Dew Drop – June 12, 2014 (#1796)

Top Links

• Getting Started with Unit Testing Part 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• dotnetconf 2014 is coming (Kris van der Mast)
• Microsoft’s plans to transition Nokia into its own brand leak online (Harish Jonnalagadda)

 

Web Development

• Script free page – Unobtrusive JavaScript / jQuery (Saad Khan)
• Cache-Busting CSS Images With Less CSS and AngularJS Code Smell: Defining $scope Methods In Directives (Ben Nadel)
• How to Call a extension method from library in asp.net mvc project inside the razor view ? (Anirudha Gupta)
• Copying and Pasting Excel Sheet Data to Grid ASP.NET MVC (Bharath M & Alan Sangeeth S)
• Sharing Data Between Sass and JavaScript with JSON and Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property (Chris Coyier)
• WebStorm 8.0.4 Bug Fix Update Available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• POCO controllers in ASP.NET vNext (Filip W)
• Playing audio from Node.js using Edge.js (Tomasz Janczuk)
• CSS Blending — a Five-minute Introduction (Peter Gasston)
• How to Create a Tiled Background Slideshow (Manoela Ilic)

 

XAML

• Released.Free.Framework.MVVM.DevExpress (Greg Duncan)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,092 – An Example of Using a CommandTarget (Sean Sexton)
• So you think you can draw? Explaining the WP situation with whiteboarding (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Asynchronous programming (Filip Ekberg)
• Solved Access-Control-Allow-Origin Error in WCF REST Service (Dhananjay Kumar)
• VS 2012, VS 2013 and .NET Framework Doc’s for offline installs (i.e. an ISO) (Greg Duncan)
• Learning Path: Advanced Windows Store App Development Using C# (Microsoft Exam 70-485) (Mike Woodring)
• C++11/14 Feature Tables For Visual Studio 14 CTP1 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
• Hide your Menu (Latish Sehgal)
• 2000 C# Things #1,116 – Iterating Through a String Using the foreach Statement (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Timing is the Biggest Components of Success (J.D. Meier)
• The Misperception of Scrum (Whitney Baker)
• Comparing Coded UI Test using Visual Studio 2013 with Unified Functional Testing (a.k.a QTP) (Gouri Sohoni)
• Using a Definition of Ready (Ben Linders)
• DRY and SRP (Timothy Klenke)
• Value is a universal language (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Telerik Backend Services to power Xamarin.Forms (Venkata Koppaka)
• Android Studio 0.6.0 Released (Alec Noller)
• Learning Xamarin–Part 1 Forms (Jesse Liberty)
• Using Custom UIViewControllers in Xamarin.Forms on iOS (Mike Bluestein)
• Xamarin – Xamarin.Forms Renderer Reference (Kevin Ford)
• Swift Might Not Be As Fast As Apple Claims It To Be: First Benchmarks (Sergio De Simone)
• Swift Reactions & Resources (Alex Curylo)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 150 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Functional Communities with Bryan Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Engadget HD Podcast 401 – 6.11.14 (Jon Turi)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 135 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• SSW TV – ASP.NET vNext – Everything you need to know in 4 minutes! (SSW Team)
• 112 JSJ Refactoring JavaScript Apps Into a Framework with Brandon Hays (Brandon Hays, Jamison Dance, Aaron Frost, AJ O’Neal, Joe Eames & Charles Max Wood)
• What the Tech 214: No Games, All Hardware (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Mitch Hurwitz (Chris Hardwick)
• Nerds At Play 067: And Then There Was Anime (Melisa Snyder)
• RiYL Episode 057: Ray Wylie Hubbard (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• Question on Regional Tech Get–Togethers (Bill Wagner)
• Geek of the Week: Local Maker, Leslie Birch (Colleen T. Reese)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SQL Server High Availability Options – Notes from the Field #032 (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP Logging | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• How to Translate SQL Queries to MongoDB (Alec Noller)

 

PowerShell

• SQL Server Video to Rename and Move a File using PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Halo 5: Guardians beta to run for 3 weeks starting December 27 (John Callaham)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 11, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 11, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1370 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1628 (Chris Alcock)

 

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