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Dew Drop – December 25, 2011 (#1,227)

Ho ho ho!

Top Links

I moved on from WCF Web API, but Web API IS still moving (Glenn Block)
9th Day of Silverlight : Implicit Data Templates (Tony Champion)
Backbone.js Is Not An MVC Framework (Derick Bailey)
Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – Express (Jan Van Ryswyck)

.NET / Visual Studio

How to order by multiple columns using Lambas and LINQ in C# (Senthil Kumar)
How do I get the full path for the target of a shortcut file? (Raymond Chen)
What’s New And Improved In JustCode Q3 2011 SP1 (Just* Team)
Kinecting to PowerPoint (Greg Duncan)
Consuming JSON in Windows 8 Metro style Application using WinJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
Lego KinNXT (Ashley Feniello)
OData Service Validation Tool Update: 10 new rules (Turker Keskinpala)
Rx – SP1 (Bnaya Eshet)
Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
BugNET Issue Tracker 0.9.147 (CodePlex)

Web Development

Control level request validation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Abhijit Jana)
Configuring WCF for Multiple IIS Host Identities in Sueetie (Dave Burke)
New Developer Tools in Firefox 11 Aurora (Kevin Dangoor)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 Agile Project Management Techniques You Can Start Using Today (Joel Semeniuk)
Make Everything OK – Agile is Hard (Peter Saddington)
Free Book – The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Tatworth)
Are You Intentional? (Mike Cottmeyer)
AutoHotKey for quick Git access (Joe White)
Software Architecture: Myth or Reality (Kerry Huguet)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Phone 7 + IronRuby + Online Library Hosting + Auto Updating = LiveLibs (Greg Duncan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

YOW! 2011: Kevin O’Neill – Mobile App Development, PlayUp, Objective-C, Windows Phone and YOW! 2011: Steve Vinoski – Riak Core, Erlang and Frisbee Freestyle and Brian Beckman: Hidden Markov Models, Viterbi Algorithm, LINQ, Rx and Higgs Boson and Checking In: Larry Osterman – 26 Years of Programming at Microsoft and Counting and Simon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes – It’s Raining Haskell (Charles Torre)
Gillmor Gang Live 12.23.11 (TCTV) and Gillmor Gang 12.24.11 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
TWC9: The Top 9 Developer Stories & Trends of 2011 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Engadget Podcast 269 – 12.23.2011 and The Vergecast 007 – 12.23.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Windows Weekly 240: What’s Your Prestige Level? (Paul Thurrott)
NeowinCast Gaming 003 – Dec. 23: End of 2011 Edition (John Callaham)
Video on How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 and Video on How to Protect Password in Windows Phone 7 using Data Protection API (Dhananjay Kumar)

Community / Events

Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Program Ends Year on High Note (MS JobsBlog)
Stack Exchange Gives Back 2011 (Robert Cartaino)

Database

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): New Security Features (James Serra)
Assign Result of Dynamic SQL to a Variable in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
SQL SERVER – A Simple Puzzle and Simple Solution of Datatype and Computed Column and SQL SERVER – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays – Database Properties – Number of Users (Pinal Dave)
SQL Advent 2011 Day 23: OBJECT_DEFINITION and Upgrade Assistant for SQL Server 2012 available for download and SQL Advent 2011 Day 24: Index REBUILD and REORGANIZE and SQL Advent 2011 Recap (Denis Gobo)
SQL Server – How to identify service pack installed (Vishal)

PowerShell

Windows Management Framework 3.0 CTP2 available (with Getting Started with PowerShell Workflows guide too) (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

Building the one Install OS Flash Drive to rule them all…? (Windows 7 x86 & x64 and Live CDs and Rescue disks and…) (Greg Duncan)
My Bests of 2011 (Keyvan Nayyeri)
What I’d do with my ‘Microsoft 20% time’ (Michael S. Kaplan)
How Microsoft Can Fix Windows 8 in 2012 (Paul Thurrott)
Amazon 2012: What the Future May Hold for the Web’s Largest Retailer (Peter Pachal)
Introducing Aurora 11 with tons of new features and improvements (Robert Nyman)
The two (and only two) ways Microsoft can survive the phone wars (David Aronchick)

More Link Collections

Distributed Weekly 134 (Scott Banwart)
Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows Dev News for December 24, 2011 – #0015 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/23/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (12/23/2011) (Silverlight Show)
Retrospective 64 – The Process of Change 4 Part Series (Peter Saddington)
MVP Friday Five: December 22, 2011 (MVP Award Program)
Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
Weekly News Digest @SilverlightZone – 28-December-2011 to 24-December-2011 (Kunal Chowdhury)

The Geek Shelf

Node: Up and Running: Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript by Tom Hughes-Croucher

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Dew Drop – December 23, 2011 (#1,226)

Next week’s Dew Drop posts will be a bit sporadic. I will be on vacation, enjoying some time at home with my family.

