Dew Drop – November 29, 2012 (#1,452)

Top Links

• TFS alerts for changes to NuGet packages (Rory Primrose)
• Adding Design Time (Blend and Visual Studio 2012) Support to the Windows Store App Blog Reader Sample (Peter Kellner)
• What is missing from Windows Phone 8? About 20 Xbox games that no longer work. (Paul Acevedo)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #29: Application Lifecycle (Jeff Blankenburg)

Web Development

• Messaging with KnockoutJs (Kevin Logan)
• Create a Custom JavaScript Event Without jQuery (Chris Love)
• Will HTML Ever Be Replaced? (Craig Buckler)
• Tips and tricks for Windows 8 JavaScript developer: creating a local full text search index (David Catuhe)
• Loading KnockoutJS View Models from ASP.Net MVC, for faster page loads (Eric Hexter)
• JustCode JavaScript Templates for WinJS (Phil Japikse)
• DNN (yes, that DNN) v7.0 has been released… (Greg Duncan)
• Using excel to access your Mobile Services data (Josh Twist)

XAML

• A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 SDK (Nick Randolph)
• Coded UI Test Support for WPF (Michael Crump)
• Background Agent Expiry in Windows Phone 8 (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #701 – Dragging an Image Between WPF Applications (Sean Sexton)
• Is The Ease Of Windows Phone Development Ruining Its Image (Tim Murphy)
• Increase your app reach with Windows Phone 7.8 (Todd Brix)
• CODE Framework 4.0.21128.0 (CodePlex)
• Generating sound at runtime using XAudio2 in a Windows Store app (Pete Brown)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debugger Source Symbol Improvements in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
• DebuggerDisplay Attribute in C# (Senthil Kumar)
• How to help yourself when NuGet goes down and MyGet tops Vanilla NuGet feeds with a Chocolatey flavor (Xavier Decoster)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• LUA Buglight 2.2 with support for Windows 8 (Aaron Margosis)
• Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets? (Raymond Chen)
• How to await a storyboard, and other things (Lucian Wischik)
• RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions (Markus Pope)
• MonoGame For Windows 8 Step 0 (Bill Reiss)
• Confirmed hiccup upgrading build agents with Update 1 (Brian Harry)
• Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published! (Jakob Ehn)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
• Gartner Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant 2012 (Mike Walker)
• Guidelines for Automated Testing: Defining Test Inputs (Josh Arnold)
• If You’re Afraid of Your To-Do List, It’s Not Working (JD Meier)
• A Windows 8 App Design Worksheet (Eric Gregory)
• Automatic issue tags in Git commit messages (Erik Ogenvik)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Drawing in Android (Serge Desmedt)
• C# to Objective-C – Part 7 : Namespaces (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scott Ambler Optimizes Agile (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 12: C++ at BUILD 2012, Inside Profile Guided Optimization | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• What the Tech 143: No Perfect Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Maria Bamford returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 027 – November 27th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and Subversion [Video] (Jon Friedman)
• Diving deep into C++ /CX and WinRT | Build 2012 (Marian Luparu)
• Defrag: Reporting Bugs, Upgrades and Keys, Boot from VHD | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 69 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Windows 8 Workshops at the Tysons Microsoft Store (G. Andrew Duthie)
• I’m Now a SQL Server 2008 MCM! (Jason Strate)
• SQL Contest – Win USD 300 Worth Gift – Cartoon Contest is Back (Pinal Dave)
• Free Windows 8 App Development Training for iOS Developers (Doris Chen)
• Learnings from Agile testing days 2012 (Sigurdur Birgisson)
• What are the best and worst things about working at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
• Live from the Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference (Paul Ballard)
• GitHub Drinkup in Las Vegas (Shay Frendt)
• Registration Opens for W3Conf 2013, W3C’s Developer Conference (W3C Staff)
• Microsoft Research, FUSE Labs Internship Opportunities (Andrés Monroy-Hernández)

Database

• Getting started with Tabular Model in SQL Server 2012 – Part 1 (Arshad Ali)
• SQL Server Management Studio: More than Meets the Eye (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysreferences (Jason Strate)

PowerShell

• Using Powershell to Get and Update the AssemblyVersion information in your AssemblyInfo.cs file (Derik Whittaker)

Miscellaneous

• Surface RT users: Microsoft wants to hear from you (Mary Jo Foley)
• Store 3 for 8… Three Windows Store App’s that teach you Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts (Greg Duncan)
• Intel Ultrabook–Wrapup (Jesse Liberty)
• The SitePoint Christmas Sale is ON! (Ricky Onsman)
• How many people actually want to talk to their phones? (Robert Nyman)
• Top PowerPoint Tips – What I’ve learned thus far on the Mac PowerPoint Team (Sara Ford)
• Windows Blue: Microsoft’s plan to release a new version of Windows every year (Sebastian Anthony)
• On Knowledge (Ted Neward)
• Don’t Get Scroogled: Bing Launches Campaign for Honest Search to Help Shoppers this Holiday Season (Mike Nichols)
• Microsoft says Windows Phone 7.8 update coming in ‘early 2013’ (Chris Welch)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 29, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 28, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1243 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 29, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 28 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 28 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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