Dew Drop – April 4, 2012 (#1,299)

Top Links

• Mini Hawraman Goes Open Source (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Pinned Sites in Windows 8 (Rahul Lalmalani)
• The Top 10 Features Windows 8 Metro Developers Will Love (Jeremy Likness)
• "April 2012 Updates to Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta (x86 and x64)" available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (from VS 11.0.50214.1 BETAREL to 11.0.50323.1 QRELB) (Greg Duncan)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• EF5: Where are my DataAnnotations? and Update to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config (Julie Lerman)
• What AnyCPU Really Means As Of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• How to improve performance in your Metro style app (David Tepper)
• JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes (Nick Berardi)
• Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Here’s Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure (Michael Collier)
• Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind (Andrea Boschin)
• WiX v3.6 RC0 (CodePlex) – Adds VS11 support.

 

Web Development

• You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors (Karl Seguin)
• What is new in NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Vol.1 (Mihail Mateev)
• Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Brandon Satrom)
• Build a JavaScript Mocking framework in 10 minutes (Brendan Kowitz)
• HTML5 Gaming: How to Animate Sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers: The JavaScript Multi-Threading Approach (David Rousset)
• Pure CSS Tool Tips Revisited (Louis Lazaris)
• Browser URL encoding and website request validation black magic (Troy Hunt)
• Revisiting The Backbone Event Aggregator: Lessons Learned (Derick Bailey)
• Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services (Elton Stoneman)
• Drag and Drop and Automatically Send to the Server (Remy Sharp)
• Getting Started With node.js on Windows (Kevin Griffin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Virtual Scrum – Scrum Wing 3D – Open Source Agile Tool (Peter Saddington)
• Lokad.CQRS – Code Preview for "Anatomy of Distributed Systems" (Rinat Abdullin)
• Use Faker.NET To Fake Your Data (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Using github behind a firewall (Simone Chiaretta)
• Introducing the unrolled-switch anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
• Slack Is for Optional Stuff, Not for Important Stuff (Jurgen Appelo)
• In defense of reinventing wheels (Lea Verou)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Installing and Using WP7 Tool Kit for Silverlight (Karthik Anbarasan)
• How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Automatic Version Increment for Windows Phone Apps (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Flipping the Light(Switch) Fantastic in Visual Studio 11 (David Ramel)
• HackReady.Phone Episode 1 of 7: Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform (Level 100) – http://aka.ms/HackReadyPhone1 (Lindsay Lindstrom)
• Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget HD Podcast 293 – 04.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman (Brady Gaster)
• Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance (Laura Foy)
• Let’s Play TDD #178: I Can’t Believe That Worked (James Shore)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: John Papa on Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout (Paul Ballard)
• Join Me for ‘An Evening on Azure’ in Bellevue, WA (Steve Marx)
• That Conference (Chris Koenig)
• Windows Phone 101 series kicking off in Atlanta (Glen Gordon)
• Get your apps up: upcoming Windows 8 Metro Apps activities and Write up on the first Windows 8 Developer and Hackathon event in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
• Talking Cloud with Exchange Server MVP Jorge Diaz (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• How Fast Does Your SAN Need to Be for SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
• Working with packed dates in SSIS (Jim Giercyk)
• SQL SERVER – Cleaning Up SQL Server Indexes – Defragmentation, Fillfactor – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Dammit people, get to know check constraints and use them! and Downloading SQL Server Sample Databases much improved with new CodePlex changes (Denis Gobo)
• SQL Azure Labs Codename "Data Explorer" Client (Labs Release) and Microsoft Connectors v2.0 for Oracle and Teradata and Microsoft® Connectors v1.2 for Oracle and Teradata (MS Downloads)
• 11 Important Database designing rules which I follow (Shivprasad koirala)
• SSDT – What’s in a name? (Jamie Thomson)
• Dealing with the "The text, ntext, or image pointer value conflicts with the column name specified." error from Visual Foxpro (Naomi Nosonovsky)
• Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update (Gregory Leake)

 

SharePoint

• How to retrieve Sharepoint data from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell – Validating an IP Address (Kyle Neier)
• Improved WMI experience in PowerShell 3.0 (Osama Sajid)

 

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Three common interview mistakes (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• NetAdvantage for iOS: Native iPad & iPhone Controls for Apps (Jason Beres)
• Introducing – Standards Based Management in Windows Server "8" (Osama Sajid)
• Windows 8 RC to Get Flatter Explorer UI, Other Changes (Paul Thurrott)
• Nokia Lumia 900 Review Roundup (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Daily News Digest 4/3/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week March 26 – April 1, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1079 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for April 03, 2012 – #0064 (Dave Campbell)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–March 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily WP7 Development News 3 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Some JavaScript Resources for Web App Developers (Louis Lazaris)
• Interesting Finds: April 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #851 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

The Geek Shelf

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