Dew Drop – February 26, 2014 (#1731)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC (Jonathan Turner)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2, Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 RC and TypeScript 1.0 RC (S. Somasegar)
• Try the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2 (Visual Studio Team)
• Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 (Xinyang Qiu)

 

Web Development

• Connecting Your Sencha Touch Apps with Windows Azure (Arthur Kay)
• Horizontal reuse in JavaScript and C# (Johannes Brodwall)
• Creating a Border Animation Effect with SVG and CSS (Mary Lou)
• Now shipping: Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 5 Things That Don’t Have to Be Hard in Single Page Applications (Chris Love)
• Integrate Cloud Services with Your Existing Telerik tools (Jeff Fritz)
• Review: Brackets by Adobe (Kevin Griffin)

 

XAML

• Rapid Windows Phone Application Development Using MvvmCross and Build it Beta gets Isolated Storage Exploring in Feedback Tool (Nick Randolph)
• Drawing circles on Windows Phone Here Maps and Windows Store Bing Maps (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,017 – Scaling Items in a List Using a Slider (Sean Sexton)
• Bring your App Studio apps to Windows 8 (David Washington)
• Testing and debugging your geofencing apps (Ross Heise)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• AngularJS in Visual Studio: Filters (Deborah Kurata)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 (Eric Battalio)
• Setting Up GitHub to work with Visual Studio 2013 Step-by-Step (Michael Crump)
• call_once for C# (Dror Helper)
• Quick and Dirty Command Bus with F# (James D’Angelo)
• EasyNetQ: Client Details in Connection String (Mike Hadlow)
• F# Eye for the VB Guy (Phillip Trelford)
• F#2 FSI Environment (Sacha Barber)
• Extending Visual Studio, part 4: Writing cross-version extensions (Schabse Laks)
• TFS Lab Management with multiple SCVMM servers (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Reflector / DotPeek / ILSpy as-a-service (Chris Cavanagh)
• 2000 C# Things #1,041 – Adding New Type Parameters when You Derive from a Generic Class (Sean Sexton)
• Using Git for .NET development part 1 – what’s Git? (Alice Waddicor)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Product Roadmaps Are Anti-Agile (Gil Zilberfeld)
• One-Dimensional and Multi-Dimensional Mindmaps (Chance Brown)
• Prompt Yourself to New Levels of Amazing Personal Productivity (JD Meier)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cross Platform Development With Xamarin (Frank La Vigne)
• Xamarin Studio Settings for Visual Studio Developers (Dan Rigby)
• Nokia X: where Android apps will thrive (Luke)
• Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin–Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• View Context for Kendo UI Mobile and MVVM (Basem Emara)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 135: The Weird World of Aurora (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Episode 259 – PowerScripting Podcast – Jeff Galloway from HP (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• VLog Episode 004: Leap Motion fun & hanging out with friends (Iris Classon)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One with Dress Code and Pre Conference Sessions | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• SSW TV – Architecture Explorer – Understanding Your Code with Jeff Levinson (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Join us at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas 3/2-3/5 (Paul J. Swider)
• Pluralsight subscription give away (Shawn Kendrot)
• Dev of the Week: Matt Raible (Alec Noller)
• CreativeJS for Designers comes to Philly! (Val Head)

 

Database

• SQL Server Query Performance Guidelines Tutorial (Ben Snaidero)
• How to Query Active Directory from SQL Server (Merrick Chaffer)
• SQL SERVER – Find Anything in Object Explorer in SSMS (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.0 Status Update (Oren Eini)
• Power Map Is Released (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Reusing Existing Configuration Scripts in PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Abhik Chatterjee)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 Now Available (Richard Hay)
• When is it stealing? (Scott Hanselman)
• Why is Nokia making Android phones? (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 25, 2014 (Robert Diana
• The Daily Six Pack: February 26, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Double Shot #1306 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1556 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-26 (Dan Rigby)

 

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