Dew Drop – September 17, 2013 (#1,625)

Top Links

• Generically Implementing the Unit of Work & Repository Pattern with Entity Framework in MVC & Simplifying Entity Graphs (Long Le)
• Notifications in Visual Studio 2013 (Cathy Sullivan)
• Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched. Then, a miracle occurred. (Jay Hanlon)
• Add a pinch of Pointer Events to your Apache Cordova or PhoneGap app thanks to MS Open Tech (Olivier Bloch)

 

Web Development

• EmberWatch, Ember.js resource aggregator – HTML5 Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• ASP.NET–Using Cache.Add to Cache a Value and Azure Storage Options Comparison (D’Arcy Lussier)
• HTML5 App Development Supports Any Browser, Device or Platform (DevToolsGuy)
• Variable Scope Chain in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 7.0 Release Candidate (Ekaterina Prigara)
• "Windows Store Apps with HTML5 Refresh Jump Start" (Greg Duncan)
• Rich HTML5 Charts everywhere with DevExtreme (James Newton-King)
• JavaScript Arrays, References and Databinding in Angular (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio Tips: for JavaScript Coders try CoffeeScript (Susan Ibach)
• Understanding (and testing for) view state MAC in ASP.NET web forms (Troy Hunt)
• How to create a web app that looks like a iOS7 native app (Part 1) (Thomas Fuchs)
• Azure CLI Day 3 – Account Set (Adam Grocholski)

 

XAML

• Solution to Visual Studio crash while working in XAML (Kunal Chowdhury)
• WinRT : Simple ScheduleControl (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #908 – Binding a TabControl to a List of Objects, part II (Sean Sexton)
• Delivering push notifications to millions of devices with Windows Azure Notification Hubs (Elio Damaggio)
• Detecting whether a device supports orientation changes (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Issue [ TFS 2013 ] TF255466 A previous update or installation requires a restart (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Forcing a file handle closed when it has been opened remotely (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #932 – When Objects Become Eligible for Garbage Collection (Sean Sexton)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 RC (CodePlex)
• My Love-Hate Relationship with Work Item Tags (Dylan Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD: Day Four – Making Your First Test Pass (James Bender)
• Coded UI MTM Issues on Internet Explorer with KB2870699 (Srishti)
• Neural Network Training Using Back-Propagation (James McCaffrey)
• What’s New in Indigo Studio Version 2 (Ambrose Little)
• Enterprise Support in GitHub for Windows (Drew Miller)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin for Android: Logging (Jesse Liberty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Reactive Extensions with Matthew Podwysocki (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Alison Brie returns! (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #56 – Explorer Hang | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Pointer Events plugin for Apache Cordova / PhoneGap apps (Olivier Bloch)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for September 16th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• A new F# Meetup Group – Washington DC F# Meetup (Don Syme)

 

Database

• Generating Random Numbers in SQL Server Without Collisions (Aaron Bertrand)
• Debugging database mail issues in your SQL Server with T-SQL (Carla Abanes)
• How to Prove Your SQL Server Needs More Memory [Video] (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Using Windows Azure to host Apps for Office and SharePoint (Tat Yang Koh)

 

PowerShell

• Catching the PowerShell error stream (Naeem Khedarun)
• PowerShell – List Local or Remote Programs with an Exclusion List of Programs (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Math from scratch, part one (Eric Lippert)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: September 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, September 16th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 16, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1203 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (September 13th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-09-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 9/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #49 (Jason Strate)

 

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