Dew Drop – July 22, 2014 (#1819)

Top Links

• Analyzing test code (Eric Lippert)
• Learning Xamarin – Custom Renderers in Xamarin Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• Yet Another Podcast Show 127–Laurent Bugnion, Xamarin & MVVM Light (Jesse Liberty)
• Using PowerShell to discover information about your Microsoft SQL Servers (Mike Robbins)

 

Web Development

• My First Look At Streams In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Running PHPUnit tests over SSH on Vagrant with PhpStorm 8 (Maarten Balliauw)
• More Responsive Single-Page Applications With AngularJS & Socket.IO: Creating the Library (Maciej Sopyło)
• Replace JSON.NET with Jil JSON serializer in ASP.NET Web API (Radenko Zec)
• BackBone Tutorial – Part 5: Understanding Backbone.js Collections (Rahul Rajat Singh)
• Create custom directives for AngularJS (Sonal Amin)

 

XAML

• How to create watermark Textbox in Windows Phone 8 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 8.1 Update: Brokered WinRT Components (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,119 – Localization I – Set UICulture Tag (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Menu Controls – ToolBarTray (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online Update – July 21 (Brian Harry)
• Understanding object-oriented programming in C# (Deborah Kurata)
• Compiler Basics, Part 3: Syntax Analysis (Kenny Kerr)
• How can I get the URL to the Web page the clipboard was copied from? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,143 – Implement IEquatable in a Generic Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Meets Management 3.0 (Savita Pahuja)
• Article: Seven Changes to Remove Waste From Your Software Development Process (Cecil Dijoux)
• Test Attribute #4 – Accuracy (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• KNOX Contribution to Android: Accelerating Android in the Workplace (Srikanth Rajagopalan)
• An Introduction to Xamarin: Part 3 (Derek Jensen)
• Solving offline data persistence and data sync scenarios with Telerik DataSync for iOS (Nikolay Diyanov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Developing for RFID with Daniel Simmons (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SSW TV – TFS Extensibility with Damian Brady (SSW Team)
• Ping 216: WP8 updated games, Bing outpredicts Google, NFL streaming, free group Skype calls and more! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 33: Ian Griffiths (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Guy Branum (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #99 – Writing a Debugger Extension Part 4 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 22 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Episode 002 – Jason Short (The Cloud) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)

 

Events

• Announcing: Microsoft’s Unified Technology Event for Enterprises (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Atlanta Splunk User Group this Friday! (Hal Rottenberg)
• Three summers, three different internship experiences (MS JobsBlog)
• My ultimate list of programming blogs you should follow today (Radenko Zec)

 

Database

• SQL Server Alert for Tempdb Growing Out of Control (Erin Youtzy)
• Make an SSIS package Delay or Wait for Data (Mike Davis)
• How to test what a SQL Server application would do in the past or in the future with date and time differences (Andy Novick)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Activity – All Blocking Transactions (Pinal Dave)
• Avoid where in a reduce clause (Oren Eini)
• Working With Excel Named Ranges In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Where to Find Q&A Optimizations in Power BI (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell Tips–Showwindow (Steve Jones)
• #PSTip Create mapped network drive using WScript.Network (Jaap Brasser)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1387 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 9 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, July 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The ‘Morning’ Brew #1655 and The Morning Brew #1656 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading July 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 22, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/22/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #93 (Jason Strate)

 

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