Dew Drop – March 5, 2012 (#1,279)

Top Links

• First look at the ASP.NET Web API (John V. Petersen)
• F# and ASP.NET Web API (Daniel Mohl)
• Caller information – New API in .net 4.5 (Rohit Sharma)
• Introducing MEF Lightweight Composition and an Updated Composition Provider for ASP.NET MVC (Nick)
• Matthew Podwysocki and Bart J. F. De Smet: RxJS Today and Tomorrow (Charles Torre)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Windows 8 Consumer Preview – improving the developer and user experiences (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Do you want Visual Studio Ultimate for free? Do you have MSDN? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview–Blend for Visual Studio 11 Beta (Mike Taulty)
• Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors (Peter Kellner)
• Windows 8 JavaScript–Splash Screen and Windows 8 JavaScript – Pinch (Shai Raiten)
• Metro apps – a lot of icons are available out of the box ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Fahrenheit to Celsius in the Win8 Weather app, a story of change… and Windows 8 AppBarIcons enumerated and visualized (Adam Kinney)
• [WinDbg Script] Displaying the COM object referenced by an RCW object (rafarah)
• CSLA 4 version 4.3 release (Rockford Lhotka)
• Something new in Win8 you might not have heard about… Win8 comes with a new rich edit control, RichEdit8 (Greg Duncan)
• Create an ActionLink without Magic Strings (Deran Schilling)
• MSBuild Multi-Targeting in SharpDevelop (Daniel Grunwald)

Web Development

• Replacing JQuery With Angular (Paul Hammant)
• Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Controls Support Visual Studio 11 Beta from Day One! (Stoyan Stratev)
• Creating First HTTP Service using ASP.NET Web API: Part1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Pluralsight Course: Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with EF Code First, HTML5, and jQuery and Looking Forward: Single Page Apps, Client-Side Databinding, Entity Change Tracking, and Windows 8 (Dan Wahlin)
• Working with Telerik Kendo UI Widgets: Calendar (Dhananjay Kumar)
• choosing template engines (Garann Means)
• Async Mashups using ASP.NET Web API (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Going Simple with JavaScript (Jonathan Snook)
• Introducing the FubuMVC.Coffee transforms (Josh Arnold)
• Zooming and Panning with CSS and Script (BYOSP Part 9) (K. Scott Allen)
• Mass Assignment Vulnerability in ASP.NET MVC (Josh Bush)
• An HTML 5 Navigation Screen (Paul Sheriff)
• REST and Urls (Oren Eini)
• Don’t build the best REST API, build the best HTTP API. (John Sheehan)
• Building a RESTful API – A Followup to John Sheehan (Sean Fao)
• Fixing an Element’s Position in CSS (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Alt.Tekpub REST (Rob Eisenberg)
• Carriage Return / new line in Textareas (Code Inside Team)
• Github Pages with Jekyll – Local Development on Windows (Nathan Totten)
• Web Platform Features in Windows Consumer Preview (Ted Johnson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TFS 11 and Kanban and Running NUnit and xUnit tests in TFS11 build (Gian Maria Ricci)
• TDD Best Practices: Write Assertions First (Derek Greer)
• NUnit’s Action Attributes Simplify Unit Test Writing (Harry Brumleve)
• When to Break Apart your Application (Jay Fields)
• 30 Days of Getting Results Revisited and Agile Methodology in Microsoft patterns & practices (JD Meier)
• Small Refactorings are OK (John Sonmez)
• Do NOT Have Agile Open Offices? (Peter Saddington)
• Leveling up “DDD” (Ted Neward)
• How do you track your bugs & issues? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Handling playback failures in Coded UI Test due to stale UI controls (Tapas)
• Test-Driven Development (Pete Seale)
• How to Change the World (download the book!) (Jurgen Appelo)
• An Open Letter To Ian Davis and Pair Programming Harmful? (Greg Young)
• Multiton Design Pattern (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 11 Beta – What is new in Coded UI Test? (Mathew Aniyan)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• TiltEffect for Windows 8 Metro XAML (Morten Nielsen)
• Start working with INFRAGISTICS NETADVANTAGE for WPF : Part 1 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introducing the PivotIndicator control for Windows Phone (Jeremy Alles)
• How to search in the WP7 Marketplace using the MarketplaceSearchTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• turn TouchDevelop scripts into apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 2000 WPF Things #507 – Expander Control Lets you Expand/Collapse a Set of Controls (Sean Sexton)
• Introduction to XNA on Windows Phone 7 (Nick Ohrn)
• Don’t Forget the WP Marketplace Test Kit (Joel Reyes)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 199: Mike and Toni Feltman on FoxPro (David Giard)
• Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 057 – “I Feel Violated” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Episode 177A – PowerScripting Podcast – Bonus Episode with Don Jones on v3 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Geekadelphia: The Podcast Episode 3 – Chipocrite Interview.mp3 (Jo Pincushion & Dan Tabor)
• The Tablet Show – Chris Love Does Enterprise Mobility (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The GeekDads Episode #110: To All Our Listeners, Neener, Neener (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (Ken Denmead)
• Boagworld: Satisfying our desire for risk and reward (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 106: Fact Or Rumor and Windows Weekly 250: The Windows 8 Era (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget Podcast 283 – 03.02.2012 and The Vergecast 020 – 03.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• An Interview With Alessandro Del Sole (Author of LightSwitch Unleashed) (Michael Washington)
• TWC9: Win8, VS11, Metro, Windows Phone SDK v7.1.1, TouchDevelop and more (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Martin Woodward)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 96: Group announcements and a bit more (Michael Kimsal)
• Async 101 with Jon Skeet (Rohit Sharma)

