Dew Drop – June 23, 2014 (#1801)

Top Links

• It Is Time to Learn JavaScript (Shawn Wildermuth)
• VB Universal Windows App Part 5: calling into platform-specific APIs from PCL and VB Universal Windows App: downloads (Lucian Wischik)
• iOS 8 support (Miguel de Icaza)
• Porting an App Studio Windows Phone 8 Silverlight Project to Android Using Xamarin (Josh Morales)

 

Web Development

• Inspecting Attribute-Normalization Within Directives In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Issues when navigating to the current page in WinJS (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Profiling ASP.NET vNext using dotMemory and dotTrace (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET vNext Routing Overview (Mugdha Kulkarni)
• Using ARIA in HTML (Steve Faulkner)
• jQuery CDN with Fallback options and Best Practices (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Adding ASP.NET to your universal JavaScript Store apps project and Detecting Phone, Desktop or Web with WinJS (Timmy Kokke)
• Important update to Web Essentials 2013 (Mads Kristensen)
• SimpleHTTPServer: a quick way to serve a directory (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Prefilling Forms with a Custom Bookmarklet (Chris Coyier)
• Web Fundamentals and Web Starter Kit: Resources for Modern Web Development (Paul Kinlan)
• Web Workbench 3.3 Released! (Jeremy Boyd)
• Using Azure Monitoring Service with Azure Virtual Machines (Neil Mackenzie)
• Building a Simple NodeJS API on Microsoft Azure Websites from Start to Finish (Rick G. Garibay)

 

XAML

• Programming the Windows Runtime (WinRT) by Example (Jeremy Likness)
• Windows Phone 8.1 TTS Voice API – What’s changed for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Taking Windows Phone apps from App Studio to Visual Studio (Mary Branscombe)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,098 – OnLastWindowClose Shutdown Mode and #1,099 – OnMainWindowClose Shutdown Mode (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Selection Controls – ComboBox (Richard Carr)
• Introducing WpWinl 2.0.0 (prerelease version) (Joost van Schaik)
• Common questions and answers about files and app data, part 1: App data and Common questions and answers about files and app data, part 2: Files (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Web Essentials: keep your settings in sync (Josh Eastburn)
• Is Visual Studio 2013 ignoring your .gitignore file? and Deleting a branch in Visual Studio Online using GIT for Windows (Eric Nelson)
• Scripting .NET project migration to Automatic NuGet Package Restore (Jon Galloway)
• Nuget Dependencies and latest Versions (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets) (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Your Editor should Encourage You (Phil Haack)
• Exceptions exist for a reason – use them! (John V. Petersen)
• Once you go input-idle, your application is deemed ready to receive DDE messages (Raymond Chen)
• EF 6.1.1 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
• 2000 C# Things #1,122 – It’s Okay to Capture Variables within a foreach Loop and #1,123 – Using foreach to Iterate on a Multidimensional Array (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• DOWNLOAD: Free ebook: “Patterns & Practices: Cloud Design Patterns” (Kurt Shintaku)
• Agile Assessments (Sandi Keller)
• Role of Managers in Agile Transformation (Savita Pahuja)
• There is no such thing called Agile Testing (Shrini Kulkarni)
• Avoiding Code Complexity (Dave M. Bush)
• Hallmarks of a Good Remote Worker (Jonathan Tower)
• How to become good at estimating time (Rachel Andrew)
• Using Git for .NET development part 4 – resolving merge conflicts (Alice Waddicor)
• Why Should Developers Help With User Interface Tests? (Antonia Bozhkova)
• A better branches page (Coby Chapple)
• Eric Evans: Challenging the fundamental assumptions of DDD and Clean and Representative Models Are Key to Performance (Jan Stenberg)
• #NoEstimates (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Falafel Xamarin Bridge For TestComplete 10.3 (Ryan Axford)
• Cool New Mobile Services Content for PhoneGap and .NET Backend (Glenn Gailey)
• Xamarin iOS Storyboards – Events and Xamarin Storyboards: Navigation (Jesse Liberty)
• UI for Android out of Beta, Ready for Primetime. New Controls and a Limited Time Offer (Kiril Stanoev)
• NoSQL on Android (Tony Siciliani)
• Developers Take on the Fire Phone Dynamic Perspective Functionality (Jeffery Grub)
• Calling Mobile App Builders: Bugsense is for you (Leena Joshi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 323 – Bill Wagner and Tony Surma on Humanitarian Toolbox (David Giard)
• Episode 274 – PowerScripting Podcast – Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover on JEA (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Hanselminutes – Creating Reactive User Interfaces with Adaptive Consulting’s Reactive Trader (Scott Hanselman)
• Webinar Recording: Merging Refactored Code – ReSharper Meets SemanticMerge (Daria Dovzhikova)
• (Video) Learn Edge.JS part 3: Calling node from .Net (Iris Classon)
• Edge Show 108 – Windows Azure Pack (WAP) Extensibility | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• Windows Weekly 367: Mucho Calibre (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ralph Garman (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Power BI Q&A, Azure Machine Learning, IE Dev Channel and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• SDU Show 63 with guest Jimmy May (Greg Low)
• Episode 144: Hybrid Connections with Santosh Chandwani | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Setting up Virtual Private Networks in Azure | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Human Impact on Earth with Dr. FunkySpoon (David Grinspoon)

 

Community / Events

• Contest: Ship an Amazon Fire Phone App (Joseph Hill)

 

Database

• Finding SQL Server objects that reference invalid objects (Tim Smith)
• MySQL – Dynamic SQL with EXECUTE and PREPARE Statements and SQL SERVER – Fix Error – Package ‘Microsoft SQL Management Studio Package’ failed to load in SQL Server Management Studio and SQL SERVER – How to Compare Database and Data in SQL Server? (Pinal Dave)
• O’Reilly Microsoft E-Book Deal of the Day 23/June/2014 – Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Integration Services (Tatworth)
• Partitioning Basics – Part 3 – Switching Data (Andrew Pruski)
• Using Slicer Selections In The CubeSet Function (Chris Webb)
• What Type of Self-Service BI Culture Do You Wish to Cultivate? (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Be cautious with profile customizations and PowerShell Workflow (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Surface Pro 3 Review (Daniel Rubino)
• paint.net 4.0 Release Candidate (build 5284) is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, June 19, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading June 19, 2014 and Geek Reading June 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #121 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1374 and Double Shot #1375 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Blog Post: Reblog: June 13 to June 19 (Jason Strate)
• Daily News Digest 6/20/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1634 and The Morning Brew #1635 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Programming Digest #67 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Friday Links #309 (Mike Ward)

 

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