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Dew Drop – August 20, 2012 (#1,385)

Top Links

Build Single Page Apps – Part 6 – JavaScript Modules and Italian Food (John Papa)
Using JSHint inside Visual Studio – the basics (Steve Sanderson)
Asynchronous Unit Tests With Mocha, Promises, And WinJS (Derick Bailey)
Windows 8 dev: standard AppBar button styles (Long Zheng)

.NET / Visual Studio

Reflecting Attributes (Richard Carr)
WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps RC (MS Downloads)
mIP – 100% C# Managed TCP/IP Stack for the .NET Micro Framework and Hello Netflix? This Windows 8, WinJS and HTML5. Can we talk? (Greg Duncan)
How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache (Tarun Arora)
How to fix the CA0053 error in Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2012 and Issues with mixed C++ and C# projects in Visual Studio 2012 running Code Analysis (Terje Sandstrom)
Few tips on implementing a Coded UI Test Plugin Extension (Tapas)
What if my application is really two applications bundled into a single file, and I want them collected into two groups on the taskbar in Windows 7? (Raymond Chen)
Common error when upgrading Windows 8 Apps from VS2012 RC to RTM (Michael Crump)
Intellisense problems in VS2012 fix, maybe related to productivity and refactoring plugins (Iris Classon)
New in Windows 8 RTM: out of the box implementation of in-app type-to-search feature (Andrei Marukovich)
Visual Rx – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
Image Metadata with MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
EF Migrations Command Reference (Anders Abel)

Web Development

Using Underscore.js Templates To Render HTML Partials (Ben Nadel)
Illustrator to HTML5 Canvas Plug-In Updated for CS6 (Mike Swanson)
JavaScript Events And Responding To The User // Back To Basics (Christian Heilmann)
How to cook a Windows 8 application with HTML5/Javascript/CSS3: RTM version (David Catuhe)
ASP.NET Web API error detail policy now defaults to the custom errors configuration (Jef Claes)
Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript (Paul Ferson)
One (more) ASP.NET (Paul Stovell)
Installing HTTPIE (HTTP for Humans) on Windows – Great for ASP.NET Web API and RESTful JSON services (Scott Hanselman)
Notes on accessible CSS image sprites (Steve Faulkner)
Avoid Using Vendor Prefixes (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Why XSS is serious business (and why Tesco needs to pay attention) (Troy Hunt)
Responsive Carousel Project: Now Open Source (Scott Jehl)
Book Review: A Practical Guide to Web App Success (Rachel Andrew)
Developing Web Applications Faster (Alexander Beletsky)
Working with elements before the DOM is ready (Keith Clark)
Node.js for Beginners (Maciej Sopyło)
Jasmine.Async: Making Asynchronous Testing With Jasmine Suck Less (Derick Bailey)
Why JSON Won … And Is Good As It Is (Andrea Giammarchi)
Why you should care about Parrot (a new ASP.NET MVC View Engine) (Ben Dornis)
DHTMLX 3.5: Build Visually Stunning, Real-Time Web Apps (DHTMLX Team)
Learning Knockout.js (Eric Davis)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Performance Engineering (JD Meier)
Scrum in 5 Minutes (Stephen Walther)
Management Improvement Carnival (Karl Scotland)
XMind – Powerful, Easy To Use Mindmapping Software (Chance Brown)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Putting Windows Phone Concepts Together – Part1 (Windows Phone Geek)
Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 8 SDK Web Page (Antonio Hernandez)
WPF 4.5 – Part 8: Solving Airspace Problems (Jon Antoine)
Silverlight 5 Modal Windows (Phillip Trelford)
2000 WPF Things #628 – Key Up/Down Sequence When Using ALT Key (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone team fixes bug, resumes app publishing (Todd Bishop)
Cocktail v1.0.0 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Technology & Friends Episode 226: Scott Hanselman on Visual Studio 2012 (David Giard)
Video: Touring the Windows Phone Dev Center (Michael Stroh)
The Tablet Show – Dan Wahlin Builds Web Apps for Tablets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Start Up Success Podcast #149 – Show #55 David Allen, Startups, and Getting Things Done. (Bob Walsh)
The Vergecast 043 – August 16, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
TWC9: Windows 8, VS 2012 Downloads, source for .NET 4.5, git-tf and Kahn!!! | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Windows Weekly 274: Hadoop-a-polooza (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 59 (Richard Hay)
Engadget Podcast 306 – 08.17.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 311 – 08.17.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Episode 87 – Jon Galloway on Whats new in VS 2012, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 and Windows Azure Web Sites | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Jon Galloway, Cory Fowler, Nathan Totten, Nick Harris)
Video: Sorting Out Submit with Multiple HTML Forms (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

