Dew Drop – August 16, 2013 (#1,605)

Top Links

• Webinar Recording: C# Async on iOS and Android (Rich Taylor)
• What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 and InstallShield Limited Edition (Tony Goodhew)
• Callbacks as our Generations’ Go To Statement (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing Durandal 2.0 and Weyland 1.0 (Rob Eisenberg)

 

Web Development

• Use SignalR Sample Nuget package in VS2013 Preview MVC 5 Project (Xinyang Qiu)
• WebStorm 7 EAP 130.1630; Stylus support (Dmitry Jemerov)
• Taking Toddler Steps with Node.js – The Towering Inferno Revisited (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Build a Complete MVC Web Site With ExpressJS (Krasimir Tsonev)
• Spice Up Your HTML Client UI With Code (Rohit Agrawal)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP 130.1639 (Mikhail Vink)
• How to bind a jquery mobile radio button list to Knockout.js variable (Simone Chiaretta)
• Animation Loops using requestAnimationFrame (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Searching with Array.prototype.some (Ariya Hidayat)
• How do I send Email with WordPress hosted on Azure Websites? (David Isbitski)
• Announcing TraceEvent – Monitoring and Diagnostics for the Cloud (Immo Landwerth)
• Destructuring Assignment In Ecmascript 6 (Nick Fitzgerald)
• A Consistent Approach To Client-Side Cache Invalidation (Jon Davis)

 

XAML

• Windows Store App: Creating User Control using XAML and C# (Mahesh Sabnis)
• 2000 WPF Things #886 – Wrapping a Canvas in a ScrollViewer (Sean Sexton)
• Creating a UI for Background Transfer Requests (Adam Denning)
• From Isolated Storage to LocalFolder – Getting Folder Size (Peter Foot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Detecting Screen Resolution Changes (Richard Carr)
• Existing Data And Visual Studio LightSwitch (Dirk Strauss)
• .NET App Development and Custom .NET Application Development – What You Ought to Know (Eone James)
• Improving NET Application Startup Speed (Jeff Martin)
• Obscure WinDbg Commands, Part 2 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #910 – One Example of a finally Block (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Most Important Skill of Programmer (Jakub Chodounský)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Python Tools for Visual Studio with Dino Viehland (Scott Hanselman)
• Infragistics Controls for Web and Windows Store Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• IWP 61 | Building for Windows Phone and Windows 8 – The Basics | Inside Windows Phone (Matthias Shapiro & Matt Hidinger)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Eddie Pepitone (Chris Hardwick)
• Webinar Recording: Exploring the Dropbox Datastore API for Mobile (Rich Taylor)
• Edge Show 71 – Brad Anderson In The Cloud blog series with Transforming the Datacenter | Edge (RicksterCDN & BenHa)
• FWTV The I85 Start Up Corridor (Frank LaVigne)

 

Database

• SQL Server Performance Issue for Single Row Delete or Update Operations (Simon Liew)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics: SQL 2012 Certification Path – Day 10 of 10 (Pinal Dave)
• World’s smallest No SQL Database: Persistent data (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Yammer and SharePoint Integration Roadmap Update Notes (Joel Oleson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft confirms Skype will be bundled with Windows 8.1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• ‘Dead Rising 2,’ expansion now available for free for Xbox Live Gold members (Anthony Tosie)
• Alleged photos of Nokia Windows 8.1 RT tablet in red for Verizon leaked (Daniel Rubino)
• 4 ways to ace your programming interview (MS JobsBlog)
• Paint.NET v3.5.11 BETA is now available (Rick Brewster)
• Citrix Receiver for Windows Phone 8 now available, get your work on (Sam Sabri)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Geek Reading August 15, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1181 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1422 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Pie in the Sky (August 16th, 2013) (Larry Franks)

 

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