Dew Drop – May 9, 2012 (#1,323)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC (Monty Hammontree)
• Knockout 2.1.0 released (Steve Sanderson)
• Windows Phone Developers Can Start Prepping for Windows 8 (Dave Bost)
• Making an HTML5 version of the Game Pente: Part 2 Drawing Stones (Chris Love)

.NET / Visual Studio

• The best multi threading debugging tool is Microsoft Excel (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 11 gets some color back, now let’s move on (Andrew Schwam)
• Consolidating Duplicate Code in Visual Studio – Easy with CodeRush (Mark Miller)
• How to instantiate WCF host class with MEF and Getting the list of Type associated to a given export in MEF (Ricci Gian Maria)
• HttpVerbs as string in the .net framework (Nicolas Humann)
• EF5 Sample Provider Published (Pawel Kadluczka)
• Json.NET 4.5 Release 5 (CodePlex)
• Modernize Apps Look & Feel with Metro Studio and the Cosmopolitan Shell (Beth Massi)
• Windows Azure ServiceBus EAI & EDI Labs SDK – April 2012 CTP (Daniel Hester)

Web Development

• jQuery HTML5 :dataAttr Pseudo Selector (Elijah Manor)
• Is Expression Web Moribund? – a response (I. Haynes)
• CSS/HTML Tools and Resources Worth Checking Out (Louis Lazaris)
• HTML5 Audio — The State of Play (Mark Boas)
• Working with files in JavaScript, Part 1 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: jQuery Mobile: Up and Running – $11.99 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
• Passing multiple POST parameters to Web API Controller Methods (Rick Strahl)
• Build improvements (AppHarbor Team)
• There’s a Tool for That: 13 Essential Tools for the Ninja Web Developer (Joshua Holt)
• How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4 (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What is the cost of avoiding unit testing and the cost of software bugs? (Avi Kaye)
• Redefining software quality (Gojko Adzic)
• Setting up a CI server using Jenkins, MSBuild and GitHub on a Windows Server (Mahdi Taghizadeh)
• Unit Testing Star Wars Style (Gil Zilberfeld)
• History of Agile – The Influencers and Drivers of the Agile Movement (Peter Saddington)
• Why Does Management Care About Velocity? (Johanna Rothman)
• Build Automation Part 2: Building and Packaging (Geoff Hudik)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Storing Windows Phone User Settings (Nick Randolph)
• “Hello World “Windows Phone Application using PhoneGap or Cordova (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Behind the Tiles with Windows Phone (Kelly White)
• 2000 WPF Things #554 – Using an Opacity Mask (Sean Sexton)
• ArgumentException with Windows Phone Mango SQLCE Decimal (ToStringTheory)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Brian Noyes Builds Single Page Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Mash This Podcast – Building a Better API with Neil Mansilla (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Dustin Davis & Lee Dumond)
• Speaking about ASP.NET security on the OWASP podcast (Troy Hunt)
• Let’s Play TDD #187: __Invocation (James Shore)
• Ping 140: Hyper-V on Technet, Wordament, Nook, Windows Phone Marketplace (Laura Foy & Paul Mestemaker)
• The GeekDads Episode #114: Beard Sharing (Ken Denmead)
• Video: Dialog with Your iOS Users with MonoTouch (Paul Ballard)
• Boagworld: The undeniable power of collaboration (Paul Boag)
• [Video] Vimming – All about change (Roy Osherove)
• Polymorphic Podcast 2012.05.08 Twitter Bootstrap (Craig Shoemaker)
• Engadget HD Podcast 298 – 05.08.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Help students with So.Cl research (Den Delimarsky)
• Interview with Gill Cleeren and Kevin Dockx on their new book ‘Microsoft Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook’ (by Packt Publishing) (Silverlight Show)
• Smoked by Windows Phone by the numbers (and new ads!) (Ben Rudolph)
• Windows 8 App Excellence Labs (Chris Koenig)
• Ready.Set() {Code} (Doug Holland)
• Want to Learn More About Test Studio for iOS? (Jim Holmes)
• SQL Saturday Double Header (Jim O’Neil)
• Austin Code Camp Schedule (John Teague)
• SF Drinkup #37 (Kami)
• REGISTER TO ATTEND – Microsoft Public Sector Windows 8 Developer Events!! (Nandita)
• Experience Google I/O 2012 anywhere (Scott Knaster)
• Learn to create Windows 8 apps with HTML and JS (Luke)

Database

• How To Use T-SQL TIMESTAMP (ROWVERSION) in SSIS (Todd McDermid)
• Publish Profile Files in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – Quiz and Video – Introduction to Basics of a Query Hint (Pinal Dave)
• List of resources for database continuous integration (David Atkinson)

SharePoint

• Kill SharePoint 2010 Mobile Interface (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• Managing Child Processes (Tobias Weltner)
• Compare two files with Powershell (Jack Vamvas)

Miscellaneous

• Swÿp vs. Swype: This could get really confusing (John Cook)
• MSDN Magazine on your Kindle (Liam Westley)
• Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine in IE (Rey Bango)
• Android: Using DialogFragments (Tim Bray)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #876 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 8 May 2012 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 5/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1101 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 08, 2012 – #0078 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily WP7 Development News 8 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

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