Dew Drop – January 28, 2013 (#1,488)

Top Links

• Using async/await with WebClient in Windows Phone 8 (or: TaskCompletionSource saves the day) (Laurent Bugnion)
• Moq with F# 3 (Phillip Trelford)
• Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about HTTP in 6 pages or less (Think "DZone HTTP Refcardz") (Greg Duncan)
• Tip to become a successful software engineer. (Eric Hexter)
• Beginner HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone, and CSS3 Resources (Elijah Manor)

 

Web Development

• PhpStorm 6 EAP build 126.36 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• More on DRM in HTML5 (Bruce Lawson)
• Getting started with Knockout.js (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How to copy blobs or VHDs between different Windows Azure subscription (Frank)
• Stupid Question 134: What is semantic Html? and Stupid Question 135: What are vendor-specific CSS property prefixes? (Iris Classon)
• Publishing a Web App to Windows Azure (John Papa)
• 50 Ways to Avoid, Find and Fix ASP.NET Performance Issues (Kevin Griffin)
• Making Use of jQuery UI’s Widget Factory (Pavan Podila)
• Using HTML 5.1 (Steve Faulkner)
• ASP.NET MVC, Data Access, and Deployment Content Maps Published (Tom Dykstra)
• My experiences with Knockout (Gunnar Peipman)
• Team Foundation Server 2012 build notification using ASP.Net Web API (Fredrik Normen)
• The Good and the Bad of OAuth 2.0 Authorization Implementations (John Sheehan)
• Microsoft’s Cloud OS Play–A Logical Converged Cloud Offering (Ben Kepes)
• QuickTip – Marking and Selecting Traffic in Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
• Dispatching to different query functions in Mobile Services and Debugging your Mobile Service scripts (Josh Twist)
• Arrow function expressions in TypeScript (Piotr Walat)
• A Log4Net Ducksboard Appender (Brendan Tompkins)

 

XAML

• Send Email with attachments without using EmailComposeTask with MailMessage (Windows Phone Geek)
• How to use the Accelerometer in Windows 8 C#/XAML Applications and Handling Resuming in your Windows 8 Applications (Derik Whittaker)
• WinRT comparison JS/Html and C#/XAML: Using a grid for app layout (Iris Classon)
• Tips and tricks when using voice recognition in a Windows Phone 8 app (Jeremy Alles)
• Building High Performance Windows Phone Apps (Jonathan Lyons)
• Accessing a UI control’s method using MVVM Light Messenger (Juan Harrington)
• Handling unhandled exceptions with async/await on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Keith Patton)
• Using an AdControl in a Trial App (Windows Phone) (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #743 – Using Touch Manipulation Events to Scale an Element (Sean Sexton)
• Creating a Keyboard Buffer in Windows Store Apps (Chris Gardner)
• Exploring Raw Notifications in Windows Store apps (Andrea Boschin)
• Windows 8 Drone… as in "AR.Drone 2.0 API for Windows Store Apps" (Greg Duncan)
• CatelR# – a niche plugin for the Catel framework (Matt Ellis)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• SvcPerf – Trace Analysis Tool for WCF Released (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Sorting C# collections that have no collating sequence (Andreas Gieriet)
• Using Visual Studio database projects in real life (Gunnar Peipman)
• Undoing a change will now undo a check-out in Visual Studio 2012 (Jamie Thomson)
• Mono Improves Aync Support and MonoDevelop Adds NuGet (Jeff Martin)
• Attaching an MDF Database to LocalDb in Visual Studio the Easier Way (Julie Lerman)
• Quick Overview Video of MonoTouch for C# Devs (Roger Peters)
• Use Intel Perceptual Computing SDK with VS2012 (Vikas Vermano)
• Building a Game (Guest Post) (John Sonmez)
• C++ Generics: Meta-Programming and Variadic Templates (Diego Dagum)
• Paint.NET PSD Plugin 2.3.0 (CodePlex)
• 2000 C# Things #767 – A struct Is Implicitly Sealed (Sean Sexton)
• Integrating a Windows 8 Store Game with Azure Mobile Services a.k.a Zumo (Sumit Maitra)
• OData for Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)
• Adventures in Debugging: The NHibernate “don’t flush the Session” Error (Derek Greer)
• Speeding up your Netduino project (a view from a Desktop dev) (Greg Duncan)
• Beware Singletons that Raise Events (Jesse Taber)
• When you have a SAFEARRAY, you need to know what it is a SAFEARRAY *of* (Raymond Chen)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Flush Mode (Ricardo Peres)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Interview and Book Review: A practical approach to large-scale Agile development (Ben Linders)
• Book Review: It’s Already Inside: Nurturing Your Innate Leadership for Business and Life Success (J.D. Meier)
• 5 Tips on How to Use Metrics in an Agile Project (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
• Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet (Dylan Smith)
• Designing file names – improving user experience for file downloads (Rob Relyea)
• Iterative Software Development, Part 3 and Iterative Software Development, Part 4 (Scott Leber)
• What Is A UX Consultant? (DevToolsGuy)
• Organizing commands and queries (Jef Claes)
• Effectively Planning UX Design Projects (Jesmond Allen & James Chudley)
• Using Data Driving Wisely and Data Driven Testing: What’s a Good Dataset Size? (Jim Holmes)
• Automation as inoculations (John Guin)
• Article: Interview and Book Review: Continuous Delivery and DevOps – A Quickstart Guide (Manuel Pais)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• CryptoLicensing v2013 for .Net with Activation Console, Mono for Android Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Test Studio for iOS 2.0 – Annotations Delay (Anthony Rinaldi)
• Stupid Question 136: Does iOS have metatags for connecting apps to the store like Windows Store Apps? (Iris Classon)
• Building The Prototype: iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 2) (Shlomo Goltz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 250: Peter Ritchie on Distributed Computing (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 464: The lost show and what we are playing (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 296: Microsoft’s Secret Power Broker (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Peter Farrelly and The Nerdist Podcast – Mark Hamill (Chris Hardwick)
• The Tablet Show – Atley Hunter Built 40 Win 8 Apps in 10 Days (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Vergecast 062 – January 24th, 2013 (Brendan Murphy)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 167 – 01.22.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 167 – 01.23.13 and Engadget Podcast 328 – 01.24.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Video: Do You Have An Education Strategy? (Paul Ballard)
• Podcast: Windows 8, Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, and computer scientist Yaw Anokwa (Todd Bishop)
• TWC9: Fall Fury, Azure push, Windows Phone 7.8 SDK, CHEEVOS! | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Episode 99 – Windows Azure Media Services General Availibility | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Mingfeiy, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)

