Dew Drop – November 7, 2013 (#1662)

Top Links

• Unifying Developer Registration: Windows and Windows Phone (Todd Brix)
• 30 Days of TDD – Day 18 – Refactoring Revisited Pt. 1 (James Bender)
• Shipping Visual Studio snippets in an extension (Mads Kristensen)
• Playing around with JavaScript modules (Peter Provost)

 

Web Development

• jQuery – Events (Dave M. Bush)
• How to setup JavaScript Build in Sublime Text 2 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Enjoy TypeScript in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Output Caching in ASP.NET Web API 2 (Filip W)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-482: Advanced Windows Store App Development using HTML5 and JavaScript (Kim Spilker)
• The HTML5 Datalist Element: A New Method For Autocomplete (Mitch Pronschinske)
• HTML Extensibility in InDesign CC (Timothy Brand-Spencer)
• A High-Value, Undocumented LESS Editor Feature in Visual Studio (Val Kichline)
• Starting the frameworkless JS project (Rob Ashton)
• Ghost: A new blogging platform (Martin Beeby)

 

XAML

• New Features in Blend for Visual Studio 2013 (Me)
• [Sample Of Nov 6th] How to work with ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 8 (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #945 – A Strategy for Limiting Allowed Text in a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Extended DataGrid 2.0.0.10 (CodePlex)
• Building the Source Code for your AppStudio Apps (Adam Grocholski)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Parallel LINQ and ForAll (Richard Carr)
• A New Home for the F# Community Project Templates (Daniel Mohl)
• From the MVPs: “Script References in Visual Studio 2013” (Kim Spilker)
• EasyNetQ: Consumer Cancellation (Mike Hadlow)
• CS-Script for Notepad++ (C# intellisense and code execution) v1.0.9.0 (CodePlex)
• HoneycombRush–Part 1 (Michael Cummings)
• Updating Entities from DTOs with AutoMapper (Peter Vogel)
• Something that should be in everyone’s pack, the Windows API Code Pack (Greg Duncan)
• CoUninitalize will ask a DLL if it is okay to unload now, but the answer is a foregone conclusion (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #969 – Creating a Simple Console Application (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Book Review: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices (Bill Wagner)
• Is Having Fun Important for Agile Teams? (Ben Linders)
• Drinking the Scrum Kool-Aid (Danny Ackerman)
• Voron’s Journal: Design Decisions (Oren Eini)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Latest Release of Icenium – iOS 7 Support, Visual Studio Extension Updates, and App Analytics (Anthony Abdulla)
• Ask a Dev: How Do You Develop Apps for Multiple Android Devices? (Meg Wagner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – MongoDB on Azure with Mark Greenway (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 180: Visual Studio 2013 Web Tools, Web Essentials and Side Waffle with Mads Kristensen (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• What the Tech 188: The Trouble with Chromebook (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Saoirse Ronan (Chris Hardwick)
• LEGO Mindstorms EV3 API (Brian Peek, Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Engadget Eurocast 042 – 11.5.13 and Engadget HD Podcast 373 – 11.5.13 (Jon Turi)
• Defrag: Updating firmware, Netflix and Hyper-V, Extending Wifi | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)

 

Community / Events

• Where would you live if you could work anywhere? (Jane Holland)
• Interview With Jeffrey Way (Rey Bango)
• America’s most walkable cities: No. 1 New York; No. 2 San Francisco; No. 8 Seattle (Taylor Soper)

 

Database

• Document Your SQL Server Databases with Extended Properties (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – Transaction Log Full – Transaction Log Larger than Data File – Notes from Fields #001 (Pinal Dave)
• Should You Avoid Distributed Database Systems? (Alec Noller)

 

SharePoint

• RESOLVED: SharePoint Workflow Designer Fails to Load in Visual Studio 2013 (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 8.1 (MS Downloads)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 7, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 6, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 6, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1236 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1480 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 7, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/7/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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