Dew Drop – September 10, 2013 (#1,621)

Top Links

• Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate (S.Somasegar)
• Windows 8.1 now available on MSDN and TechNet following developer complaints (Tom Warren)
• HttpClient API Poster for Windows Runtime Developers (MS Downloads)
• What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 RC with Team Foundation Server and Upgrading from the TFS 2013 Preview to TFS 2013 RC (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Web Development

• HTML And JavaScript Viewer For Fusion Reactor Alert Emails (Ben Nadel)
• Windows 8.1 HTTP API brings good news to JavaScript app developers (Deborah Pisano)
• Creating a Clean, Minimal-Footprint ASP.NET WebAPI Project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4 (John Atten)
• The little toolbox of PHP performance optimization (Giorgio Sironi)
• Visual Studio 2013 RC for Web Developers – One ASP.NET, Browser Link, and our Direction (Scott Hanselman)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 RC (Xinyang Qiu)
• Ember 1.0 Released (Ember.js Team)
• Elmah Extensions – Built on top of the ELMAH platform, this library extends the way ELMAH reacts to errors (Peter Weissbrod)
• LINQ in JavaScript, ES6 Style (Aaron Powell)
• ES6 Iterators, Generators, and Iterables (Domenic Denicola)
• AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps (Matt Frisbie)
• Developers Rate Azure One of Their Favorite Tools (Grant Fritchey)

 

XAML

• FREE Office 2010 Blue Theme for WPF and Silverlight Microsoft Controls (Brian Lagunas)
• Xaml: Call Binding Converter Without Defining StaticResource in Xaml Thanks to Markup Derived Base Class in C# (William Wegerson)
• 2000 WPF Things #903 – Placing Tabs on Different Sides of a TabControl (Sean Sexton)
• Using Different WMAppManifest Files for Release and Debug Builds – Part Deux (Toni Petrina)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Book Review: Essential C# 5.0 (Ian Elliot)
• Adding a platform target dropdown to Visual Studio (Morten Nielsen)
• What is new in Browser Link with Visual Studio 2013 RC? (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Exploring Work Item Charting in Visual Studio 2013 (Colin Beales)
• Visual Studio 2013 RC, VS 2013 RTM, Windows 8.1 RTM, and Launch (Ed Blankenship)
• Visual Studio 2013 RC (Jonathan Turner) – TypeScript bundled with the RC!
• What’s that Read_Committed_Snapshot Transaction Support for EF6 About Anyway? (Julie Lerman)
• Announcing LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate! (Joe Binder)
• Exploring some fresh ReSharper plugins (Maarten Balliauw)
• Ten F# one-liners to impress your friends (Jon Harrop)
• EasyNetQ: Big Breaking Changes in the Advanced Bus (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio Tips: Copy & paste tricks (Susan Ibach)
• Visual Studio 2013 RC available now! (Visual Studio Team)
• Visual Studio 2013: Zooming In and Out of Text in the Editor (Zain Naboulsi)
• Programmatically editing the metadata of an audio file (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Non Nullable Columns in Table Per Class Hierarchy Inheritance (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #927 – Visualizing How Objects Are Created on the Managed Heap (Sean Sexton)
• ALM Rangers DevOps Workbench Express Edition BETA is available (Willy-P. Schaub)
• No Comment, Part 3: Writing ‘Really Obvious Code’ (Peter Vogel)
• Team Foundation Service Update – Sept 9 (Brian Harry)
• Introducing Deployment Workbench Express Edition (Brian Keller)
• .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview (Bryan Group)
• Verbatim identifiers (Eric Lippert)
• 10 years of LLBLGen Pro (Frans Bouma)
• Saving your sanity with Snippets (Greg Duncan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD: Day One – What is TDD and Why Should I Use It? (James Bender)
• Article: Kanban – Isn’t It Just Common Sense? (Karl Scotland)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap Architectural Considerations (Andrew Trice)
• Capturing Photos in Cordova or PhoneGap (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Cloud Computing Taking Mobile App Dev to New Heights (Mobile Man)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 178: Async, C# Syntax, AngularJS, Document Databases, Podcast Hosting, A New Job and Summer Vacations (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• The Show that Shall Not Be Named: Episode 1 – All About KickStarter (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Defrag Tools: #55 – Bugcheck 0xAB Crash | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 187: Microsoft isn’t stupid, NFL hits, Skype with your eyes, Xbox One date announced | Ping! (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 9th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft fires out invites for Surface 2 event in New York on September 23rd (Rich Edmonds)
• The Dark Side Of Software Development That No One Talks About (John Sonmez)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle with UNION – Part 4 (Pinal Dave)
• Mathematics behind Query Recompilation (Bodhisatya)
• Excuses for Slow Databases That Don’t Hold Up (Brent Ozar)
• Revisited: The Story of Pubs, Northwind, and AdventureWorks (Glenn Gailey)
• Azure Table Storage: Anno 1601 (Pascal Arnould)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Surface 2: New reports on Surface RT’s successor (Mary Jo Foley)
• 5 Ways to Get Ahead in the Digital Age (Kelsey McKinney)
• Intel Haswell Ultrabook–Looking Closer (Jesse Liberty)
• Trials and Tribulations (Store apps and SD cards with music on a Surface) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Trying a Nokia Lumia 1020 – A Camera with a Phone Inside (Scott Hanselman)
• Find out what the Xbox SmartGlass companion app will bring to Xbox One (Steve Clarke)
• Roku Android app update lets you stream video from your phone to your set-top box (Nathan Ingraham)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 9, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 9th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #80 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1438 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #48 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 6 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

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