Question 26: And the answer to question 25 is..? (Iris Classon)
Red Gate SQL in the City – Free SQL Server Training the Red Gate way (Red Gate Team)

Database

The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Backup and Restore Book Review. (Enrique Lima)
SQLAuthority News – 2 Security Updates for SQL Server 2000 SP 4 Users (Pinal Dave)
NoSQL Distilled Now Available (Martin Fowler)
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Basit Farooq)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
Microsoft reorganizes its Server and Tools unit (Mary Jo Foley)
How to Setup a Proper Python Environment on Windows (Aaron Stanndard)
Wackiness ensues (Eric Lippert)
The Future of Software Jobs (Keyvan Nayyeri)
The Microsoft Story (JD Meier)
Windows 8: My First Impressions (Krishnan Subramanian)
Your words are wasted (Scott Hanselman)
8 Issues In Windows 8: Modern vs Desktop (Manan Kakkar)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 18, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Cheatsheet: 2012 08.01 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
Geek Reading August 17, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Collective #25 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #939 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five–August 17, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Reading Notes #58 (Frank)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #32) (Himanshu Singh)
The Morning Brew #1171 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 8/17/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (8/17/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Pie in the Sky (August 17, 2012) (Brian Swan)
Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Retrospective 95 – Sacrifice and Getting Fired (Peter Saddington)
Recent Noteworthy Entity Framework Posts You Won’t Want to Miss (Julie Lerman)
Visual studio ALM links (week 33/2012) (Ricci Gian Maria)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Windows Phone 7.5: Application Development with Silverlight (Microsoft Windows Development Series) (9780321752130): Shawn Wildermuth: Books

ISBN: 0321752139
ISBN-13: 9780321752130

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Dew Drop – July 30, 2012 (#1,374)

Top Links

Visual Studio Tip: Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts (Peter Vogel)
Last Couple Weeks for the $20 EBook Deal (Charles Petzold)
Building Responsive Mobile Web Applications with MVC4 and HTML5 (Brendan Kowitz)
Make Your JavaScript Better With Self Executing Anonymous Functions (Chris Love)

.NET / Visual Studio

Adding Remarks to XML Documentation (Richard Carr)
The support of multi-selection for Visual Studio by CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
LINQ and “Possible Multiple Enumerations of IEnumerable” Warning / Resharper To the Rescue! and Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst (Peter Kellner)
How to use LINQ in a Workflow (Ron Jacobs)
APress Deal of the Day – 30/Jul/2012 – Pro WCF 4 (Tatworth)
Asynchronous bounded queues (Jon Harrop)
Strongly Typed Delete With NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
Example Metro app /WinRT: How to change default selected item colors when using Listview? and ‘Stupid’ Question 9: How does reflection affect performance, and should I avoid using it? and ‘Stupid’ Question 10: What does a Software Architect do? (Iris Classon)
Don’t Just Decompile, Master the Assembly with JustDecompile Plugins (JustDecompile Team)
Working with OData and WinJS ListView in Metro Application and Netflix Movie Explorer a Metro Application: Creating Step by Step (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook is published (Zubair Ahmed)
Basic HTTP Authentication in WinRT (Marc LaFleur)
Advanced Live Tiles, Part 3: Lock Screens (Eric Vogel)
Keeping an eye it with an object tracking .Net Gadgeteer robot (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

