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Dew Drop – September 27, 2011

Posted on September 27, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Hanselminutes.com: Rewriting a 5 year old VB.NET WebForms application as an ASP.NET Web Pages application with Razor (Scott Hanselman)
WinRT and Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
Signing in to Windows 8 with a Windows Live ID (Steven Sinofsky)
Lighting up your C# Metro apps by Enabling Search–Part 3 (Derik Whittaker)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)

.NET / Visual Studio

Create Work Item in TFS for Specific Visual Studio 2010 Profiler Report (Abhijit Jana)
How to create a memory mapped file with C# (Windows Vista / Windows 7) and FaxSendDocument API does not return when called from a Windows service (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Visual Basic (VB) Call Hierarchy (Zain Naboulsi)
Building Metro Style Apps with C++ and JavaScript (Raman Sharma)
An Xml Serializable PropertyBag Dictionary Class for .NET (Rick Strahl)
Speeding up ForEach loops with parallel programming – Task Parallel Library (Bill Osuch)
Dependency Management in .Net: install2 (Derek Greer)
FSharp for beginners: what is List.map function? (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

Simple CSS3 Login Form Using SASS (Paul Cowan)
20 JavaScript Frameworks Worth Checking Out (Siddharth)
PDF reporting using ASP.NET MVC3 (Patrick Kalkman)
SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 1: Introducing PushState and SEO And Accessibility With HTML5 PushState, Part 2: Progressive Enhancement With Backbone.js (Derick Bailey)
Simple, fast and useful MiniProfiler for ASP.NET MVC (Hajan Selmani)
Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Applications on Windows 8 Developer Preview (Harish Ranganathan)
The HTML5 Article Tag – Fixing the World Wide Web (Joe Stagner)
Version 3.0 (beta) of the SQL Server Drivers for PHP Released! (Brian Swan)
Compressing JS on the fly (John Whish)
What good Web Developers should know about sending E-mail (Doug Rathbone)
Use the Windows Azure CDN for Assets (Brian Hitney)
Being Skeptical About Node.js – My first steps (Drew Peterson)
Cross-Site Request Forgery explained (Giorgio Sironi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Creative Problem Solving Process (J.D. Meier)
Software Developers are Extroverted – Developer Stereotype Busted! (Peter Saddington)
Is OR/M an anti pattern? (Oren Eini)
Why Event Sourcing? (Rinat Abdullin)
How architects talk about COBIT (Juan Mestas J.)
Some Thoughts On Service Oriented Architecture (Part 2) (Mike Hadlow)
Agile, Power, and Culture (Johanna Rothman)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Book review: XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows Phone 7 and Xbox 360 (keyboardP)
OData Quickstart for Windows Phone Updated—Now with VB! (Glen Gailey)
So I Was Wrong About Silverlight On Windows 8 … (Jon Davis)
Using the ShareLinkTask of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) (Matthieu)
Nuance adds WP7 support, gives devs better service with NDEV Mobile developer program (Michael Gorman)
2000 WPF Things #395 – Rich ListBox Content using Data Binding, part I (Sean Sexton)
Design and Deploy Visual Studio Light Switch 2011 Application in Windows Azure – Part 1 (Karthikeyan Anbarasan)
Solution for “The program can’t start because MFPlat.dll is missing from your computer” (Kunal Chowdhury)
Mango ‘Augmented Reality’ 101: showing a video background (Joost van Schaik)
Fake Windows Phone Marketplace (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Jeremiah Peschka Stores Data in CorrugatedIron (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Defrag: TPM & Bitlocker, Search Service, How to Pick Wifi Hardware (Larry Larsen)
Welcome Golnaz to Channel 9 (Charles Torre & Golnaz Alibeigi)
Make: Live Episode 17: 3D Modeling & Printing (preview video) (Becky Stern)
How to Defend Against the OWASP Top Ten Web Security Threats (JavaZone)
Backbone – Introduction & Views (Joey Beninghove)
Getting Started with Entity Framework 4.0 Screencast Recorded session from Cairo Code Camp – Part 6 (Muhammad Mosa)

