Dew Drop – November 4, 2013 (#1,659)

Top Links

• Announcing Mole 2013 for Visual Studio 2013 (Karl Shifflett)
• Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available (Brian Harry)
• Cheat Sheet for Backlog Refinement (Derek Huether)
• Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData (Javier Calvarro Nelson)

Web Development

• Integrating ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC (Rachel Appel)
• How to Downgrade Razor 3 and fix the issue that CSHTML not work in VS10,12 ? (Anirudha Gupta)
• Setup Environment on Windows machine for Node.js Development (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 7.0.2 RC: Mocha and improved Dart support (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Introducing batch support in Web API and Web API OData (Javier Calvarro Nelson)
• Using Node.js Steams to Massage Data into the Format You Want (Jeremiah Orr)
• Windows Azure Deployment – Problem and Solution #1 and Windows Azure Deployment – Problem and Solution #2 (Michael Sync)
• ASP.NET Web API: Secure ASP.NET Web API with Windows Azure AD and Microsoft OWIN Components (Vittorio Bertocci)
• Cutting Edge: Programming CSS: Do More with ‘LESS’ (Dino Esposito)
• Queries in the Windows Azure Storage Client Library v2.1 (Neil Mackenzie)
• Migration to AWS: part 2 (Giorgio Sironi)
• Using Breeze JS to Consume ASP.NET Web API OData in an Angular JS Application (Ravi Kiran)
• Tutorial series updated for Entity Framework 6 Code First with MVC 5 (Tom Dykstra)
• Using MVC With Visual Studio LightSwitch and Allow LightSwitch Users To Self-Register and Change Passwords Using MVC (Michael Washington)
• Modern/Metro Internet Explorer: What were they thinking??? (Rick Strahl)
• Creating A RequireJS Service For AngularJS Applications (Ben Nadel)
• Making Nancy Modules easier to manage (Phillip Haydon)
• Bookmarklet to Colorize Text Between 45 and 75 Characters (for line-length testing) and Tinted Images with Multiple Backgrounds (Chris Coyier)
• Audio, Video and the Cloud! A wrap up of the Q3 2013 AJAX webinar (Jeff Fritz)
• Using BrowserStack for Cross-Browser Testing (Rey Bango)
• Browser Link + LESS? Does it work? (Robert Maclean)
• Async Solr Queries in Python (Doug Turnbull)

XAML

• XAML: Intellisense for Bindings and XAML: Intellisense for Bindings And the Data Context (Deborah Kurata)
• Building a Notification Hub for Windows Phone on top of Windows Azure Mobile Services (Dennis Delimarsky)
• MVVM: Writing a Testable Presentation Layer with MVVM (Brent Edwards)
• Make Your Windows Phone App Listen to the User’s Voice (Marco Siccardi)
• Master page in WPF? (Pierre Leclercq)
• 2000 WPF Things #942 – Text Justification in a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Add Twitter Cards to your content (Tim Heuer)
• Create and use icon fonts in a Windows Store App (Loek van den Ouweland)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Doubly-Linked Lists and LinkedList (Richard Carr)
• Spot the bug: Unmanaged memory traps (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio 2013 Breakpoint Labels (Dirk Strauss)
• AsmSpy Coloured Output (Dennis Delimarsky)
• Kinect + C# + Arduino + Anoop = CakeRobot! (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Quick Hits: Editor Enhancements + Git (Jeff Martin)
• EasyNetQ: Big Breaking Changes to Request-Response (Mike Hadlow)
• 2000 C# Things #966 – Visual Studio Code Editor Helps with Indenting (Sean Sexton)
• Octokit.NET Enables GitHub Integration Into .NET Framework 4.5 Applications (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Tips When Making Changes in Entity Framework Code First Models after Scaffolding (anhphan)
• Caller Information with .NET 4.5 or „Who touched the function?“ (Robert Mühsig)
• dotTrace 5.5.2 Performance is available (Daria Dovzhikova)
• DirectX Factor: Who’s Afraid of Glyph Runs? (Charles Petzold)
• [Sample Of Nov 3rd] How to watch the process creation/modify/shutdown events by using WMI (Philip Fu)
• On the various ways of getting the current time and date in Win32 (Raymond Chen)
• Avoiding and fixing unexpected memory issues in .NET applications (Red Gate Software)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DZone Refcardz: Search Patterns (Jon Handler)
• Article: The Integration of Agile and the Project Management Office (Peter Schmidt)
• Back To Basics: Hashtables Part 2 (And A Peek Inside Redis) (Karl Seguin)
• Quality Levels: the Hole in Software Methodologies (Abraham Otero)
• The Business of Consulting Mindmap (Chance Brown)
• Three Helpful Requirements Gathering Tools (Ben Brumm)
• Event source all the things? (Jef Claes)
• Batch Processing Best Practices (Vlad Mihalcea)
• Editor’s Note: Standing on Principle (Michael Desmond)
• Tenacity is not the same as persistence and Understanding critical path (Seth Godin)

