Dew Drop – January 14, 2013 (#1,479)

I will be attending the Philly.NET meeting in Malvern, PA on Wednesday evening. Come out, catch some cool presentations from Infragistics and say hi if you see me.

Top Links

• MVVM in Windows 8: Part 2 and MVVM in Windows 8: Part 3 (Gill Cleeren)
• Playing sounds on Windows Phone using the MVVMLight Messenger (Joost van Schaik)
• What’s Hot in the World of JavaScript and SPAs? (Dan Wahlin)
• Automating the cloud with Windows Azure Command Line Tools (Glenn Block)
• Referencing the Windows Runtime from Desktop Apps (Jeremy Likness)
• Skype and the new Team Explorer (Brian Harry)

Web Development

• Using OS disk VHD to create a new Virtual Machine if OS VHD is still on lease in Windows Azure Virtual Machines (Avkash Chauhan)
• Adding SignalR to an ASP.Net WebForms Project (Jeff Fritz)
• How Do You Structure JavaScript? The Module Pattern Edition (Chris Coyier)
• ASP.NET MVC 4: What else? (Dino Esposito)
• Jump Start: Develop Windows 8 Apps using HTML5/JavaScript in 30 minutes (Doris Chen)
• Easy ASP.NET Web API resource updates with Delta (Filip W)
• FubuMVC Turns 1.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• A Strategy for i18n and Node.js (John Resig)
• Demystifying unexpected redirects to login page in ASP.NET (Marin Bratanov)
• Static Site Generation with DocPad on Windows Azure Web Sites (Nathan Totten)
• Easily Add a Table of Contents to Any Web Page with jQuery (Nick Harrison)
• Bing Maps REST Services SDK (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Opening Up the Box API (Ronnie Mitra)
• Using Ignite UI Controls with WordPress (Damyan Petev)
• ECMAScript.next: TC39’s November 2012 meeting (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Turning off responsive web design (Bruce Lawson)
• Creating an HTML5 Based Document Editor (Alexander Mitnikov)

XAML

• It’s your Windows Phone 8 [Emulator Skin] – The "Windows Phone 8 Emulator Skin Switcher 1.0" (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Phone ScheduledTask Agents and FileNotFoundException (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #732 – Basic Events for Raw Touch Input and #733 – A Full List of Touch Related Events (Sean Sexton)
• Writing a Calibre frontend for Windows8/WinRT using ‘SQLite for WinRT’ (Tim Dams)
• What you must know about pen and touch in Windows Store Apps (Iris Classon)
• Debug.Assert replacement for Phone and Store apps (Daniel Moth)

Miscellaneous .NET

• XML Deserialization Events (Richard Carr)
• TFS 2010 will NOT support SQL 2012 and TFS 2012 Update 1 Hotfix (Brian Harry)
• ReSpeller: A Spell-Checking Plugin for ReSharper (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• C# is the past, the present and the future (Filip Ekberg)
• Fluent interfaces in C# – Generics (Dror Helper)
• XDT (web.config) transform engine released on NuGet (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Solution Explorer Filters and Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Search in Solution Explorer (Andy Schwam)
• Additional Use Rights for MSDN subscriptions (Zain Naboulsi)
• Hidden Pitfalls With Object Initializers (Phil Haack)
• VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome (Tarun Arora)
• A simple bitcrusher and sample rate reducer in C++ for a Windows Store App (Pete Brown)
• Partial Type Name Role Hint (Mark Seemann)
• Reflector 8.0 is now available and Reflector Version 8 check for updates issue (Roger Hart)
• Why didn’t this code run asynchronously? (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Self-contained commands with dependencies (Jef Claes)
• A final timing update on Petzold’s Programming Windows 6E ebook (Devon Musgrave)
• Using Lambda’s to Isolate Temporal Coupling (Dylan Smith)
• The postmodern gumballs (rerun) (Eric Lippert)
• Get the IR Stream and control the IR Emitter – Kinect for Windows SDK (Abhijit Jana)
• Microsoft Refreshed .NET Framework 4.5 with Updates (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 4 (Fluent Import) and Async and AggregateException (Bnaya Eshet)
• Team Foundation Services Binaries folder (Xavier Decoster)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• So You Think You Can Polymorph? (John Sonmez)
• SCRUM: The Story of an Agile Team (Patkos Csaba)
• How NOT to Design Your API (Lorna Mitchell)
• View long-running Pull Requests (Rick Bradley)
• Typography Tools for Web Designers (Senthil Kumar)
• Perfect is the enemy of “Good Enough” (Daniel Moth)
• Learning about Teams from the Marshmallow Challenge (Joel Semeniuk)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Test Studio for iOS Version 2.0 Preview (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Understanding Android Hybrid Applications – Part 1 (Pär Sikö)
• UI Testing a Sencha App (Arthur Kay)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Coneryminutes #2 – The Mid-Life Crisis (Scott Hanselman)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 099 – “What Happens at the Slots, Stays at the Slots” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Windows Weekly 294: Shoot the Messenger (Paul Thurrott)
• Screencast – Validating ASP.NET MVC Forms with DataAnnotations (Michael Kennedy)
• SDU Show 52 with guest Allan Hirt (Greg Low)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Using AppMobi to Build Windows 8 & Windows Phone Apps (David Isbitski)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Gabe Newell: Valve – The Games and The Nerdist Podcast – Gabe Newell: Valve – The Company and The Nerdist Podcast – Chris Jericho (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Wally McClure Builds Mobile Apps with the Mono Twins (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 004: Challenge Deadline Extension, IC Grants Video, and the Big Board! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Engadget HD Podcast 332 – CES special show 2 01.10.13 and Engadget Podcast 324: CES 2013 Day 2 – 01.10.2013 and Engadget Eurocast 011 – 1.11.13 CES special and Engadget Mobile Podcast 165 – CES special – show 2 and Engadget Podcast 325: CES 2013 Day 3 – 01.11.2013 and Engadget Podcast 326: CES 2013 Closer – 01.13.2013 (James Trew)
• Ratchet & The Geek – The Return (Luvvie Ajayi & Scott Hanselman)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 75 (Richard Hay)
• Edgeshow 48 New Year New Gadgets | Edge (Rick Claus & Joey Snow)
• Agile Waterfalls, Backlogs, Cutlines, Shiproom. Talking with @AbhishekRLal about how we build Service Bus (Clemens Vasters)
• TWC9: IllumiRoom, VS/TFS2012 RC news, TFS OData, Source History Visualization and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• 042 JSJ CSS and CSS Superset Languages (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell, Merrick Christensen)
• Episode 98 – Mobile Services, ASP.NET Facebook Template, and Github Publishing Demos | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Courses (C#, Java, Ruby, IOS, MVC and more) (Q1 2013) (Roy Osherove)
• Wayback Machine: Phil Plait: Bad Astronomer and Champion for Science (Jenny Williams)
• Upcoming Events for January 14th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)

