Dew Drop – July 9, 2012 (#1,359)

Top Links

• Introduction to MVC in Monotouch – Part 1: The basics (Brent Schooley)
• Node.js development with WebMatrix 2 and Express (Steve Sanderson)
• JavaScript Data Binding Frameworks (Dan Wahlin)
• Read XML Files using LINQ to XML and Extension Methods (Paul Sheriff)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Geo Location & Spatial Searches with RavenDB–Part VII–RavenDB Client vs. Separate REST Service and RavenDB, .NET memory management and variable size obese documents (Oren Eini)
• Modifying LINQ to SQL command text again and Modifying LINQ to SQL command text without Reflection (Chris Cavanagh)
• Code Smells: Regions in C# (codeWithoutFear)
• Converting StorageFiles (png) to a Byte[] in order to display as an Image in WinRT (C#) and How to Capture Images w/ the WebCam in WinRT (C#) applications. (Derik Whittaker)
• The Windows 8 Release Preview Virtual Labs – Labs for building Win8 Metro Style Apps with C# (without you having to install anything) and Hawaii goes v2.0 (as in Project Hawaii Cloud Services SDK 2.0) and Three classes, 23 modules, for Designing and App Development for Modern (aka Metro) UI and Devices (Greg Duncan)
• Using Visual Studio 2012: Event Handler Generation (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Announcing Achievements For Visual Studio 2012 RC (Karsten J.)
• With Visual Studio, Open Same File In Two Windows, Updates Reflected in Both and varchar(max) means 2GB in SqlServer, not 8092, EF CodeFirst Gets it right (Peter Kellner)
• What are the recommended locations for storing different types of files? and Why hasn’t the API hook mechanism for x64 been standardized like it was for x86? (Raymond Chen)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Cascades (Ricardo Peres)
• .NET Framework Setup Verification tool now supports Windows 8 (Mike Williams)
• Article: Writing Automated Acceptance Tests with Spec Flow (Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali)
• MassTransit v2.5.3 Now Supports the TPL (Chris Patterson)
• A Few New NoSQL Helper Libraries (Daniel Mohl)

 

Web Development

• Client-Side vs. Server-Side HTML Rendering (Code Inside Team)
• Quick news: Next release of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Devon Musgrave)
• Deploy your ASP.NET Web API application to Windows Azure in 3 minutes (Filip W)
• The old new Hello World… Building a simple RSS reader for Windows 8 Metro with HTML and JavaScript (Greg Duncan)
• Update MVC4 from Beta/RC (imperugo)
• HtmlHelper to generate a top-level menu for areas (Jef Claes)
• Javascript Unit Tests on Team Foundation Service with Chutzpah (Mathew Aniyan)
• All debugging and no testing makes the PHP programmer a dull boy (Giorgio Sironi)
• Handling Events for Many Elements and Picking a Random Item from an Array (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Why CoffeeScript is tough to maintain (Renso)
• Overview of the Windows Azure Platform (Neil Mackenzie)
• JS101: The Function Constructor (Alex Young)
• Tweaking Windows Azure Web Sites (Maarten Balliauw)
• Book Review–Getting Started With OAuth 2.0 (Lori Lalonde)
• Working with KendoUI Mobile Switch in Four steps (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Becoming an Agile Coach – 7 Tips for Client Engagement (Peter Saddington)
• UI Composition vs. Server-side Orchestration (Udi Dahan)
• Faking static methods in Moq, FakeItEasy and NSubstitute might be closer than imagined (Roy Osherove)
• Creating Custom NUnit Assertion Methods (Richard Carr)
• Rhino Mocks Isn’t Complicated (Jim Cooper)
• Rename Your Git Repositories How You Like (Michael Chletsos)
• Massive Multiplied Methods – Code Audits #5 and Static Overload – Code Audits #6 (Brendan Enrick)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Building cross platform mobile apps with Windows Phone and PhoneGap/Cordova (Windows Phone Geek)
• Coded UI testing support for Silverlight (Brian Harry)
• Change the Skin of Your Windows Phone 7 Emulator To A Nokia Lumia (Chris Love)
• Creating Windows Phone, iPhone and Android Apps with iFactr in Visual Studio 2010 (Zhiming Xue)
• Running User Code in the XAML Designer: Blend and VS 2012 (Harikrishna Menon)
• Adding an Icon and File Association to WPF Clickonce Applications (LearnWPF)
• UI Test Plugin for Silverlight Applications (Mathew Aniyan)
• How To: Make XAML Content Globalizable When Using Value Converters (Paulo Morgado)
• Wpf DataGrid poor performance on sorting (Ricci Gian Maria)
• 2000 WPF Things #597 – Naming Conventions for Event Handlers (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone: Reminder in Depth and Tilt effect on HubTile and Other Controls on Windows Phone (Sumit Dutta)
• Using LiveTileHelper for WPDev to update a tile with a Background Agent (Windows Phone Team)
• A DotNetNuke HTML Module Calling Visual Studio LightSwitch Using OData (Michael Washington)
• #windowsphone development tip: turn on tombstoning when debugging (Jax)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 220: Mark Defalco on Project Detroit (David Giard)
• The Metro Developer Show Episode 074 – “ARMED In Texas” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• XAMLflix Video Tutorial: RadDataPager for Silverlight and WPF (Michael Crump)
• The Tablet Show – Shawn Wildermuth Explores Windows Phone 7.8 and 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast #143 – Show #57 Seth Godin on Linchpins and Startups. (Bob Walsh)
• The Vergecast 037 – 07.05.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• ShopTalk Episode 24 (Chris Coyier)
• Building Connected Windows 8 Apps with Windows Azure | TechEd Europe 2012 (Nick Harris)
• Video: Feel the Impact! Test Impact Analysis with Team Foundation Server (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Weekly 268: Paul Gets Served (Paul Thurrott)
• A Developer’s Guide to Dangerous Queries (Video) (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for July 9th, 2012 and Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons – Coming July to September (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Nerd Nite No. 16, July 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
• Free Webcast: Making the Connection between SharePoint and Your Information Security Program (Joel Oleson)

 

Database

• Using SAS ACCESS and PROC SQL to Retrieve SQL Server Data (Rick Dobson)
• SQL Server User Defined Server Roles (Brady Upton)
• SQL SERVER – CTRL+SHIFT+] Shortcut to Select Code Between Two Parenthesis and SQLAuthority News – 2 Whitepapers Announced – AlwaysOn Architecture Guide: Building a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution and SQL SERVER – Monday Morning Puzzle – Query Returns Results Sometimes but Not Always (Pinal Dave)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysconfigures (Jason Strate)
• Securing Database Contents with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (Basit Farooq)

 

PowerShell

• SeeShell NFR Licenses for Community Leaders and User Groups (Jim Christopher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Mactuts+ — Mac & OS X Tutorials, Guides & How To’s! (David Appleyard)
• What Amazon Brings to the Smartphone Market (Ina Fried)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 7, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 8, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 9, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 162 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading July 7, 2012 and Geek Reading July 9, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Friday Five–July 6, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #19 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #911 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #26) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 7/9/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #54 (Frank)
• Pie in the Sky (July 6, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1141 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-09 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for July 08, 2012 – #0100 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for June 25 – July 01, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 9 July 2012 and Daily WP Development News 6 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 92 – Design & Agile & Culture (Peter Saddington)

 

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