Dew Drop – September 6, 2012 (#1,395)

Top Links

• Adventures in Windows 8: Understanding and debugging design time data in Expression Blend (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich Updates Sysinternals, Adds Windows 8 Support (Jeff James)
• Agile Process (Greg Young)
• ALM Rangers Demo Factory Team release their first demo nuggets! (Willy-P. Schaub)

.NET / Visual Studio

• NuGet Perf, Part VIII: Correcting a mistake and doing aggregations (Oren Eini)
• Checking if the Current Process is 64-bit (Richard Carr)
• TFS to SVN Conversion with History (David Adsit)
• Working with Multiple Solution Explorer Windows in Visual Studio 2012 (Deborah Kurata)
• Logging All Unhandled Exceptions In WCF With Log4Net (Pieter de Rycke)
• Passing Completion Functions With JavaScript (Windows 8 and XHR) (Peter Kellner)
• C++/CX Part 1 of [n]: A Simple Class (Visual C++ Team)
• WP to W8: View States using Visual State Manager (Jared Bienz)

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC4 Gotcha: Embedded Views and Razor Pre-Compilation (Aaron Stannard)
• ASP.NET MVC DisplayTemplate and EditorTemplates for Entity Framework DbGeography Spatial Types (Scott Hanselman)
• Node.js Infrastructure: Part 2 (Christopher Roach)
• How we keep GitHub fast (Kyle Neath)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Running a Storyboard as a Task (Morten Nielsen)
• Product Review: EPM Live – Enterprise Project and Work Management for the Masses (Joel Oleson)
• To constructor or to property dependency? (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #641 – The Difference Between IsTabStop and Focusable (Sean Sexton)
• Semantic Zoom with Silverlight 5 PivotViewer (Tony Champion)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Show 800! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Reasons Why You Should Develop a Windows 8 App (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Ping 153: Classic Games on IE, new wedge mouse, Games on Surface, More Windows Phones | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Video: End the Global Pollution Crisis… In Javascript (Paul Ballard)
• Windows 8 and the .NET Micro Framework | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Video: WP chief declares new Lumia smartphones ‘gorgeous and awesome’ (Boc Ly)
• Defrag: Deprecated HW, Deleted Partition, Disabling Right Click Animation | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Boagworld: Do you have a clear idea of when a native app is required? (Paul Boag)
• What The Tech 131: Follow the Apple (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Women in IT: What excites me about the future of technology (MS JobsBlog)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster Part 4 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• SQL SERVER – FIX ERROR – Cannot connect to . Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18452) (Pinal Dave)
• APress Deal of the Day – 6/Sep/2012 – Pro Access 2010 Development (Tatworth)
• Timewarp: What Is a Relational Database? (Kevin Kline)
• Calculating Week-To-Date values using DAX (Joshua Fennessy)

SharePoint

• SharePoint Deployment on Windows Azure Virtual Machines (MS Downloads)
• Create lists, content types, fields etc. within a SharePoint 2013 app (Chris O’Brien)
• 3 things not to do with SharePoint (Chris Wright)

PowerShell

• PowerShell Split-Path Bug And A Workaround (Kendal Van Dyke)

Miscellaneous

• Gallery: Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 (Boc Ly)
• Quick Nokia Lumia 920 camera and lens demonstration (Rich Edmonds)
• Those Windows Phone 8 features revealed at the Nokia event (Picturepan2)
• Erlang: Hello World (Giorgio Sironi)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading September 5, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1183 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #951 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-06 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 5 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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