Dew Drop – July 11, 2012 (#1,361)

Top Links

• When is a cast not a cast? (Eric Lippert)
• Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012 Official Release Timeframe Announced (Ed Blankenship)
• Node.js development with WebMatrix 2 + Express (Part 3) (Steve Sanderson)
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #8 Layout & Composition Part I (Arturo Toledo)
• ReSharper 7: What’s Inside (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflecting Assembly Information (Richard Carr)
• 11. Getting Testing Done in the Sprint – The Customer Test Team (Clemens Reijnen)
• Playing with Twitter (Mike Hadlow)
• Metro: Creating an IndexedDbDataSource for WinJS (Stephen Walther)
• Setting up Entity Framework for Production Use (Sumit Maitra)
• One Team Project Collection to rule them all–Consolidating Team Projects (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 8 – Overriding Metro app resources (Nigel Sampson)
• RavenDB… What am I persisting, what am I querying? (part 1) (Phillip Haydon)
• Background Services in Mono for Android (Greg Shackles)

 

Web Development

• jQuery 1.8 Beta 2 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Common Logging, Log4Net, Castle Windsor and ASP.NET MVC (Ugo Lattanzi)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Get Started With the Node.js Driver for SQL Server (Larry Franks)
• node.js Version 0.6.20 (maintenance) (node Team)
• Webstack of Love (Brad Wilson)
• Twitter API Best Practices: Server vs. Browser API Processing (Adam Green)
• Custom Forms in Orchard CMS and Anonymous Users Permission (David Hayden)
• Building Hybrid Applications in the Cloud on Windows Azure – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure SDK 1.7 Storage Emulator and LocalDB (Avkash Chauhan)
• Configuring PHP in Windows Azure Websites with .user.ini Files (Brian Swan)
• Framework for .Net Hadoop MapReduce Job Submission TextOutput Type (Carl Nolan)
• Tips & Tools for Grid-based Layouts (Carrie Cousins)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Risk-storming (Simon Brown)
• Scrum Extensions "Suspended" (Christopher Goldsbury)
• Management Myth 6 Posted: I Can Save Everyone (Johanna Rothman)
• Security Policies – Code Audits #7 (Brendan Enrick)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Adding Business Services in WPF with Prism and Unity (Peter Vogel)
• Here’s a Tip… As in a Tip Calculator Hands On Lab For WP7 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone and PhoneGap: Make a Phone Call (part 1) (Senthil Kumar)
• Breaking Change with Facebook Authentication on Windows Phone (Nathan Totten)
• 2000 WPF Things #599 – A Complete Example of a Routed Event and #600 – Registering a Routed Event (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 7 and Message Box (Sumit Dutta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 059: The $8 Billion iPod (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Tim Huckaby: Building Real-World Kinect Applications (Dan Fernandez)
• Hot Apps: Feed Me Oil, Find My Champ, PAC-MAN Kart Rally, Angelina, Text N Walk | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Engadget HD Podcast 307 – 07.10.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: Dan Wahlin on HTML5 Canvas Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)
• Life as a Doctoral Student (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Women in IT: Boosting the number of women in the room (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Removing Function Calls for Better Performance in SQL Server (Unknown Author)
• SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster (Unknown Author)
• SQL Server 2012 – First Value Last Value (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Remove Debug Button in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #020 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Moving xml child elements to its parent using XQuery (Arthur Olcot)
• Retrieving password policy settings for SQL login accounts (Basit Farooq)

 

Miscellaneous

• Playing with Windows Server 2012 in 30 seconds or less… Windows Server 2012 Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing Management OData Schema Designer (Raluca Hera)
• Microspeak: radar (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 11, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1143 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading July 10, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #913 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 7/11/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for July 10, 2012 – #0102 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 July 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 10 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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