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Dew Drop – April 7, 2014 (#1759)

Posted on April 7, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta (S.Somasegar)
Windows/Phone 8.1–Class Libraries, Portable Class Libraries, WinRT Components and Windows/Phone 8.1– a “universal” background task and Windows/Phone 8.1–Trying Out Push Notifications (Mike Taulty)
C# 6: First reactions (Jon Skeet)
Visual Studio extensions for web developers (Mads Kristensen)
Node.js for .NET Developers (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web Development

Stacking Up Error Handlers in ASP.NET (Peter Vogel)
Custom Editors with Kendo Grid (Josh Eastburn)
Directive Controller And Link Timing In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Aggregates with Kendo DataSource (Noel Rice)
Tracking JavaScript Annotations (Ariya Hidayat)
Stripes in CSS (Chris Coyier)
How does TypeScript help prevent bugs in JavaScript (Derik Whittaker)
JavaScript Chaos with Canvas (Jeremy Likness)
Integrating Node.js with a C# DLL (Juri Strumpflohner)
Safely Encoding Strings On ASP.NET MVC Razor Pages (sometimes) (Peter Kellner)
Tailoring CSS for performance (Roseanne Fallin)
ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS SPA Demo App Updated and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Managed Client SDK with Offline Support (Shiju Varghese)
Creating A LightSwitch HTML Report Using ActiveReports (using Parameters and Intrinsic Data) (Michael Washington)
Diagnosing Mobile Website Issues on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio (Andrew B Hall)
Open RIA Services Tooling Released: April Project Update (Colin Blair)
Create and validate own Json-Web-Tokens (JWTs) (Code Inside Team)
It’s not much of a prompt if the user can’t see it [Raising awareness of window.prompt’s troublesome behavior in Internet Explorer on Windows 8] (David Anson)

XAML

XAML Spy April 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
Showing the system ProgressIndicator in a Windows Phone 8.1 XAML app and Using a behavior to control the ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers-Choose your weapons (Alexander Persson)
Windows Phone 8.1 to allow developers to reply to store reviews, unify app data (Derek Kessler)
Enterprise WinRT Apps Build Roundup (Harry Pierson)
Microsoft Quiet On New APIs for Windows Phone 8.1 (Eric Zeman)
Common XAML UI Framework: Notes BUILD 2014 (Iris Classon)
Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Power Tools and Developing for Windows Phone 8.1 using XAML and Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator (Nick Randolph)
Using Coded UI to test XAML-based Windows Phone apps (Prachi Bora)
2000 WPF Things #1,045 – Control Layering of Elements in a Grid Using ZIndex (Sean Sexton)
Building Universal Apps with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Jeff Prosise)
Phone Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Andrew Chan)
WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Text Editing (Richard Carr)
Tapping into your phone’s sensors: Nokia SensorCore (Adam Fraser)
Windows Store 3.0 – A Major Upgrade (with Screenshots) (Nazmus Shakib Khandaker)
Updated LayoutRules Code (Peter Torr)

Miscellaneous .NET

Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online – Launching General Availability (Charles Sterling)
Get Application Performance data during load runs with Visual Studio Online (Manas Maheshwari)
Case for VB.Net vNext (Phillip Trelford)
The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Visual Studio Blog)
List of Visual Studio Project Type GUIDs (Yvan Rodrigues)
Announcing the General Availability of the Microsoft Azure Management Libraries for .NET (Brady Gaster)
Implementing a WaitCursor Class (Jonathan Wood)
Microsoft’s open sourcing of .Net: The back story (Mary Jo Foley)
SIMD Support for .NET Arrived! (Alois Kraus)
2000 C# Things #1,069 – Contravariance and Generic Interfaces (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Scrum: a 5-step guide for managers and Scrum: The Necessary Conditions (Tobias Mayer)
Article: Bug Fixing Vs. Problem Solving – From Agile to Lean (Cecil Dijoux)
Keep Motivate Yourself by Self Reward (Abhijit Jana)
UI: What is it? | Guest blog by Peter Shaw (Jennifer Warner)
Using Git subtrees to split a repository (John Teague)

