July 2014 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 3, 2014 (#1808)

Top Links

Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio (S.Somasegar)
VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) RC (Brian Harry)
Microsoft .NET Native – Developer Preview 3 Now Available (MS Research)
Microsoft’s upcoming wearable will allegedly be priced the same as Samsung Gear (Sam Sabri)

Web Development

Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2 (Daniel Roth)
Sketch to HTML (Lubos Kmetko)
Ecma Approves Dart (Alex Denham)
Fixed Table Layouts (Chris Coyier)
Fiddler for Linux Updated (Eric Lawrence)

XAML

Universal Windows Apps: Mobile Apps for the Windows Ecosystem (Jason Follas)
Writing a SQLite wrapper component for universal Windows apps (Dave Risney)

Miscellaneous .NET

CodeLens for Git improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 RC (Jean-Marc Prieur)
How to delete work items from TFS or VSO (Martin Hinshelwood)
Graphics Diagnostics in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC (RongLu)
Update 3 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 (John Montgomery)
LLBLGen Pro v4.2 RTM has been released! (Frans Bouma)
ODataLib 6.5.0 Release (LeoHu1)
2000 C# Things #1,131 – Example of Using a Generic Dictionary (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Article: Quantifying the Impact of Agile Software Development Practices (Ben Linders)
Flags Over Objects (Brendan Enrick)
Do You Encourage People to Bring You Problems? (Johanna Rothman)
6 ways to find more leisure time in your swamped schedule (Stacy Warden)

Other Mobile Platforms

Learning Xamarin – Adding Tabbed Pages (Jesse Liberty)
Telerik AppBuilder Release: Sharing Projects, Cordova Update, NativeScript Preview, and More (Rob Lauer)
Google Play Services 5.0 (Android Developers Team)
A Flappy Bird Clone in Unity (source code included) (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Gweek 153 (Mark Frauenfelder)
.NET Rocks! – Building Computer Vision Systems with Martin Jul (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
GoingNative 27: Improvements to Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)’’
SSW TV – Dev Superpowers Episode #2 – Web API (SSW Team)
What The Tech 217: Solidifying Windows (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Thune (Chris Hardwick)
RiYL Episode 060: James Kochalka (Brian Heater)
115 JSJ The ES6 Module Loader Polyfill, SystemJS, and jspm with Guy Bedford (woody2shoes)
Functional Geekery Episode 12 – Adi Bolboaca (Steven Proctor)

Community / Events

Geek of the Week: Stacey Swigart, Director of Collections & Content at the Please Touch Museum (Alex Greco)
dotnetConf 2014 Wrapup (The .NET Team)

Database

SQL SERVER – Automate Database Operations for Success – Notes from the Field #035 (Pinal Dave)
Visualizing Map/Reduce in RavenDB 3.0 (Oren Eini)

PowerShell

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 6 (Bartek Bielawski)

Miscellaneous

Quickly navigate to a command line in Windows (Aaron T. Grogg)
Redirecting the Favorites folder is technically legal, but you wouldn’t like it (Raymond Chen)
What’s the future of Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading July 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1382 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1643 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 7/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-03 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development: Jon Loeliger, Matthew McCullough: 9781449316389: Books

ISBN: 1449316387
ISBN-13: 9781449316389

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Dew Drop – July 2, 2014 (#1807)

Top Links

Safer TypeScript (MS Research)
The Working Programmer: Fun with C# (Ted Neward)
Introduction to F# with Xamarin (Rachel Reese)
Data Points: Tips for Updating and Refactoring Your Entity Framework Code, Part 2 (Julie Lerman)

Web Development

Domain-Driven Design with ASP.NET MVC (Steve Smith)
How WebStorm Works: Completion for JavaScript Libraries (Ekaterina Prigara)
Managing a Database Connection in ExpressJS Application (Howard Dierking)
Scaling a standard Azure website to 380k queries per minute of 163M records with loader.io (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Using Vectors in an App Bar (Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8.1) and How to do Segoe UI icons in XAML (Matthias Shapiro)
2000 WPF Things #1,106 – Creating a Single Instance Application (Sean Sexton)
Modern Apps: Authentication and Identity in Windows Store Apps (Rachel Appel)

Miscellaneous .NET

Compression finale (Oren Eini)
Visual Studio Online Update – July 1 (Brian Harry)
TFS Ate My Homework (Deborah Kurata)
Github and Visual Studio and two factor authentication (Kris van der Mast)
Entity Framework Code First Succinctly (Ricardo Peres)
Loan calculator (Phillip Trelford)
2000 C# Things #1,130 – Checking to See if a Generic Dictionary Already Contains a Key (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

