Dew Drop – February 20, 2013 (#1,502)

Top Links

• The Evolution of DevLabs (S.Somasegar)
• .NET Framework Documentation Improvements (Brandon Bray)
• Xamarin enables iOS developers to write C# apps using Visual Studio (Mary Jo Foley)
• Portable Prism (Windows Phone Geek)
• Modernize your WPF app’s with the Modern UI for WPF Templates (Greg Duncan)
• Deeptissue.js A Gesture Library For the Modern Web (Chris Love)

Web Development

• Book Review: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja (Ian Elliot)
• WebSocket support for .NET and node.js apps (AppHarbor Team)
• dhtmlxScheduler 3.7 Released with Touch Screen Support (dhtmlx Team)
• Using Markdown in Sublime Text 2 on Windows (Julian M. Bucknall)
• What is Method Invocation Pattern in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Two ways to set a conditional breakpoint in JavaScript (Jonathan Creamer)
• WebStorm 6 EAP build 126.309 (K. Safonov)
• Building Amazing Apps with the ASP.NET EmberJS Template (Nathan Totten)
• Isolation in MongoDB (Giorgio Sironi)
• Introduction to ASP.NET Web API (Ranjan.D)
• AngularJS Intellisense in Visual Studio 2012 (Mads Kristensen)
• Beware of returning IEnumerable in a Web Api action (Rory Primrose)
• oAuth versus Application Keys (thycotic)
• Strategies for Testing IE on Different Platforms (Rey Bango)
• ECMAScript 6 and Arrow Function (Ariya)
• YUI 3.9.0pr3 (Andrew Wooldridge)
• MooTools 1.2.6 Released (kentaromiura)

XAML

• Windows Phone/Windows 8 App Dev Study Group (Kevin D. Wolf)
• 2000 WPF Things #760 – Horizontal and Vertical Alignment Basics (Sean Sexton)
• RadControls for Windows Phone Q1 2013 brings your apps to the next level (Todor Petrov)
• Some Lessons Learned From My Pet Project – Beem (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Windows Store LOB Apps with Kona: Getting Started (Brian Noyes)
• Grid, AutoComplete, new Chart features plus more in RadControls for Windows 8 Q1 2013 (Georgi Atanasov)
• The Expression death march continues… Expression Gallery is now locked and going to be killed on March 7th (Greg Duncan)
• Contoso Food & Dining Sample App (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 4 – Understand Your Code With Dependency Graphs (Dirk Strauss)
• Meet ReSharper 7.1.2, dotTrace 5.3.1 Performance (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Easier Tuple-Like Classes in C# (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Trust and NuGet (Phil Haack)
• TryParse Extension Methods using Expressions (Jon Canning)
• [Sample Of Feb 19th] How to implement Pivot and Unpivot in Entity Framework (Philip Fu)
• 2000 C# Things #784 – When Not to Use a Static Class (Sean Sexton)
• Calculating an Exponential Back Off Delay Based on Failed Attempts (Alexandre Brisebois)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Building Trust And Credibility: How To Sell Your UX Design Solution To Clients (Rian van der Merwe)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Cryptography to Store Credentials Safely (Trevor Johns)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 2) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps (Peter Laudati, Brian Hitney & G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Chris Kluwe (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget HD Podcast 337 – 02.19.2013 (James Trew)
• Windows Store Weekly- Skulls of the Shogun, Perfect365, ebay, Penguin Almighty, Tasks by Telerik | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• People Talking Tech Episode 023 – Chris Webb (Denny Cherry)

Community / Events

• The Pluralsight Opportunity and Calling Microsoft MVPs – Share Your Expertise with the World (Aaron Skonnard)

Database

• Basic SQL Server XML Querying (Seth Delconte)
• How Does SQL Server Store Data? (Brent Ozar)
• Fix for Entity Framework poor INSERT performance with SQL Server Compact and server generated keys (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Restore SQL Database using SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #044 – Video (Pinal Dave)
• Manufacturing a MongoDB ObjectId for the past (Nuri Halperin)
• The problem with result transformations in RavenDB (Rob Ashton)

SharePoint

PowerShell

• A Month of PowerShell – Day 20 (Databases: Table-Valued Functions) (Unknown Author)
• PowerShell ISE will do *everything* (but good luck finding it on Windows 8 without help!) (Michael S. Kaplan)

Miscellaneous

• Some Notes On Screencasting (Derick Bailey)
• Nokia Music+ now live for US Lumia owners (Joseph Volpe)
• Free 5 Hours From Executify (Nick Berardi)
• Which Integrated Development Environment is Best? (Paul Ballard)
• You’re just another carriage return line feed in the wall (Scott Hanselman)
• Get You Some DZone Refcardz (Tim Murphy)
• Kinect 2.0 specs leak, improvements all round (Zac)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 20, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading February 19, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1299 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 19th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1070 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 20, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/20/2013 (Silverlight Show)

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