Dew Drop – April 5, 2013 (#1,521)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available (S.Somasegar)
• How to: Install Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Offline (Rob Caron)
• .NET Memory Allocation Profiling with Visual Studio 2012 (Stephen Toub)
• Hosting ASP.NET Web API in LinqPad (Filip W)
• Announcing the Release of the LightSwitch HTML Client! (LightSwitch Team)
• Syncfusion ‘Succinctly’ e-Book Series (ihaynes)

Web Development

• PhpStorm 6.0.1 EAP build 129.177 (Alexey Gopachenko)
• WebAPI Tip #7: Beautiful Message Handlers (K. Scott Allen)
• Step by Step working with Windows Azure Mobile Service Data in JavaScript based Windows Store Apps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET WebForms: New Shiny Things (kashyapa)
• Password Caching when Publishing with Git to Windows Azure Web Sites (Nathan Totten)
• JustCode Delivers Again! Painless Unit Testing in WinJS Applications (Phil Japikse)
• Getting into Ember.js: The Next Steps (Rey Bango)
• Debugging ASP.NET Web API with Route Debugger (Rick Anderson)
• Making your existing ASP.NET MVC Web Site Mobile Friendly (Suprotim Agarwal)
• APress Deal of the Day 5/Apr/2013 – Pro jQuery (Tatworth)
• Writing an OData parser – starting at the beginning (Rob Ashton)
• Google’s Blink: a few interesting facts (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Children of The DOM (James Edwards)
• Modular Javascript + MVVM for Silverlight Developers (Braulio Diez)

XAML

• Win8 XAML App : how to debug the JavaScript in a WebView ! (Jonathan Antoine)
• Step by Step working with Windows Azure Mobile Service Data in XAML based Windows Store Apps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• CODE Framework 4.0.30403.0 (CodePlex)
• Design-time Data for Windows Store Apps with C# (Jeremy Likness)
• Integrating Marked Up analytics with Caliburn Micro (Nigel Sampson)
• 2000 WPF Things #792 – Matrix Multiplication, Part II – Multiplying a Row by a Column (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reviewing LevelDB: Part XI–Reading from Sort String Tables via the TableCache (Oren Eini)
• 2000 C# Things #816 – Named Argument and Optional Parameter Combinations (Sean Sexton)
• VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) released today (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM! (Charles Sterling)
• C# Static interfaces – Take 3 – redirect (Jérémie Chassaing)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is here (Visual Studio Team)
• Don’t forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes mandatory (Raymond Chen)
• Documenting C++ APIs with Doxygen (Diego Dagum)
• Build faster and high performing native applications using PGO (Ankit Asthana)
• What does the langversion switch do? (Eric Lippert)
• Upgrade your 2012 process template from RTM to Update 2 (Ewald Hofman)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Primer, the v2… (Greg Duncan)
• 94 Expert Tips for Agile Teams (Hamid Shojaee)
• Protecting Your Code (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Distributed Continuous Integration – Keep the Mainline Clean (Michael Chletsos)
• The design process : A quick overview on my daily work (Daniela Panfili)

Other Mobile Platforms

• 5 Mobile Development Blogs You Can’t Code Without (DevToolsGuy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 054 JSJ JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 008: You Snooze, You Lose; Kodu Challenge; Mail.Ru Group Award; and Mr. Octo! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 85 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 072 – April 4th, 2013 (Ross Miller)
• Video: Take A Lap Around Xcode Without Breaking A Sweat (Paul Ballard)

Community / Events

• Build 2013 Sold Out (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Announcing the Dropbox Sync Component and Dropbox at Evolve (David Siegel)

Database

• Rolling up multiple rows into a single row and column for SQL Server data (Douglas P. Castilho)
• SQL SERVER – Group by Rows and Columns using XML PATH – Efficient Concating Trick (Pinal Dave)
• Detecting Database Drift using SSDT (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Workflow Improvements and Changes in SharePoint 2013 March PU + RTM Developer Tools and Updates for SharePoint 2013 Workflow (Andrew Connell)
• LightSwitch HTML Client & SharePoint Resources–Get Started Building HTML5 Business Apps Today! (Beth Massi)

Miscellaneous

• Developer Humor: Eight Bytes Walk Into A Bar (Dara Monasch)
• Does Facebook’s new ‘Home’ put too much Facebook in your face? (podcast) (Larry Magid)
• Announcing Red Stripe Deals—a weekly sale on apps and games (Michael Stroh)
• Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen recreate classic photo from 1981 (Sam Byford)

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #1329 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, April 4th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1101 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 4 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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