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Dew Drop – March 17, 2014 (#1744)

Posted on March 17, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Update on Julie Horvath’s Departure (Chris Wanstrath)
Exploring FAKE, an F# Build System for all of .NET (Scott Hanselman)
It’s Official: OneNote is Now Free for Everyone (Paul Thurrott)
Immerse Yourself in Angular, MEAN, ASP.NET, and Gulp (John Papa)

Web Development

The Truth About False in JavaScript (Basem Emara)
ASP.NET MVC Extensibility with MEF (Eric Vogel)
Creating your first Angular program (Jesse Liberty)
Ignite UI ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding Support (Angel Todorov)
Building a live dashboard with some knockout (Jef Claes)
How to troubleshoot web applications with tracing in ASP.NET (Manya Susoev)
Revisiting JavaScript Minification (Rey Bango)
My Baby Steps to OAuth 2.0 Hell (or Should I Call It Heaven) (Tugberk Ugurlu)
Twitter Bootstrap Themes (John Ptacek)
Nested Layouts in HarpJS (Raymond Camden)
Pixel Art Lighting Effects in Unity and More Unity 2D Lighting Effects (Jesse Freeman)
I put my Azure website in the wrong location, now what?! (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Non-Store Windows Phone Apps: Integrate With the Settings Hub (Den Delimarsky)
2000 WPF Things #1,030 – Displaying an Indeterminate Progress Bar (Sean Sexton)
WPF Text Input Controls – RichTextBox (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 3–Insufficiently Chatty Queries (Adam Anderson)
A Behavior Change in Visual Studio 2013 .NET Breakpoints (John Robbins)
C# Feature I would love — Dynamic Types w/ Interfaces (Derik Whittaker)
CodeSmith Generator Projects And Visual Studio (Dirk Strauss)
An Introduction to Visual Studio 2013 (Alessandro Del Sole)
Rhino Mocks NuGet (Mike Meisinger)
Visual Studio Online Test Troubleshooting Guide (Trevor Hancock)
Working with Basic Mapping Layers in the ArcGIS Runtime Map (Shawn Kendrot)
Getting Started Guide using OGRE 3D on Windows 8.1 (Michael Cummings)
Having fun with Kinect for Windows v2 sample applications (Zubair Ahmed)
Using Git for .NET development part 3 – branching and pushing your changes (Alice Waddicor)
How do I create an IShellItemArray from a bunch of file paths? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,054 – Implicit Conversions from Constant Expressions (Sean Sexton)
Code Documentation in .Net Projects (Yunus Emre Keskin)
Linq2IndexedDB – IndexedDBViewer 1.2.0 (CodePlex)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Power of Three for Effective Communication (J.D. Meier)
Cross Project TypeScript Unit Testing – Part 2 (Martyn Frank)
More On Git Merges (Paul Hammant)
Test the Untestable! We Dare You Not To! (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
Retrospective – Hats and Soup (Cory Foy)
The Trap You Set For Yourself (Jeff Atwood)
Dog-fooding Journal #1 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Preparations (Willy-P. Schaub)

Other Mobile Platforms

Book Review: Learning Android Intents (Bill Jones)
Infinite Scrolling UICollectionView with Asyncronously Loading (Jason Jarrett)
Quick Look Debugging with UIView (Ben Scheirman)
Mobile Debugging Tips (Jim Cowart)
NSDictionary – Objective-C Class Reference (Nick Hanan)
How HTML5 Apps Can be More Secure than Native Mobile Apps (Moran Shayovitch)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Engadget Podcast 388 – 3.14.14 (Jon Turi)
MNR 502: Titanfall (Larry Hyrb)
Glance and Go Radio Podcast Show Appearance and Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 123 (Richard Hay)
SPC Wrap up and SharePoint Development with Mark Rackley-Episode 85 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
SSW TV – Visualization and Kanban Boards with TJ Gokcen [FireBootCamp] (SSW Team)
TWC9: New CodeLens, TEE Update 1, VSO, Launching 325 WP8 apps and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
Web Dev Radio Episode 119: Toran Billups interview (Michael Kimsal)
The Nerdist Podcast – The Hostful After (Chris Hardwick)
Hello World Podcast – Episode 16: Lars Klint (Shawn Wildermuth)
The Tablet Show – Modern Web with Todd Morrisson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Married Gamers Episode 329: Grifballin’ (Chris Brown)
Get Up And Code 045: John Sonmez’s Fitness Routine (John Sonmez)
How to Get Your First Job as a DBA (video) (Kendra Little)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 202: Andrew Gerrand (SE-Radio Team)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries Science in Movies and TV (Neil deGrasse Tyson & Eugene Mirman)
Evolution of JavaScript MVC: AngularJS and Backbone | Front-End Developer Cast Episode 2 (Craig McKeachie)

