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Dew Drop – April 13, 2012 (#1,306)

Dew Drop – April 11, 2012 (#1,304)

.NET / Visual Studio

Actions in WCF Data Services – Part 1: Service Author Code (Alex James)
Ternary Operator in VB.NET (Jalpesh Vadgama)
WinJS Promises #1 and WinJS Promises #2 and WinJS Promises #3 and WinJS Promises #4 and WinJS Promises #5 and WinJS Promises #6 and Windows 8 Metro Style Apps–Process Lifecycle Management (Mike Taulty)
Copy Source As Html-Visual Studio 11 and Windows 8 – Icons (Shai Raiten)
Metro app development hidden gem: anonymous type binding (Tim Heuer)
Introduction to Business Rules on individual DataFields (Peter Blum)
Running Migrations At Application Startup (Joel Ross)
Entity Framework Code-First Migrations (Sam Nasr)

Web Development

New in ASP.NET MVC4: Razor changes (Alexander Beletsky)
Whitespace in CSS Calculations (Eric Meyer)
Using Forks with ASP.NET Web Stack Source on CodePlex (Henrik F. Nielsen)
Alternative Units for CSS3 Rotation Transforms (Louis Lazaris)
Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult (Peter Kellner)
JavaScript Debugging Enhancements (Visual Studio Blog)
Using LESS and CoffeeScript with System.Web.Optimization (Philip Proplesch)
Switching Orchard Theme Styles and Colors (David Hayden)
Building Twitter Bootstrap with Web Workbench (Ivan Towlson)
Announcing YUI 3.5.0 (Jenny Donnelly)

Design / Methodology / Testing

On Conflict Resolution – The Cost of Conflict (Peter Saddington)
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability (Oren Eini)
Lean tools: Iterations (Giorgio Sironi)
The Command Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
What Refactoring is, and what it isn’t (Swizec Teller)
Automatic requirement traceability with Exploratory Testing (Nivedita Bawa)
Creating robust tests with Isolator V7 (Dror Helper)
Weekly Outcomes: The Simple Weekly Planner (JD Meier)
Looking for a Free .NET Mocking Framework? (Chris Eargle)
Let’s Talk About Logging (Karl Seguin)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 2 (Peter Kuhn)
2000 WPF Things #534 – Drawing Shapes with the Shape Tools in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 047: Drop Dead Healthy (Mark Frauenfelder)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 185: Dwight Merriman on Replication (SE-Radio Team)
Engadget HD Podcast 294 – 04.10.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
Client Centric Web Design on Sitepoint Podcast (Paul Boag)
Let’s Play TDD #180: There’s That Race Condition Again (James Shore)
[Podcast] Agile Q&A Panel – Part 1 with Joel Semeniuk and Steve Porter (Zero to Agile Podcast Series)
The GeekDads Episode #112: Eating Santa Claus’s Brain (Ken Denmead)
Start Up Success Podcast Show #136: Kelly Kim, Cofounder of Twylah (Bob Walsh)
HackReady.Phone Episode 3 of 7: Understanding Windows Phone’s Application Lifecycle and State Management (Lindsay Lindstrom)

Community / Events

Talking Cloud with Connected System Developer MVP Alan Smith and Talking Cloud with Windows Azure MVP Yves Goeleven (MVP Award Program)
Ex-Silverlighters and how they influence the vNext (Scott Barnes)

Database

Simple Tips To Speed Up Your SSIS Data Flow (Sam Vangas)
Hash Partitioning, SQL Server, and Scaling Writes (Jeremiah Peschka)
SQL SERVER – Installing AdventureWorks Sample Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #010 – Video (Pinal Dave)
SQL Azure Database Query Usage (CPU) Graph in the Management Portal (Wayne Berry)
Columnstore Index – Index Statistics (Ted Krueger)
Microsoft: Hey, we’re an in-memory database player, too (Mary Jo Foley)
Northwind now available on SQL Azure (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

How to display Sharepoint Data in a Windows Forms Application (Michael M. Bangoy)
How to Create SharePoint List and Insert List Item programmatically from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)
Built a cool webpart… Now what? (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

Shorten Path Names (and using Low Level API functions) (Tobias Weltner)
Powershell progress dialogs (Reidar Husmo)
PowerGUI VSX 1.6 Alpha – Visual Studio 2011 Support (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

