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Dew Drop – June 4, 2012 (#1,340)

Top Links

#mvvmlight V4 for Windows 8 RP is available (Laurent Bugnion)
The Tablet Show – Miguel de Icaza Ported Android to C# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Web browsing in Windows 8 Release Preview with IE10 (Steven Sinofsky)
ReSharper 7 EAP Now Compatible with Visual Studio 2012 RC (Hadi Hariri)
Asus announces Tablet 810: 11.6-inch Windows 8 tablet with Intel Atom processor (update: video) (Tom Warren)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Installation Guide (MS Downloads)
After upgrading to TFS 2012: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces (Buck Hodges)
Assembly Versioning in a TFS Team Build (Eric Quist)
Installing Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 8 and Installing Eclipse on Windows 8 and connecting to TFS 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
My impressions after developing with Visual Studio 2012 for a few weeks (Емил Табаков)
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate on Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Richard Erwin)
Convert VS 11 Beta Metro Projects To VS 2012 RC and Upgrade Metro App From Beta To RC (Shai Raiten)
W8WIL #2: Declaratively Specifying an ItemTemplate in a Fragment (G. Andrew Duthie)
MICROSOFT REPORT VIEWER 2012 RUNTIME – BETA (MS Downloads)
Porting a desktop app to a Metro style app | Developing Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++ (Sridhar Madhugiri)
How do I prefetch data into my memory-mapped file? (Raymond Chen)
Simple .NET Database Programming using SQL Azure (Mahesh Sabnis)
Updated Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows 8 RP Released (Greg Duncan)
Introducing RabbitBus (Derek Greer)
Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy (Andrea Boschin)
ORM Profiler v1.1 has been released! (Frans Bouma)
Hadoop .Net HDFS File Access – Revisited (Carl Nolan)
Exceptional Async Handling (Patrick Steele)
Building an Image and Video Viewer for Microsoft Surface 2.0 in No Time At All (Doug Rathbone)

Web Development

Powerful JavaScript With Upshot and Knockout (Peter Vogel)
Get latest CSS 3 support in Visual Studio 2010 (Mads Kristensen)
Explaining JavaScript VMs in JavaScript (Mr. Aleph)
Extending your ASP.NET Web API responses with useful metadata (Filip W)
Functional JavaScript with Underscore.js (Giorgio Sironi)
ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Web Pages RC NuGet Packages (Henrik F. Nielsen)
ASP.NET Web API Basics (Jalpesh Vadgama)
Useful jQuery Function Demos For Your Projects (Sam Deering)
Flotr2 – my favorite javascript graph library (Swizec Teller)
Looking at Windows 8 Web API Endpoints – Xbox Live (HTTP) and Windows 8 App Store – The APPX Download API is Secure (Dennis Delimarsky)
Building a new blog engine with node.js, geddy and github gists (Liam McLennan)
Firebug 1.10a10 (Jan Odvarko)
Kendo UI ASP.NET Sample Applications (2012-06-01) (CodePlex)
Subtyping Functions Without Poking Your Eyes Out (Nick Santos)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Designing Metro style: Being the Best on Windows 8 (G. Andrew Duthie)
Review: Smashing Book #3: Redesign the Web (Peter Gasston)
Migrating from Mercurial to Git (Mehdi Khalili)
Save 15% on one of Microsoft Press’s most popular books–Code Complete, 2nd Ed. (Kim Spilker)
GitHub for Windows – first Impression (Code Inside Team)
SubSpec (David Starr)
Economics of Software Quality (Steve Smith)
Microsoft Platform Ready Test Tool 3.0 (MPR Test Tool) (MS Downloads)
Code Quality Process/Guidelines for Development Team (Ankur Kumar)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Windows Phone and PhoneGap; The Beep Sound (Senthil Kumar)
Character Map in WPF (Jawahar Suresh Babu)
Capturing Transport Data Between Visual Studio and Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
Developer Guide: Working with Windows Phone and the Cloud (Michael Desmond)
2000 WPF Things #572 – You Can Move Windows Outside of the Blend GUI (Sean Sexton)
Bridging the PhoneGap Published in Visual Studio Magazine (June 2012) (Michael Crump)
OData and LightSwitch Book Excerpt – Chapter 1: What Is This Book About? (Michael Washington)
Building IG Outlook Part 4 – Creating Custom Region Adapters (Brian Lagunas)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 053: Fitness for Geeks (Mark Frauenfelder)
The Metro Developer Podcast Episode 069 – “A Little Slice of Heaven” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 186: Martin Fowler and Pramod Sadalage on Agile Database Development (SE-Radio Team)
TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, Visual Studio 2012 RC, Storyboards, HTML5 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan & Rick Barraza)
Radio TFS – Visual Studio 2012 RC (Martin Woodward)
The Vergecast 032 – 06.01.2012 (Brendan Murphy)
Video: Master Component Activation with Intents in Android (Paul Ballard)
Windows Weekly 263: Clippy Lives and What The Tech Ep. 119 – Take Your Guess (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 54 (Richard Hay)
Countdown to TechEd North America 2012: What’s in Rick’s Suitcase? | The Countdown Show (Rick Claus & Joey Snow)
GeekWire Radio: Windows 8 rant, Facebook revisited, and the story behind the JoeyBra (Todd Bishop)
Engadget Podcast 296 – 06.01.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 140 – 06.02.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
The Campus Coder Show #4: The Clemson Crew (Glen Gordon)

