Dew Drop – July 30, 2013 (#1,595)

Top Links

• Download Visual Studio 2013 while your feedback still matters (Scott Hanselman)
• A contravariance conundrum (Eric Lippert)
• Windows Phone app building tools you might not know about (Adam Denning)
• No Comment: Why Commenting Code is Still a Bad Idea (Peter Vogel)

 

Web Development

• Debug Node.js applications in Windows Azure Web Sites (Tomasz Janczuk)
• Debugging and Tuning Web Sites and Apps with F12 Developer Tools in IE11 (PJ Hough)
• Four Tips While Using Icenium Mist (Jim Cowart)
• Solution to: “Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.” with AngularJS and ngResource ($resource) (Jon Gallant)
• Everything you wanted to know about SQL injection (but were afraid to ask) (Troy Hunt)
• The LightSwitch Data Binding Framework Using EaselJS (Michael Washington)
• Prototypes, Constructor Functions And Taxidermy (Derick Bailey)

 

XAML

• Why Are Mobile App Developers Avoiding Windows Phone 8 (Paul Ballard)
• 2000 WPF Things #874 – Setting the Background for a Popup (Sean Sexton)
• WP8 Remove Gray Tap Highlight From Web & Mobile Apps (Shai Raiten)
• Allowable URI schemes for RandomAccessStreamReference.createFromUri (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to get the Geolocation in WP8? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET Reflector 8.2 Adds Visual Studio 2013, Local Variable Highlighting and Code Map View Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Visual Studio 2012 tools for Git (0.9.5.0) are available and Team Foundation Service Update – July 29 (Brian Harry)
• Visual Studio Load Testing of Siebel Applications (Giles Davies)
• Visual Studio 2012 Remote Debugging – how to getting it working (Gregor Suttie)
• JustCode 2013 Q2 SP1 Brings Cool Features as well as Visual Studio 2013 Compatibility (Phil Japikse)
• A program for my nieces: The ABCs, part 4 (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #898 – Using Code Snippets to Implement a Custom Exception Type (Sean Sexton)
• Windows game developers: Build with Unity 4.2 for a chance to win big! (Windows Apps Team)
• LightSwitch Data Freedom – Part 4 and LightSwitch Data Freedom – Part 5 (Xpert360)
• Solution to: “The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value” with Entity Framework when calling SaveChanges (Jon Gallant)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Working Smarter, More Efficiently & Being More Productive (Andrew Connell)
• Building for Cost Part 2 (Brian Hitney)
• 2 Flavors of Continuous Delivery: Centralized versus Distributed (Andy Singleton)
• No, Seriously. Don’t Repeat Yourself. (Patrick Lioi)
• Azure for Prototyping and Development (Grant Fritchey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.iOS Build Improvements (Rolf Bjarne Kvinge)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Serious Node with Scott Stanfield (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• GoingNative 17: Meet James McNellis, Register for GoingNative 2013 | C9::GoingNative (Charles Torre)
• Herding Code 175: Dominick Baier on Securing ASP.NET Web APIs and HTTP Services (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Defrag Tools: #49 – WPT – Memory Analysis – VirtualAlloc | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• 9Slides – The story of an ex-Microsoftie going out on his own. (Laura Foy & Golnaz)
• Video: Efficiently Troubleshooting Agent Latency Issues (Manya Susoev)

 

Community / Events

• Interview With Chris Williams (Rey Bango)
• One Year As A Self-Published Author (Filip Ekberg)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data-Tier Application Framework (July 2013) Available (Adam Mahood)
• SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks, and It’s All Your Fault (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and Adding Stored Procedures with SSDT and Entering Data with SSDT and Executing Stored Procedures with SSDT and Executing a Stored Procedure With Parameters using SSDT (Deborah Kurata)
• SQL – Building a High Traffic, Profitable Blog – A Unique Gift on Author’s Birthday (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox One images for your Twitter/Facebook/G+/Mobile/Desktop (Larry Hryb)
• Using Power Pivot and Power View for Profit Analysis (John White)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading July 29, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1168 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1409 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 30, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/30/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #43 (Jason Strate)
• Windows Dev News for July 29, 2013 – #0178 (Dave Campbell)

 

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