Dew Drop – April 1, 2014 (#1755)

Navigating the April Fool’s minefield in my feeds in NewsBlur this morning.

Top Links

• Preparing for Durandal NextGen (Rob Eisenberg)
• Grunt-Deploy-WPXap: Using Grunt to deploy your Windows Phone application (Derik Whittaker)
• 9 Reasons Your Project is Going to Fail (Steve Smith)
• Microsoft Promotes Scott Guthrie To Head Of Cloud, Phil Spencer To Lead Xbox, Confirms Stephen Elop Will Run Devices (Alex Wilhelm)

 

Web Development

• Bind Any Property in Kendo UI DropDownList Value Template (Jonathan Tower)
• Kendo Tip: Accessing Widget Instances (Kevin Babcock)
• How to open MVC 2 ,3 project in Visual studio 2013 ? (Anirudha Gupta)
• Ninjecting Neo4jClient into MVC5/4/3 (Chris Skardon)
• Understanding routing of expressJS in Node.JS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• AngularJS Workflow in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Updated ASP.NET Database Resource Provider (Rick Strahl)
• The Emergence of CORS for Sharing Data Across Domains (Noel Rice)
• Building Better Input Experience for East Asian Users with the IME API in IE11 (Jianfeng Lin)
• Xbox Music API to be discussed at BUILD 2014 (Marques Lyons)
• Minimal Form Interface (Mary Lou)
• Using Polymer to Create Web Components (Rey Bango)
• Http Clients and Azure Blob Storage (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Using Visual States in Your Windows Phone User Controls (Nick Randolph)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developers Program should go live Thursday, April 10 (Daniel Rubino)
• Build Quick Windows Phone Apps using Windows Phone App Studio Beta (Vikram Pendse)
• Working with location in an ArcGIS Runtime map app (Shawn Kendrot)
• WAQS UI features 3/3 (Matthieu Mezil)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• LINQ-like List Manipulation in C++ (Gaston Hillar)
• Quick Example of using Git with CodePlex for Clone, Changes, Commit, Sync & Restoring Missing Nuget Packages (Long Le)
• WCF: Creating Custom Headers, How To Add and Consume Those Headers (William Wegerson)
• Windows Embedded Compact 2013 now available for Visual Studio 2013 (Partha Srinivasan)
• 2000 C# Things #1,064 – Getting Around Inability to Explicitly Convert Type Parameters (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing the Impossible with an Agile Budget (Isaac Hogue)
• Docker: Bulk Remove Images and Containers (Mike Hadlow)
• On budget (Eric Brechner)
• Project Lite available on May 1st, 2014 (Project Team)
• Building a Development Environment With Vagrant and Puppet and Using Chef to Manage Azure Resources (Ross Gardler)
• How to manage and run CodedUI tests using Microsoft Test Manager (Marcel de Vries)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Support Released for Falafel Bridge for TestComplete (Ryan Axford)
• Introduction to MonoGame 3.2 for Windows Phone (Michael Cummings)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Hello World Podcast Episode 18: Lynn Langit (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Defrag Tools: #84 – Performance Counters – Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• The Amp Hour #191 – Chairs, Sparks and Devices – Optional Olent Obreption (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

 

Community / Events

• A New Day at Xbox (Phil Spencer)
• Jim Holmes Joins Falafel as VP of ALM & Testing (Ryan Axford)
• Graphics & Game Development Sessions at //Build 2014 (Michael Cummings)
• Next best thing to being at Build (Build Application) (Charles Sterling)
• Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Philadelphia Area Computer Society Meeting (David Goodman)
• Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Arcade @ The Oval (Mary E. Brickthrower)
• Silicon Valley startup entrepreneur surprised everyone (Dave Hodson)
• New and Renewed MVPs Announced! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Handle conversion between time zones in SQL Server – part 3 (Aaron Bertrand)
• MySQL – List User Defined Tables – Two Methods (Pinal Dave)
• CREATE SESSION CUBE and disk usage (Chris Webb)
• Refactoring T-SQL with Windowing Functions (Doug Lane)
• GetLogSpace – table and stored procedure (Jen McCown)

 

SharePoint

• Work Management service in SharePoint 2013: A Short Overview for Developers (Adis Jugo)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Remoting with Azure Windows VMs (Ravikanth Chaganti)

 

Miscellaneous

• What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Writing and You Have Nothing to Say (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 31, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading March 31, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1326 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1580 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 1, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 4/1/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #77 (Jason Strate)
• Community Update 2014-03-31 – #Build2014, #dotnet, #css, #responsive tables, #aspnet, #owin, new #octokit .NET version (Maxime Rouiller)
• Coding4Fun First Quarter 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• Useful Reference Books (Chris Maunder)

 

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