Dew Drop – November 8, 2012 (#1,439)

Top Links

• Noda Time v1.0 released (Jon Skeet)
• Productivity Power Tools 2012 (Visual Studio Team)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #8: Local and Roaming Data (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Developing Games for Windows 8 (David Isbitski)

 

Web Development

• Enhancements to Windows Azure Active Directory Preview (Alex Simons)
• Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 1) and Windows 8 Notifications: Push Notifications via Windows Azure Web Sites (Part 2) (Jim O’Neil)
• Creating Django PHP Web Sites on Windows Azure and What Is ASP.NET Web API and How does it Work? (Zhiming Xue)
• URL Rewrite – Protocol (http/https) in the Action (Scott Forsyth)
• Nancy and Content Negotiation (Phillip Haydon)
• YUI 3.8.0pr1 – Template and Color Utilities (Eric Ferraiuolo)
• New in Fiddler 2.4.2 (Eric Lawrence)
• Toastr 1.0.3 Available (John Papa)
• AngularJS: Common Pitfalls (Alex Young)
• Property assignment and the prototype chain (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

XAML

• Microsoft and Urban Airship Ink Push Messaging Alliance for Windows Phone 8 (Eric Carter)
• What’s new in the Windows Phone Store (Mazhar Mohammed)
• Wpf And design time data part 2–Use a concrete class (Ricci Gian Maria)
• 2000 WPF Things #686 – Using Animation to Make an Image Pulse (Sean Sexton)
• What’s new in the Windows Phone Store—a developer perspective (Todd Brix)
• Windows Store is Missing Enterprise Capabilities (Jason Gaylord)
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 8) – Handling Files and Folders (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Implementing Coupons and Memberships using the Windows Phone 8 Wallet: Part1 Coupons (Yordan Pavlov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Crisis of Code Contracts faith (Rory Primrose)
• Using Private Extension Galleries in Visual Studio 2012 (Jakob Ehn)
• Instead of trying to create a filter that includes everything, try just omitting the filter (Raymond Chen)
• AppSettings convention for Castle Windsor (Mark Seemann)
• Manipulating a string array using a Lambda Expression (Mika Wendelius)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing made easy Part 1 : Repository Testing (Foyzul Karim)
• Automocking with JustMock (Philip Japikse)
• Unleash the Power of Story Points (Gregg Boer)
• Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager (Charles Sterling)
• 6 Tools for Remote Unmoderated Usability Testing (C. Srinivasan)
• Typemock Isolator 7.1.6 is live and How to Keep Your Code Secure – Typemock Comic Series #1 (Avi Kaye)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Alex Robson is a Principled Polyglot (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 092 – “4 More Years of Landscape” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: Make Your Code Right with Visual Studio 2012 Refactoring (Paul Ballard)
• Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Visual Studio 3D StarterKit (Roberto Sonnino & jpdup)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Angela Kinsey (Chris Hardwick)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 189: Newcomers (Gareth Myles, James Richardson & Dan Carter)
• Mobile Application Development Native vs. PhoneGap Tools–Podcast with Michael Crump (Michael Crump)
• Firefox OS – video presentations and slides on the OS, WebAPIs, hacking and writing apps (Robert Nyman)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 157 – 11.07.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Are You Future Proof? – Part 3 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• SQLAuthority News – Learning, Community and Book Signing at #SQLPASS 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• PASS Summit 2012-Wednesday Keynote Part 1 and PASS Summit 2012-Wednesday Keynote Part 2 (Andy Warren)
• The Microsoft Build 2012 Event — .NET Framework Highlights (Brandon Bray)
• Geek of the Week: Melody Kramer (Corey Hulse)
• A Coder Interview With Daniel Jalkut (The Code Project)

 

Database

• Limit SQL Server Memory Use on Dev Machine (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft to fold in-memory database technology into SQL Server Next (Mary Jo Foley)
• Prevent Truncation of Dynamically Generated Results in SQL Server Management Studio (Jugal Shah)
• SQL Server Data Tools – November 2012 is now available! (Janet Yeilding)
• SET ROWCOUNT VS TOP in SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL Server 2012 SP1 and in-memory OLTP DB Engine Hekaton announced (Denis Gobo)
• SSIS Expression Editor and Tester v1.0.8.0 (CodePlex)

 

SharePoint

• Access end-user data (in the host web) from a SharePoint 2013 app (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Generating Fakes Assemblies with PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)
• Powering Tiles with PowerShell… Creating Shutdown/Restart/Logoff Windows 8 Tiles with PowerShell (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Guide To Writing Articles For Code Project (Marc Clifton)
• What’s on your software bucket list? (Rob Maher)
• From iPad to Surface – Day 8: Top 10 iPad Apps Missing in Windows Store (Nick Landry)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 7, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1228 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 7 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 7 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Good Stuff on Channel 9 (Eric Battalio)
• Daily News Digest 11/8/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #997 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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