Dew Drop – March 25, 2014 (#1750)

Top Links

• Project Siena Beta 2: Enabling business users to create apps connected to enterprise services, web and social (S.Somasegar)
• New Breeze Angular Service (John Papa)
• NuGet Package of the Week: Canopy Web Testing Framework with F# (Scott Hanselman)
• sn.exe cheat sheet (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Web Development

• Surprise! JavaScript Guard Clauses (Howard Dierking)
• Add Stunning Image Sliders to Your ASP.NET Apps in Seconds (Antonio Stoilkov)
• Chart.js – A JavaScript Library For Easy Graphs For Designers & Developers (Hirvesh Munogee)
• ASP.NET Upload Panel (Ricardo Peres)
• Dynamic Routes with AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Choose Your Own Adventure with Node.js View Engines (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Notes on accessibility of Web Components (Bruce Lawson)
• Sublime is Sublime 9 (Greg Young)

 

XAML

• Using Grunt to update WMAppManifest.xml version number (Windows Phone Manifest) (Derik Whittaker)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,036 – Date Formats in the DatePicker Control (Sean Sexton)
• Working with the MapView control in the ArcGIS Runtime (Shawn Kendrot)
• How does WAQS optimize client – server data transfer? 5/5 and WAQS UI features 1/4 (Matthieu Mezil)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• My poor little blameless Voron (Oren Eini)
• [Book Review Preview] Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook (Greg Duncan)
• APress Deal of the Day – 25/Mar/2014 – Pro .NET Performance Optimize Your C# Applications (Tatworth)
• Creating a self-contained test suite for WCF services using Microsoft Visual Studio Coded UI (Uma Malleshwari)
• What Every Developer Must Know About Fast Garbage Collection (+ more) (Alois Kraus)
• CodeFluent Entities – A Tool For Developers by Developers (Dirk Strauss)
• Seq “Log Query of the Day” #2 – Properties (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,060 – Explicit Conversions between Nullable Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: EnterpriseApplication and Microservices: Evolutionary Design (Martin Fowler)
• Throw user stories away after they are delivered (Gojko Adzic)
• Introduction to Business Capability Modeling (Doug Brophy)
• SOLID Principles (Matt Davey)
• UI | UX By & For Dev : User Focus (Sanjay Sharma)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Storing Data with NSUserDefaults (Nick Hanan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Release Management with Michael Learned (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Phone Central 167 (Sam Sabri)
• The AngularJS JumpStart Video Training Course Has Been Released! (Dan Wahlin)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 022 | Show Co-Host Chris Johnson Goes Back to Microsoft (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools: #83 – Performance Counters – Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 201: Leslie Lamport gets a Turing; OneNote Free and Everywhere; Sniping Zombies; Office Lens App; Age of Ascent | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Windows 9 Concept Video (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Party with Xamarin & .NET at Build! (Joseph Hill)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Paul Laberge and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Soung Bae and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Calvin Clark (Willy-P. Schaub)
• TEDxPhiladelphia 2014: TEDx Adventures and Webcast Viewing Parties (Bianca)
• Join In TEDxPhiladelphia With Tours, Free Live Streaming And Public Viewing Parties At Locations Across The City, Friday, March 28 (Kristina Jenkins)
• Titans of Tech: Who inspires you? (Manya Susoev)
• Upcoming US DPE Public Sector Online Events and Upcoming US DPE National Events (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• Implementing SQL Server Transaction Retry Logic for failed transactions (Daniel Farina)
• The case for SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (vs. Standard) edition (Jen McCown)
• MySQL – How to Connect to MySQL Server on Command Prompt (Pinal Dave)
• 10 Tips: How to Run MongoDB at Scale (Alec Noller)
• Blog Post: Looking for Power BI Dataviz Inspiration? There’s something in the Power BI Gallery for you! (Jen Stirrup)

 

PowerShell

• Get Real Time Quotes using PowerShell (George B.)
• A Step by Step Guide to Connecting to an Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell Remoting (Howard van Rooijen)
• #PSTip How to remove the “Folders” group from my computer in Windows 8 (Shay Levy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Splunk on Windows, Clustering and IPv6 (Adrian Hall)
• Updates Released for Redis on Windows (Claudio Caldato)
• How-To schools you on SysInternals, “Using SysInternals Tools Like a Pro” and Image Resizer for Windows Explorer (Right-Click… Resize Picture…) (Greg Duncan)
• Set keyboard layouts available on logon screen in Windows 8.1 (Jakub Jareš)
• Why You Are “Stuck” In Your Career (John Sonmez)
• Why leaving a startup is smart (Sanaz Jabbari)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1324 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Community Update 2014-03-24–Follow-up on #sublime, #nodejs articles, #angularjs, #dotnet, #aspnet and package management (Maxime Rouiller)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 25, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1575 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-25 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #76 (Jason Strate)

 

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