Dew Drop – September 12, 2012 (#1,399)

Top Links

• Thread synchronization of non-atomic invariants in .NET 4.5 (Peter Ritchie)
• Windows Store now open to all developers in 120 markets (Antoine Leblond)
• Code Snippets for Windows Store Apps (Brian Peek)
• Building a Windows 8 Touch application with WinRT JavaScript and Html5 and Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article) (Peter Kellner)
• New Code Inspections in ReSharper 7 (Dmitri Nesteruk)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Generating Running Totals with LINQ (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2012: “Where is the Test Toolbar. Couldn’t find it anywhere” (Charles Sterling)
• Get a free Team Companion licence for Visual Studio 2012 Launch? (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Wcf over HTTPS, compression, binary binding and some measurement (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Consuming LightSwitch OData services with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Telerik RadDataServiceDataSource (Vladimir Enchev)
• Loosely coupled .NET Cache Provider using Dependency Injection (Robin Hames)
• WinRT app guide: Step 7: Using CollectionViewSource in WinRT (Iris Classon)
• The Most Common Errors in Windows Store Submissions (and How to Avoid Them) (Jerry Nixon)
• Building Your First Win8 Enterprise App (Jesse Liberty)
• Advice to Kinect developers from Dance Central 3 Devs and We’re talking a the whole kit and konbootale in this Microsoft Dev Training Kit round-up… (Greg Duncan)
• Consuming Windows Azure Service Management API in a Windows 8 Application (Gaurav Mantri)
• Putting the ‘Team’ in Team Foundation Server 2012 (Mickey Gousset)
• Get free help building your Windows 8 apps (Rachel Appel)
• A Gentle Introduction to StructureMap (Steve Smith)
• Nancy 0.12 released! (Andreas Håkansson)
• RTM’d today: Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (Carol Vu)
• Work Less, Do More with JustMock (Chris Eargle)

 

Web Development

• How to Build Your Own Custom jQuery (Jeffrey Way)
• ELMAH and MiniProfiler In ASP.NET MVC 4 (K. Scott Allen)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The CSS3 Anthology – $14.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Integrate OpenAuth/OpenID with your existing ASP.NET application using Universal Providers (Pranav Rastogi)
• Great Free Courses on Building HTML5 apps using ASP.NET Web API, Knockout.js and jQuery (Scott Guthrie)
• Version 0.8.9 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Installing Orchard CMS on Windows Azure with WebMatrix 2 (David Hayden)
• Reset npm user account (Jonathan Creamer)
• Open sourcing npm.net, a .NET library for the Node.js package manager (npm) (Claudio Caldato)
• Managing database connections in Azure Web Sites (David Ebbo)
• Update to my Node Blog Engine (Raymond Camden)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD vs BDD (David Adsit)
• RESTful Web Service Testing (Steven Lott)
• Git Review and Merge like a Boss (Michael Chletsos)
• Requirement management in the modern application lifecycle (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Windows 8 UX Guidelines in one PDF (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Taking responsibility (Steven ‘Doc’ List)

 

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• 2000 WPF Things #645 – Checking for the Presence of Modifier Keys (Sean Sexton)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Comedy Mutant (Chris Hardwick)
• ShopTalk Episode 33 (Chris Coyier)
• Yet Another Podcast #77–Charles Petzold on Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Ping 154: Wireless charging, Bing it on, Microsoft China, Paul is leaving Microsoft | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• NZ Tech Podcast 87: TechEd Special with Paul Thurrott and Alan Burchill (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget HD Podcast 315 – 09.11.2012 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 152 – 09.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 11th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Upcoming FREE Webinar from Idera: SharePoint Branding in the Real World (Joel Oleson)
• The Legend of Lambda Webinar (Chris Eargle)
• 2000 Followers on Twitter, promised song: The Microsoft SDK Plea (Iris Classon)
• Boston Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Jim O’Neil)
• Meet the Author: Jim Cooper on Rhino Mocks Fundamentals (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• Build a quota system for SQL Server user defined tables (Aaron Bertrand)
• Microsoft Drivers 3.0 for PHP for SQL Server (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Get Date and Time From Current DateTime – SQL in Sixty Seconds #025 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• T-SQL Window Functions – Part 2: Ranking Functions (Steve Hughes)
• Backup Azure Tables, schedule Azure scripts… and more (Herve Roggero)

 

PowerShell

• Scripts in the PowerShell Cookbook? (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Nokia says existing Lumia handsets will be pimped out with new features, gives the juicy details (Phone Arena Team)
• As Nokia waits, Microsoft fights to keep Windows Phone 8 on schedule (Tom Warren)
• Xbox 720/ Kinect V2: Microsoft Patents Projector Tech to Bring Video Game into Your Living Room (Augmented Reality?) (Antonio Hernandez)
• Price will determine Windows RT’s success or failure (Martin Brinkmann)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 12, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 09.01 ~ 09.11 (yuanjian)
• Geek Reading September 11, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1187 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-12 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 9/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 11 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 11 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Double Shot #956 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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