December 2012 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop–December 6, 2012 (#1,457)

Posted on December 6, 2012 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Visual Studio and Internationalization (S.Somasegar)
Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
eBook – Objective-C Succinctly (Ryan Hodson)
Windows 8 Development Tip #2: Get to know Microsoft design style (Brent Schooley)

Web Development

Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 2 – Code Samples and Windows Azure Architecture Guide – Part 1 – Code Samples and Moving Applications to the Cloud – Hands on Labs (MS Downloads)
Amazon Embraces Node.js (Abel Avram)
JavaScript Code Coverage with Istanbul (Ariya Hidayat)
Simple Application using Knockout.js, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC 4.0 with WEB API (Mahesh Sabnis)
ASP.NET MVC – Controller Level Default Action (Rajesh Jinaga)
PHP Mess Detector Support in PhpStorm 6.0 (Rustam Vishnyakov)
WebRequest Throws On 404 Status Code (Mike Hadlow)
Congratulations to Fuse Labs on the New Socl! and Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1.1 (Jonathan Turner)
SproutCore 1.9.1 Released (SproutCore Team)
Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute (Paul Rouget)

XAML

Win8 XAML video player : easy globalization / translations (Jonathan Antoine)
MSDN study links for Exam 70-485: Advanced Metro style App Development using C# (Andreas Hammar)
Popular topics among Windows Phone 8 developers (Erik Reitan)
Sharing Code: Windows 8 and Windows Phone (Matt Hidinger)
2000 WPF Things #706 – Dragging User Interface Elements Between Applications (Sean Sexton)
AvalonDock 2.0.1746 and Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework for Windows Phone 8 (CodePlex)
Using the adcontrol from code in Windows Phone 8 (Pete Vickers)
How to Start with Debugging/Deploying Windows Store Apps to ARM Tablet (Mihail Mateev)
A windows 8 trick: Protocol activation of apps (and the nick app) (Pete Brown)

Miscellaneous .NET

Debugging memory issues with RavenDB using WinDBG (Oren Eini)
Math.NET Numerics with F#, Intel MKL and Vector Slicing Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Using ReSharper (R#) at Typemock R&D (Elisha)
A Beginner’s Tutorial on Basics of Delegates, Anonymous Functions and Lambda Expressions in C# (Rahul Rajat Singh)
Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough Using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0 – Part 1 (Tara Walker)
Why do I get notified for changes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT when nobody is writing to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT? (Raymond Chen)
Co-occurrence Approach to an Item Based Recommender Update (Carl Nolan)
Windows 8 Development with appMobi and Xamarin (Jim O’Neil)
How to convert between (most) audio formats in .NET (Mark Heath)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Agile Program Management: How Will You Deliver? (Johanna Rothman)
Article: Visualizing the Big Picture of your Agile Project (Kulawat Wongsaroj)
Celebrate Failure? Pt. 1 (Steve Rogalsky)
Test Studio Workshop Needs You (Stoil Stoichev)
Obfuscation and build checking – building a tool to help (Roger Hart)
Messaging semantics: names and verbs (Jimmy Bogard)
Publishing test results through command line test runner (Mathew Aniyan)
Expressive Tests with Hamcrest (Patkos Csaba)
Creating files on GitHub (Coby Chapple)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS Support in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
Microsoft’s Touch-Based Development Environment (Clint Edmonson)
Google Play Services 2.0 Adds Maps and Photo Sphere API (Abel Avram)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Ken Pugh on Acceptance Test Driven Design (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Phone Design Bootcamp: The Design Driven Product | Windows Phone Design Bootcamp (Laura Foy)
Introducing Windows Phone 8 Development: Part 1 (Rob Tiffany)
The basics of dumping out a managed object – 09 | .NET Debugging for the Production Environment (Brad Linscott)
The Verge Mobile Show 028 – December 4th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
App Biz Dev Podcast Episode 7: Chanse unpacks Nokia (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
DevRadio webcast: Jason Follas on developing a Windows 8 app (Jennifer Marsman)
Defrag: Adding MicroSD to Libraries, Multiboot PCs, Win8 Mail App | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 70 (Richard Hay)
Cloud Security and Auditing (Bob Rhubart)

