Dew Drop – August 29, 2013 (#1,614)

Top Links

• Introducing NuGet Concierge (Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich & Melissa McNeill)
• The Magic of using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET 4.5 plus an important gotcha (Scott Hanselman)
• Why is Microsoft keeping the final release of Windows 8.1 secret? (Ed Bott)
• Potential first photo of the Nokia Lumia 1520 phablet revealed, dwarfs the Lumia 1020 (Daniel Rubino)
• SkyDrive renaming and Windows 8.1 “delay” – are they related? (Kip Kniskern)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web API + Attribute based Routing (Bnaya Eshet)
• The HTML5 progress Element (Chris Coyier)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP build 131.8 (Mikhail Vink)
• Adding a simple BootstrapMenu to Dynamic Data With Bootstrap (Steve Naughton)
• Video and History support in HTML5 with Internet Explorer 10 – Article on MSDN and HTML5 Threading with Web Workers and Data Storage with IndexedDB – MSDN Article (Wally McClure)
• Windows Azure Infographics (Wes Yanaga)
• WordPress Boilerplate Theme Upgrade (4.4, and 4.4.1): Now Live! (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Storyboard setup with Navigation Controller (Craig)
• Transitions for Off-Canvas Navigations (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• No excuses developers: Microsoft extends $19 registration fee for Windows Phone Dev Center indefinitely (Daniel Rubino)
• 2000 WPF Things #895 – Adding a Watermark to a GroupBox (Sean Sexton)
• Protocol Activation: What Is It, What Apps Offer It, and How Can I use It in My Apps? (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2013 Preview–Grid Template on PRISM (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013: Working in the Breakpoints Window (Zain Naboulsi)
• Ability to debug Optimized Code (Optimized Debugging) (Ankit Asthana)
• Bring Your Reports to Life with Telerik Report Designer (Carey Payette)
• Do you know that you can easily shift code lines in #VisualStudio 2013? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The format of data and custom resources (Raymond Chen)
• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Concrete Table Inheritance and Identity Keys (Ricardo Peres)
• 2000 C# Things #919 – Think Twice about Handling Corrupted State Exceptions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Use Feedback with Performance Appraisals for Agile Enterprises (Ben Linders)
• XP Values: Courage (Giorgio Sironi)
• Are You Really Doing BDD? (Rob Conery)
• What Really Matters in Developer Testing (Peter Provost)
• Principles of Reactive Programming (Rohit Sharma)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Platform Updates: Facebook SDK for iOS 7 and Promotions Updates (Jason Clark)
• Shrinking an image in iOS with Xamarin.iOS and C# (Wally McClure)
• Connect Unity gamers across platforms with Facebook’s new SDK (Aaron Brady)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – NodeBots and RobotsConf with Chris Williams (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2013 IDE | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Episode 112 – Portal Enhancements, Monitoring, AutoScale, SDK 2.1, and More New Features | Windows Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nathan Totten, Nick Harris)
• Defrag: CEO Changes, Pinning Sites, Form Factor Via CMD | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen & Rhymes With Orange)
• Recording of Grant Fritchey’s Database Deployment Best Practices Webinar (Andrew Denty)

 

Community / Events

• Dev of the Week: Scott Westfall (Allen Coin)
• Join Us for ModUX in Amsterdam Sept. 18-20 (Donovan Erba)
• Unity: Free Add on for Windows 8 | Start Learning Presentation/Tutorials | Over $100,000 Contest (Doris Chen)
• Ask the bug guys (Eric Lippert)

 

Database

• Deployment Manager 2.2.6 with SQL Azure Support (Andrew Denty)
• SQL SERVER – Creating A Stored Procedure for a Select statement with Optional Parameters (Michael Alison Alviar)
• SQL SERVER – Tips for SQL Query Optimization by Analyzing Query Plan and SQL SERVER – SQL Basics Video: Database Datafiles and Logfiles – SQL in Sixty Seconds #063 (Pinal Dave)
• APress Deal of the Day 29/Aug/2013 – Beginning T-SQL 2012 (Tatworth)
• Query Plans: What Happens when Row Estimates Get High (Kendra Little)
• [Sample Of Aug 28th] Dynamic TableServiceEntity for Azure Table storage (Philip Fu)

 

SharePoint

• Free Tool: SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (Peter Vogel)

 

Miscellaneous

• What is new in Windows 8.1 for file access: SkyDrive integration (Andrei Marukovich)
• SkyDrive.com gets text extraction feature using Bing-powered OCR (damaster)
• Should Microsoft Give Windows 8.1 To Developers Early? (Paul Ballard)
• A Quick Look at the Go Programming Language (Rachel Roumeliotis)
• Surface RT hopefully has a future (Rockford Lhotka)
• The importance of comments (Oren Eini)
• Halo: Spartan Assault adds 5 new missions, supports more Windows Phones (Michael Stroh)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 29, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1430 (Chris Alcock)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, August 28th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 28, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1190 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 8/29/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-08-29 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 29, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)

 

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