Dew Drop – December 4, 2012 (#1,455)

Top Links

• Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Routes (Michael Kennedy)
• Here’s Your Game Changer: Debug Visualizer in CodeRush for Visual Studio (Mark Miller)
• MVP Monday – Connected Apps Made Wicked Easy with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Scott Seely)
• Geoposition advanced tracking scenarios for Windows Phone 8 (Adam Denning)

 

Web Development

• dhtmlxScheduler 3.6: Ready for Windows 8 Apps (dhtmlx Team)
• Win8 App : stream videos from a Windows Azure Blob storage (Jonathan Antoine)
• JavaScript Performance Analysis: Sampling, Tracing, and Timing (Ariya Hidayat)
• MS Open Tech Contributes Support for Windows ETW and Perf Counters to Node.js (Claudio Caldato)
• New Book: HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development (Louis Lazaris)
• Connect to running web role on Azure using Remote Desktop Connection and VS2012 (Magnus Karlsson)

 

XAML

• Stencil Ball Shadows for XNA / WP7 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Phone 8: Multiple Screen Resolutions (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone Store now allows you to manually download and install XAPs in WP (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Debugging an HTML5 Windows Phone App (Matthias Shapiro)
• Windows Phone 8 SDK – Deploying Multiple Enterprise Applications (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #704 – Escape Key Cancels Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• What cross platform development tools support Windows 8 and Windows Phone? (Susan Ibach)
• More on Bad Ways to Set Up Commands in Your View Model (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• TFS 2012 Update 1 – TF255430: the database was partially upgraded during a failed upgrade (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Share Nuget packages between solutions: Part 1 and Share Nuget packages between solutions: Part 2 (Vasil Trifonov)
• What’s new in Uber Prof v2.0? (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
• Have you found any TheDailyWTF-worthy code during the development of Windows 95? (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework Code First Migrations in Teams (Doug Rathbone)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – Removing Ambiguities, Part 1 (Mike Dour)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile is Not for Everyone (Johanna Rothman)
• Article: Unit Testing Hadoop MapReduce Jobs With MRUnit, Mockito, & PowerMock (Michael Spicuzza)
• Automated UI Testing with Visual Studio 2012 (Mark Michaelis)
• Be Your Own Measuring Stick (Aaron Stannard)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Google Maps Android API now part of Google Play services (Reto Meier, Evan Rapoport & Andrew Foster)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mark Dunn Teaches MVC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 242: Ted Neward on The Advantages of F# (David Giard)
• The Tablet Show – Miguel Castro Rethinks UIs for Windows 8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ron Perlman (Chris Hardwick)
• Going Native: How to Develop Native iOS Applications with NucliOS – Webinar (Nick Landry)
• Yet Another Podcast #84–Chris Eargle Discussing Advanced C# and LINQ (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: Windows Design Language | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy)
• Bringing Windows Azure Services to the Private Cloud with Ryan Jones | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• SE Podcast #38 – This One’s At Least a 4/10 (Alex Miller)
• Defrag Tools: #17 – WinDbg – Driver Verifier – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Would you consider a tech job with Microsoft Business Solutions? (MS JobsBlog)
• Developer Days at Microsoft Store (Shayne Boyer)

 

Database

• Install SQL Server 2012 Using SysPrep (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL Server Temp Table vs Table Variable Performance Testing (Ben Snaidero)
• More useful Sql Server Serivce Broker Queries (Chris D.)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error : 402 The data types ntext and varchar are incompatible in the equal to operator (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 3: Sargable Queries and SQL Advent 2012 Day 4: Triggers, what to do, what not to do (Denis Gobo)
• T-SQL: CASE Statement (Jen McCown)
• Management Studio Database Diagram Owners (William Assaf)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysprocesses (Jason Strate)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Web Part Default Interfaces (Peter Vogel)

 

PowerShell

• Hooking a Remote Process and Stealing a Password in PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #5 — Gadgets (Dave Banks)
• Does an Ultrabook Make a Good Dev Machine? My Final Thoughts on the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook. (Jon Gallant)
• Microsoft Rumored To Deliver Three New Surface Tablets In 2013 (Jordan Crook)
• Small Basic for Little Kids Series #01 – A Typing Game (Ray Fast)
• Computer Algorithms: Longest Increasing Subsequence (Stoimen Popov)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 4, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 11.19 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading December 3, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Weekly Links – 12-3-2012 (matthiasshapiro)
• Double Shot #1014 and Double Shot #1015 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1246 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 4, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading Notes #73 (Frank)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 12/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)

 

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