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

Posted on September 10, 2013 | by Alvin A.

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)

The Geek Shelf

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests: Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce: 9780321503626: Books

ISBN: 0321503627
ISBN-13: 9780321503626

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Dew Drop – August 21, 2013 (#1,608)

Posted on August 21, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

New Guide: Dependency Injection with Unity (Grigori Melnik)
Week of PostSharp, Day 3 – You are already using AOP (Gael Fraiteur)
tangible T4 Editor 2.2.0 plus modeling tools – Released! (Nico Ploner)
PlayScript and What is new on Mono (Miguel de Icaza)

Web Development

Using the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) (Maarten Balliauw)
Wiring Up TimeAgo and ASPNET MVC (Steve Smith)
Why all objects are truthy in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
The Use of jQuery in Tutorials (Chris Coyier)
Quick Tip: Converting JavaScript Array-like Objects to Real Arrays (Gil Fink)
Connecting to Google Cloud SQL from PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
Comparing and contrasting ins, del, and s (Oli Studholme)
GridView Bootstrap Update (Steve Naughton)
SignalLeaf: Hacking A Podcast Audio Service Together (Derick Bailey)

XAML

How to Export content from RadRichTextBox to a variety of formats in WPF or Silverlight (Elena Pundjeva)
Create a Login Window in WPF (2013) (Paul Sheriff)
2000 WPF Things #889 – Scrolling a ScrollViewer from Code (Sean Sexton)
Creating smarter apps with geofencing (Ross Heise)
ViewModel 1st Child Container PRISM Navigation (Sacha Barber)
Adding Dynamic Data to apps with the SQLite Plugin (Anthony Abdulla)

Miscellaneous .NET

TFS API: Query Build-Definitions (Robert Muehsig)
Small Basic – How to Create an Extension Using VB.NET (Ed Price)
Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Twelve – Dealing with Repetitive Tasks – Recursion in F# (Matthew Adams)
Awesome Libraries For C# Developers #1 – Interactive Extensions (Anoop Madhusudanan)
ATL and MFC changes and fixes in Visual Studio 2013 (Pat Brenner)
Caching LINQ Queries (Ricardo Peres)
Visual Studio 2013: Format the Current Document or Selection (Zain Naboulsi)
Stupid Question 231: What is ’Peek to definition’ in Windows 8.1? (Iris Classon)
2000 C# Things #913 – How to Document that a Method Can Throw an Exception (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

MVP Featured App: TFS Agile Poker (MVP Award Program)
The fallacy of the rejected backlog item (Martin Hinshelwood)
Continuous Productivity: New tools and a new way of working for a new era (Steven Sinofsky)
Realtime User Interface Design (Chris Missal)

Other Mobile Platforms

New tools for Android developers: updated SDK, Share Dialog and more (Chris Lang)
UIRefreshControl Timeout with Xamarin.iOS (Wally McClure)
Google Play Services 3.2 (Android Developers Blog)
Top 5 Things A Game Can Teach Your Business App (Steve Drucker)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Community / Events

Dev of the Week: Nuno Job (Allen Coin)

Database

More than half of all SQL Server instances are out-of-date and unsupported! (Paul Randal)
SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Data and Information in Businesses – SQL in Sixty Seconds #056 (Pinal Dave)
re: How memory mapped files, filesystems and cloud storage works (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

Deploying Workflow Manager 1.0 for SharePoint 2013 the Right Way (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Xbox Announces Self-Publishing Details (ID@XBOX) (Michael Cummings)
What’s in the new update for Windows Phone 8? (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: August 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 20th (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading August 20, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1184 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: August 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 8/21/2013 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1425 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-21 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed (9780672336010): Adam Nathan: Books

ISBN: 0672336014
ISBN-13: 9780672336010

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Dew Drop – July 2, 2013 (#1,577)

Posted on July 2, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

A string concatenation puzzle (Eric Lippert)
Congratulations to the New & Renewed MVPs! (MVP Award Program)
Get the lowdown on Visual Studio 2013 and Web Essentials (Dave Ward)
VS2013: New web developer features (Mads Kristensen)

