Dew Drop – August 22, 2013 (#1,609)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 0.9.1.1 (Jonathan Turner)
• EF6 Release Candidate Available (Rowan Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – Automated Driving Geek Out and Episode 900! (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Week of PostSharp, Day 4 – Beyond meta-programming, Design Pattern Automation (Gael Fraiteur)

 

Web Development

• Cleaner MVC Views with Parrot (Dustin Davis)
• Implementing Two Factor Authentication in ASP.NET MVC with Google Authenticator (Rick Bassham)
• Detecting CSS Style Support (Ryan Morr)
• Sublime Feature of the Day: Multi-Paste? (Tab Atkins Jr.)
• Dealing With Worker Role Failovers by Scheduling Duplicate Jobs (Alexandre Brisebois)
• How to Start with Firebug Lite (Jan Odvarko)
• Node v0.10.17 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• Chromecast and Google Cast SDK Update (Jason Kersey)

 

XAML

• Two More Windows Phone/PhoneGap Tips (Raymond Camden)
• Great posts from Dave Roussett–WinRT components and media (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Top 5 Reasons to Use Cloud Controls in your next Windows Phone 8 App (Michael Crump)
• A behavior to animate mirroring of GUI elements on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)
• Top 3 Tips for Creating Revenue Generating Windows Phone Apps (Richard Hay)
• 2000 WPF Things #890 – Bringing a Control into View within a ScrollViewer (Sean Sexton)
• One great detail Microsoft forgot to tell about the Windows 8.1 Flyout control (Loek van den Ouweland)
• [Sample Of Aug 21st] How to bind enum to RadioButtons in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Misspelled strings in your projects? Visual Studio Spell Checker (with source too) (Greg Duncan)
• Caching LINQ Queries (Ricardo Peres)
• Visual Studio 2013: Turn Off the Uppercase Menu (Zain Naboulsi)
• Adding a confirmation dialog to every drag/drop operation does not solve the problem (Raymond Chen)
• Use OAuth 1.0 to access the Zotero web service from apps for Office (S. D. Oliver)
• 2000 C# Things #914 – Using the Debugger to Break when an Exception Is Thrown (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: GivenWhenThen (Martin Fowler)
• An Open/Closed Principle kata (Giorgio Sironi)
• Automation is Essential and Execution is Most Important to be Successful (Chris Pietschmann)
• 3 Features You Should Use to Make the Adoption of TeamPulse Easier (Yordan Dimitrov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• MonoAndroid: Using TabHost in your mobile applications and MonoAndroid: Using Fragments in mobile app (ThatsAlok)
• Deliver Mobile Single Sign-On with New Symplified Component (Zack Gramana)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 177: Anthony vander Hoorn on Glimpse Internals (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Entity Framework 5 and 6 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 177: Paul is Back (Paul Thurrott)
• Meet a Member "Podcast" #1- Adriano Martino (Alex Hillman)
• Engadget HD Podcast 363 – 08.21.13 (Joe Pollicino)

 

Community / Events

• The latest Xbox gamescom coverage (Larry Hryb)
• Geek(s) of the Week: Abby Kessler and Katie Loftus of Smak Parlour (Michelle)
• The Houston TechFest 2013 Cometh (Peter Seale)

 

Database

• SSIS Deployment with PowerShell: Adding Environment References (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Running SQL Code – SQL in Sixty Seconds #057 (Pinal Dave)
• Starcounter 2.0 Public Beta Now Available (Starcounter Team) – “Starcounter is a memory centric, ACID compliant, transactional database, optimized for modern CPUs.”
• Some final notes about LMDB review (Oren Eini)
• Free eBook #1 of the day: Windows Azure SQL Reporting Succinctly (Greg Duncan)
• Techniques For Improving SQL Query Performance – Indexing, Parameterization and Partitioning (Derek Colley)

 

SharePoint

• Working with web parts within a SharePoint app (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Stupid Question 232-233: What are environment variables, and do I set and use environment variables in Command Prompt and PowerShell? (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous

• IFTTT hooks up with Twitter to bring back tweet-based triggers (Ellis Hamburger)
• Windows Phone gets a fully featured Instagram app, but not from Instagram (Tom Warren)
• Paul Thurrott’s Windows Phone 8 Version 1.03 (Paul Thurrott)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 21, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 21st (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 21, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1426 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 22, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/22/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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