Dew Drop – August 3, 2012 (#1,377)

Top Links

• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Introduction (Billy McCafferty)
• Today….All Your Wildest Dreams Come True (Rob Eisenberg)
• Seem’s Microsoft has a case of the Metro’s (Scott Barnes)
• Platform Hygiene (Tim O’Brien)
• Didn’t Microsoft announce the end of “Metro” two weeks ago? (Kip Kniskern)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• RPGWithMe, RavenDB and plain awesomeness and New in RavenDb Studio 1.2: Enhancements to querying (Oren Eini)
• Unity 2.1 – August 2012 update (Grigori Melnik)
• Caliburn Micro on WinRT (Nigel Sampson)
• Reordering method parameters with Visual Studio and CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
• App building events for Windows 8 app developers (Neil Hutson)
• Processing tasks as they complete (Stephen Toub)
• Updated GhostDoc v4 Beta2 (Tatworth)
• Windows 8 Metro Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 1 (Samidip Basu)
• Inside the DLR – Callsite binders (Simon Cooper)
• MonoGame Demo (Rob Miles)
• Windows 8 Metro app: Sending an Email. (Compared to Windows Phone 7’s EmailComposeTask) (Mikael Koskinen)
• Deploy from Visual Studio 2012 to iOS, Windows Phone, Android and Windows (Martin Hinshelwood)
• A Collection of ReSharper 7 Keyboard Shortcuts (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Developing Simple Metro Style Applications using Commanding (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Exiting a batch file without exiting the command shell -and- batch file subroutines (Raymond Chen)
• Windows 8 Notifications: Overview and Windows 8 Notifications: Programmatic Concepts (Jim O’Neil)
• Think Rx (Reactive Extensions) is just for Stocks and stuff like that? Here’s a cool use with the FileSystemWatcher and Nuget needs your help! Help in testing if a CDN helps make your Nuget’ing faster or not… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook on Safari Books Online (Zubair Ahmed)
• Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame – Part 2, Getting Started (Bob Familiar)

 

Web Development

• Node.js, Socket.IO, and ASP.NET MVC 4 on Windows Azure Web Sites – Tankster Command Sample (Nathan Totten)
• node.js Version 0.8.5 (stable) (node.js Team)
• Task Manager Todoist Receives a Major HTML5 Update (Romain Dillet)
• IIS7, Global Themes, CSS Files and Subfolders (Scott Mitchell)
• Welcome to the ASafaWeb scheduler (Troy Hunt)
• Compiling / Optimizing A Subset Of A RequireJS Application (Ben Nadel)
• Authy: TFAaaS (John Sheehan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Programming to an Interface (Cori Drew)
• NUnit & Moq Primer (Christopher Geers)
• Making Work Ready (Dennis Stevens)
• Why We Feel Unproductive and Time Management Tips #14 – Dump Your State (JD Meier)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• New samples galore from the Windows Phone SDK Team – 33 new samples, 4 pages, 2 languages, 1 boat load of code… and Syncfusion helps shed a little succinct light on LightSwitch with "LightSwitch Succinctly" (Reg-ware) (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone Features For the VirtualizingPanel and Windows Phone: Live shaping (Live Filtering, Grouping and Sorting of Collections) and WPF 4.5 – Part 4 : The New Binding’s ‘Delay’ Property (jmix90)
• 2000 WPF Things #617 – Input Events (Sean Sexton)
• 10 money-making secrets of top apps (part 2) (Michael Stroh)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 146 – Shay Friedman on Roslyn, IronRuby and the DLR (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Engadget HD Podcast 310 – 08.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Defrag: Delayed Loading on Startup, Can’t Boot From USB, Defrag Tools | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• 10 Conference Videos for Front-End Developers (Louis Lazaris)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Jason Milgram (Ryan Parsley)

 

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview With Jeffrey Fritz (The Code Project)
• Meet the Author: Sahil Malik on SharePoint 2010 Security Part 2 (Paul Ballard)
• Node.js Conference: call for papers (Simone Chiaretta)
• Green to Orange–Joining the VSIP team as a Technical Product Manager (Martin Hinshelwood)
• ANN: Windows 8 Developer Training and Hackathon Events Coming to a City Near You (Dave Bost)
• The Windows Azure Accelerator Program (George Garza)
• A Lap around Team Foundation Server 2012 Redmond User Group August 6th (Charles Sterling)

 

Database

• How to Find Outdated Statistics in SQL Server 2008 (Tibor Nagy)
• SQLAuthority News – Learning Never Ends – Becoming Student Again (Pinal Dave)
• Installing and using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) on Visual Studio 2010 and VWD (Rick Anderson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Is ‘Metro’ now a banned word at Microsoft? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Geek Graduates: Seton Hall University Adopts Windows 8 (MS JobsBlog)
• Windows 8 RTM built-in apps revealed via screenshots – Bing, Xbox Music, Video, SmartGlass and more (damaster)
• The new Outlook Web App extends to tablets and phones (Gray Knowlton)
• 10 Insanely Essential Utilities That Made It To My Windows 8 Slate (Jesse Liberty)

 

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 166 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading August 2, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #929 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1160 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-03 (Dan Rigby)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–July 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily WP Development News 2 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Interesting Finds: August 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)

 

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