Community / Events

Microsoft Smart Glass coming at E3, AirPlay-style streaming from iOS, Android and Windows Phone? (Tim Stevens)
Upcoming Events for June 4th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
An Evening With Scott Hanselman (Tony Verguldi, Jr.)
Join the CodePlex community on Geeklist (Mark Groves)
TeamPulse and Test Studio Joint Webinar on 19 June (Jim Holmes)
Azure Kick Start in Dallas (Chris Koenig)
Athlete balances Microsoft internship with training (MS JobsBlog)

Database

PowerShell

PowerShell Try Catch Finally (Dov Trietsch)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Open Specifications Poster and Win8 RP – How do you get the desktop Media Player and Media Center? Here’s the key… (Greg Duncan)
On Computer Science Education (Keyvan Nayyeri)
iOS, blocks and HTTP requests (Josh Twist)
Acer announces 11.6-inch Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet (update: hands-on video) and Acer unveils 10.1-inch Iconia W510 Windows 8 convertible tablet (update: hands-on video) (Laura June)
Love The New Windows 8 Delete Dialog (Nick Berardi)
Windows 8, live.com, and computer names (Rockford Lhotka)
Windows 8: Why I’m struggling with Microsoft’s new thing (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: June 2, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 3, 2012 and Interesting Finds: June 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 157 (Scott Banwart)
Geek Reading June 1, 2012 and Geek Reading June 2, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Collective #14 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #892 (Mike Gunderloy)
MVP Friday Five: June 1, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #21) (Himanshu Singh)
Daily News Digest 6/1/2012 and Daily News Digest 6/4/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/1/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #49 (Frank)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-06-04 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for June 03, 2012 – #0092 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for May 21 – 27, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
Retrospective 87 – Scrum Tool Evolution & Testing Code & Culture (Peter Saddington)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 1 June 2012 and Daily WP7 Development News 1 June 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C# (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Wallace B. McClure

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Dew Drop – May 4, 2012 (#1,320)

Top Links

Announcing NetAdvantage 12.1–Available for Download (Jason Beres)
O’Reilly Deal of the Day – 4/May/2012 – 50% off all E-books and Videos! (Tatworth)
Windows 8 Metro Style Apps: How to build a great app (Anthony de Bruyn & Katrien De Graeve)
Xamarin’s port of Android to Microsoft’s C#: Five questions (and answers) (Mary Jo Foley)

