Piotr Kwapin)
- Writing simple named pipes server in C# (Gunnar Peipman)
- "TFS Express" coming soon (think "TFS Basic streamlined and free for everyone" and VS Express Editions are getting TFS too) (Greg Duncan)
- C#/.NET Little Wonders–The List<T> Range Methods (James Michael Hare)
- Getting Ready for the Visual Studio 11 Beta (Jason Beres)
- Visual Studio 11 Beta: Thoughts and Resources (Michael Crump)
- Visual Studio 11 Design Changes – What, Really? (Roland Weigelt)
- Put the pedal to the metal with LightSpeed compiled queries (Ivan Towlson)
- Adding LLBLGen to the Dapper performance benchmark test project (Matt Cowan)
- What does the minus sign in indirect localized string resources mean? (Raymond Chen)
- XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example, A Beginners Guide, Visual Basic Edition By Kurt Jaegers (Simon Jackson)
- WindowsForms Toolkit 0.4 (CodePlex) – Release adds MVVM support.
- Using Data Annotations in the .NET Framework (Jason Gaylord)
Web Development
- Upcoming Pluralsight Course – Web Development with ASP.NET MVC, EF Code First, jQuery, and HTML5 (Dan Wahlin)
- How To Create a Notebook Design with CSS (Allen Lawson)
- Using ASP.NET Web API with ASP.NET Web Forms (Henrik F. Nielsen)
- Solving a minor client validation issue in MVC3 and MVC4 Beta (Imran Baloch)
- Adding an alias to an action parameter for model binding in ASP.NET MVC (Jeffrey Palermo)
- http://httpstatus.es/ (John Sheehan)
- Single Page Applications in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Jonathan Allen)
- Google, Microsoft and Netflix want DRM-like encryption in HTML5 (Michael Gorman)
- Major and Minor JavaScript Pitfalls and ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
- YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces” (24 min.) (Ryan Grove)
- jQuery UI 1.8.18 (Scott González)
- markdown-rails: Markdown for Rails views (Jo Liss)
- The Top 15 Mobile Apps and Tools from CodeCanyon (Travis King)
- Windows Web Applications: Query Selectors (Stephen Walther)
- What Web Developers Should Know About HTTP (K. Scott Allen)
- What is ignoreRoleInstanceStatus setting in Windows Azure? (Avkash Chauhan)
- More than one driver for a single Orchard part (Bertrand Le Roy)
- Guarding Against Cross-Site-Scripting with Microsoft’s AntiXSS Library (Dave Zehner)
- Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? (Jeff Atwood)
- Windows Azure Storage and Concurrent Access (Larry Franks)
- Mozilla and the Mobile Web API evolution (Robert Nyman)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Thou shalt storm (Mark Needham)
- Sometimes bugs just will not "repro" (John Guin)
- Software Design and First Principles–Part 0: Concepts of Object Orientation (Peter Ritchie)
- Dealing With Setup Actions and Baseline Datasets and What to do when team members go dark, aka the problem with “Fine” (Jim Holmes)
- Software Team Leader Manifesto – Take #2 (Roy Osherove)
- The Hand-Coding Vs. Automation Tug-of-War (Andrew Brust)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfalls (2 of n) (Peter Kuhn)
- WPF – Dynamically Set DataTemplate (Ryan Alford)
- 2000 WPF Things #501 – Sharing an Event Handler Across Multiple Controls, Method II (Sean Sexton)
- Alternative for capturing traffic between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Part 3: Developing for a multitude of clients: strategies for code reuse and keeping costs in check. (Kevin Dockx)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- C++ AMP: The Development Team – Technical Roundtable, 3 of 4 (Charles Torre)
- Let’s Play TDD #167: Finished with UserEnteredDollars (James Shore)
- Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Stonly Baptiste Interview (Ryan Parsley)
- Boagworld – Tough choices and prioritization (Paul Boag)
- Radio TFS – Christmas in February (Martin Woodward)
Community / Events
- Webinar on Building a User Interface in Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
- MVP Summit Schedule Sync without Outlook (Shawn Keene)
- MVP Global Summit—A World-class Community Event! (Paulette Suddarth)
- Join us in London for an OpenID Workshop (Scott Knaster)
- Want to Attend Project Conference 2012 for FREE? #mspc12 #pmot #in (Dux Raymond Sy)
- Windows Azure Tech.Days Online Conference (Giles Davies)
- Cloud Computing: Soup to Nuts Webcast Series with Mike Benkovich (Peter Laudati)
Database
- SQL SERVER – guest User and MSDB Database – Enable guest User on MSDB Database (Pinal Dave)
- What is wrong here? (Oren Eini)
PowerShell
- StudioShell 1.2 Release (Jim Christopher)
Miscellaneous
- How can I strengthen my resume while between jobs? (Eugenia Sawa)
- Google Drive Will Support Third Party Apps (Alex Chitu)
- Microsoft and others agree to abide by Privacy Bill of Rights (John Callaham)
- No PC to PC sync in new SkyDrive (Kip Kniskern)
- A closer look at Microsoft’s Office 15 Technical Preview (Tom Warren)
More Link Collections
- Daily News Digest 2/24/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- The Morning Brew #1051 (Chris Alcock)
- Double Shot#825 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Interesting Finds: February 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Distributed Weekly 143 (Scott Banwart)
- Daily WP7 Development News 23 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
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