Dew Drop – September 10, 2012 (#1,397)

Top Links

• Web Essentials 1.1 released (Mads Kristensen)
• Single Page Apps – Part 10 – Saving, Change Tracking, Commanding, and Validation (John Papa)
• Introducing ASP.NET FriendlyUrls – cleaner URLs, easier Routing, and Mobile Views for ASP.NET Web Forms (Scott Hanselman)
• Thread synchronization of atomic invariants in .NET 4.5 (Peter Ritchie)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Null Object Design Pattern (Richard Carr)
• Updating Windows 8 Tiles using C# (Christian Nagel)
• How to migrate your TFS Repository to GitHub and Code Contracts tab in VS2012 – Odd way to get it enabled (Derik Whittaker)
• KinectContrib Templates Available Through NuGet (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Your Colorful Visual Studio 2012 with the Color Theme Editor (VS2010 colors, too) (Scott Hanselman)
• WinRT: Creating an Image Collage in C# (Sumit Maitra)
• Are you reporting Visual Studio 2012 issues to Microsoft correctly? (Tarun Arora)
• The Windows Store Submission Process (Morten Nielsen)
• Pick & Read with Bookshelf – Our New Modern Style App created with WinForms (Nikolay Diyanov)
• The new .NET 4.5 feature every XAML developer will love (Robert MacLean)
• The case of the asynchronous copy and delete (Raymond Chen)
• Solution Explorer Sync’ing in Visual Studio 2012 and Solution Explorer in Visual Studio 2012 (Deborah Kurata)
• Updating Windows 8 Tiles using JavaScript (Christian Nagel)
• Consuming ASP.NET Web API services in Windows 8 C# XAML apps (Piotr Walat)
• Json.NET 4.5 Release 9 (CodePlex)
• 5 points developers should know about WinRT/Windows 8 (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Remote Profiling with dotTrace Performance (James Kovacs)
• WinRT app guide: Step 6: Adding a DataTemplate to the ListView and Stupid question 39: Why can’t I return null from a generic method, and what should I return? and Stupid question 40: Should I return ‘null’ or throw an exception if a methods fails to produce requested value? and WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: How do I programmatically unsnap from Snapped view? (Iris Classon)
• Windows 8 Games and Roaming Data (Chris Koenig)
• dotCover 2.1 Release Candidate (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Remote Machine Debugging With Windows 8 (Simon Jackson)
• Tarik Soulami: Anatomy of a debugging investigation (Devon Musgrave)

