Dew Drop – November 25, 2013 (#1671)

Top Links

• Windows Azure: General Availability Release of BizTalk Services, Traffic Manager, Azure AD App Access + Xamarin support for Mobile Services (Scott Guthrie)
• Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Enterprise Library – Open Development Model (Grigori Melnik)
• Circular assembly references in the .NET framework (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Web Development

• Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript – A Review (Abhijit Jana)
• Asynchronous action filters in ASP.NET Web API (Filip W)
• Why not use polling threads with ASP.NET web applications? (Gunnar Peipman)
• Protected: Harness the Power of ASP.NET MVC, KendoUI & RequireJS to Build an Awesome & Maintainable SPA (for the .NET Developer) (Long Le)
• Removing standard server headers on Windows Azure Web Sites (Mark Brown)
• REST callbacks (Giorgio Sironi)
• Building a Node.js Web Site on Windows Azure using Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Shiju Varghese)
• Schema Support in the JavaScript SDK of Telerik Data Storage for Windows 8 (Veli Pehlivanov)
• Fundamentals of Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Screen Template Creation (Michael Washington)
• Checking out the Helios IIS Owin Web Server Host (Rick Strahl)
• Orchard CMS Shift to Document Storage and Module Development (David Hayden)
• Working with multiple Web.Config files (Dean Hume)
• Debugging OWIN app or framework (Praburaj Thiagarajan)
• Initializing an array with values (Axel Rauschmayer)
• EtchMark Under the Hood: Building a Website that Handles Touch, Mouse, and Pen – and Device Shakes (Jon Aneja)
• Applying App Design Concepts to Website Design (Kayla Knight)
• Announcing the General Availability of Biz Talk Services, Azure Active Directory and Traffic Manager, and Preview of Azure Active Directory Premium (Steven Martin)
• Service Bus Relay (Jay Prathipati)

 

XAML

• Taking Advantage of Large-Screen Windows Phones (Peter Torr)
• WPF NotifyIcon (Philipp Sumi)
• WPF : DatePicker With Holiday Blackouts And ToolTips (Sacha Barber)
• 2000 WPF Things #956 – PasswordBox Stores Password as a SecureString and #957 – A Survey of Some List-Based Controls (Sean Sexton)
• Network API cheat sheets available now in the download center (Peter Smith)
• WPF Base Classes – Thumb (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2013, Blend for Visual Studio–the return of Behaviors (Mike Taulty)
• Bing Maps for Windows Store Apps SDK Documentation (PDF) (MS Downloads)
• Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 Adds Filters, WinPRT API, Enhancements and Sample Demos (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Hello Windows 8.1: what’s new in the update for developers Part 6: Updates in the tooling for Windows 8.1 (Gill Cleeren)
• Multiple Views for Windows 8.1 Apps, Part 1: Creating the View (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• [Sample Of Nov 21st] How to save the content of SurfaceImageSource to image file in Windows Store app (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 not compiling your typescript file , Now what to do 🙁 (Anirudha Gupta)
• Using a Visual Studio Web Test for availability monitoring in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
• NCover Bolt – Visual Studio Code Coverage & Test Runner (Kerry Meade)
• Reading XML using LINQ (Manjunath K)
• EasyNetQ: Non-Generic Subscribe (Mike Hadlow)
• Visual Studio 2013 ‘Could not evaluate Expression’ Debugger Abnormality (Rick Strahl)
• 2000 C# Things #980 – Getting Data Out of a SecureString and 2000 C# Things #981 – Full List of C# Keywords (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio Updates – Survey (Phil Lee)
• C++ AMP to target Khronos SPIR and HSAIL (Eric Battalio)
• Refactoring to Functional–Why Class? (Hadi Hariri)
• Conditional attribute and arguments evaluation (Elisha)
• How do I get the path to the default user’s profile? and How do I get the effect of CW_USEDEFAULT positioning on a window I’ve already created? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Two Agile Myths- BUSTED! (Konstantin Boev)
• Leadership is Stewardship (Peter Saddington)
• 25 Bill Gates Lessons Revisited (JD Meier)
• Observations over assumptions (Jef Claes)
• Use Project-based Interviews Instead of “GitHub” (John Resig)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Different iOS Progress Types Using IGProgressView (Xcode & Xamarin.iOS) (Torrey Betts)
• How to Use a VirtualBox Android Emulator (Troy Miles)
• WindowsAzure.com welcomes Xamarin (Craig Dunn)
• Being a successful mobile developer – Windows Phone, Marketing & Xamarin (Shayne Boyer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 139 – “Achievement Envy” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• Technology & Friends Episode 293: Dino Esposito on Do’s and Don’t’s of Software Projects (David Giard)
• Hanselminutes – Virtual Reality, the Oculus Rift and Unity 3D with Rift Chopper author James Andrew (Scott Hanselman)
• Custom Web Site Deployment Scripts with Kudu – with David Ebbo | Windows Azure Friday (Windows Azure)
• Episode 120: Service Agility with the Service Gateway | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• TWC9: node.js for Visual Studio, EntLib 6 Dev Guide, SmartOffice4TFS and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Charles & Greg Duncan)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 016: The Tech Awards and Visual Studio Online! | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sasha Grey (Chris Hardwick)
• Windows Weekly 338: ‘Twas the Night Before Xbox (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 009 | Managing Azure Virtual Machines and Listener Questions (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Tablet Show – The Magic of Modern Apps with Aaron Bockover (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 085 JSJ Huxley with Pete Hunt (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Get Up And Code 29: Sit Down With Matt Baxter-Reynolds, Author Of Death Of The PC (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget Mobile Podcast 196 – 11.21.13 (Jon Turi)
• Why Parameter Sniffing Can Slow Down Queries (video) (Kendra Little)
• Scott Hanselman shows you how to blog (Manya Susoev)
• Edge Show 83 Behind the scenes of TechNetV-Labs with HOL systems | Edge (RicksterCDN)
• The Vergecast 103 – November 21st, 2013 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• Calling Actual Developers for Agile 2014 (David Starr)
• Agile 2014 Conference Call for Submissions Open (Shane Hastie)
• MVPSummit 2013.2 – Inspirational (Chris Love)
• Special offer for content from Jeffrey Richter and WintellectNOW (Kim Spilker)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database – SSMS and SQL SERVER – Export Data AS CSV from Database Using SQLCMD and SQL – Everything about Data Magazine – FREE to Subscribe (Pinal Dave)
• Storing the header information (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Inspecting the SharePoint OAuth Token with a Fiddler Extension (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell in a Month – Day 3 – Commands (Steve Jones)
• PowerShell DSC Resource for configuring Pull Server environment (Raghu Shantha)

 

Miscellaneous

• 3 great reasons to create a Pluralsight course (David Davis)
• Small Basic Gurus – Winners for October 2013 (Ed Price)
• Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL (Ingrid Lunden)
• SkyDrive is about to get a name change: could it be NewDrive? (Kip Kniskern)
• New generation of games begins with Xbox One launch (Steve Clarke)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 21, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 22, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 23, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 24, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 25, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, November 21, 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, November 22, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 21, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1247 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (November 22nd, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• The Morning Brew #1491 and The Morning Brew #1492 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-11-22 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 22, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: November 25, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/22/2013 and Daily News Digest 11/25/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reblog: November 15 to November 21 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 40 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows Azure Learning Resource Link Round-up (Greg Duncan)
• Xbox One Launch News Roundup (Richard Hay)

 

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