Dew Drop – June 10, 2014 (#1794)

Top Links

• VS/TFS 2013.3 CTP 2 is now available (Brian Harry)
• GitHub for Windows 2.0 (Phil Haack)
• Curried Functions in Swift (Josh Smith)
• Every Xbox E3 Announcement In One Place (Jeff Rubenstein)

 

Web Development

• That Annoying ASP.NET Issue with Postback (Jeffrey Fritz)
• ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: OWIN (Louis DeJardin)
• Resources for Staying on Top of JavaScript (Rey Bango)
• JavaScript: ESC Programming and Brushless Motors on Intel Galileo (Rick Waldron)
• Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property (Sara Soueidan)
• AngularJS: Get Started Video Course (K. Scott Allen)
• Host AngularJS (Html5Mode) in ASP.NET vNext (Shaun Xu)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers–Bluetooth LE Battery Service (Jimmy Engström)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,090 – Sender vs. Source in CommandBinding Event Handlers (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Pick a color, any… “Integrated Color Picker for Visual Studio IDE” (Greg Duncan)
• Learning Path: Essentials of Developing Windows Store Apps Using C# (Microsoft Exam 70-484) (Mike Woodring)
• Bugs Fixed in the Spring Update (Eric Battalio)
• 2000 C# Things #1,114 – Don’t Use Shift Operators to Do Multiplication (Sean Sexton)
• Switch between multiple settings quickly (Latish Sehgal)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Integrated Tests are Not Feeling Well–Long Live Design! (Giorgio Sironi)
• How Much Development and Test Infrastructure Capacity Do You Really Need? (Navin R. Thadani)
• There is More Than One Path to Success (John Sonmez)
• Say hello to GitHub for Windows 2.0 (Markus Olsson)
• Test Has Lost Its Way (Steve Rowe)
• Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 2 … Portfolio, flights, teams, epics and VSO (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android’s Options for Dependency Injection: Dagger, RoboGuice, and ButterKnife (Alec Noller)
• How to Reference Colors by Name in Android Layouts and How to Send Email From an Exception Block in Android (B. Clay Shannon)
• Adding Native x86 Support to Your Native Android* Applications Using the Command Line and Adding Native x86 Support to Your Native Android* Applications Using Eclipse (Jerry Makare)
• Xamarin 3 Delivers Rich Updates to Xamarin Studio (Mike Bluestein)
• Azure Mobile Services Offline adds Xamarin support using SQLitePCL (Olivier Bloch)
• Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Create a To-Do Application (Shiva Narrthine)
• Shut up and ship: A basic app (Matt Lacey)
• Why Swift? (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – OpenID-Connect with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bryan Bishop (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 15 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Creating and using brokered components step by step video (Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools: #93 – TechEd 2014 – Troubleshooting Talks | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)

 

Community / Events

• Nerd Nite Returns For Your BRAIIIINNNSSS This Week! (Chris Cummins)
• .NET Developers Making A Difference (Kerry Meade)
• TRAINING: Programming the Kinect for Windows Jump Start – Online, July 15, 2014 9:00am–5:00pm PDT (Kurt Shintaku)

 

Database

• Announcing the SQL Server Query Tuning Workshop (Aschen Brenner)
• Connect to SQL Servers in another domain using Windows Authentication (Aaron Bertrand)
• 0xDBE: The New DBA & Developer IDE from JetBrains (Alec Noller)
• Using DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS When Testing Performance (Ben Snaidero)

 

SharePoint

• Creating a Better Notification for Custom SharePoint Apps (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Xbox Feedback: Tell Us What You Think (Jeff Rubenstein)
• Simplified Setup and Use of Docker on Microsoft Azure (Ross Gardler)
• How to use an Xbox One controller on your Windows PC (Scott Hanselman)
• Hidden Pineapple teases new app to revolutionize email on Windows Phone (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, June 9, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of June 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 9, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1368 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1626 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #143 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #87 (Jason Strate)

 

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