Dew Drop – March 15, 2012 (#1,287)

Top Links

• Bart De Smet: Inside Rx 2.0 Beta (Charles Torre)
• Here’s What’s Right With Windows 8 (Chris Love)
• Ex-Microsoft Employee Launches ‘Fixing Windows 8′ Site (Peter Pachal)
• Bring single sign-on and SkyDrive to your Windows 8 apps with the Live SDK (Dare Obasanjo)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 11 Beta: Is Metro UI That Bad in a Dev Environment? and KinectContrib Templates available through NuGet (Den Delimarsky)
• Visual Studio 11 Beta – First Impressions (Jeremy Hutchinson)
• How To Change Attachment Size in WorkItems in TFS 2010 (Ravi)
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview Developer How To Series and Windows 8 Developer How To: 3. Quick Fix for Visual Studio 11 Beta DeployPackageName Error (Zhiming Xue)
• Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guidance v3 – For Visual Studio 11 (CodePlex)
• Is it ok to use nested Parallel.For loops? (Stephen Toub)
• RavenDB Hints and Tips (Gregor Suttie)
• Changing the default number of tasks displayed on the taskboard (Susan)
• Virtual Method Dispatch and Object Layout Changes in CLR 4.0 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Allowing a WinRT app to do loopback network calls (Rockford Lhotka)
• Every developer should consider productivity addins (Kyle Burns)

 

Web Development

• Windows 8 Metro Tiles with HTML, CSS3 and JavaScript (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Pure HTML Templates with Cartographer (Alex Robson)
• HTML5 is not ready yet – and will never be (and that is a good thing) – HTML5 Question #1 (Christian Heilmann)
• Find the jQuery Bug #8: Suspicious Selectors (Elijah Manor)
• HTML5 Offline Web applications as an afterthought in ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Roundup of HTML-Based Slide Deck Toolkits (Louis Lazaris)
• Parallax Content Slider with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• Facebook jQuery Helper and Node.js on Windows Azure News & Updates (March 2012) (Nathan Totten)
• It’s time to look at animated gifs again (Paul Boag)
• Windows Azure FAQ #145: What Size VM Should I Go With? (Peter Laudati)
• Unobtrusive JavaScript with HTML 5 (Nizar Noorani)
• Access OData Across Site Barriers with JSONP in jQuery (Paul Ballard)
• HTML Needs Custom Components (and What to Do About It) (Robby Ingebretsen)
• Solved: Http Error returned for some route urls but not others in Asp.Net MVC or Web API (Samuel Jack)
• Build a Contacts Manager Using Backbone.js: Part 3 (Dan Wellman)
• 3D Tetris with Three.js Tutorial – Part 1 (Sebastian Poręba)
• How to Download Windows Azure Blob Containers (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Enhanced Protected Mode (Andy Zeigler)
• WebStorm/PhpStorm – New in 4.0: Drupal coding style support (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• OAuth Application Enhancements (Corey Donohoe)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – $11.99(Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The frustrated architect (Simon Brown)
• Patterns & Practices Books on Windows Azure (Neil Mackenzie)
• Visualize Git with SeeGit (Phil Haack)
• Test-driven emergent design vs. analysis (Giorgio Sironi)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New SilverlightShow article "Consume JSON with Windows Phone: a seamless solution" (Silverlight Show)
• WPF Elements: Polar Charts 101 (Jason)
• A Native of Silverlight with Full Hardware Access (Jonathan Allen)
• 2000 WPF Things #515 – Zooming In and Out on the Artboard (Sean Sexton)
• Requirements for a simple XAML/CPP Slot Machine application using Visual Studio 11 (Surf4Fun)
• CBR: Comic Book Reader 0.6 and CODE Framework 4.0.20312.0 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Steve Rogalsky Maps User Stories (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast #61–Agile Programming (Jesse Liberty)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Simplification of the Visual Studio 11 Development Environment (Robert Green)
• Stir Up Some SOA – Part 2 of 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• 008 JSJ V8 and Dart with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ ONeal & Jamison Dance)
• Defrag: WPA, Deploying without UAC, Installing Win8 on VHD (Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld: Geofencing and keeping an eye on the future (Paul Boag)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 184: The Mainframe with Jeff Frey (SE-Radio Team)
• Engadget HD Podcast 290 – 03.14.2012 and The Verge Mobile Podcast 019 – 03.14.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Mar 21 Developer Breakfast in Sydney, New South Wales: Getting the Most out of TFS (Charles Sterling)
• Meet the Author: Kate Gregory on C++ Fundamentals Part 2 (Paul Ballard)
• Windows 8 Developer Camps – Coming Soon! (Dani Diaz)
• Dream Build Play: Do a little dance because it’s dancing time! (George Clingerman)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Install Samples Database Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Browser Matrix and SharePoint 2010 Browser Supportability Matrix and What Features Work Matrix (Joel Oleson)
• Development Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 (Kit Ong)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Azure Security Best Practices – Part 6: How Azure Services Extends Your App Security (Bruce Kyle)
• RTM’d today: Windows Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 1 (carolvu)
• Microsoft Log Parser Studio (Steven Bink)
• Microsoft ‘Beamatron’ inserts virtual objects into real world, using Kinect 3D model (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: March 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #838 and Double Shot #839 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 3/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1065 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for March 14, 2012 – #0050 and Windows Dev News for March 14, 2012 – 2 – #0051 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 14 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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