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• ReSharper 7.1 is Available (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Improve perceived performance of ASP.NET MVC websites with asynchronous partial views (Michael Kennedy)
• Getting Started with the LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2 (Beth Massi)
• Who is Julie Larson-Green? Meet the new head of Windows and Sinofsky’s departure from Microsoft: Politics or products to blame? (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Web Development

• Sending e-mail from Windows Azure and A phone call from the cloud: Windows Azure, SignalR & Twilio (Maarten Balliauw)
• Microsoft updates ‘Napa’ and ‘LightSwitch developer tools (Mary Jo Foley)
• JavaScript The Good Parts Reviewed (Steve Smith)
• Enable Automatic Code First Migrations On SQL Database in Azure Web Sites (Steve Michelotti)
• JavaScript Object Creation by New Operator (Alexander Beletsky)
• Getting Started with Parse (Tilo Mitra)
• What is Node.JS all about? (Claire Sawyers)
• Working with Array of Arrays in JavaScript and What is Associative Array in JavaScript? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How and why to avoid mixing your mark-up and serverside code (Rachel Andrew)
• jQuery 1.8.3 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Creative CSS Loading Animations (Hugo Giraudel)
• Announcing LightSwitch HTML Client Preview 2! (John Stallo)
• New LightSwitch HTML Client APIs (Steven Provine)
• JavaScript APIs you’ve never heard of (and some you have) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Windows 8 / IIS 8 Concurrent Requests Limit (Scott Forsyth)
• Interacting with Databases for Web Developers in VS 2012 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Variable declarations: three rules you can break (Axel Rauschmayer)
• W3C Charters Pointer Events Working Group (Jacob Rossi)
• IE10: Fast, Fluid, Perfect for Touch, and Available Now for Windows 7 (Rob Mauceri)
• Understanding HEAD, HTTP/204 and HTTP/206 (Eric Lawrence)
• Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 Preview (damaster)
• Using Mental Models When Designing Web Applications (DevToolsGuy)
• Implementing a MapReduce Join with Hadoop and the .Net Framework (Carl Nolan)

 

