Dew Drop – July 3, 2013 (#1,578)

Top Links

• Running the Windows Phone Emulator on Windows 8.1 Preview (Cliff Simpkins)
• Rendering multiple views for a single viewmodel with Caliburn Micro (Rohit Sharma)
• Visual Studio Performance – Providing Feedback (Nathan Halstead)
• Code Completion Improvements in ReSharper 8 (Dmitri Nesteruk)

 

Web Development

• dhtmlxScheduler 4.0: Integration with jQuery, Backbone.js, and More (dhtmlx Team)
• Fix SPA VB project creating issue for ASP.NET and Web Tools Preview Refresh for Visual Studio 2013 Preview and Manage CORS policy dynamically (Xueyuan Dai)
• Understanding OWIN Forms authentication in MVC 5 (Hongye Sun)
• Instant Node.js Starter (Afshin Mehrabani)
• Why JavaScript? (Alex Russell)
• Optional Parameter in JavaScript Function (Dhananjay Kumar)
• "25 Secrets for Faster ASP.NET" Free [ Name and Email Ware] eBook from Red Gate (Greg Duncan)
• Practical Azure #23: Windows Azure Media Services (Jim O’Neil)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #1: WebView for HTML (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Top Reasons Developers Should Use Windows Azure Mobile Services (Mark Arteaga)
• Loading Effects for Grid Items with CSS Animations (Manoela Ilic)
• Modular Javascript Using Require.Js (Sacha Barber)
• Output Cache Module in Orchard CMS (David Hayden)
• Include a Readable Copy of The Original Queue Message Along With The Stack Trace in The Diagnostics (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Swapping Out Text, Five Different Ways (Chris Coyier)
• That’s Neat: Recording in Safari, Chrome, Firefox (Jim Holmes)
• Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE” (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Building a FileReader Service For AngularJS: Promises, Promises (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Android to Windows Phone 8: External Data (Adam Grocholski)
• Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 XAML and HTML– New Licenses for Hobbyists and Small Businesses (Ina Tontcheva)
• 2000 WPF Things #855 – RadioButtons Are Grouped Based on their Container (Sean Sexton)
• Behavior to hide UI elements when a bound collection is empty (Joost van Schaik)
• Build talk of the week: Beautiful apps at any size on any screen (Sarah McDevitt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 Preview Introduces New Diagnostics Tools for Windows Store Apps (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Edit and continue with 64-bit applications supported on Visual Studio 2013 (Gunnar Peipman)
• DataStax C# Driver is now final (Michael Figuiere)
• JustMock Plays Even Nicer with Visual Studio in Q2 2013 SP1 (Phil Japikse)
• Visual Studio 2013 Heap View (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Visual Studio Tips: Manage Your Class Project with TFS Service (Susan Ibach)
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Options Dialog Changes (Zain Naboulsi)
• Concurrency Visualizer now on the Gallery for VS2013 (Daniel Moth)
• Immutable isn’t just for Breakfast anymore [okay, isn’t not just for parallel code] (Greg Duncan)
• If you give a Rhino a cookie… (M. Meisinger)
• 2000 C# Things #879 – Unhandled Exceptions in Finalizers (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Release Your Software (Rick Olson)
• The Wrong Answer (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Use Feature Teams. Yes, Use Component Teams (Andrew Fuqua)
• Part 4 – Testing with ddfplus – Reactive benefits with commodity option barrier events (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Tips for Getting Started with iOS (Jaco Pretorius)
• The launch of Firefox OS – my thoughts and some history (Robert Nyman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 233 – PowerScripting Podcast – Live from Atlanta TechStravaganza 2013 (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Turning On Glimpse in an ASP.NET Application (Manya Susoev)
• What the Tech 172: Windows 8.1 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Verge Mobile Show 052 – July 2nd 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 204: Little Big Mini (Gareth Myles, Dan Carter & Matt Davis)
• Engadget HD Podcast 356 – 07.02.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• PayPal SDK makes in app purchases easy (Laura Foy)

 

Community / Events

• Webinar: Debugging PHP with PhpStorm, July 18th (Mikhail Vink)
• Xamarin at MonkeySpace 2013 (Joseph Hill)
• Bill Gates to keynote MS Research Faculty Summit (Kip Kniskern)
• Build 2013 Recap (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• World’s Smallest No SQL database (Oren Eini)
• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers (Ian Stirk)
• SSMS Tools Pack 2.7 Released (BTW, if you’re on an older SSMS, you can use this free…) (Greg Duncan)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework 4.0 Preview Now Available (John Lisco)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to Systematic Programming – Week 4 (Dara Monasch)
• Microsoft Reorg: A new focus on Mergers and Acquisitions? (Kip Kniskern)
• Scala for C# Developers: The Magic (Gaston Hillar)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 3, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/2/2013 and Daily News Digest 7/3/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1390 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 2 July 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)

 

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