Dew Drop – December 2, 2013 (#1674)

Top Links

• Understanding JavaScript Object Creation Patterns (Colin Eberhardt)
• Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop (from the Visual F# Tools Team at Microsoft) (Don Syme)
• SPA and the Single Page Myth (John Papa)
• dotMemory 4.0 EAP: .NET Memory Profiler Resuscitation (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• AspNet.Identity.RavenDB: Fully asynchronous, new and sweet ASP.NET Identity implementation for RavenDB (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Steps Towards Optimized Windows Azure SQL Databases (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Adding New Items to a Pure F# ASP.NET MVC/Web API Project (Daniel Mohl)
• Using Autofac as the DependancyResolver for SignalR and Launching External applications w/ Grunt.js (Derik Whittaker)
• Page Instrumentation in ASP.NET 4.5 (Imran Baloch)
• Getting started with ELMAH and ASP.NET MVC (Jalpesh Vadgama)
• Convert an existing WinJS app to use TypeScript (Jason Jarrett)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-487–Developing Windows Azure and Web Services (Kim Spilker)
• WinJS.UI.Repeater bug and workarounds (WinJS 2.0) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Cleanest CSS spinner, ever (Lea Verou)
• WebGL With Three.js: Textures & Particles (Maciej Sopyło)
• PhpStorm 7.1 EAP 133.168 (Mikhail Vink)
• Instant Azure Caching with MVC (Rick Anderson)
• Minty: Sanity Check One (Rob Conery)
• Manipulyte: A Proof Of Concept Visual Studio LightSwitch Turn Based HTML5 SPA Game (Michael Washington)
• Accessing the Location header in a CORS-enabled API (Aaron Powell)
• Orchard Website Upgraded to Orchard 1.7.2 (David Hayden)
• MarionetteJS: Make Your Backbone App Dance (Allen Coin)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 4: Too much information! Sorting and Filtering Data with Queries (Beth Massi)
• Responsive Comments and Dom Monster and Turn Off Hovers on Scroll (Chris Coyier)
• Structuring AngularJS Code (Dan Wahlin)
• URL Rewriting for the Fearful (Drew McLellan)
• Getting to know AngularJS (Arun Mahendrakar)

 

