Dew Drop – April 16, 2013 (#1,528)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 CTP 1 (MS Downloads)
• ReSharper’s Web Path Mapping Explained (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Tip 2 expanded: Remove unused View Engines (Kevin Griffin)
• Thoughts On Going Mobile With An Existing Web Site (K. Scott Allen)
• The Tablet Show – Chris Love Talks Surface Pro, Mobile Development and More (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

• Use Backbone.js to make a structured web application (Devanand7)
• How to get started with MySQL and ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework (Jon Gallant)
• Trying out PHP Refactoring Browser (Giorgio Sironi)
• Testing Orchard drivers (Bertrand Le Roy)

XAML

• Speed your Phone App Dev with the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #799 – How Transforms Are Combined (Sean Sexton)
• Testing on a Microsoft Surface and other ARM devices (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Add or Remove Context Menu Group in Telerik RadRichTextBox (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using the LightSwitch ServerApplicationContext API (Matt Evans)
• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Intro and Considerations (Geek Champ)
• The final final definitive (for now) answer for Windows 8 and ClickOnce (Greg Duncan)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.3.6 (CodePlex)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Four Steps to create first WCF Service: Beginners Series (Dhananjay Kumar)
• 2000 C# Things #823 – A Nested Factory Class Implemented as a Singleton (Sean Sexton)
• Using opportunistic locks to get out of the way if somebody wants the file (Raymond Chen)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Collections of Elements and Inverse (Ricardo Peres)
• Classification Using Perceptrons (James McCaffrey)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New course: Advanced Unit Testing (Megan Russell)
• Agile Product Planning: Vision, Strategy, and Tactics (Roman Pichler)
• DZone Refcardz: Preparing for Continuous Delivery (Benjamin Wootton)
• Requirements: Whose Job are They Anyway? (Allan Kelly)
• Estimating for Software Development, Delivery, and Deadlines (David Starr)
• Project startup difficulties – The usual suspects (Filip Ekberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Animations, Actions And Particle Systems: Creating Realistic iPhone Games With Cocos2D (Zack Grossbart)
• Hello Sencha Touch 2.2 (Aditya Bansod)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Dominick Baier Updates Our Security in .NET 4.5 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 5) Using Windows Azure to Build Back-End Services for Windows 8 Apps – Adding Push Notifications (Brian Hitney, Peter Laudati & G. Andrew Duthie)
• Defrag Tools: #36 – CLR GC – Part 4 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Ping 174: Build conference, Xbox music streams, Farewell XP, Microsoft in Utah | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 15th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Philadelphia Science Festival Spotlight: The Science of the Living Dead [Ticket Giveaway!] (Eric Smith)
• Kotlin: A Conversation with JetBrains’ Andrey Breslav (Janice J. Heiss)
• Xamarin Evolve conference brings cross-platform mobile development to the enterprise (Jeffrey Palermo)
• The Week Ahead: April 15, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 (Ian Stirk)
• How to create a nightly backup of your SQL Azure database using the new Azure Mobile Services (Preview) (Ben Barreth)
• Monitoring SQL Server Agent job run times and Restoring databases to a set drive and directory (Steve Simon)
• SQL SERVER – Get High Availability with SQL Server 2012 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Azure Log Space Errors 40552 (Ted Krueger)
• XQuery Lab 68-Merging two XML documents in TSQL using XQuery (Jacob Sebastian)
• RavenDB Books Update (Oren Eini)
• RavenDB – Exporting and Importing using Smuggler (Gregor Suttie)

Miscellaneous

• Introducing our Careers 2.0 Employer Resource Center (Bethany Marzewski)
• Why I love Windows 8 (Ian Barker)
• Bing News App a Google Reader replacement? Not yet, but it’s a start (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 04.01 ~ 04.16 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 15th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1108 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #90 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1336 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 15 April 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 15 April 2013: (Windows Phone Geek)

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