Dew Drop – January 24, 2013 (#1,486)

Top Links

• Developing a Windows Store app using JavaScript: Hilo guidance released (Blaine Wastell)
• Windows Azure Store: New add-ons and expanded availability (Scott Guthrie)
• Windows 8 Development Tips #8: Don’t be afraid to break the mold (Brent Schooley)
• Whyyy Are You Still Designing With Static Wireframes?!? (Ambrose Little)

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web API HTTP Message Lifecycle (MS Downloads) – A new poster from MS.
• A Site To Behold: Open Content & Design Comes to jQuery (Adam J. Sontag)
• Introducing the jQuery Plugins Registry (Craig Buckler)
• Interview: Enda McGrath on Cross-Platform JavaScript Application Development with Enyo (Enda McGrath)
• Multiple file upload using jQuery (Vinod Kumar B. C.)
• YUI 3.8.1 Released (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Apps to Boost Your Google Analytics Data (Daniel Nathan)
• What is JSON? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Happy Anniversary WordPress: The Beginnings (Lorelle VanFossen)
• UX of Responsive Web Design (Marshal Datkowitz)

XAML

• URI associations in Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to use the Inclinometer sensor in Windows 8 C#/XAML applications (Derik Whittaker)
• Variable Size Grid Template for XAML (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• 2000 WPF Things #741 – Using Touch Manipulation Events to Translate an Element (Sean Sexton)
• Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: Adding Push Notifications (G. Andrew Duthie)
• AvalonDock v2 (Greg Duncan)
• Building an Image Browser for Windows 8 (Shubham Saxena)
• CODE Framework 4.0.30123.0 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Agent Mulder – supporting IoC in ReSharper (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: View Class Members in Solution Explorer (Andy Schwam)
• Visual Studio 2012 Set Default Target Framework to DotNET4 (Tarun Arora)
• MSDN Features You Need to Know About: MSDN Online Concierge (Zain Naboulsi)
• Async Lambdas (Phil Haack)
• 2000 C# Things #764 – Expanding All Classes in a Class Diagram and #765 – Adding Base or Derived Classes to a Class Diagram (Sean Sexton)
• Enabling .NET Framework 4.5 on LightSwitch Server Projects (Beth Massi)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• From Scrum to Lean (Patkos Csaba)
• Using a bloom filter to reduce expensive operations like disk IO (Kelly Sommers)
• Biztalk Application Testing Life Cycle -3 (Abhishek Lohani)
• CodePlex Markdown Editor Enhancements (Rick Marron)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Stories from CodeMash! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ACE in the Whole – A look at the Oracle ACE Program – Part 2of 3 (Bob Rhubart)
• Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Store Apps | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Nerdist Podcast – YouTube Titans! (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 149: Future of Gaming (Paul Thurrott)
• Fall Fury: Part 1 – Introduction and Fall Fury: Part 10 – Charms and Fall Fury: Part 11 -Hardware Testing & Debugging and Fall Fury: Part 12 – Conclusions (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Den Delimarsky & Rick Barraza)
• Video: Moving Across State Lines with Workflow 4.5 (Paul Ballard)
• Defrag: Multi-mon, Mouse Latency, Ransomware | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

• I’m sorry (Corey Haines)
• Microsoft Life + Lifestyle: What are Seattle’s best neighborhoods? (MS JobsBlog)
• We Want You To Speak at MADExpo 2013 (Kevin Griffin)
• On the Dark Side of "Craftsmanship" (Ted Neward)
• JetBrains is Going to the “City of Light” for TechDays France (Robert Demmer)

Database

• SQL Server Management Studio Query Designer (Jeremy Kadlec)
• Encrypting SQL Server backups with open source tools (Tim Wiseman)
• A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Algorithm 4: Logistic Regression (Stevan Bolton)
• Choosing the Right SQL Server Version: It’s Trickier than You’d Think (Kendra Little)
• A Smart Way of Using SQL Server Books On Line (BOL) without the Index Option (Madhivanan)
• SQL SERVER – How to Use Instead of Trigger – Guest Post by Vikas Munjal – Koenig Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• 5 MCM Readiness Indexing Videos You Should Watch (Jason Strate)
• Saving Execution Plans on Azure SQL Database (Grant Fritchey)
• Do not disable foreign keys and Driving Predictive Analytics (Ted Krueger)
• BCP with BDR (SqlBulkCopy + IDataReader = BulkDataReader) (Greg Duncan)
• Building SOLID Databases: Single Responsibility and Normalization (Chris Travers)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE will do *everything* (IF YOU LET IT!) (Michael S. Kaplan)

Miscellaneous

• The End of Post-PC Era (Alan Mendelevich)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading January 23, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1280 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, January 23rd (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1050 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 24, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)

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