Dew Drop – November 14, 2013 (#1667)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Launch Keynote Recap with S. Somasegar | Visual Studio 2013 Launch (Brian Keller & S. Somasegar)
• 10 Game-changing Features of Visual Studio 2013 for the ASP.NET Developer-Free Whitepaper from Telerik (Jeff Fritz)
• TypeScript Support in Visual Studio 2013 (Bill Wagner)
• .NET Rocks! – Software Craftsmanship in 2013 with Steve Smith (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Visual Studio 2013 Launch

• Visual Studio 2013 Launch: Announcing Visual Studio Online (S. Somasegar)
• Announcing Visual Studio Online (Ed Blankenship)
• PCL and .NET NuGet Libraries are now enabled for Xamarin (The .NET Team)
• Visual Studio 2013 Launched! (Visual Studio Team)
• Developing iOS & Android Apps with C# in Visual Studio (Abel Avram)
• Launching Visual Studio 2013 (Brian Harry)
• Navigating the environment | Visual Studio Online “Monaco” (Chris Sinco)
• Microsoft debuts its cloud-based complement to Visual Studio and Microsoft and Xamarin tighten mobile app-development ties (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing Application Insights Preview (Charles Sterling)
• A look at the new Visual Studio Online “Monaco” code editor (Jon Galloway)

 

Web Development

• Renaming Properties, Methods and Variables (Dave M. Bush)
• Learn JavaScript Part 2 – Space Invaders (Dave Kerr)
• Meet WebStorm 8 Development Roadmap (Ekaterina Prigara)
• JavaScript is not C# (Mark Rendle)
• Frameworkless JS – but we *really* want to use Knockout for that bit (Rob Ashton)
• jQuery Mobile and Kendo UI Mobile – A DOM Comparison (TJ VanToll)
• Events in NodeJS : Write your first event (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Animated Opening Type (Diego Pardo)
• Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps (Scott Knaster)
• Shimming and Wrapping OWIN Middleware (Katana Part 5) (K. Scott Allen)
• HTTP 2.0 Could Be HTTPS Only (Vygantas Lipskas)

 

XAML

• WPF MessageBox Service (Dirkster99)
• 2000 WPF Things #950 – PasswordBox Allows Entering a Password (Sean Sexton)
• Telerik Data Storage for Windows 8: Working With Indices (Bulent Karaahmed)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Font Selection Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• First look at Visual Studio Online “Monaco” (Gunnar Peipman)
• Git for TFS 2013 (Esteban Garcia)
• EasyNetQ: Multiple Handlers per Consumer (Mike Hadlow)
• Cross Platform .NET Just A Lot Got Better (Phil Haack)
• Announcing Deedle (Howard Mansell & Tomas Petricek)
• Win32 Errors: How to Format GetLastError() Output into Readable Strings (Aaron Stannard)
• Free ebook: .NET Technology Guide for Business Applications (Devon Musgrave)
• New and improved EULA! (OData Team)
• [Sample Of Nov 13th] How to export and import Outlook Contacts using VSTO (Philip Fu)
• EF6.0.2 Nightly Builds Available (Rowan Miller)
• 2000 C# Things #974 – Well Written Code Includes Well Written Comments (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 21 – A Tale of Two Defects (James Bender)
• Setting the baseline for performance testing for Voron (Oren Eini)
• Some A/B Testing for OneNote layout (John Guin)
• Five Myths of the UX Design Process (Tony Russell-rose)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 7 Custom transitions (Yari Dareglia)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• My Talk at Oredev on Windows Phone 8 (Michael Crump)
• What the Tech 189: Chromebook Revisited (Paul Thurrott)
• Engadget HD Podcast 374 – 11.12.13 (Jon Turi)

 

Community / Events

• RavenDB Webinar – Mystery Feature #3 – Native Java API is now available on the tubes (Oren Eini)
• F# in Finance – London – 25 Nov 2013 (Don Syme)
• Article: Interview with Simon Brown about Sustainable Competence (Ben Linders)
• MVP Global Summit Tips – Magnus Mårtensson (MVP Award Program)
• CodeProject 10 Million Members Celebration (Nish Sivakumar, Marcelo Ricardo de Oliveira, Monjurul Habib, Kunal Chowdhury & Shai Raiten)
• Free JetBrains .NET Tools Evening in Prague, December 18th (Robert Demmer)
• WiT Wednesday #3 – Mary Lou Jepsen (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Imagine Cup – I liked it so much I came back as a mentor (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• Microsoft updates SQL Server Data Tools (Athima Chansanchai)
• Jumping into SQL Server 2014 with these two Microsoft Virtual Academy SQL Server 2014 Jump Starts on Dec 3/4 (All Day, All Virtual and All Free) (Greg Duncan)
• SQL SERVER – Root Cause to Performance Problems – Notes from the Field #002 (Pinal Dave)
• The RavenDB 3.0 Mystery Features (Oren Eini)
• Writing batches to Azure Table Storage (Rory Primrose)
• Filtered Indexes and Dynamic SQL (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a month – Day 1 (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Apple II DOS source code available. All you have to do is type it in… (Greg Duncan)
• MACH and intern applicants: How to be a STAR (Toni-Marie Lowney)
• The Pros and Cons of Dating a Programmer (Neha Prakash)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 14, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading November 13, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1241 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1485 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 14, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Web Weekly Newsletter – Edition 2 (Dan Wahlin)

 

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