Dew Drop – June 25, 2013 (#1,572)

Top Links

• SQL Server 2014 CTP1 Available for download (Denis Gobo)
• Announcing SQL Server Data Tools – June 2013 (Janet Yeilding)
• Please welcome ImmutableArray (Immo Landwerth)
• Partners in the enterprise cloud (Steve Wiens)
• String concatenation behind the scenes, part two (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Infrastructure Services Poster and Windows Azure Poster (MS Downloads)
• Knockout IntelliSense Highlighting Bug Fix (Van Kichline)
• Mastering the HTML5 Canvas Part 2 (Graham Murray)
• How do HTML5 Apps Work? and How to import HTML5 apps into the Intel® XDK (Andrew S.)
• Theming Chrome Developer Tools (K. Scott Allen)
• Theming ServiceStack Razor Views (Matt Cowan)
• How to quickly update or delete file(s) from your Azure CDN (Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Developing With Sass and Chrome DevTools (Chris Coyier)

 

XAML

• XAML Support in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• 2000 WPF Things #849 – You Can Hold a RepeatButton Down (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Succinctly (Buddy James)
• Windows 8 App Development Opportunity (Doris Chen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bulk Update and Delete as easy as LINQ (Ivailo Ivanov)
• Platform Limitations Harm .NET (Phil Haack)
• Kinect.Reactive (Greg Duncan)
• Creating a Work Item with defaults in Team Foundation Server (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Drawing content at a fixed screen position, regardless of window position (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #873 – Full Example of Throwing and Catching an Exception (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Can Agile Work with Geographically Dispersed Teams? (Andy Singleton)
• Data Structure: Stack (Sergejus Barinovas)
• 3 Easy Ways To Market Yourself as a Software Developer (John Sonmez)
• On Immutabilty (Keith Brown)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• An updated Objective Sharpie (Aaron Bockover)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble at NDC (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• ComponentOne Controls for XAML Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 171: Xbox One Reverse Course (Paul Thurrott)
• Video: World of Warcraft API Starter Kit for Windows 8 (Bob Familiar)
• Defrag Tools: #45 – WPT – File & Registry Analysis | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for June 24th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Brings Its Developer Conference to Enemy Territory: Silicon Valley (Ina Fried)
• Austin Code Camp 2013 registration open (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Database

• Microsoft-Oracle deal: What you need to know (Mary Jo Foley)
• SQL SERVER – Relationship with Parallelism with Locks and Query Wait – Question for You (Pinal Dave)
• Yeah, I am sure that is the reason we have Oracle on Azure and Hyper-V now (Denis Gobo)
• New Dynamic Management Views in SQL Server 2014 CTP1 and Supported and unsupported datatypes with Hekaton tables and SQL Server 2014 CTP1 native compiled Hekaton procedures are faster than regular procedures (Denis Gobo)
• RavenDB in Action: MEAP edition (Oren Eini)
• RavenDB in Action Now Available in Early Preview (Itamar Syn-hershko)
• The First Things I Look At On A SQL Server – Part 1 (Ian Stirk)

 

SharePoint

• Engaging with complexity – SharePoint Edition (Martin Hinshelwood)
• SP2013 host web apps: provisioning fields and content types (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Add ability to add tabs to the end of a line in Windows PowerShell ISE (deadlydog)

 

Miscellaneous

• A New Way to Connect Teachers With Technology (Bill Gates)
• Increasing your Windows intellect now with WintellectNOW (Greg Duncan)
• “Project Spark” beta registration now open (Larry Hryb)
• How to start your first podcast – equipment, editing, publishing and more (Scott Hanselman)
• Internet Explorer 11 May Include “Click to Call” Feature (Vygantas Lipskas)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 25, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 24th (Rob Caron)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 6/25/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-06-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1384 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #38 (Jason Strate)
• Windows Dev News for June 24, 2013 – #0164 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 24 June 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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