Dew Drop – May 22, 2014 (#1782)

Top Links

• MVVM Best Practices | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• ATBG: Why does my enumerator not advance? (Eric Lippert)
• Exploring Roslyn, part 2: Inside the End-User Preview (Schabse Laks)
• NuGet Package of the Week: ImageProcessor – lightweight image manipulation in C# (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Optimizing calls to Azure storage using Fiddler (Maarten Balliauw)
• 13 Great Frameworks for Node.js (Peter Weyner)
• jQuery Full Page Menu (jQuery Rain)
• Announcing ASP.NET Web API Recipes (Filip W)
• A Better Development Web Server for .Net with FubuMVC 2.0 (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Building with Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Susan Ibach)
• Support a Live Tile for your website on Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 (Tanvi Surti & Derek Liddell)
• How to Secure Your REST API the Right Way (Graeme Thickins)
• RestKit – An open source objective-c library for prototyping and testing a RESTful API service (yffaria)
• WinJS Promises (Timmy Kokke)

 

XAML

• Migrating from the Windows Phone Toolkit ListPicker to the new XAML ComboBox (Display a ListPicker in XAML apps) (Shawn Kendrot)
• XAML IntelliSense Presenter for Visual Studio 2013 (Karl Shifflett)
• Windows Phone emulator–“Unable to create a route between the waypoints” (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,078 – Defining a Command Binding Using Lambda Expressions (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – ButtonBase (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online Update – May 20th (Brian Harry)
• Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact (8) –Logging SQL statements (Erik EJ)
• URGENT ACTION REQUIRED. Critical Defect in PostSharp 3.1: process exits with code -199. (Gael Fraiteur)
• 2000 C# Things #1,102 – Scope vs. Declaration Space (Sean Sexton)
• .NET Native Deep Dive: Help! I Hit a MissingMetadataException! (Morgan Brown)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and Branching (David Donahue)
• Mask password in Jenkins when calling TEE (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Studio Tips: Publishing with Gradle (Alec Noller)
• iOS – Objective-C – Downloading Data using NSURLSession (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Native, Hybrid and Web Apps; but Were Afraid To Ask (Ruslan Mursalzade)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Enterprise SharePoint Development with Ted Pattison (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget HD Podcast 399 – 5.21.14 (Jon Turi)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 132 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Muscles Riply (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 9 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• RiYL Episode 054: Keith Morris (Brian Heater)
• Edge Show 104 – Migrate VMware VMs to Hyper-V or Azure using MVMC 2.0 | Edge (Symon Perriman)

 

Community / Events

• First Ever Forge Conference Coming To Philadelphia (David Goodman)
• Geek of the Week: Reggie Bügmüncher and Danny Borneo of The Olde City Sideshow (Mary  E. Brickthrower)
• Want to join MS Open Tech team? (Olivier Bloch)
• Bring your best games to the Unity challenge and you could win $50,000 (Sonal Pardeshi)

 

Database

• Supported Compatibility Levels in SQL Server (Jason Brimhall)
• Name Parsing with SQL Server Functions and T-SQL Programming (Rick Dobson)
• SQL SERVER – Windows File/Folder and Share Permissions – Notes from the Field #029 (Pinal Dave)
• Why Won’t My Clustered Instance Start? (Andy Galbraith)
• Expanding All Columns In A Table In Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – OS Inventory and Disk Info – Consolidated Excel File – EMAIL (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• INFO: Providing suggestions to Microsoft via UserVoice (Kurt Shintaku)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1361 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 5/22/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1614 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-05-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-05-22 (Dan Rigby)

 

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