Dew Drop – July 3, 2012 (#1,356)

Top Links

• Beta: LINQPad v4.42.05 (Joseph Albahari)
• Fluent Interfaces in C#–Introduction (Dror Helper)
• Introducing Lync 2010 Super Simple Auto Answer Video Kiosk with Full Screen (Scott Hanselman)
• Going Outside Your Comfort Zone (Derek Huether)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Cancelling Tasks Started with Parallel.Invoke (Richard Carr)
• Community TFS Build Manager available for Visual Studio 2012 RC (Jakob Ehn)
• Using LINQ to Twitter OAuth with Windows 8 (Joe Mayo)
• O’ Reilly Deal of the Day 3/Jul/2012 – Best of Ebook Deal of the Day (Tatworth)
• How to cook a complete Windows 8 application with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in a week – Day 5 and Tips and tricks for C# metro developers–The Flyout control (David Catuhe)
• Generating Assemblies at runtime using IL emit (Pieter Van Parys)
• Advanced queries with Lucene.NET (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Trying out the prerelease OData Client T4 template (WCF Data Services Team)
• Windows 8 Metro: Improve GridView and ListView with SemanticZoom and Incremental Loading (Andrea Boschin)
• Windows 8: The right way to Read & Write Files in WinRT (Jerry Nixon)

Web Development

• Example of a Dynamic HTML5 Datalist Control (Raymond Camden)
• Do we really need Web API instead of ASP.NET MVC? (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Writing JavaScript Code in LightSwitch (Joe Binder)
• JavaScript String Methods Reference (Louis Lazaris)
• Swatch Book with CSS3 and jQuery (Manoela Ilic)
• All the ways to perform HTTP requests in PHP (Giorgio Sironi)
• Speeding Up Tekpub with Sam Saffron (Rob Conery)
• URL Parameters – Code Audits #1 (Brendan Enrick)
• Getting comfy with PhpStorm – one of the best IDEs so far! (Hasin Hayder)
• Setting up JetBrains WebStorm to work with Cocos2D (GameFromScratch)
• Python on Windows Azure – a Match Made in the Clouds! (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
• Using PHPStorm for WordPress Development – Basics (Curtis McHale)
• Browsers are the new IDE for Web Development (Kshitij Sobti)
• Windows Azure Caching (Preview) and Ruby Cloud Services (Larry Franks)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Run your favorite unit testing GUI directly from Visual Studio (Filip W)
• Article: Kanban for Skeptics (Nick Oostvogels)
• Some misunderstandings about Agile process (Tarun Kohli)
• Why Do We Need Managers Anyway? (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting Testing Involved (Dennis Stevens)
• Summary of our Recent Pull Request Enhancements on CodePlex (Jon Tsao)
• A Practical Guide to Designing with Data – A Review (Laura)
• Tests in Javascript Metro Applications (Per Ökvist)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Dynamically Set Theme based Images in Windows Phone using ThemedImageConverter (Windows Phone Geek)
• Devphone Toolkit v2 – Pickers, MessageBoxes, Controls and more for Windows Phone 7.1(5) (Greg Duncan)
• Developer: WireFrameSketcher Adds Windows Phone to Wireframe Options (Antonio Hernandez)
• Easy Scaling in XAML (WPF) (Robert May)
• 2000 WPF Things #593 – AddHandler Method Can Add Handler for Any Event (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone: ListPicker (Sumit Dutta)
• Maximizing your PubCenter AD Revenue (Michael Snow)
• A simple IndexingObservableCollection for zebra-striping rows (Matt Hidinger)
• Change and Deleted Item Tracking within the Infragistics DataGrid (Karl Shifflett)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Remy Sharp Still Building Web Pages with HTML 5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 191 – PowerScripting Podcast – Daniel Moren on PowerShell and TEM and a Live Show from SQL Saturday (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Mash This Podcast – AppHarbor with Rune Soerensen (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
• Video: (part 5 – A Test DSL) Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming (Roy Osherove)
• Top 5 Podcasts for .NET Devs (one for all!) (Stefano Ricciardi)
• Video: This Is Not The String You’re Looking For – Advanced String Searching Algorithms (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for July 2nd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Great place to work: does your company care about what you care about? (Thomas Kohnstamm)
• Tuts+ Community Meetup in New York! (Joel Bankhead)
• July Webinars: Introduction to Unit Testing, Executable Specifications in Action (Avi Kaye)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Monitoring SQL Server Database Transaction Log Space Growth – DBCC SQLPERF(logspace) – Puzzle for You (Pinal Dave)
• Monitoring Jobs on Multiple Servers by Using Multi Server Query (Kun Lee)

SharePoint

• PowerShell Script To Find Where SharePoint 2010 Features Are Activated (Brian Jackett)
• SharePoint 2010 Data Retrival Techinques (Jayant Sharma)
• jQuery with SharePoint solutions (Kunaal Kapoor)
• Managing Your SharePoint Blog with Infragistics Grid Web Part (Sartor)
• SharePoint 2010 Metro UI8 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

• Will a $40 upgrade price get Windows 8 to take off? (Kip Kniskern)
• Ex-Apple Employee Reveals The Biggest Complaints Developers Have About Working With Apple (AAPL) (Seth Fiegerman)
• All Windows versions from XP to 7 eligible for $40 Win 8 Pro upgrade (Tim Conneally)
• Windows Phone: Microsoft is pulling out of its tailspin (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 2, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #907 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 7/2/2012 and Daily News Digest 7/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #53 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1137 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 2 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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