Community / Events

Global Windows Azure Bootcamp (x2) (Jim O’Neil)
5 Questions With… Rob Keiser (Tony Verguldi)
Falafel to help out at DVLUP Days 2014 North American Tour (Bary Nusz)
Influential developer leaves GitHub alleging gender harassment (Jacob Kastrenakes)
Mobile Expert Interview: Kevin Benedict and Rob Tiffany (Rob Tiffany)
What I learned by coding with kids on my summer vacation at That Conference, an essay by Sharon (Sharon Cichelli)

Database

SQL SERVER – Find Port SQL Server is Listening – Port SQL Server is Running and SQL SERVER – What is the Difference Between Latches and Locks and MySQL – Pattern Matching Comparison Using Regular Expressions with REGEXP (Pinal Dave)
SQLite on Mobile Devices – Foreign Keys (Eric Sink)
ERwin gets a new home at Embarcadero (Greg Duncan)
Tip: COLLATE for “Cannot resolve collation conflict” error (Jen McCown)
Introducing Biggy: An ORM-like Library for Document Databases (Jonathan Allen)
When is a Data Management Gateway Needed in Power BI? (Melissa Coates)

PowerShell

Implementing Hadoop Rack Awareness with PowerShell (Carl Nolan)

Miscellaneous

Amazon game controller leak suggests a set-top box is coming (Aaron Souppouris)
Mozilla abandons development of Metro Firefox for Windows 8 (Ed Bott)
Windows Phone 8.1 may support USB on-the-go (Phone Arena Team)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 14, 2014 (Rob Caron)
The Morning Brew #1568 and The Morning Brew #1569 (Chris Alcock)
Geek Reading March 14, 2014 and Geek Reading March 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Pie in the Sky (March 14th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
Collective #107 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1317 and Double Shot #1318 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five – March 14, 2014 (MVP Award Program)
Blog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #75 and Reblog: March 7 to March 13 (Jason Strate)
The Daily Six Pack: March 17, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 3/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #131 (Frank)
Friday Links #295 (Mike Ward)
Community Update 2014-03-16 – Upgrading an #aspnet #webforms app to #MVC (Maxime Rouiller)
.NET Weekly Digest #54 (Jakub Chodounsky)

The Geek Shelf

Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction: Chris Sims, Hillary Louise Johnson: 9781937965044: Books

ISBN: 193796504X
ISBN-13: 9781937965044

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Dew Drop – April 18, 2012 (#1,308)

Posted on April 18, 2012 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Reclaiming memory from Metro style apps (Steven Sinofsky)
Prince of Persia Source Code — Posted! (Jordan Mechner)
Windows 8 Metro: Starting your first App from scratch (Andrea Boschin)
Shrinking Kinect for Mobile: Q&A with Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research (Katie Scott)

.NET / Visual Studio

The RavenDB indexing process: Optimization (Oren Eini)
Reflecting Inherited Member Information (Richard Carr)
Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Improving the Api (Giorgi Dalakishvili)
Better Together: TFS 2010 and System Center 2012 (Jason Zander)
String Matching in LINQ (Telerik OpenAccess Team)
Getting started with Background Workers: Error Handling and Output Capturing and Compile .NET in your browser using Compilify by Justin Rusbatch (John Sheehan)
Windows 8 Background Networking Whitepaper and Wondering what the .Net in a Metro world story is? Here’s a chapter… (Greg Duncan)
Using Parallel.ForEach To Aggregate Results From JSON Files Stored in Windows Azure Blob Storage (Karsten Januszewski)
Go with the dataflow (Ivan Towlson)
Windows Portable Devices: Transfer Content To A Device (Christophe Geers)
JSON Light Sample Payloads (Mark)

