Dew Drop – January 25, 2013 (#1,487)

Top Links

• Get Started with ASP.Net AJAX Controls: An AJAX Dashboard (Jeff Fritz)
• Integrating Mozilla Persona with ASP.NET (Scott Hanselman)
• Portable MVVM Light – Move Your View Models (Shayne Boyer)
• Bringing OData to Team Foundation Service (Brian Keller)

 

Web Development

• Book review: Hello! HTML5 & CSS3 (Mike James)
• TypeScript Walkthrough: Interfaces (Ryan Cavanaugh)
• Hosting a YouTrack instance on Windows Azure (Maarten Balliauw)
• Windows Azure Notification Hubs with Common API (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Practical Azure #9: Windows Azure Web Sites (Jim O’Neil)
• ASP.net MVC Action Methods: Testing Against Anonymous Return Types (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS (Keith Clark)
• WebStorm 6 EAP build 126.37 (K. Safonov)
• Implementing a Simple Registration Code Check in ASP.NET MVC (Nathan Totten)
• Handling “JQuery Is Not Defined” Error with RadControls For Windows 8 HTML (Phil Japikse)
• Automating Windows Azure with Windows Azure CLI (Shiju Varghese)
• Creating Windows Store Apps with Windows Azure Notification Hubs (Zhiming Xue)
• Looping a CSS Transition and All About Color In The Year 2013 AD (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• How to Send Live Tile Notifications in Windows Store Apps (Zhiming Xue)
• New January 2013 Release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Stephen Walther)
• Introducing Sandra.SimpleValidation – Validation reinvented… again (Phillip Haydon)
• Creative Layouts and Interactions in Web Design (Carrie Cousins)
• New Samples and Videos Featured for Mobile Services (Glenn Gailey)
• Bundler and cross-platform development (Larry Franks)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8: Live Tiles and Lock Screen (Peter Kuhn)
• The Windows Phone Map Control (Adam Denning)
• WPF in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) Industries (Jesse Liberty)
• Comparing the XML DOM and WinRT XML APIs (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• 2000 WPF Things #742 – Using Touch Manipulation Events to Rotate an Element (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Automatic Property and Operator Step-Over (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio: Web Dev Bliss (Rey Bango)
• 2000 C# Things #766 – Adding an Interface to a Class Diagram (Sean Sexton)
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: Part 7 (Catalog filter and Deep hierarchic scoping) (Bnaya Eshet)
• After the Jump (Eric Battalio)
• Windows 8 Game Kit updated with Windows Store Share Contract (David Isbitski)
• Model Binding using Expression Trees (Jon Canning)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program (Johanna Rothman)
• Zen Writing Mode (Coby Chapple)
• Retrospectives, Part 2: In a Sentimental Mood (Olga Kouzina)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Interactivity: iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 2) (Shlomo Goltz)
• iOS Tips and Tricks: Working in the Background (Stephen Zaharuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GoingNative 13: Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, Meet Roberto Sonnino | C9::GoingNative and Parallels: Using Visual Studio on OSX (Charles Torre)
• Service Bus Notification Hubs – Code Walkthrough – iOS Edition (Clemens Vasters)
• 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Fall Fury: Part 1 – Introduction (Den Delimarsky)
• 90 Seconds on The Verge: ‘Star Wars’ lands JJ Abrams, Twitter launches Vine, and more (Bryan Bishop)
• Jeff Han on The Touch Experience | Channel 9 Live at BUILD 2012 (Charles Torre & Jeff Han)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 77 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the Windows Phone Development JumpStart (David Isbitski)
• Upcoming Cross Platform App Hackathon (Free) (Doris Chen)
• Charles Petzold is speaking in LA, and we’re sponsoring the event with prizes! (Hilary)

 

Database

• SQL Server Non Clustered Index Tutorial for Beginners (Katie & Emil)
• SQL Server Backup and Restore to Cloud Simplified (Craig Kitterman)
• New book: Training Kit (Exam 70-463): Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Basic Explanation of Query Hint NOWAIT – How to Not Wait on Locked Query (Pinal Dave)
• Hadoop + SQL Server + Excel = Big Data Analytics (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Study: MongoDB Takes a Bite Out of MySQL (David Ramel)
• Backup SQL database directly to Azure Storage (Arthur Olcot)
• WHERE not to use FUNCTIONS (Axel Achten)
• RavenDB new feature: Highlights (Oren Eini)
• RavenDB: Drop all collections (Jef Claes)
• When a Query Isn’t Quite a Query (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• Why Won’t my SharePoint Project Open? (Becky Isserman)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to write a conference proposal (Mike Moore)
• How to deliver a killer presentation (Gojko Adzic)
• Microsoft earnings cheat sheet: Windows is back to cash cow number one (Mary Jo Foley)
• You are not your code. (Scott Hanselman)
• Cool thing Thursday: Contribute to opensource without leaving your browser (Swizec Teller)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 25, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 191 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 24, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1052 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/25/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1281 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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