Dew Drop – January 7, 2014 (#1696)

Top Links

• New release – Tx (LINQ to Logs and Traces) (Ross Gardler)
• Check out and back Durandal (Nigel Sampson)
• .NET Rocks! – Applied ScriptCS with Block, Rusbatch and Ralph (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• New C# Yellow Book Available – and on Kindle (Rob Miles)

Web Development

• Keep Overflow Content Scrolling Unresponsive Until Clicked Using jQuery (Ben Nadel)
• Consuming Telerik REST Service Reports in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Carey Payette)
• Windows Azure Web Sites (WAWS) and Intermediate Certificates (Mark Brown)
• Unit Testing AngularJS Controllers, Views, and More: Part Four (Avishek Sen Gupta)
• Using ObjectDataSource with ASP.NET ListView for Entity Framework 6 (Ming Man Chan)
• JavaScript JSON Date Parsing and real Dates (Rick Strahl)
• Experimenting with Forms and AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Koa.js : Next Generation Web Framework for Building Node.js Apps Without Callback Hell (Shiju Varghese)
• Implementing custom password policy using ASP.NET Identity (suhasbj)
• Sublime Text: subl command under windows command line (Denis Gladkikh)
• Writing Robust Web Applications – The Lost Art of Exception Handling (Alan Skorkin)
• LightSwitch Screen Template – Auto-Tile Menu and LightSwitch Screen Template – Browse Data Tabs and LightSwitch Screen Template – Tablet List and Details and LightSwitch Screen Template – Mobile List and Details (Xpert360)
• Choosing a JavaScript MVC Framework (Craig McKeachie)

XAML

• XAML Spy January 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Test Driven Development for Windows Phone Applications (Dror Helper)
• Meet the new generation of app developers – courtesy of Windows Phone App Studio Beta (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Simplest way to Encrypt and Decrypt of data in Windows Phone apps (Kunal Chowdhury)
• [Sample Of Jan 6th] How to add a loading screen to your Windows Phone Application (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #981 – Including a CheckBox with Each Item in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Store In App Purchase ArgumentException when calling LoadListingInformationAsync (Nick Randolph)
• WPF Information Controls – TextBlock Inlines (Richard Carr)
• Build a Scrollable Form in Windows Phone (Pavan Pareta)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Azure EntityAdapter with unsupported table types and Using the EntityAdapter for Azure Table Storage (Rory Primrose)
• Errors Activating the ALM Virtual Machines (Brian Keller)
• Part 3: A single, common base-type in Python for .NET Developers Series and Part 4: foreach and IEnumerable in Python for .NET Developers Series (Michael Kennedy)
• Hosting a .NET DLL as an Out-Of-Process COM Server (EXE) (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,005 – Replacing a Substring with a New Substring (Sean Sexton)
• ReplaySubject performance improvements (Lee Campbell)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What Problems Are Executives Trying To Solve With Agile? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• The Challenge of Going First (Peter Saddington)
• 10 more things a Scrum Master can do to drive the team crazy (Marc Löffler)
• But does it quack like a duck? (Phil Haack)
• Introducing FubuDocs for “Living Documentation” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How To Be A Better Software Developer This Year (John Sonmez)
• The time when we did Lean backwards (Marcus Hammarberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Apache Cordova 3.3 and Remote Debugging for Android (Raymond Camden)
• Enable USB-Debugging with Nexus 5 for Android Studio (Michael Crump)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 183: Semantic Merge with Pablo Santos (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Engadget Podcast 375 – 1.2.14 (Jon Turi)
• Episode 253 – PowerScripting Podcast – Talking PowerShell with Jeff Truman (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Video: Optional Parameters in JavaScript Functions (Dhananjay Kumar)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Norton (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #72 – Message Analyzer – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Paul E. Long & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

• Xamarin is throwing a San Diego Drink Up! (Morgan Forsythe)
• Philly Codefest Coming to Drexel University (Bianca Cevoli)
• Facebook & Microsoft Hackathon (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Jeff Sandquist’s looking for a few good people to work at Twitter: Developer advocates, partner engineers, dev marketing people, and operations analysts (Joey deVilla)
• Upcoming Events (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How to Prepare for a Hackathon (Troy Miles)

Database

• MySQL – Locate the Configuration File – my.ini or my.cnf on Windows Platform (Pinal Dave)
• Voron & the FreeDB dataset (Oren Eini)

SharePoint

• Extending the SP2013/Office 365 search hover panel (e.g. adding “post to my feed” functionality) (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

• PowerShell – Find OS architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) of local or remote machines Using Powershell (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Ways to open PowerShell- keyboard only, no installs, no scripts (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous

• Windows 8 tablets get “tough” for healthcare (Bill Crounse)
• Small Basic Compiler (Phillip Trelford)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 7, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for 2013 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, January 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1272 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-07 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 7, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #65 (Jason Strate)

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