Other Mobile Platforms

Creating Idle States for Walking Characters using BlendTrees in Unity (Michael Cummings)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Engadget Podcast 391 – 4.4.14 (Jon Turi)
Episode 264 – PowerScripting Podcast – Eric Williams and Jeff Foster on the Cisco UCS PowerTool (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
MNR 506: Phil Spencer, the new Head of Xbox (Larry Hyrb)
Scalable Information Stream Processing by Bing in Support of Cortana Scenarios (Larry Larsen)
Get Up And Code 048: Brian Lagunas: XAML and Oats (John Sonmez)
Windows Weekly 356: Build 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
The Nerdist Podcast – Todd Barry and The Nerdist Podcast – David J. Peterson (Chris Hardwick)
New In-Depth Cortana BUILD Session Showing Features & App Integration (Video) (MBGW)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Venus with Dr. FunkySpoon (Leighann Lord)
GeekWire Radio: How technology shapes our cities, politics and everything else (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: #Failfest: A Conversation In Failure (David Goodman)
Build Impressions (Jim Wooley)
Build 2014 recap: what you might have missed (Luke)
Live Webinar: Deconstructing Clippy – Common Issues for an Uncommon Extension, April 16th (Robert Demmer)

Database

Miscellaneous

Amazon Fire TV review (Dan Seifert)
Bing Is Here To Stay (Frederic Lardinois)
I, Cortana: How Microsoft’s Answer to Siri Was Born (Pete Pachal)
NASA Is Open Sourcing Its Code In A Searchable Database (Steven)
Windows-compatible hardware development boards available soon (Viraf Gandhi)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1330 (Mike Gunderloy)
Geek Reading April 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Collective #110 (Mary Lou)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1584 (Chris Alcock)
Pie in the Sky (April 4th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
Daily Links 4 Apr 2014 (Jax)
Daily News Digest 4/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Friday Links #298 (Mike Ward)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-07 (Dan Rigby)
Community Update 2014-04-04– #bldwin Day 3, #aspconf on async with #aspnet, #nodejs and #WindowsAzure (Maxime Rouiller)

The Geek Shelf

I.M. Wright's Hard Code: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons from Microsoft (2nd Edition) (Developer Best Practices): Eric Brechner: 9780735661707: Books

ISBN: 0735661707
ISBN-13: 9780735661707

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Dew Drop – April 1, 2014 (#1755)

Posted on April 1, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Navigating the April Fool’s minefield in my feeds in NewsBlur this morning.

Top Links

Preparing for Durandal NextGen (Rob Eisenberg)
Grunt-Deploy-WPXap: Using Grunt to deploy your Windows Phone application (Derik Whittaker)
9 Reasons Your Project is Going to Fail (Steve Smith)
Microsoft Promotes Scott Guthrie To Head Of Cloud, Phil Spencer To Lead Xbox, Confirms Stephen Elop Will Run Devices (Alex Wilhelm)

Web Development

Bind Any Property in Kendo UI DropDownList Value Template (Jonathan Tower)
Kendo Tip: Accessing Widget Instances (Kevin Babcock)
How to open MVC 2 ,3 project in Visual studio 2013 ? (Anirudha Gupta)
Ninjecting Neo4jClient into MVC5/4/3 (Chris Skardon)
Understanding routing of expressJS in Node.JS (Dhananjay Kumar)
AngularJS Workflow in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
Updated ASP.NET Database Resource Provider (Rick Strahl)
The Emergence of CORS for Sharing Data Across Domains (Noel Rice)
Building Better Input Experience for East Asian Users with the IME API in IE11 (Jianfeng Lin)
Xbox Music API to be discussed at BUILD 2014 (Marques Lyons)
Minimal Form Interface (Mary Lou)
Using Polymer to Create Web Components (Rey Bango)
Http Clients and Azure Blob Storage (K. Scott Allen)

XAML

Using Visual States in Your Windows Phone User Controls (Nick Randolph)
Windows Phone 8.1 Preview for Developers Program should go live Thursday, April 10 (Daniel Rubino)
Build Quick Windows Phone Apps using Windows Phone App Studio Beta (Vikram Pendse)
Working with location in an ArcGIS Runtime map app (Shawn Kendrot)
WAQS UI features 3/3 (Matthieu Mezil)

Miscellaneous .NET

LINQ-like List Manipulation in C++ (Gaston Hillar)
Quick Example of using Git with CodePlex for Clone, Changes, Commit, Sync & Restoring Missing Nuget Packages (Long Le)
WCF: Creating Custom Headers, How To Add and Consume Those Headers (William Wegerson)
Windows Embedded Compact 2013 now available for Visual Studio 2013 (Partha Srinivasan)
2000 C# Things #1,064 – Getting Around Inability to Explicitly Convert Type Parameters (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Managing the Impossible with an Agile Budget (Isaac Hogue)
Docker: Bulk Remove Images and Containers (Mike Hadlow)
On budget (Eric Brechner)
Project Lite available on May 1st, 2014 (Project Team)
Building a Development Environment With Vagrant and Puppet and Using Chef to Manage Azure Resources (Ross Gardler)
How to manage and run CodedUI tests using Microsoft Test Manager (Marcel de Vries)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS Support Released for Falafel Bridge for TestComplete (Ryan Axford)
Introduction to MonoGame 3.2 for Windows Phone (Michael Cummings)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

