Dew Drop – August 7, 2014 (#1831)

Top Links

• Puppet–Making Windows Awesome Since 2011 (Rob Reynolds)
• Windows Phone and Windows 8.x: Designing Once for Both with XAML (Nick Randolph)
• Leveraging existing code across .NET platforms (The .NET Team)
• Episode 280 – PowerScripting Podcast – Glenn Block and Oisin Grehan on Asynchronous Programming (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)

 

Web Development

• Kendo Exception During MVC Model Binding of DataSourceRequest (Adam Anderson)
• WebStorm 9 EAP is Open! (Ekaterina Prigara)
• React.js plays nicely with other tools and other thoughts (Jeremy D. Miller)
• AngularJS + TypeScript: how to implement validation (Joost van Schaik)
• Understanding and Working with Content Types in WordPress (Rachel McCollin)
• Ten Groovy Little JavaScript Tips (Troy Miles)
• Live Edit Updates in WebStorm 9 — What’s New? (Vladimir Krivosheev)
• “Microsoft Azure [VM] 101” (Or How do I use all those MSDN Azure Credits? Or VS “14” CTP Azure VM in minutes… ) (Greg Duncan)
• Features Of ES6 Part 2 : const (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #1,131 – Localization XII – Set NeutralLanguageResources Attribute (Sean Sexton)
• Store Tidbits #3: Listing information for first release and amending in-app purchases (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Survey for You 🙂 (Eric Battalio)
• 2000 C# Things #1,155 – Return Value Compatibility when Assigning to Delegate Types (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Avoid Three Big Estimation Traps Posted (Johanna Rothman)
• Avoid the Bug as Task anti-pattern in TFS (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Announcing Sencha Architect 3.1 (Aaron Conran)
• Restrict Team Foundation Build permissions (Andy Lewis)
• The Perfect Code Coverage Score (Kerry Meade)
• Upgrading to Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM) and Upgrading to Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (MTM) (Mike Fourie)
• Test Attribute #8 – Truthiness (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Leading A Culture Of Effective Testing (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Article Published about How to Gather Meaningful Feedback in your iOS Apps (Michael Crump)
• Exploring Image Filters in Xamarin iOS (Patrick Dunn)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Internet of Things on Windows with Dan Rosenstein (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Devnology Podcast 047 – John Cook (Daan van Berkel)
• Extreme Office 365 Mobility and Off-Road Rally Challenge using iPhone, Android, and Windows Devices | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Windows Weekly 374: Cover Your Ears Isabella (Paul Thurrott)
• RiYL Episode 065: Julie Klausner (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – Taking other people’s money: The state of payments in Australia – Ben Cull | DDD Melbourne (SSW Team)
• Edge Show 114 – Log Management and Other Intelligence Packs in System Center Advisor | Edge (Symon Perriman)
• 120 JSJ Google Polymer with Rob Dodson and Eric Bidelman (woody2shoes)

 

Community / Events

• What to Expect from Halo at gamescom 2014 (Xbox Wire)
• Geek of the Week: Chris Davidson aka DJ CUTMAN (Chris Urie)
• In Review: The 2014 Imagine Cup World Finals (John Scott Tynes)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) SQL Project Tutorial (Armando Prato)
• Usage of DBCC OPTIMIZER_WHATIF for SQL Server Query Tuning (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – SSIS Parameters in Parent-Child ETL Architectures – Notes from the Field #040 (Pinal Dave)
• 6 Rules of Thumb for MongoDB Schema Design: Part 1 (Francesca Krihely)
• Blog Post: So What the Heck is Power BI? (Paul Turley)

 

PowerShell

• Powershell Script to open IIS applicationHost.config (Daniel Fisher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Comments (Ed Price)
• Microsoft’s second Windows 8.1 update isn’t a major one after all (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 6, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1394 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1668 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (7/28-8/3) (Dara Monasch)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 7, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-08-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-08-07 (Dan Rigby)

 

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