Dew Drop – November 27, 2012 (#1,450)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Now Available! (S.Somasegar)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.1.1 with support for Windows Phone 8 and VS 2012 released (Erik EJ)
• Node v0.8.15 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #27: Inclinometer (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• Solving Real-world Problems with Windows Azure Web Sites (Chris Koenig)
• Native CSS Feature Detection With @supports (Craig Buckler)
• Writing More Autonomous JavaScript (Matt Holt)
• Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 1 of 3–Features) (ToStringTheory)
• Windows Azure Training Kit – November 2012 (Zhiming Xue)
• Apps are Dead. Long Live Experiences. Powered by Buddy. (Charlie Kindel)

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Training Kit (MS Downloads)
• From the MVPs: Shared code for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 and Koch Snowflakes on Windows 8 with XAML (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows Phone 8: Native Code Support (Peter Kuhn)
• Windows Phone HTML 5 App Basics (Matthias Shapiro)
• Building WinRT components with C++/CX (Olivier Rouit)
• A Lap Around Windows Phone 8 SDK: File Association – Part 1 (Matteo Pagani)
• 2000 WPF Things #699 – Converting an Image Control to a Bitmap (Sean Sexton)
• A Simple Way To Use App Simulator For App Purchases (Morten Nielsen)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using Properties in WCF Services (Peter Vogel)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now available (Charles Sterling)
• ReSharper SDK Adventures Part 7 — Factoring expressions (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• RabbitMQ On Windows With .NET, A Case Study (Mike Hadlow)
• How to undelete files in TFS (Tarun Arora)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is here (Visual Studio Team)
• Coding Guidelines for CSharp 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 (CodePlex)
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server Power Tools (MS Downloads)
• Method Caller Information in C Sharp 5.0 and Evolution of C Sharp Language: Picture Blog (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Bomb Squad – Removing Time Bombs with JustDecompile and Reflexil (Chris Eargle)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Pex: Microsoft Research’s Unit Test Generator and Evaluator (Dino Esposito)
• Planning for retrospectives (Patrick Kua)
• Article: Book Review: The Scrum Field Guide (Shane Hastie)
• Dogfooding is CRITICAL, the story of a bug (Oren Eini)
• Book Review: Version Control With Git, 2nd Edition (Karl Fogel)
• Its time to get off the shoulders of UI giants. (Scott Barnes)
• Software Development: Artistry or Craftsmanship (Paul Ballard)
• Object Lesson: Form Design (Tobias Komischke)
• Using Transparency in Web Design: Dos and Don’ts (Carrie Cousins)
• Guidelines for Automated Testing (Josh Arnold)
• On testing (Krzysztof Koźmic)

Other Mobile Platforms

• C# to Objective-C – Part 5 : Enums (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Designing for Tablets? We’re Here to Help! (Roman Nurik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #83–Jon Galloway on Azure and ASP.NET–What’s New. (Jesse Liberty)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mel Brooks (Chris Hardwick)
• The Flog goes to Australia! (Felicia Day)
• The “Meet Your Match” website (and a new video) is officially live (Ben Rudolph)
• ShopTalk Episode 44 (Chris Coyier)
• Defrag Tools: #16 – WinDbg – Driver Verifier | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for November 26th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Moving Forward: KendoUI (Derick Bailey)
• An Interview with PHP 5.4 Refcard Author Bradley Holt (Eric Genesky)
• The Benefits of Pursuing Tech Jobs in Egypt (Lobna Bedier)
• I’ll be at the SPTechCon Conference in San Francisco, March 3-6, 2013 (Andrew Connell)
• Join Stack Overflow in Berlin for a blowout bash on December 5! (Bethany Marzewski)

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Cluster with TempDB on Local Disk (Dan Quinones)
• SQL SERVER – Shard No More – An Innovative Look at Distributed Peer-to-peer SQL Database (Pinal Dave)
• How do I programatically determine which port a SQL Server is running on? (Ralph Willgoss)
• Full-Text Search in SQL 2012 with Custom Proximity (Sam Nasr)
• Tip: OVER and PARTITION BY (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

• Introducing SharePoint Emulators (Joshua Weber)

Miscellaneous

• Syncing “Application Installations” Across Windows 8 Machines (Jason Gaylord)
• A month with my Surface RT (Dave Ward)
• Windows 8: my tablet experience (Daniela Panfili)
• Microsoft readying “Apollo Plus” update for Windows Phone 8, coming in Q1 2013 (damaster)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 27, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Entity Framework Links #2 (Rowan Miller)
• Geek Reading November 26, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1010 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 27, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/26/2012 and Daily News Digest 11/27/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1241 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 26 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 26 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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