Dew Drop – October 19, 2012 (#1,425)

Top Links

• Building .Net Libraries For Both Xamarin’s MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2012 (Peter Kellner)
• Location in Mono for Android (Wallace McClure)
• 13 Links for Node.js Development on Windows with WebMatrix 2 (Tim Spann)
• Win8 Developers: Don’t Make the Terrible Mistake of Treating the Windows Store like the iOS App Store (Aaron Stannard)

Web Development

• From API key to user with ASP.NET Web API (Maarten Balliauw)
• HuJS, bridging the international JavaScript divide (Glenn Block)
• Input this – input that, HTML5 new input types (Mite Mitreski)
• Service Bus 1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Add Date Picker to WordPress Admin Console (Paul Underwood)
• Managing TODO comments in your code (Mikhail Vink)
• Why All Web Devs Need To Prepare Their Sites for IE10 and Windows 8 (Maximiliano Firtman)

XAML

• Updated Windows Phone Store Badge Now Available (Cliff Simpkins)
• 2000 WPF Things #672 – Mouse Coordinates Are in Device Independent Units (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store–Publishing, Images, Screenshots, etc. and Windows Store Apps–Debugging a Broken Share Contract Implementation and Windows Store Apps–Sharing HTML with Images (Mike Taulty)
• Easily Deploy Your LightSwitch Apps to Azure Websites in Minutes (Beth Massi)
• An easy solution for improving app launch performance (Brandon Bray)

Miscellaneous .NET

• A LINQ Style Duplicate Item Finder (Richard Carr)
• Generating radial indicator images using C# (Gunnar Peipman)
• How to persuade your management that you should upgrade to TFS 2012 (Giles Davies)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Using ‘default’ to Get Default Values and Revisiting ANTS Performance Profiler 7.4 (James Michael Hare)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Programming F# 3.0 – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Workflow Manager 1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Make the DbContext Ambient With UnitOfWorkScope (Anders Abel)
• Project Austin Part 5 of 6: Shadow Rendering (Jorge Pereira)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let’s do TDD–take #2 (Dror Helper)
• Multi threaded design guidelines for libraries: Part III (Oren Eini)
• Model Based UI Testing using DGML (Chris Lovett)
• Not writing a tool helps me save time (John Guin)
• Moq – Mock Database (ip28)
• Stupid Question 61: Coding at the click of a button, go or no go? (Iris Classon)
• Friday with Filip – Do you deliver high quality? (Filip Ekberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for Android (Michael Marucheck)
• Sencha Releases New Software Developer’s Suite (Martin Monroe)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET 4.5 – Multicore JIT (Charles Torre)
• Watch This: TableTop Celebrates Halloween Early With a Last Night on Earth (Dave Banks)

Community / Events

• Webinar: Introduction to Unit Testing (Avi Kaye)
• Ann Arbor Install Fest – meet Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 (Hilary)
• Meet the Author: Carlos Figueira on WCF Extensibility (Paul Ballard)
• Women in IT: Knowing our Value (MS JobsBlog)
• I am a Microsoft Rockstar (Arun Mahendrakar)
• Windows 8: Opportunity Knocks – Oct 22nd (Jim O’Neil)
• 12,571 Miles to Build 2012 (Robert Demmer)

Database

• Column and block text selection using SQL Server Management Studio (Tibor Nagy)
• Date Functions – SQL Server vs MySQL (Madhivanan)
• SQLAuthority News – Storing Data and Files in Cloud – Dropbox – Personal Technology Tip (Pinal Dave)
• Removed Replication – rowguid added back (Ted Krueger)
• What is SSDT? (Greg Duncan)

PowerShell

• SQL Server 2012 PowerShell Provider Introduction from the Scripting Guy… (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Mouse and Keyboard Center 2.0 (formerly IntelliPoint and IntelliType Pro) (MS Downloads)
• The first ARM Chromebook (Alex Chitu)
• Microsoft Stores giving out Surface reservation passes (Daniel Rubino)
• How to create a virtual network with Azure Connect (Herve Roggero)
• Zune Web Site Goes Dark, Microsoft Answers Some Xbox Music Questions (Paul Thurrott)
• Instapaper delivered to your Kindle changes how you consume web content – Plus IFTTT, blogs and more (Scott Hanselman)
• Kaspersky Labs building their own OS (Tyler Holman)
• Admins Aren’t Developers – And Shouldn’t Think They Are (Wally McClure)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 177 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading October 18, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #983 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1214 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/19/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for October 18, 2012 – #0135 (Dave Campbell)
• List of Microsoft training kits (2012) (Gunnar Peipman)

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