Dew Drop – May 21, 2013 (#1,551)

Top Links

• Pre-Process your images with promises (John V. Petersen)
• What is lexical scoping? (Eric Lippert)
• Pre-beta Windows 8.1 WinRT Developer APIs (Justin Angel)
• WinRT Business Apps with Prism: PubSubEvents (Brian Noyes)

 

Web Development

• Moving a Site to Windows Azure in 5 Easy Steps (Steve Smith)
• Writing Testable JavaScript (Rebecca Murphey)
• The Design of Code: Organizing JavaScript (Anthony Colangelo)
• Dumb CSS: cursor pointer or hand? (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Benchmarking a HTML5 game: HTML5 Potatoes Gaming Bench (David Catuhe)
• ASP.NET NLog Sql Server Logging and Error Handling Part 1 (Geoff Hudik)
• Validating composite models with knockout validation (Jef Claes)
• Quick Tip: Processing HTML Content in Windows Store Apps (Jeremy Likness)
• ASP.NET FriendlyUrls ViewSwitcher and jQuery Mobile (Joseph Guadagno)
• Inject Controller Libraries Dynamically at Runtime in ASP.NET Web API using Custom Assembly Resolvers (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Using The Clippy Agent in the Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Use your HTML5 skills, port your PhoneGap app to Windows Phone, and win prizes (JC Cimetiere)
• Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23 (Rob Campbell)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Filters (K. Scott Allen)
• Introducing My Cloud Deployment Service, OnCheckin.com (Doug Rathbone)
• IE Dev Center: Finding the resources you need, quickly (Erika Navara)

 

XAML

• Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger… (Greg Duncan)
• Conference Buddy on WPF (Jesse Liberty)
• How to create custom XMLNS namespaces to keep your XAML clean? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone 8 Unleashed developer resource now available on Amazon (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #824 – Setting a Cursor on a Top Level Element (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• 2000 C# Things #848 – Viewing the Call Stack in Visual Studio (Sean Sexton)
• Book Review: Async in C# 5.0 (Jon Skeet)
• 64 bits ought to be enough for everybody [TextAnalysisTool.NET update for .NET 2.0 and 64-bit enables the analysis of larger files!] (David Anson)
• New Book: Pro Team Foundation Service (Jakob Ehn)
• Enable Feedback support for users in Team Foundation Server 2012 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Copying a file to the clipboard so you can paste it into Explorer or an email message or whatever (Raymond Chen)
• Adding Windows 8 Features to a Game Maker Game (Daniel Egan)
• Windows Dev Center: Updates to the game portal (Devon Musgrave)
• ripple: Fubu-inspired dependency management (Josh Arnold)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Data-Driven Test Automation (Steven Vore)
• Never wireframe alone (Paul Boag)
• Choose You Constructor with JustMock Automocking (Phil Japikse)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Top 10 Tools for Mac and iOS Development (Torrey Betts)
• Google I/O 2013 Session Overview: From Nothing to Nirvana in Minutes: Cloud Backend for your Android Application – Building Geek Serendipity (Brad Abrams)
• Android applications with Kotlin (Hadi Hariri)
• Unity’s mobile licenses are now free (Mike Rose)
• Capturing camera/picture data without PhoneGap (Raymond Camden)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Derik Whittaker Migrates from XAML to HTML (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Reimagine SharePoint Development: A better way to customize SharePoint | Reimagine SharePoint Development (Keenan Newton)
• Microsoft DevRadio: Spring Azure Update Review – IaaS, Web Sites, Licensing and more! (Brian Hitney)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tony Hale (Chris Hardwick)
• Geek and Sundry Vlogs is now LAUNCHED! (Felicia Day)
• Defrag Tools: #41 – WPT – Command Line | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 178: Xbox points, Microsoft Tattoos, Star Trek lands | Ping! (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for May 20th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Humanitarian Toolbox Hackathon at DevTeach (Bill Wagner)
• Port Your App to Windows 8 and Win a Trip to BUILD (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• SQL Server Import and Export Wizard – SSIS Part 2 (Chander Sharma)
• RavenDB, Victory (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Azure does Powershell too (Grant Fritchey)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to use your internship to prepare for a full-time career (MS JobsBlog)
• Use Your MSDN Benefit to Convert Your Office 365 Developer Preview (Beth Massi)
• Flickr Gets A Huge Revamp With Hi-Res Image-Filled UI, New Android App, And 1TB Of Free Storage (Jordan Crook)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, May 20th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1132 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/21/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1360 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Dev News for May 20, 2013 – #0147 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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