Web Development

ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Refresh Update (MS Downloads)
Top 5 new WinJS features for Windows 8.1 developers (Brent Schooley)
Babylon.js: Unleash the StandardMaterial for your babylon.js game (David Catuhe)
Saying Hello To jQuery Mobile (Dinuka Arseculeratne)
An Intro to Hitch.js and the Extensible Web (Brian Kardell)
Command Line Tools in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
Cutting Edge: Creating Mobile-Optimized Views in ASP.NET MVC 4 (Dino Esposito)
Modern Apps: Mastering Controls and Settings in Windows Store Apps Built with JavaScript (Rachel Appel)
Modular Javascript Using Require.Js (Sacha Barber)
Capturing Dumps of Windows Azure Web Sites (Sasha Goldshtein)
On The Coexistence of ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI (K. Scott Allen)
Smooth Parallax Scrolling (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Rackspace and CERN collaborate on massive hybrid cloud (Barb Darrow)
Consensus: Planning Poker Project (Nick Berardi)
Fixing Azure + WordPress + W3 Total Cache + “502 – Web server received an invalid response while acting as a gateway or proxy server.” errors (Ryan Lowdermilk)
Updates to the Internet Explorer Testing Center (Dinesh Chandani, Matt Gradwohl & Rajkumar Mohanram)
Glimpse Extension for Toastr (John Papa)
View Mode Switch and Responsive Icon Grid (Manoela Ilic)

XAML

Top 5 New XAML Features for Windows 8.1 Developers (Brent Schooley)
On the horizon: Visual Studio 2013 reveals 1080P Windows Phone 8 emulator files (Daniel Rubino)
Windows 8: Building Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Joel Reyes)
Windows Phone: Create a Windows Phone 8 Company Hub App (Tony Champion)
Sphero SDK coming for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Sam Sabri)
2000 WPF Things #854 – Clicked vs. Checked/Unchecked Events for CheckBox (Sean Sexton)
Threading in the Windows Runtime: Part 1 and Threading in the Windows Runtime: Part 2 (Jonathan Allen)
Setting a value to null might be more dangerous than you think [Simple ToolTipServiceExtensions class avoids a runtime exception in Windows Store apps] (David Anson)
Windows Store App Services/Partner SDK Directory (Kraig Brockschmidt)

Miscellaneous .NET

Spot the bug… (Oren Eini)
Improved exception reporting for C++ Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013 (Cagri Aslan)
One of Microsoft’s Best-Kept Secrets – Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) (Scott Hanselman)
Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Enhanced Scroll Bar (Zain Naboulsi)
Solution Explorer Enhancements (Peter Hauge)
Engaging with complexity – Team Foundation Server Edition (Martin Hinshelwood)
Compilers: How Microsoft’s Next-Gen Compiler Project Can Improve Your Code (Jason Bock)
Building on our program that draws content at a fixed screen position regardless of window position (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #878 – Unhandled Exceptions in Static Constructors (Sean Sexton)
Lucian Talks Up Async – The Complete Async Set from TechEd Europe (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Data Structure: Queue (Sergejus Barinovas)
10 Tips on Better Design by David Straker (JD Meier)
Memory access pattern matters (Filip Ekberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS Connect to Foursquare using OAuth (Keith Elliott)
The launch of Firefox OS – my thoughts and some history (Robert Nyman)
Which Cross Platform Mobile Development Platform Should You Choose? (John Sonmez)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – F# in Your Organization with Kit Eason (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Community / Events

Do You Know Scott Hanselman? I Bet You Do. (DevToolsGuy)

Database

Playing with SQL Server 2014 (and VS2013) the Azure VM way (Greg Duncan)
June 2013 release of SSDT contains a minor bug that you should be aware of (Jamie Thomson)

SharePoint

Reimagine SharePoint Development Guidance (MS Downloads)

PowerShell

Windows PowerShell Module for Lync Online (MS Downloads)

Miscellaneous

DoubleTwist’s new MagicPlay service aims to be the open source version of Apple’s AirPlay (Dan Seifert)
The New Microsoft World of Incremental Releases (Joel Oleson)
Bing supports Creative Commons licensing: adds “Search by License” feature (Kip Kniskern)
Confirmed: Zynga names Microsoft Xbox chief Mattrick CEO (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: July 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, July 1st (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading July 1, 2013 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1389 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Dev News for July 01, 2013 – #0167 and Windows Dev News for July 01, 2013 – 2 – #0168 (Dave Campbell)
Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-02 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: July 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 7/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
Double Shot #1153 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily Windows 8 Development News 1 July 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 1 July 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

The Geek Shelf

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 (9789350237885): Ben Frain: Books

ISBN: 1849693188
ISBN-13: 9781849693189

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