Dew Drop – October 17, 2013 (#1,647)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 available for download (S.Somasegar)
• Visual Studio 2013 released to web! (Visual Studio Team)
• Announcing Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 RTM Availability (Charles Sterling)
• TypeScript and the Road to 1.0 (Jonathan Turner)
• Get Windows 8.1 now! (Jennifer J. Chen)

 

Web Development

• Directional MVC Route (Chris Cavanagh)
• Add/Edit/Delete with ListView (Dave M. Bush)
• What Web Developers Need to Know to Develop Native HTML5/JavaScript Apps and Developing High Performance Websites and Modern Apps with JavaScript and HTML5 (Doris Chen)
• Full Screen for all platforms and Presentation Mode with PhpStorm 7 and Database Tools and SQL Editor Changes in PhpStorm 7 (Maarten Balliauw)
• How to Create an Animated Download Icon in CSS (Paul Underwood)
• About Achieving Polymorphism in JavaScript (Swizec Teller)
• Rounded Image Links with a Sweet Hover Effect (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Challenges for a developer: Harmonising advertising and customer satisfaction (Tobias Krogh)
• Simple usages of HttpWebRequest and RestSharp and JSON.NET (B. Clay Shannon)
• Beginning LightSwitch in VS 2013 Part 1: What’s in a Table? Describing Your Data (Beth Massi)

 

XAML

• CloudLogin for Windows Phone implements an out-of-the-box Social Login mechanism. Facebook, LiveId and Google are supported! (Deyan Ginev)
• IntelliTrace and WCF Services called by Silverlight (Larry Guger)
• 2000 WPF Things #930 – LineCount Property Indicates Number of Lines in TextBox (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone 8 SDK on a Virtual Machine with Working Emulator (Nokia Dev Wiki)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• .NET Memory Analysis Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 (Andrew B. Hall)
• Switching to Managed Compatibility Mode in Visual Studio 2013 and .NET Remote Symbol Loading Changes in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 and Opening 64-bit Dumps of 32-bit Processes in Visual Studio 2013 (Andrew Chan)
• Visual Studio 2013 Available Now! (Eric Battalio)
• Fast and Flexible with Dev and Test Platforms as a Service. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Generating complex math visualizations in SVG using C# and ILNumerics (Scott Hanselman)
• Free Book from Microsoft – Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 (Tatworth)
• 2000 C# Things #954 – Static Typing vs. Strongly Typed (Sean Sexton)
• NuGet is a .NET framework release vehicle (Alok Shriram)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Visual Management – Creating A Kanban Multiverse (Karl Scotland)
• Six Stages of Debugging (Aristotle Pagaltzis)
• Experiences Going From Data-Driven Development to Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS Persistence : NSCoding in Objective-C and in Monotouch (Darrell Kress)
• iOS Developer Article Roundup: An Editable UITableViewController, a Cancellable Asynchronous NSURLConnection, “Auto Layout in iOS 7″ Tutorials, and NSError (Joey deVilla)
• More about scaling in iOS (Peter-Paul Koch)
• iOS – Objective-C – Sorting an Array (Stephen Zaharuk)
• Direct Energy Supercharges their App with Xamarin (Morgan Forsythe)
• PhoneGap Explained in 5 Minutes (Troy Miles)
• Real-Time Reporting with SignalR, Kendo UI DataViz, and Icenium Part 1 (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Barbeque Geek Out with Ronnie Shewchuk (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 245 – PowerScripting Podcast – Dan Cunningham on the PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Managed Memory Analysis in Visual Studio 2013 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Changelog 108: Exercism.io with Katrina Owen (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Ivan Tashev Helps Makes Microsoft Sound Great | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)

 

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for October 16th, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Twin Cities Code Camp 15 (Chris Cavanagh)
• Geek of the Week: Joshua Isard, Arcadia University Professor & Author (Chris Urie)
• 20 tech pros to follow on Twitter (Manya Susoev)
• Women Want to Impact the World (MS JobsBlog)
• East Region: Upcoming Events! and Central Region: Upcoming Events! (MS Public Sector Team)

 

Database

• The curse of resource utilization (Oren Eini)
• Big Data – Operational Databases Supporting Big Data – Key-Value Pair Databases and Document Databases – Day 13 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• How do I query a SQL Server DB using PowerShell, and how do I filter, format and output to a file? (Stupid Question 251-255) (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous

• What comes next after Windows 8.1? (Mary Jo Foley)
• What’s new in Windows 8.1 (Ed Bott)
• Windows 8.1 review (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 17, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Double Shot #1224 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 16th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 16, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1465 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-17 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 17, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/17/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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