Dew Drop – June 25, 2014 (#1803)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Show 1000! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) for the Rest of Us (Beth Massi)
• paint.net 4.0 is now available! (Rick Brewster)
• Xamarin Studio and NuGet (Matt Ward)

 

Web Development

• Looking At Attribute Interpolation Workflow Changes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Microsoft Research JavaScript Cryptography Library (Daniel Fisher)
• Encapsulating HTML with Shadow DOM (Basem Emara)
• ASP.NET Scalability: the good, the bad and the hype (Dino Esposito)
• Debugging PHP and JavaScript code at the same time (Maarten Balliauw)
• Trying Redis Caching as a Service on Windows Azure (Scott Hanselman)
• Node Security Project Aims at Making Node.js More Secure (Sergio De Simone)
• AngularJS: 101 Ways to Create a Controller (Deborah Kurata)
• Nest announces API, Google Now integration coming (Phone Arena Team)
• Azure Web Site Enhancements (Dave Kidder)

 

XAML

• Microsoft reportedly releasing Windows Phone 8.1 today (Manish Singh)
• How to send string and content messages with MVVM Light Messenger (Marco Minerva)
• Show Me the XAML (Mike Bluestein)
• Get rewarded by Microsoft for building Windows Phone, Android or Asha apps (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,101 – Defining a Handler for Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Selection Controls – Slider (Richard Carr)
• Creating a feathered (aka staggered) page transition (Shawn Kendrot)
• Messaging class for detecting and broadcasting that your Universal app is running in the background and Building multi-resolution popups in an Universal App (Joost van Schaik)
• SQLitePCL Now Supports Universal Windows Apps! (Olivier Bloch)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Building a shared dictionary (Oren Eini)
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 for Web Developers (Mahesh Sabnis)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: XML Mappings (Ricardo Peres)
• How to Automate IIS 7 Configuration with .NET (Patrick Steele)
• ODataLib 6.4.0 Release (LeoHu1)
• 2000 C# Things #1,125 – Use of break and continue Statements (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture as code (Simon Brown)
• Agile Decompiled: Sprints (Chris Odell)
• Bliki: CanaryRelease (Martin Fowler)
• Monitor Design Pattern with Semaphore (Brian Mullen)
• Introducing the Revert Button (Jake Douglas)
• Adopting Continuous Integration (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Learning Xamarin – Building An App and Xamarin–Converting int to string (Jesse Liberty)
• iOS Quick Tip: Find the Size of a NSString (Stephen Zaharuk)
• The Kendo UI Mobile Book You’ve Been Waiting For (Ryan Axford)
• Improving a platform: Nokia X2 (Adam Fraser)
• Telerik AppPrototyper: Coming out of Beta with a handful of new features (Vladimir Dragoev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 275 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell MVP Steve Murawski (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Webinar Recording: Native Mobile Apps in Xamarin Studio (Mike Bluestein)
• 114 JSJ Asynchronous UI and Non-Blocking Interactions with Elliott Kember (woody2shoes)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Adam Rogers (Chris Hardwick)
• The Married Gamers Episode 335: Buttcrack Down (Chris Brown)
• The Amp Hour #204 – An Interview with Noah Feehan – Biloquistic Blinking Blush (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Mike Driscoll (Alec Noller)
• MS Open Tech at MongoDB World (Olivier Bloch)
• First State .NET User Group Meeting – 6/26 – Dave Voyles – Building HTML5 cross platform mobile apps (First State .NET Team)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – In-Memory Databases and Caching Wars (Pinal Dave)
• SqlSmash – A plugin for Sql Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2012 that helps you in writing maintainable SQL scripts (Latish Sehgal)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 1 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Finding the “Run as administrator” command, a game of hide-and-seek (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1378 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1637 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-25 (Dan Rigby)

 

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