Community / Events

Upcoming Area Code Camps, etc. (G. Andrew Duthie)
SQLAuthority News – 31 Millions Views – Free 5 Print Copy of SQL Wait Types and Queues (Pinal Dave)
Looking for a XAML expert (Oren Eini)
Richard Hundhausen Speaking in Chicago About TFS 11 and Scrum in October! and Tech.Days Online Event Coming October 27th, 2011. Sign up today! (Angela Dugan)
Georgia Tech football player goes pro… at Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
Build, one week later (Bill Wagner)
Why I Work for Microsoft Research (Janie Chang)
Building on the Momentum of BUILD (Steve Clayton)
Headspring sponsoring Open Source Hackathon (Steve Donie)
Announcing my new position at Neudesic (Steven ‘Doc’ List)
Screencast: 5 Effective Ways to Deliver Dynamic Presentations #BeDynamic (Dux Raymond Sy)
What is a Microsoft Regional Director? (James Serra)
Caffeinating Your Development Lifecycle in Bellevue on October 13th (Martin Hinshelwood)

Database

ALTER AUTHORIZATION sql to change owner of a database (Jack Vamvas)

SharePoint

Speeding Up WebPart Development in SharePoint (Avi Kaye)
Schedule Publishing in Non-Publishing Sites (Kovilur G. Krishnan)

Miscellaneous

Job Hunt: What every student should know about resumes (Gretchen Ledgard)
Announcing the Microsoft Research series from Microsoft Press (Devon Musgrave)
The work of Microsoft Research (Steve Clayton)
How To Build Your Own Windows 8 Tablet Using Existing Hardware (Awais Imran)
Windows Phone Marketplace is Now Live on the Web (Antonio Hernandez)
Windows Phone Live is now “My Windows Phone”, with Microsoft Scrapbook (damaster)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 26, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 26, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Interesting .NET Links – September 27 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Double Shot #717 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly Article Digest 09/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/26/2011 and Daily News Digest 09/27/2011 and Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for September 19-25, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #946 (Chris Alcock)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 9/26/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
Silverlight Cream for September 26, 2011 — #1150 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

jQuery in Action, Second Edition by Bear Bibeault

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Dew Drop – September 20, 2011

Posted on September 20, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Windows 8, What Does It Mean to Me? (Peter Ritchie)
Decoding Windows 8 UX Principles– Let Context breathe instead of the UI! (Scott Barnes)
Inheritance and Representation (Eric Lippert)
Dependency Management in .Net: Using NuGet without Visual Studio (Derek Greer)
Microsoft’s new Windows 8 contracts: The debut of the developer clipboard (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

More on Async, Win8, and C# (Bill Wagner)
Checking Password Strength (Richard Carr)
How SignalR killed RavenMQ (Oren Eini)
What’s new in WCF Web API Preview 5 – introducing the test client (Alexander Zeitler)
F# type providers – as if by magic… (Ivan Towlson)
Day 2: Building a Metro App with Visual Studio 11 Express (Stephen Forte)
Database changes between TFS 2010 and TFS 2011 (Tarun Arora)
O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 20/Sep/2011 – CLR via C#, Third Edition (Tatworth)
Development With Kinect .NET SDK (Part IV) – Connecting Multiple Kinect Devices with System and Navigate Code Using Code Definition Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
Use EF 4.0 or not ? (Ankit Agrawal)
Review of InRule v 4.0 Business Rule Authoring system (Bill Osuch)
Quick tip: Adding objects in resources. (Laurent Bugnion)
Running C++ AMP kernels on the CPU (Daniel Moth)
SharpDevelop 5 – NRefactory 5 + semantic highlighting (Daniel Grunwald)
Are .Net programmers planning to abandon Win 8? (Don Burnett)
Using Netduino to monitor Twitter and Kinect Panorama Viewer (Greg Duncan)
Mono for Android Release 1.2.0 (Xamarin Team)

Web Development

Practical Google+ Api (Giorgio Sironi)
JSHint – a JavaScript code quality checker (Axel Rauschmayer)
Tip #110 Did you know … How to referencing root project’s master page’s properties from sub project’s content page? (Xinyang Qiu)
Calling the Yahoo Term Extraction from C# to generate keywords (for web page, etc) (Greg Duncan)
How to Get Diagnostics Info for Azure/PHP Applications–Part 1 (Brian Swan)
How do I use Sinatra to access the Google+ API? (Satish Talim)
Creating an OData Server Quickly (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Parenting (Jag Reehal)
Goal Setting and Routines (John Sonmez)
Technical Anti Patterns Arising from Social Inadequacy (Roy Osherove)
The Purpose of Time Tracking (Jurgen Appelo)
IT Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Building a Reminder Application in Windows Phone Mango (Windows Phone Geek)
Phone7.Fx : How to use the IOC Container and MVVM (Nicolas Humann)
Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Release Candidate (Michael Crump)
Windows 8 and what it means for Silverlight and the coming Slate Wars (David Kelley)
2000 WPF Things #390 – Scrollbar Visibility in a ScrollViewer (Sean Sexton)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.0.0.400 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 017: David Hahn (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Jay Schmelzer Builds Apps With LightSwitch (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
How Do I: Cross Domain Requests (xdr) and How Do I: Use the Animation Control in MFC? and How Do I: Use Implicit Line Continuation in Visual Basic 10? (MS Podcasts)
Community Megaphone Show #31 with Guest David Giard (Dane Morgridge & G. Andrew Duthie)
Live at BUILD – interview with Rafael Rivera and Long Zheng (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Phone Radio–42 (Foursquare video) (Brian Seitz)

