Dew Drop – February 18, 2013 (#1,500)

Top Links

• Introducing Durandal (Rob Eisenberg)
• Static constructors, part four (Eric Lippert)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2 Update (Scott Guthrie)
• Optimize your delegate usage (Filip Ekberg)
• Portable HttpClient for .NET Framework and Windows Phone (Immo Landwerth)

Web Development

• Slideshow HTML App, using Angular (Paul Hammant)
• Qt GUI Toolkit Ported to JavaScript via Emscripten (Devon Govett)
• jQuery Learning Center: Welcome! (Adam J. Sontag)
• Consuming an ASP.NET Web API OData Service with Breeze (Brian Noyes)
• Working with Knockout.js Part 5: Working with visible Binding (Dhananjay Kumar)
• jQuery Migrate 1.1.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Testing HTML5 AppCache with Fiddler (Eric Lawrence)
• Periodic Notifications with Windows Azure Mobile Services (Josh Twist)
• Azure websocket server with node.js and socket.io (Peter Daukintis)
• [Sample Of Feb 16th] ASP.NET call web service across domain and [Sample Of Feb 17th] Windows Azure Access Control for Single Sign-On (Philip Fu)
• SitePoint Code Challenge: CSS — Things Are About to Get Dicey (Sarah Hawk)
• jQuery UI 1.10.1 (Scott González)
• Reveal.js: A 3D Presentation Framework; Version 2.2 Released (Tim Heckel)
• Node v0.8.20 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Adding An ngRepeat List Delimiter In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• 2013 Investments: Single Page Applications (Bill Wagner)
• 7 of the Best Code Playgrounds (Craig Buckler)
• Why Mozilla Matters And Won’t Switch To WebKit (Frederic Lardinois)
• Practical Azure #11: Worker Roles (Jim O’Neil)
• Starting with AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)

XAML

• Customize the Windows Phone ToggleButton (Nick Randolph)
• XamDataGrid SelectedItems for MVVM (Petar Monov)
• Consuming ADO.NET Entity Framework from Silverlight (Berthin Ramampiandra)
• Windows Phone 8 – Adding Charting Capabilities to Conference Buddy (Michael Crump)
• Coming from WPF or Silverlight: What is the WinRT UI framework about? (Philip Schäfer)
• 2000 WPF Things #758 – Access Actual Height and Width from within LayoutUpdated Event Handler (Sean Sexton)
• Mixed Native and Managed Debugging Improvements for Windows Store Apps (Brad Sullivan)
• Keep the GridView under control with style and templates (Andrea Boschin)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Quick Start Guide to Windows 8 Finder Template Backend Server (Mark Arteaga)
• Implement a ‘smart banner’ for your Windows Store app (Tim Heuer)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Capturing the Standard Output of a Process (Richard Carr)
• Talk: The New Async Design Patterns (Lucian Wischik)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 3 – Run Visual Studio 2012 as Admin in Windows 8 (Dirk Strauss)
• Multivaluelist control in TFS Work Item Tracking (Ewald Hofman)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 3–After updating, editing work items from web gives you TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred. (Gregg Boer)
• Visual Studio and the Surface Pro: Great News and Not So Great News and Surface Pro and Visual Studio Part Two: The Puppies and Unicorns Return! (John Robbins)
• Visual Studio 2012 Tip: Better Event Handler Code Completion (Andy Schwam)
• Book Excerpt: LightSwitch in Action (Michael Washington)
• A new book on Kinect by Abhijit Jana – A must read (Abhishek Sur)
• MEF 2.0 – mini series: part 8 (Composition options and exception handling) and Immutable Collections (Bnaya Eshet)
• Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 (Brian Harry)
• There is a new GAC with .NET 4.0? (Code Inside Team)
• Left join with Entity Framework (Method Syntax) (Etienne Giust)
• Interview Question: What is Yield Return? Let’s have fun with it (Kunal Chowdhury)
• String Calculator kata with Autofixture exercise 8 (Mark Seemann)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Identity Identifiers (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #782 – You Can Create an Instance of a struct Without the new Keyword (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Misapplying Bayes-Theorem to Agile Versus Waterfall (Paul Hammant)
• Getting Started with Agile Results Revisited (JD Meier)
• Projections 4: Event Matching (Greg Young)
• Adding the R to CQS: some storage options (Jef Claes)
• The Composition Kata (K. Scott Allen)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Test Studio for iOS 2.0 – TSReport (Anthony Rinaldi)
• More Great iOS Developer Podcasts (Rob Bazinet)
• Converting The Prototype: iOS Prototyping With Adobe Fireworks And TAP (Part 3) (Shlomo Goltz)
• Our view on the mobile market (Bill Wagner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 253: Kevin Griffin on Winsitter (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 467: We discuss Dead Space 3, A:CM and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 104 – “Niches for Riches” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Defrag Tools: #28 – WinDbg – Scheduling | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Talk: Async Part 2 – for architects, under the hood (Lucian Wischik)
• The Tablet Show – Rocky Lhotka Deploys WinRT apps in the Enterprise (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Use Unit Test Triangulation To Build Better Code (Paul Ballard)
• TWC9: VS 2012 Update 2 CTP3, Save Project As, Zooming Windows 8 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Nisha Singh)
• 047 JSJ Specialized vs Monolithic with James Halliday and Tom Dale (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Engadget Podcast 331 – 02.15.13 (James Trew)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for February 18th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – april 27th (Maarten Balliauw)
• 2013 MVP Summit and 20th Anniversary (Paulette Suddarth)
• 2013 MVP Summit Tips from MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• Geek of the Week: Splunk’s Brad Lovering on big data and ‘disruptive transitions’ (Todd Bishop)
• The Week Ahead-February 18, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Join Us for An Experiment (Ambrose Little)

