Dew Drop – July 2, 2013 (#1,577)

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)

 

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