Day: November 15, 2013

The MVP Summit in Redmond, WA is next week, so the Dew Drop posts will probably not be happening every day. I’ll do my best to keep up!

Top Links

• Portable Class Libraries just got REALLY useful with new licensing changes (Scott Hanselman)
• VS2013 powers up with the new and updated Productivity Power Tools 2013 (Think, “Oh thank g… PresentOn is back!” and more…) (Greg Duncan)
• Sign into Windows Phone 8 apps with Facebook Login (Adam Denning)
• LINQ to Twitter Runs Xamarin.Android (Joe Mayo)

 

Web Development

• Create Predictable GUIDs for your Windows Azure Table Storage Entities (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Showcasing Open Source Community Contributors to Entity Framework, ASP.NET and Web API for Visual Studio (Brian Benz)
• An Example of How Node.js is Faster Than PHP: Part 2 (Jim Hirschauer)
• Vertical Percentages in CSS (Louis Lazaris)
• HTTP katas (Giorgio Sironi)
• Routes, Extensionless Paths and UrlEncoding in ASP.NET (Rick Strahl)
• New API Commons Platform For Sharing APIs (Alex Armstrong)
• AngularJS 1.2 Released (I Programmer)
• Azure Web Site now supports WebSockets (Gustavo Armenta Valdez)

 

XAML

• Microsoft Adds Facebook Login Support to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Dhiren Patel)
• New WPF Heatmap Chart (Jason Fauchelle)
• The Very Weird Way of Checking if Bluetooth or Location is Enabled on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
• Being successful in the Windows Phone Marketplace for developers (Richard Hay)
• 2000 WPF Things #951 – Security Issues when Storing Confidential Data in Strings (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone UI Tip – 95px Padding at the Bottom (Toni Petrina)
• Windows 8.1: Contacts API (Mike Taulty)
• Telerik Data Storage for Windows 8: Working With Indices (Bulent Karaahmed)
• [Sample Of Nov 14th] How to post JSON data to WebService in Windows Store apps (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Font Selection Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• System.Collections.Immutable 1.0.27 (for .NET 4.0) (James Lanng)
• Debugging Asynchronous Code in Visual Studio 2013 (Filip Ekberg)
• Visual Studio 2013 Launch Partners (Visual Studio Team)
• Implementing Deployment Markers in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.1 Released! (Frans Bouma)
• New Unity 2D Guide Is Almost Finished (Jesse Freeman)
• Why is my FormatMessage call crashing trying to read my insertion parameter? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #975 – Guidelines for Commenting Your Code (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How DevOps Complements Agile at Nokia Entertainment (Ben Linders)
• Barriers to Agile Adoption (Derek Huether)
• Acceptance Testing with FitNesse: Debugging, Control Flow, and Tracing (Michael Sorens)
• Applying the 80:20 Rule in Software Development (Jim Bird)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Gradle for Android: A Full Set of Tips and Tricks (Alec Noller)
• Monetizing Your iOS Apps with Bitcoin (Alex Curylo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Getting Started with MVVM | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Stack Exchange Podcast #54 – The One With All The Anachronisms (Alex Miller)
• Edge Show 82 New Microsoft Rights Management | Edge (David Tesar)
• The Vergecast 102 – November 14th, 2013 (Verge Video)
• Watch Building beautiful websites with Bootstrap (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – SQLPASS 2013, Charlotte Memories – Friends and Technology – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
• Article: Interview with Simon Brown about Sustainable Competence (Ben Linders)
• MVP Global Summit Tips – Rodney Buike (MVP Award Program)
• The Power of Code for Social Innovation (Rachel Roumeliotis)
• Interview With Eric Bowman of Gilt.com (Rey Bango)

 

Database

• PostgreSQL Now Available On Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Alex Williams)

 

SharePoint

• All About Newsfeeds With Your Cloud Business App (Nicole Haugen)

 

PowerShell

• Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 3 (Tracy McKibben)
• Powershell in a Month – Day 2, Help (Steve Jones)
• De-Duping Files With Powershell (Jesse Taber)

 

Miscellaneous

• Splunk (Denis Gladkikh)
• A practical use of multiplicative inverses (Eric Lippert)
• Getting rid of unwanted line breaks when pasting to OneNote (John Guin)
• What is codecasting? (Remy Sharp)
• Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8.1 handset includes ‘3D Touch’ technology (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, November 14th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 14, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Interesting Finds: November 15, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1242 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1486 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-15 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 15, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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