Taking a vacation day today to head down to Baltimore with my family. I’ll be back Tuesday with an XL edition. Cheers!
Dew Drop – April 13, 2012 (#1,306)
Top Links
- Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 3: ContinueWith (Brad Wilson)
- "Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc" (No, it’s not April 1st) (Greg Duncan)
- null is not false, part two (Eric Lippert)
- The Big Glossary of Open Source JavaScript and Web Frameworks with Cool Names (Scott Hanselman)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Beware of big Task Parallel Library Operations (Oren Eini)
- Extending Visual Studio Part 3 – Item Templates (Dave Kerr)
- Actions in WCF Data Services – Part 3: A sample provider for the Entity Framework (Alex James)
- Using SnagIt with Microsoft Test Manager and the Visual Studio TFS Feedback Client (Ed Blankenship)
- Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1.1 (CodePlex)
- #Ebook Deal/Day: Getting Started with Netduino – $7.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
- Tips for Entity Framework Migrations (Jarod Ferguson)
Web Development
- A device emulator guide for cross platform development on ASP.NET and jQuery Mobile development (Rachel Appel)
- T4MVC has its own home, with some git love (David Ebbo)
- ClassyObjects: A JavaScript Class-y Inheritance Example (Derick Bailey)
- The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC and Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2 (Paul Hammant)
- Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 (Ring Wing)
- PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0 RC (117.190) (Alexey Gopachenko)
- Firebug 1.9.2b1 (Jan Odvarko)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- Want to Learn Some New Skills? Just Write It! (Andy Schwam)
- What’s in a name? (Giorgio Sironi)
- Move over, Visio, because Dia delights (Mike Williams)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- KnockoutJS vs. Silverlight (Colin Eberhardt)
- Windows Phone 7 – A Simple Clock App in 10-15 Minutes (Paresh Mayani)
- 2000 WPF Things #536 – Adding Layout Panels Using the Tools Panel in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- APress Deal of the Day – 13/Apr/2012 – Pro WPF and Silverlight MVVM and Microsoft Press Deal of the Day – 13/April/2012 – Building Enterprise Applications with Windows® Presentation Foundation and the MVVM Pattern (Tatworth)
- Adjusting to rapid Marketplace growth—and preparing for the future (Todd Brix)
- Using The OData Explorer with LightSwitch OData (Michael Washington)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- Alexandrescu, Bright, Meijer, Moran: Pure versus Native (and much more) (Charles Torre)
- ShopTalk Episode 14 (Chris Coyier)
- Let’s Play TDD #181: invokeAndWaitFor() (James Shore)
- WPCentral 140: Nokia Lumia 900 vs HTC Titan II (Daniel Rubino)
- Video: Manage the State of Your WPF Controls (Paul Ballard)
- Inside Windows Phone #36 | The Rowi Guys (Larry Lieberman)
Community / Events
- CSharpenUp Samples and Slides (Andy Schwam)
- Women in IT: working at the intersection of search and social media (MS JobsBlog)
- Agile 2012 Keynote Speakers Announced (Shane Hastie)
- Next F# New York City Meetup: Tomas Petricek on F# applications – From Domain Model to User Interface (Don Syme)
- Code Mastery Boston (Rockford Lhotka)
- Early Bird registration for C++ Now! ends Sunday (Diego Dagum)
- Meet the Author: Julie Lerman on Data Layer Validation in Entity Framework 4.1+ (Paul Ballard)
- Imagine Cup 2012: Vote for the People’s Choice (Matt Harrington)
- San Francisco Agile 2012 (SFAgile2012) (Sameer Bendre)
Database
- SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 1 (Glenn Berry)
- SQL server: Deciphering Wait resource (Nelson John A)
- SET and SELECT – SQL Server Vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
- Diagnostic Manager – Custom Alerts (Kevin Conan)
- Finding Exact Duplicate Indexes (George Mastros)
- Using a SQL Prompt snippet with template parameters (David Atkinson)
- PowerShell and T-SQL: Implementing UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT (Kyle Neier)
SharePoint
- Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a Three-Tier Farm (MS Downloads)
- Windows Azure tools for SharePoint–announcing Cloud Meta Man (Nick Swan)
- Creating SharePoint sites from xml using Powershell (Reidar Husmo)
- Cloud Meta Man – Getting Started (Dmitry Kaloshin)
PowerShell
- Running show-command for a cmdlet (PowerShell Team)
Miscellaneous
- Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 8 (Jennifer Marsman)
- Microsoft’s answer to Amazon’s CloudSearch: Bing on Azure Marketplace (Mary Jo Foley)
- What is the real maximum length of a DNS name? (Raymond Chen)
- A new website for Office Labs (Steve Clayton)
- Now you can watch videos at high speed in our Silverlight players! (Keith Brown) – Yay, Pluralsight!
