Dew Drop – June 26, 2013 (#1,573)

Top Links

• SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (June 2013) Available (Adam Mahood)
• What to expect from Build 2013 (Brent Schooley)
• Improving the Readability of Windows Store Unit Tests (Jeremy Likness)
• Company Hub – Private distribution of Windows Phone apps (Adam Denning)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Media Services Poster (MS Downloads)
• Web API and Windows Azure. Part 1. History, a bit about REST, examples. (Alexandr Belotserkovskiy)
• Using OData (5.5.0) NuGet Package in Windows Azure Cloud Services That reference the Windows Azure Storage NuGet Package (Alexandre Brisebois)
• How to Assign Users, Roles and Permissions to a LightSwitch HTML Mobile Client (Beth Massi)
• Mobile Solutions Day – Firefox OS:supercharged HTML5 (Chris Heilmann)
• Firefox 22 Launches With Built-In Asm.js And WebRTC Support (Frederic Lardinois)
• Making Sass talk to JavaScript with JSON (Les James)
• Advanced Unit Testing Techniques in JavaScript (Guido Kessels)
• Practical Azure #22 – Windows Azure Marketplace (Jim O’Neil)
• Enable Twitter-Style Endless Paging for your ASP.NET GridView (Mehul Harry)
• Roaring for the Lions: Creating a reusable, extensible app development platform using Windows Azure (Sarah Lamb)
• Radio Buttons with AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• My Workflow To Design And Develop A Modern Portfolio Website (Adham Dannaway)
• Copy Blobs With StartCopyFromBlob and Track it’s Progression Using CopyState (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Web Page Without External Resources (Ariya Hidayat)
• Integrating Ext JS with 3rd Party Libraries (Kevin Kazmierczak)
• Nifty Modal Window Effects (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8: Manage Network Usage (Adam Grocholski)
• World of Warcraft API Starter Kit for Windows Phone (Dave Isbitski)
• File handling with Windows.Storage APIs (Adam Denning)
• How to tame Windows App Certification Kit (Christian Jacobsen)
• [Sample Of Jun 25th] How to operate Azure BLOB storage in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What is difference between First and FirstOrDefault in LINQ? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Live SDK v5.4 (MS Downloads)
• Getting an Application ID and Password for Authenticating to the Graph API (Edward Wu)
• Scott (not that Scott) helps make your Live dev easier with the LiveSDKHelper (Greg Duncan)
• Mono Now Has Portable Class Library Support and Licensing Restrictions Plague the new Portable Class Libraries (Jonathan Allen)
• On Immutabilty (Keith Brown)
• Automatically Obtaining Source and Line Number from Symbol Name and Offset (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Structure 1st: Why You Should Not Start With Practices (Andrew Fuqua)
• Visual – Backlogs with User Input (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Evaluating Porting Efforts with Xamarin Mobility Scanner (Abel Avram)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Paul Feig (Chris Hardwick)
• Video: Univision API Starter Kit for Windows 8 (Bob Familiar)
• The Engadget Show 44: Education with Google, OLPC, Code.org, LeapFrog, SparkFun, Adafruit and more (Brian Heater)
• Ping 181: Xbox One Shifts, Bounty Program, Surfaces in School, So.cl | Ping! (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• What’s New in Visual Studio 2012 Webinar (Giles Davies)
• Career-Defining Moments (Rob Reynolds)
• Welcome to //BUILD (Kevin Miller)
• Join us at //build this week (in person or online) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Tech Ed 2013 North America Recap (MVP Award Program)
• Comic Book Night With The Lehigh Valley IronPigs (Sarah Litt)
• Scott Hanselman to Keynote Code on the Beach in Jacksonville, Florida this August (Richard Hay)

 

Database

• New DMVs in SQL Server 2014 CTP1 (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Maximize Database Performance with DB Optimizer – SQL in Sixty Seconds #054 (Pinal Dave)
• List of new programmability features/T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server besides Hekaton (Denis Gobo)
• Internationalization – The Database (Dave M. Bush)

 

PowerShell

• New Features in Windows PowerShell 4.0 (Shay Levy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Give Your Career a Boost with the Developer Capability Matrix (Joe Kunk)
• What year is It? (Daniel Fisher)
• How Sony’s SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata (Darrell Etherington)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Seven – Representing Numbers (Matthew Adams)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, June 25th (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1148 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1385 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-06-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 6/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for June 25, 2013 – #0165 (Dave Campbell)

 

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