Dew Drop – May 30, 2012 (#1,337)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Dark Theme (Monty Hammontree)
• Using GitHub for Windows with non-GitHub repositories (Phil Haack)
• Miguel de Icaza on ASP.NET MVC, Moonlight, and the Android Lawsuit (Jonathan Allen)
• My Favorite Features: Managing Projects with the Backlog, Sprint Planning and Taskboard Features in Team Foundation Server 11 (Jason Zander)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Writing a WCF 4.5 WebSocket Service (Peter Vogel)
• Windows Explorer Preview Pane for .vb files (Kirill Osenkov)
• How does it work in C#? – Part 3 (C# LINQ in detail) (Mohammad A Rahman)
• Visual Studio Express–Alive and Well (Talbott Crowell)
• Mighty Metro Morphing! – Design case study of morphing a HTML5 page into a Windows 8 Metro app (Greg Duncan)
• Making a different view the Root Navigation Controller and Hiding the back button in a Navigation Controller with MonoTouch (Wally McClure)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3.11 beta available (Rockford Lhotka)
• Team Building your windows 8 Metro style Applications. (Shady Youssef)
• My take on Win8/Metro (John Petersen)
• In Case You Missed It: Async and Streaming for ADO.NET 4.5 (Jonathan Allen)
• Design case study: iPad to Windows 8 Metro style app (downloadable version) (MS Downloads)
• IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warning (Michael Freidgeim)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Headers Exchanges (Derek Greer)
• How many ways are there to create a File Watcher? Well, here’s three at least… (Greg Duncan)
• Upgrade to NuGet 1.8 to speed up builds (AppHarbor)

Web Development

• Extending WordPress with C# Plugins (Miloslav Beno)
• Develop A One-Of-A-Kind CSS/JS-Based Game Portfolio (Daniel Sternlicht)
• The CSS Clip Property (Louis Lazaris)
• Rendering ASP.NET MVC Views to String (Rick Strahl)
• Naked JavaScript – Function Scopes, Hoisting And Other Quirks (Ryan Sukale)
• Using KO’s native PubSub for decoupled synchronization (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Objects and Classes in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Challenges Faced when Migrating Applications to the Cloud (Abel Avram)
• Search DOM Nodes with Opera Dragonfly Developer tool (Karl Dubost)
• #nodejs, why I’m basically porting EVERYTHING to it… (Adron Hall)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.2 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Why your site graphics look crap on the iPhone (Paul Boag)
• Fun With the Service Bus (Part 3) (Jim O’Neil)
• Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
• Serving web resources (AXDs) with HTTP Compression through Windows Azure CDN (Avkash Chauhan)
• Windows Azure End to End Examples (Buck Woody)
• Bing Maps AJAX Control SDK 7.0 (PDF) (MS Downloads)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 10. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – the Definition of Done (Clemens Reijnen)
• Agile Scrum Tools – A Tool that Helps Teams Grow? (Peter Saddington)
• Performance Testing Part I – Modeling, Implementing, and Executing Performance Tests (Phil Sams)
• Book review: Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice (Devon Musgrave)
• How to Make Progress Bars Feel Faster to Users (Anthony)
• Why one startup prefers coworking to remote collaboration (Jessica Stillman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology (Mary Jo Foley)
• Silverlight 5 in Action printed book is now in (Pete Brown)
• 2000 WPF Things #569 – Setting Transforms from within Blend (Sean Sexton)
• The PhoneGap/Cordova Misconception (Matt Lacey)
• LightSwitch Tips & Tricks on Query Performance (Beth Massi)
• Silverlight – Testing the untestable (Peter Gfader)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #193: Turning the Application Inside Out (James Shore)
• Howard Dierking Shows You How to Optimize Your ASP.NET Sites | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
• Yet Another Podcast #66–Chris Sells (Jesse Liberty)
• Ping 143: So.cl, Imagine Cup, Win 8 Boot Speed, Minecraft refund | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Windows 8: 30 to Launch (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free One Day F# Workshop (Giles Davies)
• Windows 8 Day by the beach in Carlsbad California and See Windows 8 at the Microsoft Store! (Surf4Fun)
• I’m Speaking at SP Tech Con in Boston this July (Andrew Connell)
• My Tech Ed North America Preview – Content Edition (Chris Gardner)
• Talking Cloud Tuesday with Windows Imbedded MVP Gianni Rosa Gallina (MVP Award Program)
• She let me take the computer home. – How did you get started in computers and programming? (Scott Hanselman)

Database

• Building a SQL Server Inventory – Part 1 (Colleen Morrow)
• Developer Training – Difficult Questions and Alternative Perspective – Part 3 (Pinal Dave)
• Oracle Date issues with PowerPivot (Mike Davis)
• Denali – Day 30: Deprecated Features (Vinay Thakur)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Manage Windows Azure Applications (Brian Hitney)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Five Tips for a Successful Design Portfolio (MS JobsBlog)
• Xbox Beyond the Box (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Meet Samsung Series 3 Chromebox and Is Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550 worth spending $549? (Joe Wilcox)
• Photosynth for Windows Phone (finally) released (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 29, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #889 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1116 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily WP7 Development News 29 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week May 21-27, 2012 and Daily News Digest 5/30/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for May 29, 2012 – #0090 (Dave Campbell)

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