Dew Drop – May 29, 2013 (#1,556)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 RC 2 (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio Tip: Configure Code Analysis in Visual Studio (Peter Vogel)
• Coverage Filters in dotCover (Maarten Balliauw)
• Planning the Next Rhino Mock (Mike Meisinger)

Web Development

• My Approach To Building AngularJS Directives That Bind To JavaScript Events (Ben Nadel)
• Pre-Compiling your MVC Views (Kevin Logan)
• Drawing With Two.js (Andrew Burgess)
• The beginning of infinity in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Pushing F# Websites to Azure with Git (Windows Azure Training in F#, Part Two) and Building and Publishing Web Sites containing F# Code (Windows Azure Training in F#, Part One) and Using F# and Entity Framework with an Azure Database (Windows Azure Training in F#, Part III) (Don Syme)
• Windows Azure Node.js SDK Filters (Larry Franks)
• Working with Phar packages in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Interested in Ember.js? Check out my Tutorial Series. (Rey Bango)
• Edge.js – Running Node.js and .NET in One Process (Shiju Varghese)
• Article: Run .NET and Node.js code in-process with Edge.js (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Defining Entity Objects in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Sass Style Guide (Chris Coyier)
• Momentum Grows as OData v4 Achieves Standards Milestone (Mark Gayler)
• BookBlock Revised (Pedro Botelho)
• Collective Editorial: the Plugin (Eric Meyer)

XAML

• Simple Text Fade and Scale Animation (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Windows Phone + Cordova Quick Tip (Jesse MacFadyen)
• Workaround for selecting the last vertex of a Windows Phone MapPolyline (Joost van Schaik)
• Windows Store app Development snack: XAMLSPY (Robert MacLean)
• 2000 WPF Things #830 – Loading a Cursor from a File (Sean Sexton)
• Helping Android developers build Windows Store apps (Windows Store Team)
• Building Windows Store App with Prism (Vamsidhar Mamillapalli)

Miscellaneous .NET

• A LINQ Style Operator to Set the Length of a Sequence (Richard Carr)
• MsBuild and NUnit (A Simple example) (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 C# Things #854 – Catching an Exception (Sean Sexton)
• Stored Procedures in Entity Framework 6 (Anthony Trudeau)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.0 feature highlights: Resultset Caching (Frans Bouma)
• The State of Entity Framework and NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) – Under the Hood (Ankit Asthana)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Designing with data (Paul Boag)
• Introducing GitHub Sudo Mode (Ben Toews)
• How to Focus your Team with Custom Tabs (Andy Singleton)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Quick-Tip: Dividing a CGRect Using CGRectDivide (Objective-C) (Torrey Betts)
• Enabling USB Debugging for Nexus 7 and Windows 8 (Hanu Kommalapati)
• Open Device Labs: Why Should We Care? (Anselm Hannemann)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 228.1 – PowerScripting Podcast – Bonus BOF Session from SQL Saturday in Atlanta hosted by Jim Christopher and Mark Schill (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Verge Mobile Show 048 – May 28th 2013 (Dan Seifert)
• Engadget HD Podcast 351 – 05.28.13 (Joe Pollicino)

Community / Events

• Xbox One Reveal Delivers Record-Breaking Viewership Numbers for Xbox (Lisa Gurry)

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle SET ANSI_NULLS and Resultset – SQL in Sixty Seconds #052 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB’s Dynamic Reporting (Oren Eini)
• Increment a variable in the SET clause of an UPDATE statement [T-SQL] (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

• Tasks for published intranet sites in SharePoint Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
• Still Sad Story: Office 64 & IE 64 with SharePoint 2013 (Joel Oleson)

PowerShell

• Controlling Windows and SQL Server Services using Windows PowerShell (Manvendra Singh)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft should consider selling Xbox and Bing businesses, says key analyst (Todd Bishop)
• Why Microsoft won’t sell off Bing or Xbox (Mary Jo Foley)
• Tea kettle or… Hitler! (David Pescovitz)
• Small Basic: Text Basics – Featured Article (Ed Price)
• Microsoft hints at replacement for XNA for Xbox One indie game creators (John Callaham)
• Setting up a Riak Development Cluster on Ubuntu 12.04 (Josh Bush)
• The labs behind Xbox One (Steve Clayton)
• The responsibility of public disclosure (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developers Links for Monday, May 27th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, May 28th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 28, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1137 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/29/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1365 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-29 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 28, 2013 – #0150 (Dave Campbell)

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