Dew Drop – February 15, 2013 (#1,499)

Top Links

• MVVM Light V4.1.27.0 in Nuget (Laurent Bugnion)
• Fun with Object and Collection Initializers (Jon Skeet)
• Introducing Semantic Logging (Grigori Melnik)
• Static constructors, part three (Eric Lippert)
• Understanding the Request Line (Eric Lawrence)
• Opera and WebKit: a personal perspective (Bruce Lawson)

Web Development

• Backbone.js Tutorial: Testing with Mocks (Alex Young)
• PeerJS: A Peer to Peer Networking Library in JavaScript using WebRTC (Devon Govett)
• Windows Azure Powershell 0.6.10 is out and check out $DebugPreference feature to get Request and Response on PS console (Avkash Chauhan)
• A Subtle CSS Rotation to Delight Users (Chris Love)
• Need to search in large datasets? Don’t worry, Telerik’s ASP.NET SearchBox control has got you covered. (Dimitar Terziev)
• Udacity teaches you HTML5 Game Development (Greg Duncan)
• Kimbo.js – A Fast & Lightweight ECMAScript 5 Only Compatible JavaScript Library (Hirvesh Munogee)
• Getting a MIME type from a file extension in ASP.NET 4.5 (Jim Wang)
• WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines (John Resig)
• WebStorm 6 EAP build 126.254 (K. Safonov)
• Build A Custom View Engine to Create Excel Files in MVC (Nick Harrison)
• WordPress Theming – Partial Templates with get_template_part() (Grant Palin)
• Using RestSharp to pass a set of variables to an ASP.Net MVC Web API action (Rory Primrose)
• Navigating Between Files in the IDE: Best Practices (Mikhail Vink)
• WordPress – Numbered Page Navigation Without Any Plugins (Noor Ahmad Feroozi)
• What Makes Sencha’s ExtJS Library So Powerful (Peter Kellner)
• Serialization madness, Unicode edition (Jimmy Bogard)
• Directive Link, $observe, And $watch Functions Execute Inside An AngularJS Context (Ben Nadel)
• Responsive Web Design: Planning For The Future (Andrew Thomas)
• Easy content templates for Orchard, take 2 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• LightSwitch OData Tip: Easily Expose Many-to-Many Relationships using Queries (Beth Massi)

XAML

• New Launchers in Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Settings panel: Windows Store Apps JS/HTML and C#/XAML side by side (Iris Classon)
• Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit – Now for Windows Phone 8 (Jennifer Leaf)
• Make your app more attractive to customers in the Windows Phone Store (Kami LeMonds)
• [Sample Of Feb 12nd] Host WPF control in VS ToolWindow (Philip Fu)
• The Ultimate Developer Resource for Windows 8, Windows Phone & Windows Azure (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• 2000 WPF Things #756 – Making Element Stop at Edge of Window When Using Inertia and #757 – RenderSize, ActualHeight and ActualWidth (Sean Sexton)
• How To: GroupBy with WCF Data Services and Telerik virtual collection for WPF (Vladimir Enchev)
• Windows Store App Enterprise Deployment mini-guide (Iris Classon)
• Win 8 – Conference Buddy. Storing to Local or Roaming Files (Jesse Liberty)
• Windows 8: Be a good sharing citizen (John V. Petersen)
• How using Raygun.io makes Windows Store submission a breeze (Jason Fauchelle)
• Windows Store App – Adding Advertising (Phillip Haydon)