Have Win8 and a high resolution screen? Want to tweak the number of tiles per row on the Start Screen tile? Here’s how… (Greg Duncan)
My car ships with crapware (Scott Hanselman)
Using ifttt to put stuff in the right boxes (Tim Hibbard)
How to set up and use Facebook Chat and Messenger for Windows Phone (Rich Edmonds)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson

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Dew Drop – April 4, 2012 (#1,299)

.NET / Visual Studio

EF5: Where are my DataAnnotations? and Update to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config (Julie Lerman)
What AnyCPU Really Means As Of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
How to improve performance in your Metro style app (David Tepper)
JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes (Nick Berardi)
Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
Here’s Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure (Michael Collier)
Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind (Andrea Boschin)
WiX v3.6 RC0 (CodePlex) – Adds VS11 support.

Web Development

You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors (Karl Seguin)
What is new in NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Vol.1 (Mihail Mateev)
Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Brandon Satrom)
Build a JavaScript Mocking framework in 10 minutes (Brendan Kowitz)
HTML5 Gaming: How to Animate Sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers: The JavaScript Multi-Threading Approach (David Rousset)
Pure CSS Tool Tips Revisited (Louis Lazaris)
Browser URL encoding and website request validation black magic (Troy Hunt)
Revisiting The Backbone Event Aggregator: Lessons Learned (Derick Bailey)
Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services (Elton Stoneman)
Drag and Drop and Automatically Send to the Server (Remy Sharp)
Getting Started With node.js on Windows (Kevin Griffin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Virtual Scrum – Scrum Wing 3D – Open Source Agile Tool (Peter Saddington)
Lokad.CQRS – Code Preview for "Anatomy of Distributed Systems" (Rinat Abdullin)
Use Faker.NET To Fake Your Data (Roopesh Shenoy)
Using github behind a firewall (Simone Chiaretta)
Introducing the unrolled-switch anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
Slack Is for Optional Stuff, Not for Important Stuff (Jurgen Appelo)
In defense of reinventing wheels (Lea Verou)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Installing and Using WP7 Tool Kit for Silverlight (Karthik Anbarasan)
How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors (Shawn Wildermuth)
Automatic Version Increment for Windows Phone Apps (Dennis Delimarsky)
Flipping the Light(Switch) Fantastic in Visual Studio 11 (David Ramel)
HackReady.Phone Episode 1 of 7: Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform (Level 100) – http://aka.ms/HackReadyPhone1 (Lindsay Lindstrom)
Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Engadget HD Podcast 293 – 04.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman (Brady Gaster)
Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance (Laura Foy)
Let’s Play TDD #178: I Can’t Believe That Worked (James Shore)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: John Papa on Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout (Paul Ballard)
Join Me for ‘An Evening on Azure’ in Bellevue, WA (Steve Marx)
That Conference (Chris Koenig)
Windows Phone 101 series kicking off in Atlanta (Glen Gordon)
Get your apps up: upcoming Windows 8 Metro Apps activities and Write up on the first Windows 8 Developer and Hackathon event in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
Talking Cloud with Exchange Server MVP Jorge Diaz (MVP Award Program)

Database

How Fast Does Your SAN Need to Be for SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
Working with packed dates in SSIS (Jim Giercyk)
SQL SERVER – Cleaning Up SQL Server Indexes – Defragmentation, Fillfactor – Video (Pinal Dave)
Dammit people, get to know check constraints and use them! and Downloading SQL Server Sample Databases much improved with new CodePlex changes (Denis Gobo)
SQL Azure Labs Codename "Data Explorer" Client (Labs Release) and Microsoft Connectors v2.0 for Oracle and Teradata and Microsoft® Connectors v1.2 for Oracle and Teradata (MS Downloads)
11 Important Database designing rules which I follow (Shivprasad koirala)
SSDT – What’s in a name? (Jamie Thomson)
Dealing with the "The text, ntext, or image pointer value conflicts with the column name specified." error from Visual Foxpro (Naomi Nosonovsky)
Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

How to retrieve Sharepoint data from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)

PowerShell

Powershell – Validating an IP Address (Kyle Neier)
Improved WMI experience in PowerShell 3.0 (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

Jobs in IT: Three common interview mistakes (Thomas Kohnstamm)
NetAdvantage for iOS: Native iPad & iPhone Controls for Apps (Jason Beres)
Introducing – Standards Based Management in Windows Server "8" (Osama Sajid)
Windows 8 RC to Get Flatter Explorer UI, Other Changes (Paul Thurrott)
Nokia Lumia 900 Review Roundup (Richard Hay)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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