Dew Drop – August 28, 2013 (#1,613)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands” (Willy-P. Schaub)
• NuGet 2.7 Released (Deepak Verma)
• NuGet Package Restore with Team Foundation Build (Immo Landwerth)
• Get your apps ready for the Windows 8.1 launch! (Windows Apps Team)

 

Web Development

• Upload and download files using ASP.NET MVC (Rachel Appel)
• CSS Animate from/to “auto” and Force Margin/Padding On Element Next To Floated Element (Chris Coyier)
• Develop HTML5 Apps for Any Browser or Mobile Device (Josh Anderson)
• Debugger Configuration Validation with PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Configuring Dynamic IP Address Restrictions in Windows Azure Web Sites (Nir Mashkowski)
• Another Node Experiment: AndKittens (Raymond Camden)
• 3D Shading with Box-Shadows (Nick Pettit)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Recipes – Publication Day! (Lori Lalonde)
• 2000 WPF Things #894 – Creating a GroupBox with a Header But No Border (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013–Grid Template Explorations (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Showing the Same Code in Several Windows (Richard Carr)
• VB.NET Hide Module Name (Dave M. Bush)
• DevExpress Document Server – Automate Office Without Microsoft Office Automation (Dirk Strauss)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Validation Does Not Load Lazy Properties and Entity Framework Pitfalls – Migrations Require .NET 4.5 and Entity Framework Code First Table Splitting (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #918 – Catching Corrupted State Exceptions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• New Lab: Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Team Foundation Server 2013 (Brian Keller)
• Agile vs. Waterfall (Dennis Stevens)
• Agile is people, pure and simple (Steven List)
• SOLID Design Principles and Other Patterns Revisited For .NET (Jan Stenberg)
• Review: The Professional Scrum Masters Handbook (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Get out of the way, we are coding, Part I (Oren Eini)
• Being Right is Always the Wrong Choice (Aaron Stannard)
• Article: Preparing for Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise (Andrew Phillips)
• Device to Cloud, Hands-On. Part 1: Prototyping Platforms (Clemens Vasters)
• Some Thoughts on Pair Programming (Robert Greathouse)
• The Power of Learning Docs (JD Meier)
• Cross-post: Joshua Blake on Kinect and the Natural User Interface Revolution (part 3) (Joshua Blake)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Shrinking an image in iOS with Xamarin.iOS and C# (Wally McClure)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 109: Peter Bebergal and Koichi (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Shawn Farkas – WinRT and the CLR and From the Archives: Erik Meijer and Mark Shields – Compiling MSIL to JS (Charles Torre)
• Deep Fried Bytes Episode 95: The Developer Experience of Internet Explorer 11 (Keith Elder & Chris Woodruff)
• Ping 185: Xbox One launch titles, Bing in schools, Windows Phone unlocks your car, Delta gets Windows Phones | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The National (Chris Hardwick)
• The Verge Mobile Show 060 – August 27th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Yet Another Podcast #105–Phil Haack on Using Git (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget HD Podcast 364 – 08.27.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Webinar Recording: Authenticating Enterprise Users into Mobile Apps (Rich Taylor)

 

Community / Events

• The Agile Autumn of 2013 (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Dev of the Week: Jurgen Appelo (Allen Coin)
• Announcing OctoGala 2013 in San Francisco (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• Xbox One at PAX Prime on August 30 – September 2 (Larry Hryb)
• SQL Contest – Download NuoDB 1.2 to Win 20 Amazon Gift Cards (Pinal Dave)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Partitioned Index Compression Comparison (Dallas Snider)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Database Careers – SQL in Sixty Seconds #062 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Working with web parts within a SharePoint app (Chris O’Brien)
• Your SharePoint 2013 Site Isn’t Ready Yet. FREE White Paper by @Mobolize (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• The CODE Keyboard (Jeff Atwood)
• Project Spark adds some Kinect spark! (Greg Duncan)
• Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie. (Leon Bambrick)
• Raspberry Pi Quick Start (Pete LePage)
• Windows RTM – Just not what it used to be (Richard Hay)
• Thoughts on Ballmer’s Departure (Rockford Lhotka)
• O’Reilly Deal to Sep/10/2013 05:00 PT – 50% off all E-Books and Videos (Tatworth)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 28, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1429 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, August 27th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 27, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1189 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 8/28/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 28, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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