Dew Drop – July 15, 2013 (#1,585)

Top Links

• Overview of Related Files in Blend (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Work with style(s) (Andrea Boschin)
• InRelease for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available and Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview – Upgrade FAQ (Zain Naboulsi)
• Meet Terry Myerson, the most important man at Microsoft (Adrianne Jeffries)

 

Web Development

• Easy Ways to Upload and Validate Large Files in ASP.NET (Boyan Dimitrov)
• Are You Serving Files Insecurely in ASP.NET (Filip Ekberg)
• Windows Azure Posters for Mobile Services and Mobile Gaming (Glenn Gailey)
• Named anchors in HTML5 (I. Haynes)
• Web API performance: profiling Django REST framework (@_tomchristie) (John Sheehan)
• Web Design Tip: How-To Add jQuery Yellow Fade Effect to ASP.NET GridView and How to Create an ASP.NET Wizard Interface in ASP.NET MVC & WebForms (Mehul Harry)
• Why Curry Helps (Hugh Jackson)
• Running OWIN/Katana apps on Heroku and Running .NET on Heroku (Michael Friis)
• Azure Mobile Services–Custom APIs and URI Paths (Mike Taulty)
• Grayscale Image Filter for Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• OAuth 2.0 – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Agraj Mangal)
• Creating a simple Tab – Your code, your plugins, part 1 (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Trailing commas in object literals and array literals (Axel Rauschmayer)
• How Orchard deals with dependency licenses (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Responsive Web Design By Example (Clinton Gallagher)
• The Current and Future Performance of the Mobile Web (Zef Hemel)
• Justified and Vertically Centered Header Elements (Mary Lou)
• Consensus: AngularJS + TypeScript (Nick Berardi)
• What’s a (Good) REST API? (@mdesjardins) (John Sheehan)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #863 – Tooltips Are Normally Not Shown when a Control Is Disabled (Sean Sexton)
• Migrating iOS Applications to Windows 8: Controlling the Appearance of Your User Interface Controls (Bruno Terkaly)
• Windows 8 to 8.1 App Considerations: Screen Size (Brian Hitney)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #9: Search and Sizing (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Incremental Loading with GridView in Windows 8 (Rohit Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013 (Dan J. Taylor)
• Using Strongly Typed Custom Document Type Classes (John Bubriski)
• New Entity Workbench for LightSwitch (Xpert360)
• Anders On C# 6.0 at BUILD 2013 (Wesner Moise)
• Lock vs. Mutex (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #886 – Setting the HelpLink Property when You Throw an Exception (Sean Sexton)
• If you want to track whether the current thread owns a critical section, you can use the critical section itself to protect it (Raymond Chen)
• Using Dependency Injection When Calling .NET Over COM (Steve Wilkes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Customizing output for unit test runner with MSTest (Latish Sehgal)
• To Grow, Stay Uncomfortable (J.D. Meier)
• Data Structure: Stack (dynamic array based) (Sergejus Barinovas)
• Measuring performance of the user experience (Patrick Meenan)
• OAuth Improvements (Tim Clem)
• How innovation can turn to burning hell (Gunnar Peipman)
• Defect Driven Test Automation (Jann Thomas)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Debug iOS Applications with Reveal (Ralph Winzinger)
• New Themes: Fitpulse and Gunmetal (Zack Gramana)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 122 – “Travis Embedded” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 94: The State of the Union with Rocky Lhotka (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• GeekWire Radio: The inside story of Poppy, the 3D video device for the iPhone (Todd Bishop)
• Video: Cyber-security and the broken web (Troy Hunt)
• The Nothing Serious Podcast Where You Can’t Have Enough Laser Beams And Skittles (Steven)
• Hot Apps: Parking Mania, HardFox SixPack, AR Guns, AE Bowling 3D, Face Touch | Hot Apps (Laura Foy)
• Video: Adding Event Handlers to Buttons in Dart (Manya Susoev)
• Get Up And Code 010: Do You Supplement? (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Video: Ballmer shares his vision for the new Microsoft (Brad Sams)
• Indie Games from XBOX Live Indie Games to Windows 8 (Frank LaVigne)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jeff Bridges (Chris Hardwick
• TWC9: Building on Build and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Greg Duncan & Mark DeFalco)
• The Tablet Show – Mobile Testing with Jeff Morgan (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video Tutorial on Including And Excluding Profiled Code With NCover Pre-Coverage Filters (Kerry Meade)

 

Community / Events

• Presenting JavaScript on 20th July for C-SharpCorner Delhi Chapter (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Canada wins $10000 at Imagine Cup World Finals and it doesn’t end there! (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• Use SQL Server’s UNPIVOT operator to help normalize output (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Drivers for PHP, JDBC, ODBC and OLE DB and SQL – What ACID stands in the Database? – Contest to Win 24 Amazon Gift Cards and Joes 2 Pros 2012 Kit (Pinal Dave)
• Obtaining a SQL Server’s Name (Richard Carr)
• Reviewing Lightning memory-mapped database library: Because, damn it! (Oren Eini)
• Article: Exploring the Architecture of the NuoDB Database, Part 1 (Seth Proctor)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Phone GDR3 to bring 5-, 6-inch devices later this year, Windows Phone Blue will introduce notification center in 2014 (Phone Arena Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 12, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 13, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 14, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, July 12th (Rob Caron)
• Collective #72 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1161 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-July 12, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (July 12, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• The Morning Brew #1398 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/12/2013 and Daily News Digest 7/15/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: July 5 to July 11 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 21 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #037 (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #70) (Mark Brown)

 

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