Dew Drop – June 3, 2013 (#1,559)

Hello, NewsBlur and goodbye, Google Reader. I finally made the switch permanent (with roughly 1 month to spare).

Top Links

• Taking Baby Steps with ScriptCS (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 2) and Windows (RT and Phone) and Sqlite (Part 1) (Nick Randolph)
• Upgrading PostSharp from ver 2.1 to new version 3.0 (Michael Freidgeim)
• Debt and investment (Eric Brechner)

Web Development

• Create PhoneGap Applications From LightSwitch HTML Client in Minutes (Michael Washington)
• Windows Azure BizTalk Services Preview SDK (MS Downloads)
• The race for speed part 1: The JavaScript engine family tree (John Dalziel)
• Windows Azure Mobile Services "Rent a Home" Sample, Part 4: Push Notifications (Sasha Goldshtein)
• The node.js Relative Path Case (Andrea Giammarchi)
• Instant HTML5 Local Storage how-to (Petros Multi)
• Continuous Monitoring of JavaScript Code Complexity (Ariya Hidayat)
• New Batch Editing Functionality Brings the User Experience of Telerik’s Grid for ASP.NET AJAX Closer to Excel (Antonio Stoilkov)
• Ways to version your API, Part 2 (Michael Pratt)
• REST from a Client Perspective (Leigh Dodds)
• Response for REST method was truncated because default MaxItemsInObjectGraph was not big enough. (Michael Freidgeim)
• Smoothing out <div> scrolling in Mobile WebKit Browsers (Rick Strahl)

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #833 – CheckBox is a ContentControl (Sean Sexton)
• Creating Windows Phone Applications with Ignite UI Mobile Controls and PhoneGap (Mihail Mateev)
• NFC Text tags on WinRT (Peter Foot)
• Brian (and Infragistics) is having a theme give-away… As in giving away some of their WPF and Silverlight themes (Greg Duncan)
• Declaring your DataContext in markup (Adam Denning)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Invoking Overloaded Methods Using Reflection (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2012 Extension–List of software installed on TFS Service build servers (Tarun Arora)
• EF6 Beta 1 Tools First Pass is VS EF Designer, Not Power Tools, Yet & I’m Good With That (Julie Lerman)
• Chocolatey official public feed now has 1,000 stable packages (Rob Reynolds)
• Using Visual Studio database post-deployment scripts in practice (Gunnar Peipman)
• Pro Tip – Navigate Between Class Members with Resharper (Jakub Chodounsky)
• A For … Each Extension for LINQ (Peter Vogel)
• MarraLAB for Visual Studio, your new DDE (Debugging, Deployment Environment) (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 C# Things #857 – What an Exception Object Contains (Sean Sexton)
• Why unhandled exceptions are useful (Simon Cooper)
• VS 2010 Database Projects vs 2012 SSDT Projects (Dylan Smith)
• Accidental entities – what about the UI? (Jef Claes)
• Semantic Tracing For .NET 4.0 (Alois Kraus)
• Create Object Clones Through the Prototype Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• Team Foundation Service Update – May 28 (Brian Harry)
• MSDN Magazine June Issue Preview (Michael Desmond)
• Introducing Octokit (Wynn Netherland)
• Microsoft Please Fix Dialogs in our Tools (Karl Shifflett)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creativity in Coding – Does TDD Leave Room For it? (Roy Osherove)
• Raven Streams architecture thoughts: Storage (Oren Eini)
• Proven Practices for Improving Focus (JD Meier)

Other Mobile Platforms

• New iOS Article – How To Make a Custom Control (Colin Eberhardt)
• iOS UI Design and Asset Creation (Alex Curylo)
• Adding Logout Button To NavigationView TitleBar in SenchaTouch 2 and Sencha Architect (Peter Kellner)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 096: Dave Finkel and Kevin Mack (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Tablet Show – Colin Bowern Uses HTML 5 in the Enterprise (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 109 – Using Windows Azure Active Directory from Windows Store apps | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Vittorio Bertocci, Nathan Totten & Nick Harris)
• Channel 9 Live at Tech Ed North America (Larry Larsen)
• Engadget Podcast 346 – 05.31.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• TWC9: The TechEd 2013 North America Preview Show | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Geoffrey & Mark DeFalco)
• Windows Weekly 314: BLUE-SHAKA-LAKA! (Paul Thurrott)
• Get Up And Code 004: P90X With John Papa (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Travel Lads (Chris Hardwick)
• GeekWire Radio: The future of cars, and how the Internet is reshaping your ride (Todd Bishop)
• An extra episode of the Boagworld Podcast (Paul Boag)

Community / Events

• Windows Phone Events (Mike Taulty)
• Taking the Green Pill (James Bender)
• How to watch the Xbox E3 2013 Media Briefing (Larry Hryb)

Database

• Get Temporary Table Column Names in SQL Server (Suprotim Agarwal)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #031 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2012 System views poster available for download (Denis Gobo)
• Microsoft’s new 3D data visualization BI product – GeoFlow (Brady Upton)

SharePoint

• Building a SharePoint 2013 BI Demo Environment Part 3 – Installing the OS (Koen Verbeeck)
• [Sample Of Jun 2nd] Claim-aware WCF WebService for SharePoint (Philip Fu)
• SharePoint Governance Infographic and Strategic Planning (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft mulling restructuring? (Ben Miller)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Four – A Simple Model of a Computer (Matthew Adams)
• Barcode Extension for Small Basic (Ed Price)
• What Do You Need to Become an Elite Developer? (Aaron Stannard)
• Does Small Basic support Extensions? (Ed Price)
• Stupid Question 188-193: What is AutoHotKey, macros, automation software, hotkeys and scripts? (Iris Classon)
• A closer look at what’s new in Windows 8.1 (Ed Bott)
• What’s behind Microsoft’s Surface fire sale? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Web Authentication Broker for any service (Kraig Brockschmidt)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 2, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 1, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading May 31, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Friday Five–May 31, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #66 (Mary Lou)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, May 31st (Rob Caron)
• Daily News Digest 9/3/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #97 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1368 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 3, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows Dev News for June 01, 2013 – #0153 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly Digest 16 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 31 May 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 31 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #67) (Mark Brown)
• Pie in the Sky (May 31, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Top Reads for May (Jaco Pretorius)

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