Dew Drop – July 17, 2014 (#1816)

Top Links

• New Opportunity: Kinect for Windows + Unified Windows developer portal and documentation and 21 additional payout markets (Todd Brix)
• Microsoft: Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developer users should return to normal software before Lumia Cyan (Sam Sabri)
• How-To: Test NuGet Packages Locally (Pascal Arnould)
• Angular in a Windows Store app (Timmy Kokke)

 

Web Development

• HTML Imports is the New Dependency Management for the Web (Basem Emara)
• Kendo UI Q2 2014 available now (Emil Tabakov)
• Edge.js tutorial part 4: Setting up Mac OSX environment (Iris Classon)
• Two Factor Auth – GitHub Tips 3 (Brendan Enrick)

 

XAML

• Getting Started With Windows Phone 8.1 (Matthias Shapiro)
• Porting a Windows Phone 8.0 Application to Caliburn Micro 2.0 (Matteo Pagani)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,116 – An Example of Output that Obeys CurrentCulture (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Menu Controls – ToolBar (Richard Carr)
• Cross-platform behavior for making screenshots in Windows (Phone) 8.1 (Joost van Schaik)
• LiveSight API brings a sixth sense to HERE-powered apps (Ian Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• VSTO Runtime Update to Address Slow Shutdown on .NET Framework 4.5.2 (Michael Zlatkovsky)
• How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 3: Larger Applications (Ondrej Balas)
• How do I configure Windows Update programmatically? (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,140 – Comparing Reference-Typed Objects in Generic Types (Sean Sexton)
• Direct print for microsoft_report (RDLC) (Sirwan Mualla)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Release Train (Matt Davey)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Device-Specific Properties in Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms (Josh Morales)
• Develop and Debug NDK Based Android* Apps for Intel® Architecture (Kay Martin)
• New Collection View Features in iOS 8 (Mike Bluestein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #60: Are We That Predictable? (Abby T. Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – Teaching New Developers with David Graham (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Carol Leifer (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #207 – B Plus Boards and D Minus Cities – Uneath Urban Ubication (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Tech analyst and writer Paul Thurrott’s 5 favorite things about Office 365 | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Ping 215: Kinect, Lumia Photography, Beer on tap, CEOs, FlightSims and Comic-Con | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• RiYL Episode 062: Lizz Winstead (Brian Heater)
• 117 JSJ The Koa Framework with Gerred Dillon and Will Conant (woody2shoes)
• TRAINING: dotnetConf 2014 recordings now available (Kurt Shintaku)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Alex Kacala, Writer and Performer (Justin Mummert)
• Heading to BlogHer ’14 next week? So are we! (Michelle W.)
• Why you should enter the Imagine Cup (Michelle Feder)
• First GeekWire Summit speakers revealed: Re/code’s Mossberg and Swisher, Walmart.com’s Ashe, Zulily’s Vadon and more (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• Detect and Automatically Kill Low Priority Blocking Sessions in SQL Server (Jeffery Yao)
• SQL SERVER – Beginning Contained Databases – Notes from the Field #037 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Looping Through List Items in SharePoint 2013 Designer Workflows and New Features in SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• Investigating PowerShell Attacks (Matt Hastings)
• How to retry commands in PowerShell (Richard Kerslake)

 

Miscellaneous

• The coming Microsoft job cuts: more than just numbers (Kip Kniskern)
• Your OneDrive just got bigger (Omar Shahine)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 16, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 16, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1385 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1653 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 17, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/17/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 16 Jul 2014 (Jax)

 

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