Community / Events

F# Community Update (Don Syme)
Windows Store App Labs: Test your Apps on Different Windows 8 Devices | Find a Lab Near You (Doris Chen)
Global Day of Code Retreat – practice perfect code (Hilary)

Database

SQL Server Data Type Conversion Chart (MS Downloads)
Dealing with the Column name ‘TEXT()’ contains an invalid XML identifier as required by FOR XML; ‘(‘(0x0028) is the first character at fault error and SQL Advent 2012 Day 5: Do not trust the SSMS designers and SQL Advent 2012 Day 6: Standardized Naming And Other Conventions (Denis Gobo)
Improve SQL performance – An Intelligent Update Statistics Utility (Ian Stirk)
The perils of double-dash comments [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

PowerShell

Powershell: Connect to Exchange server powershell (Marc Dekeyser)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Steven Guggenheimer: Steven Sinofsky Is A “Phenomenal Visionary” – Will Be Missed At Microsoft (Frederic Lardinois)
Gates and Ballmer make Forbes’ Most Powerful People list (John Callaham)
Meet Lamar Smith: SOPA author, climate change skeptic, and Congress’ next science boss (T.C. Sottek)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 5, 2012 (Rob Diana)
Double Shot #1017 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1248 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: December 6, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–November 2012 (Beth Massi)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 5 Dec 2012 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 5 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Daily News Digest 12/6/2012 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML (Microsoft Windows Development Series): Jeremy Likness: Kindle Store

ASIN: B009WQ44Q4

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The Dew Review – Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook

Posted on December 5, 2012 | by Alvin A.

I recently gave away two copies of Packt’s new title, Windows Presentation Foundation 4.5 Cookbook. Packt also provided me with an eBook copy to review. I do quite a bit of WPF work at my day job these days, so I was very interested.

WPF 4.5 Cookbook is a great reference guide for mid-to-senior level WPF developers. It is not intended to teach beginners how to get started. It is for those times when experienced developers are facing a task that maybe they don’t do every day and need a quick refresher, or perhaps they’re using a particular technique for the first time. If you have a decent background in any kind of XAML development (Silverlight, WPF, Windows Phone, etc) and you will be working on WPF applications, this book will make a handy desktop companion.

The cookbook pattern is implemented well by the author. Each topic includes an introduction, a step-by-step guide on how to code the solution, an explanation of why to use the technique and how to take it further. Topics covered include layout, controls, styles, data binding, commands in MVVM, graphics/animation, and threading. While some new C# 5.0 and WPF 4.5 topics are covered, much of the book can be used as a guide for previous versions of WPF as well.

I think this book would be useful to almost any WPF developer with at least some experience and heartily recommend it.

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Dew Drop – December 5, 2012 (#1,456)

Posted on December 5, 2012 | by Alvin A. | 2 Comments

Top Links

Windows 8 Development Tip #1: Choosing XAML or HTML and Windows 8 Development Tips (Brent Schooley)
iOS Support with Windows Azure Mobile Services – now with Push Notifications (Scott Guthrie)
Why are braces required in try-catch-finally? (Eric Lippert)
Evolving Simple Wireframes With AppMock (Jesse Liberty)

Web Development

PhpStorm & WebStorm 6 EAP build 123.66 (Alexey Gopachenko)
Arrays in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
Web API alternative – self hosting HTTP services in native C++ code (Filip W)
jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have (Matt Baker)
EFMVC Migrated to .NET 4.5, Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET MVC 4 and EF 5 Code First (Shiju Varghese)
Dependency Injection in PHP (Steve Rodrigue)
Cross Site Scripting and Prevention in ASP.NET MVC (Dharmindar Devsidas)
Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player (Osvaldas Valutis)
Firefox Development Highlights: video.playbackRate and download attribute (Paul Rouget)
Picture Search Part 1: Searching with Bing (Christian Nagel)
What’s New in WordPress 3.5 (Craig Buckler)

XAML

10 Things Silverlight Developers Need to Know About the Windows Runtime (Michael Crump)
Tips and gotchas for Windows Phone apps:InkSpill (Ramez Debbas)
2000 WPF Things #705 – Dragging a Custom Object Using Serialization as Format (Sean Sexton)
Windows 8 Apps Unleashed Now in Bookstores! (Stephen Walther)
Designing a Simple and Secure App Package – APPX (Jack Davis)
Nokia Announces Premium Developer Program (Matteo Pagani)
Changing the name of a Windows 8 Store app (Andreas Hammar)

