Dew Drop – November 29, 2011

Top Links

• Farewell to Google’s CodeSearch (Miguel de Icaza)
• OData, RSS, Ifttt.com for your Nuget’s (Greg Duncan)
• Why have a stack? (Eric Lippert)
• Composing Entity Framework Fluent Configurations (K. Scott Allen)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Three new TFS Training Modules at MSDN Virtual Labs and QFEs and Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager 2010 (Charles Sterling)
• PowerGUI brings PowerShell scripting support to Visual Studio (David Cooksey)
• Making CopySourceAsHtml add-on work with VS2010 (Gunnar Peipman)
• .NET assembly merging, three different approaches… and Multitouch at your fingertips, with the Touch Mouse and Sensor API (Greg Duncan)
• A Map for the Microsoft Application Development Platform (JD Meier)
• Duplicate Detection and Consolidation in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• Numerical Computing with F# (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview: Multiple / Floating Tab Wells (Zain Naboulsi)
• Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Book Review (John Papa)
• Why is CLIPFORMAT defined to be a WORD rather than a UINT? (Raymond Chen)
• MSDN Magazine December Issue Preview (Mike Desmond)
• How to use Application Bar in windows 8 (Abhishek Sur)
• WinRT File Based Database 0.9.1.5 and FxCop Integrator for Visual Studio 2010 – 2.0.0 RC (CodePlex)

Web Development

• People of HTML5: Joe Lambert unshredding images in Canvas (Chris Heilmann)
• staticHTML property (Gareth Heyes)
• Using the Infragistics jQuery Tree (Jordan Tsankov)
• Firefox – tons of tools for web developers! (Robert Nyman)
• Web Audio API how-to: Playing audio based on user interaction (Eric Bidelman)
• Supported Token Format and Protocol in ACS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Azure Queue can have 64KB message content and how 64KB content is calculated? (Avkash Chauhan)
• Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Tutorial: jQuery Mobile 1.0 (Shaun Dunne)
• PhpStorm 3.0: Keep Your Code in Its Best Shape! (Alexey Korsun)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are Scrum and Waterfall The Same? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Sprint is a container for Planning and not necessarily for Delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)
• PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010: Perfect Partners for Tracking Projects (Glenna Shaw)
• Dealing with transactions (Jimmy Bogard)
• Designing a great API (Damien Guard)
• The two worlds – a project retrospective (Rob Ashton)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Using JSON With Windows Phone (Dani Diaz)
• Launching a WPF Window in a Separate Thread, Part 1 (Reed Copsey)
• 10 Laps around Silverlight 5 (Part 8 of 10) (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone Local Database tip: Viewing the SQL generated by LINQ to SQL (Erik EJ)
• Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.01 for Mac (Paul Thurrott)
• Castle Func Injection (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #439 – Using a DropShadow with a Border, part II (Sean Sexton)
• New Windows Phone 7 Stencil For Cacoo (Tim Murphy)
• WPF: Thriple (xamlnotes)
• Integrating Infragistics Reporting in Visual Studio LightSwitch Applications (Mihail Mateev)
• 31 Days of Mango | Day #29: Globalization (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Windows Phone Power Tools 1.4.9 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dr. Neil Roodyn on Vision-Based Systems (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 166 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf talks PowerCLI (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Ping 125: Windows Phone Fangirls, Nokia Lumia sales, Kinect on PC, Xbox 360 update (Laura Foy)
• Printing web pages. Often ignored, always important. (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

• Rock Paper Azure Is Back with a BANG (Dani Diaz)
• Departures (Phil Haack) – Best of luck to Phil on his new journey!
• Adobe Photoshop Philadelphia User Group Meeting on December 1st (Jo)
• Random Hacks of Kindness: Geeks Giving Back (Jim O’Neil)
• Google I/O 2012 extended to three days from June 27-29, 2012 (Scott Knaster)
• Early Bird Pricing for TechDays 2012 Extended to December 20. Register now! (Katrien de Graeve)
• Q3 2011 Webinar Week, This Week! (Telerik Marketing Team)
• Great contests for Windows Phone apps! (Arian Kulp)
• The Kinect Accelerator – Turn your awesome idea into a product (and get investment from Microsoft to do so) (Greg Duncan)
• Author news: Interview with Microsoft researcher Richard Banks (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• Some interesting links for SQL Server 2012 data tools (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Importing CSV Files to SQL Server with PowerShell (Chad Miller)
• SQL SERVER – Using expressor Composite Types to Enforce Business Rules (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Dirty Pages (Jack Vamvas)
• Role-playing Dimensions (James Serra)
• Execution plan warnings–The final chapter (Dave Ballantyne)
• Windows and SQL Azure Best Practices: Affinity Groups (Buck Woody)

SharePoint

• Infragistics Solutions for Visualizing Data in Sharepoint (Akshay Luther)
• SharePoint Business Connectivity Services Dataflow Model (SharePoint Developer Team)
• Tools for SharePoint: Reset SharePoint Configuration Cache (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Top 10+1 Free Skype Add-ons (Greg Duncan)
• Alien Autopsy: Dissecting a Fijit Friends Sage (Pete Brown)
• Microsoft is in trouble (Robert Johnson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2011 (Jason Haley)
• Robert’s read: links and suggestions November 29th 2011 (Robert Nyman)
• Double Shot #762 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 11/28/2011 and Weekly Article Digest 11/28/2011 and Daily News Digest 11/29/2011 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #991 (Chris Alcock)
• Web Dev Tweets 28-Nov-2011 (Elijah Manor)
• 11/24/2011 and WIndowsDevNews for November 28, 2011 – #0001 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 28 Nov 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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