Web Development

Sencha Architect 2: A WYSIWYG IDE for Building Desktop and Mobile HTML5 App (Dionysios G. Synodinos)
Using Cassette to minify assets in an MVC3 app (Jonathan Creamer)
Hexagonal architecture in JavaScript (Giorgio Sironi)
Is Javascript code always so full of bugs? (Don Syme)
Leaving Your Mark (Rob Conery)
WebStorm 4.0: HTML5 Boilerplate and other Web Application Templates (Sergey Simonchik)
Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D (Tom Giannattasio)
How to use WCF DS 5.0 in a Web Site project and JSON Light Sample Payloads (WCF Team)
Simple music player (Stoyan Stefanov)
Appcelerator Now Offers Cloud Services and Mobile Web SDK (Romin Irani)
Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy (Scott Knaster)
Thinking about the offline web (Pete LePage)
Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) (Peter Kellner)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The Daily Standup/Scrum is not for the Scrum Master (Anand Vishwanath)
Management Skills Replaces Kanban – Is Kanban Failing Japan? (Peter Saddington)
Learning Is More Important Than Knowing (Karl Seguin)
Pro Tip: Don’t Push Binaries To Source Control, Use NuGet Wisely Instead (Itamar Syn-hershko)
APress Deal of the Day 18/Apr/2012 – Design Driven Testing (Tatworth)
Communication struggles at a small company (Stephen Forte)
Spend $100 to Prioritize Your Opportunities (JD Meier)
Some Servicelocator pattern stinks (Jef Claes)
Isolator V7 for …. free? Get rid of your legacy software. (Avi Kaye)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Invoking through the Dispatcher on Windows Phone and Metro and Compiling Same Code on Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 Metro (Joel Ivory Johnson)
Flurry Phone Fun… Flurry Analytics on WP7 (Greg Duncan)
Workaround for CA0055 Error with Silverlight Projects in Visual Studio 2010 (Pete Brown)
Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session I and Building Secure GOV-LOB Windows Phone Apps. Part II, Session II (Joel Reyes)
WPF: A Simple Color Picker With Preview (Sacha Barber)
2000 WPF Things #539 – Adding Text-Based Elements in Blend (Sean Sexton)
WPF ComboBox initial selection (Tim Hibbard)
Slides and source code for my past talks this year (Laurent Bugnion)
Handle Feature Reductions (Mike Battista)
LightSwitch Companion Client Examples using OData (Beth Massi)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Episode 182 – PowerScripting Podcast – Joel Bennett on PowerShell v3 and PoshCode (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Countdown to TechEd Europe 2012: Tulips and TechExpo (Mark DeFalco)
Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 165: HTC One V (Gareth Myles & James Richardson)

Community / Events

Upcoming Events for April 17th, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)
UI for Geeks at Dallas ASP.NET (Chris Koenig)
Azure, Mobility, and the Enterprise: NYC Windows Azure User Group 4-18-2012 (Peter Laudati)
Nokia Bounty Hunter Challenge May 10 through June 12 at 13 Locations (MS Public Sector Team)
Code Warriors being unleashed onto the Marketplace to build missing apps (Rich Edmonds)
Talking Cloud Tuesday: Windows Azure MVP Ming Chung Chu (MVP Award Program)

Database

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released (Glenn Berry)
SQLAuthority News – Select the Best SQL in Sixty Seconds Episode – Help us Improve (Pinal Dave)
Listing SQL Instances on a machine (or list of machines) (Martin Catherall)
Bug: reverting from a database snapshot shrinks the transaction log to 0.5MB (Paul S. Randal)

SharePoint

SharePoint Multilingual Sites – Determine Top 10 Languages to Deploy (Joel Oleson)
Install Sharepoint Foundation on Workstation error: the user does not exists or is not unique (Gian Maria Ricci)

Miscellaneous

Happy Birthday Apple ][ (David Pollak)
Amazon shows developers how to obscure code to avoid cloning (Andrew Webster)
Thoughts on name collision (Brent Schooley)
What exactly do you get with Windows 8 Pro? (Ed Bott)
Windows Phone 8 coming to all current phones, says evangelist and Windows Phone 8 to all current Windows Phones? Not so fast (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: April 18, 2012 (Jason Haley)
Double Shot #861 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1087 (Chris Alcock)
Windows 8 Developer Links – 2012-04-18 (Dan Rigby)
Daily News Digest 4/18/2012 and SilverlightCream Top 5 News for Week April 9-15, 2012 (Silverlight Show)
Daily WP7 Development News 17 April 2012 (Windows Phone Geek)
Windows Dev News for April 17, 2012 – #0068 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer

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Dew Drop – April 9, 2009

Posted on April 9, 2009 | by Alvin A.

