Dew Drop – The Return – April 22, 2014 (#1760)

Top Links

• Angular and Durandal Converge (Rob Eisenberg)
• Prism 5.0 for WPF just shipped. (Francis Cheung)
• Creating installers with Visual Studio (Brian Harry)
• A .NET Build Server Without Visual Studio (Nick Berardi)
• NuGet Package of the Week: Humanizer makes .NET data types more human (Scott Hanselman)
• How your feedback is shaping .NET and Debugging support for .NET Native Preview apps (Immo Landwerth)
• Simplifying cross-platform development – Unity 3.5 Portable Class Library Preview and Unity 3.5 RTW: Now with more Peace, Love, and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Grigori Melnik)

 

Web Development

• How to load Views from Assembly in MVC (Saad Khan)
• Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here’s how we should solve it (Maarten Balliauw)
• Lookup Columns in Kendo Grid (Noel Rice)
• Kendo UI Core – The Free jQuery Widget Library (Burke Holland)
• Dude, Where’s My Data? Kendo, DataSources, Wrapping, and You. (Adam Anderson)
• The Performance of Dart 1.3 Is on Par with Node.js (Abel Avram)
• AngularJS: The De Facto Standard for SPA Development? (Cory House)
• Using AngularJS at Google with Rhys Bret Bowen | Front-End Developer Cast Episode 4 (Craig McKeachie)
• Handling Errors Effectively in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
• Angular JS–Part 14, End to end tests and AngularJS–Part 15, End to end tests and mocking (Gabriel Schenker)
• Frosting Glass with CSS Filters (Bear Travis)
• Ember.js 1.5 Released: New Testing Features, Improved UX (James Chesters)
• Angular Part 3–BDD With AngularJS and Angular Part 4–Testing AngularJS (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Kendo UI Core (John Bristowe)
• Resources for writing universal apps for Windows with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Play Videos using ASP.NET MVC & HTML5 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Getting Sublime 3 To Launch your HTML page in a Browser with a Key Combo (Michael Crump)
• Exploring ASP.NET Web Pages – A fully-featured MiniBlog using just Razor and Adding Two-Factor authentication to an ASP.NET application (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure WebJobs With Node.js and Dynamically Injecting Script Tags With AngularJS and Deep Linking a Tabbed UI With AngularJS and Better Error Handling In AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• WinJS on Windows Phone 8.1 (Josh Rennert)
• Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML (Jordan Matthiesen & Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Structuring and Loading TypeScript Modules (Peter Vogel)
• Intellisense for JSON Schema in the JSON Editor (Anh Phan)
• Managed Code Browser Extensions (Eric Lawrence)
• Twitter Bootstrap Succinctly (Isaac Haynes)
• Everything you need to know about the Heartbleed SSL bug (Troy Hunt)
• TypeScript 1.0 Released and Open for Contributions (Polita Paulus)
• The Worlds First Free BYOD Retail Merchandising SAAS is a LightSwitch Application and Creating Multiple Reports in a Single Project Using ActiveReports (Michael Washington)
• Building your Dream DevOps Dashboard with the new Azure Preview Portal (Brian Keller)
• My So-Called Enterprise Life (Burke Holland)

 

