Dew Drop – March 12, 2012 (#1,284)

Top Links

• Why not automatically infer constraints? (Eric Lippert)
• You can’t achieve REST without client and server participation (Glenn Block)
• Pro NuGet is finally there! (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to access NuGet when NuGet.org is down (or you’re on a plane) (Scott Hanselman)
• It’s The Little Things about ASP.NET MVC 4 (Phil Haack)
• Windows 8 for C# Developers: Intro and Splash Screen (Bill Wagner)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Asynchronous client/server in F# (QCon 2012) (Tomas Petricek)
• Reflecting Methods (Richard Carr)
• Faking in Visual Studio 11 (Charles Cook)
• Codeplex project for TFS and Basic Request Response WCF service and Local workspaces in TFS11 (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Whats new in Visual Studio 11 Dependency Graph Features (C. Lovett)
• Refactoring with LINQ (Deran Schilling)
• Windows 8 Metro development–are they serious? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Get Latest Version of Specific Files With TFS Power Tools (Geoff Hudik)
• Entity Framework Moves to the Big House (Julie Lerman)
• JustCode Visual Studio 11 Beta Support (JustCode Team)
• WinDBG: How to load specific version of mscordacwks.dll for debugging crash dumps (Rupreet Singh Gujral)
• Understanding the Portable Library by Chasing ICommand (2 of 3) (Jeremy Likness)
• Super charging your data! (John-Daniel Trask)
• Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests–Released to Codeplex (Mathew Aniyan)
• That’s smoooootttthhhh… The Smooth Streaming Client SDK Beta and Player Framework Beta for Windows 8 Metro (Greg Duncan)
• Rxx (Extensions for Reactive Extensions) 1.3 (CodePlex)
• Dependency Management in .Net: Offline Dependencies with NuGet Command Line Tool (Derek Greer)
• Safer passwords with SqlCredential (Wenchang Liu)

Web Development

• What ASP.Net MVC Developers Can Learn From GitHub’s Security Woes (Doug Rathbone)
• Microsoft Ajax Minifier 4.47 (CodePlex)
• The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC (Paul Hammant)
• Using Backbone.CQRS with SignalR (Per Ökvist)
• jQuery 1.7.2 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• jQueryMobile 1.1.0 and MVC4 (Robert Richard)
• Find the jQuery Bug #6: Traversing Trouble (Elijah Manor)
• Developing a simple HTML5 space shooter (Ondřej Žára)
• HTML5–Challenges and Opportunities (Steve Albers)
• LESS is More? So is SASS! and JavaScript for the C# Guy: Function Overloads (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Finding an Element’s X, Y Position (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• The other side of AppEngine (Kyle Baley)
• PostgreSQL Adapter (Mark Curphey)
• Sass vs. LESS vs. Stylus: Preprocessor Shootout (Johnathan Croom)
• Thoughts after using ASP.Net Web API (beta) in anger for a week (Oren Eini)
• Dropbox REST API Part 5: File Upload (Christophe Geers)
• Next-Next Generation Web Making (David Humphrey)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: RESTful Web Services Cookbook – $15.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Modelling Process and Staleness and v3 of the book is published (Simon Brown)
• Switching Gears is Grinding Gears (John Sonmez)
• Building Blocks in CQRS world à la Lokad (Rinat Abdullin)
• Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1 (Rob Reynolds)
• On Writing Unit Tests for C# (Patrick Smacchia)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Incremental Validation in WPF (Peter Vogel)
• Fade-Trimming TextBlocks in Silverlight and WPF (Samuel Jack)
• 2000 WPF Things #512 – Areas of the Screen in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Blend’s Data Binding dialog: new features and UX refresh (Steve White)
• WPF Application Framework (WAF) for .NET 4.5 (Experimental) (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 043: Cashcats.biz (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 200: A Celebration of Friends (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 058 – “Fast Cars, Cheerleaders and MVPs” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Herding Code 136: Code52 with Paul Jenkins, Brendan Forster, and Andrew Tobin (Jon Galloway)
• Episode 178 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell v3 Beta (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Tablet Show – Kate Gregory Programs WinRT in C++ (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Glenn Block Node.js on Windows Azure Video (Bobby Johnson)
• Geekadelphia Podcast Episode 3: Chipocrite (Eric Smith)
• The JavaScript Show – Node 0.7.5 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• RadioTFS – TEE for Free (Martin Woodward)
• Engadget Podcast 284 – 03.09.2012 and The Vergecast 021 – 03.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Cloud Cover Episode 71 – Using Cloud9 IDE to Deploy to Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
• TWC9: SQL Server 2012, VS11, Win8 Metro, Bing Maps Metro and more (Charles Torre, Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• SQL Server 2012 content on Channel 9 (Jamie Thomson)
• colorizing images using expression blend (Timmy Kokke)
• Expert Access Radio Interview on Getting Results the Agile Way (JD Meier)
• SQL Server – Learning SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics – Interview of Vinod Kumar by Pinal Dave (Pinal Dave)
• BoxingBots at South by South West (Laura Foy & Golnaz)

Community / Events

• Lang.NEXT 2012 (Charles Torre)
• My Love for Local & Regional Conferences (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Windows Camp in New Zealand and Developing for Windows 8 (Nigel Parker)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Introduction to Objective-C (Paul Ballard)
• Azure Kick Start Events (Chris Koenig)

Database

• Removing Read Only Attribute From Files Using SSIS (Chris Yates)
• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Power View installation and requirements (James Serra)
• Synchronizing subscriptions in SQL Server Express (Brandon Williams)
• SSRS – optional parameters (Natasa Gavrilovic)
• Generate Row Number – SQL Server vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2012 – Microsoft Learning Training and Certification and SQL SERVER – 2012 – All Download Links in Single Page – SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• Factors that can delay Log Truncation – LOG BACKUP (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Developer Resource Centers (MS Downloads)
• New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (Kim Spilker)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Book Reviews (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

• Firefox Metro development begins, status update (Brian Bondy)
• This is my next: the Nokia Lumia 900 (Chris Ziegler)
• Thoughts On Learning New Things (Davy Brion)
• Openness vs. Control in Software (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Learning: the Hacker Way (Jef Claes)
• How to Share a Local Drive when Remoting into Windows Azure Instance (Jason Haley)
• Windows Phone 8 “Apollo” coming to 1st or 2nd Gen devices? (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 10, 2012 and Interesting Find: March 11, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 03.01 ~ 03.12 (yuanjian)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 9 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #836 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (March 9, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1062 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for March 11, 2012 – #0048 and SilverlightShow Top 10 for February 20 – March 04, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Everyman on The Long View, Innovation Salvation, Text Rape, Superfans, Microalgae Lamps (Dave Burke)
• Daily WP7 Development News 9 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (3/9/2012) and Daily News Digest 3/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• MVP Friday Five: March 9, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Retrospective 75 – Guns and Open Offices (Peter Saddington)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #9) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services by Robert Daigneau