.net framework – Page 38 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – February 25, 2014 (#1730)

Top Links

A new look for .NET Reference Source (Alok Shriram)
Exploring the new .Net Reference Source Code and Dissecting the new .Net Reference Source Browser (Schabse Laks)
Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source (Scott Hanselman)
Nokia X – HERE for C# developers with Xamarin (Chris Hardy)

Web Development

Customizing the MVC Views of the Falafel Dashboard Widgets for Sitefinity (Josh Morales)
AngularJS IndexedDB Demo (Raymond Camden)
Float Labels with CSS (Chris Coyier)
Simple Delete Confirmation in ASP.NET MVC (Dave Paquette)
[Webinar Recording] Node.js Development Workflow (Ekaterina Prigara)
Symfony 2: The Basics (Andrew Perkins)

XAML

Tutorials: How to Build and Port Unity Games to Windows Store and Windows Phone? (Doris Chen)
Notification Hubs Plus Mobile Services for Sending Windows Phone Notifications from a .NET Backend Service (Glenn Gailey)
2000 WPF Things #1,016 – Displaying a Collection of Items in a WrapPanel (Sean Sexton)
Get creative with Nokia Imaging SDK 1.1 (Luke)
Swapped a ListBox for a LongListSelector and now the items don’t show? (Matt Lacey)

Miscellaneous .NET

Deploying Static Content to Azure Storage with Visual Studio Online Build (Nathan Totten)
Code in the Cloud Using Visual Studio Online (Rachel Appel)
Bing Code Search In Visual Studio 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Exploring F# through modeling #2 (Per Ökvist)
F# For Beginners Series and F# 1 : Hello World (Sacha Barber)
Troubleshooting WCF Services during Runtime with WMI (Ido Flatow)
Understanding Sorting (Filip Ekberg)
Logging the contents of every message box dialog via automation (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #1,040 – Deriving from a Constructed Type (Sean Sexton)
Should I await on Task.FromResult Method Calls? (Tugberk Ugurlu)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Budget instead of estimating (Gojko Adzic)
Agile Testing with Visual Studio 2012 (Gouri Sohoni)
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) – A Review (Peter Saddington)
Don’t sell me agile, solve my problem (Tim Wise)
Test Driven Specifications (Dave M. Bush)
Time series feature design: Replication (Oren Eini)
Special Report: State of Testing 2013 (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
Metrics that matter with evidence-based management (Martin Hinshelwood)
Understanding Risk in Your Project Portfolio (Mike Cottmeyer)

Other Mobile Platforms

Voice Throwing with Python and Android (Mike Riley)
Cordova 3.4.0 Released (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Stack Exchange Podcast #55 – Don’t Call It A Comeback (Abby T. Miller)
.NET Rocks! – Enterprise SharePoint with Hilton Giesenow (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 120 (Richard Hay)
How to browse the .NET Reference Source | .NET Framework (Immo Landwerth & Alok Shriram)
The Nerdist Podcast – St. Vincent (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 017 | News, Migration and the future of InfoPath (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Defrag Tools: #79 – Microsoft Consulting Services | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder & STEVETH)
Ping 197: Breaking records for nonprofits, Officially OneDrive, Nokia Treasure Tag, New Bing Apps, and ZOMBIES! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)

Community / Events

Agile 2014 Keynote Speakers Announced (Shane Hastie)
The Garage: Microsoft’s “Central Park” (Aimee Riordan)
Blog Post: PASS Summit 2014 – Call for Speakers (Colin Stasiuk)
4 reasons to join Microsoft right now (Richard Fulford)

Database

MySQL – Profiler : A Simple and Convenient Tool for Profiling SQL Queries (Pinal Dave)
Allocation in Power Query (Chris Webb)

PowerShell

PowerShell – Export SQL Data to Excel with Powershell (Prashanth Jayaram)
Example with Speech API: How to use .Net and COM objects in PowerShell & reference assemblies (Iris Classon)

Miscellaneous

Simultaneously capturing video from two (or more) web cams with Microsoft Expression Encoder (Zubair Ahmed)
App-pocalypse Now (Jeff Atwood)
Why We Need More Complex Programming Languages (Yes, You Heard Me Right!) (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, February 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading February 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1305 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1555 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 2/25/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-25 (Dan Rigby)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #72 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter): Susan Weinschenk: 9780321767530: Books

ISBN: 0321767535
ISBN-13: 9780321767530

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Dew Drop – December 10, 2013 (#1680)

Top Links

New Durandal Opportunities for Companies, User Groups and Community Organizers (Rob Eisenberg)
Probable C# 6.0 features illustrated (Damien Guard)
Visual Studio 2013.1 RC is Available (Brian Harry)
Unit testing imports in MEF – Loving that lazy interface (Pete O’Hanlon)

