Dew Drop – March 23, 2012 (#1,293)

Top Links

• WPF Designer for F# (Steffen Forkmann)
• Windows Phone Performance Part 4 of many– The Power of the GPU (András Velvárt)
• Cool Down with Canvas and JavaScript (K. Scott Allen)
• Squash Entity Framework startup time with pre-compiled views (Ward Bell)
• EF5 Beta 2 Available on NuGet (EF Team)
• Mono 2.11.0 is out (Miguel de Icaza)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Espresso Tip: Find and replace Regex in Visual Studio (Jonathan Creamer)
• Visual Studio & TFS 11 – List of extensions and upgrades (Terje Sandstrom)
• Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web new features (Xinyang Qiu)
• Why does my window style change when I call SetWindowText? (Raymond Chen)
• Special offer on Netduino to March 30 (Tatworth)
• Writing functional code in C++ – Records (Luca Bolognese)
• Tracking Physical Objects without Tags (Luis Cabrera)
• Fluent Assertions gets a bug fix release (Dennis Doomen)
• Source code for the OneNote Text Highlighting Extractor Powertoy (John Guin)
• Troubleshoot remote debugging of Managed Code (Gian Maria Ricci)
• Metro XAML and HTML Control Sample Packs (Two downloads, bunches of controls sampled, lots of code examples, hours of…) (Greg Duncan)

Web Development

• jQuery .filter() – more than just selectors (David DeSandro)
• Javascript memory optimization and texture loading (Brandon Jones)
• HTML5: RIA Nexus or Frankenfluff? (Rob Williams)
• Accessing a ASP.NET WebAPI Rest Service from ASP.NET MVC and Accessing a ASP.NET Rest Service from ASP.NET MVC (John Petersen)
• Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3 (Jonathan Allen)
• JavaScript’s Two Zeros (Axel Rrauschmayer)
• Codeacademy for learning JavaScript (Rob Miles)
• Alt.Tekpub: Working More With The Hypermedia (style) API (Rob Conery)
• Windows Azure SDK Gotcha: Using CSPack and CSRun With a Worker Role (Jason Haley)
• The Differences Between Development on Windows Azure and Windows Server (Rachel Appel)
• Unhandled exception has occurred while running in Azure (ASP.NET Debugging Team)
• Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design (Thierry Koblentz)
• Sam’s ultimate web performance tool and resource list (Sam Saffron)
• Windows Azure Service Bus Resequencer (Alan Smith)
• Braceless Programming (Anders Janmyr)
• Extending Firebug, Hello AMD! (part XII.) (Jan Odvarko)
• Managing Layouts And Nested Views With Backbone.Marionette (Derick Bailey)
• Build a Contacts Manager Using Backbone.js: Part 4 (Dan Wellman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Leadership – Good Leaders are Good Teachers (Peter Saddington)
• UX Guidelines for Metro Style Apps (Nigel Parker)
• The Importance of Tying Personas to Wireframes (Barnabas Nagby)
• Open/Closed Principle and Reinventing the Wheel (Brendan Enrick)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 Sample App : Hello World – OData (Anand Raja)
• Jounce MVVM WCF RIA Printing and More Example (Jeremy Likness)
• [Sample of Mar 22th] Auto-complete textbox in WPF (Jialiang Ge)
• Check out the new Calendar for Windows Phone (Kevin Griffin)
• Designing for Multiple Views and Orientations using Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi & Jeffrey Ferman)
• 2000 WPF Things #521 – Pen and Pencil Tools Both Generate Path Elements (Sean Sexton)
• List of 5 things that are confusing: XAML? HTML 5? MetroRT? XNA? Direct X (Surf4Fun)
• App Hub now open for new markets (Todd Brix)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SQL SERVER – Using MAXDOP 1 for Single Processor Query – SQL in Sixty Seconds #008 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Inside Windows Phone # 34 | Talking CRUD with Jason Short (Larry Lieberman)
• [Podcast] Know Thy Customer – Part 2 with Pete Brown and Rachel Appel (Phil Japikse)
• Let’s Play TDD #175: This is Why Apple is Eating Your Lunch (James Shore)
• Video: Bridging the PhoneGap (Paul Ballard)
• Hot Apps: The Sims 3, Satalaunch, Jet Car Stunts WP, Channel 9, FoodSpotting (Laura Foy)
• Boagworld: Help your users, be focused (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Windows 8 Events in Reston, Chevy Chase, and NYC (G. Andrew Duthie)
• 03/23/2012 – The Baker’s Dozen Live – 13 straight Fridays of Microsoft Webcasts on SQL Server 2012 coverage (Kevin Goff)
• Windows 8 Event in Silicon Valley, April 4, 2012 (Matt Harrington)
• DevConnections and the VS11 Beta Party (Chris Eargle)
• Windows Reimagined–April 19th, New York, NY (Bob Familiar)
• What Are Brogrammers Afraid Of? (Phil Haack)

Database

• Transforming Event Log Data (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 11 Beta – Part 2: Feature Enhancements to Support SharePoint Online Development (Kemp Brown)

PowerShell

• Troubleshooting Windows Management Framework 3.0 Beta Installation (Sharath Gopalappa)
• Install a Windows Service Remotely with PowerShell (Geoff Hudik)

Miscellaneous

• Finding jobs in IT Part II: The Inside Scoop from a recent COLLEGE hire (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft’s Lack of Consistency for End Users is Frustrating (Andrew Connell)
• The Future of CodePlex is Bright (Brian Harry)
• How to launch Git Extensions from Git Bash on Windows (Dan Rigby)
• AT&T teases Nokia Lumia 900 with new "Coming Soon" page (Daniel Rubino)
• First Impressions of the Photoshop CS6 Beta (Tom Kenny)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: March 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Interesting .NET Links – March 22 , 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Double Shot #845 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1071 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for March 22, 2012 – #0055 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 22 March 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 3/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)

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