Miscellaneous .NET

Reading CSV Data (Richard Carr)
Understand Lambda Expressions in 3 minutes (Ronaldo jer)
Casablanca : Give us your feedback! (Sana Mithani)
How to create random readable strings for .Net application (Marc Brooks)
Working with Ivy Bridge Ultrabook Sensors (Steve Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Review of Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations (Andrzej Grzesik)
A New Agile Practice: Collaboration Contract (was Collaboration 8) (Michael Norton)
Mini book: Real Life Scrum (Jesper Boeg)
Agile might save your job (Dror Helper)
Agile at the Speed of Trust – Organizational Trust (Peter Callies)
The Onion Of Compromise (Mike Hadlow)
Implementing Traits in custom Visual Studio Test Adapters (Mathew Aniyan)
"Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012" eBook (Think Story based approach to presenting "Testing for Continuous Delivery") (Greg Duncan)
Micro Services: Plugging in 3rd party components (Mark Needham)
The Windows 8 UI – An evolving design (DevToolsGuy)
Three Kanban Reminders (Karl Scotland)

Other Mobile Platforms

New Google Maps Android API Features Vector-Based 3D Maps, Indoor Maps and More (Janet Wagner)
C# to Objective-C – Part 9 : Connecting Data to a Control (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 9 of the Guild is here! (Felicia Day)
The Nerdist Podcast – Demetri Martin (Chris Hardwick)
Ping 161: Scroogled, Xbox sales, Windows Store wins, IE 10 trolls | Ping! (Laura Foy)
People Talking Tech Episode 014 – Rodney Landrum (Denny Cherry)
SQLskills holiday gift to you: all 2011 Insider videos on YouTube (Paul S. Randal)
Engadget HD Podcast 327 – 12.04.2012 (Trent Wolbe)
DevExpress 12.2 Release Announcement (DevExpress Team)

Community / Events

Windows Store Workshop: Game Development (G. Andrew Duthie)
patterns & practices Symposium 2013 (Christopher Bennage)
Want a Windows Phone? Tell us why and win (Kip Kniskern)
Attend my sessions at DevWeek 2013 in London (Michael Kennedy)
Google I/O 2013 dates announced: starts May 15th, registration to open early next year (Darren Murph)

Database

How I Passed the SQL Server 2008 MCM Exams (Jason Strate)
Index Create Memory Setting for SQL Server (Manvendra Singh)
Documenting sp_ssiscatalog (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Concat Strings in SQL Server using T-SQL – SQL in Sixty Seconds #035 – Video (Pinal Dave)
Survey: where do you store your database backups? (Paul S. Randal)

PowerShell

Powershell Run-As Script and Powershell Test Reg Key function and Powershell: Get-Framework-Versions. and Powershell: Install-dotNET4 function (Marc Dekeyser)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft opens its Socl social-search site to any and all testers (Mary Jo Foley)
With Windows 8, Microsoft’s playing a scene from Groundhog Day (Ed Bott)
Install Kindle Fire HD 8.9” ROM On Nexus S [How-To Tutorial] (Aatif Khan)
DuckDuckGo for Chrome Powers Up Your Search Results (Adam Dachis)
How IFTTT is Changing the Way We Do Things on the Web (Emily Price)
Microsoft’s Steven Guggenheimer: Steven Sinofsky Is A “Phenomenal Visionary” – Will Be Missed At Microsoft (Frederic Lardinois)
The family is growing: Nokia Lumia 620 (Ian Delaney)
Perfect Gifts For Your Geek This Xmas (Mel Kirk)
My next PC will be an Ultrabook (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 5, 2012 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #1247 (Chris Alcock)
Geek Reading December 4, 2012 (Rob Diana)
The Daily Six Pack: December 5, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 12/5/2012 (Silverlight Show)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 Dec 2012: and Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Dec 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Kindle Fire HD – Most Advanced 7" Tablet – Only $199

ASIN: B008GGCAVM

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