Database

• SSRS Properties – RepeatWith and SSRS Properties – VerticalAlign (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Fix : Error – sqljdbc_auth.dll Issue – com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host localhost, port 1433 has failed and SQLAuthority News – NuoDB Announces Webinar Series To Demystify Cloud Data Management (Pinal Dave)
• Listing all RESTORE and BACKUP operations currently going on your SQL Server and MongoDB: Returning documents where fields are null or not existing and Ten things added after SQL Server 2000 that I like the most (Denis Gobo)
• ETL is dead, long live AP2 ? and Weekend reading: Improvements to ODBC Data Source Adminstrator & dacpac vs bacpacs (Jamie Thomson)
• Automatically merging indexes in RavenDB for optimal performance and Next, we run new RavenDB indexes in memory (Rob Ashton)

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE (or legacy) will do *everything* (and it’s really easy to start!) (Michael S. Kaplan)

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Extension – Extended Small Basic Library (ESL) 0.4.1a (Ed Price)
• Review of the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 for Development (Jeremy Likness)
• Announcing LearningLine: Instructor-led online training from DevelopMentor (Michael Kennedy)
• Being Stolen From Sucks (Nick Berardi)
• If A Social Network Falls In A Forest… (Sarah Perez)
• Biologists create “Zombie Cells” (Steven Hodson)
• Introducing Boxen (Will Farrington)
• Phil "Bad Astronomer" Plait explains the Russian meteor incident (Xeni Jardin)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 16, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 17, 2013 and Interesting Finds: February 18, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, February 15th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 15, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Collective #51 (Mary Lou)
• Double Source #1067 and Double Shot #1068 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Recommended reading from mrdenny for February 15, 2013 (Denny Cherry)
• Pie in the Sky (February 15, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Reading Notes #82 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1297 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 16, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: February 18, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/18/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 10 Facebook Faves – February 10-16, 2013 (Bob Rhubart)
• Reblog: February 8 to February 14 and Last Weeks Top 20 “Reading” Links #20 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Visual Studio ALM Links–Week 7 / 2013 (Ricci Gian Maria)

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