Dew Drop – May 3, 2012 (#1,319)

Top Links

• More fun with DateTime (Jon Skeet)
• Cloud services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone: Windows Live, reimagined (Steven Sinofsky)
• Delivering Rich Mobile Web Experiences in Windows Phone 7.5 (ESPN.com Case Study) (Amin Lakhani)
• Windows Phone ‘Developer Summit’ June 20th… Details on Windows Phone 8? (Antonio Hernandez)

.NET / Visual Studio

• How Visual Studio 2010 toolbox works (Alexander Vezenkov)
• Connecting to WCF RIA Services in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using Upshot.js and Knockout.js (Dave Isbitski)
• An Uncertain Future for Visual Studio Express (Jonathan Allen)
• EasyNetQ: Topic Based Routing (Mike Hadlow)
• Auto-Vectorizer – New Posts (Jim)
• Custom events in WinJS (Gustaf Nilsson Kotte)

Web Development

• Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 1 (Chris Love)
• Article: HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC (Jef Claes)
• Enhance Required Form Fields with CSS3 (Mary Lou)
• Behind the Sencha Command Utility and the Build Process (Jacky Nguyen)
• Announcing Native Windows Azure Libraries and Special Free Pricing using Twilio for Windows Azure Customers (Brian Goldfarb)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Kata – The only way to learn TDD (Peter Provost)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 7 sports application with Apache Cordova, jQuery Mobile Metro and ESPN API (Filip W)
• Wave hello to WAF – WPF Application Framework (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #550 – Converting a Brush into a Resource in Blend (Sean Sexton)
• Creating Windows Phone, iPhone and Android Apps with iFactr in Visual Studio 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• The web Marketplace launches in 22 new countries (Mazhar Mohammed)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Catching Up with Ted Neward (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Oracle IT Architect Certification – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Defrag: Return of Gov, Removing Network Drives, Security Essentials 4 (Larry Larsen)
• The Verge Mobile Podcast 026 – 05.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Video: Put the Wraps on Your Exceptions with Enterprise Library Exception Handling Application Block (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Registration Details… “SharePoint 15” Inside info at #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
• Meet the Author: Pinal Dave and Vinod Kumar on SQL Server Performance: Indexing Basics (Paul Ballard)
• Inside Microsoft Research: Start Spreading the News … Announcing Microsoft Research New York City! (Jennifer Chayes)

Database

• SQL SERVER – A Tricky Question and Even Trickier Answer – Index Intersection – Partition Function (Pinal Dave)
• How to search for data with underscores or brackets in SQL Server? and A couple of things to be aware of when working with tables in SQL Azure (Denis Gobo)

Miscellaneous

• Interested in the dirty depths of Windows 8? Check out this 83 page Windows 8 Forensic Guide (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 Metro Firefox mockups revealed (John Callaham)
• Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!) (Kip Kniskern)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Node: Up and Running – $13.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• How to get paid to speak (Scott Berkun)
• Is there hope for Windows Phone? (Joe Wilcox)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #872 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1098 (Chris Alcock)
• Interesting Finds: May 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 5/2/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily WP7 Development News 2 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 04.25 ~ 05.03 (gOODiDEA.NET)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft SQL Azure Enterprise Application Development by Jayaram Krishnaswamy