Dew Drop – May 6, 2013 (#1,541)

Top Links

• WinRT JS app guide: Introduction (Iris Classon)
• Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012 (Peter Kellner)
• New .NET Debugging API Released (Keith Ward)
• The Tablet Show – State of Windows 8 Development at Code PaLOUsa (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

• Unheap.com: a Better jQuery Plugin Repository? (Craig Buckler)
• CSS Architectures: Refactor Your CSS (Denise Jacobs)
• The future is now – OWIN and multi-hosting ASP.NET web applications (Filip W)
• ASP.NET SignalR and LightSwitch (Matt Sampson)
• Automatically Declaring Namespaces in Javascript (namespaces.js) (Jon Davis)
• Upload Multiple Files to Azure Storage and Manage them from an ASP.NET MVC 4 Application (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Keeping diagnostics in sync across Windows Azure instances (Tom Hollander)
• Dynamically Creating Records In The LightSwitch HTML Client and Programmatically Constraining a List In a Popup (Michael Washington)
• The Benefits of a Reverse Proxy (Mike Hadlow)
• Introduction to Bootstrap in 3 Minutes (Paul Ballard)
• Designing Experiences for Responsive Web Sites (Rahul Lalmalani)
• How to mark up subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines (Steve Faulkner)
• REST lesson learned: Consider a self link on all resources (Mark Seemann)
• Introducing node-validation (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• White House Releases We the People API to the Public (Janet Wagner)
• Server WebSocket Clients, with Jetty (Tony Rasa)
• Infinite Scrolling: Let’s Get To The Bottom Of This (Yogev Ahuvia)
• My Blog: Creating a Custom Brand and Orchard Theme (Andrew Connell)
• Python Power Tools: virtualenvwrapper (Christopher Roach)
• Resources for Learning CoffeeScript (Jaco Pretorius)

XAML

• Testing your Windows Phone app – Part 1 (Adam Denning)
• Up Your Ratings on Windows Phone Apps Part 1 (Bill Reiss)
• XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample and XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: Multiple Resolutions and XBoxReveal HTML5 Windows Phone Sample: WebBrowser Control (Mark Arteaga)
• [Sample Of May 4th] Support multi-touch in WPF (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #813 – Applying TextDecorations in the Middle of a Block of Text (Sean Sexton)
• Kinect Interactions with(out) WPF – Part III: Demystifying the Interaction Stream (András Velvárt)
• Expanded developer opportunity – new payout markets and billing connections (Todd Brix)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Creating Fixed-Width Data Files (Richard Carr)
• Want a copy of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook for free in simple steps? (Abhishek Sur)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available (Brian Harry MS)
• Announcing availability of ISOs for Visual Studio Updates (Eric Knox)
• Creating a WCF RIA Service for Visual Studio 2012 (Update 2 and higher) (Michael Washington)
• 2000 C# Things #837 – Object Initializers within Collection Initializers (Sean Sexton)
• StaleStateException for Entity with Assigned Id and Version in NHibernate (Sonya Rouje)
• [Sample Of May 5th] Drag-and-drop operations in Windows Forms (Philip Fu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How do you estimate on an Agile project? (ThoughtWorks)
• Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 5 (Johanna Rothman)
• Google’s Scaled Trunk Based Development (Paul Hammant)
• Creating Career Opportunities (JD Meier)
• Clean those folders on deploy. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Cloning test plans using Microsoft Test Manager (niveditabawa)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Taking a look at the various API levels available for Android (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 264: Hoop Somuah on Azure Services for Halo (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 475: Ted Price on Fuse and Michael Bien (Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon) (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 115 – “Elevator Twitch” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Rooster Teeth (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog Episode 0.8.6 – Discourse, Ruby and more with Jeff Atwood (aka Coding Horror) (Adam Stacoviak, Andrew Thorp & Kenneth Reitz)
• TWC9: WebMatrix 3, Azure SDK 2.0, EntLib 6, NuGet 2.5 and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Ruby on Windows Azure, Web Sites Streaming Logs, and Brady Impersonates Elvis | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 2, Season 3 (Emmanuelle)
• Engadget Podcast 342 – 05.03.13 (James Trew)
• Edge Show 61 – System Center Advisor with System Center 2012 Operations Manager | Edge (Symon Perriman)

Community / Events

• I’m the newest Nokia Developer Ambassador! (Bill Reiss)

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Data-Tier Application Framework (May 2013) (MS Downloads)
• Why Choose NoSQL and Document Databases over RDBMS (Michael Kennedy)
• SQL SERVER – sys.dm_xe_map_values – Reasons for Statement Recompilation and SQL SERVER – Azure SQL Databases Backup Made Easy with SQLBackupAndFTP (Pinal Dave)
• Raven’s Storage: Understanding the SST file format and Raven’s Storage: Memtables are tough (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Upgrading to the New SharePoint Online (C. Lake)
• Discovering the most popular items in a document library in SharePoint Online – Grid User Post (Josh T.)
• Solving WmiApRpl and BITS errors with SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 (Wesley Bakker)

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell for SQL Server Analysis Services tasks – Part 1 (Daniel Calbimonte)

Miscellaneous

• Former Experience Designer for Windows Phone, Arturo Toledo, tells you why the new Facebook app is still very Modern (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 5, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 6, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Distributed Weekly 205 (Scott Banwart)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 3rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 3, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #62 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1121 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five – May 3, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (May 3, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Dev News for May 04, 2013 – #0143 and Windows Dev News for May 05, 2013 – #0144 (Geek Champ)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 6, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reblog: April 26 to May 2 and Weekly Digest 12 (Jason Strate)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #027 (Pinal Dave)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #64) (Craig Kitterman)

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