Dew Drop – May 28, 2013 (#1,555)

Top Links

• Is the Windows user ready for apt-get? (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 6 – Wave 2 Release (Grigori Melnik)
• Talk to, hear, touch and see your code (Mads Kristensen)
• Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Prism for the Windows Runtime – My favourite resources (Davide Zordan)

Web Development

• Throttling ASP.NET Web API calls (Maarten Balliauw)
• A Critique of the Thoughtworks Tech Radar on Javascript Testing (Anders Janmyr)
• jQuery 1.10.0 and 2.0.1 Released (Dave Methvin)
• ASP.NET NLog Sql Server Logging and Error Handling Part 2 (Geoff Hudik)
• Cargo-Culting in JavaScript (James Padolsey)
• A Photo Stream For the Cloud using ASP.NET MVC and Azure Blob Storage (Suprotim Agarwal)
• How to save $5 million running a Node.js application (Tomasz Janczuk)
• HUY Volume II – Visual Studio LightSwitch Advanced JavaScript Examples (Michael Washington)
• Protecting your Azure Blob Storage Items using Shared Access Signatures (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Security is hard, insecurity is easy – demonstrating a simple misconfiguration risk (Troy Hunt)
• Node v0.10.8 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Founders’ Subscriptions (Mark Rendle)
• 5 HTML5 Features you need to know (Adnane Belmadiaf)
• A comparison of various JS frameworks using cold hard data (Rob Ashton)
• Getting the requestor’s IP address. (Marc Brooks)
• How to build a single entity CRUD grid with AngularJS, WebAPI, Entity Framework (EF), Bootstrap, Font Awesome & Toastr (Jon Gallant)
• From A to W… The US Gov goes Git (and API crazy too). There’s an insane about of data, API’s and OSS projects from the US Government… (Greg Duncan)
• Using The New Git Support in WebMatrix 3 (Chris Love)

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8: Working with Key-Value Pairs (Adam Grocholski)
• Windows Phone 8: PhoneGap Porting Challenge (Michael Sync)
• 2000 WPF Things #828 – ListView and GridView Data Binding Example and #829 – Setting an Application-Wide Cursor from Code (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls – Border (Richard Carr)
• LightSwitch Data Freedom – Part 1 and LightSwitch Data Freedom – Part 2 (Xpert360)
• Creating Visual Studio LightSwitch Code Snippets (Michael Washington)
• Using Popup with Caliburn Micro and Using Infragistic’s XamTabControl with Caliburn Micro – Part 1 (Rohit Sharma)
• Did You Miss This Top MVP Guest Post on 8 Tips to Sell Windows Store Apps? (MVP Award Program)
• Developers: Implement Unification support in your apps, the community demands it (Rich Edmonds)
• Preserving appdata across deploy and update (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Awesome new Prism for Windows Runtime resource – Project and item templates! (Brian Noyes)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Solution to TFS Build Error – The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Entity Framework Power Tool Tips to View Model (A Feature I Depend On!) (Julie Lerman)
• .NET 4.5 – Visual Studio Web Designer API bug and Tip: FxCop issue with System.Net.Http and (Unsolved) FxCop + Portable Library (Michael Sync)
• Restore TFS backups from SQL Enterprise to SQL Express (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Team Foundation Server Planning Guide (Zain Naboulsi)
• Using elemMatch in a MongoDB Query (K. Scott Allen)
• 2000 C# Things #852 – How Exceptions Work and #853 – An Exception Is an Instance of the System.Exception Class (Sean Sexton)
• AddIfNotNull collection extensions (Michael Freidgeim)
• What happens if I manually post an auto-generated message into my message queue? (Raymond Chen)
• Optimizing Use of the Telerik Control Panel (Richard Zaslaw)
• Understanding exceptions artistic way (Gunnar Peipman)
• Accidental entities – you don’t need that identity (Jef Claes)
• PostSharp Has Just Gotten Much Easier (Jonathan Allen)
• Event Planning using BING API (Chris Lovett)
• Employee writes 5-star book (MS JobsBlog)
• Excluding Compiler Generated Code from the NDepend Dependency Matrix (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Support on Team Foundation Service (Brian Harry)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD I Learned… (Brendan Tompkins)
• The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results and 30 Nuggets on Software Development from Shaping Software (JD Meier)
• Technical Debt: In an Agile World (Zac Gery)
• Liskov Substitution (Paulo Zemek)
• Why Can’t I Update an Event? (Greg Young)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Integrating iOS Apps with Twitter and Facebook (Greg Shackles)
• Cross Platform NFC (Peter Foot)
• Enabling USB Debugging for Nexus 7 on Windows 8 (Hanu K.)
• PhoneGap Online/Offline Tip (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – John Papa Goes to the SPA (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 267: Eric Boyd on Scaling Windows Azure (David Giard)
• Herding Code 167: Glenn Block on scriptcs (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 478: Xbox One and Remedy Entertainment (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 117 – “Ohio’s 4th Person” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Katana Project – OWIN for ASP.NET | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & Brady Gaster)
• Episode 108 – What’s New With Windows Azure Virtual Networking | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• TWC9: C9 Events App, Unity, OData, NuGet, a cool Watch and more! | This Week On Channel 9 (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• The Tablet Show – Billy Hollis Sees Design Everywhere (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Wayne Federman and The Nerdist Podcast – Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Chris Hardwick)
• 060 JSJ Development Environments (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 5, Season 3 (Emmanuelle)
• Engadget Podcast 345: Xbox One debrief – 05.23.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 003: Basic Healthy Eating (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools: #42 – WPT – CPU Analysis | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Video: Lead the testing for mobile apps (Allen Coin)

Community / Events

• Master Developers: Christian Heilmann (Rey Bango)
• The Week Ahead: May 27th, 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
• Small Basic learning camps at Main Stem Academy – Summer 2013 (Ed Price)
• Windows App and Game Workshops (Bob Familiar)

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to INSERT data from Stored Procedure to Table – 2 Different Methods and SQL SERVER- Solution – SQL Puzzle of SET ANSI_NULL (Pinal Dave)
• Raven Xyz: Trying out some ideas and RavenDB Sample Data: Hello Northwind (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Automating SharePoint Deployments in Windows Azure using PowerShell (Craig Kitterman)

Miscellaneous

• Rumor: Microsoft’s Secret Plan for Surface Domination (Paul Thurrott)
• Distro Issue 92: Building the Xbox One (Billy Steele)
• Rumor: More Nokia “EOS” specifications leaked, to be announced on July 9? (damaster)
• What are the unique features of the Small Basic language? (Ed Price)
• Levels of Maturity (Keyvan Nayyeri)
• Melinda Gates ranks #3 on list of most powerful women (John Cook)
• Xbox One and used games (Larry Hryb)
• Learning To Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Three – How Does a Computer Work? (Matthew Adams)
• Microsoft wants to upstage Google Docs; adds new features to Office Web Apps (Michael Archambault)
• Xbox One, Azure and the creative power of the cloud (Steve Wiens)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 25, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 26, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 27, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 24th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 24, 2013 and Geek Reading May 27, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #65 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1136 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (May 24, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-27 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 27, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: May 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/28/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1364 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Digest 15 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #030 (Pinal Dave)
• Friday Five – May 24, 2013 (MVP Award Program)

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