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Dew Drop – August 1, 2013 (#1,597)

Posted on August 1, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing the release of the Windows Azure SDK 2.1 for .NET (Scott Guthrie)
The Improved Microsoft Developer Network (Brian Harry)
Development with Visual Studio 2013 Preview and SQL Server 2014 CTP1 on Windows 8.1 Preview – it is possible? (Mihail Mateev)
Web Essentials 2013 Preview | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

Web Development

Calling Stored Procs in your LightSwitch Databases using Web API (Beth Massi)
Owin middleware, ASP.NET Web API and client’s IP address (Filip W)
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013–Hello World! (Michael Washington)
WebGL Hello World in IE11 (G. Andrew Duthie)
ECMAScript 6 Modules: What Are They and How to Use Them Today (Zef Hemel)
Orchard 1.7 Release and New Features (David Hayden)
IE11: Touch Browsing for Today’s Web and Beyond (Michael Patten)

XAML

WPF Diagrams: Improved path routing (Jason Fauchelle)
2000 WPF Things #876 – Default Popup Placement (Sean Sexton)
Windows 8.1 for iOS developers (Windows Apps Team)
APIMASH Quakes & Astronomy (Brian Hitney)
[Sample Of Jul 31st] How to add wartermark text/image to a bitmap in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)

Miscellaneous .NET

Book – Building Interactive Queries with LINQPad (Alexandre Brisebois)
Integrating a JS Build Process Into MSBuild in Visual Studio 2012 Express (David Mann)
Visual Studio 2012 Tips Series – Content Rollup (Dirk Strauss)
Visual Studio Intellisense Stops Working. How to reactivate? (Kunal Chowdhury)
F# vs OCaml part 1: syntax and types (Jon Harrop)
JustCode Helps Make the Visual Studio Solution Explorer Context Menu Manageable (Phil Japikse)
MSI wrapper for any installer using Wix (Ernest Poletaev)
Debugging with Smart Step-into (Maarten Balliauw)
2000 C# Things #900 – What the Exception Object Contains when You Re-throw an Exception (Sean Sexton)
Complete a survey to help us make our profilers better (Daria Dovzhikova)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How Individuals Can Adopt an Agile Way of Working (Ben Linders)
Review: Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Giorgio Sironi)
Binary Search Algorithm (Richard Carr)
Test your app with temporary, test data before you ship (Adam Denning)
Bottom-Up Implementation & Top-Down Intent (Andrew Fuqua)
Stupid in any language (Eric Brechner)
Test Studio’s New Remote Execution Engine (Jared Twing)
Facts and Myths about Remote work (Scott Berkun)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 105: Gareth Branwyn and Jim McCann (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Working with Creatives and Fabio Matsui (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Podcast About Personal Kanban with Dave Prior (Johanna Rothman)
Software Engineering Radio Episode 196: Personal Kanban with Jim Benson (SE-Radio Team)
Webinar Recording: What’s New in ReSharper 8.0 (Robert Demmer)
Engadget HD Podcast 360 – 07.31.13 (Joe Pollicino)
Defrag: Tile Colors, Icon Overlays, Logon Without a Password | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
Ping 183: Self publishing to Xbox One, 97 year old painter, apps on WP, Nokia 1020 | Ping! (Laura Foy)

Community / Events

Join Indy Hall this Friday/Saturday/Sunday for a community powered "reboot", volunteers welcome! (Alex Hillman)
360 iDev Conference (Anthony Rinaldi)
Rumor: Nokia’s next launch event will be September 26-27th; Windows tablet in bound? (Daniel Rubino)
Technical Calendar – August 2013 (Jim O’Neil)
Geek of the Week: Robert Smythe, Chairperson of Puppet (r)Evolution Festival (Mary E. Brickthrower)

Database

Can you Hekaton? Intro to the SQL Server 2014 Analysis, Migration and Reporting tool… (Greg Duncan)
How to configure SQL Server 2012 for remote network connections (Jeffrey Palermo)
DAC and DACPAC and Publishing a Database Project (Deborah Kurata)

SharePoint

Enhancing your SharePoint Team Site Homepage (Bil Simser)
How to use Power Query for Excel to Query a SharePoint 2013 List – Grid User Post (Josh T.)
New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