Building Single Page Apps with HTML5, Knockout, jQuery, and Web API – Part 3 – Server Technologies and Micro Benchmarking ASP.Net sites using Apache Bench (Doug Rathbone)
Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle (Addy Osmani)
HTML5 Means More Platform Bang for Your Buck (D. Jordan)
The JavaScript Cheese is Moving: Data-Oriented vs. Control-Oriented Programming and JavaScript Data Binding with AngularJS – Getting Started (Dan Wahlin)
Modernizr – Detect HTML5 and CSS3 features (Kunaal Kapoor)
Custom web.config transforms and merges (AppHarbor Team)
Hello, BinaryJS (J. Vaughan)
Knockout.js pro tips – working with observable arrays (Filip W)
Are node_modules in git still necessary with npm shrinkwrap? (Glenn Block)
Calling DELETE in a RESTful service gets cancelled in IISExpress (Loek Vandenouweland)
ECMAScript.next: classes (Axel Rauschmayer)
Firebug Tip: Conditional Breakpoints (Honza)
Web Performance APIs Rapidly Become W3C Candidate Recommendations (Jatinder Mann)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Unit Testing Improvements in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
Services are (still) not Remotely Callable Components (Udi Dahan)
Remote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 2–Focus on YOU (Rob Reynolds)
Generic Data Access Repositories (Matt Hamilton)
Time Management Tips #8 – Power Up with Purpose and Time Management Tips #9 – Pair Up (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Using Entity Framework to Create Databases on Windows Phone (Adam Benoit)
24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #10 Layout & Composition in Windows Phone Part III (Arturo Toledo)
WPF 4.5 – Part 2 : Improved WeakEventManager (Jon Antoine)
2000 WPF Things #613 – Window Event Sequence (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 063: Fanboys vs Zombies (Mark Frauenfelder)
Technology & Friends Episode 223: Joel Cochran on KnockoutJS (David Giard)
Major Nelson Interview: Wreckateer (Larry Hyrb)
The Metro Developer Show Episode 077 – “I Missed the Olympic Opening Ceremonies For This!?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Start Up Success Podcast #146 – Show #91: Jason Cohen of WPEngine and ASmartBear (Bob Walsh)
Cory Fowler Joins Webcamps TV and Introduces the Node. js CLI Tools | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)
The Vergecast 040 – 07.27.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
TWC9: Build 2012, Metro LOB apps, aspConf, .Net 4.5 GC, Ardunio Shields and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Windows Weekly 271: That’s How They Getcha (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 58 (Richard Hay)
On The Verge episode 008 teaser: Mary Jo Foley on the shock of installing Windows 8 (T.C. Sottek)
Engadget Podcast 303 – 07.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
The Tablet Show – Jason Follas Builds Geospatial Apps in Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

The RavenDB Tour in the states (Oren Eini)
ReSharper 7 Webinar (Hadi Hariri)
Apple’s first official Black Hat talk underwhelms audience (Adi Robertson)

Database

SSRS – Using Lookup Function for Multiple Column Join (Devin Knight)
How to move master and resource system databases? and Different techniques to identify blocking in SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
Importing Azure bacpac file to SQL server (Boris Lipschitz)
The state and (near) future of SQL Server Compact (Erik EJ)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between ORIGINAL_LOGIN() and SUSER_SNAME() (Pinal Dave)
How To Prevent SELECT * The Evil Way (Jorge Segarra)

SharePoint

PowerShell

Commandlets are an Admins Best Friend: Powershell 101 (2 of 3) (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s radical new business plan is hidden in plain sight (Ed Bott)
From the MVPs: Unleash the power of Kinect and your imagination (Devon Musgrave)
Recommended Reading (Gray Knowlton)
Objective-C Literals for iOS in Xcode 4.4 (Josh Smith)
The First 11 Employees of Microsoft (JD Meier)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading July 27, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Friday Five–July 27, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Double Shot #925 (Mike Gunderloy)
Pie in the Sky (July 27, 2012) (Larry Franks)
Collective #22 (Mary Lou)
Reading Notes #57 (Frank)
Daily News Digest 7/30/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (7/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #29) (Himanshu Singh)
The Morning Brew #1156 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-30 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for July 29, 2012 – #0109 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for July 16 – 22, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP Development News 27 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (2nd Edition) (Effective Software Development Series): Bill Wagner: Kindle Store

ASIN: B003BXRNZI

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Dew Drop – July 27, 2012 (#1,373)

Top Links

Windows Azure and Office 365 (Scott Guthrie)
jQuery 1.8 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List (Colin Eberhardt)
Windows Phone 8 Detailed in SDK Leak (Paul Thurrott)

