Dew Drop – September 14, 2012 (#1,401)

Top Links

• Building Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps – Part 1 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• .NET Rocks! – Alan Stevens Talks Leadership (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What’s Microsoft’s father of C#’s next trick? (Mary Jo Foley)
• iOS, iPhone & iPad storyboarding (Brian Harry)

.NET / Visual Studio

• Implementing LRU cache (Oren Eini)
• PreEmptive Solutions and Microsoft Corp. Partner to Provide Exception Analytics in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 (Gabriel Torok)
• Cool TFS Utility of the Day: Find in [all past checked in versions of] Files (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio 2012 Launch: Building Business Apps with LightSwitch (Joe Binder)
• Wiring up TopShelf, Windsor and EasyNetQ (Mike Hadlow)
• WM_CTLCOLOR vs GetFileVersionInfoSize: Just because somebody else screwed up doesn’t mean you’re allowed to screw up too (Raymond Chen)
• ReSharper 7: Summary of Main Features (Hadi Hariri)
• Adding and Editing WinRT Behaviors with Blend (András Velvárt)
• Telerik Windows 8 UI Controls Release Candidate – Build Windows Store-Ready Apps at No Cost (Telerik Marketing Team)
• Using Blend to Design HTML5 Windows 8 Application (Part I): Overview and Hello World (Doris Chen)
• It’s official, Windows 8 developer Certifications are Available. Look! (Jerry Nixon)
• dotCover 2.1 is Released! (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Changes to the Process Templates between VS 2012 Beta, RC and RTM (Ewald Hofman)
• Domain Model over Database Schema. Using fluent nHibernate to generate the database (Peter van Ooijen)

Web Development

• Authentication, Cross-App Redirects, and ASP.NET 4.5 (Jason Gaylord)
• DHTMLX Touch 1.2: Unitlist, New Charts, and More (DHTMLX Team)
• Button Switches with Checkboxes and CSS3 Fanciness (Hugo Giraudel)
• Pragmatic.js—A pragmatic style guide to JavaScript (Thomas Fuchs)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Control Adapters (Ricardo Peres)
• APress Deal of the Day 14/Sept/2012 – Pro jQuery Mobile and A new free book from Microsoft – Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Second Preview) (Tatworth)
• Node.js Adventure – Node.js on Windows (Shaun Xu)
• Creating AngularJS Controllers With Instance Methods (Ben Nadel)
• Notes on Node.js and Windows Azure (Rob Sanders)
• YUI 3.7.0pr3 – Last Minute Fixes (Eric Ferraiuolo)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Stupid Question 43: Are utility, helper and or static classes and methods considered a code smell? (Iris Classon)
• Reduce Complexity, Cost, and Time (JD Meier)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

• Fixing a crashed WPF Performance Suite (Adam Driscoll)
• Microsoft’s Azure Mobile Services… and WP7… and Mac (Craig Dunn)
• 2000 WPF Things #647 – You Can Treat Any Key As A Toggle Key (Sean Sexton)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Web Dev Radio Episode 102: My dumb mistake (Michael Kimsal)
• What The Tech 132: Windows Hippo (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: Discussing Evolutionary Value Delivery with Tom Gilb (Roy Osherove)
• Defrag: Error 80070002, Silverlight Buffer, Lag on Close | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• [Podcast] Agile Q&A Panel on Agile Myths with Joel Semeniuk, Steve Porter and Ramiro Millan (Phil Japikse)
• How SQL Server Works: Log File (Video) (Jes Schultz Borland)

Community / Events

• SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire – Sep. 22nd (Jim O’Neil)
• Pluralsight at Dreamforce 12 (Aaron Skonnard)
• Meet the Author: Richard Cirerol on Introduction to Nancy (Paul Ballard)

Database

• Run an Oracle package from SQL Server Integration Services (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL SERVER – Grouping by Multiple Columns to Single Column as A String (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

• Critical Path Training Joins the Pluralsight Library – Over 30 SharePoint Courses Today! (Aaron Skonnard)
• How to manipulate the Task Form with SharePoint Designer for new task actions? (SharePoint Designer Team)

PowerShell

• Bash-like Tab Completion in PowerShell (Lee Holmes)

Miscellaneous

• Building Office for Windows RT (Gray Knowlton)
• Searching in Windows 8 and What’s In Your Laptop Bag? (Jesse Liberty)
• RTM’d today: Windows Server 2012 Pocket Consultant (Karen Szall)
• Book Giveaway: Think Like a Programmer (Louis Lazaris)
• The Curious Case of Insecure Software : Who Are The Hackers (Mark Curphey)
• Oracle VirtualBox 4.2 improves VM management (Mark Wilson)
• The iPhone 5: Less innovation than Android and WP8, in a bigger package (Ryan Whitwam)
• Why Asking Google-able Questions at Interviews Is Just Fine, Really (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Why do I need a Technical co-Founder? (Stephen Forte)
• Microsoft Employees to Get a Free Windows Phone 8 Device and Surface RT (Antonio Hernandez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 13, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Some libraries to jumpstart your Windows 8 (XAML) development (Rudi Grobler)
• Distributed Weekly 172 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading September 13, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #958 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1189 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 9/13/2012 and Daily News Digest 9/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 14/09/12 (John Sansom)

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