Dew Drop – August 23, 2012 (#1,387)

Top Links

• Let’s Code: Test-Driven JavaScript (James Shore) – An upcoming screencast series from James. Send him your email to be notified when it’s live.
• The consequences of declaring WPF is dead. (Scott Barnes)
• Enterprise Library vNext – Simplified! (Grigori Melnik)
• Sneak Peek: Indigo Studio by Infragistics! (Ambrose Little)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• My absolute favorite feature in VS 2012 (Oren Eini)
• C# 5.0 In a Nutshell Book Review (David Hayden)
• The best extensions for Visual Studio 2012 (Ugo Lattanzi)
• ‘Stupid’ Question 29: Do we need properties in c#? and WinRT app guide: Step 2: The Plan and WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: Can I access accent / start screen background color in my app? (Iris Classon)
• Getting Started with Team Foundation Services (Mickey Gousset)
• Another large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks and Resource Kits for you, including: SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Office 365, Duet 2.0, Azure, Cloud, Windows Phone, Lync, Dynamics CRM, and more. (Eric Ligman)
• Midnight – A VS2012 Middle Theme (Eugen Podsypalnikov)
• Get Windows 8 design and development help through Generation App (Pete Brown)
• Extra Information from OAuth/OpenId Provider (Pranav Rastogi)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: QueryOver and Deep Expressions (Ricardo Peres)
• Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 3 – User Permissions & Admin Screens (Andy Kung)
• NuGet Gallery Performance Issues and Expected NuGet Downtime – August 22 11pm-12am PDT (Mads Kristensen)
• Getting started with SQLite in Windows Store / WinRT apps (Erik EJ)

 

Web Development

• Build Single Page Apps – Part 7 – MVVM and KnockoutJS (John Papa)
• Version 0.8.8 (stable) (node.js Team)
• Web Deploy (MSDeploy) how to sync a folder (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Getting productive with Sublime Text 2 (Paul Bakaus)
• REST API Documentation Best Practices (Irene Ros)
• Supporting OData $inlinecount with the new Web API OData preview package (Filip W)
• Orchard Commerce and Online Store Example (David Hayden)
• The Nexus of Website Design and Search Optimisation (Andy Kinsey)
• Announcing the Release of SignalR 0.5.3 (Brady Gaster)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: CommunalDashboard (Martin Fowler)
• Seven Things I Hate About Agile (Andy Singleton)
• How do you start unit testing/TDD when it hasn’t been done before (Avi Kaye)
• For the Love of Project Management (J.D. Meier)
• Busting some CQRS myths (Jimmy Bogard)
• Transparency as a Customer Builds a Relationship (Karol McCloskey)
• Documentation: Where and When? (Narayan Sengupta)
• Working with github on Windows (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Dynamic Tab View In Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• NotifyIcon with WPF applications (Abhishek Sur)
• Data Binding to the Panorama control in WP7 (Derik Whittaker)
• Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 will support the Unity game engine (Sam Byford)
• 2000 WPF Things #631 – Event Sequence for KeyPressUp, KeyPressDown and TextInput (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 8 Application platform detailed (M. Daou)
• Get a descendant FrameworkElement based on its name. (Brian Lagunas)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• CSLA.NET | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Yet Another Podcast #74–Adam Kinney–Windows 8 and JavaScript and HTML5 (Jesse Liberty)
• WPCentral 147 – Verizon, Sprint, Nokia and Windows Phone 8 (Daniel Rubino)
• The Verge Mobile Show 013 – August 21st, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Defrag: 32bit apps on 64bit OS, App Compat, Upgrading to Win8 | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Hot Apps: Custom Tile Maker Pro, Laser Link, Apache Warrior, Aphorisms, Learning Circle | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Video: Track Down Outlaw Memory Leaks with PerfView (Paul Ballard)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 150 – 08.23.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Women in IT: What surprised a new employee about Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)
• Geek of the Week: Philly Love Notes Creator Emma Fried-Cassorla (David Goodman)
• Ignite Philly Returning in September, Tickets Going Fast (Michelle Cryder)
• MVPs, Microsoft wants your video tips (Joe Wilcox)
• Windows 8 Hands-on Labs open for registration (Andrew Stevenson)

 

Database

• SQL Server:Understanding the Data Record Structure (Nelson John)
• SQL SERVER – Reseting Identity Values for All Tables (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Enhancements to SQL Data Sync in Windows Azure (Gregory Leake)

 

SharePoint

• Script to Help with SharePoint 2013 Workflow Debugging (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Parsing all the files in a directory using PowerShell (K. Brian Kelley)
• New-DiffGist: a powershell cmdlet for posting diffs fast (Tim Heuer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Bringing back the Delete confirmation dialog in Windows 8 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 8 sports a spunky new UI, while Chrome OS gets an apps list (Joe Wilcox)
• 5 Days of Windows 8: Day 3 – Who Needs a Start Button? (Paul Ballard)
• 5 Ways To Build A Startup On the Microsoft Stack for FREE (make money before you spend any). (Ryan Hayes)
• Microsoft Reimagines Paint (Steve Clayton)
• The birth of LISP – a summary of John McCarthy’s original paper (Swizec Teller)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 23, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 22, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1174 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #942 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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