Dew Drop – March 5, 2013 (#1,509)

Top Links

• Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (S.Somasegar)
• Windows Azure Updates: Android Support, SQL Reporting Services, Active Directory, More… (Scott Guthrie)
• CTP4 (March) of VS/TFS 2012 Update 2 is available (Brian Harry)
• Monads, part four (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• Windows Azure, now with more enterprise access management! (Alex Simons)
• How to Build a Better Button in CSS3 (Craig Buckler)
• Creating a Line Chart using the HTML5 Canvas (Dan Wahlin)
• Learn CSS Layout (Greg Smith)
• Announcing a New Preview of the LightSwitch HTML Client (John Stallo)
• HTML5 offline MVC: Part 1 (Sebastiaan Meijerink)
• ASP.NET 4.5 – FAQs on SignalR Script Exceptions (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Horizontal Drop-Down Menu and Vertical Icon Menu (Mary Lou)

XAML

• Dynamic columns in the Silverlight DataGrid (Jimmy Larkin)
• Advanced MVVM concepts using Contoso Cookbook: An analysis of a complete MVVM application: Part 3 (Gill Cleeren)
• Chatting up your Windows Phone 8 Apps (Greg Duncan)
• Editable WPF controls (Jon Harrop)
• A better WPF Browser Control (Robert Köpferl)
• 2000 WPF Things #769 – Rotation Transforms (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day 5/Mar/2013 – Applied WPF 4 in Context (Tatworth)
• What Windows Azure Mobile Services can do for an app and Alive with activity, part 2: Writing and debugging services for live tiles (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• LightSwitch Succinctly – Free eBook by Jan Van (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Getting Started with LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP4 (Beth Massi)
• March CTP (“CTP4”) of Visual Studio Update 2 now available (Charles Sterling)
• Understanding IntelliTrace Part VI: Working with IntelliTrace Logs (Zain Naboulsi)
• 2000 C# Things #793 – Being Notified When an Object’s Properties Change, Part II (Sean Sexton)
• Connecting to Live with the C++ REST SDK (Andy Rich)
• Team Foundation Service Update – Mar 4 (Brian Harry)
• Extending the OData Async Extensions to DataServiceCollection<T> Methods (Glenn Gailey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through (Charles Sterling)
• Kanban customizable columns, “under the hood” (Gregg Boer)
• Coders, Musicians and Cooks (Mike Hadlow)
• Test Better (Phil Haack)
• 8 Tips Toward A Better Deployment Process (Andy Schwam)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Native RTL support in Android 4.2 (Fabrice Di Meglio)
• iOS Tips and Tricks: Associate a File Type with your App – Part 1 (Stephen Zaharuk)
• MS Open Tech develops the open source Android SDK for Windows Azure Mobile Services (Olivier Bloch)
• PhoneGap 2.5 Enables Application Cache and InAppBrowser Geolocation (Anand Narayanaswamy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Tomas Petricek: How F# Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Data (Charles Torre)
• Episode 217 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ed Wilson talks about his new PowerShell books (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps (Part 2) (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Video: Gather Testing Intel on Your JavaScript with Jasmine Spies (Paul Ballard)
• Yet Another Podcast #92–Jeremy Likness on Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #30 – MCTS Windows Internals | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for March 4th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• That Thing They Call "Unemployment" (Ted Neward)
• The Week Ahead – March 4, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Ultimate Coder – Week 3: Blog posting (Pete O’Hanlon)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Exporting Query Results to CSV using SQLCMD (Pinal Dave)
• Giving only insert permissions to a table for a new login (Denis Gobo)
• Introduction to the SQL BCP Utility (Brady Upton)
• Building Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with PowerPivot (Adam & Jennifer Salvo)
• Writing a transaction manager on top of LevelDB (Rob Ashton)
• Standardize Table Aliases (Sam Vanga)
• SSMS – Enabling Ctrl+R Shortcut to show or hide query results/messages pane (Kevin Conan)

SharePoint

• ASP.NET Training Videos Delivered via SharePoint (Bil Simser)
• Save 50% off SharePoint ebooks through March 6, 2013 (Kim Spilker)
• Retrieving User Name and MetaData through WCF Web Services for SharePoint 2010 (Tom Hearn)

Miscellaneous

• Jobs in IT: Microsoft is often misunderstood (MS JobsBlog)
• Memo to Microsoft – If you want Windows 8 to succeed, among other things, get apps in the store that people want (John Petersen)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 4, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1308 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 4th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1079 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-03-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #22 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 March 2013 (Geek Champ)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 March 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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