Dew Drop – July 23, 2014 (#1820)

Top Links

• Getting a sense of the upcoming language features in C# (Mads Torgersen)
• Destiny Beta now open for Xbox Owners (Larry Hryb)
• Tips and tricks for using XAML controls in your universal Windows apps (Rohan Thakkar)
• How Pairing & Swarming Work & Why They Will Improve Your Products (Johanna Rothman)

 

Web Development

• Node.js Transform Streams vs. Through2 Streams (Ben Nadel)
• Tips for Best Practices in WordPress Development (Damian Logghe)
• Conventional HTML in ASP.NET MVC: Replacing form helpers (Jimmy Bogard)
• Create test data for mongoose.js backed MEAN stack applications (John Teague)
• How to fake session object / HttpContext for integration tests (Radenko Zec)
• TypeScript Gets Faster Compiler (Roopesh Shenoy)

 

XAML

• App development guide for UICC based NFC card emulation for Windows Phone 8.1 (MS Downloads)
• How to create watermark Textbox in Windows Phone 8 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows/Phone 8.1: Watch for MRT When Naming/Structuring Your XAML Files (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,120 – Getting a List of All Supported Cultures (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Menu Controls Class Hierarchy (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Online updates include enabling Azure Active Directory support and self-service account deletion (Athima Chansanchai)
• Absolute beginner’s guide to C# (DevToolsGuy)
• Coding for High-DPI Displays in Windows (Gastón Hillar)
• Capitalization Conventions in .NET (Brian Mullen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,144 – Getting Type Information about a Generic Type (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Arouse People to Extraordinary Achievement (J.D. Meier)
• Kanban Thinking and the Kanban Method (Karl Scotland)
• Just Let Me Code (Andrew Binstock)
• Microspeak: Tell Mode / Ask Mode (Raymond Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Swift from an Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (Kon_Soulianidis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Making Money on Mobile with Atley Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Amp Hour #208 – An Interview With Nadya Peek – Gallant Gcode Gerontology (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Nerds At Play 070: Playing In The Sandbox (Melisa Snyder)
• RiYL Episode 063: Peter Kuper (Brian Heater)

 

Community / Events

• I’ll be speaking at Xamarin Evolve 2014 (Jesse Liberty)
• Xamarin Evolve 2014: Announcing Training Classes & 39 Conference Sessions and Announcing the Xammy Awards (Joseph Hill)
• Dev of the Week: Pierre-Hugues Charbonneau (Alec Noller)
• Third Annual GitHub Data Challenge (Derek Greentree)

 

Database

• SSRS report subscription: Fire Event from SSIS package (Rayis Imayev)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Object Dependencies in SSMS – SQL in Sixty Seconds #071 (Pinal Dave)
• Geo distribution and high availability in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Blog Post: Difference Between LEN and DATALENGTH (Dinesh Asanka)
• Azure Databases – Restore Local Database To Azure (Dirk Strauss)

 

PowerShell

• Automating deployments in Configuration Manager with PowerShell (Deepak Dhami)
• Deploying using PowerShell Desired State Configuration in Release Management (Roopesh Nair)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Confirms Decision To Kill The Surface Mini (Alex Wilhelm)
• paint.net 4.0.3 is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Nokia Lumia Icon Windows Phone goes to Comic-Con (Joe Wilcox)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1388 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 23, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/23/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1657 (Chris Alcock)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-23 (Dan Rigby)

 

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