Dew Drop – August 10, 2012 (#1,382)

Top Links

• Microsoft now using ‘Modern UI Style’ to refer to Windows 8 ‘Metro Style’ apps (Tom Warren)
• Windows 9: all but the official code name for the next version of Windows (Stephen Chapman)
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #16 Typography and 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #23 Perceived Performance (Arturo Toledo)
• jQuery 1.8 Released (Dave Methvin)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The next BIG Thing in RavenDB 1.2 (Oren Eini)
• Tips and Tricks for C# Windows 8 developer: Read and write roamed application settings (David Catuhe)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked Increment(), Decrement(), and Add() (James Michael Hare)
• Installing Xna 3.1 or 4.0 for use on a Build Server without Visual Studio (Michael Cummings)
• TFS Integration Tools – Issue: TFS WIT bypass-rule submission is enabled (MrHinsh)
• How to create Web Deploy packages in Visual Studio 2012 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Tiny Happy Features #1 – T4 Template Debugging in Visual Studio 2012 (Scott Hanselman)
• Liven up your app with location and sensors (Gavin Gear & Dino Natucci)
• Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0 (MS Downloads)
• Going Native 2.0, The future of WinRT (Alexandre Mutel)
• ReSharper 7.0 Plug-ins (Matt Ellis)
• HOW TO MAKE YOUR WINDOWS 8 APP MORE …WELL … MORE WINDOWS 8! (Ramez Debbas)
• Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration (Charles Sterling)
• NGen Need To Know – Six NGen Troubleshooting Tips (Greg Duncan)
• dotTrace SDK: An API for Your Performance Needs! (Hadi Hariri)
• Develop an app in 30 days with phone support and a design consultation (Jennifer Marsman)
• Synchronous to Asynchronous Explained (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows 8 Notifications: Periodic Notifications (Jim O’Neil)

 

Web Development

• Using RavenDB in our existing MVC 3 Application (Gregor Suttie)
• GridView Custom Paging with LINQ (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Today In APIs: ESPN API Updates for the Olympics, LinkedIn Revamps API Terms, Parse.ly Releases API and 15 New APIs (Wendell Santos)
• Building breaktheicefor.me (Aaron Lerch)
• Custom Domains For Windows Azure Web Sites Using Domain Masking (Mark Berryman)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Your Path through Agile Fluency (Martin Fowler)
• Using TFS 2012 and SCRUM for Iteration Capacity Planning for Software Development (Subodh Sohoni)
• Repository pattern for Windows Azure Storage (Nicolas Humann)
• Time Management Tips #18 – Do It Now (JD Meier)
• Isn’t Usability Enough? (Kevin Richardson)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Data Virtualization, Lazy Loading, Stealth Paging–whatever you want to call it: Here’s how to do it in Silverlight (Samuel Jack)
• Windows Phone 8 SDK New Features For Developers (Sébastien Lachance)
• Tips and Tricks for C# Windows Phone 8 Developer (David Catuhe)
• 2000 WPF Things #622 – The Source of a Keyboard Event (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Defrag: Net Speed Apps, TrustedInstaller, Renaming Account Folders | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Engadget Podcast 305 – 08.09.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Friday (August 10th) (Scott Guthrie)
• Geek of the Week: Philly Writer Chris Braak (David Goodman)
• Every Windows 8 event Microsoft UK is doing can now be found… (Eric Nelson)
• I’m joining the Telerik team as a Technical Evangelist (Iris Classon)
• Meet the Author: John Petersen on Introduction to NuGet (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services vs. PerformancePoint Services (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding XML – Contest Win Joes 2 Pros Combo (USD 198) – Day 5 of 5 (Pinal Dave)
• Migrating Replication Subscribing Databases (Ted Krueger)
• How to prevent ‘Select *’ : The elegant way (Dave Ballantyne)
• Composable DML cannot insert into a table with a FOREIGN KEY (Jamie Thomson)

 

SharePoint

• Copy-and-Paste support in SharePoint Designer 2013 (JongHwa Lim)

 

PowerShell

• Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (Release Candidate) (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Reporting Bugs to Microsoft (Phillip Trelford)
• What is SysFader and why is it always crashing? (Raymond Chen)
• Office 16: the code name for the next version of Office? (Stephen Chapman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 10, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 167 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading August 9, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #933 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1165 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 9 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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