Dew Drop – April 12, 2012 (#1,305)

Top Links

• Odoyule Rules Engine for .NET (Chris Patterson)
• WinRT: App Activation, Resume and Suspend (Bill Wagner)
• Moving fast requires good communication (Simon Brown)
• Using LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact 4.0 (yes, you can!) (Erik EJ)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Creating a Build Definition in TFS (Mickey Gousset)
• Explain this code (Oren Eini)
• Preemptive Analytics in Visual Studio and TFS 11 (Brian Harry)
• Actions in WCF Data Services – Part2: How IDataServiceActionProvider works (Alex James)
• What happened to application/json in WCF DS 5.0? (WCF Data Services Team)
• Modest Proposal for C# (Miguel de Icaza)
• TFS API The All New Team Project Picker – Beautiful! (Tarun Arora)
• Improving Find & Replace in Visual Studio 11 Beta (Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha)
• Multi-Targeting Guidelines for Tools for Managed Code (Mircea)
• Team Foundation Service whitepaper has shipped! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Unit Testable Enum Parsing with C# (Andy Schwam)
• C# compiler improvements and .NET Gadgeteer Core 2.42.550 (BETA) and LINQ to Twitter Beta v2.0.24 and Json.NET 4.5 Release 2 (CodePlex)
• Hello World, WinRT ! (Jeremy Alles)
• Which ORM is the Best for .NET? (Paul Ballard)
• Get Started with .Net and Apache Cassandra (Sazzad Hossain)
• Auto-hydrate your objects with ADO.NET (Jake Rutherford)
• New Asynchronous Features Enhance .NET Framework 4.5 (Jenni Konrad)

 

Web Development

• Beyond Role Based Authorization in ASP.NET MVC (Steve Smith)
• jQuery Resize Event (Justin B. Meyer)
• Updated: The Current State of HTML5 Forms (Chris Coyier)
• Big boost to DOM performance – WebKit’s innerHTML is 240% faster (Sam Dutton)
• Toying With the HTML5 File System API (Ivaylo Gerchev)
• Marshmallow People and HTML5 come together in new arcade style game (Jason McConnell)
• Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 (Ring Wing)
• Tracking Scroll Depth with jQuery and Google Analytics (Rob Flaherty)
• JavaScript Unit Testing with Code Coverage (Sergey Simonchik)
• Create the Illusion of Stacked Elements with CSS3 Pseudo-Elements (Tom Kenny)
• Kendo UI ASP.NET Sample Applications (2012-04-11) (CodePlex)
• Sueetie Friends Features Taking Shape (Dave Burke)
• Walk the path to the cloud – learn Windows Azure (Jennifer Marsman)
• If you’re doing Amazon Web Services development, here’s 43 (and counting) free Kindle ebooks for you (from the Amazon Web Services team) (Greg Duncan)
• 3rd Party ISV Tools for Windows Azure Application Monitoring and Load Testing (Hanu Kommalapati)
• What’s new in Web Workbench 3.2 (Ivan Towlson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What BDD has taught me (Hadi Hariri)
• Write Things Down and How Tos for Personal Development, Leadership, and More (JD Meier)
• On the road to BDD… Or… to see the light (Peter Gfader)
• Scrum Task Board Card Creator 3.2.0.0 (CodePlex)
• Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
• What Project Managers Say and What They Really Mean (Peter Saddington)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating the SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: part 3 (Peter Kuhn)
• How to Call a Number in WP7 using the PhoneCallTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | HttpClient vs. HttpWebRequest (5 of 12) (Peter von Lochow)
• 2000 WPF Things #535 – Drawing Symmetrical Shapes in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Creating the ZuneCard Control for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Validate a Property Against a Parent Collection (Brian Lagunas)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The State of the Cloud at DevConnections (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Behind the scenes: Designing Microsoft’s reinvented certifications (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 138 – Lightning Round with Douglas Crockford and Herding Code 139 – Lightning Round with Roy Osherove on his new book, Notes to a software team leader and Herding Code 140 – Lightning Round with Morten Kromberg on APL and Herding Code 141 – Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 023 – 04.11.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: Let NHibernate Map The Way (Paul Ballard)
• Defrag: Side By Side Office, Changing Look of Folders, Cycling Windows (Larry Larsen)
• Developer Diaries II: Mangesh Deshpande (Laura Foy)
• Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages (Herb Sutter, Martyn Lovell, Andrei Alexandrescu, Robert Griesemer & Walter Bright)
• Visual Studio Toolbox: Building Metro Style Apps with JavaScript (Robert Green)
• Agile Project Management with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 (MS Podcasts)

 

Community / Events

• Free End User Webinar: Tips & Tricks – Manage Events Using SharePoint (Joel Oleson)
• TECHbash 2012 NEPA – April 28 (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Phone Unleashed Events (Joseph Guadagno)
• Windows Phone Unleashed (David Kelley)

 

Database

• More Good News for SQL Server Developers (David Ramel)
• Breaking News: Changes to Microsoft SQL Server Certifications (Kendra Little)
• Is Power View meant to replace ReportBuilder? (Jen Stirrup)
• What is Database Continuous Integration? (David Atkinson)
• Deleting a row from self-referencing table (Jake Rutherford)

 

Miscellaneous

• Metro-styled Windows Live web services coming soon, with screenshots (damaster)
• Code isn’t physical property under the definition of National Stolen Property Act, US court rules (Dante D’Orazio)
• Rumor: Kinect coming to Windows Phone 8 (Tim Schiesser)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 04.01 ~ 04.12 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #857 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-11 and Interesting Windows 8 Links – 2012-04-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for April 11, 2012 – #0066 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for April 2 – 8, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #1083 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily WP7 Development News 11 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

The Geek Shelf

Windows Phone 7.5 Unleashed by Daniel Vaughan