.NET / Visual Studio

LINQ on the command-line (CodingBruce)
Create Games for Windows 8 using Physamajig! (Andy Beaulieu)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Repeat() Static Method (James Michael Hare)
How Do I Detect When A Client Thread Exits? Make The Client Tell You. (Mike Hadlow)
Pinpointing Memory Leaks with CLR Profiler Heap Graphs (Sasha Goldshtein)
METRO APP DIARY–this is a must follow… (Joel Reyes)
Kinect’ing to a Rocket Launcher? Oh yeah… and The first step in gestating a Metro app… Cocoon and From Zero to MEF’tastic… (Or Dummies Guide To MEF Or Learn to MEF in 21 [or less] Pages) (Greg Duncan)
Unity: Passing Constructor Parameters to Resolve and WinRT: XAML Image Binding Compared to Windows Phone 7 (Mikael Koskinen)

Web Development

Scripting NuGet Package Updates (ASP.NET MVC 4) (Geoff Hudik)
Request Filtering, URLScan With Windows Azure Web Role (Avkash Chauhan)
Tweet Package for Sublime Text 2 (Elijah Manor)
Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic (Chris Coyier)
Adding Twilio’s Voice and Messaging Services to your Windows Azure Apps (Zhiming Xue)
CSS for the XAML Guy – Positional Selectors (Shawn Wildermuth)
Amazon Product Advertising API SOAP Namespace Changes (Rick Strahl)
Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms (Robert Brauer)
What Is The Best Browser for Developers? (Paul Ballard)
Infragistics Announces Reduced Pricing for Mobile & Web Products (Nick Landry)
Integrating Twilio with @Home with Windows Azure (Jim O’Neil)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Nancy : Now with Mono builds on every commit (Andreas Håkansson)
Annual Poll: Which Isolation framework do you use if any? (Roy Osherove)
Listening to users with Iterative Design (Marshal Datkowitz)
The Forward-Looking Development Organization (Gabriel Torok)
Limits of performance optimization (Jimmy Bogard)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Porting to Windows 8 from Windows Phone | Background agents (11 of 12) (Andreas Hammar)
From Code-Behind to MVVM, a three part series… (Greg Duncan)
XAML Spy Preview 2 (Koen Zwikstra)
Bonus Surprises in NetAdvantage for WPF, Silverlight and Ultimate (Nick Landry)
2000 WPF Things #551 – Resources Are Listed under the Resources Tab in Blend (Sean Sexton)
WPF Sliding Controls Collection – Part 1: Sliding Image Control (Tefik Becirovic)
Adding Storage Capability to your Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac Apps using Microsoft SkyDrive APIs (Zhiming Xue)
Silverlight Double Animation Helper (Kirill Chilingarashvili)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #186: Finishing SaveAsDialog Extraction (James Shore)
The JavaScript Show – jQuery UK 2012, CoffeeScript bang methods, Cubism (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
Yet Another Podcast #64–John Papa & Javascript (Jesse Liberty)
Inside Windows Phone #37 | Anatomy of a Successful WP Game – Taptitude (Larry Lieberman)
Video: Make Your Windows 8 Metro App Data Zoom (Paul Ballard)
Boagworld – Making web forms conversational (Paul Boag)
RadioTFS – What Was The Question? (Martin Woodward)
Cloud Plumbing Podcast – Ryan Dorrell (Ryan Parsley)
Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Schedule Builder (Mark DeFalco)

Community / Events

Just Added: Training at SF jQuery Conference! (Leah Silber)
Upcoming Events in Arizona (Joseph Guadagno)
Highlights from Stack Overflow Worldwide Meetups (Laura Dobrzynski)
I’ll be at GOTO CPH and QCON NYC spreading the node.js love (Glenn Block)
The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back For a Spring Fling! (Himanshu Singh)

Database

SQL SERVER – Identify Columnstore Index Usage from Execution Plan (Pinal Dave)
SQL Azure How To Rebuild A Clustered Index (Denis Gobo)
Free book "Expert Oracle Database Architecture, 2nd Edition" (Tatworth)
New version of SSDT Power Tools are available – but with a caveat (Jamie Thomson)

