Dew Drop – July 27, 2012 (#1,373)

Top Links

• Windows Azure and Office 365 (Scott Guthrie)
• jQuery 1.8 RC1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• A Gesture-Driven Windows Phone To-Do List (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows Phone 8 Detailed in SDK Leak (Paul Thurrott)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• RavenDB Changes API on the wire (Oren Eini)
• Adding Paragraph Breaks to XML Documentation (Richard Carr)
• How Visual Studio 2012 Avoids Prompts for Source (Heath Stewart)
• Reading UTF-8 Characters From An Infinite Byte Stream (Mike Hadlow)
• StyleCop 4.7.35.0 has been released (Tatworth)
• ComponentOne Ultimate 2012 v2 released! (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Using HTML controls to create great Metro style apps (Kathy Kam)
• Moving between different IoC containers (Ricci Gian Maria)
• XNA for Windows 8 Metro (Rob Miles)
• ORM techniques for legacy databases (Jimmy Bogard)
• Windows Server AppFabric book released (Jurgen Willis)
• Connecting to a SQL LocalDb instance (Jim Wang)
• A Quick Note On Pub-Sub / Event Aggregators In WinJS/WinRT (Derick Bailey)
• Project 2013 SDK (MS Downloads)
• Working with OData and WinJS ListView in Metro Application (Dhananjay Kumar)

 

Web Development

• Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle (Addy Osmani)
• HTML5 and HTML.next (Jeff Jaffe)
• Mastering CSS3 Multiple Backgrounds (Konstantin Kichinsky)
• Differences Between ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET MVC – Routing (Mark Berryman)
• Implementing a Command Line with eval in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How to Add reCaptcha to Custom Forms in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• The Results of my Essential Tools, Libs and Frameworks for Front-End Development Survey (Rey Bango)
• Swinging on a Canvas (K. Scott Allen)
• Adopting A Responsive WordPress Theme Is More Than Install-And-Go (Ben Gremillion)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Retreaded: RigorousAgile (Martin Fowler)
• Where are my async unit tests? (Nigel Sampson)
• There is no “ego” in “Agile Team” (Brendan Enrick)
• CQRS Journey guidance project released (Grigori Melnik)
• Time Management Tips #6 – Schedule the Big Rocks (JD Meier)
• What is a Qualified User Story? (Derek Huether)
• Implementing Customer Feedback Forms AND fine tuning try/buy strategies with Runtime Intelligence (Sebastian Holst)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Windows Phone 8 bringing Lenses feature to expand camera functionality and Windows Phone 8 allows Lock-screen notifications and wallpaper for 3rd party apps and Windows Phone 8 to feature expanded Bluetooth functionality, access to stack and transfer and Windows Phone 8 to feature developer access to Voice Command features (Daniel Rubino)
• Tips and Tricks for C# Metro developer: How to find a XAML control by its name (David Catuhe)
• How to Deploy XAP File in a Windows Phone Emulator? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• SSL Socket Support in Windows Phone (mikoskin)
• Windows Phone 8 – Photo Apps now able to auto upload in background and Auto Launching Apps now possible using file associations for Windows Phone 8 (Robert Brand)
• 2000 WPF Things #612 – Application Event Sequence for Page-Based Applications (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Erik Meijer: Latency, Native Relativity and Energy-Efficient Programming (Charles Torre)
• Welcome to Riding Tandem with the Random and Vittorio Bertocci on Identity | Channel 9 Live at TechEd Europe 2012 (Vittorio Bertocci, Joey Snow & Charles Torre)
• Webinar on Why build for Windows 8 and how RadControls for Metro can help (Michael Crump)

 

Community / Events

• Meet The Author: C# Smorgasbord (James Sugrue)
• Meet the Author: Robert Boedigheimer on Fiddler (Paul Ballard)
• Kinect for Windows at Imagine Cup 2012 Finals (Kinect for Windows Team)
• Jobs in IT: Microsoft Scholarships Help Students with High Cost of Tuition (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Different techniques to identify blocking in SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
• SSRS – Using Lookup Function for Multiple Column Join (Devin Knight)
• SQL SERVER – Query to Get Unique Distinct Data Based on Condition – Eliminate Duplicate Data from Resultset (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Released (Denis Gobo)
• NoSQL Distilled pre-order on InformIT with 35% discount (Martin Fowler)
• Windows Azure Storage: SQL Database versus Table Storage (Glenn Gailey)

 

PowerShell

• My Git, Mercurial and Powershell setup (Scott Koon)
• Inside PowerShell 3.0: Parameter Value Completion (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Super fast fiber for Kansas City (Milo Medin)
• Reading in the new Office (Gray Knowlton)
• Designing For Android: Tips And Techniques (Jamie McDonald)
• Ultrabook Review: Samsung Series 9 (Jeff Hadfield)
• A brief and also incomplete history of Windows localization (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 26, 2012 and Interesting Finds: July 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 165 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading July 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #924 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 7/26/2012 and Daily News Digest 7/27/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (7/27/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1155 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily WP Development News 26 July 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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