Dew Drop – August 27, 2013 (#1,612)

Top Links

• .NET Universe 2013 Poster (MS Downloads)
• WCF Data Services 5.6.0 Release (WCF Data Services Team)
• Nokia Sirius: a 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet that looks like a Lumia (Tom Warren)
• Rumor: Microsoft to launch Xbox One on November 8th, one week before the PS4 (Ron)

 

Web Development

• Mozilla Firefox CSS Parser Ported to C# (Athari)
• A Cloud and Azure Glossary for the Confused (Scott Hanselman)
• Send Push Notifications from an OData Service using Windows Azure Notification Hubs (Glenn Gailey)
• Get Angular, Durandal, and JavaScript Templates with SideWaffle (John Papa)
• How to create a JQuery DataTable using JSON and Servlet (Nitin Kumar)
• APress Deal of the Day 27/Aug/2013 – ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API Building a REST Service from Start to Finish (Tatworth)
• Update: Knockout IntelliSense Highlight Bug Fix (Van Kichline)
• Building async Unit of Work with MVC 4 (Oren Eini)
• Setting CSS Styles using JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Building a CodeIgniter Web Application From Scratch – Part 1 (Carlos Cessa)
• How to Use Custom URL Schemes (Jim Cowart)
• How to restrict a Cloud Service to a set of IP Addresses (Mike Benkovich)
• 5 ways to tackle an insufficient HTTPS implementation (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• 2000 WPF Things #893 – Creating a GroupBox with a Border But No Header (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013–Blank Template Explorations (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Love for WCF Data Services: Push Notifications (Glenn Gailey)
• Visual Studio 2013: Working with Breakpoint Labels (Zain Naboulsi)
• How to integrate OpenAccess ORM with NAnt (Ivailo Ivanov)
• Do you know about Peek Definition Window in #VisualStudio 2013? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Upgrade to Team Foundation Server 2013 with Free Support From Microsoft (Paul Ballard)
• [Sample Of Aug 26th] Transfer large size file with asynchronous sockets API in .NET (Philip Fu)
• Why doesn’t the "Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box" work for nonstandard dialog boxes, and how do I add it to my own nonstandard dialog boxes? (Raymond Chen)
• Obscure WinDbg Commands, Part 4 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #917 – Corrupted State Exceptions Are Not Normally Caught (Sean Sexton)
• How is your experience developing graphics apps? (Rong Lu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Power of Habits (J.D. Meier)
• Test-driven Development with Visual Studio 2012: Part 2 (Mickey Gousset)
• Notes to a Software Team Leader review (Giorgio Sironi)
• Do Interruptions and Productivity Rhyme With Compatibility? (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Transitioning From IT Expert to IT Supervisor: Part II (Carol Hacker)
• Why I Don’t Do Code Katas (John Sonmez)
• Team Development Series – Part 4: Testing the LightSwitch Application (Saar Shen)
• Remote Test Execution Demonstration (Steven Vore)
• Don’t forget to inspire (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• F# on Android (Phillip Trelford)
• Unit Test Your iOS Apps (Greg Shackles)
• How to Create Mobile Apps for Free (Mobile Man)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Using Azure Blob Storage for Continuous Delivery with Guy Starbuck (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Maria Menounos (Chris Hardwick)
• Meet a Member "Podcast" #2- Everett Reiss (Alex Hillman)
• Defrag Tools: #53 – Crashes, Hangs and Slow Performance | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for August 26th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• My Five Favorite That Conference Memories (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Announcing: Xamarin Community Blogs (Joseph Hill)
• PuppetConf 2013 (Rob Reynolds)
• On speakers, expenses, and stipends (Ted Neward)

 

Database

• FAQ: Why is opening my SQL Server Compact database slow? (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: SQL Code Generators – SQL in Sixty Seconds #061 (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• From the MVPs: SharePoint 2013 Business Data Connectivity OData models with notification subscriptions (Chris Givens)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script to Workaround No Data in SharePoint 2013 Usage Reports (Brian T. Jackett)

 

Miscellaneous

• Ballmer departure moved up ‘drastically,’ says report (Ben Miller)
• The Next Xbox Live Update for Xbox 360 is Here (Larry Hryb)
• Ballmer’s exit: New questions about Microsoft’s explanation (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 27, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: August 5th, 2013 (Scott Hanselman)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, August 26th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 26, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1188 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1428 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 27, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 8/26/2013 and Daily News Digest 8/27/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Dev News for Aug 26, 2013 – #0186 (Dave Campbell)
• Weekly East Region Roundup: Vol. 4 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

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