Dew Drop – September 24, 2012 (#1,407)

Top Links

• ASP.NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4 Support in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• SkyDrive Is Great and No One Has Noticed (Brad Feld)
• jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (Todd Parker)
• The World’s Simplest Web API/POCO Example and Using IE 9 and F12 to Debug your Web API Service and Building a JavaScript Client for a Web API Service (Deborah Kurata)

 

Web Development

• MVC-specific CodeRush code declaration providers (Alex Skorkin)
• Moving to Windows Azure Web Sites (Christian Nagel)
• Export to Excel with MVC (Deran Schilling)
• Windows Azure Interactive Feature Map (Jim O’Neil)
• How to handle tooltip events in the Infragistics jQuery Map (Jordan Tsankov)
• How to Enable XDebug in Windows Azure Web Sites (Larry Franks)
• Windows Store apps – JavaScript & Passing Data To The WebView Control (Gerard Gallant)
• ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms (Pranav Rastogi)
• Rich Client Applications With ASP.NET (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Azure Git Publishing–Mind Your File’s Build Action (Mark Berryman)
• Easier builds and deployments using Git over HTTPS and OAuth (Wynn Netherland)
• Friday with Filip – Do you care about web security? (Filip Ekberg)
• It’s Not All Doom And Gloom On The Web // Opinion Column (Christian Heilmann)

 

XAML

• The Windows Phone 8 SDK Preview Mistake (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows 8 Metro: Badges and Lock screen notifications (Andrea Boschin)
• Metro and WinRT for the Silverlight/WPF Developer and 10 Best Practices for Windows Phone Developers: Frameworks, Toolkits & Tips (Eric Gregory)
• Wondering if you could host your Silverlight App in Dropbox? Yep. Here’s how.. and Tips and suggestions for troubleshooting and debugging WPF (Greg Duncan)
• WinRT app guide: Step 9: Adding the editing field (Iris Classon)
• Creating a settings flyout (Rudi Grobler)
• 2000 WPF Things #653 – MouseMove Events (Sean Sexton)
• Screenshots from the WP8 SDK posted (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows 8 Store Apps: Secondary Tiles (Robert MacLean)
• Windows 8 Beauty Tip: Using a VariableSizedWrapGrid in a GridView makes Grids Prettier (Jerry Nixon)
• MSDN developers get FREE Windows 8 Store access! (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• What is Extensible Storage Engine and how it can be used by Windows 8 apps to persist data (Andrei Marukovich)
• Player Framework for Windows 8 (Preview 6) and WPF Application Framework (WAF) 2.5.0.8 (CodePlex)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• CTP of Quarterly Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 (MS Downloads)
• Extending LINQ with Random Operations (Jonathan Wood)
• Executing Stored Procedures in Visual Studio LightSwitch. (dataintegration)
• WCF 4.5 features: Simplified Generated Configuration Files (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Save or Save To in ReSharper Options (Dmitry Matveev)
• What’s the difference between doing this and that in C#? (Filip Ekberg)
• What was that sound Visual Studio? Audio Editor Beta For VS 2012 (plus free sounds library too!) and Visual Studio 2012 Visualization & Modeling SDK RTW’s (Think Domain Specific Languages & Architecture Tools SDK) (Greg Duncan)
• Stupid Question 49: Why does 2 x Random not give unique numbers when inside the same method block? (C#) (Iris Classon)
• Converting LINQ to Twitter to Twitter API v1.1 (Joe Mayo)
• Real World Nuget (Josh Reuben)
• Setting the right DirectoryEntry for DirectorySearcher used for DirectorySynchronization (Sebastian Dau)
• .NET Gotcha #1: List vs. Collection Constructor (Slobodan Pavkov)
• JustCode – Makes syncing your settings across machines a breeze! (John Petersen)
• So you want to build a game for Windows 8? (Luke)
• Sometimes a nanosecond makes all the difference (Nick Berardi)
• An update to dotTrace SDK is released (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Calculated Columns in Entity Framework Code First Migrations (David Paquette)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Learning to Learn (John Sonmez)
• Moving Beyond Scrum (Todd Charron)
• Crushing bugs with BugSense (Rudi Grobler)
• Life without source control – share your most painful moments and win! (Troy Hunt)
• Design Obsessions (Rinat Abdullin)
• Stupid Question 50: When should I document? And what is the best way to do it? (Iris Classon)
• Virtual Labs in the modern application lifecycle (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Typography Carved In Stone // Design Process (Anne Brady)
• Test-Driven Node.js Development With Grunt (Mark Dalgleish)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Visual Basic Version of the Get started with data in Mobile Services Tutorial (Glenn Gailey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 068: Matthew Modine (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Technology & Friends Episode 231: Chris Powers on Code Reuse (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 452: Borderlands 2, Kinect Nat Geo TV and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Podcast Episode 085 – “It’s Xamarin Not Xamarin” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Video: Merge From the Left or Right with TFS 2012 (Paul Ballard)
• Episode 90 – Windows Azure Web Sites Update | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• TWC9: Azure Web rev’s, WAMS opens source, Windows 8 Camp in a Box, JavaScript resources | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman (Chris Hardwick)
• Joe Stegman: Windows 8 User Interface and Chris Anderson: Windows 8 New User Interface Standards (Chris Caldwell)
• ShopTalk Episode 35 (Chris Coyier)
• App Biz Dev Episode 2: Second to none (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Windows Weekly 279: Party Like it’s Windows 95 (Paul Thurrott)
• Cloud Plumbing Podcast – The value of payment data (Ryan Parsley)
• Nokia and Carl Zeiss Experts Talk About Lumia 920 (video) (Antonio Hernandez)
• CodeTV – Droptiles (Omar AL Zabir)

 

Community / Events

• Visual Studio 2012 Launch RoadShows around the World (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Happy 15th anniversary, Slashdot! (Carrie)
• Philly DotNet Code Camp 2012.1 Speaker Blogs and Twitter Accounts (Jon Gallant)
• C-Sharpen Up at Philly.NET (Steve Michelotti)
• Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) Camp Boston, September 29-30, 2012 (Zhiming Xue)

 

Database

• SQL Server: Part 2 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issues (Nelson Aloor)
• SQL SERVER – Validating Unique Columnname Across Whole Database and SQLAuthority News – Download SQL Server 2012 SP1 CTP4 and SQL SERVER – Excel Losing Decimal Values When Value Pasted from SSMS ResultSet (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Field Expression Builder (Ricardo Peres)
• Using SharePoint Designer 2013 to Create and Modify Project Workflows (Sam Chung)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell script to find files that are consuming the most disk space (Jugal Shah)

 

Miscellaneous

• Coding for Kids #3. Bugs! (Brian Hitney)
• Microsoft Project Austin: A new Windows 8 note-taking app inspired by Courier (Mary Jo Foley)
• 3 Interview Tips for Hiring Outstanding Developers (Chad Lilly)
• Configure Windows Live Writer Drafts Folder with SkyDrive (Christian Nagel)
• Leaked Roadmap – Verizon to get Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X and Samsung ATIV S (Daniel Rubino)
• Weekend Reading on the new Exchange (Gray Knowlton)
• IE 9.0.10 Available via Windows Update (Tyson Storey)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 21, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 23, 2012 and Interesting Finds: September 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 09.12 ~ 09.23 (yuanjian)
• Double Shot #964 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five–September 21, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #63 (Frank)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 21 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (9/21/2012) and Daily News Digest 9/21/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1195 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for September 23, 2012 – #0125 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #37) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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