Dew Drop – December 7, 2012 (#1,458)

Top Links

• EntityFramework Reverse POCO Generator (Simon Hughes)
• Windows 8 Development Tips #3: What is WinRT? (Brent Schooley)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: ASP.NET Web API (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training is here (Larry Lieberman)

 

Web Development

• Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed (Sams) (I Programmer)
• Microsoft cuts Windows Azure cloud storage prices (Mary Jo Foley)
• Configuring IIS verbs for ASP.NET Web API on Windows Azure Websites and elsewhere (Maarten Balliauw)
• #WinJS : how to post a message from an iFrame to your #Win8 app (Jonathan Antoine)
• Bootleg.css (Chris Coyier)
• Firebug Tip: Copy & Paste HTML (Jan Odvarko)
• Practical Azure #5: Windows Azure Table Storage (Jim O’Neil)
• Custom Controls and Data Binding in the LightSwitch HTML Client (Joe Binder)
• Applying MVC Architecture to Titanium Mobile Apps (Phil Sweeney)
• Mixing ASP.NET MVC Display Mode Providers and Routing Rules (K. Scott Allen)
• Syncfusion Orubase (Syncfusion)
• SproutCore 1.9.1 Released (SproutCore Team)

 

XAML

• Microsoft Closes Silverlight.net (Mike James)
• The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard (Jason Grieves)
• OMG! Cool tips for typing faster and smarter on Windows Phone (Michael Stroh)
• Going Old School on Windows 8 (Jeremy Likness)
• Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development: Part 1 (Rob Tiffany)
• 2000 WPF Things #707 – Dragging a List of Items from a WPF Application into Excel (Sean Sexton)
• Walkthrough: Monetize Windows 8 with the Microsoft Advertising SDK (Jerry Nixon)
• Playing with the ListView Layout Generator (Mariano Vazquez)
• Windows 8 and Spell Check (Jesse Liberty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 ALM Virtual Machine with Update 1 and hands-on-labs / demo scripts now available (Charles Sterling)
• Easily set Visual Studio keyboard bindings with the Nuget Package Manager Console (Jason Jarrett)
• Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – IV – Implementation (Luca Bolognese)
• C#: Combine Two Values Together From a List Into Pairs (William Wegerson)
• C++ AMP Extras: Tile Size Checking at Compile Time (Ade Miller)
• Should Developers Start Learning C++? and Research into Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism in C# (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Build Bullet #5– How to make your builds FAST using DRY and SRP Principles (Roy Osherove)
• Opinion Column: Why Won’t Helvetica Go Away? (Alastair Johnston)
• Top Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Toolsets (Jeevak Kasarkod)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Play Services 2.0 Adds Maps and Photo Sphere API (Abel Avram)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Inside Windows 8: Pedro Teixeira – Thread pool | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Available now: Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 Jump Start webcast on the Microsoft Virtual Academy site (Kim Spilker)
• IWP48 | Lens Applications in Windows Phone 8 | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• 037 JSJ Promises with Domenic Denicola and Kris Kowal (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Community Corner – Why I Switched to Windows Azure (Chris Koenig)

 

Community / Events

• Meet the Author: David Chappell on Windows Azure: The Big Picture (Paul Ballard)
• Webinar – Unit Testing for Grown Ups – Maintaining Your Unit Tests (Avi)
• Join us at the patterns & practices symposium 2013 (Grigori Melnik)
• Infragistics will host a SQLSaturday Bulgaria for the second time (Mihail Mateev)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – November 2012 update (James Serra)
• The current state of a MERGE Destination for SSIS and The perils of double-dash comments [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 6: Standardized Naming And Other Conventions (Denis Gobo)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – syslockinfo (Jason Strate)
• RavenDB 1.0 Hot Fix release (Oren Eini)
• Who Needs MySQL When There Is IndexedDB? (Leigh Shevchik)

 

PowerShell

• Use PowerShell to Create a Holiday Snow Person (Ed Wilson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Love to travel? Love consulting? The Microsoft Services team has jobs that take you places (MS JobsBlog)
• Microsoft is building a touch- and speech-enabled business intelligence tool (Mary Jo Foley)
• How I Got My Kids Into Programming (Willie Wheeler)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 7, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 184 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1249 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading December 6, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1018 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 12/7/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 7, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 6 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 6 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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