The Hello World Podcast Episode 18: Lynn Langit (Shawn Wildermuth)
Defrag Tools: #84 – Performance Counters – Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
The Amp Hour #191 – Chairs, Sparks and Devices – Optional Olent Obreption (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)

Community / Events

A New Day at Xbox (Phil Spencer)
Jim Holmes Joins Falafel as VP of ALM & Testing (Ryan Axford)
Graphics & Game Development Sessions at //Build 2014 (Michael Cummings)
Next best thing to being at Build (Build Application) (Charles Sterling)
Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Philadelphia Area Computer Society Meeting (David Goodman)
Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Arcade @ The Oval (Mary E. Brickthrower)
Silicon Valley startup entrepreneur surprised everyone (Dave Hodson)
New and Renewed MVPs Announced! (MVP Award Program)

Database

Handle conversion between time zones in SQL Server – part 3 (Aaron Bertrand)
MySQL – List User Defined Tables – Two Methods (Pinal Dave)
CREATE SESSION CUBE and disk usage (Chris Webb)
Refactoring T-SQL with Windowing Functions (Doug Lane)
GetLogSpace – table and stored procedure (Jen McCown)

SharePoint

Work Management service in SharePoint 2013: A Short Overview for Developers (Adis Jugo)

PowerShell

PowerShell Remoting with Azure Windows VMs (Ravikanth Chaganti)

Miscellaneous

What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Writing and You Have Nothing to Say (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 31, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading March 31, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1326 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1580 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: April 1, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 4/1/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-01 (Dan Rigby)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #77 (Jason Strate)
Community Update 2014-03-31 – #Build2014, #dotnet, #css, #responsive tables, #aspnet, #owin, new #octokit .NET version (Maxime Rouiller)
Coding4Fun First Quarter 2014 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
Useful Reference Books (Chris Maunder)

The Geek Shelf

Succeeding with Agile: Software Development Using Scrum: Mike Cohn: 9780321579362: Books

ISBN: 0321579364
ISBN-13: 9780321579362

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Dew Drop – March 31, 2014 (#1754)

Posted on March 31, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Session list for Build 2014 is now online (Kip Kniskern)
Developing Enterprise SQL Server Features in Visual Studio database tooling (Kevin Cunnane)
Rhino Mocks 4.0.0 Alpha Released (Mike Meisinger)
Analysis Paralysis: Over-thinking and Knowing Too Much to Just CODE (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

Years Later, I Still Love jQuery (Ben Nadel)
Loading JavaScript Files from the Views Folder in ASP.NET MVC (Jonathan Tower)
Smarter email templates in ASP.NET with RazorEngine (Venkata Koppaka)
OWIN security components in ASP.NET: OpenID Connect! (Vittorio Bertocci)
Understanding routing of expressJS in Node.JS (Dhananjay Kumar)
PhpStorm 8 EAP 136.1382 (Mikhail Vink)
Angular: The Modern HTML5 Answer to Silverlight’s MVVM (Jeremy Likness)
When Primitives Behave Like Objects (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Orchard 1.8 Released and Website Upgraded and Send Email Messages using Orchard Jobs Queue (David Hayden)
Running scripts with npm (Anders Janmyr)
Sublime is Sublime 11 (Greg Young)
Firebug Internals I. – Data Providers and Viewers (Jan Odvarko)

XAML

Fixing an Expand Control side effect in Windows Phone (Derik Whittaker)
How to use Text to Speech to read text aloud on Windows Phone 8 (Marco Siccardi)
2000 WPF Things #1,040 – An Example of Dependency Property Inheritance (Sean Sexton)
Windows Store Apps: adapting to sizes instead of states (Iris Classon)
WAQS UI features 2/4 (Matthieu Mezil)
Analysing app store descriptions (Matt Lacey)
Navigation Hierarchy (Sanjay Sharma)

