Dew Drop – February 8, 2013 (#1,496)

Top Links

• Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who’s being dishonest with storage space? (Ed Bott)
• Focusing on the work, not the methodology (Steven Sinofsky)
• Compilation as a Service and the next generation plugins (Filip Ekberg)
• Build a Hybrid App for Windows Phone 8 using appMobi (David Isbitski)

Web Development

• Enhanced Accessibility for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Databound Controls and Why This Matters (Antonio Stoilkov)
• Error: Visual Studio 2012 hangs or crashes when adding new folder in Windows Store App with Javascript and Html (Iris Classon)
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Released (John Resig)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: URL Mapping (Ricardo Peres)
• An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML5 Application (Michael Washington)
• Web Performance 101: An opinionated guide to the 22 links every developer should read (Grant Palin)
• Angular Instead of Media-Queries (Paul Hammant)
• Client-side Messaging Essentials (Jim Cowart)
• Using WebAPIs to make the web layer more capable (Robert Nyman)
• Flatten Javascript Pyramids with Async.js (Nicolas Perriault)

XAML

• Pro WPF 4.5 in C# 4th Edition (Mike James)
• WP8 New Location APIs : Part 2 Location Tracking and Background Location Tracking (Windows Phone Geek)
• Intro to MVVM in four easy episodes…. and Composing Maintainable XAML Apps, the nearly two hour video workshop… (Greg Duncan)
• WPF in Manufacturing Industries (Michael Crump)
• 2000 WPF Things #752 – Tracking Total Scale when Scaling by Touch Manipulation (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 1 – PowerPoint Storyboarding (Dirk Strauss)
• Coded UI Test – Re-use and Customize the code generated with CUIT Builder using Visual Studio 2012 (Gouri Sohoni)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Explicit Interface Implementation (James Michael Hare)
• Improvements in Visual Studio ALM from the ALM Summit (Martin Hinshelwood)
• C#.NET – Removing Duplicate Records From DataTable (Noor Ahmad Feroozi)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 1: Understanding Code Map (Zain Naboulsi)
• 2000 C# Things #776 – Declaring and Using Nullable structs (Sean Sexton)
• .NET made simple. Apps made awesome. New release coming soon—be the first to see what’s new! (Paulina Tsolova)
• Events Handling as Culprit to Memory Leakage – A Developer Must Care about it (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Team Foundation Server 2012 and System Center 2012 Operations Manager Integration Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Lab / Demo Script (Brian Keller)
• A Different Kind of Entity Framework (Damon Payne)
• String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 2 (Mark Seemann)
• MonoGame gets Shocked! (Simon Jackson)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Refactoring towards "better" code (Mike Moore)
• Embracing Semantic Logging (Grigori Melnik)
• Ruling Code Quality Regression (Patrick Smacchia)
• Mentorship in Software Craftsmanship – Part 3 (Sandro Mancuso)

Other Mobile Platforms

• How To Define User Roles in a Sencha Touch Application (Jorge Ramon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 1) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps (Peter Laudati & Brian Hitney)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 169 – 02.07.13 (James Trew)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 79 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• Microsoft TechEd North America 2013, New Orleans, LA June 3 – 6, Registration opens Feb 12 (Greg Duncan)
• Boston Code Camp–Call for Sessions (Jim O’Neil)
• What the NDA Means at the MVP Global Summit (Kerry Herger)

Database

• SSRS Properties – Interactive Sort (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Backup and Restore Database Using Command Prompt – SQLCMD (Pinal Dave)
• Getting the biggest tables in your SQL Server database (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB 2.01 Stable Release (Oren Eini)
• The Fastest Query is the One You Never Make (Brent Ozar)
• Obtaining rowcounts when using Composable DML [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• How to Drive Sustainable SharePoint Adoption in Your Organization (Dux R. Sy)

PowerShell

• A Month of PowerShell – Day 7 (Script Input/Output) (Wayne Sheffield)
• Windows Azure SQL Database Management with PowerShell (Craig Kitterman)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s ‘Blue’ wave is coming to more than just Windows (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading February 7, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 7th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1061 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1291 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 8, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/7/2013 (Silverlight Show)

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