.NET / Visual Studio

RavenDB Changes API on the wire (Oren Eini)
Adding Paragraph Breaks to XML Documentation (Richard Carr)
How Visual Studio 2012 Avoids Prompts for Source (Heath Stewart)
Reading UTF-8 Characters From An Infinite Byte Stream (Mike Hadlow)
StyleCop 4.7.35.0 has been released (Tatworth)
ComponentOne Ultimate 2012 v2 released! (Vincent Maverick Durano)
Using HTML controls to create great Metro style apps (Kathy Kam)
Moving between different IoC containers (Ricci Gian Maria)
XNA for Windows 8 Metro (Rob Miles)
ORM techniques for legacy databases (Jimmy Bogard)
Windows Server AppFabric book released (Jurgen Willis)
Connecting to a SQL LocalDb instance (Jim Wang)
A Quick Note On Pub-Sub / Event Aggregators In WinJS/WinRT (Derick Bailey)
Project 2013 SDK (MS Downloads)
Working with OData and WinJS ListView in Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

Web Development

Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle (Addy Osmani)
HTML5 and HTML.next (Jeff Jaffe)
Mastering CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds (Konstantin Kichinsky)
Differences Between ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET MVC – Routing (Mark Berryman)
Implementing a Command Line with eval in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
How to Add reCaptcha to Custom Forms in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
The Results of my Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks for Front-End Development Survey (Rey Bango)
Swinging on a Canvas (K. Scott Allen)
Adopting A Responsive WordPress Theme Is More Than Install-And-Go (Ben Gremillion)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Retreaded: RigorousAgile (Martin Fowler)
Where are my async unit tests? (Nigel Sampson)
There is no “ego” in “Agile Team” (Brendan Enrick)
CQRS Journey guidance project released (Grigori Melnik)
Time Management Tips #6 – Schedule the Big Rocks (JD Meier)
What is a Qualified User Story? (Derek Huether)
Implementing Customer Feedback Forms AND fine tuning try/buy strategies with Runtime Intelligence (Sebastian Holst)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone 8 bringing Lenses feature to expand camera functionality and Windows Phone 8 allows Lock-screen notifications and wallpaper for 3rd party apps and Windows Phone 8 to feature expanded Bluetooth functionality, access to stack and transfer and Windows Phone 8 to feature developer access to Voice Command features (Daniel Rubino)
Tips and Tricks for C# Metro developer: How to find a XAML control by its name (David Catuhe)
How to Deploy XAP File in a Windows Phone Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
SSL Socket Support in Windows Phone (mikoskin)
Windows Phone 8 – Photo Apps now able to auto upload in background and Auto Launching Apps now possible using file associations for Windows Phone 8 (Robert Brand)
2000 WPF Things #612 – Application Event Sequence for Page-Based Applications (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Erik Meijer: Latency, Native Relativity and Energy-Efficient Programming (Charles Torre)
Welcome to Riding Tandem with the Random and Vittorio Bertocci on Identity | Channel 9 Live at TechEd Europe 2012 (Vittorio Bertocci, Joey Snow & Charles Torre)
Webinar on Why build for Windows 8 and how RadControls for Metro can help (Michael Crump)

Community / Events

Meet The Author: C# Smorgasbord (James Sugrue)
Meet the Author: Robert Boedigheimer on Fiddler (Paul Ballard)
Kinect for Windows at Imagine Cup 2012 Finals (Kinect for Windows Team)
Jobs in IT: Microsoft Scholarships Help Students with High Cost of Tuition (MS JobsBlog)

Database

Different techniques to identify blocking in SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
SSRS – Using Lookup Function for Multiple Column Join (Devin Knight)
SQL SERVER – Query to Get Unique Distinct Data Based on Condition – Eliminate Duplicate Data from Resultset (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Released (Denis Gobo)
NoSQL Distilled pre-order on InformIT with 35% discount (Martin Fowler)
Windows Azure Storage: SQL Database versus Table Storage (Glenn Gailey)

PowerShell

My Git, Mercurial and Powershell setup (Scott Koon)
Inside PowerShell 3.0: Parameter Value Completion (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Super fast fiber for Kansas City (Milo Medin)
Reading in the new Office (Gray Knowlton)
Designing For Android: Tips And Techniques (Jamie McDonald)
Ultrabook Review: Samsung Series 9 (Jeff Hadfield)
A brief and also incomplete history of Windows localization (Raymond Chen)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 26, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 165 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading July 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #924 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 7/26/2012 and Daily News Digest 7/27/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (7/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1155 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-27 (Dan Rigby)
Daily WP Development News 26 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Peer Reviews in Software: A Practical Guide (0785342734850): Karl Wiegers: Books

ISBN: 0201734850
ISBN-13: 9780201734850

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