Dew Drop – February 6, 2013 (#1,494)

Top Links

• New Kona drop on Codeplex (Blaine Wastell)
• jQuery 1.9.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Animating a Twitter BootStrap Icon with CSS3 (Elijah Manor)
• Windows Phone 8: Bluetooth (Peter Kuhn)

 

Web Development

• OAuth with ASP.NET MVC and WorldDomination.Web.Authentication (Phillip Haydon)
• JavaScript: fixing categorization (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Meet the Better-performing and More Lightweight DropDownList for ASP.NET AJAX (Bozhidar Ivanchev)
• Exploring WinJS.Class Patterns, Part 3: mixins (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Creating a WinJS Project Template (Phil Japikse)
• jQuery Mobile 1.3.0 RC1 Released (Todd Parker)
• Create a 3D Book Animation with CSS (Tom Kenny)
• Chrome Dev Tools: JavaScript and Performance (Umar Hansa)
• Extending the ASP.NET Optimization Framework (Andrew Jameson)
• Moving ASP.NET Single Page Application to TypeScript (Gunnar Peipman)
• Bundling and minifying in ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman)
• Creating simple custom Orchard widgets (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Comparing Files and Folders within your IDE (Mikhail Vink)
• Making Internet Explorer Testing Easier with new IE VMs (Rey Bango)
• Working with Knockout.js part 2: Understanding MVVM (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Introduction to Animation in HTML (Kirupa Chinnathambi)

 

XAML

• WP8 New Location APIs: Part1 Get Current Location (Windows Phone Geek)
• WinRT : how to cancel a Background Download Operation (Jonathan Antoine)
• Saving Data to MS SQL from WPF Application (Des Raj Chauhan)
• Coding4Fun Toolkit v2 Released (fka Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit), now with Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7! (Greg Duncan)
• Perspectives on WinRT app licensing (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 WPF Things #748 – Getting the Size of a Contact Point during Raw Touch and #749 – Handling the TouchEnter and TouchLeave Events and #750 – Using Touch Manipulation to Translate in Just One Dimension (Sean Sexton)
• A WinRT TextBox control with a Dynamic AutoComplete Dictionary (Sumit Maitra)
• Developing for Windows Phone (Graham Haley)
• Building an Imgur Client for Windows Phone – Part 4 – Authentication (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Prototyping for Windows 8: The Making of RecipeLater (Brent Schooley)
• Get a Sneak Peek at the XamPropertyGrid CTP (Brian Lagunas)
• MyMessageBox for Phone and Store apps (Daniel Moth)
• Using periodic notification to update the tiles (Andrea Boschin)
• Advanced Text Formatting in Windows Store Apps (Jared Bienz)
• Windows 8: Creating Great App Bar Buttons (Jesse Liberty)
• Submitting your App to the Windows Store and Avoiding Common Submission Errors (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging (Charles Sterling)
• Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: July – December 2012 (Erin Geaney)
• What’s Best for Unit Testing in EF? It depends, dude! (Julie Lerman)
• Debugging Code Efficiently in Visual Studio with the DebuggerDisplay Attribute (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Git-TF to work with TFS using a local Git repository (Ricci Gian Maria)
• TFS – Get List Of Software Installed On Build Agent (Tarun Arora)
• Visual Studio 2012 New Features Summary (Zain Naboulsi)
• 2000 C# Things #772 – Initializing an Array as Part of a Method Call and #773 – Reversing a String that Contains Unicode Characters Expressed as Surrogate Pairs and #774 – Passing an Array as an out Parameter (Sean Sexton)
• 5 minute wonders: Finding lazy loading nasties with ANTS Profiler (Troy Hunt)
• How portable is your assembly? Check it with the PCL Compliance Analyzer! (Greg Duncan)
• Stupid Question 142 and 143: Is DirectX/XNA dead? And can you do XNA games for Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)
• KickStart Your .NET Mocking (Phil Japikse)
• Obtaining the parsing name (and pidl) for a random shell object (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy, State and Role Patterns in .NET (Peter Vogel)
• Creating Test Case Documentation via Test Studio’s Storyboards (Jim Holmes)
• Testing Tip #1: Use a fresh machine, and use different machines (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Hibernating Rhinos Practices: Design (Oren Eini)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 31 Great Days of iOS (Rob Bazinet)
• Create Your Own iOS Framework (Stephen Zaharuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Demis Bellot on ServiceStack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++, 8 of n | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ (Charles Torre)
• Technology & Friends Episode 251: Ben Von Handorf on Android Development (David Giard)
• Episode 214 – PowerScripting Podcast – David Davis from TrainSignal on technical training and certifications (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• What’s Coming in the Command Line Tools for Windows Azure with Glenn Block | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Stack Overflow Podcast #42 – It’s The Exception That Proves The Rule (Alex Miller)
• Defrag Tools: #26 – WinDbg – Semaphores, Mutexes and Timers | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• People Talking Tech Episode 021 – Richard Hicks (Denny Cherry)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for February 4th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Geek Grads: Applying Internship Lessons to College Classes (MS JobsBlog)
• In the Community: Meet Nish Sivakumar (Eric Battalio)
• Windows 8 Office Hours, Design Help, and Funding (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The Week Ahead–February 4th, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Windows 8 Office Hours–Charlotte, NC (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• Book Review: Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices (Ian Stirk)
• SSRS Properties – Tablix Filters (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Leveraging MSBUILD to automate SSRS deployments – session material (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Fix Error: 8111 – Cannot define PRIMARY KEY constraint on nullable column in table – Error: 1750 – Could not create constraint. See previous errors and SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 1505 The CREATE UNIQUE INDEX statement terminated because a duplicate key was found for the object name and the index name and SQL SERVER – Generate Random Values – SQL in Sixty Seconds #042 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB: How to drop databases and collections and MongoDB: Creating capped collections (Denis Gobo)
• NOEXPAND query hint returns wrong results – CU fix now available (Jamie Thomson)
• DBCC WRITEPAGE: an introduction (Paul Randal)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint/TFS 2012 ALM – updated SharePoint CI scripts and assembly versioning (Chris O’Brien)
• Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace (Tim Varcak)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script to Create a Large SharePoint List with Random Data (Brian T. Jackett)
• Submitting Hadoop MapReduce Jobs using PowerShell (Carl Nolan)
• Powershell script to detect the Windows Azure SDK in Azure Cloud Service VM and fix the Powershell execution issue (Avkash Chauhan)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading February 4, 2013 and Geek Reading February 5, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 4th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 5th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1058 and Double Shot #1059 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 2/4/2013 and Daily News Digest 2/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #80 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 4, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 5, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1288 and The Morning Brew #1289 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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