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- April 12th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
- Double Shot #858 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Daily News Digest 4/12/2012 and Daily News Digest 04/13/2012 (Silverlight Show)
- Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-13 (Dan Rigby)
- The Morning Brew #1084 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 12 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
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Android Application Development For Dummies by Donn Felker |
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Dew Drop – April 12, 2012 (#1,305)
Top Links
- Odoyule Rules Engine for .NET (Chris Patterson)
- WinRT: App Activation, Resume and Suspend (Bill Wagner)
- Moving fast requires good communication (Simon Brown)
- Using LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (yes, you can!) (Erik EJ)
.NET / Visual Studio
- Creating a Build Definition in TFS (Mickey Gousset)
- Explain this code (Oren Eini)
- Preemptive Analytics in Visual Studio and TFS 11 (Brian Harry)
- Actions in WCF Data Services – Part2: How IDataServiceActionProvider works (Alex James)
- What happened to application/json in WCF DS 5.0? (WCF Data Services Team)
- Modest Proposal for C# (Miguel de Icaza)
- TFS API The All New Team Project Picker – Beautiful! (Tarun Arora)
- Improving Find & Replace in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha)
- Multi-Targeting Guidelines for Tools for Managed Code (Mircea)
- Team Foundation Service whitepaper has shipped! (Willy-P. Schaub)
- Unit Testable Enum Parsing with C# (Andy Schwam)
- C# compiler improvements and .NET Gadgeteer Core 2.42.550 (BETA) and LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.24 and Json.NET 4.5 Release 2 (CodePlex)
- Hello World, WinRT ! (Jeremy Alles)
- Which ORM is the Best for .NET? (Paul Ballard)
- Get Started with .Net and Apache Cassandra (Sazzad Hossain)
- Auto-hydrate your objects with ADO.NET (Jake Rutherford)
- New Asynchronous Features Enhance .NET Framework 4.5 (Jenni Konrad)
Web Development
- Beyond Role Based Authorization in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Smith)
- jQuery Resize Event (Justin B. Meyer)
- Updated: The Current State of HTML5 Forms (Chris Coyier)
- Big boost to DOM performance – WebKit’s innerHTML is 240% faster (Sam Dutton)
- Toying With the HTML5 File System API (Ivaylo Gerchev)
- Marshmallow People and HTML5 come together in new arcade style game (Jason McConnell)
- Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 (Ring Wing)
- Tracking Scroll Depth with jQuery and Google Analytics (Rob Flaherty)
- JavaScript Unit Testing with Code Coverage (Sergey Simonchik)
- Create the Illusion of Stacked Elements with CSS3 Pseudo-Elements (Tom Kenny)
- Kendo UI ASP.NET Sample Applications (2012-04-11) (CodePlex)
- Sueetie Friends Features Taking Shape (Dave Burke)
- Walk the path to the cloud – learn Windows Azure (Jennifer Marsman)
- If you’re doing Amazon Web Services development, here’s 43 (and counting) free Kindle ebooks for you (from the Amazon Web Services team) (Greg Duncan)
- 3rd Party ISV Tools for Windows Azure Application Monitoring and Load Testing (Hanu Kommalapati)
- What’s new in Web Workbench 3.2 (Ivan Towlson)
Design / Methodology / Testing
- What BDD has taught me (Hadi Hariri)
- Write Things Down and How Tos for Personal Development, Leadership, and More (JD Meier)
- On the road to BDD… Or… to see the light (Peter Gfader)
- Scrum Task Board Card Creator 3.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
- Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
- What Project Managers Say and What They Really Mean (Peter Saddington)
Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone
- Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 3 (Peter Kuhn)
- How to Call a Number in WP7 using the PhoneCallTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
- Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | HttpClient vs. HttpWebRequest (5 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
- 2000 WPF Things #535 – Drawing Symmetrical Shapes in Blend (Sean Sexton)
- Creating the ZuneCard Control for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
- Validate a Property Against a Parent Collection (Brian Lagunas)
Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos
- .NET Rocks! – The State of the Cloud at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
- Behind the scenes: Designing Microsoft’s reinvented certifications (Charles Torre)
- Herding Code 138 – Lightning Round with Douglas Crockford and Herding Code 139 – Lightning Round with Roy Osherove on his new book, Notes to a software team leader and Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Morten Kromberg on APL and Herding Code 141 – Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri (Jon Galloway & Co.)
- The Verge Mobile Podcast 023 – 04.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
- Video: Let NHibernate Map The Way (Paul Ballard)
- Defrag: Side By Side Office, Changing Look of Folders, Cycling Windows (Larry Larsen)
- Developer Diaries II: Mangesh Deshpande (Laura Foy)
- Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages (Herb Sutter, Martyn Lovell, Andrei Alexandrescu, Robert Griesemer & Walter Bright)
- Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript (Robert Green)
- Agile Project Management with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 (MS Podcasts)
Community / Events
- Free End User Webinar: Tips & Tricks – Manage Events Using SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
- TECHbash 2012 NEPA – April 28 (Jason Gaylord)
- Windows Phone Unleashed Events (Joseph Guadagno)
- Windows Phone Unleashed (David Kelley)
Database
- More Good News for SQL Server Developers (David Ramel)
- Breaking News: Changes to Microsoft SQL Server Certifications (Kendra Little)
- Is Power View meant to replace ReportBuilder? (Jen Stirrup)
- What is Database Continuous Integration? (David Atkinson)
- Deleting a row from self-referencing table (Jake Rutherford)
Miscellaneous
- Metro-styled Windows Live web services coming soon, with screenshots (damaster)
- Code isn’t physical property under the definition of National Stolen Property Act, US court rules (Dante D’Orazio)
- Rumor: Kinect coming to Windows Phone 8 (Tim Schiesser)
More Link Collections
- Interesting Finds: April 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
- Cheatsheet: 2012 04.01 ~ 04.12 (yuanjian)
- Double Shot #857 (Mike Gunderloy)
- Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-11 and Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-12 (Dan Rigby)
- Windows Dev News for April 11, 2012 – #0066 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 2 – 8, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
- The Morning Brew #1083 (Chris Alcock)
- Daily WP7 Development News 11 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
The Geek Shelf
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Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed by Daniel Vaughan |
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