Dew Drop – July 1, 2013 (#1,576)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 0.9.0.1 (Jonathan Turner)
• C++ Conformance Roadmap (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing TouchDevelop v3.0 for Windows Phone 8: unified experience, new language features, NFC, speech and tile APIs (Nikolai Tillmann)
• How to build (and how not to build) a secure “remember me” feature (Troy Hunt)

 

Web Development

• Make VS2012 MVC4 VSIX template to work for Visual Studio 2013 preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• Array Addition and Other Fun Javascript Hacks (Kevin Kwok)
• Remember your Hot Towel when going to the SPA! (ASP.NET MVC 4) (Fanie Reynders)
• Windows Azure Web Sites From Skeptical to Believer (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Reflection in JavaScript (Dhananjay Kumar)
• SignalR Book (Ed Draper)
• IHttpActionResult – new way of creating responses in ASP.NET Web API 2 (Filip W)
• 300 for 320 – 320 Windows 8.1. app and code samples, C++, C#, JavaScript, in a 300MB download… (Or get language level download or pick and choose singles) (Greg Duncan)
• Using QUnit for JavaScript unit test and BlanketJS for code coverage (Arun Mahendrakar)
• JavaScript/Native Interop Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 (Patrick Nelson)
• Using HTML 5 SessionState to save rendered Page Content (Rick Strahl)
• The new Auto Scaling Service in Windows Azure (Shiju Varghese)
• Effortlessly resize images in Orchard 1.7 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• New scaffolding for web projects with Visual Studio 2013 Preview (Gunnar Peipman)
• Introduction to CSS3 Transitions and Babylon.js: How to load a .babylon file produced with Blender (David Catuhe)
• Run Orchard Recipes from Orchard Dashboard in Orchard CMS 1.7 and Extending Orchard Workflows with Custom Activities (David Hayden)
• Iterators and generators in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Effortlessly resize images in Orchard 1.7 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• WebGL for IE11 will enable Bing Maps 3D (Kip Kniskern)

 

XAML

• Windows 8.1 #XAML new theme management in your Windows Store Apps (Jonathan Antoine)
• Windows Store apps in HTML and XAML: Handle settings (Andrea Boschin)
• Build 2013 Windows Phone Session Round-Up (Larry Lieberman)
• How to use guides in Expression Blend to design beautiful Windows Store Apps (Loek van den Ouweland)
• 2000 WPF Things #853 – A CheckBox Can Always Be in an Indeterminate State (Sean Sexton)
• 8 / 8.1 Store Apps creation capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 Preview (Clemens Reijnen)
• [Sample Of Jun 30th] Custom ListBox Items with Dual-column or multi-column in WP8 (Philip Fu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Debugging Asynchronous Code in Visual Studio 2013- Call Stack enhancements (Brad Sullivan)
• WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Alpha (WCF Team)
• FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices (Don Syme)
• Using Visual Studio 2013 to write maintainable native visualizations (natvis) (Eric Feiveson)
• Welcome. Sign in to Visual Studio. (Anthony Cangialosi)
• New API For Refreshing Data in LightSwitch in Visual Studio 2013 (Michael Washington)
• You don’t have to be a Secret Agent to develop for the AGENT SmartWatch (You just have to read this…) and Google .Net API’s go portable… The v1.4.0 Google APIs .NET library is now a Portable Class Library (PCL) And now uses TPL and the new HttpClient lib too (Greg Duncan)
• Use the Enum Object to Manipulate Enumerated Values (Peter Vogel)
• Second Look at LightSwitch in VS2013 Preview (Xpert360)
• 2000 C# Things #876 – Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• C++11/14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In VS 2013 (Stephan T. Lavavej)
• It’s the address space, stupid (Raymond Chen)
• .net 4.5.1. now supports On demand LOH compaction (Rohit Sharma)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• What’s the Most Effective Way to Achieve High Performance? (J.D. Meier)
• What allows agile to succeed in an organization? (Mark Kilby)
• Object Pool Design Pattern (Richard Carr)
• New book: Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)
• To be precise (Eric Brechner)
• Multiplayer Enterprise Architect (Jef Claes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones! (Mozilla)
• Display Load Mask (Waiting…) with Sencha Touch on Ajax Call (Peter Kellner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 272: Jesse Liberty on Windows 8 Dev and Pluralsight (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 482: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (Larry Hyrb)
• Windows Weekly 318: Let’s Start With H8.1 (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tools Screencast 6: Use LogExpert to read log files (Latish Sehgal)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Misha Collins (Chris Hardwick)
• GeekWire Radio: Microsoft Build recap, Windows 8.1, iOS 7 and big data at the ballpark (Todd Bishop)
• The Tablet Show – Mobile Backends By Rob Daigneau (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 065 JSJ Build Tools with Adam Hawkins (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Build 2013: Bringing Halo Spartan Assault to Windows Tablets + Windows Phone (47min video) (Antonio Hernandez)
• SDU Show 60 with guest Adam Machanic (Greg Low)
• NDC Videos online (Jimmy Bogard)
• Engadget Podcast 350 – 06.28.13 (Joe Pollicino)
• Get Up And Code 008: Eating Out (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Defrag Tools: Live – //build/ 2013 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• ZEN & TECH 54: Change aversion (Rene Ritchie)
• AngularJS Videos From NDC 2013 (K. Scott Allen)

 

Community / Events

• An Interview with PhoneGap Refcard Author Raymond Camden (Allen Coin)
• Glimpse Town Hall #3 (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Build Hackathon Winners Announced! (Clint Rutkas & Dan Fernandez)
• Thoughts on Build 2013 (D’Arcy Lussier)
• BUILD 2013 – Summary (Tim Murphy)
• TechEd Europe 2013 Recap (Tony Champion)
• //build/ 2013 recap (Jake Sabulsky)

 

Database

• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.4–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – 2014 CTP1 Available for Download – SQL SERVER 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 and SQL SERVER – Check If Column Exists in SQL Server Table (Pinal Dave)
• Identifying the Top 20 Slowest Queries Being Executed Against a Windows Azure SQL Database and Identify Missing Indexes in Your Windows Azure SQL Database (Alexandre Brisebois)
• The Accidental DBA (Day 30 of 30): Troubleshooting: Transaction Log Growth (Paul Randal)

 

SharePoint

• New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Plain & Simple (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Handling Windows Processes using Windows PowerShell for SQL Server (Manvendra Singh)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft hints at cross-compatible Windows 8/Xbox One apps. (Phone Arena Team)
• Microsoft launches Xbox Music on the web (damaster)
• Let’s get the Windows 8.1 party started (Jeffrey Meisner)
• The death of Google Reader (we move on) (Kip Kniskern)
• Windows 8.1 Preview Issue – The update is not applicable to your computer (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Microsoft’s SkyDrive name in jeopardy after trademark case loss against UK’s Sky (Ron)
• Halo Spartan Assault coming mid-July, will include future game updates (Sam Sabri)
• Microsoft says 3D printing in Windows 8.1 will support open-source technologies (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: June 29, 2013 and Interesting Finds: June 30, 2013 and Interesting Finds: July 1, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 06.23 ~ 06.30, Farewell GoogleReader(2008.07.20~2013.06.30) (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, June 28th (Rob Caron)
• Friday Five-June 28, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (June 28, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Collective 70 (Mary Lou)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-01 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 1, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/1/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1388 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Digest 20 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Windows Dev News for July 01, 2013 – #0167 (Dave Campbell)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #035 (Pinal Dave)

 

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