Miscellaneous .NET

Detecting Font Installation (Richard Carr)
The Four Deadly Sins of LINQ Data Access: Part 4–Too Many Rows (Adam Anderson)
12 reasons to use the Jolt award winning Visual Studio Premium 2013 (Giles Davies)
Iterators in C# – A Deep Dive (Karthik Chintala)
F#12 : Arrays (Sacha Barber)
Code Paste (Bnaya Eshet)
Mobile Services .NET Backend: Initializers and Model Updates (Glenn Gailey)
Logging “levels” in a structured world (Nicholas Blumhardt)
NHibernate Pitfalls: Aggregating Non-Nullable Numerical Values Without Records (Ricardo Peres)
2000 C# Things #1,064 – Getting Around Inability to Explicitly Convert Type Parameters (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The True Corruption of Agile (“Uncle Bob” Martin)
How Great Leaders Build a Culture of Innovation and Change (J.D. Meier)
Agile – Why its become a dirty word (Matt Davey)
Basics: Benefits of Writing Unit Tests (Ravi Kiran)
The Case for Test-Driven Development (Meghan Blanchette)
Test Code Coverage: From Myth to Reality (Patkos Csaba)

Other Mobile Platforms

PhoneGap for the Enterprise (Raymond Camden)
iOS Gesture Recognition and Animation with Xamarin (Sasha Goldshtein)
Webinar Wrap Up: Build Cross Platform Apps with Telerik Platform and Visual Studio (Jeff Fritz)
How to Accept Multiple Enum Values in a Property or Method (Martin Rybak)
How to implement press and hold in Corona SDK (Matt Harrington)
Draw Animated shapes with Bezier Path (Mehfuz Hossain)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 223: Alright M8? (Gareth Myles)
Engadget Podcast 390 – 3.28.14 (Jon Turi)
MNR 505 Pre-PAX and two out of three ain’t bad (Larry Hyrb)
Ping 202: Office for iPad, Source code for DOS, .Net Google APIs, Build and Nokia, No more cheating in Titanfall | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
GeekWire Radio: Facebook + Oculus, Google Chromebook at college, and the meaning of Microsoft Office for iPad (Todd Bishop)
Episode 136: WS-Federation and Microsoft OWIN Components with Vittorio Bertocci | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
Azure WebJobs 102 – Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa | Windows Azure Friday (Windows Azure)
The Nerdist Podcast – Eric Stonestreet (Chris Hardwick)
The Married Gamers Episode 330: Interview with Mass Effect’s Manveer Heir (Chris Brown)
Front End Developer Cast – Ember interview with Tom Dale, a Robust Framework | Episode 003 (Craig McKeachie)
Get Up And Code 047: Miguel Castro Knows How To Stay Fit (John Sonmez)
Edge Show 96 – Ned Pyle on when to use Scale Out FIle Server vs File Server Cluster | Edge (RicksterCDN)
StarTalk Radio – Replay – Cosmic Queries: Viruses, Outbreaks and Pandemics (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Gillmor Gang Live 03.28.14 (Steve Gillmor)
Little Girl Asks Wil Wheaton About Being Called A Nerd – Awesomeness Ensues [Video] (Steven)

Community / Events

Office 365 for Developers at //build 2014 (Office Developer Team)
Farewell, MVP Program … Hello, Google! (Schabse Laks)

Database

SQL SERVER – SQL Server 2014 Developer Training Kit and Sample Databases and SQL SERVER – How to Detect Schema Change Across Two Servers (Pinal Dave)
Reduce ^ 2 in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
6 Simple Performance Tips for SQL SELECT Statements (Mpumelelo Msimanga)

PowerShell

How to build your own SSAS Resource Governor with PowerShell (Darren Gosbell)
Managing Vsix Deployments with Powershell (Dave Kerr)
ISESteroids – A Revolutionary PowerShell ISE Add-On (Tobias Weltner)
DSC Resource Kit Wave 3 (PowerShell Team)
Performing management tasks using CIM Cmdlets [4] – Files and Folders (Milena Natanov)

Miscellaneous

Six clicks: Weird tricks that will actually make you happier with Windows 8.1 (Ed Bott)
Is loyalty in the workplace dead? (Dan Appleman)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, March 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading March 29, 2014 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1579 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1325 (Mike Gunderloy)
Pie in the Sky (March 28th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
Collective #109 (Mary Lou)
The Daily Six Pack: March 31, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 3/31/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #133 (Frank)
Blog Post: Reblog: March 21 to March 27 (Jason Strate)
Friday Links #297 (Mike Ward)
.NET Weekly Digest #56 (Jakub Chodounsky)
Community Update 2014-03-28 – Learning #javascript frameworks, page #performance, #REST, #Kanban and more (Maxime Rouiller)
Links of the month (March Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

The Geek Shelf

Windows Runtime via C#: Jeffrey Richter, Maarten van de Bospoort: 9780735679276: Books

ISBN: 0735679274
ISBN-13: 9780735679276

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