Dew Drop – November 26, 2013 (#1672)

Top Links

• Caliburn.Micro 2.0.0-alpha2 Is Here (Rob Eisenberg)
• .NET Rocks! – Web Development in Studio 2013 with Mads Kristensen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Opening Files from SkyDrive using .NET (Immo Landwerth)
• Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 (Vijay M)

 

Web Development

• Using dhtmlxScheduler and dhtmlxGantt with TypeScript (dhtmlx Team)
• Just My Code for ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2013 (Andrew B Hall)
• Building Models in Backbone.js and AngularJS (Victor Savkin)
• MvcReportViewer v.0.2.0 is available! (Ilya Verbitskiy)
• Minty: Writing The First Specs (Rob Conery)
• ASP.NET Core Identity (K. Scott Allen)
• Google Dart Spark (Matt Davey)
• TypeScript Enums to String (Phubar Baz)
• Frameworkless JS – A module per widget (Rob Ashton)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #958 – Three Ways to Populate a List Control (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1: Application Views improvements (Andrea Boschin)
• Multiple Views for Windows 8.1 Apps, Part 2: The Projection Manager (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Pixel Shaders for Xaml Windows Runtime (Jeremiah Morrill)
• Build apps get rewards – Developer Movement is back! (Susan Ibach)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Particle Swarm Optimization Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Windows Overlapped I/O and TPL style programming (Oren Eini)
• Viasfora – Your new favorite Visual Studio Text/*ML Editing Extension? (Greg Duncan)
• Beta Updates to ReSharper 8 and .NET Tools (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Calling DeploymentManager.exe from TFS (Justin Caldicott)
• EasyNetQ’s Minimalist DI Container (Mike Hadlow)
• Adding an Extension SDK dependency to your NuGet package (Tim Heuer)
• 2000 C# Things #982 – An Enum Type Can Store a Maximum of 32 Flags (Sean Sexton)
• New in PostSharp 3.1: Support for async and iterator methods and New in PostSharp 3.1: Solution-Level Aspects and PostSharp Configuration Files (Gael Fraiteur)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 24 – Strictly Mocking (James Bender)
• How To Make A Game Part 4: Polishing Your Game (Jesse Freeman)
• How Many People Can You Manage as a Manager? (Johanna Rothman)
• Not Everything Is 80-20, Don’t Blindly Follow Pareto’s Law (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• NSHipster – iOS Resource of the Day (Brent Schooley)
• Leveraging PhoneGap within Sencha Touch (Ross Gerbasi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• “Not The Agile I Used To Know” Video (Gil Zilberfeld)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Chris Hadfield (Chris Hardwick)
• FTVS13 Ep. 3 with Raman Sharma | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• Defrag Tools: #66 – Windows 8.1 – Jeffrey Richter – Wintellect Package Explorer | Defrag Tools (Jeffrey Richter, Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Yet Another Podcast #114–Test Driven Development (Jesse Liberty)

 

Community / Events

• A Coder Interview with Amar Kona, Intel Android technical evangelist (CodeProject)
• 30th anniversary videos: Father-daughter authors Steve Lambert and Joan Lambert, part 1 (Kim Spilker)
• US DPE East Region December Events and US DPE Public Sector December Events (MS Public Sector Team)
• Jordan, Designer, Windows User (Jordan DeVries)

 

Database

• Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact 4 (2)–Easy Private Desktop Deployment (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server Configuration Checking – A Must Do for Every DBA – Notes from the Field #004 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Using SharePoint PropertyBag in the Context of Search (Nicki Borell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft: We aren’t going to have three different versions of Windows and Microsoft still open sources more technologies than many think (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 26, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, November 25, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 25, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1248 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #91 (Mary Lou)
• Daily News Digest 11/26/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #117 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1493 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-11-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 26, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #59 (Jason Strate)

 

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