Dew Drop – October 16, 2013 (1,646)

Top Links

• 40 inappropriate actions to take against an unlocked PC (Troy Hunt)
• The somewhat super secret MSDN docs on EF6 (Julie Lerman)
• Being an Agile Coach – Making Effective Decisions (Peter Saddington)
• Halo 3 currently free to download for Xbox Live Gold members (John Callaham)

 

Web Development

• How to migrate ASP.NET MVC 3 , MVC4 project to ASP.NET MVC5 ? (Anirudha Gupta)
• Using the HTML5 section element (Léonie Watson)
• PhpStorm 7 EAP 131.332 (Mikhail Vink)
• ASP.NET Web API w/ASP.NET Client & Supporting IE 8 (Deborah Kurata)
• Live SDK v5.5 (MS Downloads)
• An API for Simple HTTP Requests (Kenny Kerr)
• Arranging Elements from Top to Bottom instead of Left to Right (float: down?) (Chris Coyier)
• Learn Breeze (John Papa)
• Animated Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with SVG (Mary Lou)
• Alternatives to Long Web Requests with Long Timeouts (Matt Lacey)
• Routing to a Controller with no View in Angular (Rick Strahl)

 

XAML

• [Sample Of Oct 15th] How to use Windows Azure ACS to authenticate in WPF application (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #929 – Allowing Multiline Input in a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Windows 8.1 Preview: Multiple Windows (Mike Taulty)
• Developers: Add custom sounds to your toast notifications with Update 3 (Sam Sabri)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio and MSDN Licensing White Paper (MS Downloads)
• Entity Framework Power Tools Beta 4 Adds EF 6 and Visual Studio 2013 Support (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• How to Create and Complete a Certificate Request Using Visual Studio (Jim Cowart)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.1.09 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Visual Studio 2013 Please Add Back Remove Source Control Bindings (Karl Shifflett)
• Careful with Serialization (Jakub Chodounský)
• Tweaking Microsoft Monitoring Agent for Null Values (Larry Guger)
• 2000 C# Things #953 – Static Typing vs. Dynamic Typing (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Changing RunTime Behavior Of Application Under Test (Mehdi Khalili)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Send the Monkey a Message with Multipeer Connectivity (Mike Bluestein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 179: xSockets with Uffe Bjorklund and Magnus Thor (Jon Galloway & Co.)
• Video: Unit Testing and TDD – Why You Should Care and How to Make It Happen (Roy Osherove)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andrew W.K. and Marky Ramone and  The Nerdist Podcast – Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael (Chris Hardwick)
• Windows Weekly 332: Glimmering Shimmering and What the Tech 185: GDR3 Update for All (Paul Thurrott)
• The Amp Hour #167 – An Interview with Adam Wolf – Brick & Board Biuners (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• The Verge Mobile Show 065 – October 15th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
• Ping 191: Surface 2 colors, Madden on SmartGlass, speedy app approvals, Xbox Fitness | Ping! (Laura Foy & Mark DeFalco)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Phone – Design/Develop Days (Nick Randolph)
• Dev of the Week: Antonin Januska (Allen Coin)
• Get the INside Scoop: Q&A with John Papa (DevToolsGuy)
• Microsoft is giving more software away to students with Student Advantage program (Richard Hay)

 

Database

• Zumero for SQL Server (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft® Data-Tier Application Framework for SQL Server® 2014 CTP2 (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – How to easily work with Database Diagrams and Big Data – Operational Databases Supporting Big Data – RDBMS and NoSQL – Day 12 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell TFS 2013 API #2 – Adding to a GlobalList (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Miscellaneous

• Review Part 3: Two Months with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Haswell – Intel SDP Unit (Software Developer Preview) – a death in the family (Pete O’Hanlon)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 16, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, October 15th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 15, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1464 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 16, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/16/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #1223 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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