Dew Drop – June 21, 2013 (#1,570)

Top Links

• TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing TypeScript 0.9 (Jonathan Turner)
• Microsoft’s lack of common sense (Patrick Smacchia)
• FunScript – F# to Javascript leveraging TypeScript metadata (Don Syme)
• Someone Claiming To Be A Microsoft Engineer Posted A Long Rant About Xbox One On 4Chan Last Week (Nicholas Carson)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Mobile Services Poster (MS Downloads)
• Windows Azure Management Portal background color themes (Jeff Wilcox)
• Handle Many-to-Many Relationships in Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• Windows Azure Table Storage Service – Migrating Tables Between Storage Accounts (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Solving the Expression Problem in Javascript (Anders Janmyr)
• JavaScript Source Transformation: Non-Destructive vs Regenerative (Ariya Hidayat)
• with makes it harder to evolve JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Media Queries – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• New Hudson plugin using Windows Azure Storage as a repository (Brian Benz)
• ASP.NET Nested TextBox Bug (Dave M. Bush)
• WebStorm 7 build 130.958; Elements tab (Dmitry Jemerov)
• SemVer 2.0 Released (Phil Haack)
• Integration with an Issue Tracking System in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Type & Grids Responsive HTML5 Template Giveaway (Mary Lou)
• Using ngOptions In AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Angular.JS ngRepeat and Bootstrap layout bug on IE7 (Matthew Adams)
• Build And Publish a jQuery Mobile App In 5 Minutes (Max Katz)
• Creating a Training Lab on Windows Azure (Michael Stephenson)
• Information Hiding in JavaScript (Mike Pennisi)
• Introducing PhpStorm Video Tutorials (Mikhail Vink)
• [Cross Post] PHP 5.5.0 for Windows Released! (SyntaxC4)
• Filter vs. ngHide With ngRepeat In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Test-Driven Development with TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Node v0.10.12 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Advanced Python Data Structures (Adriana Vasiu)
• Intro to Web Workers (Chris Coyier)
• IIS 7’s Sneaky Secret to Get COM-InterOp to Run (David Hoerster)
• What is Responsive Design? (Gradient Girl)
• Update to HttpClient and Automatic Decompression (Immo Landwerth)
• Practical Azure #21 – HDInsight (Jim O’Neil)
• Making Sense Of Type Classification (Part 2) (Joseph Alessio)
• Caption Hover Effects (Mary Lou)
• Adapting To A Responsive Design (Case Study) (Matt Gibson)
• Messing Around With Lucene .NET (Sacha Barber)
• Dart: Faster Editor and more (Scott Knaster)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Toolkit June 2013 update – summary (Adam Denning)
• Android to Windows Phone 8: Connect to the network (Adam Grocholski)
• Meet RadCalendar for Windows 8 XAML (Georgi Atanasov)
• API Diff Lists for .NET, Silverlight, and Windows Phone (Jonathan Allen)
• Windows 8 Store Apps: Creating Chart UI using 2D Graphics with C# and XAML (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Comparing 3rd party Windows Phone Control Sets (Matt Lacey)
• Running the Windows Phone Emulator in VMware Fusion (Pascal Arnould)
• 2000 WPF Things #845 – Display Ellipsis in TextBlock to Indicate that Content Doesn’t Fit and #846 – Including an Underscore Character in a Label and #847 – Default Button Behavior Depends on Focus (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Layout Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)
• Welcome to the Windows App Builder Blog (Windows Apps Team
• What is Required When Implementing Fast App Resume? (Matt Lacey)
• Windows Store Q&A (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Local Data Store in Windows 8 (Jesse Liberty)
• Background processing in Windows 8: Part 6: Playing audio in the background (Gill Cleeren)
• Required pubCenter Update for Microsoft Ad Units (Bernardo Zamora)
• Windows Store apps made easy with Prism and Prism project templates (Andrei Marukovich)
• How to Vibrate your WP programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Insight.Database with Unity integration (Rory Primrose)
• Scala for C# Developers: A Tutorial (Gaston Hillar)
• Making NuGet a little easier to use with an Alias (Phillip Haydon)
• Associate Work Items to Git Commit in TFS Services with API Calls (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Undo Checkout for Unchanged Items in TFS (Anders Abel)
• Using Visual Studio 2013 to Diagnose .NET Memory Issues in Production (Andrew B. Hall)
• Navigation Improvements in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Deep Dive into NuGet Native (Part One) (Garrett Serack)
• Creating Imperative UIs in C# (Michael James)
• Windows 8 and Prism: Migrating a Simple Example (Mike Taulty)
• Guest Post: Working Around F#/NuGet Problems (Mike Hadlow)
• A Simple Case For C# Generic Constraints (K. Scott Allen)
