Dew Drop – October 15, 2012 (#1,422)

Top Links

• Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite – Day 2 (Billy McCafferty)
• Using The Windows 7/8 Taskbar Progress Indicator Outside The WPF Stack (Dennis Delimarsky)
• The Why is More Important Than the What (John Sonmez)
• Understanding the MVC Project Folder Structure (ASP.NET MVC Foundations Series) (Michael Kennedy)

 

Web Development

• Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 Book Review (David Hayden)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0.3 EAP 121.322 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• A Single-Page App with Knockout.js: Part 2 (Christopher Geers)
• How to Create Full-page Animations Using CSS (Charilaos Papadopoulos)
• Remote printing with ASP.NET Web API in Windows Service (Filip W.)
• Comma Delimited Cookies in ASP.NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• How to invoke javascript functions in a WebView in Windows Store Apps (Iris Classon)
• Ignite UI: The World’s Most Advanced JavaScript & HTML5 UI Framework (Jason Beres)
• jQuery ComboBox – Telerik’s Kendo UI ComboBox is the way to go (Jon Gallant)
• And Windows Azure Takes The Lead… and Howto put .Net Framework 4.5 Beta & ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta on Windows Azure (Magnus Mårtensson)
• Node v0.8.12 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Cache is King (Steve Souders)
• The making of DevReach.com – Part 3, the eCommerce module (Емил Табаков)
• Why I’m Finally Switching to CoffeeScript (Justin Bozonier)

 

XAML

• Anagrams2 – A Simple WPF Game Application (John Simmons)
• 2000 WPF Things #668 – Retrieving the Mouse’s Current Position (Sean Sexton)
• File Manipulation in Windows 8 Store Apps (Sumit Maitra)
• Windows Store App Development Snack: Feedback Links in Your App and Windows Store App Development: In-App Feedback Links (Robert MacLean)
• Windows Store apps Development Tutorial – Getting Started (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Creating Word Search Party for Windows 8 – developer interview (Liam)
• Windows 8 Journey: Planning your Windows Store app (MS Pubic Sector Team)
• What Windows 8 Developers Need to Know about App Certification and Publishing (Jerry Nixon)
• Clearer – A Gesture-Driven Windows 8 To-Do Application (Colin Eberhardt)
• Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 6 (Samidip Basu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Disabling Capitalised Menus in Visual Studio 2012 (Richard Carr)
• How to Log Off Windows Programmatically Using C# (Senthil Kumar)
• Arduino, C#, and serial interface (Marco Bertschi)
• Most useful developer tools: ReSharper! (ThisCouldBeUseful)
• Why WACK fails on my C++/WinRT component ? (David Catuhe)
• The References tool window also known as Find All References (Alex Skorkin)
• Reflector 7.7’s Power(ful) Commands (Rob)
• WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Embedded Compact 7 (Peter Foot)
• What happens if you forget to pass an OVERLAPPED structure on an asynchronous handle? (Raymond Chen)
• HOWTO: Dial up the static on Simple.Data (Mark Rendle)
• CET MicroWorkflow for Netduino (Greg Duncan)
• Check out the new C++ AMP book by Kate Gregory and Ade Miller (Eric Battalio)
• Asynchronous Calls Crashed the Application (Not Anymore) (Eric Quist)
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM) using NHibernate – Part 4 of 8 Coding Optional One-to-Many Entity Associations (Anand Lakshminarasimhan)
• Unattended Installation of Team Foundation Server 2012 (Andrea)
• Easier .NET application settings persistence (Antonio Nakić Alfirević)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Bug Management: Not an Oxymoron (Gregg Boer)
• TFS 2012 Agile Planning Tools Issue – nested tasks makes the parent task disappear (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Get your TFS 2012 task board demo ready in under 1 minute (Tarun Arora)
• This code ain’t production ready and You release too often, you don’t release enough: RavenDB Plans (Oren Eini)
• Build stronger applications with Coded UI Tests for WinForms. Today. (Nikolay Diyanov)
• The Three Values of a Good Isolation Framework (Roy Osherove)
• Challenge the Status Quo and Advance Business through Cloud Computing and The Open Group SOA Governance Framework Becomes an International Standard (Mike Walker)
• Designing for Ultrabook (Joel Davis)
• Commands, queries and testing (Jef Claes)
• 10 Tips to avoid the typical Windows 8 design traps (Greg Duncan)
• Code Inventory and Tracking Releases (Dan Ackerson)
• Building a Feature Branch Configuration Template in TeamCity (Deran Schilling)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Consuming Azure Mobile Services from Android: Part 1 (Bruno Terkaly)
• Cage Match! Sencha Touch vs. jQuery Mobile (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 234: Ted Neward on PMs and Developers (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 454: Bas Rutten, XCOM, Dishonored and Stepto (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 088 – “Spinnin’ VMs” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• SharePoint 2013 Features for the Information Worker with Penny Coventry-Episode 76 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Using Blend to Help Design Your Windows 8 Apps (Part 2) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Builds A Lot of Phone Apps! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Weekly 282: Bread and Butter in a Blender (Paul Thurrott)
• 031 JSJ history.js (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 103: pgmodeler, doppio and some Windows 8 thoughts (Michael Kimsal)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery UI 1.9.0 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Vergecast 050 – October 11th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• TWC9: Lots of Windows 8, TypeScript, Kinect SDK & Cool Research Projects | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• SitePoint Podcast #183: Social Login (Karn Broad)
• Native app or mobile web? (Paul Boag)
• Engadget Podcast 313 – 10.12.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• Hacking is child’s play – SQL injection with Havij by 3 year old (Troy Hunt)
• Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Screencast: Inspecting Code Quality and Code Complexity (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Community / Events

• SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night – SharePoint Conference 2012 Edition! (Andrew Connell)
• Free Webinar Featuring ReSharper and ViEmu, October 24th (R. Demmer)
• Microsoft Build 2012 will be streamed Live! (Windows Phone Geek)
• Rene Schulte Named Nokia Developer Champion! (Jackie)
• Deep Dive Windows Store Apps in Wien (Christian Nagel)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Column Store Index Example (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – 2012 – List All The Column With Specific Data Types in Database and SQL SERVER – Find First Non-Numeric Character from String and SQL SERVER – Free Print Book on SQL Server Joes 2 Pros Kit (Pinal Dave)
• When a Covering Index no longer covers (Thomas LeBlanc)

 

Miscellaneous

• Expressing Ruby code in natural language (Josep M. Bach)
• Microsoft Surface and iPad Mini on a collision course? (Todd Bishop)
• Slates are Dead…Long Live Tablets (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Concept Art: Chrome for Windows Phone 8 (Antonio Hernandez)
• Twitter Open Sources Clutch (Abel Avram)
• The Problem with Being Passionate about Technologies (Anoop Madhusudanan)
• How do you know if you can take your open-source project to the next level? (Andreas Håkansson)
• Netflix Launches Its Windows 8 App (Frederic Lardinois)
• First Kinect PT app goes into clinical trials (Greg Duncan)
• Intel Ultrabook–A longer look (Jesse Liberty)
• Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook Sensors (John Papa)
• A deeper look at the Intel IvyBridge Ultrabook (Jon Gallant)
• Microsoft takes the wraps off of Xbox Music (Kip Kniskern)
• PiArcade Table Progress and Compromise (Rob Miles)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 13, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 14, 2012 and Interesting Finds: October 15, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 176 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading October 12, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #33 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #979 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #66 (Frank)
• Daily News Digest 10/12/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Pie in the Sky (October 12, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1210 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 41/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 12 Oct 2012 and Weekly Windows Phone Development News 8 Oct – 12 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
• SilverlightShow Top 5 for October 01 – 07, 2012 (Dave Campbell)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #40) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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