Dew Drop – May 2, 2013 (#1,539)

Top Links

• Announcing WebMatrix 3 (Craig Kitterman)
• Announcing the Release of WebMatrix 3 (Scott Guthrie)
• Publish to Directly To Azure Web Sites With WebMatrix (Chris Love)
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Enabling New Relic Performance Monitoring on Windows Azure Websites (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Using Service Stack to create a CSV file with ASP.NET Webforms (John Bubriski)
• Working with AMD modules in Knockout.js (Ryan Niemeyer)
• jQuery Migrate 1.2.0 Released (Dave Methvin)
• Open Source Plugin: Magnific Popup, A Truly Responsive Lightbox (For jQuery and Zepto.js) (Dmitry Semenov)
• Automatic Figure Numbering with CSS Counters (Hugo Giraudel)
• Preventing passive federation for Web Api under a MVC4 website (Rory Primrose)
• An Example for Self-Hosting Nancy in an Application (Roland Weigelt)
• Using the SkyDrive REST API (Prashant Khandelwal)
• Less abstract, pumping data from Github into the EventStore (Rob Ashton)
• AngularJS Abstractions: Modules (K. Scott Allen)
• Delegating Nested Directive Behavior To Parent Directive In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Preview the new Chrome packaged apps (Amanda Bishop)
• Messages, data and types (Jimmy Bogard)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #811 – Setting Color Values in Code Based on System Colors (Sean Sexton)
• Using the background task completed event and signalDataChanged to communicate with the app (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 SDK and Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 (MS Downloads)
• Visual Studio Data (Set, Table, Row, View, RowView, RowViewCollection) Visualizer (Greg Duncan)
• Please update to the latest version of Web Essentials 2012 after installing VS2012 Update 2 (Xinyang Qiu)
• How do I get the current value of the RSP register from a C/C++ function? (No answer, but a solution.) (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #835 – A Generic List Can Store Value-Typed or Reference-Typed Objects (Sean Sexton)
• When validations fail. A story of view model data annotation conflicts. (Kevin LaBranche)
• Utilize Roslyn to create the next level plugin capability (Filip Ekberg)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Personal Kanban and Iterations, Day 3 (Johanna Rothman)
• Learning from Failures with The Lean Startup (Ben Linders)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android DevBytes: Layout Transitions and Android DevBytes: Window Zoom Transitions (Mitch Pronschinske)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lynn and Llewellyn Help Developers Teach Their Kids to Program (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• New Tools for Azure Storage and Diagnostics | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 163: What Went Wrong with Sony (Paul Thurrott)
• The State of SOA – Part 2 (Bob Rhubart)
• Defrag: All Cores Vs. Parked Cores, Split-Tunnel VPN, Boosting Volume | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Boagworld: Sprites, UX advice and long term clients (Paul Boag)
• The Vergecast 076 – April 30th, 2013: the return of Paul Miller (Ross Miller)

 

Community / Events

• Free Webinar: Improving the SharePoint Experience with Insights from Web Analytics (Joel Oleson)
• May 2013 Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)

 

Database

• Raven’s Storage: Reading a Sorted String Table (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Check DBCC CHECKDB Last Execution using PowerShell (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Powershell Multi-Line Input Box Dialog, Open File Dialog, Folder Browser Dialog, Input Box, and Message Box (Daniel Schroeder)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Power of Team Spirit (MS JobsBlog)
• Are Older Programmers More Knowledgeable? (Abel Avram)
• Better Demos with AutoHotKeys (John Papa)
• Xbox? Xbox Infinity? Xbox Fusion? What will Microsoft call its next game console? (John Callaham)
• Xbox heats up the buzz for May, June announcements (Kip Kniskern)
• Book Review: Implementing Splunk (Vince Sesto)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: May 1, 2013 and Interesting Finds: May 2, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, May 1st (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading May 1, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1120 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-05-02 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 2, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1348 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily Windows 8 Development News 1 May 2013 and Daily Windows Phone Development News 1 May 2013 (Windows Phone Geek)
• Top Reads for April (Jaco Pretorius)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–April 2013 (Beth Massi)

 

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