Dew Drop – July 17, 2012 (#1,365)

Top Links

• Microsoft’s new Office: The cloud finally takes center stage and A new Microsoft Office, a new Microsoft Office division (Mary Jo Foley)
• Article: Cut off wrong dependencies in your .NET code (Patrick Smacchia)
• Team Foundation Service Updates 7/16 (Brian Harry)
• Wow: Google’s Marissa Mayer is Yahoo’s new CEO (Todd Bishop)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Console Application Cursor Position (Richard Carr)
• TFS Integration Tools: TF237165: The Team Foundation Server could not update the work item and Migrating data from FogBugz to TFS 2012 using the TFS Integration Platform (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Fluent Interfaces in C# – Extension Methods (Dror Helper)
• APress deal of the day 17/Jul/2012 – Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming (Tatworth)
• Improved Toolbox Performance Delivers Highly Responsive Visual Studio 2012 (Chuck England & Duke Kamstra)
• C# Code Searcher – Using Roslyn (woutercx)
• Template Argument Deduction – Core C++, Part 2 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
• Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices (Peter Kellner)
• RavenDB… What am I persisting, what am I querying? (part 2) (Phillip Haydon)
• Better Tracing And Instrumentation For .NET Apps (Roopesh Shenoy)
• CodeRush: ‘Friction Free’ mode and Setting Schemes (Rory Becker)
• Windows 8 metro: Win as one with search and share contracts (Andrea Boschin)
• First impressions of Telerik RadControls for Metro… very nice. #TelerikMetro (Eric Nelson)

 

Web Development

• Building a Simple HTML5 Video Player (Robert Crowther, Joe Lennon & Ash Blue)
• A Survey of JavaScript Timers on Mobile (Michael Mullany)
• Lighten your website’s load with HTML Cleaner (Mike Williams)
• How Do You Mark Up A Single Link or Button? (Louis Lazaris)
• Self-Host with Web API (Ugo Lattanzi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Agile Project Manager — What’s the Big Deal about Commitment? (Bob Galen)
• Implications of design decisions: Read Striping (Oren Eini)
• The Cost of Design. (Scott Barnes)
• Review: TypeMock Isolator 7 (Tim Murphy)
• Developer UI Done Right: Mercurial Commandline! (Leon Bambrick)
• Why I Think the Metro Style is Important to Understand (Andrew Conlisk)
• Taking Risks Requires Practice (Aaron Stannard)
• The Builder Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• Developers – Stop Doing QA’s Job (Eli Lopian)
• Outliers – The Story of Success (Jan Van Ryswyck)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Ultimate About Dialog (Windows Phone Geek)
• 8 New Platform Features Coming to Windows Phone 8 (Keith Mayer)
• Communicating Windows Phone 7.1 with WebAPI to perform Create and Read Operations (Mahesh Sabnis)
• OAuth With RestSharp in Windows Phone (Mohamed Haamdi)
• 2000 WPF Things #604 – Defining a New Routed Event (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lucian Wischik Enlightens Us on Async and Parallelism (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• DevRadio Episode: #beatthegu at TechEd (Brian Hitney)
• Video: How to Start Using Project Online in 10 Mins #office365 #msproject #sharepoint #officepreview (Dux Raymond Sy)
• ShopTalk Episode 25 (Chris Coyier)
• Video: Set RhinoMocks Loose on Your Tests! (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Maker Camp on the Google Homepage! (Gareth Branwyn)
• Windows 8 Developer Double Headers (Jim O’Neil)
• Get Involved in Web IDE Community! (Alexey Korsun)
• Upcoming Speaking Engagements About Mobile Web and Single Page Applications (Chris Love)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• Managing SQL Server Extended Events in Management Studio (Brady Upton)
• Crystal Reports DataDate in SSRS (Mike Davis)
• New book: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (Kim Spilker)
• Contained Databases in SQL Server 2012 (Artemakis Artemiou)
• PowerPivot for Excel 2013 (Bradley Schacht)
• T-SQL Tuesday: Taking it to the MAX – Aggregate Functions (Nick Haslam)

 

SharePoint

• Downloadable eBook: Deployment guide for SharePoint 2013 Preview (MS Downloads)
• SharePoint 2013 – What you need to know and Understanding SharePoint 2013 Apps (aka: Apps 101) and SP2013 WCM: Forget Everything You Knew About SharePoint WCM! and SharePoint 2013 Developer & IT Pro Training Available on MSDN & TechNet (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• Tandem PowerShell Sessions (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 2013: Editions at a glance and FAQ (Ed Bott)
• Who will buy Windows 8? (Joe Wilcox)
• OneNote Tip: Tagging more than one line of text with a single tag (John Guin)
• Office 15 – is the end near for Windows Live Writer? and Office 15: Quick links and quick first impressions and More on Windows Live Writer, Office 2013, and reading the tea leaves and OneNote “MX”, the new Windows 8 app, is now available in the Windows Store (Kip Kniskern)
• Welcome to the Office 2013 Public Preview (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft unveils OneNote Metro style app for Windows 8 (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 16, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1147 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 7/16/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 16 July 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 16 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #916 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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