Dew Drop – November 30, 2012 (#1,453)

Top Links

• Announcing Indigo Studio! (Ambrose Little)
• Next Up for the Surface Family: Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing (Panos Panay)
• IDisposable, Done Right (Chris Patterson)
• Updating your Windows Phone Location code to use WinRT (Adam Denning)
• MonoGame For Windows 8 Step 1 – Getting Started (Bill Reiss)

Web Development

• Testing JavaScript with PhantomJS (Andrew Burgess)
• Introduction to SignalR – Creating a Cross-Platform game (Filip Ekberg)
• Extending Web API Help Page with information from attributes (Filip W)
• Smart email obfuscation using CSS (Jakob Wolman)
• CSS-centric Development and Anti-Patterns (Niels Matthijs)
• Using Partial Renders with Nancy rather than Render Actions like MVC (Phillip Haydon)
• Set-Cookie Headers getting stripped in ASP.NET HttpHandlers (Rick Strahl)
• Making WatiN Wait for JQuery document.ready() Functions to Complete (Steve Wilkes)
• Cool thing Thursday: alertify.js and Testing socket.io apps (Swizec Teller)
• Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 2 of 3–Setup) (ToStringTheory)
• Writing JavaScript In LightSwitch HTML Client Preview (Michael Washington)
• Navigate your code with bookmarks (Mikhail Vink)
• Brute Force Might Work (K. Scott Allen)

XAML

• #Win8Dev Tutorial: Serializing Objects in your WinRT Applications using XmlDeSerializer (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #702 – Dragging an Image within a WPF Application (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8 and Geolocation and Creating A Win8 App From Scratch–A Scrolling Home Page (Jesse Liberty)
• Is There a Need for Emulators If You Have to Test on Actual Devices? (Matt Lacey)
• App Development Snack: Background Color (Robert MacLean)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Fakes – Part 3 – Observing Stub Behavior (Peter Provost)
• Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enough Is Not Great (Jason Taylor)
• BackgroundExecutionManager.RequestAccessAsync() Element not found. and Windows.BackgroundTasks contract or is not installed (Shai Raiten)
• Improving C++ Encapsulation with the Pimpl Idiom (Diego Dagum)
• .NET 4.5 TypeInfo Reflection (Eric Vogel)
• Lighting up the call stack (Roger Hart)
• Various ways of performing an operation asynchronously after a delay (Raymond Chen)

Other Mobile Platforms

• H.264 video in Firefox for Android (Chris Peterson)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: What is Design? | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp and Windows Phone Design Bootcamp 101: What is Design? (Laura Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Microwave Beef (Chris Hardwick)
• The Engadget Show 38: Robopocalypse with Chris Anderson, Daniel H. Wilson and our future robot overlords (Brian Heater)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 002: WOWZAPP, The Tech Awards, and the Big Board! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 159 – 11.29.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
• New LightSwitch VS 2012 “How Do I?” Videos Released! (Beth Massi)
• 036 JSJ DOM Rendering and Manipulating (Charles Max Wood, Yehuda Katz, Peter Cooper, AJ O’Neal & Jamison Dance)

Community / Events

• Late reminder: New York City F# Meetup Tonight – F# in the Cloud with George Stavroulakis of the {m}brace team (Don Syme)
• The 14 Most Inspirational Kids of 2012 (Joann Pan)
• Getting deeper inside ASP.NET with ASPInsiders (Troy Hunt)
• Fabulous adventures and A new fabulous adventure (Eric Lippert)
• Questions for a Software Engineer (Filip Ekberg)

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 With Power View For Multidimensional Models CTP (MS Downloads)
• Table level recovery for selected SQL Server tables (Tibor Nagy)
• Hit Highlighting and Summarization with SQL Server Full Text Indexing/Searching? Here you go… (Greg Duncan)
• SQL Server Compact Merge Replication Library alpha released (Erik EJ)
• Aggregates without GroupBy SQL Server (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – Fix Visual Studio Error : Connections to SQL Server files (.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly. Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL (Pinal Dave)
• Article: Interview and Book Review: NoSQL Distilled (Srini Penchikala)
• Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysremotelogins and Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysservers (Jason Strate)
• What is up with RavenDB 2.0? (Oren Eini)
• Olympics data available for all on Windows Azure SQL Database and Power View (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• ***NOW AVAILABLE*** Critical Path Training’s SharePoint 2013 RTM Setup Guide for Developers (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

• From iPad to Surface – Head-to-Head Comparison: Surface vs. iPad (Nick Landry)
• Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox to arrive for the 2013 holiday season, says Bloomberg (Dan Seifert)
• Snapping OneNote to the desktop in Windows 8 (John Guin)
• How I use Rooms on Windows Phone 8 and Tips for using Rooms on other phones (Juliette Guilbert)
• The prickly problem of how to price Surface (Kip Kniskern)
• VLC launches Kickstarter campaign for Windows 8 app (Stephen Robinson)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 30, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 183 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading November 29, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1013 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 29 Nov 2012 (Jax)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 30, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/29/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1244 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 29 Nov 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 Nov 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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