Dew Drop – August 26, 2013 (#1,611)

Top Links

• AutoMapper 3.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Week of PostSharp, Day 6 – Automatic data binding  (Gael Fraiteur)
• Automated testing as a tool, not an obligation (Wes McClure)
• Microsoft’s next CEO: Who’s on the short list? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Am I really a developer or just a good googler? (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Protecting objects in JavaScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Setting CSS Styles using JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Bootstrap 3 Has a New Look and More Components (Abel Avram)
• Uploading Files to Everlive (Anthony Abdulla)
• The AngularJS Magazine – What’s New this Week? (Dan Wahlin)
• Serilog sink for Glimpse (Nicholas Blumhardt)

 

XAML

• Document Toolkit August 2013 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Calling ASP.NET Web API from a LightSwitch Silverlight Client (Beth Massi)
• 2000 WPF Things #892 – Changing the Font for Everything within a GroupBox (Sean Sexton)
• Making a StorageFile read-only (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• [Sample Of Aug 25th] How to create a GridView which automatically adapt to different resolutions in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)
• Creating a unique ListView layout using cell-spanning (Kathy Kam)
• Showing Progress, Changing State (Christian Nagel)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Performing Cross Joins with LINQ to Objects (Richard Carr)
• Using the Intel® C++ Compiler with Microsoft* Visual Studio 2012* (Thurston Sandberg)
• Released: Crypto Obfuscator For .Net (v2013 R2) (LogicNP Team)
• Introduction to Visual Studio 13 Express preview (Anirudha Gupta)
• How do I – Play the TNG Red Alert (or any audio file for that matter) in my WinForms C# app (Cornelius J. van Dyk)
• c# to vb.net Adding handlers with lambdas (Dave Noderer)
• [Limited time offer, open unit Sept 6th!] You know you can use TFS 2013 in production, right? But pre-release stuff is scary? How about if there were some Microsoft Experts on standby to help you upgrade? Sign up now for the Team Foundation Server 2013 Upgrade Weekend, September 13-15 (Greg Duncan)
• Getting started with InRelease and TFS 2013 Preview (Jakob Ehn)
• Updated InstallShield Coming to VS2012 and ’13 (Jeff Martin)
• C++ IDE Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 (Jennifer Leaf)
• LINQ tricks for performance (LINQ2SQL Old School) (Peter Kellner)
• 5 Common C# Misconceptions (Phillip Trelford)
• Azure Mobile Services & Portable Class Libraries – Part 2 Authentication Cont’d (Shayne Boyer)
• Week of PostSharp, Day 7 – Wrap Up (Britt King)
• Humanizer V0.5 (Mehdi Khalili)
• If I attach a file to an existing completion port, do I have to close the completion port handle a second time? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #916 – Exception Can Cross .NET Language Boundaries (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Accidental Learning (Julie Lerman)
• How I Learned to Use Scenarios to Evaluate Things and Write the Story for Your Project (JD Meier)
• Urgency is not Panic, unless you let it be (Chris Pietschmann)
• How to Make Your Form Error Messages More Reassuring (Anthony)
• Inheritance is like Jenga (Jef Claes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 2 (Matteo Manferdini)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 128 – “Blue Belts and Ruby Axes” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Tablet Show – Android Tablet Development with Jason Ostrander (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TWC9: ID@Xbox, Visual Studio 2012.4 RC2, NuGet Concierge and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Peek, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• TWiT Live Specials 165: Steve Ballmer Leaving Microsoft (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bill Hader (Chris Hardwick)
• 072 JSJ Screencasts (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Engadget Podcast 357 – 08.23.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 16: Can I Do Intermittent Fasting? (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• It’s All About The Caffeine On The Nothing Serious #Podcast 29 (Steven)
• GeekWire Radio: Ballmer stepping down, Plants vs. Zombies 2, the ‘Jobs’ movie and a slice of Raspberry Pi (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Congrats to Rudy Huyn for passing the 3 million download mark in the Windows Phone Store (Sam Sabri)
• Alaska Software Community (Phil Haack)
• [Live Webinar] Taming Brownfield Codebases with AOP (Britt King)
• Save the Date: YUIConf Nov 6-7 (Andrew Wooldridge)
• Upcoming Microsoft Events (Chris Koenig)
• Looking back at the first 10 million members (Part Six) (Daniel Vaughan, Sacha Barber & Kevin Priddle)
• ANN: Upcoming Developer Events – Fall 2013 (Dave Bost)
• Xbox Meet Up In Seattle (Larry Hryb)
• Improving myself: 21-week Check-in (Cori Drew)
• Tech After Dark – Mobile Web Development – August 27-29 (Wally McClure)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Code Comments – SQL in Sixty Seconds #059 and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Using Management Studio – SQL in Sixty Seconds #060 (Pinal Dave)
• Maintaining foreign identifier mapping in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• RavenDB 2.5 with Dynamic Aggregation and Query Streaming (Jan Stenberg)
• Article: Database Versioning and Delivery with Upgrade Scripts (Konrad Lukasik)

 

Miscellaneous

• Beginning Small Basic – Review by Lisa N and her 3 kids from Golden Grasses (Ed Price)
• ‘X-Files’ creator Chris Carter is developing a new show for AMC (Nathan Ingraham)
• LEAP Motion on Windows 8.1 for MIDI control and more (Pete Brown)
• The Search Engine Developer (Rick Strahl)
• Farewell, Mr. Ballmer (Ted Neward)
• Here’s Steve Ballmer’s full goodbye letter to Microsoft (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 24, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 23rd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 23, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1187 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-August 23, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (August 23, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #78 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1427 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-26 (Dan Rigby)
• Reblog: August 16 to August 22 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 27 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #043 (Pinal Dave)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #73) (Mark Brown)

 

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