Community / Events

Learn from Windows Azure Experts at the Seattle Interactive Conference, November 2-3, 2011 (Windows Azure Team)
Here’s the one Microsoft Windows 8 slide that everyone wants to redo (Mary Jo Foley)
Business Intelligence Code Camp–October 15th (Jim O’Neil)
WindowsPhoneGeek Community Recognition Program officially Announced! (Windows Phone Geek)
Some Thoughts About My Week at Build and Windows 8 (Robby Ingebretsen)
BUILT: Post-Conference Conversations After Microsoft BUILD (Mike Desmond)
Webinar: Top 5 Unit Testing Problems in C++ Legacy Code and How to Solve Them and Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator to speed the development of SharePoint Web Parts (Typemock)
Visual Studio BUILD sessions and Tips & Tricks Cheat Sheet (Weston Hutchins)

Database

SSIS: How to Remove Occasional Quotes and Replace The Column Delimiter (Arthur Zubarev)
Building a Visual Studio project from an existing SSAS database (James Serra)
SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – EOMONTH() – A Quick Introduction (Pinal Dave)
Performance Tuning – Over the Top Biz Logic (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

Client Object Models Operation in SharePoint Online Solutions (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) #1 Available for Download (Travis Jones)

Miscellaneous

Android > iOS (And Other Statistics) (Alex Miller)
Book Review: Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Line of Business Systems Integration (Charles Young)
Windows 8 and the up and coming Hardware Revolution (Keith Elder)
New book: Microsoft OneNote 2010 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
Take Control of Windows 8 with Metro UI Tweaker (Mark Wilson)
Microsoft: Desktop apps will run on Windows 8 on ARM (Mary Jo Foley)
Recent Thoughts On Hiring and Being Hired (Jay C. Fields)
Preparing for Handsets (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 19, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading September 19, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Today’s Links (9/19/2011) (Bob Rhubart)
Afternoon Tea – Monday 19th September and The Morning Brew #941 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 09/20/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Double Shot #712 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Silverlight Cream Top 5 News for September 12-18, 2011 (Silverlight Show)
Link dump for September 19th (Jeff Schoolcraft)

The Geek Shelf

Azure in Action by Chris Hay

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Dew Drop – September 16, 2011

Posted on September 16, 2011 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

O Reilly – 50% off ebooks and videos to Sept 28th (TATWORTH)
One scary future for Windows 8 I hope we never see (Steven Hodson)
WinRT demystified (Miguel de Icaza)
Will XNA be available in Windows 8 Metro Apps? (Ryan Hayes)
WebMatrix and node.js: The easiest way to get started with node on Windows (Scott Hanselman)

.NET / WinRT / Visual Studio

Specifying Assembly Information in Visual Studio and How to Pass Command Line Arguments using Visual Studio ? (Abhijit Jana)
How to configure a build controller against tfspreview (Gian Maria Ricci)
Using WinRT from C# //build Demo (Harry Pierson)
Teaching XNA with class with the "Game Development with XNA: Semester 1" class and Kinect SDK dev series with a runtime extension and more on buttons (with Hover Button Control too) and "What’s New in the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview" (and Yield is coming to VB.Net!) (Greg Duncan)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Remove() and Replace() Methods (James Michael Hare)
Adventure in parserland – parsing lambda expressions in F# – Part V (Luca Bolognese)
Setting useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy At Runtime (Reed Copsey)
Back to Basics: Big O notation issues with older .NET code and improving for loops with LINQ deferred execution (Scott Hanselman)
TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! (Tarun Arora)
Installing the Advanced Configuration of TFS vNext from the BUILD Conference in Anaheim (Tim Elhajj)
Announcing: Windows Azure SDK 1.5, Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and new Service Management Features (Vijay Rajagopalan)
Modifying an IntelliTrace Collection Plan for the Stand-Alone Collector (Patrick)
The Windows Runtime (Harry Pierson)
Build day 2: WinRT and managed languages (Bill Wagner)
Windows 8 : how to detect the orientation and the layout state of a metro app ? (Jonathan Antoine)
Metro and WinRT: Too early to call, but I’m paying close attention (Pete Seale)
Arrays of ValueTypes don’t like object.Equals (Chris Gardner)
Windows 8 Remote Debugging + Setup (Andy Beaulieu)