• Teaching your Gadgeteer project to speak… and Log Parser Studio 2.0 now out (Log Parser GUI++) and Fighting bugs in your LOB apps? Hearing about crashes after the fact? You need CALM (Common Application Lightweight Monitor)… (Greg Duncan)
• Authenticating to the Graph API (Edward Wu)
• Team Foundation Service Update – June 19 and Enterprise grade Git (Brian Harry)
• Part 3 – Integrating with ddfplus – Reactive benefits with commodity option barrier events (Wes McClure)
• Serilog.Sinks.Log4Net (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Making the .NET Open Source More Open (Cameron Taggart)
• Announcing JustCode Q2 2013 (Phil Japikse)
• 2000 C# Things #868 – List Most Specific Exception Types First and #869 – Example of Catching an Exception Thrown by the .NET Framework and #870 – Where Execution Continues when an Exception Is Caught and #871 – Where Execution Continues when an Exception Is Not Caught (Sean Sexton)
• Entity Framework 6 Brings Breaking Changes and Abstract Interfaces vs Abstract Base Classes in Entity Framework 6 and The Uncertain Future of NHibernate (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ignore Test in Unit Testing using NUnit: Part 3 and TestFixtureSetUp and TestFixtureTearDown in Unit Testing using NUnit: Part 4 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Patterns for REST API bulk operations (@l1ghtm4n) (John Sheehan)
• But what does it all mean? (Jon Skeet)
• Fend off Evil-Doers One Build at a Time (Doug Rathbone)
• The Facade Pattern in .NET (Eric Vogel)
• Pattern: One Clearly Defined Project At A Time (Wes McClure)
• Delegating or micromanaging, threading the needle (Steven Sinofsky)
• Running Indigo Studio on Retina Displays (Ambrose Little)
• New Poll: Light on Dark or Dark on Light? (Chris Coyier)
• Greg Young on Documents and Processes as an Alternative to Events (Jan Stenberg)
• Partner with a designer to sharpen your design skills – See the magic happen (JC Cimetiere)
• Strategies for isolating the database in tests and Run tests explicitly in xUnit.net (Jimmy Bogard)
• Be a better developer: Octopus Deploy (John-Daniel Trask)
• Testing Tip #10: Testing async operations (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Mike Walker on Business Architecture, Part 2 (Mike Walker)
• Creating Mocks By Example with JustMock (Phil Japikse)
• Microspeak: to family well (Raymond Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Succinctly – Syncfusion’s Free Ebook Reviewed (Dirk Strauss)
• Android: The Swipe-Down-to-Refresh Pattern (Jérémie Laval)
• Android Simulator Setup for Sencha Touch (Patrick Chu)
• Exclusive Sneak Peek: The AGENT Smart Watch Emulator and managed .NET code on my wrist! (Scott Hanselman)
• New Guides from Xamarin Evolve Curriculum (Nina V.)
• Using Native APIs in Sencha Desktop Packager (Ariya Hidayat)
• More Xamarin platform setup gotchas (Pascal Arnould)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 098: Win Hugh Howey’s Paperwhite Kindle! and Gweek 099: John Hodgman: Ragnarok (airs tonight 6/20/2013) (Mark Frauenfelder)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 120 – “Real World Windows 8 Development” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Episode 231 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal’s BOF session from TechEd Getting Started with Windows PowerShell (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• APIMASH Webcast Recording: Exploring Social Networking APIs (G. Andrew Duthie)
• DevExpress Controls for XAML Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Video Q&A on the Windows Phone Platform (Nick Landry)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Farrelly Announcement and The Nerdist Podcast – Billy Crystal (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft DevRadio: (Part 2) APIMASH – Earthquake and Messier Sky Object API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Brian Hitney)
• Video: Earthquakes and Messier Sky Object API Starter Kit (Bob Familiar)
• 064 JSJ Ember Tools with Ryan Florence (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• The Verge Mobile Show 051 – June 18th 2013 (Dan Seifert)
• New Microsoft DevRadio Episode: World of Warcraft API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Dave Isbitski)
• Edge Show 66 – Windows 8 App Compatibility | Edge (David Tesar, Joey Snow & Symon Perriman)
• The Verge Mobile Show 051 – June 18th 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Defrag: Storage Space Spindown, Haswell Laptops, All About Hyper-V | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Tech Ed New Orleans: The who, what, why and The Krewe (Laura Foy)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 95 (Richard Hay)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 195: Ellen Gottensdiener and Mary Gorman (SE-Radio Team)
• Jimmy Fallon takes Xbox One for a spin (Steve Clarke)
• Video: An overview of ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)

