Dew Drop – May 30, 2013 (#1,557)

Top Links

• What the meaning of is is (Eric Lippert)
• Announcing WOWAPI and APIMASH – free Starter Kits for your Windows Store Apps (David Isbitski)
• Portable HttpClient is now available as RTM (Immo Landwerth)
• Pure (Tilo) – A new CSS package from Yahoo

.NET / Visual Studio

• NetAdvantage for LightSwitch 2012 Vol.2 Light (Free) now supports Visual Studio 2012 (Anatoli Iliev)
• NuPattern is a tool that helps you build tools… Don’t repeat manual, automate! (Greg Duncan)
• ReSharper 8 EAP Build: JIT Edition (Hadi Hariri)
• Optimizing C++ Code (Jim Hogg)
• FubuValidation: Have validation your way (Josh Arnold)
• A typical effect of setting CopyLocal = true (Patrick Smacchia)
• The posted message queue vs the input queue vs the message queue (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #855 – Throwing an Exception (Sean Sexton)
• The Decorator Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• NuoDB 1.1 Targets .NET Developers (Abel Avram)

Web Development

• Introducing endjin composition framework 2.0 : Part 4 – ASP.NET MVC/WebAPI (Mike Larah)
• Simple Icon Hover Effects (Mary Lou)
• Revamping Web Applications: Adding DAL (Data Access Layer) and Revamping Web Applications: Adding DAL (Data Access Layer) Part 2 and Revamping Web Applications: Upgrading to RadListView (Shantanu Chandra)
• Understanding XSS – input sanitisation semantics and output encoding contexts (Troy Hunt)
• Tips And Tricks For Testing WordPress Themes (Daniel Pataki)
• TypeScriptCompile “Include” error when loading a Project (Derik Whittaker)
• Amazon Web Services Introduces a New API (Jeff Wierer)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do you have a terms of reference for the software architecture role? (Simon Brown)
• Evolving Your Development Skills (Shawn Wildermuth)
• What Software Architects Can Learn From Baseball Teams (Tim Murphy)
• How many heads can you roll off with this Automation? (Shrini Kulkarni)

Xaml / WPF / Windows Phone

• Win8/XAML : how to create a TextBlock with clickables hyperlinks in it (Jonathan Antoine)
• Find the Parent Control of a Specific Type in WPF and Silverlight (Brian Lagunas)
• Sending a Photo via SMS on Windows Phone (Chris Love)
• Conference Buddy on WPF–Initial Architecture (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing RadControls for Windows Phone Q2 2013 Beta: ImageEditor and Async Support in RadMessageBox (Michael Crump)
• Windows Phone desktop sync app for Windows 7 and 8 updated (Sam Sabri)
• 2000 WPF Things #831 – Embedding a Cursor in Your Project as a Resource (Sean Sexton)
• Data Binding in Windows 8 compared to Android (Hanu K.)
• Build a Windows 8 Mashup App with Bing Maps (Jim O’Neil)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Kevin Kline Updates us on SQL Server (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Jefferies (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 167: Xbox One Announcement Aftermath (Paul Thurrott)
• The Changelog 91: Discover Meteor.js with Sacha Greif (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• AppBizDev Episode 17: Patrick Educates Pirates (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 180 – 05.29.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Defrag: NAS Delete Delay, Drive Issues, Booting Connected Users | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Ping 179: Xbox One, LeapMotion, Win 8 training, NFL & MS | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

• The 6th Annual Regular Expression Day (And Prizes) – June 1st, 2013 (Ben Nadel)
• Geek of the Week: Skeletor of the Trocadero’s Skeletor Karaoke Gong Show (Chris Cummins)

Database

• Encrypting and Decrypting SQL Server Stored Procedures, Views and User-Defined Functions (Derek Colley)
• SQL SERVER – Add Identity Column to Table Based on Order of Another Column (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Puzzle…how many even numbers are there in a row (Denis Gobo)
• Raven’s Scripted Index Results (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 1 – Introduction (Koen Verbeeck)
• Localizing host web features in apps for SharePoint (Ricardo Loo)
• SP2013 host web apps: provisioning files (e.g. master pages) to the host web (Chris O’Brien)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft adds a 256 GB Surface Pro to its line up and Here’s how the new Windows Blue Start Button may work and Microsoft delivers first phase of Lync-Skype integration (Mary Jo Foley)
• What’s Microsoft really like? – Our interns find out for themselves (MS JobsBlog)
• Handling Phone Call Requests the Right Way for Users (Dirk Dougherty)
• Apply BRE Rules On Looping Data And Dynamic Policy Execution(Nagarjuna Podapati)
• Windows 8.1: Everything You Need to Know (Pete Pachal)
• Control maps by waving your hands: Nokia merging HERE with Leap Motion (Rich Edmonds)
• Learn functional programming with me – improving my workflow (Rob Ashton)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 30, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 29th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 29, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 5/30/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1366 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-30 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for May 29, 2013 – #0151 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 29 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 29 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

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