Dew Drop–December 6, 2012 (#1,457)

Top Links

• Visual Studio and Internationalization (S.Somasegar)
• Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• eBook – Objective-C Succinctly (Ryan Hodson)
• Windows 8 Development Tip #2: Get to know Microsoft design style (Brent Schooley)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Code Samples and Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples and Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
• Amazon Embraces Node.js (Abel Avram)
• JavaScript Code Coverage with Istanbul (Ariya Hidayat)
• Simple Application using Knockout.js, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 4.0 with WEB API (Mahesh Sabnis)
• ASP.NET MVC – Controller Level Default Action (Rajesh Jinaga)
• PHP Mess Detector Support in PhpStorm 6.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
• WebRequest Throws On 404 Status Code (Mike Hadlow)
• Congratulations to Fuse Labs on the New Socl! and Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1.1 (Jonathan Turner)
• SproutCore 1.9.1 Released (SproutCore Team)
• Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute (Paul Rouget)

 

XAML

• Win8 XAML video player : easy globalization / translations (Jonathan Antoine)
• MSDN study links for Exam 70-485: Advanced Metro style App Development using C# (Andreas Hammar)
• Popular topics among Windows Phone 8 developers (Erik Reitan)
• Sharing Code: Windows 8 and Windows Phone (Matt Hidinger)
• 2000 WPF Things #706 – Dragging User Interface Elements Between Applications (Sean Sexton)
• AvalonDock 2.0.1746 and Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows Phone 8 (CodePlex)
• Using the adcontrol from code in Windows Phone 8 (Pete Vickers)
• How to Start with Debugging/Deploying Windows Store Apps to ARM Tablet (Mihail Mateev)
• A windows 8 trick: Protocol activation of apps (and the nick app) (Pete Brown)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debugging memory issues with RavenDB using WinDBG (Oren Eini)
• Math.NET Numerics with F#, Intel MKL and Vector Slicing Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Using ReSharper (R#) at Typemock R&D (Elisha)
• A Beginner’s Tutorial on Basics of Delegates, Anonymous Functions and Lambda Expressions in C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough Using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0 – Part 1 (Tara Walker)
• Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is writing to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT? (Raymond Chen)
• Co-occurrence Approach to an Item Based Recommender Update (Carl Nolan)
• Windows 8 Development with appMobi and Xamarin (Jim O’Neil)
• How to convert between (most) audio formats in .NET (Mark Heath)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Program Management: How Will You Deliver? (Johanna Rothman)
• Article: Visualizing the Big Picture of your Agile Project (Kulawat Wongsaroj)
• Celebrate Failure? Pt. 1 (Steve Rogalsky)
• Test Studio Workshop Needs You (Stoil Stoichev)
• Obfuscation and build checking – building a tool to help (Roger Hart)
• Messaging semantics: names and verbs (Jimmy Bogard)
• Publishing test results through command line test runner (Mathew Aniyan)
• Expressive Tests with Hamcrest (Patkos Csaba)
• Creating files on GitHub (Coby Chapple)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Support in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
• Microsoft’s Touch-Based Development Environment (Clint Edmonson)
• Google Play Services 2.0 Adds Maps and Photo Sphere API (Abel Avram)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Ken Pugh on Acceptance Test Driven Design (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp: The Design Driven Product | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy)
• Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development: Part 1 (Rob Tiffany)
• The basics of dumping out a managed object – 09 | .NET Debugging for the Production Environment (Brad Linscott)
• The Verge Mobile Show 028 – December 4th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• App Biz Dev Podcast Episode 7: Chanse unpacks Nokia (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• DevRadio webcast: Jason Follas on developing a Windows 8 app (Jennifer Marsman)
• Defrag: Adding MicroSD to Libraries, Multiboot PCs, Win8 Mail App | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 70 (Richard Hay)
• Cloud Security and Auditing (Bob Rhubart)

 

Community / Events

• F# Community Update (Don Syme)
• Windows Store App Labs: Test your Apps on Different Windows 8 Devices | Find a Lab Near You (Doris Chen)
• Global Day of Code Retreat – practice perfect code (Hilary)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Type Conversion Chart (MS Downloads)
• Dealing with the Column name ‘TEXT()’ contains an invalid XML identifier as required by FOR XML; ‘(‘(0x0028) is the first character at fault error and SQL Advent 2012 Day 5: Do not trust the SSMS designers and SQL Advent 2012 Day 6: Standardized Naming And Other Conventions (Denis Gobo)
• Improve SQL performance – An Intelligent Update Statistics Utility (Ian Stirk)
• The perils of double-dash comments [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell: Connect to Exchange server powershell (Marc Dekeyser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Steven Guggenheimer: Steven Sinofsky Is A “Phenomenal Visionary” – Will Be Missed At Microsoft (Frederic Lardinois)
• Gates and Ballmer make Forbes’ Most Powerful People list (John Callaham)
• Meet Lamar Smith: SOPA author, climate change skeptic, and Congress’ next science boss (T.C. Sottek)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 5, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1017 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1248 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 6, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–November 2012 (Beth Massi)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 5 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Daily News Digest 12/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)

 

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