XAML

• Options for publishing Windows Phone beta apps and testing in-app purchase (Bernardo Zamora)
• Experiments with TypeScript, MVVM and Windows Store apps – TypedMVVM available on CodePlex (Davide Zordan)
• Show & Hide windows phone SystemTray. (Jesse MacFadyen)
• We need you (crowd-testing MVVM Light new setup) and MVVM Light stats: 300’000 downloads and more (Laurent Bugnion)
• How to Update a Live Tile in a Background Agent with Web Data on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
• Attached and Routed Events outside of WPF (Nick Polyak)
• GimmalPoint for Windows Phone now live; Windows 8 version updated with cross-platform sync (Rich Edmonds)
• 2000 WPF Things #960 – A ListBox Can Store Objects of Different Types and #961 – A ListBox Has Three Available Selection Modes and #962 – A Color Selection Box Organized by Hue, part I (Sean Sexton)
• Being a Successful Mobile Developer: Windows Phone, Marketing and Xamarin (Shayne Boyer)
• Multiple Views for Windows 8.1 Apps, Part 3: View Switching (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Quick! – How to Open WP Settings from Code (Rene Schulte)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A LINQ Style Simple Moving Average Operator (Richard Carr)
• [Sample of Nov 27th] How to access untyped/strong typed DataSets by using LINQ (Philip Fu)
• Creating unused events in C# (Schabse Laks)
• Using Code-First Entity Framework with Preexisting Databases (Jonathan Tower)
• Ready. Set. Launch! VS 2013 Launch Example Projects Now Available (Greg Duncan)
• Getting started with the Seq preview (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• GenerateWinPRTManifestV2 error (Matt Lacey)
• The case of the DLL that refuses to load and If you try to declare a variadic function with an incompatible calling convention, the compiler secretly converts it to cdecl and Why can’t I create my dialog with DialogBox, DialogBoxParam, CreateDialog, CreateDialogParam, or the indirect versions of same? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #984 – The Birthday Problem and #985 – Why It’s Useful for Conditional Operators to Short-Circuit Evaluation and #986 – Using goto to Jump to a Label (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mixing Command and Transaction Script Patterns (Gunnar Peipman)
• The difference between benchmarks & performance tests (Oren Eini)
• Expanding context in diffs (Alan Rogers)
• How to Scale the Product Owner Role (Ben Linders)
• The flow fallacy (Eric Brechner)
• How to use partial application like DI? (Greg Young)
• Leveraging DDD in Core-Business Applications Using Entity Framework (Jan Stenberg)
• You Don’t Need a Usability Lab (Jim Ross)
• Risks and Reasons for the Use of Exit Guards (Matt Lacey)
• Using Test Studio Load Testing With Mobile Clients (Peter Varhol)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Generate Beautiful Apple-Style Documentation in Xcode 5 (Martin Rybak)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 122: Save the Adventure! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Programmer Anarchy Created by Fred George (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 249 – PowerScripting Podcast – Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover for the PowerShell v4 Launch Party (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Hanselminutes – Chris Dancy, the world’s most quantified man explains the Quantified Self (Scott Hanselman)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Thomas Dolby (Chris Hardwick)
• Decoupling Large Applications with the Service Gateway | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler & “The Jaffe”)
• The Amp Hour #173 – An Interview with Jeri Ellsworth – Intense Illusion Introduction (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Get Up And Code 30: What Do You Do When You Screw Up? (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Engadget HD Podcast 376 – 11.27.13 (Jon Turi)
• Inside Real Estate & Facilities | Microspotting (Larry Larsen)
• GeekWire Radio: The raw truth about startups, and life (Todd Bishop)
• OzCode | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Tablet Show – ASP.NET Web Forms for Mobile with Jeff Fritz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 086 JSJ Ember.js & Discourse with Robin Ward (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing SharePoint Conference 2014 App Awards (SharePoint Developer Team)
• O’Reilly’s Cyber Monday Site-wide sale (Bill Osuch)
• Help me write a Developer Evangelism/Advocacy guide (Chris Heilmann)
• Node Windows Hackathon brings together Node developers and contributors (Doug Mahugh)
• Interview With Jonathan Snook (Rey Bango)

 

Database

• Adding Line Numbers to SQL Server Management Studio (Jakub Chodounský)
• Two SQL Server Resources That Improved When You Weren’t Looking (Brent Ozar)
• Red Gate SSMS Ecosystem – The free SQL Server Management Studio Add-In Framework and Store (with both paid and free items) (Greg Duncan)
• Working with Temporary Objects in SQL Server and Temporary Table Variables in SQL Server (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQL SERVER – Building Three-Part Name from OBJECT_ID – Database Name, Schema Name, TableName and SQL SERVER – Statistics for Read-Only Database are in TempDB and SQL SERVER – How to Script Statistics from SSMS? – Scripting Statistics is Disabled in SSMS and SQL SERVER – Location of Statistics Before and After Database is Marked as a Read-Only (Pinal Dave)
• Async replica loss causes transactional replication to fail (Ted Krueger)
• Master Data Services stops working after an upgrade (Koen Verbeeck)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell in Sublime- syntax highlighting and piping commands (Iris Classon)
• Using PowerShell to Compare / Diff Files (Lee Holmes)
• PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio Thanksgiving Special! (Adam Driscoll)

 

Miscellaneous

• Can Windows 8.1 devices close the door on Chromebooks? (Ed Bott)
• Want to make a game but don’t know where to start? GameMaker Studio Standard is currently free. (Chris Walden)
• You call ‘Pawn Stars’ Scroogled desperate, I say it’s bloody brilliant (Joe Wilcox)
• Project Spark is now in the Store! (McAkins)
• The future of the business desktop (Rockford Lhotka)
• Joe Belfiore: We’re working super hard to bring customers their favorite apps (Sam Sabri)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 28, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 29, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 30, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: December 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 26, 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 27, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 27, 2013 and Geek Reading November 29, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #92 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1250 and Double Shot #1251 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-11-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2013-11-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 28, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: November 29, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: December 02, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/27/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1495 and The Morning Brew #1496 and The Morning Brew #1497 (Chris Alcock)
• Reblog: November 22 to November 28 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Digest 41 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Top Reads for November (Jaco Pretorius)

 

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