Dew Drop – October 8, 2012 (#1,417)

Top Links

• The .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2012 Launch Road Trip! (Philly Stop with Glenn Block on 10/20) (MS Events)
• Introducing Code Map for Visual Studio 2012 September CTP (VS ALM Team)
• Prism for .NET 4.5 Released Today (Brian Lagunas)
• Design Patterns UML Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2012 (Giles Davies)
• Announcing: Improvements to the Windows Azure Portal (Scott Guthrie)

Web Development

• Introducing TypeScript — JavaScript on Steroids (Craig Buckler)
• A Single Page App with Knockout.js, ASP.NET Web API, and F# (Daniel Mohl)
• JavaScript Mixins: Beyond Simple Object Extension (Derick Bailey)
• How to Self-Host ASP.Net Web API: Part 3 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Adding jQuery Deferred Support to AmplifyJS Request (Elijah Manor)
• Use Web API as a dynamic runtime Typescript compiler (Filip W)
• How to make ASP.NET WebApi serialize your LLBLGen Pro entities to JSON (Frans Bouma)
• Doctest.js – A Humane JavaScript Test Framework (Hirvesh)
• Cleanup Your jQuery by Deferring (Jacob Orshalick)
• ASP.NET to Add Support for LESS and CoffeeScript (Jonathan Allen)
• Getting a ASP.Net request URL into a log4net context (Kevin Miller)
• Faster and Offline Browsing using Application Cache in HTML5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Jquery introduction and How to use jquery with Asp.net Master page and Simple page (Sarvesh Kushwaha)
• Getting Started With TypeScript ( Superset of JavaScript ) (Shemeer NS)
• Html Agility Pack for Reading “Real World” HTML (Roland Weigelt)
• Getting Started with TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012 (Senthil Kumar)
• Firebug 1.11 alpha 4 (Jan Odvarko)
• Type Script Language Features – Classes, Inheritance & Overriding (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• Inlining AngularJS Templates Using ColdFusion (Ben Nadel)
• Who built Microsoft TypeScript and why (Mary Jo Foley)
• Class and instance variables in Python 2.7 (Timothy A. Wiseman)
• Orchard and MySQL (David Hayden)
• Looking at TypeScript (Alexander Beletsky)
• Extending Objects in Underscore (Chris Missal)
• JSONiq: The JSON Query Language (Jonathan Allen)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8, and the SDK, Coming Oct. 29 (Keith Ward)
• Handle global keyboard events in WinRT (Nicolas Humann)
• 24 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #24 Pushing Metro Further with Design Inspiration (Arturo Toledo)
• ASP.Net Web API Service in Windows Phone: Part 4 of Many (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8 Metro Style Business Apps in VS 2012 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #663 – How IsMouseOver Works for Nested Elements (Sean Sexton)
• SuperHeroes: Develop a Windows Phone quiz game in less than 10 minutes (Tanzim Saqib)
• Snoop – The WPF Spy Utility 2.8.0 and WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.3.2 (CodePlex)
• Windows 8–Updated flickR Search Demo in C# (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Store App Development Snack: A Better Architecture Diagram and Windows Store App Development Snack: Knowing Your Memory Limits (Rober MacLean)
• Getting started with Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store apps (Piotr Walat)
• Having Fun with Azure Mobile Services – Integrating with Windows 8 (Matteo Pagani)
• 8 tips for your Windows Store apps (Arun Mahendrakar)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Cancelling Parallel LINQ Queries (Richard Carr)
• Get thou out of my head, damn idea (Oren Eini)
• async/await in C# – a disaster waiting to happen? (Christian Jacobsen)
• Musings on WCF RIA Services #2: The Backlog and Musings on WCF RIA Services #3: What is it? (Colin Blair)
• Set Local Workspaces as Default when Upgrading to TFS 2012 (Ed Blankenship)
• C# 5.0 Async/Await Demo Code (Paulo Morgado)
• Understanding and Setting Up Access to Symbols (Zain Naboulsi)
• fastJSON v2.0.7 (CodePlex)
• Running 2 queries is fine, you don’t need to ALWAYS eager load! (Phillip Haydon)
• Here’s a BTree Library for .NET (Rodrigo De Castro)
• RavenDB – Safe By Default (Gregor Suttie)
• C++/CX Part 3 of [n]: Under Construction (James McNellis)
• A Tiny Portable Inversion of Control Container for Multiple Windows Platforms (Jeremy Likness)
• How to develop a game for Windows 8 modern UI (David Catuhe)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What It Takes to Actually Ship a Piece of Commercial Software (Aaron Stannard)
• What’s Important in UI Design (Peter Vogel)
• The GitHub:Training Web Site is a Thing (Tim Berglund)
• Coded UI Test Support Matrix (Shubhra Maji)
• The Deployment Frustration (Rikard Ottosson)
• Understanding the Principles of Algorithm Design (Jonathan Cutrell)
• How I Join Projects Already in Progress (Filip Ekberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Test Studio for iOS Update – Version 1.3.1 Is Live! (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Setting up a chroot for Android platform development (Tomas Nilsson)
• Valgrind Support for MonoTouch (Jonathan Allen)
• Enterprise Mobility Is All About the Freedom and Richness of the Client (Chris Love)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 233: Jay Harris on MVC View Engines (David Giard)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 087 – “I’ll Take A Boolean” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Using Blend to Help Design Your Windows 8 Apps (Part 1) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• TWC9: TypeScript, WOWZAPP, new SharpDX, Curiosity checks in and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• Video: How TFS and Visual Studio 2012 Make Frantic Managers Easier To Deal With (Paul Ballard)
• The Tablet Show – Mobile Development Panel from DevReach (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joe Casey and The Nerdist Podcast – Tom Hanks (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 049 – October 4th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Pluralsight Gangnam Style! (Megan Russell)
• The JavaScript Show – TypeScript (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• SitePoint Podcast #182: Web Directions with John Allsopp (Karn Broad)
• Boagworld: Giving our clients the best mobile solution (Paul Boag)
• Windows Weekly 281: Et tu Elop (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – The Fall Update (Martin Woodward)
• EdgeShow 38 – ReFS and Storage Spaces chat with Matt Garson | Edge (Rick Claus)
• Engadget Podcast 312 – 10.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Microsoft Premieres Live Action ‘Halo’ Series on YouTube (Chelsea Stark)

