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Dew Drop – December 12, 2012 (#1,461)

Welcome to the 12³ edition of the Dew Drop!

ISBN: 1118337700
ISBN-13: 9781118337707

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Dew Drop – November 29, 2012 (#1,452)

Web Development

Messaging with KnockoutJs (Kevin Logan)
Create a Custom JavaScript Event Without jQuery (Chris Love)
Will HTML Ever Be Replaced? (Craig Buckler)
Tips and tricks for Windows 8 JavaScript developer: creating a local full text search index (David Catuhe)
Loading KnockoutJS View Models from ASP.Net MVC, for faster page loads (Eric Hexter)
JustCode JavaScript Templates for WinJS (Phil Japikse)
DNN (yes, that DNN) v7.0 has been released… (Greg Duncan)
Using excel to access your Mobile Services data (Josh Twist)

XAML

A Lap Around the Windows Phone 8 SDK (Nick Randolph)
Coded UI Test Support for WPF (Michael Crump)
Background Agent Expiry in Windows Phone 8 (Matt Lacey)
2000 WPF Things #701 – Dragging an Image Between WPF Applications (Sean Sexton)
Is The Ease Of Windows Phone Development Ruining Its Image (Tim Murphy)
Increase your app reach with Windows Phone 7.8 (Todd Brix)
CODE Framework 4.0.21128.0 (CodePlex)
Generating sound at runtime using XAudio2 in a Windows Store app (Pete Brown)

Miscellaneous .NET

Debugger Source Symbol Improvements in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
DebuggerDisplay Attribute in C# (Senthil Kumar)
How to help yourself when NuGet goes down and MyGet tops Vanilla NuGet feeds with a Chocolatey flavor (Xavier Decoster)
Building Back-end Data and Services for Windows 8 Apps: OData – Part 2 (G. Andrew Duthie)
LUA Buglight 2.2 with support for Windows 8 (Aaron Margosis)
Why are there both FIND and FINDSTR programs, with unrelated feature sets? (Raymond Chen)
How to await a storyboard, and other things (Lucian Wischik)
RadioButtons and Lambda Expressions (Markus Pope)
MonoGame For Windows 8 Step 0 (Bill Reiss)
Confirmed hiccup upgrading build agents with Update 1 (Brian Harry)
Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published! (Jakob Ehn)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1 (Charles Sterling)
Gartner Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant 2012 (Mike Walker)
Guidelines for Automated Testing: Defining Test Inputs (Josh Arnold)
If You’re Afraid of Your To-Do List, It’s Not Working (JD Meier)
A Windows 8 App Design Worksheet (Eric Gregory)
Automatic issue tags in Git commit messages (Erik Ogenvik)

Other Mobile Platforms

Drawing in Android (Serge Desmedt)
C# to Objective-C – Part 7 : Namespaces (Stephen Zaharuk)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Scott Ambler Optimizes Agile (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
GoingNative 12: C++ at BUILD 2012, Inside Profile Guided Optimization | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
What the Tech 143: No Perfect Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Maria Bamford returns! (Chris Hardwick)
The Verge Mobile Show 027 – November 27th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and Subversion [Video] (Jon Friedman)
Diving deep into C++ /CX and WinRT | Build 2012 (Marian Luparu)
Defrag: Reporting Bugs, Upgrades and Keys, Boot from VHD | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 69 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

Upcoming Windows 8 Workshops at the Tysons Microsoft Store (G. Andrew Duthie)
I’m Now a SQL Server 2008 MCM! (Jason Strate)
SQL Contest – Win USD 300 Worth Gift – Cartoon Contest is Back (Pinal Dave)
Free Windows 8 App Development Training for iOS Developers (Doris Chen)
Learnings from Agile testing days 2012 (Sigurdur Birgisson)
What are the best and worst things about working at Microsoft? (MS JobsBlog)
Live from the Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference (Paul Ballard)
GitHub Drinkup in Las Vegas (Shay Frendt)
Registration Opens for W3Conf 2013, W3C’s Developer Conference (W3C Staff)
Microsoft Research, FUSE Labs Internship Opportunities (Andrés Monroy-Hernández)

Database

Getting started with Tabular Model in SQL Server 2012 – Part 1 (Arshad Ali)
SQL Server Management Studio: More than Meets the Eye (Jes Schultz Borland)
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysreferences (Jason Strate)

PowerShell

Using Powershell to Get and Update the AssemblyVersion information in your AssemblyInfo.cs file (Derik Whittaker)

