Dew Drop – February 17, 2012 (#1,268)

Top Links

• Prism 4.1 – February 2012 (MS Downloads)
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released! (Jon Galloway)
• Web API is now part of ASP.NET (and you can get it today) (Dave Ward)
• ILSpy 2.0 Beta 1 (Daniel Grunwald)
• Got great app ideas? (Arian Kulp)
• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners – Volume 1.5 (Addy Osmani) – Free web-based eBook. ePub/PDF coming soon.

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Async CTP (Version 3) Installation Issues (Brent Schooley)
• ReSharper 6.1.1: New Maintenance Release Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
• TFS Checkout, Search and Replace with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The SequenceEqual() Method (James Michael Hare)
• Using EF 4.3 Code First Migrations with an Existing Database (Julie Lerman)
• Book Review – .NET 4.0 Generics Beginner’s Guide (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• How Understanding Assembly Language Helps Debug .NET Applications [CodeProject] (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why does the DrawIcon function draw at the default icon size? (Raymond Chen)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: JsValidator (Jason Jarrett)
• All in One Unity Demo and Information Series (Greg Duncan)
• Red Gate Releases The Next Version of Their Performance Profiling Tool (Jeff Julian)
• TryJoinads (II.): Task-based parallelism (Tomas Petricek)
• NDepend Evaluation: Part 1 (Anthony Trudeau)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta Released and Using HTML 5 Geolocation, Google Maps to Generate Driving Distance (Jason Gaylord)
• JavaScript Closures Explained (Derek Greer)
• The Enemy of My Friend Writes Bad MVC Controller Actions (Microsoft) (Doug Lampe)
• jQuery Tip #3 – Using the data() Function (Dan Wahlin)
• Escapes.js – Retro ANSI art in JavaScript (Paul Neave)
• HTML5 Context Menu and FullScreen (Paul Rouget)
• ASP.NET MVC: Add HTML5 Microdata to your applications using Metadata Providers (Rui Jarimba)
• Javascript, node.js and for loops (Mikito Takada)
• Detect DOM changes with Mutation Observers (Ernest Delgado)
• Tech preview of Chromium with Dart engine now available (Anton Muhin, Vijay Menon & Pavel Podivilov) – Available for Mac and Linux. Coming soon for Windows.
• Client-Side MVC frameworks compared (Paul Hammant)
• Viewport, Device, and Document Size (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Revisiting dragging, dropping, and sorting observableArrays (Ryan Niemeyer)
• Http Caching is complicated for everyone, even @ayende (Sebastien Lambla)
• Internet Explorer Performance Lab: reliably measuring browser performance (Steven Sinofsky)
• New recommended Ruby version: Ruby 1.9.3-p125 is released (Daniel Kehoe)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pushing Through the Pain (John Sonmez)
• Let’s Scale Out CQRS Sample Project (Rinat Abdullin)
• Improve Team Dynamics with the xView People Status Dashboard (Steve Porter)
• A Decade of SDL (Michael Desmond)
• SOLIDify your software design concepts through SOLID (Mahmud Hasan)
• Stop Writing Project Proposals (Jonathan Wold)
• When the Test Agent Fails on the Build Server (Eric Quist)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone Data Binding between Elements using the Designer (Windows Phone Geek)
• Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2012 (Deyan Ginev)
• Phone Gap Tutorial #2–Looking Around (Daniel Egan)
• Background Agents Overview for Windows Phone (dt008)
• New SilverlightShow Ebook "WP7 for iPhone and Android Devs" (Silverlight Show)
• Top 10 Tips for Building a Windows Phone App (Hong Choing)
• Master WPF on your iPhone (Josh Smith)
• XAMLflix Episode 4 with RadDiagram for Silverlight and WPF (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #497 – Use a UniformGrid to Make a Group of Buttons the Same Size (Sean Sexton)
• IdeaBlade Cocktail v0.2 (CodePlex)
• MVPChat : A PivotViewer Use Case (Tony Champion)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Let’s Play TDD #165: Eliminating the Double Dispatch Problem (James Shore)
• Developer Diaries: Mangesh Deshpande (Laura Foy)
• Team Foundation Service Preview–Updated videos are available (Gregg Boer)
• Developer Smackdown Musing #64: Good Bye Brandon Satrom, Hello Brandon Satrom (Clark Sell & Mark Nichols)

 

Community / Events

• Scrum-damentals Webcast on 17th February 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• The 2012 KalamazooX Conference (Michael J. Eaton)
• Getting Ready for the 2012 MVP Global Summit (MVP Award Program)
• Effective Aggregate Design Part III – DDD Denver Meetup (Paul Rayner)
• Event: Meet Microsoft Press authors at SPTechCon 2012 in San Francisco Feb 26-29, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• Learn Simple.Data & Nancy at SkillsMatter (Mark Rendle)
• Becoming a "Make Web, Not War" Warrior… Free day of cloud, mobile, design and web webinars. Attend one or attend them all…. (Greg Duncan)

 

Database

• SQL Server – read only database status (Jack Vamvas)
• SQL SERVER – Solution Part 2 – A Quick Puzzle on JOIN and NULL – SQL Brain Teaser (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server Installation Error – Consistency validation for SQL Server Registry keys (Ted Krueger)
• RavenDB: Index Boosting (Oren Eini)
• Group By in MongoDB (Jonathan Allen)
• System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Azure – CTP (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to Customize Your Command Prompt (Andrew Burgess)
• Code Hero Is A Game That Teaches You To Make Games (John Biggs)
• Three Things You Should Never Say in a Technical Interview (Kendra Little)
• Microsoft’s Windows Azure Active Directory plans takes shape (Mary Jo Foley)
• This Is The Computer Setup Most Of Google’s Engineers Use (GOOG) (Matt Lynley)
• Windows 8 Coming in Q4 2012 According to Fujitsu (Robert Boland)
• Google Drive in the wild? Screenshot and possible logo (Todd Bishop)
• Open Source and Open Source Software Are Not The Same Things (Phil Haack)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 17, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 16, 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #820 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1046 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 2/17/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (2/17/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 16 Feb 201 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShowTop 5 News for February 06 – 12, 2012 and Windows Dev News for February 16, 2012 – #0041 (Dave Campbell)

 

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