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to Return Dictionary As a Result From a LINQ Query in C#? (Senthil Kumar)
• Article: Chris Patterson on Automated Builds in TFS (Jonathan Allen)
• Targeting Mono in Visual Studio 2012 (Nathan Evans)
• Understanding IntelliTrace Part II: Where Do I Use IntelliTrace? (Zain Naboulsi)
• Projecting js code from a .NET business layer (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 C# Things #780 – The Case for Immutable structs and #781 – A struct Can Implement an Interface (Sean Sexton)
• How do I launch a file as if it were a text file, even though its extension is not .txt? (Raymond Chen)
• String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 5 and String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 6 and String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 7 (Mark Seemann)
• Event-Based Programming: What Async Has Over Sync (Jonathan Creamer)
• Projections 2: A Simple SEP Projection and Projections 3: Using State (Greg Young)
• Decompiling .NET Applications (Filip Ekberg)
• Glima!… Gilma v3 is a .Net 4.0 update… (Greg Duncan)
• Serializing unsupported data types to ApplicationData.Current.RoamingSettings (Adam Hoffman)
• On Missing Mono Version Control (Dave Burke)
• .NET Shell Extensions – Shell Icon Overlay Handlers (Dave Kerr)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Retrospectives for Agile Adoption (Ben Linders)
• Don’t Let Scrum Make You Fragile (Jurgen Appelo)
• New pattern for the Design Patterns Library: Rules Pattern (Megan Russell)
• 10 Steps for Awesome Speech Recognition User Interface Design: Part 2 (Kim Logan)
• Mocking with Foq (Phillip Trelford)
• If You Want to Share Code, Please Add a License (Rob Larsen)
• Learning From the Ghosts of Software Past (K. Scott Allen)
• Features I would love source control tools to have (Paul Hammant)
• Financial charting with Ignite UI (Damyan Petev)
• Intuitive is a Bad Word in Design (Ambrose Little)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Linq to Objective-C (Colin Eberhardt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Yan Cui Builds Games in F# (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 157: Amir Rajan on dynamic web development with Oak and Gemini (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Agile 2012 – Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman – Discover to Deliver (Agile Toolkit Team)
• Tips for building a Windows Store app using XAML and C++: The Hilo project | Build 2012 (Scott Densmore)
• Defrag: Notifications, Scanners, Showing Paths | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 80 (Richard Hay)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 192: Open Source Development: Perspectives From Management Science (SE-Radio Team)
• What the Tech 152: Does the Ecosystem Matter? (Paul Thurrott)

Community / Events

• Quick Hits Issue #3: New Meetups, Game Development, and more! (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Building Web Apps with ASP.NET Jump Start with Jon Galloway and Scott Hanselman – Full Day Live (and recorded) Event on Feb 19 (Jon Galloway)
• Bellevue, WA Drinkup (Phil Haack)
• Geekadelphia Chats with Indy Hall’s Adam Teterus (Colleen T. Reese)
• Windows 8 App Madness Challenge (Jim O’Neil)
• GOTO Chicago, April 23-26: Get a JetBrains Discount (Robert Demmer)

Database

• SSRS Properties – Document Map and SSRS Properties – WritingMode (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SSRS – Linking one report to another report (Kevin Conan)
• SQL SERVER – Development Productivity Tool – dbForge Studio for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Getting file size, space used and space free information for a SQL Server database and BULK INSERT data where the row terminator is a linefeed in SQL Server (Denis Gobo)
• T-SQL Gotcha (Chris McGowan)
• SSDT database projects were not always going to output T-SQL… (Jamie Thomson)
• Parsename to Extract Precision and Scale values‏ From Decimal Numbers (Madhivanan)
• Buffer pool disfavoring (Paul Randal)
• Building SOLID Databases: Interface Segregation, or Keep Stored Procedures Simple (Chris Travers)
• Getting rid of temporary indexes in RavenDB (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

• Book Review: Pro SharePoint 2010 Development for Office 365 (Kay Ewbank)

PowerShell

• Script Replication with PowerShell (Chris McGowan)
• It’s Markdown, no, PowerShell. Wait its Markdown formatted PowerShell. (Jason Jarrett)
• Wiki-wiki, here’s some popular PowerShell add-ons… (Greg Duncan)

Miscellaneous

• Create a Visually Fun Clock – Small Basic Challenge (Ed Price)
• Adobe Photoshop Source Now Available! (For the 1990 v1.0.1 version… 😉 (Greg Duncan)
• Valve hires Xbox 360 controller veteran for hardware push (Todd Bishop)
• How Microsoft can save Xbox games for Windows Phone: Part 4 (Paul Acevedo)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1295 and The Morning Brew #1296 (Chris Alcock)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 02.01 ~ 02.15 (yuanjian)
• Distributed Weekly 194 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 12th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 13th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, February 14th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 13, 2013 and Geek Reading February 14, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Double Shot #1065 and Double Shot #1066 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily Links 13 Feb 2013 (Jax)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 14, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/14/2013 and Daily News Digest 15/02/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 13 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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