Dew Drop – December 10, 2013 (#1680)

Top Links

• New Durandal Opportunities for Companies, User Groups and Community Organizers (Rob Eisenberg)
• Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated (Damien Guard)
• Visual Studio 2013.1 RC is Available (Brian Harry)
• Unit testing imports in MEF – Loving that lazy interface (Pete O’Hanlon)

 

Web Development

• A Beginner’s List of JavaScript Gotchas (Catalin Red)
• ASP.NET Web API 2.1 RC is out – what’s new? (Filip W)
• Installing Git, NodeJS, Grunt And PHP For My Impact Game Starter Kits (Jesse Freeman)
• I Was Wrong About JavaScript and Responsive Design (John Sonmez)
• AbsurdJS or Why I Wrote My Own CSS Preprocessor (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1. (Pranav Rastogi)
• Re-examining ASP.NET and Helios Performance Tests (Rick Strahl)
• Minty: Conveying an API (Rob Conery)
• Preserve Disqus Comments with Jekyll (Phil Haack)
• Compound Transclusion Prevented In AngularJS 1.2 (Ben Nadel)
• Protect Glimpse.axd with your custom runtime policy (Christophe Gijbels)
• AngularJS–Part 2, the controller (Gabriel Schenker)
• JSON Schema Validation with REST Assured (Johan Haleby)
• Have I been pwned? You can now ask the API! (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Windows 8.1, Windows Phone, NFC, Bluetooth and help in building connected app’s. (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #968 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part V (Sean Sexton)
• Decoding custom image formats (accessing image file bits) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• How to check whether Location Service is Disabled in WP8? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Understanding and preventing Multilingual App Toolkit ‘lost translations’ (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Tip: Get Back to Where You Once Belonged (Peter Vogel)
• Using WinMerge with VS2013 (Rory Primrose)
• 8 New Things To Check Out in Visual Studio 2013 (Ondrej Balas)
• Easier Redis development with scriptcs and ServiceStack.Redis powered C# REPL (Filip W)
• “Visually Create Visual Studio Snippets” with the new Snippetizer from DevLabs (Greg Duncan)
• EasyNetQ: Replace the Internal DI Container (Mike Hadlow)
• Microsoft.SqlServer.Types NuGet Package (Spatial on Azure) (Rowan Miller)
• The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS (.NET Fundamentals Team)
• Fetch performance of various .NET ORM / Data-access frameworks (Frans Bouma)
• Destroying all child processes (and grandchildren) when the parent exits (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #992 – The System.Char Data Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 28 – Reader Question #4 (James Bender)
• Why You Should Use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Florian Motlik)
• Handoffs are Not a Bad Word (Johanna Rothman)
• How can I keep API keys out of source control? (John Sheehan)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Make Your Progress Bar Smoother in Android (Antoine Merle)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The Magic of TFS 2013 with Joel Semeniuk (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 141 – “Use GPS to the Ice Machine” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 010 | Latest news in the cloud from Microsoft, Amazon and Google (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools: #68 – Windows 8.1 – HTTP Request Crash | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• The Next Adventure (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Hour of Code: A Computer in Every Classroom (Matt Wallaert)
• How to get the most out of a conference (Lukas Ruebbelke)
• Code Mastery Boston 2013 (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Working with Business Days in SQL Server – A Different Approach (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Curious about search limits for SharePoint Online? (Sirkku Willie)

 

PowerShell

• Understanding Meta Configuration in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Karol Kaczmarek)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Windows shakeup continues: App store and UX leaders move to Bing team (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading December 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1255 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1503 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading Notes #119 (Frank)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #61 (Jason Strate)

 

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