Dew Drop – March 7, 2012 (#1,281)

Top Links

• SQL Server 2012 RTM Day Download Link Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Single Page Application packages and samples (Steve Sanderson)
• Going behind the scenes building Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
• Creating Metro Style Icons with Metro Studio (Dan Wahlin)
• What’s changed for app developers since //build/ (part 2) (Jake Sabulsky)

 

.NET / Visual Studio / WinRT

• How not to use LINQ (Nigel Sampson)
• Visual Studio 11 Beta Testing Documentation (Howie Hilliker)
• LINQ for F# (Jonathan Allen)
• New EF Code First Migrations Video on Pluralsight (Julie Lerman)
• Window 8 JavaScript–Asynchronous Programming & App Storage (Shai Raiten)
• Visual Studio 11 Beta Razor editor issue workaround (Xinyang Qiu)
• Caching done right (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Building a good app settings experience in XAML and Use Bing Maps in your Windows 8 XAML applications (Tim Heuer)
• Windows 8 App Store – the APPX download API is secure (Den Delimarsky)
• WinJS – Navigate in a ListView using mouse wheel is easy ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Build Bing Maps into your Windows 8 Metro style app with new SDK (Kip Kniskern)
• A simple scheme to implement Design by Contract in C++ (Luca Bolognese)
• Windows 8 Icons: Segoe UI Symbol (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• Micro ORM Data Mapping with PetaPoco and ASP.NET MVC 4 (Greg Arroyo)
• Taking a look at S#arp Lite– The MVC parts (Oren Eini)
• SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten (Devon Govett)
• Announcing the jQuery Foundation (Adam J. Sontag)
• WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two cents on the subject (Ido Flatow)
• CSS3 Box Shadow Syntax Breakdown (Louis Lazaris)
• Another CSS image replacement technique (Nicolas Gallagher)
• Put Your jQuery Scripts In The Fast Lane and Meet the Author: Joe Eames on jQuery Advanced Topics (Paul Ballard)
• All the mouse events in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
• HTML5 standardisation and Facebook (Martin Beeby)
• Sencha Touch 2.0—Built for Amazing Apps (Jamie Avins)
• Microsoft to add another preview build, more testers for Hadoop on Azure (Mary Jo Foley)
• Blog Series — Windows Azure Security Best Practices (Bruce Kyle)
• Understanding and Using Type Categories in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Focus (JD Meier)
• Running Tests as Part of a Build (Chris O’Brien)
• Myths about Coding Craftsmanship part 1 (Thomas Pepe)
• A Culture of YAGNI (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Social coding and collaboration with tinker.io (Luke)
• Sexy Code Snippet Management With Gists (Jeffrey Way)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• How to Launch the WP7 Marketplace Hub using the MarketplaceHubTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #509 – Displaying a Busy Indicator in a Data Template (Sean Sexton)
• Fix: Installing Extensions In LightSwitch When You Also Have LightSwitch Beta 2011 (Michael Washington)
• Nokia’s top-12 tips on building apps for WP 256MB (Joel Reyes)
• Introduction to the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern – Part 2 (Anand Raja)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Rob Mensching Does Installations with the WiX Toolset (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SQL SERVER – T-SQL Errors and Reactions – Demo – SQL in Sixty Seconds #005 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Let’s Play TDD #170: Back to SaveFile (James Shore)
• Hot Apps: Splinter Cell, BattleWagon, Anything Tracker, Stack the States, Dash 3D and TechFest 2012: Cliplets (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 289 – 03.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• SE Podcast #32 – Jarrod Dixon and Josh Heyer (Alex Miller)

 

Community / Events

• Talking Cloud with SharePoint Server MVP Jeong Woo Choi (MVP Award Program)
• How To Survive A Hackathon (Boonsri Dickinson)
• March .NET Dev Meeting in Geneva Final Date (Daniel Vaughan)
• Free Webinar on Team Explorer Everywhere from Black Marble (Giles Davies)
• MAKE at SXSW (Sabrina Merlo)
• Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft® Office® 2010 (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server 2012 RTM Today (Gethyn Ellis)
• SQL Server Data Tools Released, Available Today! (Gert Drapers)
• Lots of offerings to celebrate the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 launch (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft releases to manufacturing SQL Server 2012 (Mary Jo Foley)
• SQL Azure – Requiring Encrypt=True (Buck Woody)
• Merge Replication – COM Based Resolver throws Buffer too small Error (Ted Krueger)
• How To Decide if You Should Use Table Partitioning (Kendra Little)
• Learn about the Data Explorer weekly release process (Ben Martens)

 

SharePoint

• Cross-post: The Windows Azure Claim Provider for SharePoint Project (Three Part Series) (Himanshu Singh)
• 10 Virtues of a SharePoint Peep (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• Inside PowerShell 3: The New Parser and Compiler (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing Google Play (Dirk Dougherty)
• An Afternoon with Sinatra and Heroku (Howard Dierking)
• OneNote Tip: setting ink recognition to the correct text for a single word (John Guin)
• Snagit 11 review (Mark Wilson)
• Microsoft outlines roadmap for Windows Embedded 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Adobe releases Photoshop Lightroom 4, cuts price by half (Nick Peers)
• New Office 15 Features Leak In Their Full Metro Glory [SCREENSHOTS] (Paul Paliath)
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Call for Common Sense (Paul Thurrott)
• March OTN Member Discounts (Oracle Tech Network)
• Why does Explorer ignore seconds when sorting by Date Modified? (Raymond Chen)
• Dr. Sinofsky or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Windows 8 (Sebastian Anthony)
• Exclusive: Microsoft Office 15 features and improvements (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1059 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 6 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #833 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 3/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 6 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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