 

Community / Events

• I’m a Microsoft Patterns & Practices Champion (Brian Lagunas)
• TechEd NA 2013 interviews with MVPs Elias Mereb and Herve Roggero (MVP Award Program)
• Philly Give & Get Raising Funds on Crowd Tilt (Eric Smith)
• First State .NET – Next Meeting 27-Jun-2013 (ASP.NET MVC Tips, Tricks and Hacks with Brian Donahue) (First State .NET Team)

 

Database

• Using Parameters for SQL Server Queries and Stored Procedures (Tim Wiseman)
• Querying SQL Server Index Statistics (Dattatrey Sindol)
• SQL Server Compact Code Snippet of the Week #16 : detect Entity Framework database type (Erik EJ)
• The Accidental DBA (Day 20 of 30): Are your indexing strategies working? (aka Indexing DMVs) (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – NuoDB in Sixty Seconds – SQL in Sixty Seconds #053 and SQL SERVER – Storing 64-bit Unsigned Integer Value in Database and SQL – NuoDB and Third Party Explorer – SQuirreL SQL Client, SQL Workbench/J and DbVisualizer (Pinal Dave)
• Nice Collection Of Free SQL Server, Visual Studio, Azure ebooks (Denis Gobo)
• Reviewing Basho’s Leveldb and Some thoughts about compression & storage (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Announcement: Learn How to Quickstart Your SharePoint 2013 Migration (Joel Oleson)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-332: Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (Kim Spilker)
• SharePoint 2013 Issue – Custom Web Part results in Could not load file or assembly after upgrade (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

PowerShell

• XenApp 6.5 – How to create and set a Policy using PowerShell (Waclaw Chrabaszcz)
• PowerShell ISE: Multi-line Comment and Uncomment Done Right, and other ISE GUI must haves (deadlydog)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 2 (Dara Monasch)
• How to Download and Install Small Basic (Ed Price)
• Tap into your inner creator with Socl and BLINK (Jeffrey Meisner)
• Microsoft gives away collection of free eBooks – bookworms rejoice (Michael Archambault)
• Article: Interview and Book Excerpt: Hiring Geeks that Fit (Shane Hastie)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 18, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 19, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 20, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 18 June 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 19 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 19 June 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 20 June 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 20 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• End-of-week SilverlightShow Content Recap (6/21/2013) and Daily News Digest 6/18/2013 and Daily News Digest 6/20/2013 and Daily News Digest 6/21/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 17th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 18th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 19th and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 20th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 18, 2013 and Geek Reading June 19, 2013 and Geek Reading June 20, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1145 and Double Shot #1146 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #99 (Frank)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 18, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: June 19, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: June 20, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: June 21, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1379 and The Morning Brew #1380 and The Morning Brew #1381 and The Morning Brew #1382 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-06-19 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-06-20 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-06-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for June 17, 2013 – #0160 and Windows Dev News for June 18, 2013 – #0161 and Windows Dev News for June 19, 2013 – #0162 and Windows Dev News for June 20, 2013 – #0163 (Dave Campbell)

 

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