Dew Drop – July 5, 2013 (#1,579)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Whiskey Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What is New in Code Analysis for Visual Studio 2013 (Andrew B Hall)
• Getting Started with Three.js (Paul Lewis)
• Code Rules are not just about Clean Code (Patrick Smacchia)

 

Web Development

• How to Change Voice with Windows 8.1 TTS in JavaScript (Frank La Vigne)
• Web API 2–the SPA user interface review (Fitzchak Yitzchaki)
• Handling Windows Azure Storage Exceptions (Alexandre Brisebois)
• The Windows Azure Toolkit for Eclipse, July 2013 Preview is ready! (Brian Benz)
• Optional Parameter in JavaScript Function and Nested Functions in JavaScript and Higher-Order function in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #3: New (and improved) WinJS Controls (Kraig Brockshcmidt)
• Consensus: SignalR + TypeScript (Nick Berardi)
• Infinite Scrolling Using ASP.NET Web API Data Service and KnockoutJS (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Browser Link – Refresh running application in every browser on Visual Studio 2013 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Setting up a NancyFX website (Phillip Haydon)
• Glimpse 1.5.0 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Centering Percentage Width/Height Elements (Chris Coyier)
• Using Custom Data Attributes and Pseudo-Elements (Manoela Ilic)
• Building a FileReader Service For AngularJS: The Service (K. Scott Allen)
• Angular.js – An Overview (Glenn Stovall)
• jQuery Control Toolkit v0.5 and JSON Toolkit 4.1.736 (CodePlex)

 

XAML

• Telerik RadControls for Windows 8 XAML and HTML– New Licenses for Hobbyists and Small Businesses (Ina Tontcheva)
• 2000 WPF Things #856 – Placing RadioButtons in a GroupBox and #857 – Manually Grouping RadioButtons (Sean Sexton)
• On-the-fly updating of a data template selected by a DataTemplateSelector (Joost van Schaik)
• WinRT XAML Toolkit – 1.5 (CodePlex)
• How to download the Telerik Cloud controls (Kiril Stanoev)
• Cool New APIs in Windows 8.1 #2: Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• PRISM for Windows Runtime – Displaying Validation Error near Textbox (Zubair Ahmed)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Alpha Tools Installer (MS Downloads)
• Using the Clipboard to Transfer Text (Richard Carr)
• Documents Library capability and Visual Studio 2013 (Andrei Marukovich)
• F# Moves Forward in 3.1 Preview Release (Jeff Martin)
• Visual Studio Moves Closer to C99 and C++11/14 Support (Jeff Martin)
• await Task, Task.Wait and Friends (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Options Dialog Changes and Visual Studio 2013 Preview: Distinguishing Multiple Instances of Visual Studio and Visual Studio 2013 Preview: C++ Automatic Brace Completion (Zain Naboulsi)
• 2000 C# Things #880 – Catching Different Exception Types at Different Levels and #881 – When to Throw Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• The Story of Synchronized Settings (Radhika Tadinada)
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update available (Brian Harry)
• Light at the end of the CRUD tunnel? End-To-End LightSwitch (Greg Duncan)
• Optimizing C++ Code : Constant-Folding (Jim Hogg)
• How to Install .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Why don’t elevated processes inherit their environment variables from their non-elevated parent? and Why was the Windows source code trunk called the Blue Line? (Raymond Chen)
• Async/Await – Performance Overheads and Other Pitfalls (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Introduction to Performance Measurement Session (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Aligning software architecture and code (Simon Brown)
• How To Grow and Share Your Expertise with World-Class How Tos (J.D. Meier)
• Continuous Deployment demistified (Giorgio Sironi)
• Deleting files on GitHub (Coby Chapple)
• How Do You Know Your Metrics Are Any Good (Derek Huether)
• Uncle Bob: Architecture is About Intent, not Frameworks (Jan Stenberg)
• Easy vs. Simple (Jurgen Appelo)
• Organic Development (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Release planning and predictable delivery (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Development: Set Up Your Environment (Eric Genesky)
• Xamarin platform setup gotchas: Final Edition! (Pascal Arnould)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Nerdist Podcast – Josh Groban (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 172: Windows 8.1 (Paul Thurrott)
• Visual Studio 2013 Performance and Diagnostic Hub | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 111 – 8 years and counting (Michael Kimsal)
• 066 JSJ Transitioning to JavaScript (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Video: Using Automation to Conquer Unit Testing Fears (Manya Susoev)
• The Changelog 95: Civic hacking w/ Mike and Ezra at Code for America (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Build 2013 Hackathon Winners (Clint Rutkas, Dan Fernandez & Golnaz)
• The Vergecast 083 and On The Verge with Mo Rocca and H. Jon Benjamin (Evan Rodgers)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 012: It’s Worldwide Finals Time! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• Defrag: All about RAM Disks, Locking Apps, File Copy Tricks | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Boagworld – Workflow, learning and responsive design (Paul Boag)

 

Community / Events

• Announcement: Free Webinar – Sharpen Your SharePoint Adoption with Gamification (Joel Oleson)
• Geek of the Week: Nicole Agostino of Sadie The Web Series (Jo Pincushion)
• Recap of Passion Projects Talk #4 with Sara Chipps (Julie Ann Horvath)

 

Database

• Data Mining Clustering Example in SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS (Dallas Snider)
• sp_ssiscatalog v1.0.4.0 available now with new feature – view most recent failed execution [SSIS] (Jamie Thomson)
• SQL SERVER – How to Refresh SSMS Intellisense Cache to Update Schema Changes and SQL SERVER – A Quick Note on CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL (Pinal Dave)
• If you think uninstalling SQL Server is a pain, have fun with Oracle (Denis Gobo)
• World’s Smallest No SQL database (Oren Eini)
• Will Instant File Initialization Really Help My Databases? (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Intrinsic Database Management with Database Projects (Chris Rummel)
• High Availability with MySQL and Moving to MongoDB (Rachel Roumeliotis)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.1 Released (Heath Stewart)

 

Miscellaneous

• What’s behind Microsoft’s pending reorg? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Five things every TechNet subscriber needs to do before time runs out (Ed Bott)
• The Beginner’s Guide to Evernote (Chelsea Stark)
• My first attempt to blog on Surface RT (Gunnar Peipman)
• Microsoft Reorg: A new focus on Mergers and Acquisitions? (Kip Kniskern)
• Updates to Xbox Entertainment Apps in Windows 8.1 (Larry Hryb)
• Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eight – Working With Logic (Matthew Adams)
• My observations during a clean desktop install of the Windows 8.1 Preview (Richard Hay)
• Working for free and what it taught me (Rob Ashton)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 3, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 4, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 5, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 2nd and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 3rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 3, 2013 and Geek Reading July 4, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1391 and The Morning Brew #1392 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1154 and Double Shot #1155 and Double Shot #1156 (Mike Gunderloy)
• My Top Five Daily Web Curators – Five Bloggers that will keep you up to date on most things Microsoft, Dev and more… (Greg Duncan)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-04 and Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 4, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: July 5, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/3/2013 and Daily News Digest 7/4/2013 and Daily News Digest 7/5/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for July 03, 2013 – #0169 (Dave Campbell)
• Daily Windows Phone Development News 3 July 2013 and Daily Windows 8 Development News 3 July 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 4 July 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup– June 2013 (Beth Massi)

 

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