 

Community / Events

• More on "Craftsmanship" (Ted Neward)
• Speaking at North Dallas .NET Users Group on ASP.NET SignalR (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Geekspace: The Technically Philly HQ (Colleen T. Reese)

 

Database

• SQLAuthority News – Developing Multi-tenant Applications for the Cloud, 3rd Edition – Book Download and SQL SERVER – Basic Explanation of SET LOCK_TIMEOUT – How to Not Wait on Locked Query (Pinal Dave)
• MongoDB: How to include and exclude the fields you want in results and How do you manage SQL Agent Jobs when using mirroring? and MongoDB: How to limit results and how to page through results (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB on the Cloud (Oren Eini)
• Continuous deployment of SSDT database projects to Windows Azure using Team Foundation Service (Jamie Thomson)
• Day 21 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Who Deleted That Data? and Day 22 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Which DBCC CHECK Commands Update Last Known Good DBCC (Robert Davis)

 

SharePoint

• prePress: Exploring Microsoft SharePoint 2013: New Features & Functions (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Announcing PowerShell Cookbook Online Access (Lee Holmes)
• PoshInternals – Move-FileOnReboot, Remove-FileOnReboot and Get-PendingFileRenameOperation and PoshInternals – Install-BlueScreenSaver (Adam Driscoll)
• PowerShell Cmdlet Help Editor 1.0 (initial release) (CodePlex)
• StudioShell Update and a Related Effort (Jim Christopher)
• Batch Updating/Changing Visual Studio Projects with PowerShell (John Robbins)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft earnings cheat sheet: Windows is back to cash cow number one and Microsoft said to be testing an Outlook client for Windows RT (Mary Jo Foley)
• Effective Writing guidelines from Scott Meyers (Bill Wagner)
• Lucasfilm confirms J.J. Abrams will direct ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ (Bryan Bishop)
• Nokia announces Music+ subscription service: unlimited downloads, higher quality, lower price (Daniel Rubino)
• Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 (Taylor Soper)
• Big O Notation Basics (Richard Carr)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 26, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 27, 2013 and Interesting Finds: January 28, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, January 24th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, January 25th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1053 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading January 25, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Pie in the Sky (January 25, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for January 25, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 26, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: January 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/25/2013 and End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (1/25/2013) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #79 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1282 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-01-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Reblog: January 18 to January 24 (Jason Strate)
• Visual Studio ALM Links- Week 4/2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 25 Jan 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #52) (Craig Kitterman)

 

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