TDD, where did ‘I’ go wrong (Martyn Frank)
Agile VS Real Life (Gil Zilberfeld)
Are You Practicing Agile Accountability Responsibly? (Tim Wise)
Do You Encourage People to Bring You Problems? (Johanna Rothman)
Choosing the Right Tool for Remote User Testing (Rakesh Vashi)
Prerequisites to Data Driven Quality (Steve Rowe)
Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better (Timothy)

Other Mobile Platforms

Fast App Development: The Case for Cordova (Jonathan Tower)
What is Xamarin and Why Should I Care? (Filip Ekberg)
Learning Xamarin–Adding Pages (Jesse Liberty)
Sharing Code from WinForms to iOS (Rockford Lhotka)
Simple Puzzle Game in Unity (source code provided) (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)
Appstore Developer Select Benefits Expands to Fire Phone: 500k Amazon Coins Offer per Qualifying App (Dave Isbitski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – End-to-End Web Instrumentation with Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 036 | Interview with Rob Howard of the Office 365 Developer Platform Team (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
The Amp Hour #205 – Solar Factories and HVDC Lines – Pollent Power Pushing (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Entreprogrammers Episode 19 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

Community / Events

Web Camp in Los Angeles with Scott Hunter – July 9 (Jon Galloway)
Dev of the Week: Hernâni Cerqueira (Alec Noller)
Telerik DevCraft – A Morning Dew Giveaway (Me)
July 4th In Philadelphia: Our Top Picks For Independence Day Events On The Delaware River Waterfronts, Including Fireworks On Saturday, July 5 (Kristina Jenkins)
A Product Design Question a Day: Introducing Tavern (Zurb Team)

Database

Automate Registering and Maintaining Servers in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Jeffery Yao)
SQL Server Video Creating Dynamic SQL Commands (Greg Robidoux)
Restoring the SQL Server Master Database Even Without a Backup (John Grover)
Cumulative Update – 2 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
Read this if you are using SQL Server in Microsoft #Azure Virtual Machine (Alexandre Brisebois)
SQL SERVER – SSMS: Server Dashboard Report (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

#PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 5 (Bartek Bielawski)
HDInsight and PoSh: The -Subscription parameter is deprecated, Please use Select-AzureSubscription –Current (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous

Developer Reading List (Andrew Binstock)
5 tips for tip-top typing on Windows Phone (Dylan Romero)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 1, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading July 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
LightSwitch Community and Content Rollup – June 2014 (LightSwitch Team)
Double Shot #1380 (Mike Gunderloy)
Daily News Digest 7/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1642 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons eBook: George R.R. Martin: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00957T6X6

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Telerik DevCraft – A Morning Dew Giveaway

Hello, readers!

It’s been a while since I have done a giveaway on The Morning Dew. Let’s kick off the summer with a big one.

Telerik DevCraft UI Edition

The Telerik DevCraft bundles include everything a Microsoft-centric developer needs to create great applications. The UI Edition contains over 420 controls covering web, desktop and mobile platforms. Here’s a list of the included packages:

UI for ASP.NET AJAX (80+ controls with 20 skins)
UI for ASP.NET MVC (70+ controls)
UI for Silverlight (80+ controls)
UI for WPF (80+ controls)
UI for WinForms (60+ controls)
Kendo UI Professional (70+ UI widgets and framework)
UI for Windows 8 (35 controls; XAML and HTML app support)
UI for WIndows Phone (60 controls and 50+ design templates)

Every edition of DevCraft includes the source code, product updates for one year and unlimited support tickets for one year.

I have been using Telerik products for a number of years now (primarily the WPF and Windows Phone products), and I have found their controls to be among the most intuitive and powerful available for .NET developers.

Be sure to check out some of their demos available online.

The Giveaway

The Morning Dew is giving away a DevCraft UI Edition license, a $1,299 value, to one lucky reader. Enter by leaving a comment on this post. In the comment, give us one of your best development productivity tips. Duplicate or multiple comments will not increase your chances of winning. Comments left through 11:59PM EDT on Friday, July 11th, 2014 will be eligible.

Winner will be selected at random from the eligible comments by Monday, July 14th. Please use a valid name and email address so that I can send it along to Telerik if you are chosen as the winner. Winner will be notified by a representative from Telerik shortly after they have been selected.

Good luck!

Alvin

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