Dew Drop – August 29, 2012 (#1,391)

Top Links

• Building an End-to-End Windows Store App – Part 2: Integrating Cloud Services (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing Windows Azure Mobile Services (Scott Guthrie)
• Building a project skeleton, using CSS3 layout and styling WinJS controls #Win8Dev (Adam Kinney)
• Evolving the Reflection API (Brandon Bray)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Nuget Perf Problem, Part II–Importing To RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• ObjectStorageHelper now available for Windows 8 RTM (Jamie Thomson)
• TFS Shipping Cadence (Brian Harry)
• Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012, 5th September (Giles Davies)
• Using Git and GitHub in a Microsoft Development Team (Mike Hadlow)
• Upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 RTM (Zain Naboulsi)
• Visual Studio 2012 Extensions and Updates and Convert C# to VB or Vice Versa with Visual Studio 2012 and Adding Tools to Visual Studio 2012 (Deborah Kurata)
• First Look at RadComboBox and RadAutoComplete for Windows 8 – HTML (Michael Crump)
• dotCover 2.1 Beta is available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Creating a WinRT component using C++/CX Part 2: Adding a custom Direct2D effect to DeForm (David Catuhe)
• Beware when using .NET’s named pipes in a windows forms application (Frans Bouma)
• Windows 8 & Data Binding. Part 5–Binding to Lists (Jesse Liberty)
• ReSharper 7.0.1: Bugfix Update Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Async in Entity Framework 6.0 (K. Scott Allen)

 

Web Development

• Good CSS Practices (Anders Janmyr)
• Review: HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design (Richard Clark)
• Node.js Infrastructure: Part 1 (Christopher Roach)
• Introducing Mobile Services—A Quick Start to Windows Store Apps with Windows Azure (Glenn Gailey)
• Optical Zooming in Legacy Document Modes (Ted Johnson)
• Introducing Windows Azure Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
• Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java – August 2012 Preview (Martin Sawicki)
• Offline Web Application (Mehdi Khalili)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum + Kanban = ScrumBan, an Easy Scrum Upgrade (Andy Singleton)
• Time Management Tips #22 – Close the Flood Gates (JD Meier)
• Encrypting Passwords in Test Studio (Jim Holmes)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Update WriteableBitmapEx for WinRT RTM, WPF, Windows Phone and Silverlight (Rene Schulte)
• 2000 WPF Things #635 – Using a Value Converter to Change User Input (Sean Sexton)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v2.10: tutorial videos, code synthesis, trace+replay, and more! (Nikolai Tillmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Alton Brown (Chris Hardwick)
• The Engadget Show 35: EVs in Portland, hacked bicycles and a Tesla Model S test drive (Brian Heater)
• Introduction to Windows Azure Mobile Services (Scott Guthrie & Nick Harris)
• Engadget HD Podcast 313 – 08.28.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Ping 152: Microsoft’s new logo, Kinect price drop, Xbox covers the election, New Windows Phones | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Accessing the Accelerometer in a Windows Store App using HTML and JavaScript (David Isbitski)

 

Community / Events

• I’m presenting at SharePoint Live in Orlando, FL on SharePoint 2013 December 10-14, 2012 (Andrew Connell)
• Microsoft to formally release Kinect for Windows SDK September 15, Windows Phone team involved too? (Chassit)
• Meet the Author: Dr. Joe Hummel on Async and Parallel Programming: Application Design (Paul Ballard)
• Register your spot now for the Nokia 9/5 event in New York (Rich Edmonds)

 

Database

• SSRS Textbox Tips and Tricks (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• Dynamic SQL – SQL Server Vs MySQL‏ (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Three Methods to Insert Multiple Rows into Single Table – SQL in Sixty Seconds #024 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• LOB Logical Reads twice the row count (Ted Krueger)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it (Unknown Author)
• ‘Whilst’ keyword in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Command line tool to manage Windows 7 Libraries, with source code (Raymond Chen)
• Pinning Useful and Obscure Stuff to the Windows 8 Start Menu (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows 8 new features – The complete list (updated) (Michael Pietroforte)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 28, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #946 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1177 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 8/28/2012 and Daily News Digest 8/29/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for August 28, 2012 – #0119 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 28 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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