Dew Drop – March 4, 2014 (#1735)

Top Links

• C# Pad (via Scott Hanselman)
• New Office REST APIs and Developer Tools for Visual Studio Update (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update (Keith Yedlin)
• Living with unchecked exceptions (Eric Lippert)

Web Development

• New Drag to Drop Widget for Kendo UI (Basem Emara)
• How to use CORS with ASP.NET Web API 2.0 (Ugo Lattanzi)
• Tutorial Series for Entity Framework 6 MVC 5 Published (Tom Dykstra)
• How Do I: Build and Deploy My First Cloud Business App on Office 365? | Building Cloud Business Apps for Office 365 with Visual Studio 2013 (Beth Massi)
• CSS Gradients and css perf (Chris Coyier)
• Cutting Edge: A First Look at ASP.NET Identity (Dino Esposito)
• ASP.NET MVC 5: A .NET Developer Primer for Single-Page Applications (MSDN Magazine)
• Search Command> (Nimish Doshi)
• The Office 365 platform —new opportunities for developers (Arpan Shah)
• IIS: Using Windows Authentication with Minimal Permissions Granted to Disk (Scott Forsyth)
• New Test Framework in Place for HTTP/2 Implementations (Parashu)
• AngularJS in Visual Studio: Data Binding (Deborah Kurata)

XAML

• Async Programming: Patterns for Asynchronous MVVM Applications: Data Binding (Stephen Cleary)
• C#|XAML : ListBox – Search, Filter, and Highlight (3/3) (Sanjay Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,021 – Two Ways to Position Tick Marks on a Slider (Sean Sexton)
• Modern Apps: A Look at the Hub Project and Control in Windows Store Apps (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Reliable and fast applications by introducing parallel and async (Filip Ekberg)
• Putting a friendly face on statelessness, the Stateless Designer Visual Studio Extension (Greg Duncan)
• How to Report .NET Compatibility Issues (Kathleen Dollard)
• Awesome Mobile C# Meetups to Start off March (Mike Bluestein)
• Async Programming: Asynchronous TCP Sockets as an Alternative to WCF (James McCaffrey)
• F#4 : Let / Use / Do Bindings (Sacha Barber)
• NuGet Package of the Week: FluentAutomation for automated testing of Web Applications (Scott Hanselman)
• All RGB colors in one image (József Fejes)
• New CodeRush Plugin – Template Importer (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,045 – Implicit Conversions When Assigning from a Nullable Type (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Sample Chapter: “Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio” from the book “Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback, Edition 3” (Charles Sterling)
• Debugging Your Geographically Distributed Agile Team Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Agile Fluency (Matt Davey)
• Compensation Strategies for Agile Teams (Mike Cottmeyer)
• A ScrumMaster’s Tool (Peter Saddington)
• Git Tips: Revert with a new commit (Mike Hadlow)
• Tweaking xUnit and Time series feature design: Storage replication & the bee’s knees (Oren Eini)

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Create Custom Keyboards in iOS (Alex Curylo)
• New Open Source SDK for Android Brings Office 365 Apps to Life (Eric Mittelette & Roopali Kaujalgi)
• Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin–Part 4 (Mike Taulty)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – F# Everywhere with Neil Danson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jaimie Alexander (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #80 – App-V | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder & Steve Thomas)
• Ping 198: Plants vs Zombies, BBM and Photoshop Express for WP, Twitch on Xbox, The Garage and more Xbox | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One with the Content Catalog and Session Builder | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

Community / Events

• Developers: AdDuplex giving away 3 Windows Phones for each month of 2014 (Rich Edmonds)
• March 6th Quality Enablement Webinar: Testing Lean from Planning to Production (Charles Sterling)
• AngleBrackets: April 13 – 16, 2014 (Elijah Manor)
• 5 survival tips for your first hackathon (Pam Selle)

Database

• Handle conversion between time zones in SQL Server – part 1 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – How to Synchronize Data Across Databases and Servers (Pinal Dave)
• How Long is that SQL Command Going to Take? (Patrick Keisler)

PowerShell

• Configure static or dynamic IP and DNS with Powershell (Jen McCown)
• Powershell in a Month – Day 19 – I/O (Steve Jones)
• PowerShell Script to Limit SharePoint Site Templates Available (Brian T. Jackett)

Miscellaneous

• One place for all your work files — introducing OneDrive for Business (Julia White)
• Play the field or focus? (Michelle Feder)

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 3, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: January 21st, 2014 (Scott Hanselman)
• Geek Reading March 3, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #130 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #73 (Jason Strate)
• The Morning Brew #1560 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 4, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/4/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Links of the month (February Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

The Geek Shelf

AOP in .NET: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming: Matthew D. Groves: 9781617291142: Books ISBN: 1617291145 ISBN-13: 9781617291142