.NET / Visual Studio

Bitmasking userAccountControl attribute in LDAP from C# (Tom Hearn)
DebuggerDisplay and DebuggerBrowsable – Two Debugger Attributes you should know (Amit Raz)
NHibernate Mapping – <many-to-one/> (Oren Eini)
WCF Services hosted in Azure – more samples just released…. and Issue with the First Release of MUrl Sample and Twitter (Brian Loesgen)
F# and the PFX Round 1 (Chris Smith)
D3: Using T4 to Generate Entity and Context Classes and Building N-Tier Applications with the EF – The Basics (Danny Simmons)
Resharper 4.5 Is Out (Davy Brion)
How A .NET Developer Learned Ruby And Rake, To Build .NET Apps In Windows (Derick Bailey)
Article series on NHibernate and Fluent NHibernate (Gabriel N. Schenker)
ADO.NET Data Services, JSON, and PowerShell (G. Andrew Duthie)
Writing an IronPython Debugger: Breakpoint Management (Harry Pierson)
Programmable in-memory aggregations (Jamie Thomson)

Web Development

N-Layered Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5 Part 5: Dealing with Concurrency (ASP.NET Daily Articles)
Publishing an ASP.NET Web Application in IIS (Charlie Calvert)
Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell? (Geir Wavik)
ASP.NET MVC: Is it worth it? (Peter Bromberg)
ASP.NET MVC Controls and Good versus Evil (K. Scott Allen)
13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know (Simone Chiaretta)
Using jQuery with the ASP.NET CustomValidator Control (Suprotim Agarwal)
Binder for ironruby mvc (Ivan Porto Carrero)
Handling script errors from three different perspectives (Travis Leithead)

Silverlight / WPF

Analyze performance issues in your WPF application with WPFPerf. (blagunas)
SilverlightShow announces "Shared Experience" Initiative (Corey Miller)
Looking at Virtual Earth Silverlight Control (Corey Schuman)
Grouping data in Silverlight DataGrid (Tim Heuer)
VideoWiki – Step 0 (Jesse Liberty)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Quality against a deadline (Jimmy Bogard) – Link of the Day
We Are Not Doing DDD (Casey Charlton)
Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Reflection (J.D. Meier)
Test-After Development is not Test-Driven Development (Stephen Walther)
The Secret to Organizational Agility (Revisited) (Mike Cottmeyer)
You should be using Balsamiq Mockups (Michael C. Neel)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Kathleen Dollard on MEF and More! (Carl Franklin)
ARCast.TV – Jeffrey Palermo on ASP.NET MVC (Bob Familiar)
Intelligent Light: Computational Fluid Dynamics and High Performance Computing (Charles Torre)
Resigning ClickOnce Application and Deployment Manifests with MAGE (Beth Massi)
Stack Overflow Podcast #48 (Jeff Atwood)
Herding Code Episode 42: Scott Bellware on BDD and Lean Development (Jon Galloway)
10-4 Episode 15: Model-First Development with the Entity Framework 4.0 (Jonathan Carter)

Database

The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created (Gunnar Peipman)
Article: Azure Storage (Michael Kennedy)

SharePoint

Bad Practices for SharePoint Server 2007 Search (Bill English)
sharepoint guidance v2 – drop 6 video (Erwin Van Der Valk)
How to create a browser cache save URL to a javascript or css file in SharePoint (Stefan Gossner)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft’s Codeplex Releases "Paste As" Plugin for Windows Live Writer (Blake Handler)
Support Through Friendship & Unity (Chris G. Williams)
Have You Called Your Client Today? (Georgina Laidlaw)
Choosing a Source Control Tool (Mike Hadlow)
Block Ads Using IE8 and DigiTweet, a Gorgeous New Twitter Application (Sarah Perez)
DZone RefCardz (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Adobe offers free Flex 3 license to unemployed developers (Lee Mathews)
Changes in Windows 7 Build 7077 (Taimur Asad)
How to view all comments on all wiki pages – #011 and You Can Easily Print CodePlex Wiki Pages – #012 (Sara Ford)
Programmer Competency Matrix (Michael Ceranski)
Team meeting Twitter feedback and You can now purchase Xbox LIVE Arcade titles from Amazon (Larry Hyrb)
Out, out, you damn foreigners! (Ted Neward)
WIN VISTA GADGET FOR LATEST XBLCG (Pete)

More Link Collections

LINKBLOG for April 8, 2009 (Arjan Zuidhof)
Interesting Finds: April 8, 2009 (Jason Haley)
The Morning Brew #325 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for April 08, 2009 — #566 (Dave Campbell)
Interesting Finds: 2009 04.06~04.09 (yuanjian)
CloudNews for April 8th, 2009 (Sameer Gupta)
Tech Twitterings #23 (Elijah Manor)

Book of the Day

Professional ADO.NET 3.5 with LINQ and the Entity Framework (Wrox Programmer to Programmer): Roger Jennings: Books

ISBN: 047018261X
ISBN-13: 9780470182611

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