XAML

• Differences between the new StatusBar in Windows Phone XAML Apps and the SystemTray and Creating a behavior to control the new StatusBar (SystemTray) in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML apps (Shawn Kendrot)
• XAML Conditional Compilation (Koen Zwikstra)
• MSDN Voice Search for Windows Phone 8.1 (MS Code Gallery)
• Windows Phone 8.1 now available on Windows Phone Preview for Developers (Cliff Simpkins)
• Oh XAML, how I hate your error messages (Derik Whittaker)
• Build XAML Converged Apps: Notes BUILD 2014 (Iris Classon)
• Dev Center now open for Windows Phone 8.1 and universal Windows app submissions (Keith Senzel)
• XAML Intellisense just got better (Laurent Bugnion)
• Change XAML designer background color in Visual Studio (Loek van den Ouweland)
• Windows 8.1 Store Apps, Azure Mobile Services & Notification Hubs (Mike Taulty)
• //learn/ Windows Phone – How to Register (Nick Randolph)
• AppBuilder April Release: Visual Studio Extension for Pros, Windows Phone 8, Companion App for Android, and More (Rob Lauer)
• Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – What controls are new and Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers – Notifications (Robert Hedgate)
• Transparent Live Tile For Windows Phone 8.1 (Sanjay Sharma)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,054 – TabPanel Wraps and Evenly Spaces (Sean Sexton)
• Always open XAML files in full XAML view (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• //build 2014 highlights #2: enterprise, XAML, and IE/JavaScript/web apps (Windows Apps Team)
• Consolidated price tiers to support universal Windows apps, may impact your app pricing and Respond to App Reviews: a phased rollout (Bernardo Zamora)
• Telerik Ready for Microsoft Universal Windows Apps (Lyubomira Minovska)
• Using SDK/library references in Universal Windows Apps (Tim Heuer)
• The Fast Lane for App Certification: 12 Windows Store Certification Tips (Gus Salloum)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Comment on A Behavior Change in Visual Studio 2013 .NET Breakpoints (Dave Black)
• Async Processing in EF6 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (Peter Vogel)
• A C# Developer’s First Thoughts on MongoDB (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• A less terrible .NET project build with NuGet (Phil Haack)
• TypeScript in First-Class F# Web Projects (Daniel Mohl)
• OData v4 Ratified and Where WCF Data Services is Headed (Glenn Gailey)
• Giving Visual Studio a little perspective, with an Eclipse like Perspectives extension (Greg Duncan)
• Using AutoMapper to perform LINQ aggregations (Jimmy Bogard)
• Roslyn (.NET Compiler Platform) should be a Black Box and Language as Two Parts: Parser and Behavior and Roslyn (.NET Compiler Platform) As Open Source (Kathleen Dollard)
• Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2013 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Exploring Some Of The Probable C# 6.0 Features (Anoop M)
• DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2 (Rong Lu)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 Beta (S.Somasegar)
• F# 15 : Code Organization (Modules / Files/ Types) and F#16 : Understanding Signatures and F#17 : Mutable / Ref Cells and F#18 : Flow Control and F#19 : Exceptions (Sacha Barber)
• C#|.NET : Size String, Truncate Lines (Sanjay Sharma)
• Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension (Tony Goodhew)
• Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2 (Eric Battalio)
• ATBG: Why UTF-16? (Eric Lippert)
• The future of .NET, today. The .NET Compiler Platform (Greg Duncan)
• AutoMapper 3.2.0 released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Is there a Roslyn-based CodeRush in your Future? (Mark Miller)
• XML configuration for Serilog (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• .NET Developer Tooling: The Roslyn Revolution (Patrick Smacchia)
• Using WM_SETREDRAW to speed up adding a lot of elements to a control and How can I get information about the items in the Recycle Bin from script? (Raymond Chen)
• Getting started with semantic logging (Richard Kerslake)
• 2000 C# Things #1,080 – Binary Numerals Written as Hexadecimal (Sean Sexton)
• Quick brainteaser and Extension methods, explicitly implemented interfaces and collection initializers (Jon Skeet)
• EF Code First Migrations Deployment to an Azure Cloud Service (Tom Dykstra)
• New agent for Application Insights available (Vlad J.)
• Community Involvement and Roslyn (Bill Wagner)
• Microsoft SDL – Developer Starter Kit (MS Downloads)
• Making Complex Types Useful with Entity Framework 6 Custom Configurations (Peter Vogel)
• Monitoring Custom Performance Counters in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
• Visualizing Roslyn Syntax Trees (Shyam Namboodiripad)
• Debugging support for .NET Native Preview apps (Daniel Moth)
• On accessing chains of potentially null properties (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum Chickens and Pigs (Steve McConnell)
• Article: Bug Fixing Vs. Problem Solving – From Agile to Lean (Cecil Dijoux)
• Design Your Agile Project, Part 4 (Johanna Rothman)
• Scrum Masters: What Makes a Good One? (John Sonmez)
• Faking a long running asynchronous call (Dror Helper)
• Don’t Estimate Spikes (Andrew Fuqua)
• Test Automation Framework Architecture (John Sonmez)
• Does your organization have both Project Mangers as well as Product Owners? (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin and REST APIs (Filip Ekberg)
• Swipe To Refresh added to Android (Jérémie Laval)
• Easy In App Purchases for iOS (Kevin Mullins)
• Killing Your iOS App using Xamarin (Mark Arteaga)
• Open-source Libraries and the Android Platform (Michael Crump)
• Documentation for our new iOS Designer and Mono and Roslyn and Mono on PS4 (Miguel de Icaza)
• Native Printing with Android (Mike Bluestein)
• UI for iOS Developer Samples App with Source Code Available. Check it out! (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Creating a Custom Rotation Gesture Recognizer for iOS Apps (Scott Erholm)
• Cross Platform Mobile Development (iOS, Android, WP8) (John Sonmez)
• Amazon IAP 101: Increasing Conversion with the Amazon In-App Purchasing API (Dave Isbitski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Structured Logging with Nicholas Blumhardt and SPA Update with John Papa and Interstellar Space Flight Geek Out with Uncle Bob and The Mobile Development Stack with Burke Holland and Prism for WPF and Win 8 with Brian Noyes and Google Analytics and Azure with Zoiner Tejada (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 189: Gary Bernhardt on The Birth and Death of JavaScript (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, K. Scott Allen & Kevin Dente)
• Yet Another Podcast #123–Ted Neward on Architecture (Jesse Liberty)
• Engadget Podcast 393 – 4.18.14 (Jon Turi)
• Hanselminutiae 13 with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• Using Xamarin to take Existing .NET Apps Cross Platform | Visual Studio Toolbox and XAML Authoring Improvements in Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• SSW TV – ‘Ten things F# can do, and C# can’t’ – Liam McLennan @ DDD Brisbane 2013 (SSW Team)
• TWC9: Windows Phone 8.1, Installer Projects are back, Microsoft Azure for IoT and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Xbox One and Smartglass App for Channel 9 (Cara, Duncan Mackenzie, Mike Sampson, Mark DeFalco & Golnaz)
• The Married Gamers Episode 331: Honey I Lost My Titan (Chris Brown)
• Get Up And Code 049: Overcoming Your Fear of Failure and Get Up And Code 50: Fitness Life Change With Miguel Carrasco (John Sonmez)
• Defrag Tools: Live – //build/ 2014 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• //build/ –> //learn/-> //publish/: new resources to help you publish your universal Windows apps (Larry Lieberman)
• Radio TFS – Reflections (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
• Nerds At Play Episode 062: Angry Puppies (Melisa Snyder)
• Webinar Recording: Deconstructing Clippy – Common Issues for an Uncommon Extension (Robert Demmer)
• SSW TV – Heartbleed – Security Expert Troy Hunt speaks to SSW TV on Heartbleed (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: A Stellar Sampling and StarTalk Radio – A COSMOS Conversation with Steven Soter (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• The Alton Browncast – John Hodgman (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brian Henson and The Nerdist Podcast – William Shatner (Chris Hardwick)
• Hello World Podcast – Episode 19: William Vaughn and Hello World Podcast Episode 21: Richard Campbell (Shawn Wildermuth)
• TWC9: Build.Reflection | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• Coming Home to Scrum.org (David Starr)
• C# Guru – An Interview With Eric Lippert (Nikos Vaggalis)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Embedding .NET Code for Report Formatting and Error Handling (Scott Murray)
• Installing SQL Server 2014 on Windows 8.1 Update 1 (Michael Crump)
• An alternative to Merge Replication with SQL Server and SQL Server Compact – Zumero for SQL Server (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – What is SSAS Tabular Data Model and Why to Use it and SQL Authority News – Microsoft Whitepaper – SQL Server 2014 and Windows Azure Blob Storage Service: Better Together (Pinal Dave)
• Using the T-SQL MERGE Statement (Dwain Camps)
• Review – SQL Server Pro Magazine April 2014 (Ian Stirk)
• SSDT Data Editor Now Has Sorting and Filtering! (Deborah Kurata)

