Dew Drop – November 1, 2012 (#1,434)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Fall 2012 update (preview) is out – what’s new for Web API developers? (Filip W)
• Ten – oh, wait, eleven – Eleven things you should know about the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update (Jon Galloway)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #1: The Blank App (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Team Foundation Service is out of Preview (Aaron Bjork)

Web Development

• Microsoft ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update BUILD Prerelease (MS Downloads)
• Getting Started with TypeScript – Classes, Static Types and Interfaces (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft delivers preview of its store in the Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to use MongoDB from PHP in Windows Azure Web Sites (Brian Swan)
• CSSrefresh for Fast and Effective CSS Testing (Craig Buckler)
• Free Windows 8 book on programming with html, css and javascript (Dave Noderer)
• Arrays in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Deploying your first Facebook App on Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template (Yao)
• Windows Azure SQL Database Partition and Federation Code Examples (Zhiming Xue)
• Angular for Designers. (Paul Hammant)
• Bonsai & Bounding Boxes (James Padolsey)

XAML

• Highlights of the Windows Phone 8 SDK release notes (Andreas Hammar)
• Windows Phone 8 Support in ReSharper 7.1 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• How to update existing Windows Phone 7 OData applications to work with the new client tools and Using Add Service Reference with OData services after installing Windows Phone SDK 8.0 (OData Team)
• New Windows Phone 8 Lock Screen Features: How to Upgrade Your App to Show Notifications (Mikael Koskinen)
• Frequently Asked Questions: Maps on Windows Phone 8 (Pino Bonetti)
• 2000 WPF Things #681 – No Mouse Events When Visibility is Hidden, Collapsed or Hidden (Sean Sexton)
• Creating a Windows Phone 8 App Using Windows Azure Mobile Services (Zhiming Xue)
• Windows 8 Apps: The 8 Must-Know Tricks! Day 8 (Samidip Basu)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Repository pattern and convention-based Entity Framework code first (AppHarbor Team)
• Implementing Repository Pattern With Entity Framework (Morshed Anwar)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Estimation scoping (Jimmy Bogard)
• Design patterns in the test of time: Adapter (Oren Eini)
• Microsoft exam 70-497: Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 (Charles Sterling)
• UX: Color is only meaningful if it’s different (Ryan Rauh)
• GitHub Enterprise 11.10.290 Release (Joel Watson)
• Abstracting Dependencies with JustMock (Philip Japikse)
• What makes a self-organizing team?? (Malcolm)
• It’s All About Expectation Management (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Abstraction: The Rule Of Three (Derick Bailey)
• Take Control with the Continuous Delivery Dial (Andy Singleton)
• Never Be Defeated (JD Meier)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building a Parse.com Enabled PhoneGap App – Part 3 (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Julie Lerman Digs Deep on EF5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Screencast: Strongly-Typed Views in ASP.NET MVC (Michael Kennedy)
• Episode 93 – Real-World Windows Azure with Mural.ly | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neil deGrasse Tyson returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• Are You Future Proof? – Part 2 of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• BUILD 2012 Hackathon Kickoff (Laura Foy)
• Two Screencasts on How to Demystify Spaghetti Code (Patrick Smacchia)
• Video: Keep Your Apps Happy with Optimistic Concurrency in AppFabric Caching (Paul Ballard)
• Engadget HD Podcast 322 – 10.31.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

Community / Events

• 5 Practical Ways to Make The Most Out Of SharePoint Conference #spc12 (Dux Raymond Sy)
• SharePoint 2013 Beta Exams Free! 50% off all MCP exams at #SPC12 (Joel Oleson)
• SQLAuthority News – 6th Anniversary and 50 Million Views and Over 2300 Blog Posts – Thank You Thank You (Pinal Dave)
• Reboot America Summit – November 8 & 9 in Washington, DC (Zhiming Xue)
• A Coder Interview With Mark Rendle (The Code Project & Mark Rendle)
• Halloween Geek of the Week: Laura Flook from Science Channel’s Oddities (Dan Tabor)
• Details on 2 of the Upcoming in December Live! 360 Sessions by J. Peter Bruzzese (Silverlight Show)
• Microsoft delivers at BUILD 2012 (Filip Ekberg)
• November Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Auditing when Triggers are Disabled or Enabled for SQL Server (Aaron Bertrand)
• Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices Released Today (Jason Strate)
• Looping through multiple servers in SSIS (Kenneth Fisher)
• Add SQL Azure database to Azure Web Role and persist data with entity framework code first. (Magnus Karlsson)
• Recovering files from SQL Management Studio (Емил Табаков)
• A Few Notes About Creating Custom SSMS Reports (Jes Schultz Borland)

SharePoint

• The path to MCSE:SharePoint. The Overview. (Enrique Lima)

Miscellaneous

• From iPad to Surface – Day 3: Under the Hood (Nick Landry)
• Microsoft Office Web Apps Server (MS Downloads)
• Do You Wanna Touch (Jeff Atwood)
• If This Looks like This in 3 Weeks, We’ll Know The Answer (Charlie Kindel)
• Microsoft Responds to Live Tiles Patent Claim by SurfCast (Antonio Hernandez)
• Stupid Question 71: What is a scripting language? (Iris Classon)
• The TEMP directory is like a public hot tub whose water hasn’t been changed in over a year (Raymond Chen)
• What are the critics saying about Windows Phone 8? (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 1, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading October 31, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #992 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 10/31/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1223 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-11-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 Oct 2012 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 31 Oct 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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