Dew Drop – October 30, 2012 (#1,432)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 – Final CTP (Brian Harry)
• Your Visual Studio, Your Colors (Visual Studio Blog)
• Meet Windows Phone 8 (Terry Myerson)
• Introducing the new Office on Windows Phone 8 (Gray Knowlton)

 

Web Development

• List of components installed with Windows Azure SDK 1.8 and Using Windows Server 2012 OS with Windows Azure Cloud Services and .net 4.5 (Avkash Chauhan)
• Properties in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Building Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript (Brandon Satrom)
• Using F# Records with ASP.NET Web API (Daniel Mohl)
• KnockoutJS – what I’ve learned so far (Gregor Suttie)
• Windows Azure Store Preview (Zhiming Xue)
• Web Performance Optimization: Asynchronous Script Loading (Chris Love)
• Powerful Command Line Tools For Developers (Ben Dowling)

 

XAML

• Microsoft Design Language: The newest official way to refer to ‘Metro’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps (MS Downloads)
• SyncronizationContext.Current is not null, still not be able to access UI Controls in WPF (Ricci Gian Maria)
• 2000 WPF Things #679 – Setting IsHitTestVisible to False Prevents Interaction with Controls (Sean Sexton)
• How to Share Your Windows 8 App with Friends for Testing (Jared Bienz)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 8 things you probably didn’t know about C# (Damien Guard)
• JustCode JustRocks (Steve Smith)
• In the conversion to 64-bit Windows, why were some parameters not upgraded to SIZE_T? (Raymond Chen)
• Announcing Raygun.io: error handling just got awesome! (John-Daniel Trask)
• XNA to MonoGame… And Beyond! (Simon Jackson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Reading about unit tests (John Guin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SE Podcast #35 – A Biscuit Away from Jerry Stiller (Alex Miller)
• ShopTalk Episode 40 (Chris Coyier)
• Video: Stub Your Generics with Microsoft’s Fakes Framework (Paul Ballard)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Community Corner – Update Controls for Windows 8 app Development (Chris Koenig)

 

Community / Events

• Build 2012 conference app for Windows Phone (David Burela)
• jQuery Developer Summit Recap (Adam J. Sontag)
• Women in IT: Breast Cancer Awareness Month (MS JobsBlog)
• Zombie Safari: Shoot Zombies, Raise Money for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Eric Smith)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – UNION ALL and ORDER BY – How to Order Table Separately While Using UNION ALL (Pinal Dave)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysindexes (Jason Strate)

 

SharePoint

• Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
• Warning SharePoint 2010 Visual Upgrade Not Being Performed (Joel Oleson)
• A Workflow Based Solution for SharePoint 2010 (Mahesh Sabnis)

 

Miscellaneous

• From iPad to Surface – Day 1: Acquisition & Setup (Nick Landry)
• Bing doesn’t like Google all that much, either (Ed Bott)
• SkyDrive pictures now shows up in-line on Twitter (damaster)
• Microsoft releases Windows Phone tool for Windows 8 and Everything you need to know from Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 event (Rich Edmonds)
• Windows Phone 8 and Bing (The Bing Team)
• Skype, Office, and Bing on Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)
• NFC sharing between Windows Phone 8 and Android (Alex Dobie)
• Windows 7 users – there’s still a Windows Phone 8 app for desktop and Windows Phone 8 hardware requirements – is 512 RAM the new “Tango” of WP8? (damaster)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 29, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #989 and Double Shot #990 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #68 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1221 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily News Digest 10/29/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Directory of common test tools and utilities (Charles Sterling)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 29 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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