Dew Drop – February 21, 2012 (#1,270)

Top Links

• Modern Web Development – Part 6 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Prism for Silverlight 5 Ships (Blaine Wastell)
• Connecting your apps, files, PCs and devices to the cloud with SkyDrive and Windows 8 and Using the language you want (Steven Sinofsky)
• Google Bypassing User Privacy Settings (Dean Hachamovitch)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Limit your abstractions: The key is in the infrastructure… (Oren Eini)
• Execute GIMP filters in C# (Dhanushka Madushan Peiris)
• Managing Build Templates with Community TFS Build Manager (Jakob Ehn)
• Visual Studio Command Prompt in Console (Jimmy Bogard)
• Using Corporate ID’s with Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service (Martin Hinshelwood)
• What’s the difference between Text Document, Text Document – MS-DOS Format, and Unicode Text Document? (Raymond Chen)
• Telerik Report Designer (Telerik Reporting Team)
• Telerik Announces “Platform Guidance for Microsoft.NET” (Lohith)
• NuGet Project Uncovered: DumpToText (Jason Jarrett)
• CSharp Interview Question: What is Action in CSharp (Dhananjay Kumar)
• A Study of Windows 8 ‘Contracts’ – why, what and how? (Krishnachytanya Ayyagari)

 

Web Development

• jquery-ui-rails released (Jo Liss)
• ASP.NET Web API and HttpClient Available on NuGet (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• The Largest jQuery Class in the World (Jeffrey Way)
• Gate adds OWIN support for the new ASP.NET Web API beta and Ghost.exe – a generic host for OWIN applications (Louis DeJardin)
• Accordion with CSS3 (Manoela Ilic)
• The 7 habits of highly effective developers (Giorgio Sironi)
• Supporting high-dpi pixel-dense "Retina" Displays like iPhones or the iPad 3 with CSS or IMG (Scott Hanselman)
• Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed (Troy Hunt)
• More on Cloud Storage/CDN pricing (Alan Mendelevich)
• MooTools Bootstrap 2.0 (Aaron Newton)
• Windows Azure with PHP – Deleting a Table (Puja Pramudya)
• Node.js, Windows Azure (and socket.io) (Neil Mackenzie)
• Modernization (BYOSP Part 4) (K. Scott Allen)
• Creating a Horizontal CSS List Menu (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Thoughts on Test Automation in Agile (Rajneesh Namta)
• Coding: Packaging by vertical slice (Mark Needham)
• Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success (Dux Raymond)
• CQRS Pocket Guide – Giving it a spin (Rinat Abdullin)
• How Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem [Motivation] (Adam Dachis)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Include static JS / CSS / Images files from the IsolatedStorage in the WebBrowser control (Nicolas Humann)
• Building WPF Applications with Self-Tracking Entity Generator – Project Setup (Weidong Shen)
• New Tutorials Series (Nigel Sampson)
• PivotViewer Multi-Valued Properties (Tony Champion)
• Phone Gap Tutorial #3 – Reducing the load (Daniel Egan)
• Wrap Layout + UI Virtualization = RadDataBoundListBox for WP (Deyan Ginev)
• Introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern – Part 1 (Anand Raja)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Derick Bailey Explores JavaScript Frameworks (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 177 – PowerScripting Podcast – Scripting Guy Ed Wilson on the 2012 PowerShell Scripting Games (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Inside Windows Phone #32 | Microsoft Developer Carlo Rivera on Making Money (Larry Lieberman)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 42 (Richard Hay)
• New “Minute of Mango” tips series begins (Michael Stroh)
• Minute of Mango: Custom Ringtones (Laura Foy)
• Yet Another Podcast #60–Knockout.js (Jesse Liberty)
• Boagworld: Sites are like billboards not books and Boagworld: Are you annoying your repeat users? (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Calling On Windows Phone Developers To Join In At NYC PhotoHack Day II – February 25th & 26th (Peter Laudati)
• Need to find your local Windows Phone Champion? Here’s an OData service, Phone app and source that will help (Greg Duncan)
• MADExpo (Steven Lott)
• Win a Limited Edition JustDecompile T-Shirt (Telerik Marketing Team)
• Last minute GitHub drinkup in NYC! (Eric Gerhardt) – Tonight!
• Maker Faire Dates Announced (Ken Denmead)
• Refactoring code retreat – help needed (Brian Marick)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): PowerPivot (James Serra)
• SQL Server – Powershell Active Directory search (Jack Vamvas)
• Calling ProcessData in SSIS to incrementally load data into tabular partitions (Cathy Dumas)
• Creating Your First SSAS 2012 Tabular Project (Sam Vanga)
• SQL SERVER – Force Removing User from Database – Fix: Error: Could not drop login ‘test’ as the user is currently logged in. (Pinal Dave)
• Migrating a SQL Server database to SQL Azure and Shrinking your Subtext database (Tim Heuer)
• MongoDB index scripting (Nuri Halperin)
• Big Data – A Microsoft Tools Approach (Buck Woody)
• Where to Run DBCC on AlwaysOn Availability Groups (Brent Ozar)
• Using multi-select parameters? Then you might need to do this. (David Forck)

 

SharePoint

• How to migrate an InfoPath form from test to production in SharePoint 2010 (Kelly Jones)
• CRM 2011 Online and SharePoint 2010 Integration through Business Connectivity Services (Nick Swan)
• Working With SharePoint 2010 Search – Part 2 (Saifullah Shafiq)
• SharePoint 2010 REST Service Syntax Diagram (SharePoint Developer Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Official screenshot confirms that web-based video chat is coming to Windows Live Wave 5 (damaster)
• New SkyDrive info: point by point (Kip Kniskern)
• SkyDrive and Windows 8 (Omar Shahine)
• Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Custom Statuses (Scott Dorman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1048 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – February 20 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #822 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/21/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week February 13-19, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 20 Feb 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #7) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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