Dew Drop – May 23, 2014 (#1783)

Top Links

• Web Essentials on Visual Studio Web Express (Mads Kristensen)
• The updates just keep a rolling…Visual Studio 2013.3 CTP 1 Released (Greg Duncan)
• Yahoo!’s David Pogue just made the greatest Surface Pro 3 commercial yet (Daniel Rubino)

 

Web Development

• Creating Asynchronous Alerts, Prompts, And Confirms In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Implementing a raffle in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• WebStorm 8.0.3 Bug Fix Update is Available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Grunt in WebStorm 8 (John Lindquist)
• LightSwitch HTML Client API Reference Released (Steve Hoag)
• ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: IConfiguration (Louis DeJardin)
• Set Error page through UI and avoid redirect loop (Saad Khan)
• Using ViewControllers in Ext JS 5 (Don Griffin)
• Book Review: Extending Bootstrap (Gretchen Sisnett)

 

XAML

• Coded UI testing support for Silverlight using Visual Studio 2013 (Prachi Bora)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,079 – Executing a Command Programmatically (Sean Sexton)
• APress Deal of the Day 23/May/2014 – Pro WPF 4.5 in C# (Tatworth)
• Create Universal Map App In Under 2 Minutes (Morten Nielsen)
• Surface Pro 3 introduces a new aspect ratio! Does it impact my apps? (Kiril Stanoev)
• Universal apps are confusing because they’re not apps… (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Memory Profiling on Production Servers with the JustTrace Profiler (Elena Pundjeva)
• Release Management Update 3 CTP1 is now available with DSC Deployment Feature! (Jayanti Vemulapati)
• Why does my radio button group selection get reset each time my window regains activation? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,103 – A Block Defines Both Scope and Declaration Space (Sean Sexton)
• One developer’s experience with .NET Native (Helge Mahrt)
• .NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Didn’t Hit a MissingMetadataException! (Morgan Brown)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Successfully Scale Agile in Your Enterprise (Isaac Hogue)
• TDD Saves Time – A Story (Dave M. Bush)
• Why You Need An Automation Testing Framework (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• FButton: Flat UI Buttons for Android (Alec Noller)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Stories of Computer Science Past and Present with Len Bass (Scott Hanselman)
• Windows Weekly 363: The Neighbor of the Beast (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Mailbag Grab Bag (Alton Brown)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Innovation Lounge opens at 1776 Start-up Hub (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Microsoft’s Panos Panay will host a Surface AMA on Tuesday (Brad Sams)

 

Database

• Name Parsing with SQL Server Functions and T-SQL Programming (Rick Dobson)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Compatibility Level Drop Down is Empty (Pinal Dave)
• Smarter failure handling with RavenDB 3.0 (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• (Not so) Stupid Questions 278-281 SharePoint- Pain and pleasure (Iris Classon)

 

PowerShell

• Install Script Browser & Script Analyzer from PowerShellGet of WMF 5.0 (Jialiang)

 

Miscellaneous

• You’ve got Surface Pro 3 questions, I’ve got answers (Ed Bott)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, May 22, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1362 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1615 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 5/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-23 (Dan Rigby)

 

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