Dew Drop – October 5, 2012 (#1,416)

Top Links

• Boxing Bots: An Overview (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Rick Barraza)
• WCF RIA Services is Dead, Long Live WCF RIA Services and Musings on WCF RIA Services #1: The DomainDataSource (Colin Blair)
• The Conversation Amongst MSFT, NOK, VZW, & ATT (Charlie Kindel)
• patterns & practices – Develop Windows Store apps using C++ & XAML: Hilo C++ October 4, 2012 Drop (CodePlex)
• Updating our built-in apps for Windows 8 (Steven Sinofsky)

 

Web Development

• Pedalboard.js: A JavaScript Guitar Effect Framework using the Web Audio API (Devon Govett)
• Using node.js To Show Our jQuery Chart in Older Browsers (Graham Murray)
• Build Your First JavaScript Library (Andrew Burgess)
• Building World-ready Applications in JavaScript Becoming a Reality (Suresh Jayabalan & Amanda Silver)
• ASP.NET Web API List Parameter Binding (Keith Dahlby)
• Upgrading an MVC4 Visual Studio 2010 Solution to Visual Studio 2012 and .Net 4.5 and EF 5. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Spell Checker extension for Visual Studio 2012 HTML, ASP.NET, CSS and other files (Mikhail Arkhipov)
• Core HTML5 Canvas Book Review (Matt Raible)
• Using TypeScript with AngularJS and Web API (Piotr Walat)
• ASP.NET Web API And Dependency Injection (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Integration Patterns with Azure Service Bus Relay, Part 3: Anonymous partial-trust consumer (Elton Stoneman)
• AppsWorld Demo– Windows 8 Music Player in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (Mike Taulty)
• The HTML5 Starting Template (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Thoughts on TypeScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: The Tangled Web – $15.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Working LESS with WebMatrix (Mark Berryman)

 

XAML

• Doing new Silverlight development? Don’t use RIA Services (Bill Reiss)
• 2000 WPF Things #662 – IsMouseOver Property (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store Applications–Debugging Crashes (Mike Taulty)
• Stupid Question 57: Iris, what are your top 6 tips for getting started with Windows Store App development? (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Awesome indexing with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• NuGet 2.1 Release Notes (NuGet Team)
• Using Jump List Icons in Windows Desktop Applications (Dennis Delimarsky)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Static Char Methods (James Michael Hare)
• Marking Code as Deprecated in .NET (Jason Gaylord)
• Why does RegOpenKey sometimes (but not always) fail if I use two backslashes instead of one? (Raymond Chen)
• Here’s a BTree Library for .NET (Rodrigo De Castro)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5.3 Beta 2 online (Rockford Lhotka)
• Do I always have to call Dispose() on my DbContext objects? Nope (Jon Gallant)
• Project Austin Part 3 of 6: Ink Smoothing (Eric Brumer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• xunitcontrib-resharper for 7.1 EAP (build 3) (CodePlex)
• ALM Rangers ship the first version of Team Foundation Server Word Add-in (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Friday with Filip – Joining new projects (Filip Ekberg)
• The Code Side Of Color // Hex Colors (Ben Gremillion)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Setting up a chroot for Android platform development (Tomas Nilsson)
• How to make the height of a GridView wrap its content (László Urszuly)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video: How to Plan, Manage and Control SharePoint Projects #pmidc and Video: Maximize Project 2010 w/ SharePoint 2010 for PM Success #pmidc #pmot (Dux Raymond Sy)
• IWP40: UX Designer Jon Bell talks Common App Design Problems | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Axure, Fireworks, LESS and IFTTT (Paul Boag)
• WOWZAPP 2012 Hackathon for Windows (Larry Larsen & Andrew Parsons)

 

Community / Events

• Invitations to Windows 8 launch: 21 days and counting (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows Phone 8 launch event to be held in San Francisco on October 29th (Tom Warren)
• Meet the Author: Yacine Khammal on Windows 8 Metro Connected Apps (Paul Ballard)
• Just when I thought I was out… (Sara Ford)
• GitHub Drinkup in Norfolk, VA (Jon Maddox)
• Web.NET Conference: find it on social media (Simone Chiaretta)
• Remix the Halo 4 Soundtrack and win! (Larry Hryb)
• .NET Rocks Road Trip–Northeast Stops (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – 3 Online SQL Courses at Pluralsight and Free Learning Resources (Pinal Dave)
• Parent transaction ID in 2012 fn_dblog output (Paul S. Randal)

 

PowerShell

• Fixing TFS 2012 Power Tools PowerShell CmdLets in PowerShell x64 (John Robbins)

 

Miscellaneous

• Firefox Metro Preview Release – Status update 8 (Brian Bondy)
• Ps…Ping! PsPing v1.0 added to PsTools suite from Microsoft/Sysinternals (Greg Duncan)
• You can do better than the Windows 8 command line (Mike Williams)
• Jessica Alba looks pretty happy with her Nokia Lumia 900 (Seth Brodeur)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 4, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #973 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1204 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-05 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/4/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Tools for Your Debugging Toolbox (rafarah)

 

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