Dew Drop – October 31, 2012 (#1,433)

Top Links

• Building Apps for Windows Phone 8 (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing the release of the .NET Framework for Windows Phone 8 (Brandon Bray)
• Introducing Windows Phone SDK 8.0 (Visual Studio Team)
• MVVM Light V4.1 with support for Windows Phone 8 (Laurent Bugnion)

Web Development

• Windows Azure Poster (MS Downloads)
• Making a Promise with Javascript (Hemanth Madhavarao)
• Web Performance Optimization: Image Tricks (Chris Love)
• An Introduction to Handlebars (Gabriel Manricks)
• The Dew Review – DXTREME: Cross-Platform Application Dev Tools by DevExpress (Me)
• High-speed coding with Custom Live Templates (Mikhail Vink)

XAML

• Why Windows Phone 8 Excites Me (Morten Nielsen)
• Ballmer gave you Surface RT and a Lumia 920 at //build/ and now you want to build apps… (Brent Schooley)
• WebView vs. SettingsFlyout (Chris Koenig)
• Getting Started with Windows Phone 8 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• OData Client Tools for Windows Phone Apps Now Available (OData Team)
• Announcing Windows Phone 8 SDK—Design Great Apps with Blend (Harikrishna Menon)
• New tools for Windows Phone 8 save developers time and money (JC Cimetiere)
• Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML is Here! (Jeremy Likness)
• Announcing Apache Cordova support for Windows Phone 8 (Jesse)
• Announcing the new Windows Phone 8 Developer Platform (Kevin Gallo)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows Phone 8 Can Hear You – Available for Download and Supporting Speech Recognition and Nokia Brings Telerik Controls for Windows Phone to its New Premium Developer Program. Get Them Now. (Telerik Marketing Team)
• MVVM Pattern Made Simple (Nick Polyak)
• Windows Phone 8 SDK: Creating a New Application and Windows Phone 8: New Project Structure and Windows Phone 8 SDK: Debugging your Application and Windows Phone 8 SDK: Enterprise Application Deployment and Windows Phone 8 SDK: Enterprise Applications (part 2) (Nick Randolph)
• Introducing the new Windows Phone 8 Map control and Data binding shapes to the new Windows Phone 8 Map control (and more) (Joost van Schaik)
• //build/ today with open source frameworks on Windows Phone 8 (Olivier Bloch)
• Faster! – WriteableBitmapEx for Windows Phone 8 and WinRT Updated (Rene Schulte)
• 2000 WPF Things #680 – IsHitTestVisible Applies to All Child Elements (Sean Sexton)
• Why Am I Excited about Windows Phone 8 SDK? (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft SharePoint SDK for Windows Phone 7.1 (MS Downloads)
• Windows 8 development for iOS developers (Susan Ibach)
• Book Review: Getting Started With Window 8 Apps By Ben Dewey (Tim Murphy)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The Business Opportunity with Windows 8 (Jeffrey Meisner)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Retrieving Items from the End of a Sequence (Richard Carr)
• Meet IntelliCommand (Visual Studio 2010/2012 extension) (Denis Gladkikh)
• Stupid Question 70: Verbatim identifiers in C#, should they be used and when? (Iris Classon)
• Visual Studio Little Wonders: Box Selection (James Michael Hare)
• New video game engines announced for Windows Phone 8 (Rich Edmonds)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design patterns in the test of time: Singleton (Oren Eini)
• I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Introducing Cross Browser Testing with Coded UI Tests (Shubhra Maji)
• Motion And Animation: A New Mobile UX Design Material (Rachel Hinman)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 205 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeffrey Snover talks about PowerShell 3.0 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• New Episode of the Guild! Codex shows us her mean face. (Felicia Day)
• The JavaScript Show – Node 0.8.14 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• Developers you love, and why they love developing and Test of Terror: A Channel 9 Halloween Bedtime Story (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 009 – Jorge Segarra (Denny Cherry)
• Screencast: ViewBag and View Data in ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kennedy)
• Good High-Level Enterprise Architecture Video (Mike Walker)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 30th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• AzureConf (Chris Koenig)
• Are you at //build/? Want to do some Kinect for Windows Dev? Like to have hands up help? Have I got a room for you… (Greg Duncan)
• BUILD is back! (Joe Wilcox)
• The Second Annual Octocat Dodgeball Invitational is almost here (kamzilla)
• MVPs and Developers Descend on BUILD 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Meet The Author: Thomas Lee on Creating PowerShell Modules (Paul Ballard)
• Microsoft Build 2012 Day 1 Keynote Summary (Tim Murphy)
• Microsoft Build attendees get a Surface RT, Lumia 920, and 100GB of SkyDrive storage (Tom Warren)
• Windows Phone Launch and BUILD Day 1 Keynote Summary (Jennifer Marsman)

Database

• Developing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases (70-464) – My Thoughts (Chris Taylor)
• Different ways to create Custom Colors for Charts in SQL Server Reporting Services (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SQL SERVER – Copy Data from One Table to Another Table – SQL in Sixty Seconds #031 – Video (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• The Windows Phone 8 Features You Didn’t See Yesterday (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• From iPad to Surface – Day 2: Sandy Killed my Power (Nick Landry)
• Rumors of a Netflix, Microsoft marriage heat up (Gina Hall)
• Disney buys Lucasfilm, plans to release ‘Star Wars: Episode 7’ in 2015 (update) (Nathan Ingraham)
• Free Tool to Check if your Computer Supports SLAT (Zhiming Xue)

More Link Collections

• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-10-31 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1222 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 30 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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