Miscellaneous

Surface RT users: Microsoft wants to hear from you (Mary Jo Foley)
Store 3 for 8… Three Windows Store App’s that teach you Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts (Greg Duncan)
Intel Ultrabook–Wrapup (Jesse Liberty)
The SitePoint Christmas Sale is ON! (Ricky Onsman)
How many people actually want to talk to their phones? (Robert Nyman)
Top PowerPoint Tips – What I’ve learned thus far on the Mac PowerPoint Team (Sara Ford)
Windows Blue: Microsoft’s plan to release a new version of Windows every year (Sebastian Anthony)
On Knowledge (Ted Neward)
Don’t Get Scroogled: Bing Launches Campaign for Honest Search to Help Shoppers this Holiday Season (Mike Nichols)
Microsoft says Windows Phone 7.8 update coming in ‘early 2013’ (Chris Welch)

The Geek Shelf

Agile Coaching: Rachel Davies, Liz Sedley: 9781934356432: Books

ISBN: 1934356433
ISBN-13: 9781934356432

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Dew Drop – October 5, 2011

.NET / Visual Studio

Waiting for Parallel Tasks to Complete (Richard Carr)
TFSSCExplorerExtension for VS10 and 11 – Think "TFS Source Control Explorer Window Features++" or "zomg drag and drop in TFS Source Control Explorer Window!" (Greg Duncan)
Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11 (Jonathan Allen)
Execute<T> With IronRuby (K. Scott Allen)
That Tricky StackTrace (Mehdi Khalili)
CSLA 4 version 4.2 beta 1 release (Rockford Lhotka)
SignedXml.CheckSignature() can’t find the certificate for verification (Lars Wilhelmsen)

Web Development

Use Visual Studio 2010 to Profile your ASP.NET Application which is hosted on IIS (Abhijit Jana)
Is Node.cs a cure for cancer? (Oren Eini)
A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript (Christian Heilmann)
PhpStorm & WebStorm 3.0 EAP 110.44 (Alexey Gopachenko)
Nancy takes another step forward (Andreas Håkansson)
Support for Worker Roles in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP (Brian Swan)
Come Node With Me – Houston, We Have a Problem (Drew Peterson)
Getting a Web Resource Url in non WebForms Applications (Rick Strahl)
Lightbox Gallery Module for DotNetNuke 1.09.900 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Git: Getting the history of a deleted file (Mark Needham)
Future mocking revisited (Mehfuz Hossain)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

DataContract serialization on Windows Phone (Arian Kulp)
Data Binding the Windows Phone Toolkit AutoCompleteBox and Windows Phone Mango Local Database(SQL CE): Database Queries with LINQ (Windows Phone Geek)
WP7: Link in text with RichTextBox on mango (Håkan Reis)
2000 WPF Things #401 – DockPanel Element (Sean Sexton)
Upgrading Windows Phone Projects To SDK 7.1 (Tim Murphy)
Dynamic binding for your Silverlight applications (Vladimir Enchev)
Developing real-world applications with LightSwitch – Part 7: Building control extensions with the extensibility toolkit (Gill Cleeren)
patterns & practices – Case Study: TailSpin Windows Phone 7 Survey Application – Mango Refresh Drop 1 (CodePlex)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

C&B 2011: C++11 Panel – Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu and Scott Meyers and GoingNative Live at BUILD 1 of 2 (Charles Torre)
Engadget HD Podcast 268 – 10.04.2011 (Trent Wolbe)
Ping 119: Bing Deals, Windows Phone 8 and you, Windows 8 syncs, Killing a botnet and Hot Apps: Burn The Rope, Puzzle Quest 2, Talking Alarm Clock, De-BUGS, Monkey Mini Golf (Laura Foy)
The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit! (Ken Denmead)

Community / Events

7 Reasons to go to Øredev 2011 (Anders Janmyr)
PASS Summit Tips and Tricks (Brent Ozar)
Series of webcasts about ASP.NET MVC 3 (in Italian) (Simone Chiaretta)
More BUILD reflections: The touch language of Windows 8 (Steve Clayton)

Database

Microsoft SQL Server Connector for Apache Hadoop RTW (Greg Duncan)
SQLAuthority News – SQL Wait Stats Book – Available as Kindle eBook – October Special (Pinal Dave)
Oracle Joins the NoSQL Club (Abel Avram)
Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list (Peter Kellner)

SharePoint

Guidance about Hybrid SharePoint Environments (SharePoint Developer Team)

Miscellaneous

#Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Enterprise iOS Applications – $7.49 (Save 50%) (O’Reilly Media)
How to give a perfect demo (Scott Berkun)

The Geek Shelf

Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework by Steven Sanderson

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