Web Development

Reviewing SignalR–Part I (Oren Eini)
A more complete Simple Membership MVC 3 Sample and ASP.Net MVC4 Developer Preview install fails with web platform installer and ASP.NET MVC4 Developer Preview goodness! (Kevin LaBranche)
New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview (Xinyang Qiu)
Zombies! RUN! (Managing Page Transitions In Backbone Apps) (Derick Bailey)
Site Ready WebSockets (ieblog)
Free Book Chapter: Creating a User Account in Rails (Mitch Pronschinske)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Count Bug Fixes Towards Velocity? Depends … (Vikas Hazrati)
Why some projects just go right (Paul Boag)
Business Scenarios for the Cloud (JD Meier)
Application Lifecycle Management in Team Foundation Server 11 and Designing Loosely Coupled Metro Applications with URIs (Jonathan Allen)
Windows Azure Architecture Guide (MS Downloads)

XAML

Silverlight Developers Have the Smoothest Road to Metro (Brian Noyes)
WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 0 and WinRT vs. Silverlight – Part 1 – XML Namespace (Morten Nielsen)
Expand and Collapse ExpanderView inside data bound ListBox via code (Windows Phone Geek)
Announcing Windows Phone Starter Kits (Chris Koenig)
Upload Image from Silverlight to Azure BLOB using WCF (Dhananjay Kumar)
WPF Elements 5 Beta – Grab it and enter the Xbox draw! (John-Daniel Trask)
If Silverlight is Dead… (Jeremy Likness)
Silverlight 5 in Action Book Update, and Announcing the Next Big Book (Pete Brown)
2000 WPF Things #388 – Layout Containers Don’t Provide Scrolling Support (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Visual Studio vNext: DirectX 11 Development Experience (Charles Torre)
JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.6.4, Node 0.5.6 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Let’s Play TDD #140: Cleaning Up the Menu Code (James Shore)
Xbox LIVE On Windows 8 Enables Gamers To Play Against PC, Windows Phone And Xbox 360 [VIDEO] (Ben Reid)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – William Shulman Interview (Ryan Parsley)
Windows 8 Running on ARM (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

My first few days at Mozilla (Joe Stagner)
Download all the Build Videos with RSS (Michael Crump)
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ Developer Event, Cambridge MA (Bob Familiar)
ASP.NET Training in San Diego on Saturday, September 24th (Scott Mitchell)
BUILD Day #2 in Review According to MVPs (MVP Award Program)
Join NW Ohio .NET User Group for Their 10th Anniversary! and Learn About Test Studio’s R2 Release via a Webinar on 9/29! (Jim Holmes)
Microsoft Build: News from the Windows 8 sessions (Mary Jo Foley)

Database

SharePoint

RTM’d today: Deploying Cloud-Based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8 – An OS of two halves. (Colin Eberhardt)
Joe Belfiore: No Mango This Week (Still Might Land this Month) (Antonio Hernandez)
Windows To Go (Sasha Goldshtein)
5 deal-breaking flaws in Windows 8 (Sebastian Anthony)
Protecting you from malware (Steven Sinofsky)
Windows Azure Marketplace News from BUILD: Announcing NEW Data Offerings and International Availability (Sudhir Hasbe)
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder’s guide (Matthew Baxter-Reynolds)
Xbox Live integration coming to Windows 8 (Dennis Delimarsky)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: September 15, 2011 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #939 (Chris Alcock)
Interesting .NET Links – September 16 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Sep 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily News Digest 09/16/2011 (Silverlight Show)
Web Dev Tweets 14-Sep-2011 (Elijah Manor)
Geek Reading September 15, 2011 (Rob Diana)
Daily Links 15/09/2011 (Jax)

The Geek Shelf

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan

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