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Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251)

Dew Drop – January 18, 2012 (#1,245)

.NET / Visual Studio

Top Visual Studio Extensions (Prashant Khandelwal)
Northwind Starter Kit Review: If you won’t respect the database, there will be pain (Oren Eini)
How to use INTERNET_OPTION_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT with InternetQueryOption in C# (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
TFS11 on Azure January 2012 update – request feedback (Clemens Reijnen)
New Article: Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues – Compared and Contrasted (Valery Mizonov)
Mapping and Location with Monotouch on DevProConnections web site (Wally McClure)
How Nuget could improve (Paul Stack)
Displaying a Map of the Current Location with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)

Web Development

Trying To Mimic LET Functionality In JavaScript Using Self-Executing Functions (Ben Nadel)
Working with HTML tables using CodeRush (Alex Skorkin)
Style sheet strong arm: Reset.css versus Normalization.css (Eric Newton)
Kinect, HTML5, WebSockets and Canvas (Greg Duncan)
The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Interface (Giorgio Sironi)
What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 4: slides and demo are now online (Simone Chiaretta)
URI segments, dots, REST, and a .NET bug (Christopher Smith)
You Tube API – recall Video Meta files with .NET (Code Inside Team)
jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
New Web Workbench features (Ivan Towlson)
The Principles of Web API Usage (Janet Wagner)
How to Automatically Utilize Multicore Servers with Node on Windows Azure (Aaron Stannard)
WebClient/WebRequest threading untangled (Andreas Hammar)
One Azure Web Role, Multiple Websites (Brian Hitney)

Design / Methodology / Testing

"Testing In An Agile World" Article Posted On Developer Fusion (Malcolm Anderson)
What is the roll of the Project Manager in Scrum? (Martin Hinshelwood)
True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
Git Cheat Sheet (Mark Curphey)
Open Group Publishes its First Cloud and International SOA Standards (Mike Walker)
FAQ: What is the difference between “Assigned To” and “Tester” in MTM? (Gautam Goenka)
An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
Testing framework is not just for writing… tests (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

2000 WPF Things #475 – Child Elements in Canvas Can Overlap (Sean Sexton)
Free ly: Using Expression Design with Expression Blend an XAML and Free Water Scroll Viewer for Expression (Surf4Fun)
Building A Multi-Touch Photo Viewer Control (Morten Nielsen)
Calling Navigate From The View Model (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gillmor Gang 01.17.12 (TCTV) (Steve Gillmor)
Let’s Play TDD #159: How Do We Store Data? (James Shore)
Boagworld: Create a consistent user experience across all online channels (Paul Boag)
Start Up Success Podcast Show #130: Timo Rein, Cofounder of Pipedrive (Bob Walsh)

Community / Events

Developing Windows Phone Apps Webcasts on Jan. 24 and Jan. 26, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
Thank you Nestor Portillo for your Years of Leadership and Service to the MVP Award Program (MVP Award Program)
Welcome to My New Blog (Elijah Manor)
Speaking at Hub City NUG Thursday Jan 19th 2012 (Keith Elder)

Database

CTE command In Sql Server (Vivek Johari)
Windows 8, ReFS and SQL Server (Denny Cherry)
SQL SERVER – Various Ways to Create Constraints – Quiz – Puzzle – 17 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
ORAPOCO: ORM Light to work with Oracle (J. Torrecilla)

Miscellaneous

IPv6: countdown to launch (Erik Kline)
SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the cloud across PCs and Macs (Anand Babu)
New ReFS File System Will Debut in Windows Server 8, Not Windows 8 (Paul Thurrott)
Microspeak: Walls and ladders (Raymond Chen)

The Geek Shelf

Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Dan Pilone

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Dew Drop – January 17, 2012 (#1,244)

.NET / Visual Studio

A Generic Equality Comparer for LINQ (Richard Carr)
LINQ to SQL – Mapping Stored Procedure with Multiple Results (Hiren Khirsaria)
Team Foundation Backup Plan Not Working in Administration Console (Shai Raiten)
EF 4.3 Gets Code First Migrations But No Enum Support (Roopesh Shenoy)
Shining a ray of light with Azure… Using Azure to create your own ray tracer (Greg Duncan)
Getting values into a string (John Rayner)
Getting Started Building iOS Applications with MonoTouch (Bobby Johnson)
developerFusion Article: An Introduction to FSharpx (Daniel Mohl)
StyleCop+ 1.6 (CodePlex)

Web Development

Refactoring Common API Functionality Into A Node.js Proxy (Karl Seguin)
Dynamic ViewState in ASP.Net WebForms (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
HTML 5 Canvas Cheatsheet from DZone /Refcardz (Greg Duncan)
Diving Deep: ASP.NET Membership and the new Universal Providers (Harish Ranganathan)
Gate 0.2.1 implementation of OWIN online at NuGet (Louis DeJardin)
The All-New CSS3 Click Chart (Louis Lazaris)
jQuery Accordion Control Musings (Becky Isserman)
Json serialization – RPC style in MVC (Nuri Halperin)
AppEngine Thoughts, or “How to support a cloud” (Kyle Baley)
jQ.Mobi: Less compatible, but better performance (Dave Mahon)
On EventEmitter In node.js (Andrea Giammarchi)
Resolution Independence With SVG (David Bushell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