Top Links

A holiday.js gift for Azure Node.js developers (Glenn Block)
Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10621 SP1 (MS Downloads)
Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor (Alexia Tsotsis)
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Unit Testing with Func<TResult> Generators (James Michael Hare)
31 Days of Testing—Day 19: Refactoring a “Monster” Functional Test, Part 1 (Jim Holmes)

.NET / Visual Studio

Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq (Richard Carr)
Hadoop Streaming and F# MapReduce (Carl Nolan)
Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts? (Charles Sterling)
Shadowcasting in C#, Part Four (Eric Lippert)
Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 (Mike Fourie)
Roslyn CTP: Three Introductory Projects (Whaeth)
Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features (Jeff Martin)
Rx – Buffer (Bnaya Eshet)
LINQ Extensions Library 1.0.2.5 (CodePlex)
Replacing the Team Foundation Server 2010 Data Tier–NOT (Bob Hardister)
How do I determine programmatically whether a particular language is LTR or RTL? (Raymond Chen)
XSLT 2.0 in .NET (Akram El Assas)
Treat a plain string as URL and fetch query string values (Jyothikarthik_N)
SqlMapperHelper – A Helper Class for Dapper-Dot-Net (Peter Bromberg)

Web Development

CSS Filter Effects Landing in WebKit (Eric Bidelman)
Typography effects with CSS3 (Leigh Howells)
Async file upload with jquery and ASP.NET (Jalpesh P. Vadgama)
ASP.NET MVC + Selenium + IISExpress (Stephen Walther)
Knockout 2.0.0 is Available (John Papa)
Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio (Rick Strahl)
Facebook: Platform Updates for Games Developers (Namita Gupta)
Adobe Muse Beta 5.1 released (Ron)
Custom Events are Pretty Cool (Chris Coyier)
Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP (For Beginners) (Daniel Pataki)
Umbraco CMS 5.0 RC 1 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Visualising Kanban Dimensions with TIPs (Karl Scotland)
The Process of Change – Complexities of Attitudinal Change – Axiology [Part 4/4] (Peter Saddington)
Return-Oriented Programming (Sasha Goldshtein)
Advice for Young Developers: Learn to Make Your Own Decisions (J. Boyer)
Functional version of the visitor pattern (Akram El Assas)
Getting Gilded Rose Under Test (Bobby Johnson)
Dynamic binding for data-driven tests in MbUnit v3 (Yann Trevin)
Get into the flow with Spinning (Ralf Westphal)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone App Development for Beginners #4 First Visual Studio project and How to Update Secondary and Application Tiles in Windows Phone apps and Microsoft releases WPDev Feedback app for developers (Windows Phone Geek)
How to set the HTML string in the webbrowser control in Windows Phone in MVVM context (Nicolas Humann)
How to consume WCF REST Service with JSON in Windows Phone 7 (Dhananjay Kumar)
Mango Apps: Designspire Gets Huge Update (Functions Like Windows Phone) (Antonio Hernandez)
Windows Phone Mango Sample: Input Scope (Jerry Nixon)
Silverlight 5: MVVM got more fun with Implicit Data Templates (Michael Sync)
Silverlight security overview paper has been updated for Silverlight 5 (Nick Kramer)
Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight (Punit Ganshani)
2000 WPF Things #457 – Use a GridSplitter to Let a User Change Row or Column Size in a Grid (Sean Sexton)
8th Day of Silverlight : Vector Printing (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

YOW! 2011: Joe Albahari – LINQ, LINQPad, and .NET Async (and a little Rx, too) (Charles Torre)
Making Learning More Interactive and Fun for Young Children (Sheridan Jones)
Coming in 2012: The Geekadelphia Podcast (Jo Pincushion)
Introducing the Cloud Fundamentals Video Series (Zhiming Xue)
Let’s Play TDD #153: Push the Button (James Shore)
Fever Pitched Episode 5: This Weeks Hottest Stories for 21 December 2011 (Richard Hay)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Roman Karachinsky Interview (Ryan Parsley)

Community / Events

What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4 webcast: 17 January (Simone Chiaretta)
A Thing To Do in the New Year: Learn XAML on Silverlight 5, WP7, Win8 & WPF (London Training) (Silverlight Show)
Call for C++ Community folks in Belgium – January 10th meeting and Join us for the first PHP & Windows Azure Hackthon in Belgium (Katrien de Graeve)
11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012. (Michael Crump)
Interview with Julie Lerman on Programming Entity Framework: Code First (Jean Lambert)
Five years of Encosia (Dave Ward)
Women Want to Hack! (Emily Smith)
Kinect at Chippewa Valley Code Camp (Greg Duncan)
“Earned a Stack Overflow gold badge” Badges! (Laura Dobrzynski)

Database

101 with the Interactive Feature of SQL Server Integration Services (Keshav Singh)
SQL SERVER – A Quick Script for Point in Time Recovery – Back Up and Restore (Pinal Dave)
Replacing Cell Security with Dimension Security (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

2 PowerShell Cmdlet Updates (Josh T.)

Miscellaneous

Gathering, viewing and understanding performance data with the new PerfView utility (Greg Duncan)
Can Microsoft and Nokia win in indoor location services? (Kip Kniskern)
6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012 (Lance Ulanoff)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 22, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year (Simone Chiaretta)
Double Shot #780 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 12/22/2011 and Daily News Digest 12/23/2011 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1009 (Chris Alcock)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 12/22/2011 (Bob Rhubart)
SilverlightShow Top 5 for December 12 – 18, 2011 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 22 Dec 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Android Programming with Mono for Android and .NET/C# by Wallace B. McClure

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C# + ReSharper = Awesome: Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

This is the third in a series of quick how-to articles on Resharper.

Tip #3 – Convert Into LINQ Expression

Use: ForEach blocks that perform simple bits of logic can often times be rewritten as lambda expressions. This reduces the number of lines of code and usually makes the code more readable.

Before

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             var badAlbums = new List<Album>();

             foreach (Album album in albums)
             {
                 if (album.Genre == "Country")
                     badAlbums.Add(album);
             }

             return badAlbums;
         }

Press <Alt+Enter>

After

         public IList<Album> FindAlbumsToGiveAway(IList<Album> albums)
         {
             return albums.Where(album => album.Genre == "Country").ToList();
         }

Happy coding!

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