Dew Drop – August 13, 2012 (#1,383)

Top Links

• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #18 Creating backgrounds for Panoramas and 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #13 Touch Gestures and 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #21 Touch Targets and 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #22 Orientation and 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #11 Windows Phone Design Grid (Arturo Toledo)
• Tiny Happy Features #2 – ASP.NET Web API in Visual Studio 2012 and Tiny Happy Features #3 – Publishing Improvements, chained Config Transforms and Deploying ASP.NET Apps from the Command Line (Scott Hanselman)
• Build Single Page Apps – Part 5 – HTML 5 and ASP.NET Web Optimization (John Papa)
• To “as” or not to “as” (Kathleen Dollard)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• The next BIG Thing in RavenDB 1.2 (Oren Eini)
• Obtaining File Version Numbers (Richard Carr)
• metro background audio c# (release preview) (babaandthepigman)
• WCF Interview Questions : Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Removing Source Control bindings from Visual Studio Projects Utility (Greg Duncan)
• Creating a WinRT application step by step: From idea to publishing and ‘Stupid’ Question 20: How should I do casting in C#? Should I use the prefix cast or the as-cast? (Iris Classon)
• Using interfaces in DataContracts for WCF service versioning. (Michael Freidgeim)
• Tiny Happy Features #1 – T4 Template Debugging in Visual Studio 2012 (Scott Hanselman)
• Compiler Bugs Fixed In Visual Studio 2012 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
• A WinRT behavior to turn a FlipView into a kind of Windows 8 Panorama (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows Memory Manager’s Preferential Treatment of Access Faults in the Interlocked Singly Linked List Pop Implementation (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Windows 8 Primer–Data Binding (Part 1) and Windows 8–Data binding Part 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 8 – FREE Training on Building Apps #Windows8 (Keith Mayer)
• Comparing Service Bus for Windows Server & RabbitMQ (Michael Stephenson)
• NRefactory 5 article (Daniel Grunwald)
• dotCover 2.1: Early Access Program is Open (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Creating a WinRT component using C++/CX: DeForm, a Direct2D effect toolkit (David Catuhe)
• Convention Binding to Ninject 3 — Resolving ‘Value Cannot be Null’ Exception (Derik Whittaker)
• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 1: Using services to get data in our Windows 8 applications (Gill Cleeren)
• Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET Framework 4.5 and WinRT (Grigori Melnik)
• Visual Rx – TOC (Bnaya Eshet)
• Launching the Feedback client from a Windows 8 application using Team Foundation Server Preview (Charles Sterling)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.1.2 (Win 8 RP) – Source and Player Framework for Windows 8 (Preview 5) (CodePlex)
• Modern UI Style – the new "Metro" (Brent Schooley)
• Adding Rate and Review to your Windows 8 App (Andy Beaulieu)

 

