Dew Drop – February 12, 2014 (#1721)

Top Links

• Announcing Xamarin University (Bryan Costanich)
• Announcing preview of Microsoft.AspNet.Identity 2.0.0-beta1 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Leak shows Microsoft unifying Windows Phone and Windows RT app development (Todd Bishop)
• EF 6.1.0 Beta 1 Available and Preview of Dynamic Data Provider and EntityDataSource Control for EF6 (Rowan Miller)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS in Its Simplest Form (Arian Celina)
• How to Build an iOS & Android App in 24 hours with HTML5 and Cordova (Ivan Ross)
• AngularJS–Part 12, Multi language support (Gabriel Schenker)
• Mocking Session State in an ASP.NET MVC4 Unit Test using Moq (harleydk)
• Logging ASP.Net WebApi elapsed time for IQueryables (Jim Wooley)
• A Tour of the LightSwitch HTML Client APIs (Elizabeth Maher)
• Capturing SendGrid Events With ASP.NET WebAPI and Task async (Peter Kellner)
• AngularJS – Introducing Templates (John Ptacek)

 

XAML

• Drawing translucent shapes and lines on a Windows Phone 8 Map (Joost van Schaik)
• [Sample Of Feb 11th] How to load an Image from Isolated Storage and display it on the device in WP8 (Philip Fu)
• Developers react to the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK leaks (Sam Sabri)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,007 – Changing Scrollbar Settings for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• App Downloads on Windows Phone Store | Nokia Lumia (Sanjay Sharma)
• Prism for the Windows Runtime – Book Download (MS Downloads)
• Enhancements to the App download and In-app purchase reports (Bernardo Zamora)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Combining Tools in the Performance and Diagnostics Hub in Visual Studio 2013 (Dan J Taylor)
• Why Use Code Behind? (Deborah Kurata)
• What does Blazingly Fast Tracing Mean (Kathleen Dollard)
• UI Enhancements for IntelliTrace with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Wiktor K.)
• Funding the .NET Development Ecosystem (Andrew Binstock)
• String concatenation, string.Format and StringBuilder (Bill Wagner)
• Ghost of VCBlog Posts Past (Eric Battalio)
• Fetch performance of various .NET ORM / Data-access frameworks, part 2 (Frans Bouma)
• How to relocate the Package Cache (Heath Stewart)
• Custom Logging with Entity Framework EF6 (Jim Wooley)
• Syncfusion Succinctly Series (Joe Mayo)
• WinForms scaling at large DPI settings – is it even possible? (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Minimum NHibernate Code (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,031 – Requiring Generic Type Parameters to Implement an Interface (Sean Sexton)
• IIS 6 meta reading in .NET (Vaibhav Gaikwad)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: AlienatingAtmosphere (Martin Fowler)
• Design Patterns for Cloud-Hosted Applications (Jan Stenberg)
• Should You Use Agile To Build Your Next Home? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Time series feature design: Storage (Oren Eini)
• Show Us Your Work Boards (David Starr)
• SmartBear Launches API Testing Dojo (Eric Carter)
• Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Telerik UI for iOS – Native and Customizable Controls for Building iOS Apps (Ina Tontcheva)
• Overcoming the Pain of Mobile Development for the Enterprise (Carey Payette)
• The Telerik Platform: Modular Solutions to Mobile Problems (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• SSW TV – TFS Reporting in 2014 with Justin Marks (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Morgan Murphy (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 147 – “The Internet of Nail Shooters” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Countdown to Teched: The One with Jam Session News | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin)
• The Amp Hour #184 – Chris Becomes Self Employed – Quixotic Quitting Quaere (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

 

Community / Events

• Join Microsoft and Xamarin for Mobile Development Keynote and Celebration (Morgan Forsythe)
• Interview: Adrian Howard Discusses Lean Startup, Lean UX, and Changing Roles for Teams (Adrian Howard)
• Dev of the Week: Ariya Hidayat (Alec Noller)

 

Database

• How Many Partitions Per Measure Group Are Allowed in SSAS Standard Edition? (Chris Webb)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.7.1–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – SafePeak SQL Server Acceleration Software Gets an Upgrade (Pinal Dave)
• Determining the Length of SQL Server Text Data (Richard Carr)
• Deploying a DACPAC with DacFx API (Deborah Kurata)
• Shrink Bloated Development Databases – Save Precious Space (Dirk Strauss)
• More on using Transaction SID from the transaction log (Paul Randal)
• Google Cloud SQL now Generally Available with an SLA, larger databases up to 500GB, and encryption (Scott Knaster)

 

PowerShell

• DSC Diagnostics Module– Analyze DSC Logs instantly now! (Inchara Shivalingaiah)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft expands multi-factor authentication for Office 365 (Ed Bott)
• Satya Nadella’s To-Do List (Andrew J. Brust)
• How to build a personal brand: 12 month strategy (Manya Susoev)
• Android on Nokia: Microsoft’s Asha problem (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1297 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1546 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 12, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-12 (Dan Rigby)

 

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