Dew Drop – February 21, 2013 (#1,503)

Top Links

• IOC Containers and MVVM (Laurent Bugnion)
• Microsoft Media Platform – Player Framework (Adam Denning)
• Releasing Sample Browser for Windows 8 – Get Your "Hands" on 5000 Amazing Code Samples (Jialiang Ge)
• MVP Summit presentation on async (Stephen Toub)
• Glimpse – the open source diagnostics platform of the web (Glimpse Team) – Glimpse launched v1.0 this week.

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Blob Storage Polling Task (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Pre-release of ASP.NET Scaffolding with a Web Forms scaffold generator (Anton Babadjanov)
• Hand.js: a polyfill for supporting pointer events on every browser (David Catuhe)
• Mix in a little Rx, JQuery, Azure, ASP.Net, Kinect… (Greg Duncan)
• Wrox Video Walktrhough: Creating An ASP.NET Web Site – Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 (Jim Minatel)
• How I Built a Windows Store App With HTML5 and SVG (Pietro Brambati)
• SitePoint Code Challenge: CSS – Drop Down Menus (Sarah Hawk)
• Connecting To SignalR With LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• New Windows Azure Videos on Channel 9 (Wes Yanaga)
• Forms With AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• The Discourse Source Code Has Already Helped Me (Pete Seale)

 

XAML

• Syncfusion Metro Studio 2 – A Collection of Predefined and Customizable Icons (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Windows Phone Simulation Dashboard (Maciej Grabek)
• 2000 WPF Things #761 – How FlowDirection Affects HorizontalContentAlignment (Sean Sexton)
• Sharing Code Between Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Steve Michelotti)
• iOS developers who want to learn Windows 8 development (Jennifer Marsman)
• CXML and DeepZoom on Azure (Tony Champion)
• This package was deployed for development or authoring mode error in Windows App Cert Kit (David Isbitski)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• TFS API Part 48 – WorkItemControl And Bypass Work Item Rules and TFS API Part 49 – Delete Team Project (Shai Raiten)
• Introducing Formo – Dynamic Configuration (Chris Missal)
• Handling Arguments in JustMock Arrangements (Elena Pundjeva)
• Jumping Into C++: Calculating Unknowns (Eric Battalio)
• MSBuild Regex Transform Version Numbers (M. Lang)
• CSLA 4 version 4.5.12 beta released (Rockford Lhotka)
• 2000 C# Things #785 – The Singleton Pattern (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to increase the Code Coverage in 2 easy steps (Peter Gfader)
• A Program to explore Code Diff (Patrick Smacchia)
• The Power of Positive Failure (Paul Ballard)
• Testing Tip #3: Check startup time when there’s disk/network activity (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Beginning Test-Driven Development in Python (David Sale)
• Getting Things Done with SWAT Mode (JD Meier)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Mike Hadlow Uses EasyNetQ to Talk RabbitMQ (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Programming the Cloud with Actors: Inside ActorFx | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Windows Phone Central 156 – Mobile World Congress Warmup (Daniel Rubino)
• Defrag: Fast Nav, 0xC000000D, Installing Stalls | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft’s MVP Program–Evolving, not Dying (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Connect All The Things – MVP Summit 2013 (Phillip Trelford)

 

Database

• Basic SQL Server XML Querying (Seth Delconte)
• How Does SQL Server Store Data? (Brent Ozar)
• SSRS Properties – CanGrow and CanShrink (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Shortcut to SELECT only 1 Row from Table (Pinal Dave)
• Suppressing xp_cmdshell output (Denis Gobo)
• Migrating from RavenDB to Cassandra (Aaron Stannard)
• RavenDB ResultTransformers – a new way of looking at things (Rob Ashton)

 

SharePoint

• Pluralsight SharePoint 2013 Developer Ramp-Up Series by Critical Path Training (Updated for RTM) (Andrew Connell)
• Defaulting Values in a Multi-Lookup Form in SharePoint (Bil Simser)

 

PowerShell

• A Month of PowerShell – Day 20 (Databases: Table-Valued Functions) and A Month of PowerShell – Day 21 (Backups) (Wayne Sheffield)

 

Miscellaneous

• Google Offers Us A Glimpse Of The Future With Their Latest Glass UI Video (Ben Reid)
• Chrome app launcher developer preview (Sriram Saroop)
• Bungie’s ‘Destiny’ is coming to the PlayStation 4 (Nathan Ingraham)
• Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event (Sam Byford)
• Blizzard announces Diablo III for PS3 and PS4, as part of ‘strategic partnership’ (Sean Hollister)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading February 20, 2013 (Rob Diana)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, February 20th (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1300 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-02-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1071 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 21/ 02/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 21 Feb 2013 (Jax)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 Feb 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Link List: Becoming a Data Professional (Buck Woody)

 

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