Web Development

• jQuery Grid Checkbox Column alternatives (Damyan Petev)
• Read my article about HTML5 Polyfills on Script Junkie (Dave Ward)
• Testing routes in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Avoiding Messy Situations With KnockoutJS and Javascript (Rob Conery)
• Web 3.0: The Mobile Era (Jay Jamison)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Lack of Fluency? (James Shore)
• Book Review: Leadership on the Line and 25 Books the Most Successful Microsoft Leaders Read and Do (JD Meier)
• The Myth of the Super Programmer (John Sonmez)
• Feature dependencies chains (Oren Eini)
• Re-Pair Programming (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Dealing with Net Negative Producing Programmers (Mehdi Khalili)
• Design Apps for the Aesthetically Challenged (Daniel Donahoo)
• BugNET Issue Tracker 1.1 (CodePlex)
• Designing For Device Orientation: From Portrait To Landscape (Avi Itzkovitch)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Data Virtualization, Lazy Loading, Stealth Paging–whatever you want to call it: Here’s how to do it in Silverlight and Data Virtualization in Silverlight: Digging into VirtualCollection (Samuel Jack)
• Windows Phone: Background Agents Pitfall (5 of n) (Peter Kuhn)
• Text to speech on Windows Phone 8 (Adam Benoit)
• Windows Phone 8 Shared Core With Windows 8 – File IO (Sébastien Lachance)
• Building a Windows Phone controlled Wi-Fi Gadgeteer Image Streaming Robot (Greg Duncan)
• WPF 4.5 – Part 5 : The New BindingExpression Information and WPF 4.5 – Part 6 : Markup Extensions for Events (Jon Antoine)
• Create your own WPF Button User Controls (Paul Sheriff)
• 2000 WPF Things #623 – Focusable Property Indicates Whether a Control Can Receive Focus (Sean Sexton)
• Getting Started With Windows Phone and MVVM Light – Part 1 of 2 (Shayne Boyer)
• Answering your top 10 Windows Phone Dev Center questions (Todd Brix)
• Using NUnit to test Windows Phone 7 applications – Part 2 (András Velvárt)
• Build your application using PhoneGap:Build (Dhananjay Kumar)
• XamGrid Performance Optimization Using Simplified Templates (Kiril Matev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Major Nelson Podcast Show 447: Hybrid, XCOM, Mars Lander and the internet hates math (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 079 – “DevCenter.CreateNew();” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Phone Central 146 – WP8 SDK, missing features and no more Metro (Daniel Rubino)
• Agile 2011 – Arlo Belshee – Extreme Programming, Agile Engineering, Big Data and other disruptive behaviors and ADC West 2012 – Sanjiv Augustine – Sensei a retrospective tool for continuous improvement (Bob Payne)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 101 – rambling lessons learned (Michael Kimsal)
• Video: Stop SQL Server Deadlocks in Their Tracks (Paul Ballard)
• Mash This Podcast – Dalton Caldwell is a Man on a Mission (Keyvan Nayyeri, Nick Berardi, Lee Dumond & Dustin Davis)
• Episode 86 – Windows Azure Active Directory with Vittorio Bertocci | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Windows Weekly 273: Honey Microsoft Don’t Care (Paul Thurrott)
• The Vergecast 042 – August 9, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Build sold out, Portable Class Library, eBooks galore, SQLite, WinRT and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Peek, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• Today I am Leaving Microsoft and Starting my Own Company (Aaron Stannard)
• Meet The Presenters at this Year’s Philly Geek Awards (Eric Smith)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services vs. PerformancePoint Services (Arshad Ali)
• SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster Part 3 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Exporting SQL Server Compact to SQLite (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Contest – Summary of 5 Day and Additional Information and SQL SERVER – ERROR: FIX using Compatibility Level – Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner – Part 2 and SQLAuthority News – Getting Ready to Learn SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Composable DML cannot insert into a table with a FOREIGN KEY (Jamie Thomson)
• Free Big Data eBook of the Day, "Mining of Massive Datasets" (Greg Duncan)
• How to find SQL Agent Jobs without Notification Operator Configured? (Basit Farooq)

 

SharePoint

• Build Your Apps for Office and SharePoint on Windows Azure; Win Cool Prizes! (Himanshu Singh)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell SQL Connection Test (Derik Hammer)
• Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (Release Candidate) (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• How did real-mode Windows implement its LRU algorithm without hardware assistance? (Raymond Chen)
• Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and a 7” gap that needs to be filled (Robert Brand)
• There is No API Strategy (Adam DuVander)
• Enterprise Adoption & Windows 8 Hijackings. (Scott Barnes)
• Microsoft now using ‘Modern UI Style’ to refer to Windows 8 ‘Metro Style’ apps (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 11, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 12, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 10, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #933 and Double Shot #934 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five–August 10, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (August 10, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #24 (Mary Lou)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #31) (Himanshu Singh)
• The Morning Brew #1166 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for August 11, 2012 – #0112 and Windows Dev News for August 12, 2012 – #0113 (Dave Campbell)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for August 10, 2012 at 10:02AM (Denny Cherry)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 10 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Azure in the Blogosphere (Chris Koenig)

 

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