Dew Drop – June 5, 2012 (#1,341)

Top Links

• What’s New in the BCL in the .NET Framework 4.5 (Immo Landwerh)
• Introducing jQuery++ (Justin B. Meyer)
• Microsoft opens registration for day-long Windows Phone developer summit (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Unveils Xbox Music, Xbox Video, and Xbox SmartGlass (Paul Thurrott)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflecting Array Information (Richard Carr)
• Updated Code Available for Programming Windows 6th Edition (Charles Petzold)
• Getting Started with Load Testing in Visual Studio 2012 and Enabling Feedback Requests, the Backlog and Sprint Planning Features in Team Foundation Server 2012 (Charles Sterling)
• Web Optimization in Visual Studio 2012 RC (Howard Dierking)
• Analyzing some ‘Big’ Data Using C#, Azure And Apache Hadoop – A Stack Overflow .NET Namespace Popularity Finder (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• EasyNetQ: Introducing the Advanced API (Mike Hadlow)
• LINQ Performance: Some Case Studies (Patrick Smacchia)
• Fixing some Visual Studio RC install issues (Terje Sandstrom)
• Setup Improvements for Visual Studio (David Guyer)
• Visual Studio 2012 Compatibility (aka Project Round-Tripping) (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using NHibernate with ServiceStack (Phillip Haydon)
• Why does PrintWindow hate CS_PARENTDC? Because EVERYBODY hates CS_PARENTDC! (Raymond Chen)
• Lightweight code generation to access private method to implement Event Sourcing (Ricci Gian Maria)
• No more awaiting… ILSpy 2.1 now supports async/await (Greg Duncan)
• Enabling User-Updated Live Tiles in Windows 8 (Eric Vogel)
• DEP2300: The Case of The Failed Remote Debug Session (Den Delimarsky)
• Your Metro-style app needs protection and here is why (Andrei Marukovich)
• Team Foundation Services Updates 6/4 (Brian Harry)
• What is new in the Code Index SDK for Visual Studio 2012 RC? (Jean-Marc Prieur)

Web Development

• How CSS Handles Errors (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Programs In JavaScript (Derick Bailey)
• Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (First Preview) (Devon Musgrave)
• Learn jQuery Part3: How to Filter in jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Accelerated CSS Filters Landed in Chromium (Stephen White)
• How LogMeIn is enabling scammers to profit (Troy Hunt)
• Custom paging provider (Vitek Karas)
• NHibernate Session Management in ASP.NET Web API (Piotr Walat)
• Legacy DX Filters Removed from IE10 Release Preview (Ted Johnson)
• Web Workbench Sass Performance Update (John-Daniel Trask)
• ElmahR – Elmah fused With SignalR (Gregor Suttie)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrumodoro (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Article: First Steps in Unit Testing (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Book Review: Elemental Design Patterns (Joe Kauzlarich)
• Book Review: 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (Alex Staveley)
• Missing Buttons To Merge Using TortoiseHg? (Chris Love)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Roaming Options for User Settings in Windows Phone Applications (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap: Make a Phone Call – Part 1 (Senthil Kumar)
• Metro Style Support in NetAdvantage for XAML 2012 Vol.1 (Jordan Tsankov)
• 2000 WPF Things #573 – Workspaces in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Hunter Goes to ASP.NET 4.5 and Beyond! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 9: LINQ for C/C++, Native Rx, Meet Aaron Lahman | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• Mash This Podcast – GitHub for Windows and More with Phil Haack (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Certifications | The Countdown Show (Mark DeFalco)
• Video: Get Dynamic with Objective-C (Paul Ballard)
• Casablanca | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Niklas Gustafsson)
• Rowan Miller Demonstrates Entity Framework 5 Using ASP.NET MVC 4 | Web Camps TV (Brady Gaster)

Community / Events

• Microsoft promises a ‘sneak peek’ at the future of Windows Phone on June 20th (Tom Warren)
• Purple to Blue – Joining Visual Studio ALM Product Team at Microsoft for Lab Management (Ed Blankenship)
• 2012 Stack Overflow Community Moderator Election Begins (Josh Heyer)
• Jetbrains offers to Open-Source developers: (Tatworth)
• Philly Draw-a-thon Event to Benefit Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (David Goodman)
• June Azure Events: Meet Windows Azure (June 7), Learn Windows Azure (June 11), and worldwide DevCamps (Jon Galloway)
• Meet the Author: Dan Wahlin on Building ASP.NET MVC Apps with Entity Framework Code First, HTML5, and jQuery (Paul Ballard)

Database

• Microsoft Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012 (James Serra)
• Using sys.dm_os_ring_buffers To Diagnose Memory Issues in SQL Server (Grant Fritchey)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 10920 Cannot drop user-defined function. It is being used as a resource governor classifier (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Connection Management Wiki Updated with Throttling and Long Transaction Limits (Gregory Leake)
• Diagnostic Manager Quick Tip – New Server Tag (Kevin Conan)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Xbox SmartGlass comes to Windows 8 tablets and PCs (Dante D’Orazio)
• Blurring the Lines – Mobile, Online, Brick-and-Mortar Retail (Devin Jordan)
• Upgrading the BUILD PC to Windows 8 Release Preview (Doug Holland)
• Zune finally becomes Xbox Music, but questions remain about the service. (Marques Lyons)
• Microsoft unveils Xbox SmartGlass at E3 to bring the living room TV to life (Rich Edmonds)
• Windows 8 just got cooler: Asus unveils ‘Taichi’ dual-screen ultrabook (Tim Conneally)
• Internet Explorer for Xbox arriving this fall, includes Kinect and SmartGlass controls (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• June 4th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
• Geek Reading June 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #893 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 6/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily WP7 Development News 4 June 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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