Dew Drop – April 22, 2013 (#1,532)

Top Links

• ASP.NET Web API: CORS support and Attribute Based Routing Improvements (Scott Guthrie)
• Kona is Dead, Long Live Prism! (Brian Noyes)
• Creating a Custom ToastPrompt Control for Windows Phone (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Validating all observables w/ Knockout validation and Typescript (Derik Whittaker)

Web Development

• HTML5 and CSS3 Zebra Striping – Look Ma No JavaScript (Chris Love)
• Kendo ColorPicker Wrapper for ASP.NET MVC (kashyapa)
• ‘LESS’– A dynamic language that simplifies your CSS (Nishanth Anil)
• Now with Javascript: Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT (David Catuhe)
• Responsive Multi-Level Menu (Mary Lou)
• MVVM Stack for WinJS by Corrado Cavalli available on Codeplex (Davide Zordan)

XAML

• YLOD 1.2 adds support for passwords (Peter Kuhn)
• How to work with Images in RadDataGrid in XAML based Windows Store Application and Solved Exception in Passing Relative URI to Windows Runtime (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WPF BackgroundWorker example (Matt)
• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Handling asynchronous operations (Andrea Boschin)
• Quickly and easily save properties of your UI controls with Telerik’s Persistence Framework in WPF (Jesse Liberty)
• Inside Windows Phone – code samples (Larry Lieberman)
• Windows Phone 8 navigation part 1–geocoding, tombstoning–and testing (Joost van Schaik)
• [Sample Of Apr 21st] Show GIF animation in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #803 – Specifying an Arbitrary Transform with a MatrixTransform (Sean Sexton)
• Kinect Interaction with WPF Part II: Getting Started Easier (András Velvárt)
• How To: Quick export to Excel (XLSX) for WPF and Silverlight (Vladimir Enchev)
• WPF Layout Controls – DockPanel (Richard Carr)
• Code snippet for testing network connectivity (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to Hide the Format Toolbar of Telerik RadRichTextBox control? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• All about Windows Store Live Tiles: Tile Properties (Geek Champ)

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET Book : Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook (Must Read) (Abhishek Sur)
• Finding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012 (Jennifer Leaf)
• 2000 C# Things #827 – Making a Deep Copy with a Copy Constructor (Sean Sexton)
• Building an Image Resizer using .NET Parallel Dataflow Library in .NET 4.5 (Sumit Maitra)
• Advanced HLSL II: Shader compound parameters (Alexandre Mutel)
• Use Team Foundation Service for Embedded Projects (Peter Foot)
• System Center and IntelliTrace (James Wang)
• More on Immutable Collections in .NET (Jonathan Allen)
• Implementing a Singleton Class The Right way (Mahmoud Medhat Moussa)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A short history of Natural User Interfaces (Kim Logan)
• "The Essential Binary Repository Management Cheat Sheet" (Think "You’ve got bin’s in my source VCS… No, you’ve got source in my bin VCS") (Greg Duncan)
• Modeling the four-eye principle (Jef Claes)

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Development with Xamarin.iOS and Visual Studio (Wally McClure)
• Adventure with iOS Location Management (Rob Williams)
• A Windows Phone Developer’s take on Xamarin (Matt Hidinger)
• Xamarin EVOLVE Follow-up: Building Mobile Cross-Platform Geospatial Apps (Nick Landry)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 262: Scott Koon on the Problem with Software Development (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 473: Ed Boon INJUSTICE: Gods Among Us and more (Larry Hyrb)
• IWP53 | Matthias on Samples | Inside Windows Phone (Larry Lieberman)
• Scott Davis talks about developing QONQR for Windows 8 and Windows Phone | Developer Diaries (Laura Foy)
• Episode 105 – General Availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Michael Washam, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• 056 JSJ Marionette.js with Derick Bailey (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• TWC9: VS 2012.3 CTP1, Windows Azure IaaS, ALM VM’s, NFC, UX resources and Kitties! | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Greg Duncan & Peter Dwersteg)
• Windows Weekly 308: Starting Over (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rob Zombie #2 (Chris Hardwick)
• Engadget Podcast 340 – 04.19.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 177 – 04.19.13 (James Trew)
• GeekWire Radio: Poker legend Phil Gordon is back in the technology game (Todd Bishop)
• 14 Minute cartooned video guide to to building your own Azure IaaS Pop-up Lab (Greg Duncan)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for April 22nd, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows AzureConf this Tuesday (Scott Guthrie)
• Two Azure Hands-on Opportunities (Jim O’Neil)

Database

• SQL Server – Differences between Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes (Vishal Gajjar)
• SQL SERVER – Discussion – Scale-up vs Scale-out Architectures (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB Indexing: An off the cuff stat (Oren Eini)

Miscellaneous

• Author news: On co-authoring a book (Devon Musgrave)
• Parsing those pesky filtering functions in OData (Rob Ashton)
• Setting up Two-Factor Authentication for your Google account AND Microsoft account (Scott Hanselman)
• Tip: Extract Web Site’s Color Scheme (Vygantas)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: April 20, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 21, 2013 and Interesting Finds: April 22, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, April 19th (Rob Caron)
• Collective #60 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1112 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1340 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-04-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 20, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: April 22, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: April 12 to April 18 (Jason Strate)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 April 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #62) (Mark Brown)
• Pie in the Sky (April 19, 2013) (Larry Franks)

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