Dew Drop – December 14, 2012 (#1,463)

Top Links

• ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate) (Scott Hanselman)
• Refactoring Switch Statements to Dictionaries (Joel Ross)
• Windows Store App with Caliburn.Micro – Getting Started (Phillip Haydon)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Windows Azure Mobile Services (G. Andrew Duthie)

Web Development

• The new Facebook application template and library for ASP.NET MVC (Yao)
• Windows Azure Import/Export Service and External References (Adam Mahood)
• Using LucidWorks on Windows Azure (Part 2 of a multi-part MS Open Tech series) (Brian Benz)
• ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012 RC, TFS 2012 Monitoring Management Pack AND SQL Server Data Tools December 2012 release now available (Charles Sterling)
• Responsive Patterns, automatic jQuery app tester, RESTClient for debugging – Hacks Weekly (Robert Nyman)
• ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 (Release Candidate) (Steve Naughton)
• Moving Applications to the Cloud, 3rd Edition – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• Announcing the new Fiddler Logo (Eric Lawrence)
• Rest up with the REST JSON/JSONP "Open Beer Database" API (Greg Duncan)
• Update to Alleged Information and Security Issue with Mouse Position Behavior (Dean Hachamovitch)
• Node v0.8.16 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Fun with Windows Server Service Bus and AutoFac – Part 1 – The Service Bus (Per Ökvist)

XAML

• XAML Bindings in Windows Phone 8 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows Phone “App to the Future” Design Challenge (JC Cimetiere)
• Windows 8 Style CheckBox/RadioButton in Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro)
• Windows Phone Store expands, adds new features (Mazhar Mohammed)
• 2000 WPF Things #712 – Showing a Custom Mouse Cursor While Dragging (Sean Sexton)
• Prism on .NET 4.5 and the road to Windows 8 apps (Blaine Wastell)
• Windows Development Tips #5: Understand the templates (Brent Schooley)
• OSMinVersion must have value 6.2.1 or higher in Windows Store Application (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Building a great Windows 8 app Step 2: Installing Windows 8 (Susan Ibach)
• Lightswitch – The Cosmopolitan shell and theme source code is released! (Joe Binder)
• Windows 8: Storing JSON Data for Conference Buddy (Jesse Liberty)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Xamarin delivers tool for building native Mac OS X apps with C# (Mary Jo Foley)
• Known Issue Upgrading from TFS 2012 Beta to Update 1 (Andrea)
• Beware machine.config files messing up Code First provider factories (Julie Lerman)
• Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit (Mike James)
• C# Is Dead (Again). Long Live C# (Nic Wise)
• .NET Tools And Practices Research Insights (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Why is it so hard to write a program that requires UI Access privilege? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Web Discussions: Flat by Design (Jeff Atwood)
• Layered Architecture Solution Guidance (LASG) 1.0.0.8 for Visual Studio 2012 (CodePlex)
• The Cost of Collaboration for Code and Art (Andrés Monroy-Hernández)
• Review of Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams (Shane Willerton)
• “Code Complete” is a polite fiction, “Done, done, done” is the hard truth (Jeremy D. Miller)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing iOS Applications with a cloud back end (Adam Hoffman)
• Facebook SDK 3.0 for Android and Native Login (Michael Marucheck)
• Android 4 and Fragments (Wallace McClure)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Faster Development Cycles at Better Software (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Traffic and Weather: My new Cloud/API Podcast (John Sheehan)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 161 – 12.13.2012 (James Trew)
• Boagworld – Crafting the client experience (Paul Boag)
• Innovation through Scrum + Continuous Delivery [VIDEO] (Peter Gfader)

Community / Events

• Sign-up for the patterns & practices symposium 2013 (Blaine Wastell)
• Featured on Being Geek Chic, Lady Geek of the Week (Iris Classon)
• Meet the Author: John Sonmez on Automated Web Testing with Selenium (Paul Ballard)

Database

• Querying SQL Server Agent Job History Data (Chad Churchwell)
• SQL Server – Convert Month Number to Month Name (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 13: Features enabled that are not used (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB indexing optimizations, Step III–Skipping the disk altogether (Oren Eini)
• Available Today: SSDT—December 2012 (Janet Yeilding)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s new Windows chief discusses Sinofsky, the iPad, and a transition to touch (Tom Warren)
• Geek Graduates: Calling freshmen and sophomores with a passion for technology: Consider the Explore Microsoft summer internship program (MS JobsBlog)
• Everything you need to know about Windows 8 upgrades (FAQ part 2) (Ed Bott)
• Windows Live Mesh To Be Retired on 13 February 2013 (Richard Hay)

More Link Collections

• Distributed Weekly 185 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading December 13, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1023 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 14, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 12/14/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1254 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2012-12-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 13 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

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