Dew Drop – April 30, 2013 (#1,537)

Top Links

• Producing permutations, part five (Eric Lippert)
• Entity Framework Code First Relations and Entity Framework Code First Inheritance (Ricardo Peres)
• Updated TFS 2010 MSSCCI Provider and Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update 2 (Brian Harry)
• So You Don’t Want to be a Programmer After All (Jeff Atwood)

 

Web Development

• Moving 4th Mayor to Windows Azure Web Sites (Jeff Wilcox)
• CSS Grid Layout: Named Grid Lines and areas (Rachel Andrew)
• When things go wrong with Windows Azure (Dan Morrill)
• Knockout Click binding and the ‘this’ context (Derik Whittaker)
• Loading PHPUnit from PHAR archive in PhpStorm 6 (Maarten Balliauw)
• Sneak Peek: Wijmo Creates Custom JavaScript In LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• A WebAPI Basic Authentication MessageHandler (Rick Strahl)
• Re-partitioning streams in the Event Store for better projections (Rob Ashton)
• More Than Just Lorem Ipsum: Content Knowledge Is Power (Sara Wachter-Boettcher)
• REST lesson learned: Avoid user supplied data in URI segments (Mark Seemann)
• HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know – Part 2 (Pavan Podila)
• Easy Multi-touch Web Apps, Upgrade From Mouse to Pointer Events (Jeff Burtoft)

 

XAML

• Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) (MS Downloads) – Latest XAML specs available for download.
• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)
• 2000 WPF Things #809 – You Can Use a Brush for a Control’s Background (Sean Sexton)
• New on Win8 developer blog: Developing a cutting-edge app with NFC (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Semantic Versioning & auto-incremented NuGet package versions (Xavier Decoster)
• You can lead a dev to… "Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows Azure" (Greg Duncan)
• Free Yourself with a Dependency Injection Container (Peter Vogel)
• Some useful async extension methods (Nigel Sampson)
• Infragistics Parsing Framework – Removing Ambiguities, Part 5 (Mike Dour)
• Getting the display name for a shell property (Raymond Chen)
• Publishing a Windows 8 game with Construct 2 “…has been an amazing experience”: a student’s perspective (Sara Allison)
• 2000 C# Things #833 – Some Examples of Anonymous Object Initializers (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• Agile Scenarios and Storyboards (Roman Pichler)
• Git Explained: For Beginners (Juri Strumpflohner)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android: How to Use Two Data Sources in ListViews? (Wolfram Rittmeyer)
• The Problem with Interface Builder (Jaco Pretorius)
• Geeksphones are developer tools (Chris Heilmann)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 093: Crime writer Duane Swierczynski (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Mårten Rånge Takes Advantage of Templates (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools: #38 – JavaScript – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Amanda S.)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Marc Maron #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Next XBOX Announcement, AzureConf, Code Digger, Princess Leia and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Yet Another Podcast #97–Chris Sells and the last 20 years (Jesse Liberty)
• Video: Programming Arduino with a Breadboard (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 29th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Why We Love Stack Overflow (www.stackoverflow.com) (DevToolsGuy)
• The Week Ahead: April 29, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• GeekWire Awards: Vote here for Geek of the Year (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – UPDATE From SELECT Statement – Using JOIN in UPDATE Statement – Multiple Tables in Update Statement (Pinal Dave)
• FoundationDB NoSQL Database Supports ACID Transactions (Srini Penchikala)
• Raven.Storage just passed its first “test” (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Publishing LightSwitch apps for SharePoint to the Catalog (Brian Moore)

 

Miscellaneous

• How can I figure out if my ADFS 2.0 works? (Code Inside Team)
• Removing OneNote notebooks from the list of recently opened (John Guin)
• Skype comes to Outlook.com (Kip Kniskern)
• Does it make sense to buy a PC with a touch screen? (Rick Broida) – Does it make sense to but a PC without a touch screen?
• My Notepad++ Color Theme — Obsidian PyCs (Soe Tun)
• Lumia 920 Windows Phone commercial is the best tech ad in YEARS (Joe Wilcox)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 30, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 29th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 29, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1118 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1346 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/30/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #92 (Frank)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 29 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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