There’s nothing small or basic about this map on becoming a "Dev" and good coder using Small Basic (Greg Duncan)
Rise Of The Triad Is Finally Reborn (John Walker)
Do you have a digital or social media will? Who will maintain your life online when you’re dead? (Scott Hanselman)
Microsoft forced to rename SkyDrive following trademark case with broadcaster (Tom Warren)
The cost of a bad hire, or the Zombie Apocalypse is upon us (Oren Eini)

More Link Collections

Cheatsheet: 2013 07.21 ~ 07.31 (yuanjian)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 31st (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading July 31, 2013 (Robert Diana)
ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for July 31, 2013 (OTN ArchBeat)
Double Shot #1170 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1411 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-01 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: August 1, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 8/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Windows Dev News for July 31, 2013 – #0180 (Dave Campbell)
Links of the month (July Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

The Geek Shelf

I. M. Wright's "Hard Code": A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (Best Practices (Microsoft)) (9780735661707): Eric Brechner: Books

ISBN: 0735661707
ISBN-13: 9780735661707

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Dew Drop – May 18, 2011

Posted on May 18, 2011 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

Top Links

Did you just take a dump on standard versioning practices? (Hadi Hariri)
Message Handlers vs Operation Handlers which one to use? (Glenn Block)
Eduasync part 5: making Task awaitable (Jon Skeet)
Using Google Prediction API in .NET (Keyvan Nayyeri)

.NET / Visual Studio

Introducing LINQ to HPC (MS Downloads)
C#/.NET Fundamentals: Of Lambdas and LINQ (James Michael Hare)
TFS API Part 37 – Create Builds and TFS API Index Parts 1 To 37 (Shai Raiten)
Sequential GUID are Unique (Gian Maria Ricci)
JSON and .NET Nirvana Hath Arrived (Karsten Januszewski)
Memory Corruption, GC, and Overlapping Objects (Sasha Goldshtein)

Web Development

F# and HTML5: WebSharper Professional 2.2 Released (Don Syme)
Understanding the Publish/Subscribe Pattern for Greater JavaScript Scalability (Addy Osmani)
Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Forms (Part 1) and Filter and display data with ASP.NET Web Pages, Web Forms, and MVC (Christian Nagel)
How to Deploy a Hadoop Cluster on Windows Azure (Windows Azure Team)
Quick Tip – Including Empty Directory While Deploying a Web Application (Gil Fink)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Code Templates – NUnit testing (Alex Skorkin)
Great Expectations of Success and Visualizing Roadmaps for Execution Excellence (JD Meier)
Estimation in consulting (Jimmy Bogard)
Book Review: Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking (Patrick Kua)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Dependency Lookup (Giorgio Sironi)
Diffing Files to Avoid Easy Goofs (Sharon Cichelli)
Its all about communication, not processes….! (Derik Whittaker)
Development Practice: Design Ideas Board (Michael)
How and why I changed my coworker’s code (Zubair Ahmed)
Cloud Computing and the Code-Based Infrastructure (Buck Woody)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Creating a Windows Phone 7 Trial Application: Advanced Buy Now Implementation (Windows Phone Geek)
Expression Blend: Introduction to the Layout System (Alex)
How to trick Windows Phone OS Part II – Adobe Reader’s turn and a general conclusion (Dennis Delimarsky)
Windows Phone Stopwatch 4.4 RTM and Using the Windows Phone 7 Advertising SDK (Doug Holland)
TouchStudio – Plotting Math Functions (Jonathan de Halleux)
Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 to Display JSON Data (Jeremy Likness)
Silverlight 5 Beta–Combining Implicit Data Templates & Multiple Windows (Mike Taulty)
Binding on Style Setter in Silverlight 5 (Kunal Chowdhury)
Xpert360 PivotViewer Blog Article Index and PivotViewer Shorts Part 3: Hide Collection path (xpert360)
Reactive Extensions–FromAsync (Jesse Liberty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

How Do I: Use Reflection to Access Private Members in .NET Compact Framework Types? and How Do I: Create And Use an Azure Service Bus Message Buffer? (MS Podcasts)
Silverlight Show Webinar: ‘Getting Started with the Silverlight 5 Beta’ (Michael Crump)
Let’s Play TDD #106: Back from the Dead (James Shore)
Talking Shop Down Under Episode 55 – Erlang with OJ Reeves (Richard Banks)
Hot Apps: Glider; Adventure Worlds, Wordrix, Rowi, Training Buddy, Text Text Revolution (Laura Foy)
Using Taxonomies in Orchard (Bertrand Le Roy)