True Value of Agile – Not Always Product-Centric – Agile Improves Work-Life Balance (Peter Saddington)
Use tasks you have to do around the house to improve your development skills (John V. Petersen)
DZone Top Article of 2011: 7 Tenets Of Framework Selection (Rob Diana)
Adapting to Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection (Filip Ekberg)
FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run? (Gautam Goenka)
Origins of the Craft : Iterative / Incremental (David Starr)
How Do You Pick Open Source Libraries? (Davy Brion)
Our evolution of story cards (Mark Pearl)
TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around (Michael Sorens)
Approval testing – value for the money (Krzysztof Koźmic)
An Important Time for Design (Cameron Koczon)
Marines vs. Boy Scouts (Chris Brandsma)
Arrange – Act – Assert: Intuitive Testing for .NET (Christopher Smith)
Estimating Work Items by Hours–Idiotic You Say? (D’Arcy Lussier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

How to add Panorama to existing WP7 project (Windows Phone Geek)
WPF Data Chart to PDF (Tom Puglisi)
A WPF Spinner Custom Control (Barry Lapthorn)
Highway To The Danger Zone (Pete Seale)
Metro Snack #1: Choosing XAML or HTML5 for Windows Developer Preview apps (Brent Schooley)
Windows Phone: 30 to Launch (Chris Koenig)
10 Laps Around Silverlight 5 e-Book available to download for FREE. (Michael Crump)
Windows Phone 7.5: Using sockets (Andrea Boschin)
Getting your WP7 Desktop integration out of park with PAARC, the Phone as a Remote Control library (Greg Duncan)
Generating a LINQ to SQL DataContext for VS Express for Windows Phone (Erik EJ)
MVVM Series: Part I (Steve Adey)
Windows Phone Native Series – Solving "Fatal error LNK1112: module machine type ‘ARM’ conflicts with target machine type ‘X86’" (Dennis Delimarsky)
How to Create a LightSwitch Application that Works with SharePoint Data (Marat Bakirov)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Willeke Does Reporting at DevConnections and The Tablet Show – John Sonmez Compares iOS and Android Tools (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 172 – PowerScripting Podcast – vCenter Orchestrator (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Windows Azure (Scott Guthrie)
Ping 128: CES, Windows Phone Devs make $$, Kinect for Windows, Mango & Nokia news (Laura Foy)
Free on-demand ASP.Net 4/Visual Studio 2010 training course (in 55 videos) (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for January 16th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Web Heroines Emerge Mini-Conference 2012 (Ubelly)
Meet Marino Posadas – Visual C# MVP from Spain (Ali Raza Shaikh)
My Adventures in HTML5 Gaming and Are you a student? Check out the Big App On Campus Contest! (Dave Isbitski)
HTML5 Canvas Refcard – Meet the Author: Simon Sarris (Mitch Pronschinske)
Webstock 2012 Less Than A Month Away (Nigel Parker)
NuCon 2012, Irvine, CA (David Barrett)
Webinar: Using Typemock Isolator Effectively (Avi Kaye)
Good Science’s Shannon Loftis: Gaming as critical work (MS JobsBlog)

Database

SQL SERVER – Difference between CHAR, VARCHAR, NVARCHAR and VARCHAR(MAX) – Quiz – Puzzle – 15 of 31 and SQL SERVER – CHECKPOINT Behavior and Database Recovery Models – Quiz – Puzzle – 16 of 31 (Pinal Dave)
DIRTY_PAGE_POLL wait type in SQL Server 2012 (Sankar Reddy)
APress Deal of the Day – 17/Jan/2012 – Oracle PL/SQL Recipes (TATWORTH)
DBDeploy.Net 2 (rakker)
A Generic SQL Performance Test Harness (Ian Stirk)
Is Your DBA Lying To You? (Thomas LaRock)
Validating NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers in SQL (Bill Osuch)
“Data Explorer” meets Office 365 (Data Explorer Team)
SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers – Book Review (Brent Ozar)

SharePoint

SharePoint Implementation Checklist: Aligning People, Technology & Process (Dux Raymond Sy)

PowerShell

Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets v2.2 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous

An Xbox for the rest of us? (Kip Kniskern)
Why was there a font just for drawing symbols on buttons? (Raymond Chen)
KidsRuby 1.0 Released (Roy Wood)
Stack Exchange Data Explorer 2.0 (Sam Saffron)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers: For All Database Developers and Developers Administrators by Pinal Dave

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Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251)

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Dew Drop – January 18, 2012 (#1,245)

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Dew Drop – January 17, 2012 (#1,244)

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