Dew Drop – August 19, 2013 (#1,606)

Top Links

• AngularJS Code Snippets for Visual Studio (John Papa)
• ReSharper 8.0.1 EAP is Open (Jura Gorohovsky)
• TWC9: Windows 8.1 gets a date, C9 gets a WP8 app, ALM VM’s and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Honeycomb Rush Tutorial for Windows 8 (Michael Cummings)

 

Web Development

• Run ASP.NET Web API Inside Your Application (Ondrej Balas)
• How to integrate a Bootswatch theme into an ASP.NET Mvc app (Jon Gallant)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP 130.1639 (Mikhail Vink)
• The tiny table sorter – or – you can write LINQ in JavaScript (Raymond Chen)
• Understanding Scope and Context in JavaScript (Ryan Morr)
• How to bind a jquery mobile radio button list to Knockout.js variable (Simone Chiaretta)
• How To Perform Angular.Js Functionality Using Visual Studio LightSwitch HTML Client (Michael Washington)
• Install MVC4 HotTowel SPA NuGetNuGet package in One ASP.NET Web API Project in VS2013 Preview (Xinyang Qiu)
• SVG Fallbacks (Chris Coyier)
• Grunt Js and Maximum Call Stack Size Exceeded Warning (Derik Whittaker)
• Using an AngularJS Factory to Interact with a RESTful Service and AngularJS Animations in Version 1.2+ (Dan Wahlin)
• Adding Bitcoin Payment Processing to Your Website (Gabriel Manricks)
• How to Start, Stop, Recycle IIS application pool programmatically? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Collection Form Post Parameters in WebAPI Controller (Peter Kellner)
• Introducing Bootstrap Flat (Scott Dorman)
• Node v0.10.16 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• After a while you don’t see the code anymore… in this Modern WPF Matrix "Rain" control. And more on Modern too… (Greg Duncan)
• Extension methods to animate scaling and opacity on Windows Phone and A behavior to animate folding in and out of GUI elements on Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #887 – The Difference between Disabled and Hidden Scrollbar Visibility (Sean Sexton)
• Microsoft DevRadio: APIMASH – StackExchange API Starter Kit for Windows Store Apps (Michael Cummings)
• What is new in Windows 8.1 for file access: indexing and searching app content (Andrei Marukovich)
• Language Matching (docs page) (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The ConcurrentBag Collection (Richard Carr)
• Coded UI Test Gesture support in Visual Studio 2013 (Abhitej)
• F# asynchrony and Task -> Task conversion (Steve Gilham)
• Implementing C# projections for Event Store (Rinat Abdullin)
• Visual Studio and TFS 2012 product installations, upgrades and patches (Terje Sandstrom)
• Hands-On Labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 (MS Downloads)
• Kinect for Windows SDK – Tips and Tricks (Abhijit Jana)
• Book Review: Augmented Reality with Kinect (James Ashley)
• 2000 C# Things #911 – finally Block Execution When Exception Is Rethrown (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• B+Trees and why I love them, Part II – splitting hairs (and pages) (Oren Eini)
• TeamPulse R2 Is Here with Custom Fields & TFS Source Control Integration (Yordan Dimitrov)
• Management 3.0 review (Giorgio Sironi)
• 3 Keys to Increasing Project Profits. Part 2 (Brad Egeland)
• Onion Architecture: Part 4 – After Four Years (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Sorting: Insertion Sort (Sergey Barinov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS App Store Approval Tips and Tricks (Anthony Abdulla)
• Cross Platform Mobile App Development (Mobile Man)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 127 – “MVC and UFC” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• JavaScript and creative SharePoint 2013 business solutions with Dave Mann-Episode 83 (Rob Foster, Nick Swan & Brett Lonsdale)
• The Tablet Show – Building Road Buddy for WP8 (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 071 JSJ JavaScript Strategies at Microsoft with Scott Hanselman (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Video: Working with the jQuery data() Function (Dan Wahlin)
• Talk Mobile Daily Hangout: Clearing the fog: The future of cloud computing (Daniel Rubino)
• Get Up And Code 15: Steve Kamb From NerdFitness.com (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 102 (Richard Hay)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 19th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• The Philadelphia Geek Awards 2013: Thank You! (Eric Smith)

 

Database

• SQL Server Performance Issue for Single Row Delete or Update Operations (Simon Liew)
• Using C# And SqlBulkCopy To Import CSV Data Into SQL Server (John Bubriski)
• World’s smallest No SQL Database: Persistent data (Oren Eini)
• Declarative ETL (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• More Packet Hacking with PowerShell – UDP Manipulation (Lee Holmes)

 

Miscellaneous

• Companies That Have Killed the Most APIs (Adam DuVander)
• ‘Dead Rising 2,’ expansion now available for free for Xbox Live Gold members (Anthony Tosie)
• 4 Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Started My Software Development Career (John Sonmez)
• How memory mapped files, filesystems and cloud storage works (Kelly Sommers)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 17, 2013 and Interesting Finds: August 19, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Cheatsheet: 2013 08.14 ~ 08.19 (yuanjian)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 16th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 16, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #77 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1182 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five-August 16, 2013 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (August 16th, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Daily Links 16 Aug 2013 (Jax)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 19, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/19/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1423 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #042 (Pinal Dave)
• Weekly Digest 26 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows Dev News for Aug 18, 2013 – #0184 (Dave Campbell)

 

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