Dew Drop – April 24, 2012 (#1,312)

Top Links

• Making personal cloud storage for Windows available anywhere, with the new SkyDrive (Steven Sinofsky)
• Windows 8 Release Preview Coming June 2012 (Doug Holland)
• 2-4-6-8-10 (Charles Petzold)
• Compilify – Compile .NET Code In A Browser (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please. (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing ReactiveUI 3.1 (Paul Betts)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization–Tuning? Why, we have auto tuning (Oren Eini)
• Simple Windows 8 Metro style ‘Maps App’ and Background Downloads in a Windows 8 Metro style app (Mike Taulty)
• A Useful Linq Extension Method: Intersperse (Mike Hadlow)
• Troubleshoot WCF exception (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Accessing the Accelerometer in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using HTML and JavaScript (Dave Isbitski)
• Image Resizing with Windows Imaging Component in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• VS11 Fakes Framework Considered Harmful (Jim Cooper)
• Code samples for Metro interactions from the Windows 8 SDK (Matt Harrington)
• EF + Overriding Equals == Massive headache (Derik Whittaker)
• Why are programs allowed to use normal characters as hotkeys? (Raymond Chen)
• Windows 8, BYOD, and AD membership and No BindingExpression in WinRT? (Rockford Lhotka)

Web Development

• Anatomy of a 48 hour HTML5-JS Game (Rob Ashton)
• Take your ASP.NET Controls to the Gym (Carl Bergenhem)
• Frameworks, Libraries, and more … (Ingo Rammer)
• Click highlights with CSS transitions (Chris Heilmann)
• Replacing Tags and Custom Code Analysis in HTML (Hadi Hariri)
• jQueryMobile 1.1.0 and the listview (Rob Richard)
• The Zen of HTML, XML, XSL, structured code editing with Visual Studio Zen Coding 2010 extension (Greg Duncan)
• CSS Hassle for different browsers (Hani Amr)
• Vendor Media Types With the ASP.NET Web API (Mark Seemann)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery UI – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Why everyone is talking about APIs (Giorgio Sironi)
• how to remove CSS outlines in an accessible manner? (Steve Faulkner)
• Getting started with Redis on AppHarbor (AppHarbor)
• Will Apps Kill Websites? (Jeff Atwood)
• Exploring HTML5 Canvas: Part 5 – Basic Animation (G. Andrew Duthie)
• WebMatrix: Deploying Orchard Website to a Shared Hosting Site (Zhiming Xue)
• Scope and this in JavaScript (Jack Franklin)
• ASP.NET Web API: Query string based content formatting (Gunnar Peipman)
• Web Deploy v3.0 Release Candidate (MS Downloads)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 4.0.1 RC (117.257) (Alexey Gopachenko)
• Making a Great Snapped View for your Web Site on IE10 on Windows 8 (Synergist)
• Collected OSS contributions to Windows Azure WindowsAzure.All.Contrib (Magnus Mårtensson)
• How to create a custom value provider in WebAPI (Mike Stall)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to avoid creating real tasks when unit testing async (Peter Provost)
• Looking Back at Looking Ahead, Gloom for Agile in 2012? (David Bulkin)
• 3 Key Questions to Challenge Yourself to Innovate (J.D. Meier)
• Lean tools: Set-Based Development (Giorgio Sironi)
• My Year With TDD (Brian Genisio)
• Evolving Request Response service to separate contract and business logic (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Call to Arms: Average Story Sizes of One Day (Paul Hammant)
• State Machines and Business Users (Greg Young)
• “Pity”, ninjas, and how not to suck (Mark Rendle)
• The origin of the Metro UI design language (Daniel Rubino)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Converting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Navigation (8 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
• Building IG Outlook– Introduction to a Prism App (Brian Lagunas)
• WPF Charting Performance Comparisons (the Battle Continues) (Colin Eberhardt)
• [Windows 8] CSharp targets not found in Blend 5 after Windows Phone SDK (Håkan Reis)
• Customizing the WPF scheduler dialog boxes (Jason Fauchelle)
• Dynamic Search with LINQ, the Entity Framework and Silverlight (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #543 – Searching for Controls in the Assets Panel (Sean Sexton)
• Flipping on LightSwitch(Alexandra Weber Morales)
• Changing the Background for Panorama Title and Panorama Header (Toni Petrina)
• A LightSwitch Netflix OData Mash-up (Michael Washington)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• E2E: Erik Meijer and John Cook – R, Statistical Computing, Blogging and More (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 142 – Scott Guthrie on the ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor Open Source Announcement (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Episode 183 – PowerScripting Podcast – 3 Lucky Diners Had a Month of Lunches with Don Jones (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• C9 Live: Tuesday – Patterns and Practices Symposium (Larry Larsen)
• Grantophone on Windows 8 in NYC (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Mads Kristensen Takes the Pain Out of CSS (Brady Gaster)
• Video: Teach Your Apps to Live and Die with the Windows 8 Metro App Lifecycle (Paul Ballard)
• Cloud Cover Episode 77 – Windows Azure Powershell Updates (Michael Washam, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 23rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• SilverlightShow Interview with Ido Flatow – Presenter at 3 sessions at Visual Studio Live!New York 4-day Conference (Silverlight Show)
• Food recovery project wins Microsoft’s U.S. Imagine Cup (Todd Bishop)
• Meet the Author: Richard Seroter on AWS Developer Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
• Windows 8 (and more) Events on May 2nd (Jim O’Neil)
• Announcing the Building Windows 8 apps with C++ Windows camp (Jaime Rodriguez)
• An interview with the two editors of the Microsoft Manual of Style (Devon Musgrave)

Database

• SQL Server Developer Tips and Tricks (David Forck)
• Preview of SQL Server Compact Toolbox version 3.0 now available (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Hierarchical Query using a Recursive CTE – A Primer (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure: Database Size History (Herve Roggero)
• Ever wondered what the Object Explorer Details window is for? (David Atkinson)
• Change Package Properties Using Parameters–SSIS 2012 (Sam Vanga)

Miscellaneous

• Adding a simple "Send to… SkyDrive" to Windows Explorer (Greg Duncan)
• SkyDrive desktop features released: act now to save your free 25gb storage (Kip Kniskern)
• How to Get the Best Cloud Backup / Sync Out of MSFT’s new SkyDrive App (Mike Halsey)
• Geeks WIN! In The End (Steven)
• Why Microsoft should reboot its smartphone platform one more time (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes)
• Predicting the Mobile Future (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #865 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 4/23/2012 and Daily News Digest 4/24/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #43 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1091 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for April 23, 2012 – #0071 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 23 April 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 23 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 04.13 ~ 04.24 (gOODiDEA)

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