Dew Drop – July 18, 2012 (1,366)

Top Links

• Introducing “Napa” – Office 365 Development Tools (Jason Zander)
• Information about the Developer License for Windows 8 Metro style apps (Rachel Appel)
• Should C# warn on null dereference? (Eric Lippert)
• Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard (Steven Sinofsky)
• Office and the Cloud (Gray Knowlton)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Tips and tricks for C# Metro developers : Handling the keyboard events (David Catuhe)
• Office Development with Visual Studio 2012 and "Napa" (S.Somasegar)
• Enhancements in Visual Studio 2012 for Sorting Data across Relationships (Michael Simons)
• Breaking Changes In Argument List Evaluation In C# 5.0 (Paulo Morgado)
• APress deal of the day 17/Jul/2012 – Beginning C# Object-Oriented Programming (Tatworth)
• Roaming your app data (Dave Bennett)
• Learning the hard way: Uninstalling .NET Framework 4.5RC (Vincent Grondin)
• WinRT/Metro App Q n’ A: How do I get the screen resolution and scale? (Iris Classon)
• First impressions of Telerik RadControls for Metro… very nice. #TelerikMetro (Eric Nelson)
• Exploring Win8 Metro: The RichEditBox & FilePickers (Jesse Liberty)
• Using the C# Interactive Window that comes with Roslyn (Filip Ekberg)

 

Web Development

• Curtain reveal effect using CSS (Ryan Seddon)
• Creating a HTML5 Chart Helper Extension for ASP.NET MVC 4 (Sumit Maitra)
• Twitter API Best Practices: DB Lists vs. Twitter Lists (Adam Green)
• ​Additional Reserve Instance Capacity for Windows Azure Web Sites Preview (Nir Mashkowski)
• ASP.Net Web API and using Razor the next step (Fredrik Normen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: My Experience as a QA in Scrum (Priyanka Hasija)
• MTM Coded UI Test automation investment, when to use what. (Clemens Reijnen)
• The Cost of Design. (Scott Barnes)
• What Dependencies?? (Alex)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Simplify WPF or Silverlight and Prism/Unity Code with Generic Methods (Peter Vogel)
• OAuth With RestSharp in Windows Phone (Mohamed Haamdi)
• 2000 WPF Things #605 – Using Subclasses of RoutedEventArgs (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone: Binding Contact Image to ListBox (Sumit Dutta)
• Expression Design June 2012 Preview (MS Downloads)
• Recap – What’s new in WPF 4.5 (LearnWPF)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 193 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hemant Mahawar from Microsoft on PowerShell 3.0 Workflows (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 177: Jelly Bellies (Gareth Myles & James Richardson)
• Engadget HD Podcast 308 – 07.17.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• PerfView Tutorial 1 Collecting data with the Run command (Vance Morrison)
• 2 Minute Magic Videos for WebMatrix 2 (Vishal R. Joshi)
• Zero to Agile Podcast – Transitioning to Agile with Ted Neward, Jessica Kerr, and Glenn Block (Phil Japikse)

 

Community / Events

• New and Upcoming Features in LINQPad and C# 5 – Free Webcast (Tatworth)
• Meet the Author: Shawn Wildermuth on Debugging the Web (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• Execution Statuses [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• Save 50% on SQL Server 2012 ebooks from Microsoft Press–Sales ends tomorrow, July 19, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Generate Script for Schema and Data – SQL in Sixty Seconds #021 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• PowerPivot for Excel 2013 (Bradley Schacht)
• SQL Query Stress Tool (John Sterrett)
• T-SQL Tuesday 32: A Day in the Life a Grrl Geek (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

SharePoint

• Microsoft’s next SharePoint gets new features, including SkyDrive Pro (Mary Jo Foley)
• SharePoint 2013–What’s new with Workflow and SharePoint 2013 Workflow–Dynamic Values and SharePoint 2013 Workflow – Advanced Workflow Debugging with Fiddler (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint 2013 Top 10 New Features (Joel Oleson)
• Free SharePoint 2013 Training for Developers (Kunaal Kapoor)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell 101 Series Intro (Joel Oleson)
• Windows PowerShell Web Access – Installation guide II (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Dear JobsBlog: How do I Prepare for a Marketing Interview at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
• Outliers – The Story of Success (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• OneNote “MX”, the new Windows 8 app, is now available in the Windows Store (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 17, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1148 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-07-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 7/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #916 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Badass JavaScript Roundup is Back! (Devon Govett)
• Windows Azure InfoKit for Public Sector – July 2012 Update (Zhiming Xue)

 

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