Dew Drop – August 24, 2012 (#1,388)

Top Links

• Property Finder – a Cross-Platform HTML5 Mobile App (Colin Eberhardt)
• JavaScript improvements in ReSharper 7 (Hadi Hariri)
• Microsoft Unveils a New Look (Jeffrey Meisner)
• MetroGameKit renamed to Win8GameKit and updated for RTM (David Isbitski)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Tip: Cleaning Up the Template Lists (Peter Vogel)
• RavenDB 1.2 Studio Features: The New Database Wizard (Oren Eini)
• Zenburn for Visual Studio 2010 (Deepak Kapoor)
• Reading OpenDocument spreadsheets using C# (Gunnar Peipman)
• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 5 — D-style Mixins in C# (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Unity3D on W(P)8 – What This Means For You? (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Interlocked Read() and Exchange() (James Michael Hare)
• Community TFS Build Extensions – Aug 2012 (Mike Fourie)
• I messed up my checkin failure conflict resolution with the TFS Integration Tools… Now what? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• String Comparison in C# – Doing it the right way (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• New Visual Studio 2012 Debugging Features for the Windows 8 App Lifecycle Model (Dmitri Leonov)
• Media Playback: What you need to know about playing media to make your app shine in Windows 8 (Johnny Bregar)
• Wait, you never said that I had to initialize the object before I used it! (Raymond Chen)
• Course Manager VS 2012 Sample Part 4 – Implementing the Workflow (Andy Kung)
• In-app purchase vulnerability & MonoTouch (Craig Dunn)
• OData 101: Building our first OData-based Windows Store app (Part 1) and OData 101: Building our first OData-based Windows Store app (Part 2) (WCF Data Services Team)
• An "is" operator puzzle, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Using the Adafruit Arduino Logger Shield on a Netduino (Fabien Royer)
• .NET 4.5 : Operation could destabilize the runtime (yikes!) (Andreas Håkansson)
• Discovering data formats supported by Windows 8 share contract target apps (Andrei Marukovich)
• My First App: How I built BitSynth (Andy Myers)

 

Web Development

• Introducing Canvas in HTML5 (Jim Jackson & Ian Gilman)
• Windows 8 HTML5 WinRT RSS reader app (J. Vaughan)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Providers (Ricardo Peres)
• Adding multiple data importers support to web applications (Gunnar Peipman)
• Plugging custom OAuth/OpenID providers (Pranav Rastogi)
• How To Become A Top WordPress Developer // advancement to excellence (Jonathan Wold)
• Up Log Creek Without a Paddle – Part 2: IIS Log File Investigations (Doug Rathbone)
• The Nexus of Website Design and Search Optimisation (Andy Kinsey)
• Supporting OData $inlinecount with the new Web API OData preview package (Filip W)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CQRS and user experience (Jimmy Bogard)
• Huboard goes RealTime ™ (Ryan Rauh)
• How different Software Industry segments see Testing … (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Recklessly Going into Debt (Chris Eargle)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Creating a Wizard in Silverlight (Oren Eini)
• Windows Phone: When not to use UTC (Ben Gracewood)
• 2000 WPF Things #632 – Block Input Using PreviewTextInput (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 148 – Chris Hardy on Xamarin, MonoTouch and Mono For Android (Jon Galloway)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joel Hodgson (Chris Hardwick)
• Call Me Maybe … Finally Done Right! The Developer Way 🙂 (Aaron Skonnard)
• What The Tech129: There Is No Screw (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Ship-it! (Martin Woodward)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 150 – 08.23.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Windows Phone Central 147 – Verizon, Sprint, Nokia and Windows Phone 8 (Daniel Rubino)

 

Community / Events

• Register for Windows Phone Webcast Series (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Meet the Author: Paul Randal on SQL Server Myths and Misconceptions (Paul Ballard)
• Still Time To Register For The London Software Craftmanship BootCamp (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Women in IT: What surprised a new employee about Microsoft (MS JobsBlog)

 

Database

• Book Review: Troubleshooting SQL Server A Guide for the Accidental DBA (Adam Salvo & Jennifer Salvo)
• SQL SERVER – DELETE, TRUNCATE and RESEED Identity (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8: Lingering questions and (a few more) answers (Mary Jo Foley)
• Halo 4 achievements list revealed in full (Andy Weir)
• 5 features I wish were in Windows 8 but are not (Martin Brinkmann)
• 5 Days of Windows 8: Both the Weather and Desktop Are Cloudy (Paul Ballard)
• Nokia “Phi” Windows Phone 8 device confirmed via design patent (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 24, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 169 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading August 23, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #943 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 8/23/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1175 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-08-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for August 23, 2012 – #0117 (Dave Campbell)
• WebGL around the net, 23 August 2012 (Giles Thomas)

 

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