Web Development

• Posting Data to ASP.NET Sites with the ASP.NET Web API (Peter Vogel)
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed (Oleg Sych)
• Where are we now with HTML5? (Rob Tiffany)
• 10 lessons for uncultured web developers (Troy Hunt)
• Creating a blog using Azure Portal (Rudi Grobler)
• Why Use Backbone.js? (Alexander Beletsky)
• Understanding the pipeline (and sending complex objects into Mobile Services) (Josh Twist)
• Custom JSBin Code Editor Settings (Elijah Manor)
• GitHub Exposes Commit Status Via API (Garrett Wilkin)
• Getting Started Managing Client Side Scripts with Require.js (Bobby Johnson)
• WebMatrix 2 + Windows Azure (Chris Koenig)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Acceptance Testing Revisited (James Shore)
• Cube Drone on The Value of Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• CQRS is not an Architecture (Greg Young)
• Build one to throw away (Udi Dahan)
• Book Review: The Retrospective Handbook (Mark Needham)
• Do you really need a web design agency? (Paul Boag)
• Agile Release Planning 101 (Tommy Norman)
• Requirement management in the modern application lifecycle (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Fixing Bugs – There’s No Substitute for Experience and Fixing Bugs – If You Can’t Reproduce a Bug, You Can’t Fix It (Jim Bird)
• Git Viewer: GitHub vs Google Code (Ariya Hidayat)
• Gartner starts a study on Testing tools and publishes its findings on Magic Quadrant for Application Life Cycle Management (Charles Sterling)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• XamRibbon–Creating a Color Gallery the MVVM Way (Brian Lagunas)
• Stupid question 38: Does Windows Phone 8 support Javascript apps? (Iris Classon)
• SQL database version management in a Windows Phone 7 application (Jeremy Alles)
• 2000 WPF Things #643 – Disabled Controls Cannot Get Focus (Sean Sexton)
• Local LINQtoSQL Database For Your Windows Phone 7 Application (Tim Murphy)
• PhoneGap Starter Project – Productivity (Terrence Ryan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 150 – David Starr on the People, Practices, and Tools of Development (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Technology & Friends Episode 229: Samid Basu on Windows 8 (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 450: PAX Prime Recap, Mass Effect 3 “Leviathan” Game Add-On (Larry Hyrb)
• Episode 199 – PowerScripting Podcast – Rob Reynolds talks PowerShell and Chocolatey (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 083 – “Can I Throw My Kids on the Fatboy?” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Channel 9 Live at Visual Studio Launch Event September 12 (Larry Larsen)
• RavenDB & RPG With Me: Recording (Oren Eini)
• Video : ListBox Data Binding in Windows Phone (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Builds Cross-Platform Games with MonoGame (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ambassador Class and The Nerdist Podcast – Henry Rollins (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 046 – September 6th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Kinect Roadmap, Photo->Cloud Tutorials, Windows 8 @ SourceForge, ILRewriting and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Azure Web Sites Internals with Nir Mashkowski | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Edge Show 35 DirectAccess Deployment | Edge (David Tesar & Symon Perriman)
• Video: Give Your PowerShell Scripts A Modular Home (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Weekly 277: Hobbits (Paul Thurrott)
• GeekWire Podcast: Beer, music, kids, weather and more of our favorite apps (Todd Bishop)
• Engadget Podcast 309 – 09.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• Free SilverlightShow Webinar on Oct 16: MVVM in Windows 8 (Silverlight Show)
• What Are the Limits on INETA Speaker Reimbursement? (Chris Eargle)
• Giveaways on the Celebration for 500+ Posts Completion – #Pluralsight Subscription + #SQL Book + #Telerik License (Kunal Chowdhury)

Database

• Prevent SQL Server Reporting Services Slow Startup (Norman Chan)
• SQL Server vs. Oracle (Grant Fritchey)
• Row set Concatenation – SQL Server vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to DELETE Project in Data Quality Projects (DQS) and SQL SERVER – Configuring Interactive Cleansing Suggestion Min Score for Suggestions in Data Quality Services (DQS) – Sensitivity of Suggestion and SQL SERVER – Why Do We Need Data Quality Services – Importance and Significance of Data Quality Services (DQS) (Pinal Dave)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysdevices (Jason Strate)
• Importing Azure Marketplace Data into Excel 2013 with Web Queries (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

• Large Lists In SharePoint Online (Ted Theodoropoulos)
• Developing and Enforcing SharePoint Governance Policies with Axceler ControlPoint (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Windows Azure Online Backup Now Supports System Center 2012 SP1 (Himanshu Singh)
• The Microsoft Career Survival Guide (JD Meier)
• More on Atari Arcade – and a Chance to Win a Piece of Atari History (Justin Garrett)
• Danica McKellar’s Girls Get Curves Makes Geometry Relevant (Kathy Ceceri)
• Adventures in Windows 8: Solving activation errors (Laurent Bugnion)
• Turn NumLock on Automatically upon Boot in Windows 8 (Michael Crump)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming iOS 5 – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• The importance of social media for product developers (Rachel Andrew)
• Microsoft’s first Canadian retail store opening on November 16th in Toronto (Tom Warren)
• Pluralsight: Try Our New HTML 5 Player! (Keith Brown)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 7, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 9, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 7, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Friday Five–September 7, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Double Shot #954 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (September 7, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #35) (Himanshu Singh)
• Daily News Digest 9/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #61 (Frank)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-07 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1185 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for September 07, 2012 (Denny Cherry)
• Visual Studio ALM links (week 36/2012) (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Retrospective 96 – Agile Fitness and Agile Workouts (Peter Saddington)
• Windows Phone blogs to follow [REPOST] (Rudi Grobler)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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