Database

• Joins are Commutative and SQL Server Knows it (Michael Swart)
• Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut (K. Brian Kelley)
• Email alerts when new databases are created in SQL Server (Chad Churchwell)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.2–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• Not just viewing Reporting Services Reports on your iPad… mix and match them in dashboards (Gabriel Lopez)
• SQL SERVER – An Interesting Case of Redundant Indexes – Index on Col1, Col2 and Index on Col1, Col2, Col3 – Part 3 and SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #011 (Pinal Dave)
• Top 20 exciting features of SQL Server 2012 – Part 1 (Shivprasad koirala)
• Doing UPSERTs in MongoDB and Setting up SQL Server Database Mail with gmail (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB 2.1 Features: Robust SQL Replication (Oren Eini)
• Responses to SSDT questions (Jamie Thomson)
• Practical Azure #8: SQL Data Sync (Jim O’Neil)

SharePoint

• Applying Filters to Lookup Fields with the SharePoint 2013 REST API and SharePoint 2013 & Office 365 Feature Matrix–An Easier Way to View It (Andrew Connell)
• SharePoint Server 2013 BI – Interactive Reports using Power View in Excel 2013 (Pravinkumar Dabade)

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell Language Specification Version 3.0 (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: What are the 10 best jobs at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
• Could We Promote Software Developers Like Nurses? (Damon Payne)
• QML and the new Ubuntu phone OS (Paul Hammant)
• Microsoft’s Chief Technical Officer Rudder is back in the limelight (Mary Jo Foley)
• Paste text from Vim when it’s suspended (ctrl+z) (Dalibor Nasevic)
• Follow-up to WebKit for IE… hint: I was wrong (Bill Reiss)
• Customize the Duet Workflow Task form in InfoPath 2013 (Gaurav Arora)
• Stupid Question 124: Is a bilingual tech blog a good idea? and Stupid Question 125: Should tech community contributors have a Facebook page? (Iris Classon)
• 2013: More ‘wow’ experiences for Lumia users (Jeppe Christensen)
• New Feature: Course Ratings (Jim Cooper)
• Amazon AutoRip Changes EVERYTHING (Joe Wilcox)
• Functional programming in C – Implementation (Luca Bolognese)
• Introduction To Go: Arrays, Maps, Slices And Make (Karl Seguin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 11, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 13, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 189 (Scott Banwart)
• Geek Reading January 11, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 10th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 11th (Rob Caron)
• Collective #46 (Mary Lou)
• Pie in the Sky (January 11, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Double Shot #1042 and Double Shot #1043 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – January 11, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 11, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 12, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 13, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/11/2013 and Daily News Digest 1/14/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Friday Miscellany #4 (Eric Battalio)
• Reading Notes #77 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1271 and The Morning Brew #1272 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Visual Studio ALM links Week 2/2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #50) (Craig Kitterman)
• Reblog: January 5 to January 11 (Jason Strate)

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