Dew Drop – August 20, 2012 (#1,385)

Top Links

• Build Single Page Apps – Part 6 – JavaScript Modules and Italian Food (John Papa)
• Using JSHint inside Visual Studio – the basics (Steve Sanderson)
• Asynchronous Unit Tests With Mocha, Promises, And WinJS (Derick Bailey)
• Windows 8 dev: standard AppBar button styles (Long Zheng)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Reflecting Attributes (Richard Carr)
• WCF Data Services Tools for Windows Store Apps RC (MS Downloads)
• mIP – 100% C# Managed TCP/IP Stack for the .NET Micro Framework and Hello Netflix? This Windows 8, WinJS and HTML5. Can we talk? (Greg Duncan)
• How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache (Tarun Arora)
• How to fix the CA0053 error in Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2012 and Issues with mixed C++ and C# projects in Visual Studio 2012 running Code Analysis (Terje Sandstrom)
• Few tips on implementing a Coded UI Test Plugin Extension (Tapas)
• What if my application is really two applications bundled into a single file, and I want them collected into two groups on the taskbar in Windows 7? (Raymond Chen)
• Common error when upgrading Windows 8 Apps from VS2012 RC to RTM (Michael Crump)
• Intellisense problems in VS2012 fix, maybe related to productivity and refactoring plugins (Iris Classon)
• New in Windows 8 RTM: out of the box implementation of in-app type-to-search feature (Andrei Marukovich)
• Visual Rx – Part 5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Image Metadata with MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• EF Migrations Command Reference (Anders Abel)

 

Web Development

• Using Underscore.js Templates To Render HTML Partials (Ben Nadel)
• Illustrator to HTML5 Canvas Plug-In Updated for CS6 (Mike Swanson)
• JavaScript Events And Responding To The User // Back To Basics (Christian Heilmann)
• How to cook a Windows 8 application with HTML5/Javascript/CSS3: RTM version (David Catuhe)
• ASP.NET Web API error detail policy now defaults to the custom errors configuration (Jef Claes)
• Nintendo 64 emulator becomes available via JavaScript (Paul Ferson)
• One (more) ASP.NET (Paul Stovell)
• Installing HTTPIE (HTTP for Humans) on Windows – Great for ASP.NET Web API and RESTful JSON services (Scott Hanselman)
• Notes on accessible CSS image sprites (Steve Faulkner)
• Avoid Using Vendor Prefixes (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Why XSS is serious business (and why Tesco needs to pay attention) (Troy Hunt)
• Responsive Carousel Project: Now Open Source (Scott Jehl)
• Book Review: A Practical Guide to Web App Success (Rachel Andrew)
• Developing Web Applications Faster (Alexander Beletsky)
• Working with elements before the DOM is ready (Keith Clark)
• Node.js for Beginners (Maciej Sopyło)
• Jasmine.Async: Making Asynchronous Testing With Jasmine Suck Less (Derick Bailey)
• Why JSON Won … And Is Good As It Is (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Why you should care about Parrot (a new ASP.NET MVC View Engine) (Ben Dornis)
• DHTMLX 3.5: Build Visually Stunning, Real-Time Web Apps (DHTMLX Team)
• Learning Knockout.js (Eric Davis)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Performance Engineering (JD Meier)
• Scrum in 5 Minutes (Stephen Walther)
• Management Improvement Carnival (Karl Scotland)
• XMind – Powerful, Easy To Use Mindmapping Software (Chance Brown)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Putting Windows Phone Concepts Together – Part1 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 8 SDK Web Page (Antonio Hernandez)
• WPF 4.5 – Part 8: Solving Airspace Problems (Jon Antoine)
• Silverlight 5 Modal Windows (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 WPF Things #628 – Key Up/Down Sequence When Using ALT Key (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone team fixes bug, resumes app publishing (Todd Bishop)
• Cocktail v1.0.0 (CodePlex)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 226: Scott Hanselman on Visual Studio 2012 (David Giard)
• Video: Touring the Windows Phone Dev Center (Michael Stroh)
• The Tablet Show – Dan Wahlin Builds Web Apps for Tablets (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Start Up Success Podcast #149 – Show #55 David Allen, Startups, and Getting Things Done. (Bob Walsh)
• The Vergecast 043 – August 16, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Windows 8, VS 2012 Downloads, source for .NET 4.5, git-tf and Kahn!!! | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Windows Weekly 274: Hadoop-a-polooza (Paul Thurrott)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 59 (Richard Hay)
• Engadget Podcast 306 – 08.17.2012 and Engadget HD Podcast 311 – 08.17.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 87 – Jon Galloway on Whats new in VS 2012, ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 and Windows Azure Web Sites | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Jon Galloway, Cory Fowler, Nathan Totten, Nick Harris)
• Video: Sorting Out Submit with Multiple HTML Forms (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Question 26: And the answer to question 25 is..? (Iris Classon)
• Red Gate SQL in the City – Free SQL Server Training the Red Gate way (Red Gate Team)

 

Database

• The Red Gate Guide to SQL Server Backup and Restore Book Review. (Enrique Lima)
• SQLAuthority News – 2 Security Updates for SQL Server 2000 SP 4 Users (Pinal Dave)
• NoSQL Distilled Now Available (Martin Fowler)
• Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1) (Basit Farooq)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Cumulative Update (MS Downloads)
• Microsoft reorganizes its Server and Tools unit (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to Setup a Proper Python Environment on Windows (Aaron Stanndard)
• Wackiness ensues (Eric Lippert)
• The Future of Software Jobs (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• The Microsoft Story (JD Meier)
• Windows 8: My First Impressions (Krishnan Subramanian)
• Your words are wasted (Scott Hanselman)
• 8 Issues In Windows 8: Modern vs Desktop (Manan Kakkar)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 18, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: August 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 08.01 ~ 08.16 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading August 17, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #25 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #939 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five–August 17, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #58 (Frank)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #32) (Himanshu Singh)
• The Morning Brew #1171 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 8/17/2012 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (8/17/2012) (Silverlight Show)
• Pie in the Sky (August 17, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 Aug 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Retrospective 95 – Sacrifice and Getting Fired (Peter Saddington)
• Recent Noteworthy Entity Framework Posts You Won’t Want to Miss (Julie Lerman)
• Visual studio ALM links (week 33/2012) (Ricci Gian Maria)

 

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