Dew Drop – March 7, 2014 (#1738)

Top Links

• Deep dive into Windows Phone 8 Messaging (Adam Fraser)
• Migrate away from MSBuild-based NuGet package restore (Xavier Decoster)
• Living with unchecked exceptions, part two (Eric Lippert)
• TDD is Agile’s Super-hot Friend! (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• Android and Java Developers: We Have a SignalR SDK for You! (Olivier Bloch)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web API Tip: Of CORS You Can Make Cross-Domain Requests! (Don Kiely)
• PhpStorm 8 Early Access Program started (Mikhail Vink)
• Uploading and Downloading Files in ASP.NET MVC -using C# and Exception Handling in ASP.NET MVC Web Application using C# (Pradip Bobhate)
• Browser Arcana: IP Literals in URLs (Eric Lawrence)
• Cloud Management Headaches – How the Telerik Platform Can Help Ease the Pain (James Bender)
• New “How Do I…?” Videos and other Resources for Building Cloud Business Apps (Beth Massi)
• Azure Storage Bindings Part 3 – Tables (Mike Stall)
• ExtJS Not Using autoLoad Best Practice (Peter Kellner)

 

XAML

• XAML|C# Step By Step : UserControl – Wait Spinner (Sanjay Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,024 – Making a Slider Cycle through Values of an Enumerated Type (Sean Sexton)
• Step by Step Apps for non coders – Windows Phone App Studio (Susan Ibach)
• Sneak peak: High-Performance Windows Store Apps (Devon Musgrave)
• Writing Windows Store apps with locale-based adaptive design (Gilles Peigné)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Performance Optimizations in ReSharper 8.x (Alexey Totin)
• Left Outer Joins in LINQ with Entity Framework (Jim Wooley)
• F#7 : Records (Sacha Barber)
• New in PostSharp 3.2: Undo/Redo (Gael Fraiteur)
• GesturePak 2.0 Alpha for the Kinect for Windows v2 (Greg Duncan)
• We’re currently using FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING and FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH, but we would like our WriteFile to go even faster (Raymond Chen)
• Custom NHibernate Criteria Projections and NHibernate Pitfalls: Outer Joins of Unrelated Entities (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #1,048 – No Implicit Conversions between Signed vs. Unsigned (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: CircuitBreaker (Martin Fowler)
• A Simple Approach to BDD (Rob Conery)
• How Source Control saved my blog (Michael Cummings)
• What’s new in Bonobo Git Server 2.1 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Any Action Is Better Than No Action (John Sonmez)
• Advice for the New Tech Lead: The Realities of Distributed Development (Avishek Sen Gupta)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Handle Memory Management in Android (Alec Noller)
• Converting PhoneGap/Cordova Projects to AppBuilder (Jim Cowart)
• Experience developing a Windows Phone 8 app with Html5 and Javascript (Alexander Persson)
• Simplifying Mobile App Development with HTML5 and BaaS (Moran Shayovitch)
• 5 tips every Unity developer should know (Alex Zanfir)
• Strategies For Managing Navigation State (Burke Holland)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 188: Pete Smith on Superscribe (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
• Hanselminutes – I’m a Blind Software Technician – Ask Me Anything! with Katherine Moss (Scott Hanselman)
• SPCtv A talk with Microsoft IT on SharePoint, Adoption and Governance | SharePoint Conference 2014 (Karuana Gatimu, Christian Wylde, Sean Squires, Pam Green & Carrie Doring)
• Edge Show 93 – Chef deployments to Windows Azure | Edge (David Tesar)
• Windows Weekly 352: Penn and Reller (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Sparks – Martin Lawrence Galleries, USA (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Neil deGrasse Tyson Returns Again (Chris Hardwick)
• VLog Episode 005: Work and deciding to quit (Iris Classon)

 

Community / Events

• Meet Five Dynamic Microsoft Women Inspiring Change in Technology (Aimee Riordan)
• Happy Birthday, Software Craftsmanship Manifesto! (Doug Bradbury)
• Dice to Host its First Mobile Hackathon (Eric Carter)
• Microsoft to join the party; will be at SXSW 2014 (Michael Archambault)
• Announcing the GitHub Developer Program (Timothy Clem)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Association Rules Data Mining Example (Dallas Snider)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve Maximum Length of Object Name with sp_server_info (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: The Top 5 SQL Server Features You Aren’t Using And Why (Tom LaRock)
• Regular Expressions, Part 3: Business Intelligence Uses (Ondrej Balas)

 

SharePoint

• Thoughts on Office 365, Windows Azure Active Directory, Yammer & Power BI (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s new tack for cheap tablets: Windows 8.1 with Bing (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 8.1 update leaks to the web, direct from Redmond (Ed Bott)
• Back to Basics: Regular Expressions and Formal Languages (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, March 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 6, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1313 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1563 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 3/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-07 (Dan Rigby)

 

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