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Dew Drop – July 12, 2012 (#1,362)

ISBN: 1449397220
ISBN-13: 9781449397227

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Dew Drop – April 4, 2012 (#1,299)

.NET / Visual Studio

EF5: Where are my DataAnnotations? and Update to EF5 and DbLocal Default in Config (Julie Lerman)
What AnyCPU Really Means As Of .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 (Sasha Goldshtein)
How to improve performance in your Metro style app (David Tepper)
JSON.NET Strong Naming And NuGet Woes (Nick Berardi)
Microsoft seeks more programming language support for Windows 8 (Mary Jo Foley)
Here’s Why Developers Should be Interested in Windows Azure (Michael Collier)
Windows 8 Metro: Create your apps with simplicity in mind (Andrea Boschin)
WiX v3.6 RC0 (CodePlex) – Adds VS11 support.

Web Development

You Really Should Log Client-Side Errors (Karl Seguin)
What is new in NetAdvantage for jQuery 2012 Vol.1 (Mihail Mateev)
Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know (Brandon Satrom)
Build a JavaScript Mocking framework in 10 minutes (Brendan Kowitz)
HTML5 Gaming: How to Animate Sprites in Canvas with EaselJS and Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers: The JavaScript Multi-Threading Approach (David Rousset)
Pure CSS Tool Tips Revisited (Louis Lazaris)
Browser URL encoding and website request validation black magic (Troy Hunt)
Revisiting The Backbone Event Aggregator: Lessons Learned (Derick Bailey)
Using Node.js as an accelerator for WCF REST services (Elton Stoneman)
Drag and Drop and Automatically Send to the Server (Remy Sharp)
Getting Started With node.js on Windows (Kevin Griffin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Virtual Scrum – Scrum Wing 3D – Open Source Agile Tool (Peter Saddington)
Lokad.CQRS – Code Preview for "Anatomy of Distributed Systems" (Rinat Abdullin)
Use Faker.NET To Fake Your Data (Roopesh Shenoy)
Using github behind a firewall (Simone Chiaretta)
Introducing the unrolled-switch anti-pattern (Raymond Chen)
Slack Is for Optional Stuff, Not for Important Stuff (Jurgen Appelo)
In defense of reinventing wheels (Lea Verou)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Installing and Using WP7 Tool Kit for Silverlight (Karthik Anbarasan)
How to Search for a Contact in WP7 using the Contacts class? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Quick Tip: Show WinRT XAML Binding Errors (Shawn Wildermuth)
Automatic Version Increment for Windows Phone Apps (Dennis Delimarsky)
Flipping the Light(Switch) Fantastic in Visual Studio 11 (David Ramel)
HackReady.Phone Episode 1 of 7: Introduction to the Windows Phone Platform (Level 100) – http://aka.ms/HackReadyPhone1 (Lindsay Lindstrom)
Optimize Startup Time (Mike Battista)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Engadget HD Podcast 293 – 04.03.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
ASP.NET Open Sourcing Discussion with Scott Hanselman (Brady Gaster)
Windows Phone Proposal- The Ultimate in Romance (Laura Foy)
Let’s Play TDD #178: I Can’t Believe That Worked (James Shore)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: John Papa on Building HTML5 and JavaScript Apps with MVVM and Knockout (Paul Ballard)
Join Me for ‘An Evening on Azure’ in Bellevue, WA (Steve Marx)
That Conference (Chris Koenig)
Windows Phone 101 series kicking off in Atlanta (Glen Gordon)
Get your apps up: upcoming Windows 8 Metro Apps activities and Write up on the first Windows 8 Developer and Hackathon event in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
Talking Cloud with Exchange Server MVP Jorge Diaz (MVP Award Program)

Database

How Fast Does Your SAN Need to Be for SQL Server? (Brent Ozar)
Working with packed dates in SSIS (Jim Giercyk)
SQL SERVER – Cleaning Up SQL Server Indexes – Defragmentation, Fillfactor – Video (Pinal Dave)
Dammit people, get to know check constraints and use them! and Downloading SQL Server Sample Databases much improved with new CodePlex changes (Denis Gobo)
SQL Azure Labs Codename "Data Explorer" Client (Labs Release) and Microsoft Connectors v2.0 for Oracle and Teradata and Microsoft® Connectors v1.2 for Oracle and Teradata (MS Downloads)
11 Important Database designing rules which I follow (Shivprasad koirala)
SSDT – What’s in a name? (Jamie Thomson)
Dealing with the "The text, ntext, or image pointer value conflicts with the column name specified." error from Visual Foxpro (Naomi Nosonovsky)
Announcing SQL Azure Data Sync Preview Update (Gregory Leake)

SharePoint

How to retrieve Sharepoint data from a Windows Forms Application. (Michael M. Bangoy)

PowerShell

Powershell – Validating an IP Address (Kyle Neier)
Improved WMI experience in PowerShell 3.0 (Osama Sajid)