Web Development

A Beginner’s List of JavaScript Gotchas (Catalin Red)
ASP.NET Web API 2.1 RC is out – what’s new? (Filip W)
Installing Git, NodeJS, Grunt And PHP For My Impact Game Starter Kits (Jesse Freeman)
I Was Wrong About JavaScript and Responsive Design (John Sonmez)
AbsurdJS or Why I Wrote My Own CSS Preprocessor (Krasimir Tsonev)
Release Candidates for ASP.NET MVC 5.1, Web API 2.1 and Web Page 3.1. (Pranav Rastogi)
Re-examining ASP.NET and Helios Performance Tests (Rick Strahl)
Minty: Conveying an API (Rob Conery)
Preserve Disqus Comments with Jekyll (Phil Haack)
Compound Transclusion Prevented In AngularJS 1.2 (Ben Nadel)
Protect Glimpse.axd with your custom runtime policy (Christophe Gijbels)
AngularJS–Part 2, the controller (Gabriel Schenker)
JSON Schema Validation with REST Assured (Johan Haleby)
Have I been pwned? You can now ask the API! (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Windows 8.1, Windows Phone, NFC, Bluetooth and help in building connected app’s. (Greg Duncan)
2000 WPF Things #968 – ListBox Data Binding Basics, part V (Sean Sexton)
Decoding custom image formats (accessing image file bits) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
How to check whether Location Service is Disabled in WP8? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Understanding and preventing Multilingual App Toolkit ‘lost translations’ (Joost van Schaik)

Miscellaneous .NET

Visual Studio Tip: Get Back to Where You Once Belonged (Peter Vogel)
Using WinMerge with VS2013 (Rory Primrose)
8 New Things To Check Out in Visual Studio 2013 (Ondrej Balas)
Easier Redis development with scriptcs and ServiceStack.Redis powered C# REPL (Filip W)
“Visually Create Visual Studio Snippets” with the new Snippetizer from DevLabs (Greg Duncan)
EasyNetQ: Replace the Internal DI Container (Mike Hadlow)
Microsoft.SqlServer.Types NuGet Package (Spatial on Azure) (Rowan Miller)
The .NET Framework 4.5.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS (.NET Fundamentals Team)
Fetch performance of various .NET ORM / Data-access frameworks (Frans Bouma)
Destroying all child processes (and grandchildren) when the parent exits (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #992 – The System.Char Data Type (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

30 Days of TDD – Day 28 – Reader Question #4 (James Bender)
Why You Should Use Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Florian Motlik)
Handoffs are Not a Bad Word (Johanna Rothman)
How can I keep API keys out of source control? (John Sheehan)

Other Mobile Platforms

Make Your Progress Bar Smoother in Android (Antoine Merle)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – The Magic of TFS 2013 with Joel Semeniuk (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Windows Developer Show Episode 141 – “Use GPS to the Ice Machine” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 010 | Latest news in the cloud from Microsoft, Amazon and Google (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Defrag Tools: #68 – Windows 8.1 – HTTP Request Crash | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

The Next Adventure (G. Andrew Duthie)
Hour of Code: A Computer in Every Classroom (Matt Wallaert)
How to get the most out of a conference (Lukas Ruebbelke)
Code Mastery Boston 2013 (Rockford Lhotka)

Database

SQL SERVER – Working with Business Days in SQL Server – A Different Approach (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Curious about search limits for SharePoint Online? (Sirkku Willie)

PowerShell

Understanding Meta Configuration in Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Karol Kaczmarek)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Windows shakeup continues: App store and UX leaders move to Bing team (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: December 10, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading December 9, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1255 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1503 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2013-12-10 (Dan Rigby)
The Daily Six Pack: December 10, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Reading Notes #119 (Frank)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #61 (Jason Strate)

The Geek Shelf

CSS: The Definitive Guide: Eric A. Meyer: 9780596527334: Books

ISBN: 0596527330
ISBN-13: 9780596527334

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eBook Giveaway – RavenDB 2.x Beginner’s Guide from Packt Publishing

[EDIT – 10/15/2013] – Winners have been picked and will be notified shortly!

Greetings, dear readers!

To help Packt Publishing and author Khaled Tannir celebrate the release of RavenDB 2.x Beginner’s Guide, I will be giving away two copies of the eBook to random readers of my blog. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. One entry per person, please. I moderate comments on my blog, so if your comment doesn’t appear immediately, please be patient.

Contest ends next Monday, October 14th, 2013 at 11:59PM EDT. Winners will be notified shortly thereafter.

Good luck, all!

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