Dew Drop – January 7, 2013 (#1,476)

Top Links

• Review: Metaprogramming in .NET (Ted Neward)
• iPad, Surface, Ultrabook: Are we there yet? (Scott Hanselman)
• MVVM Light V4.1.26 change log (Laurent Bugnion)
• TypeScript Classes and Interfaces (John Papa)

Web Development

• The JavaScript DSP API, RiverTrail, and the Future of JavaScript Parallelization (Devon Govett)
• Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race (Paul Hammant)
• Handling enum values with type converters in Windows Azure Mobile Services (Adam Hoffman)
• Knockout Js and External MVC cshtml templates (Kevin)
• Brace styles and JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Two common tasks using jQuery (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Replace JSON.NET with ServiceStack.Text in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• ControlDeck.js – Control HTML5 Presentations Remotely With Node.js (Hirvesh Munogee)
• ASP.NET Bundling/Minification and Embedded Resources (Imran Baloch)
• [Sample Of Jan 6th] How to use Bing Translator API in Windows Azure (Philip Fu)
• Capturing HTML 5 Video To An Image (K. Scott Allen)
• Creating A Desktop Experience Using Wijmo Grid In LightSwitch HTML Client and Saving Data In The Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Including Automatic Saves) (Michael Washington)
• Refactoring >14,000 lines of CSS into Sass (Grant Palin)
• RequireJS is the Spring Framework of Javascript (Patrick Kua)
• Getting the Mouse Click Position and Switch Statements in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• MVC Boostrap 0.6.1 (CodePlex)
• Creating A Custom Show / Hide Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Style Injection is for Winners (Chris Coyier)
• Keeping your AppHarbor application pool alive (Jef Claes)
• Trying out TypeScript (Cameron Taggart)

XAML

• A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 Platform (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone 8: Localization (Peter Kuhn)
• Example WinRT: Changing existing style resource at runtime in code using databindings (Iris Classon)
• WinRT’s default “save on suspend” isn’t good enough (Joe White)
• Windows Phone: How to Easily Store User Settings (Mikael Koskinen)
• [Sample Of Jan 5th] Convert live camera feed to bytes in Windows Phone 8 (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #728 – Using the Clipboard to Transfer Other Types of Data (Sean Sexton)
• Modifying the MSDN WIC Sample for Windows 8 To Add FillOpacityMask Support (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.3.5.2 (CodePlex)
• Design your Windows 8 app with ads in mind and Windows was unable to communicate with the target application (Loek van den Ouweland)
• How to detect that your app is running in Kid’s Corner (Peter Torr)
• Tips for Passing Microsoft Certification Exam 70-484: Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps (Samidip Basu)
• Security and Access to SMS (Matt Lacey)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Review (in advance): F# Deep Dives (Ted Neward)
• Obtaining Caller Information (Richard Carr)
• Bugs in TFS Update 1 (Brian Harry)
• Are Roaming Settings Coming in Visual Studio vNext? (Elena Pundjeva)
• Stupid Question 119: Do we have pointers in C#? (Iris Classon)
• How to connect Telerik TeamPulse with Visual Studio TFS on Cloud? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Mitigate The Billion Dollar Mistake with Aspects (Phil Haack)
• SimpleDeploy.Net – An FTP Style Wrapper for the MS Deploy API (Doug Rathbone)
• Timestamp to String (Anthony Trudeau)
• Ultrabook Sensors on Desktop App (Anup Kumar Verma)
• MEF 2.0 TOC and MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 2 (Fluent and Conventional Export) (Bnaya Eshet)
• Entity Framework CRUD Operations Using Stored Procedures and Implementing CRUD operations in MySQL using Entity Framework (Dorababu)
• Threading threading safely with the Immutable Collections Preview from the BCL Team (Greg Duncan)
• Unbox the 1st New Year Gift from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework (Jialiang Ge)
• Extending WatiN 3: Detecting if a PDF Has Opened In a New Window (Steve Wilkes)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using sql compact for integration tests with entity framework. (Eric Hexter)
• Single Responsibility Principle, Object Orientation & Active Code (Oren Eini)
• The User Interface Design Process (Peter Vogel)
• Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Preparing For A Front-End Job Interview (Jake Bresnehan)
• Freebie: Gemicon Icon Set (600 PNG Icons + PSD Source) (Smashing Editorial)
• How to Become a Software Architect (Dan Mohl)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Deciding between native iOS and Xamarin (MonoTouch) (Josh Smith)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter – Concurrency and Parallelism | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 462: Our favorite games of 2012. Plus Adam Sessler drops by (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 098 – “JavaScript Might Fix Travis’s Voice” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.9 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• TWC9: Welcome to 2013! C# is #1, TypeScript Templates, TPL Samples and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 106: Freelancing interview with Matchist.com founders (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Weekly 293: 40 Beers in 30 Days (Paul Thurrott)
• The Tablet Show – Luke Wroblewski Builds Mobile UI! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Warren Ellis and The Nerdist Podcast – Timothy Olyphant (Chris Hardwick)
• The Vergecast 060 – January 5th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
• ShopTalk Episode 49 (Chris Coyier)
• Mobile Nations 20: CES 2013 preview! (Daniel Rubino)
• Yet Another Podcast #88–Chris Bowen on Game Development for Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Podcast: Nook vs. Kindle, future of Xbox, and settling in with our new devices (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• “Unplugged” LIDNUG online talk with me on Tuesday (Jan 9th) (Scott Guthrie)
• RobMen has left the building. (Rob Mensching)
• CodeProject MVP 2013 (Colin Eberhardt)
• Data Science and Big Data User Group (Orlando, FL) (Lillian Pierson)

Database

• Working With Multi-Select Parameters for SSRS Reports (Mickey Stuewe)
• Microsoft advocates checkpoints – proceed with caution [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Creating MongoDB as a service on Windows 8 and Differences between Oracle and SQL Server when working with NULL and blank values and What is the Dual table in Oracle and why do I need it? and Truncate rollback differences between SQL Server and Oracle (Denis Gobo)
• Row of nonclustered index page (James Xu)
• Day 5 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in a Nonclustered Index and Day 6 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Dealing With Corruption in Allocation Pages (Robert Davis)
• “Add as object” or “Add as script”? [SSDT] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Calling SharePoint search using REST (e.g. from JavaScript or an app) (Chris O’Brien)
• Installing and Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Farm on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous

• A new year, a new Microsoft roadmap: Stepping up the delivery pace (Mary Jo Foley)
• Functional programming in C (Luca Bolognese)
• Best Lumia apps of 2012 (Tom Hall)
• Misspelling “Windows Phone” Makes Google Maps Work (Explained) (Matthias Shapiro)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 6, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 188 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #45 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1037 and Double Shot #1038 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 4, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Daily News Digest 1/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Pie in the Sky (January 4, 2013) (Brian Swan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1267 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for January 03, 2012 – #0139 and Windows Dev News for January 05, 2012 – #0140 and Windows Dev News for January 06, 2012 – #0141 (Dave Campbell)
• Reblog: December 28 to January 3 (Jason Strate)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 04, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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