Miscellaneous

Jobs in IT: Three common interview mistakes (Thomas Kohnstamm)
NetAdvantage for iOS: Native iPad & iPhone Controls for Apps (Jason Beres)
Introducing – Standards Based Management in Windows Server "8" (Osama Sajid)
Windows 8 RC to Get Flatter Explorer UI, Other Changes (Paul Thurrott)
Nokia Lumia 900 Review Roundup (Richard Hay)

The Geek Shelf

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

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Dew Drop – January 8, 2012 (#1,236)

.NET / Visual Studio

Stein’s Algorithm (Richard Carr)
string.format escape sequence in c# (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Stack Unwind Does Not Occur When C++ Exceptions Propagate Into Managed Code (Sasha Goldshtein)
The Windows Libraries for JavaScript: Part I (Chris Sells)
How to work with NuGet? (Dhananjay Kumar)
NHibernate Pitfalls: SQL Queries and Parameter Prefix (Ricardo Peres)
A bit more about Using Ninject 2.2 – factory methods (AngelEyes)

Web Development

jQuery Splitter and jQuery Tooltip (jqwidgets)
ASP.NET Page Methods with Parameters (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
Intro to Property-Based Animations (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Our Ajax Conventions–Request Correlation and Our Ajax Conventions–Validation (Josh Arnold)
Dropbox REST API Part 2: API Requests (Christophe Geers)
Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure (Avkash Chauhan)
Hadoop Streaming and Reporting and Hadoop Streaming and Windows Azure Blob Storage (Carl Nolan)
JSON.net and Deserializing Anonymous Types (David Hoerster)
New Year – Updated Ubuntu Rails Setup (Eric Proctor)
Microsoft Previews Windows Azure Application Integration Services (Richard Seroter)
Programming Office 365 Jump Start 2 (Tanzim Saqib)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Getting Results the Agile Way – Top 10 Best Seller on Amazon in Time-Management and 10 Things Great Managers Do and 30 Days of Getting Results – Free Time-Management Training (JD Meier)
CRUD it’s now CQRS … or is it? (Jeremy Likness)
Interview: Mike Cottmeyer on Agile Adoption and Transformation (Mike Cottmeyer)
RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic (Peter Cooper)
You are responsible for making that feature work. Write a test. Just do it… (Jason Jarrett)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

How to Show a deleted List Item with a Strike Through in XAML (Derik Whittaker)
New maintenance release for Windows Phone (Eric Hautala)
Windows Phone 7 Info Hub – All the phone info, one helpful hub [#wpdev] (Greg Duncan)
WP7 Tips: How to Pin an Application to the Start Screen? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Retrieving a WebPage Title and Sharing it with the ShareLinkTask in WP7 (Michael Crump)
Follow Up: How Many Apps Are on Your Windows Phone Handset? (Richard Hay)
Kung Fu Windows Phone – User Feedback (Rudi Grobler)
WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 1of Many and WP Development With “Essential WP 7.5 Application Development with Silverlight”– Part 2of Many (Vijaya Malla)
WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Windows Phone Dev Podcast Episode 049 – “Dial 666 For Evil Carrier” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 425: Hello 2012 (Larry Hyrb)
WHOIS: Simon Daniels, Senior Fontography PM (Larry Larsen)
Using the Windows Phone Storage NuGets for Windows Azure (Wade Wegner)
Gillmor Gang 01.07.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Engadget Mobile Podcast 120 – 01.06.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
New Video: Integrating Test Studio with TFS (Jim Holmes)

Community / Events

RavenDB Course in London: 28–29 February (Oren Eini)
Nerd Nite No. 10, January 11, 2012 (Philly Nerd Nite)
Microsoft Free Virtual Private Cloud Event, Jan 17th and code.NASA – Coding opportunities for wanna-be space cowboys and girls. NASA says "We’ve got our OSS space app’s right here…" (Greg Duncan)

Database

The officially easiest way to play with SQL Server 2012… The SQL Server Virtual Labs (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – Collation and Collation Sensitivity – Quiz – Puzzle – 6 of 31 and SQL SERVER – Indexed Views and Restrictions – Quiz – Puzzle – 7 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
SQL Azure Federation – Introduction (Shaun)
Normalizing Your Database (James Serra)
Does My MongoDB Replica Set Need An Arbiter? (Karl Seguin)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – About this Series and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Why You Should Care & the Development Story and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Breaking Out of the Sandbox and SharePoint 2010 + Windows Azure – Integration Options (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Best way to browse iOS documentation (Deepak Kapoor)
Excerpt Old Posts – A WordPress Plugin to get around the Feedburner 512K Limit (Jon Galloway)
Weekend project: Create a family calendar (Juliette Guilbert)
Learning Android: Freezing the UI with a BroadcastReceiver and Learning Android: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with android-maven-plugin (Mark Needham)
Why I think Windows Phone is superior phone OS? (Slobodan Pavkov)

The Geek Shelf

Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform by Andrew Troelsen

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