 

SharePoint

• How do I – Add an InfoPath Data Connection to consume the UserProfileService.asmx web service – Part 1 and How do I – Add an InfoPath Data Connection to consume the UserProfileService.asmx web service – Part 3 and How do I – Add an InfoPath Data Connection to consume the UserProfileService.asmx web service – Complete (Cornelius J. van Dyk)

 

PowerShell

• Basics of Writing a PowerShell Module with C#, Part 2: Debugging (Carlos Perez)
• PowerShell gets Chocolatey NuGet with OneGet (Greg Duncan)
• Using the Windows Live APIs from PowerShell (James O’Neill)
• An Architecture Aware VsVars.ps1 (Harry Pierson)
• A World of Scripts at your Fingertips – Introducing Script Browser (PowerShell Team)
• #PSTip Replacing invalid XML characters (Shay Levy)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft acquisition of Nokia’s mobile business to be finalized on April 25 (Mary Jo Foley)
• What Can IFTTT Do for You? (Armand Valdes)
• Extending Splunk’s search language with custom search commands. (Glenn Block)
• The Code Is NOT Greener On The Other Side Of The Cubicle (John Sonmez)
• Enabling the Bing Knowledge Widget (Kip Kniskern)
• Microsoft still working on backwards compatibility with the Xbox 360 (Richard Devine)
• Puppet ACLs–Mask Specific (Rob Reynolds)
• Windows Phone 8.1 has my attention now (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, April 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading April 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #112 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1330 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Pie in the Sky (April 18th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Reading Notes #134 (Frank)
• Daily News Digest 4/22/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1593 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #300 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-22 (Dan Rigby)

 

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