Dew Drop – November 20, 2012 (#1,446)

Top Links

• More Great Improvements to the Windows Azure Management Portal (Scott Guthrie)
• Building a JavaScript Event Aggregator using TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
• Revisting Event Delegation in Knockout.js (Ryan Niemeyer)
• 5 tips to getting your apps certified quickly (Antoine Leblond)

Web Development

• Calling a .NET DLL From VBScript (Dirk Strauss)
• PhpStorm & WebStorm 6.0 Early Access Program started (Alexey Gopachenko)
• F#, ASP.NET MVC, and MonoDevelop (Daniel Mohl)
• Learning Principles for Improving Your CSS (Hugo Giraudel)
• Debugging node.js Projects (Kevin Griffin)
• Responsive CSS Timeline with 3D Effect (Mary Lou)
• Creating a Sweet Content Slider (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building A Relationship Between CSS & JavaScript (Tim Wright)
• Responsive Web Design is So More than Just a Few Breakpoints (Tom Kenny)
• All about <httpRuntime targetFramework> (Levi Broderick)
• Building Single Page Web Apps with Sinatra: Part 2 (Jonathan Cutrell)

XAML

• Manipulating Navigation State in Windows Store Apps (Jeff Prosise)
• 2000 WPF Things #694 – An Example of Custom Drag-and-Drop Behavior (Sean Sexton)
• Networking in Windows Phone 8 (Tim Laverty)
• Interacting with the RadDatePicker and RadTimePicker for Windows 8 (Phil Japikse)
• A New API for LightSwitch Server Interaction: The ServerApplicationContext (Joe Binder)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #20: Printing (Jeff Blankenburg)
• Speech Recognition Made Easy with Telerik RadControls for WP8 (Michael Crump)
• Real-World Secondary Tiles: Top Three Tips for Working with Secondary Tiles in Windows 8 Apps (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio 2012 Page Inspector (Giles Davies)
• ObjectStorageHelper now available via nuget (Jamie Thomson)
• Team Foundation Service Update – Nov 19th (Brian Harry)
• Small in, Big out (Eric Gunnerson)
• GroupBy With Maximum Size (K. Scott Allen)
• JustCode Q3 – Improve Productivity by Reducing Keystrokes (Anand Narayanaswamy)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Windows Azure Architecture Guides (MS Downloads)
• Test-Driven Development (Richard Carr)
• Why having an API matters: testing (Giorgio Sironi)
• Windows Phone 8 Unit Testing – The Basics (Matteo Pagani)
• Managing Scope Creep for Fun and Profit (Narayan Sengupta)

Other Mobile Platforms

• C# to Objective-C – Part 1 : Strings (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Papa Builds Single Page Applications (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 240: Jimmy Bogard on Composite UIs (David Giard)
• Video: Keep A Close Eye On SQL Server with Performance Monitor (Paul Ballard)
• Ben Rudolph kicks off ‘Meet Your Match’ Windows Phone campaign (Rich Edmonds)
• Introduction to creating Windows Store apps using HTML and JavaScript | Build 2012 (Chris Anderson & Josh Williams)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jimmy Kimmel (Chris Hardwick)
• Yet Another Podcast #82–Guy Smith Ferrier on Internationalization (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #15 – WinDbg – Bugchecks (BSOD) | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Raymond’s podcast list (for 2011, at least) (Raymond Chen)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 093 – “We’re All Stickmen” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Tim O’Reilly: 9 TEDTalks That Stretched My Mind (TED Talks)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for November 19th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Free Jump Start: Build Windows Phone 8 Apps on Nov 28-29, 2012 (Kim Spilker)
• Geek Graduates: Ask us anything—a recap of our Reddit AMA (MS JobsBlog)
• IASA World Summit 2012 Conference (Mike Walker)

Database

• Understanding the SQL Server 2012 BI Semantic Model (BISM) (Arshad Ali)
• How to Identify and Backup the Latest SQL Server Database in a Series (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Using RAND() in User Defined Functions (UDF) (Pinal Dave)
• DBCC CheckTable, Spatial Indexes and incorrect compatibility mode….. (Chris Taylor)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysmessages and Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysoledbusers (Jason Strate)
• Last Known Good CheckDB (Jason Brimhall)

SharePoint

• FREE Whitepaper by NewsGator: Assessing Microsoft SharePoint Maturity and Social Purpose (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Research shows a promising new breakthrough in speech translation technology (Steve Clayton)
• Why Can’t Windows Phone 8 Play Xbox Video Purchases? (Stephen Schenck)
• Thoughts on a Post-Sinofsky world, one week in (Kip Kniskern)
• MVP Monday – Add or Remove Users from Windows 8 (Alberto José Escalona)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 19, 2012 and Interesting Finds: November 20, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1004 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading November 19, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1236 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 20, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/20/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #71 (Frank)
• Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #7 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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