Miscellaneous

Displaying an Android Device’s Screen on your Desktop (Chris Love)
Free ebooks: Great content from Microsoft Press that won’t cost you a penny (Kim Spilker)
Microsoft Advertising rebrands, too, and Xbox drops “Inside Xbox” (What a week we’re having!) and So what about Windows Live Writer? (Kip Kniskern)
Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java (Kris Ragh)
Making Windows Media Center available in Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)
New Windows 8 screenshots leak, reveal new Activate Windows and tutorial screens (Zac)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: May 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Double Shot #873 (Mike Gunderloy)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-05-04 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 5/4/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (5/4/2012) (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1099 (Chris Alcock)
Daily WP7 Development News 3 May 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 May 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Learning XNA 4.0: Game Development for the PC, Xbox 360, and Windows Phone 7 by Aaron Reed

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Dew Drop – April 30, 2012 (#1,316)

Top Links

Modern Web Development – Part 9 (Shawn Wildermuth)
Introducing the jQuery Mobile Metro Theme (Colin Eberhardt)
Windows 8 and ASP.NET Web API – Part 1 – Getting Started (Jon Galloway)
PhoneGap – migrating iOS applications to Android (Part 1) (Davy De Waele)

.NET / Visual Studio

Relational searching sucks, don’t try to replicate it (Oren Eini)
Reflecting Nested Type Information and An Extensible Appointment Scheduling Library (Richard Carr)
Open Tabs to the Right in Visual Studio 2011 Beta (Anthony Grace)
Getting feedback on your Visual Studio 11 Storyboards (Rich Erwin)
Code Analysis with Project Roslyn (Jeff Martin)
Using Shims in Visual Studio 11 to test untestable code. (Ricci Gian Maria)
Installing TFS 2011 Beta in a Virtual Machine (Ryan Abrahamson)
Visual Studio 11 – Awesome New Features for Web Developers (Sumit Maitra)
Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook (Zain Naboulsi)
i got mono (Mo Khan)
Metro RSS Reader: Free and open source Metro Application for Windows 8 (Zubair Ahmed)
NDepend Evaluation: Conclusion (Anthony Trudeau)
Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 4: TaskHelpers (Brad Wilson)
Getting Started with the Live SDK: Authorization (Christopher Geers)
OData on Windows 8: Part 2—The OData Client Library for Metro (Glenn Gailey)
Controlling a .NET Gadgeteer Device with your mind… (Greg Duncan)
Michael’s .NET Suggested Reading List (Michael Kennedy)

Web Development

Overcoming Asynchronous Anxiety By Testing JavaScript’s Event Loop (Ben Nadel)
JavaScript on the XBox 360 (Dominic Szablewski)
Different MediaTypeFormatters for same MediaHeaderValue in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
ASP.NET MVC3 Using Code First Entity Framework Without Database Generation (Phil Fresle)
KineticJS – An HTML5 Canvas JavaScript Library (Hirvesh Munogee)
Using Razor V2 in ASP.NET MVC 3 (Imran Baloch)
Zerg rush in JavaScript (James Padolsey)
Infinite Scrolling In ASP.NET With jQuery (Prashant Khandelwal)
GZip/Deflate Compression in ASP.NET MVC (Rick Strahl)
Fluid CSS3 Slideshow with Parallax Effect (Ring Wing)
The Essentials of Zepto.js (Siddharth)
Introduction to JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
How to Create a Sencha Touch 2 App: Part 4 (Jorge Ramon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

