Dew Drop – March 27, 2013 (#1,515)

Top Links

• Fallback HTML5 audio tags for a simple MP3 podcast are harder than you’d think (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing Build 2013 (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Windows Phone Apps – Watch Your Code for Hidden Activity (Dennis Delimarsky)
• WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Prerelease (WCF Team)

 

Web Development

• Running unit tests when deploying ASP.NET to Windows Azure Web Sites (Maarten Balliauw)
• Kendo Editor Wrapper for ASP.NET MVC (kashyapa)
• Telerik Reporting in MVC? Sure. It takes 8 quick steps. (Carey Payette)
• CSS Architectures: New Best Practices (Denise Jacobs)
• ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms Features – Strongly-Typed Data Controls (Dan Wahlin)
• CSS3 Video Tutorial: not Selector (Russ Weakley)
• WebAPI Tip #4: Does This Framework Do SOA? (K. Scott Allen)
• Notes on developing an API – Mobozi, a WebFWD project (Nick Gottlieb)
• Scaling NServiceBus Sagas (Jimmy Bogard)
• 14 Azure whitepapers, ebooks and guidance… (Greg Duncan)

 

XAML

• How to Create Appointment in WP8 using SaveAppointmentTask? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Ensuring your Windows store app knows of a language change (Tim Heuer)
• Windows Store Apps: A Guide for WPF and Silverlight Developers, Part 2 (Joel Fjordén)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ReSharper Code Analysis Goes Beyond Visual Studio (Dmitry Matveev)
• Developing an app with the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, part 1 of 3 (Roberto Sonnino)
• Signed-In Part 5 – Search Screen and Dynamic UI (Andy Kung)
• Connect a Test Controller to Team Foundation Service (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Firing an Entity Framework Database Initializer from within DbContext (Rick Strahl)
• 2000 C# Things #808 – Adding Parameters to an Extension Method (Sean Sexton)
• The ODataLib Dependency Issues in the Storage Client Library for .NET are Now Resolved (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit testing multi threaded code–Timers (Dror Helper)
• Quality is in the Details (Chris Eargle)
• My relationship with SOLID – The misunderstood L (Rob Ashton)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to install packaged apps in Firefox OS – options and tools (Robert Nyman)
• Producing Better Bindings #4: Signatures (Sebastien Pouliot)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 221 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeremy Moskowitz on Group Policy (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – William Fichtner (Chris Hardwick)
• Building Games for Windows 8 (bjthompson)
• AppBizDev Podcast Episode 13: Jeff Turns Memories into Collages (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Engadget HD Podcast 342 – 03.26.2013 (James Trew)
• Windows Store Weekly: Gunpowder, YumVy Cooking Companion, HealthVault, Qool, The ESPN App | Windows Store Weekly (Laura Foy)
• Video: Living the Android Lifecycle (Paul Ballard)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for March 26th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft acknowledges Blue, announces BUILD 2013 for late June (Chris Welch)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to GUIDs – SQL Queries 2012 Joes 2 Pros Volume 3 – Advanced Query Tools and Techniques for SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Looking Back and Springing Ahead (Jeffrey Meisner)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, March 26th (Rob Caron)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 27, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/27/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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