Community / Events

CMAP GiveCamp (G. Andrew Duthie)
Are you interested in speaking at usergroups or conferences, how about some free training (Simon Sabin)
Join the SQL Server Developer Tools Advisory Program! (Tiffena Kou)
MVPs Chat It Up on Twitter (Lonnie Webb)
Win .NET EBooks, Training and Products in our GiveAway – 5 days left! (.NET Curry)

Database

SQL Server 2008 SP1 CU14 and SQL Server 2008 SP2 CU4 Released (Glenn Berry)
SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0 (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – FIX – ERROR – Service Logon Failure (ObjectExplorer) (Pinal Dave)
SQL Server DBA Tip 16 – Working with Files and Folders (Ted Krueger)
On Transactions, errors and rollbacks (GilaMonster)

SharePoint

SharePoint Lifecycle Management Solution with Project Server 2010 (MS Downloads)
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 1 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
The LDS Church and the Strong Embrace of Social Media (Joel Oleson)

Miscellaneous

Windows 8 Moorea app reveals a sliver of its tablet-friendly interface (Phone Arena)
Pivot Tables in Google Spreadsheets (Alex Chitu)
SmartScreen® Application Reputation in IE9 (Jeb Haber)
Chrome OS is only a failure to people living in the past (Joe Wilcox)
VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis (Krishnan Subramanian)
More good times for app developers? (Mike Hole)
Microsoft’s Bill Gates gave big thumbs up on the Skype deal (Steven Hodson)
VMware unveils Web app management service for Google apps, Salesforce, more (Tim Conneally)
What do we do now? "It’s over man, Wormer dropped the big one" – #MonoTouch and #MonoDroid (Wally McClure)
Are you REALLY leveraging your MSDN benefits? If not, let me help you! (Angela Binkowski)

More Link Collections

Interesting .NET Links – May 17 , 2011 (Senthil Kumar)
Weekly Link Post 194 (Rhonda Tipton)
The Morning Brew #854 (Chris Alcock)
Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2011 — #1090 and Silverlight Cream for May 17, 2011 – 2 — #1091 (Dave Campbell)
Daily WP7 Development News May 17th 2011 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler

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Dew Drop – December 1, 2010

Posted on December 1, 2010 | by Alvin A. | 1 Comment

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Top Links

Have You Been to MSDN Lately? (Joey deVilla)
A quick and easy extension to HyperlinkButton for Windows Phone 7 (Jeff Wilcox)
Color Printing Extension Now Available! (Brittany Behrens)
Basics on how to setup an App Fabric Cache server and API usage (Jaime Alva Bravo)

.NET / Visual Studio

Visual Studio Add-in for testing regular expressions (Andreas Andersen)
HowTo: AssemblyInfos – Keep it DRY! (Code Inside Team)
Using ConvertAll to Convert a Set of Values (Deborah Kurata)
Regions are like knives (Daniel Fisher)
BizTalk Adapter Pack 2010: SQL Adapter Samples (MS Downloads)
Windows Azure – new portal, new services, new tools (Gunnar Peipman)
The Exceptions Dialog (Zain Naboulsi)
Why the Windows Azure Nov 2010 SDK Rocks!! (David Lemphers)
Introduction to Parallelism in .NET 4.0 (Jonathan Cardy)
How to have NHibernate use a SQL MERGE INTO statement (Merrick Chaffer)
Windows Azure: Shiny and New (Jim O’Neil)
CryptoLicensing Tips and Tricks To Eliminate Piracy And Cracking Of Your Software (G. Himangi)

