Dew Drop – September 18, 2012 (#1,403)

Top Links

• Roslyn September 2012 CTP is out! (Kirill Osenkov)
• Announcing: Great Improvements to Windows Azure Web Sites (Scott Guthrie)
• Another Microsoft Developer Division leader moves to Windows Azure (Mary Jo Foley) – Good luck to Jason Zander in his new role!
• EF Nightly Builds Available (Entity Framework Team)

Web Development

• JavaScript: single quotes or double quotes? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using Custom PHP Extensions in Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
• CSS3 – Using Subtle Patterns in Buttons (catalinred)
• JQuery Datepicker – Selecting just Month or Year (Cory Foy)
• Configure Node.js for Windows (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Computer science in JavaScript: Insertion sort (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• ASP.NET MVC 4 Mobile Caching Bug Fixed (Rick Anderson)
• Using Blend to Design HTML5 Windows 8 Application (Part III): Style Game Board, Cards, Support Different Device, View States (Doris Chen)
• Evernote’s API Growth: 15K Developers, Billions of Requests (Adam DuVander)
• Article: Mobile Application Architecture with HTML5 and Javascript (David Pitt)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #649 – KeyStates Property Combines IsDown and IsToggled (Sean Sexton)
• Creating Windows 8 Applications using Windows Azure Mobile Services (Zhiming Xue)
• ListBox Empty Template – Using Control Templates And Behaviors (Part 2) (Toni Petrina)
• Get up to speed with Windows 8: a tutorial series (Brent Schooley)
• How to Create / Debug a Background Task in Windows 8 – Part 2 (Matteo Pagani)
• Windows 8: Windows Store Apps and the WebView Control (Gerard Gallant)
• Connecting Windows 8 applications with services: Part 3: Background transfers and tile interactions in Windows 8 (Gill Cleeren)
• WPF Animated GIF 1.2 (CodePlex)
• Metro is dead, long live FIRST (Joel Cochran)

Miscellaneous .NET

• TestArchitect by LogiGear offers module-based keyword test authoring for Visual Studio 2012 (Charles Sterling)
• LINQPad is just for [no, not "breakfast"… ha.. fooled you] LINQ… Using LINQPad to execute code snippets. (Greg Duncan)
• TFS bisect the manual way (When was that bug introduced?) (Jason Jarrett)
• First Look at Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Jeff Martin)
• Fluent interfaces in C# – method chaining (Dror Helper)
• Fsharp Turing Machine (VallarasuS)
• C++/CX Part 2 of [n]: Types That Wear Hats (James McNellis)
• Roslyn September 2012 CTP is now available (Eric Lippert)
• Roslyn CTP 3 Released — Breaking Changes (Filip Ekberg)
• Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.Data.Services, Version=5.0.0.0″ (Nick Berardi)
• Entity Framework: Expressing the Missing LINQ (Jeremy Likness)
• Ultrabook™ and Tablet Windows* 8 Sensors Development Guide (Deepak Vembar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Errors: part of the learning curve (Giorgio Sironi)
• Contributing Guidelines (Kevin R. Barnes)
• Specification Testing For Event Sourcing (Rinat Abdullin)
• Test Multi-language apps using the Multilingual App Toolkit (Roxanne Beaver)
• Udi Dahan on Throw Away Prototypes (Michael Stal)
• Introducing the Command Bar (Steve Smith)
• Bug Tracker Hell (Dalip Mahal)
• Article: Interview and Book Review : The Retrospective Handbook (Anand Vishwanath)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Alex Robson Programs a Polygot (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 151 – Rob Eisenberg on RPGWithMe, Durandal, and XAML vs. HTML5 development (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Introducing Developing Apps for Office and SharePoint, Part 1: Overview | Inside apps for Office and SharePoint (Donovan Follette, Laura Foy & Issam Rashid)
• Video: En-Gauge Your Users with Kendo UI (Paul Ballard)
• ShopTalk Episode 34 (Chris Coyier)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Reasons Why You Should Develop a Windows 8 App (Jennifer Marsman)
• Defrag Tools: #8 – Mark Russinovich | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Mark Russinovich, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 63 (Richard Hay)
• Initial Impressions – Ivy Bridge Intel Ultrabook (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Women in IT: Our career is a journey, not a destination (MS JobsBlog)
• Cloud OS Signature Event Series (Chris Koenig)
• Vermont Code Camp (and more!) – September 22nd and Techapalooza – Troy, New York – September 20th (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Logon Triggers: SQL Server (Basit Farooq)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.5 is out. Added support for SQL Server 2012. (Mladen Prajdic)
• Revisit your use of the SQL Server REMOTE join hint (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS Automatically Generates TOP (100) PERCENT in Query Designer (Pinal Dave)
• Master Data Services: Versioning (James Serra)
• How to Connect PerfMon to a Remote Server ? (Nelson Aloor)
• T-SQL Window Functions – Part 3: Aggregate Functions (Steve Hughes)

SharePoint

• SharePoint apps: working with the app web, and why you should (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE where is it? (Deepak Kapoor)
• Power your WiX conversion with this VdProj2Wix conversion PowerShell script (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Will a household license convince you to go with Office in the cloud? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft announces Office 2013 prices and packaging and What you gain and lose with Office 2013 subscriptions (Ed Bott)
• A Speculative List Of Jay-Z’s 99 Problems (Brandon Scott Gorrell)
• RTM’d today: Windows Internals, Sixth Edition, Part 2 (Carol Vu)
• Re: Everything’s broken and nobody’s upset (Frans Bouma)
• OneNote Tip: setting different levels of Priority for TODO tags (John Guin)
• Windows Server 2012 Essentials: The Home Server Replacement (Paul Thurrott)
• Nokia cops to powering Amazon’s mapping service (Terrence O’Brien)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading September 17, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #960 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 9/18/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1191 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-09-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 17 Sept 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 17 Sept 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Web Development for Beginners (Resources) (Louis Lazaris)

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