Dew Drop – February 18, 2014 (#1725)

Top Links

• Introducing Bing Code Search for C# (Ala Shiban)
• Windows 9 – replacing it with a triumvirate of products (Scott Barnes)
• Technical Debt of Using Code Behind (Deborah Kurata)
• A Minimalist WebAPI 2 Visual Studio Project (Peter Kellner)

 

Web Development

• The Lo-Dash on Underscore.js and Strings (Basem Emara)
• Running JavaScript at Specified Times: Timed JavaScript (Arpit Jain)
• Posting Code Blocks on a WordPress Site (Chris Coyier)
• JavaScript Promises: A Journey To The “Promise Land” (Derick Bailey)
• Getting started with OData v4 in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• 4 Tips to Make Your ASP.NET Project Mobile-Ready (Jeff Fritz)
• Identity in Your Own Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory – Part 3 (Martina Grom)
• [Sample Of Feb 17th] How to share data between Javascript files in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)
• Consuming ASP.NET Web API OData Batch Update From JavaScript (Ravi Kiran)
• Thoughts On JavaScript Generators (K. Scott Allen)
• Creating LightSwitch HTML Reports using ComponentOne Active Reports (Michael Washington)
• 7+ Years of Twitter on ProgrammableWeb (Adam DuVander)
• Pro Single Page Application Development (Gil Fink)
• Evergreen Browsers (Rob Eisenberg)
• Preventing Code Injection (Bill Morefield)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Application Testing with Build it Beta (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,011 – ComboBox Data Binding Basics, Part III (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store Apps: Better user experience when launching files in target applications with LauncherOptions (Iris Classon)
• Review of Windows 8.1 Developer Training: Geek Edition Jump Start (Tatworth)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Who said building Visual Studio Extensions was hard? (Doug Rathbone)
• Incorporating TraceSource and Other Techniques with EventSource (Kathleen Dollard)
• Visual Studio 2013 + SlowCheetah error (Michael Sync)
• Bing Code Search arrives (Athima Chansanchai)
• Calculating Document Distance (Filip Ekberg)
• StructureMap 3 is gonna tell you what’s wrong and where it hurts (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Writing automation to wait for a window to be created (and dismiss it) (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,035 – Summary of Type Parameter Constraints (Sean Sexton)
• Embedded Assembly Loading with support for Symbols and Portable Class Libraries in C# (Harry Singleton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Time series feature design: User interface (Oren Eini)
• UX: Users are on a mission. Help them, but stay out of the way. (Mitch Harpur)
• Mobile Application Testing w/ no Cell Signal (Derik Whittaker)
• My Secret To Ridiculous Productivity. (I’m Using It Now) (John Sonmez)
• Architecting for the Cloud (Dustin Whittle)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Now in the Xamarin Marketplace: Falafel Bridge for TestComplete (Ryan Axford)
• Android–Supporting Multiple Devices Part 1 (Roger O’Dell)
• SQLite on Mobile Devices – Architecture (Eric Sink)
• Building Services That Work in All Apps. No Silos. (TJ VanToll)
• Chrome-Apps on Mobile Devices: A Good Idea? (Wolfram Rittmeyer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Python on .NET with Michael Kennedy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 119 (Richard Hay)
• Testing Bing Code Search Visual Studio Extension (with video) (Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools: #78 – WPT Example – Disk | Defrag Tools (Jason E, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 196: Robocop and Search with Bing, AMA Bill Gates, FAA, Nokia Icon and Wearable Skirt | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Article: Author Q&A – The Lean Mindset by Tom and Mary Poppendieck (Ben Linders)
• Meet 5 Dynamic Women (Michelle Feder)
• February Classes from Girl Develop It Philly (Sarah Galbraith)

 

Database

• Why Your Slow SQL Server Doesn’t Need a SQL Consultant (or Does It?) (Brent Ozar)
• MongoDB and MySQL – Comparing Scalability, Data Distribution & Query Model – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Obtaining the Current Database Name (Richard Carr)
• How to Use Relational Databases and SQL to Understand MongoDB (Alec Noller)

 

PowerShell

• Get SQL Server SPN information for all servers using PowerShell (Brian P. O’Dwyer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Universal Forwarders and the Splunk App for Active Directory (Adrian Hall)
• OneNote Tip: Empty the notebook recycle bin to save space (John Guin)
• Book Review: Survival of the Nicest (samzenpus)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Swype-like keyboard demonstrated on video (Tom Warren)
• Is Windows Phone 8.1 too little, too late? (Sam Sabri)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1550 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1301 (Mike Gunderloy)
• .NET Weekly Digest #50 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #71 (Jason Strate)

 

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