Dew Drop – May 20, 2014 (#1780)

Top Links

• Durandal 2.1.0 Prerelease (Rob Eisenberg)
• CompileOnline.com – Compile and Execute your favorite programming languages online (Mohammad Mohtashim)
• When should I write a property? (Eric Lippert)
• The Breakneck Speed of Open Source in .NET (Dave Paquette)

Web Development

• Day #2: Learn ASP.NET MVC 5- Adding View (Dhananjay Kumar)
• All ASP.NET MVC Forms Need To Include Html.AntiForgeryToken() For Security (Peter Kellner)
• Extending the jQuery UI Accordion (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Moving to Microsoft Azure (Filip Ekberg)
• The Dangers of Stopping Event Propagation (Philip Walton)
• Are you really still thinking “desktop first”? (Matt Lacey)
• LibreSSL, OpenSSL Replacement: The First 30 Days (Sergio De Simone)
• MooTools 1.5 is here! (Sergio Crisostomo)

XAML

• Developers: Make your Tiles Transparent for Windows Phone 8.1 (Larry Lieberman)
• Save Time, Money, and Your Sanity: Coded UI Testing for the Windows Phone–Adding Assertions (Lori Lalonde)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,076 – Two Ways to Check for Use of Modifier Keys in Keypress Handlers (Sean Sexton)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Code Navigation: ReSharper 8 vs. Visual Studio 2013 (Alexey Totin)
• Return type of One-way or Simplex WCF Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Performance in Tracing (Kathleen Dollard)
• F#29 : Interop (Sacha Barber)
• Defining Natural Keys in Entity Framework Entity Classes (Peter Vogel)
• Telerik Data Access – Handling Connectivity Issues by Using a Backup Storage (Part 2) (Kristian Nikolov)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Loading Foreign Key Properties (Ricardo Peres)
• New CodeRush Plugin – Convert String to AppSetting (Rory Becker)
• EF7 – New Platforms, New Data Stores (Rowan Miller)
• 2000 C# Things #1,100 – Increment and Decrement Operators Are Not Thread-Safe (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Overview page for “Is TDD Dead” and The Costs and Benefits of a Unit Testing Culture (Martin Fowler)
• Article: 5 Ways Your Business Can Benefit from Agile Engineering Practices Today (Debbie Madden)
• First (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
• Are you ready to be your own boss? (Jack Wallen)
• 3 Simple Techniques to Make APIs Easier to Use and Understand (John Sonmez)
• What If I do This? (Gil Zilberfeld)

Mobile Development

• Running Cordova Multi-Device Hybrid App from Visual Studio On Android Device (George Saadeh)
• Create logos for Windows and Windows Phone with one SVG (David Washington)
• The future of mobile applications (Matt Lacey)
• Catch Bugs Before They Reach Your Mobile Users (Vassil Petev)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #58 – Pack ‘Em In Like Bees (Abby T. Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – DevOps on TFS with Brian Randell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hello World Podcast – Episode 25: Jon Flanders (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Changelog 122: Rails Girls Summer of Code and Travis Foundation with Anika Lindtner and Floor Drees (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• The Married Gamers Episode 333: Xbox Drop Mic (Chris Brown)
• Defrag Tools: Live – TechEd 2014 – Mark Russinovich | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Mark Russinovich & Andrew Richards)
• Nerds @ Play Episode 65: Minecraft, Pineapple and Cat Madness (Melisa Snyder)
• App Hack Monday #6 – Building better quality apps | App Hack Monday (Martin Beeby)
• Technology & Friends Episode 318 – Marcel de Vries on Code UI Tests (David Giard)

Community / Events

• Xamarin WWDC Party 2014 (Morgan Forsythe)
• Celebrating .NET Microsoft MVPs (Kerry Meade)
• Organising community events is a lot of work (Matt Lacey)

Database

• SQL Server Hardware Configuration Best Practices (Richard Vantrease)
• How Much Memory Does SQL Server Need? (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – 3 Challenges for DBA and Smart Solutions (Pinal Dave)
• Compression & Memory Sizing in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Blog Post: SSMS Tools Pack 3.0 is out. Full SSMS 2014 support and improved features. (Mladen Prajdic)

PowerShell

• Microsoft announced the CTP release of Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration for Linux (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie shuffles its Cloud & Enterprise deck (Mary Jo Foley)
• The Satya Nadella Mythology (Kip Kniskern)
• BizTalk Server Best Practices (Michael Stephenson)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 19, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1359 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1612 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 5/20/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-20 (Dan Rigby)

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