What Agile or Lean Process Do You Use: Poll Results (Giles Davies)
Design and UX assets for Windows 8 (Andrew Spooner)
Huboard – New feature overview (Ryan Rauh)
Dependency Injection vs. Service Locator (Kyle Burns)
Metro design inspiration (Laurent Bugnion)
Building a Team to Last (Matt Van Horn)
Check out the new Exploratory Tool! (Jim Holmes)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Introduction to the Infragistics Undo / Redo Framework for XAML applications (Damyan Petev)
Using Visual Studio LightSwitch To Orchestrate A Unity 3D Game (Michael Washington)
WinRT XAML Toolkit available on CodePlex (Davide Zordan)
Using WPF Elements from F# (Ivan Towlson)
Eye Dropper control in WPF (Jawahar Suresh Babu)
101 How to on Windows Phone #11 – Web Browser Task in Windows Phone (Karthik Anbarasan)
How to Share Links from WP7 to Social Networking Sites using the ShareLinkTask? and How to Save Ringtones in WP7 using the SaveRingtoneTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Managing Data and Media in Silverlight (David Kelley)
2000 WPF Things #547 – Specifying Colors by Name in Blend (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 049: "I’m the son of Tinkerbell" (Mark Frauenfelder)
Windows Phone Minute: Custom Focusing (Laura Foy)
Major Nelson Podcast Show 437: Ken Levine and more (Larry Hyrb)
The Metro Developer Show Episode 065 – “I’m Going to Take My Clothes Off Too” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
Video recording of my talk about my open source app Metro RSS Reader (Zubair Ahmed)
ShopTalk Episode 15 and ShopTalk Episode 16 (Chris Coyier)
TWC9: Windows 8 Release Preview, SkyDrive, PhoneGap Build and more (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Golnaz)
WPCentral 141 – Stormtroopers and the Cloud (Daniel Rubino)
The GeekDads Episode #113: The Avengers Is Not a Failure (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) (GeekDad Rewind)
The Tablet Show – Thomas Gravgaard Ports Unity 3D Games to WP7 with FFWD (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Weekly 258: Now With Better Remediation (Paul Thurrott)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 50 (Richard Hay)
GeekWire Radio: Mining asteroids in space, and finding the best food on Earth (Todd Bishop)
Engadget Podcast 291 – 04.27.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
The Campus Coder Show #1: Chevon Christie (Glen Gordon)

Community / Events

Meet the Author: Andrew Brust on Understanding NoSQL (Paul Ballard)
Anthony Borton and ALM Training releases two new Visual Studio 11 courses (Charles Sterling)
TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Training Courses in June & July (Giles Davies)
Free Jump Start: May 15-16, 2012–What can you do about the "consumerization" of IT? (Kim Spilker)
Celebration! 120’000 downloads for #mvvmlight, 2 copies of Expression Studio to win (Laurent Bugnion)

Database

How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) (Rachel Appel)
SSIS Data Flow Tuning (Jose Frichberg)
SQL Server – Four-part object names (Vishal)
SQL Server source control from Visual Studio (David Atkinson)
SQLAuthority News – Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering and Availability Groups from Prior Clustering and Mirroring Deployments – Part 1 and SQL SERVER – Microsoft Certification – SQL Server 2012 and SQL SERVER – A Brief Introduction to expressor Studio 3.6 (Pinal Dave)
Appending New Rows Only (Chad Miller)

SharePoint

SharePoint Profile Cleanup and the My Site Cleanup (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

How To Live Your Values at Microsoft (JD Meier)
If one had to choose which group at Microsoft should spontaneously combust… (Michael S. Kaplan)
Dear Tim Cook: Apple is not the world’s tech inventor (Molly Wood)
A process shutdown puzzle, Episode 2 (Raymond Chen)
When I first came to the Microsoft community in 2007, I was (Scott Barnes)
Barnes & Noble to spin off digital Nook business, Microsoft will invest $300 million into it (Vlad Savov)
That thing about upgrading current Windows Phones to Windows Phone 8, continued… (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 28, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 29, 2012 and Interesting Finds: April 30, 2011 (Jason Haley)
Distributed Weekly 152 (Scott Banwart)
Friday Five: April 27, 2012. (MVP Award Program)
Double Shot #868 and Double Shot #869 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1094 and The Morning Brew #1095 (Chris Alcock)
April 27th What’s Happening Around Visual Studio (Jason Zander)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-27 and Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 4/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Everyman on First Visit, At Social Business Core, Better than Everyone, To Apollo and Beyond (Dave Burke)
Windows Dev News for April 27, 2012 – #0074 and Windows Dev News for April 28, 2012 – #0075 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News 27 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (4/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
Retrospective 82 – Agile Product Marketing Series & SEO (Peter Saddington)
Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #16) (Himanshu Singh)

The Geek Shelf

Entity Framework 4.1: Expert’s Cookbook by Devlin Liles

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