Other Mobile Platforms

• How Following Android Guidelines Can Change Users’ Perception of Your App (Juhani Lehtimaki)
• Mobile App Monetization: Part 2 (Craig Hewitt)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• GeekWire Radio: iPad Air, Xbox One, PS4 and more with Andru Edwards of GearLive (Todd Bishop)
• Episode 118: Location based Push Notifications with Windows Azure Notification Hubs | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Web Dev Radio Episode 113 – PHP.net compromised, Flexbox in your future? (Michael Kimsal)
• Windows Weekly 335: There’s a Big But (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Clark Gregg (Chris Hardwick)
• App Biz Dev Podcast Episode 21: Will is Free 2 Play (Ben Riga & Alan Mendelevich)
• Video: Orchard’s best kept recipes (Bertrand Le Roy)
• TWC9: VS 2012 Git RTM, Corona SDK for WP8, Cloud Data for TouchDevelop and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Tablet Show – Calabash for Mobile Testing with Josh Johnson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 082 JSJ JSHint with Anton Kovalyov (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Recording of Webinar ‘Latest and greatest in Windows 8.1 for developers’ (Gill Cleeren)
• Get Up And Code 26: Fitness Plan With David Starr (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Podcast 367 – 10.31.13 and Engadget Mobile Podcast 195 – 11.1.13 (Jon Turi)
• Microspotting: Inside the Microsoft Archives | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
• Podcast: MMRGlobal’s Bob Lorsch addresses the ‘patent troll’ issue (Neil Versel)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 112 (Richard Hay)

Community / Events

• The MoDev $10K App Contest (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Article: Interview with Joel Murach – Author of Murach’s Android Programming (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• [Webinar] What’s New in PhpStorm 7: Beyond the Language, November 14th (Mikhail Vink)
• Geekspace: Take a Peek Inside Monetate (Colleen T. Reese)
• Register the "OneCode & OneScript" session at MVP Global Summit November 2013 (Jialiang Ge)
• MVP Showcase Goes Bigger (MVP Award Program)
• Matias Niemela on the new AngularJS animations API (Lukas Ruebbelke)
• From average student to MSP to Microsoft Program Manager (Susan Ibach)
• SQLSaturday #199 Bulgaria Event Recap and Follow-up (Mihail Mateev)

Database

• Making Adjustments to SQL Server Reporting Services Configuration Files (Scott Murray)
• MYSQL – Detecting Current Version of MySQL Server Installation and SQL SERVER – Implementing IF … THEN in SQL SERVER with CASE Statements (Pinal Dave)
• Don’t use MySQL .net connector, here is why ? (Anirudha Gupta)
• MongoDB Indexing Tip #3: How to Deal with Too Many Fields (Antoine Girbal)

SharePoint

• Slipped in Under Our Noses: SharePoint 2013 Now has the OData/REST $metadata Operator! (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

• PowerShell: Delete Unneeded Rows/Columns In Excel (William Assaf)
• Configuration in a DevOps world – Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Mark Gray)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft finalizes Outlook 2013 for Windows RT (Mary Jo Foley)
• First Impressions of the ThinkPad Tablet 2 (Michael Crump)
• Government Special Issue of MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
• How to sign into Windows 8 or 8.1 without a Microsoft account – make a local user and PowerCfg – The hidden energy and battery tool for Windows you’re not using (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 2, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1233 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1477 (Chris Alcock)
• Pie in the Sky (November 1, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective #88 (Mary Lou)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-03 and Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: October 25 to October 31 and Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #56 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 37 (Jakub Chodounský)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #053 – Final Post in Series (Pinal Dave)

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