XAML

• Are you a Windows Phone developer? Try being part of www.dvlup.com and enjoy the perks (Avkash Chauhan)
• Features of Windows Phone 7.8 detailed in leaked Nokia sales training slides (damaster)
• A WinRT behavior to mimic EventToCommand (take 2) (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #689 – An Application Can Lose Its Mouse Capture and #690 – Being Notified When Mouse Capture Is Lost (Sean Sexton)
• Sinofsky and Silverlight (Shawn Wildermuth)
• DirectX and XAML in Windows (Phone) 8: RT Component and C# Integration (Toni Petrina)
• Windows 8 Store Apps–Debugging Background Tasks (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial (Part 9) – Share Contract using DataTransferManager (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #13: Navigation and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #14: Geolocation (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Common certification errors when submitting to the Windows Store and Common Windows Store certification errors: 1.2 App must be fully functional (Jennifer Marsman)
• Answering your Windows 8 Questions (Jeremy Likness)
• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 7: Working with sockets from a Windows 8 application (Gill Cleeren)
• Windows Store Tips:Follow the company developer account guidelines (Eric Nelson)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Preview Tab (Richard Carr)
• Expert F# 3.0 (Don Syme)
• Nicer Client Properties For EasyNetQ (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio 2012 and JustCode shortcuts cheat sheet (Емил Табаков)
• Code First Stored Procedures (aureolin)
• IntelliTrace: Making On Time Shipping Possible (John Robbins)
• Top 11 Reasons to Visit the Hilo Docs in the MSDN Library (Eric Battalio)
• Why is deriving a public class from an internal class illegal? (Eric Lippert)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Deployment Automation Patterns Refcardz (reg-ware) – "The Essential Deployment Automation Patterns Cheat Sheet" (Greg Duncan)
• Midbook pattern crisis: Do NOT reach for that pattern and Design patterns in the test of time: Flyweight (Oren Eini)
• Game on! How to Retain Your Top Performing Millennials. (Ryan Jenkins)
• My Defacto .gitignore file (Kevin Griffin)
• Working Long? Rethink Why (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing Android 4.2, A New and Improved Jelly Bean (Angana Ghosh & Dirk Dougherty)
• iOS, Android, Firefox OS: HERE is available everywhere (Pino Bonetti)
• Creating a Netflix style iOS Grid (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Nokia Maps Spin-Off: Welcome to HERE (Antonio Hernandez)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 075: Oliver Sacks’ Hallucinations (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Oren Eini Does NoSQL First (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside Windows 8: Martyn Lovell and Elliot H Omiya – The Windows Runtime (Charles Torre)
• Webinar Recording on Cross Platform Development with MonoTouch and Mono for Android (Wally McClure)
• A conversation with Steve Marx (John Sheehan)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Eric Idle, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly and Sophie Winkleman and The Nerdist Podcast – Max Landis (Chris Hardwick)
• ShopTalk Episode #42 (Chris Coyier)
• Yet Another Podcast #81–Mary Jo Foley on /Build &Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #14 – WinDbg – SOS | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 159: SkyDrive, SmartGlass, Skype takes over, Microsoft reinvents itself | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 011 – Chris Ross (Denny Cherry)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 68 (Richard Hay)
• Bill Gates: 13 Talks That Expanded My Worldview (TED Talks)
• Engadget HD Podcast 324 – 11.13.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• SQL PASS Summit 2012 in Review (Tim Mitchell)
• Free online Windows AzureConf this Wednesday (Scott Guthrie)
• Meet the Author: Jon Flanders on Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API (Paul Ballard)
• Windows Azure Open Services Summit – use any OS, database, language, tool (Sara Allison)
• OpenROV at Node.js Conf Italy and Maker Italy (Simone Chiaretta)
• Interview with Robin Berjon, HTML5 editor (Bruce Lawson)
• Help select a new Fiddler logo! (Eric Lawrence)
• Drinkup in Raleigh, NC (Jared Pace)
• “Coffee and Code” event in Microsoft Southfield office (Jennifer Marsman)
• Announcing the Windows 8 Apps for Good Contest (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• Auditing SQL Server 2012 Server Roles (K. Brian Kelley)
• Why SQL Server Named Instance connect without specifying instance name ? and SQL Server || Compress & UnComprees Backups in one MediaFile (Rohit Garg)
• SQL SERVER – Rename Columnname or Tablename – SQL in Sixty Seconds #032 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• MICROSOFT REPORT VIEWER 2012 RUNTIME (MS Downloads)
• A dacpac limitation – Deploy dacpac wizard does not understand SqlCmd variables (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Customize the SharePoint 2013 search experience with a Content Enrichment web service (Kathrine Hammervold)
• Building Apps for Office and SharePoint (S.Somasegar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Stack for Startups (Jason Gaylord)
• From iPad to Surface: Landscape vs. Portrait (Nick Landry)
• Microsoft gifting 10-year anniversary Xbox 360s to long-term Xbox Live loyalists (Ben Gilbert)
• Forget Sinofski (Charles Young)
• Living With Lumia: Day 1, Getting Into the Groove (Christina Warren)
• Kid’s Corner having PIN problems? (George Ponder)
• Stupid Question 80: Do you have to have an open source project to be taken serious as a programmer? and Stupid Question 81: Why did Microsoft’s Windows chief Steven Sinofsky quit? (Iris Classon)
• Ed Wilson: The problem with Frankenstein (Ed Wilson)
• SINOFSKY’S FINAL MEMO: I Wasn’t Fired. I Quit. And I’m Ready To Compete With Microsoft (MSFT) (Nicholas Carlson)
• Sinofsky’s departure gives me hope for Windows (Rockford Lhotka)
• The fall of Sinofsky ..where’s the gold plated AK47? (Scott Barnes)
• Steve Ballmer’s letter to team on Sinofsky departure (Sean Hollister)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 13, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 14, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 12, 2012 and Geek Reading November 13, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1000 and Double Shot #1001 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 14 Nov 2012 (Jax)
• Reading Notes #70 (Frank)
• Daily News Digest 11/12/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/13/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-13 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1231 and The Morning Brew #1232 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 12 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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