Community / Events

• YUIConf 2012 Early Bird Registration Open (Andrew Wooldridge)
• 2012 Philadelphia Film Festival Full Lineup and Dan’s Picks (Dan Tabor)

Database

• New Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Tutorial (Armando Prato)
• SQL SERVER – Manage Help Settings – CTRL + ALT + F1 and SQL SERVER – Recover the Accidentally Renamed Table (Pinal Dave)
• Why do you need additional privileges for truncate table compared to delete? (Denis Gobo)
• What PartitionKey and RowKey are for in Windows Azure Table Storage (Maarten Balliauw)

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010 Service Application Development 101 – Admin UI and PowerShell (Matt Cowan)

PowerShell

• Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 First Look has been released! (Adam Driscoll)

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic – The 50 Line Challenge and Small Basic Program Gallery (Ed Price)
• How Times Have Changed: Jason Kottke on Apple and Microsoft, Back in 2000 (Joey deVilla)
• Windows Store Apps Numbers Shows Astounding Growth,Reaches 3,600Apps (sagar)
• Building a Windows 8 Home Server: Windows 8 Media Streaming & Play To (Terry Walsh)
• Why Apple should acquire Nokia (Tristan Louis)
• Calling Someone’s Baby Ugly (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 6, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 8, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2012 10.01 ~ 10.07 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 175 (Scott Banwart)
• The Morning Brew #1205 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading October 5, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #973 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – October 5, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (October 5, 2012) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #32 (Mary Lou)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-08 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #65 (Frank)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for October 05, 2012 (Denny Cherry)
• Windows Dev News for October 06, 2012 – #0130 and SilverlightShow Top 5 for September 24 – 30, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Windows Phone Development News 1 Oct – 5 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 40/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #39) (Himanshu Singh)
• Double Shot #974 (Mike Gunderloy)

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