Community / Events

• Goodbye Microsoft, Hello World (Robert Davis)
• Why You Should Leave Microsoft, Too (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Tim Huckaby – Keynote Speaker at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 5-day Conference (Silverlight Show)
• The State of My Microsoft MVP Status (Dennis Delimarsky)
• My girls built Lego furniture for their Barbie dolls (Kathleen Dollard)
• Get Juiced with me and 10,000 friends at Prairie Dev Con West (Bil Simser)
• Windows 8 Developer Camp (Chris Koenig)
• From the MVPs: My 2012 Global Summit experience (Kim Spilker)
• 2012 MVP Global Summit (Mike Fourie)
• MVP Summit 2012–the day after (Joost van Schaik)

Database

• SQL Server – How to troubleshoot query timeouts (Jack Vamvas)
• Decisions: PowerPivot, SSAS Tabular, or SSAS Multidimensional Model in SQL Server 2012 (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – Various Leap Year Logics and SQL SERVER – Technical Reference Guides for Designing Mission-Critical Solutions – A Must Read and SQL SERVER – Top 10 “Ease of Use” Features of expressor Studio (Pinal Dave)
• SQL 2012 Books Available Soon (Thomas LaRock)
• Want to write for Microsoft? (Jen McCown)
• Introduction to SQL Azure Federations (Neil Mackenzie)

PowerShell

• Inside PowerShell: Script Parsing and Node Execution (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• DevOps DNS for Developers – Now There’s No Excuse Not To Know (Doug Rathbone)
• Enterprise vs Consumer: Product Development at Careers 2.0 (Demis Bellot)
• RabbitMQ for Windows: Introduction (Derek Greer)
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview has some hidden tricks (John Callaham)
• My Unofficial Tips for Remoting into a Windows 8 Machine from Windows 7 (plus: Microsoft Account tips) (Pete Brown)
• Panoramic Windows 8 Desktop Theme for Consumer and Developer Previews (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft: Apple deliberately makes iPhones unusably slow (Tyler Holman)
• Creative Block (Rob Conery)
• Windows Phone marketshare on a continued steady increase (Rich Edmonds)
• Homebrew Windows Phone Marketplace comes to all custom ROMs [Video] (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• MVP Friday Five- MVP Summit 2012 Edition (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #831 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #36 (Frank)
• Monthly Report February 2012: Total Posts 19 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Morning Brew #1057 (Chris Alcock)
• Retrospective 74 – #Kanban Week (Peter Saddington)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 3/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)

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