Web Development

Use jQuery and ASP.NET to Build a News Ticker (Scott Mitchell)
Protip: Viewing large XML files (Jimmy Bogard)
Building a One-Level CPU Cache Simulator with C (Keyvan Nayyeri)
Upgrading Subtext 2.5 and Publishing with VS 2010 (Dave Schinkel)
jQuery Date Plugin (Marc Grabanski)
Review: jQuery in Action (Ryan Lanciaux)
HTML5 aside: Defining relations (Niels Matthijs)
Draft: ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax (Gunnar Peipman)
An Introduction to jQuery Templates (Stephen Walther)
Bing Maps Ajax 7: Adding InfoBox Support via Extension to Microsoft.Maps and Bing Maps Ajax 7: Simple Pushpin Animation via Extension to Microsoft.Maps (Chris Pietschmann)
The Decline of Internet Explorer 6 and the Rise of Internet Explorer 9 (Roger Capriotti)
Selectively Filtering Content in Web Browsers (Eric Lawrence)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Don’t Make Me Choose To Follow The Standards (Derick Bailey)
There’s no place like production (Eric Brechner)
Practical PHP Testing Patterns: Assertion Method (piccoloprincipe)
[Agile Guide] – UX and Agile Development (ScoutMaster)
Leadership Books A-Z (J.D. Meier)
Taking a Second Look at Collective Code Ownership (Jay Fields)
Basic to Basics: Understanding IoC Part 2 (Creation) (John Sonmez)

Silverlight / WPF / Windows Phone

Microsoft reiterates copy and paste is Windows Phone 7’s first update, ‘additional updates delivered in the future’ (Chris Ziegler)
Coding4Fun: Currency Converter for Windows Phone 7 (Pedro Lamas)
SystemColors Reference (Patrick Finnigan)
Blend Bits 19–Transformations (Mike Taulty)
Opening Lightboxes without Thumbnails (Anthony)
Tip of the day: Processing touch input on Windows Phone 7 (Dennis Delimarsky)
Controlling a R2D2 (Lego MindStorms NXT) robot with Windows Phone 7 (Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios)
The right choice for the main window of your WPF project (Jeremy Alles)
WPF Grand Prix (Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira)
Windows Phone 7 Motion Design Videos and Fixing the ListPicker / ScrollViewer Problem in Windows Phone 7 (Matthias Shapiro)
ChevronWP7, the Windows Phone 7 unlocking tool, has been axed (Sebastian Anthony)
My first WP7 application released: Omoplata is live (Rudi Grobler)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Let’s Play TDD #58: Violating Encapsulation (James Shore)
YUI Theater — Mirek Grymuza and Josh Gordineer: “YQL: An Introduction” (45 min.) and YUI Theater — Ryan Dahl: “Node.js Roadmap” (48 min.) (Eric Miraglia)

Community / Events

PASS 2010 Summit Review (Thomas LaRock)
INETA Community Speakers Stats for November (Chris Williams)
Plan Your Cloudstock Hackathon App, Registration Opening Soon (Adam DuVander)
Microsoft Research Asia’s Philosopher of Online Search: Ji-Rong Wen (Ariel Meadow Stallings)
My own iOS and OSX centric blog (Miguel de Icaza)

Database

Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server (MS Downloads)
Debugging SSIS Variables—and a Happy Announcement from the Datachix. (Juliie Smith)
When Were The Statistics In SQL Server Last Updated? (Joe Webb)
SQL SERVER – 3 Simple Puzzles – Need Your Suggestions (Pinal Dave)
A first look at the new RavenDB UI (Oren Eini)
SQL Server Denali – Serverless SQL Server (Simon Sabin)
Mirroring and Transactional Replication setup – Auto Failover (Ted Krueger)
The Really Cool NTILE() Window Function (Ken Downs)
SQL Indexing and Performance Part 2: Clustered and Non-Clustered (Lefteris Karafilis)
Querying Hive with Toad for Cloud Databases (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

need to retire an account – not sure what permissions people have? (Brett Lonsdale)

Miscellaneous

The Top-Five Most Valuable Development Team Positions (Buck Woody)
Timeline of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation (Cory Doctorow)
How Microsoft can clean up the mess in its home and small business server business (Ed Bott)
A start in understanding the MS-PST Node Database Layer, your first step toward PST binary enlightenment… (Greg Duncan)
Reviewing "Hello, Android" (Jo Giles)

More Link Collections

Cheatsheet: 2010 11.23 ~ 11.30 (yuanjian)
The Morning Brew #741 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 12/01/2010 (Silverlight Show)

The Geek Shelf

Professional Silverlight 4 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jason Beres

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