Dew Drop – October 18, 2013 (#1,648)

Top Links

• Announcing the Release of Visual Studio 2013 and Great Improvements to ASP.NET and Entity Framework (Scott Guthrie)
• Web Essentials 2013 RTM (Mads Kristensen)
• Visual Studio 2013: IDE Look and Feel and Visual Studio 2013: IDE Feedback and Visual Studio 2013: IDE Notification Center and Visual Studio 2013: IDE and YOU and Who Moved My Cheese: SQL Menu (Deborah Kurata)
• Math from scratch, part eight: integers (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Ken Egozi)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013 (Xinyang Qiu)
• WebStorm 7.0.1 Release Candidate (Ekaterina Prigara)
• ASP.NET Web API 2 is out! Overview of features (Filip W)
• Calculating element vertex data from CSS transforms (Keith Clark)
• Database Tools and SQL Editor Changes in PhpStorm 7 and PhpStorm 7 Web Toolkit – JavaScript Templates & Web Components Support (Maarten Balliauw)
• Hijacking ASP.NET Sessions (Ricardo Peres)
• Essential reading for Visual Studio 2013, MVC 5 and Web API 2 (Troy Hunt)
• Visual Studio 2013 brings new features for LightSwitch fans (Deborah Pisano)
• Visual Studio 2013 Web Editor Features – Page Inspector (Scott Hanselman)
• Using web.config transforms with NLog configuration (Gunnar Peipman)

 

XAML

• Document Toolkit for LightSwitch 2.0 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Introducing Win8nl for Windows 8.1–kissing WinRtBehaviors goodbye (Joost van Schaik)
• 2000 WPF Things #931 – Scrolling Text in a TextBox from Code (Sean Sexton)
• Now ready for you: Windows 8.1 and the Windows Store (Windows Apps Team)
• WPF Base Classes – ContentControl (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server version control and build (Andy Lewis)
• A Visual Studio Solution Cloner (Bill_Hallahan)
• Visual Studio 2013 Available Now! (Eric Battalio)
• Top things web developers should know about the Visual Studio 2013 release (Jon Galloway)
• Visual Studio 2013 Fixing CA0053 : Unable to load rule assembly – Remove Source Control Bindings (Karl Shifflett)
• 2000 C# Things #955 – C# Is a Managed Language (Sean Sexton)
• Announcing Visual Studio 2013 RTM (Michael Zlatkovsky)
• What is the inverse of AdjustWindowRect and AdjustWindowRectEx? (Raymond Chen)
• EF6 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
• Reactive Command With Dynamic Predicates (Sacha Barber)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A ‘Small Stories’ Case Study (Paul Hammant)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Studio and iOS 7 (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – The Mobile Phone Struggle with Travis Pope (Scott Hanselman)
• TWC9: Windows 8.1, Visual Studio 2013, Windows 8 GDR3, NuGet and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dan Fernandez & Mark DeFalco)
• 080 JSJ – Impact.js with Dominic Szablewski (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Edge Show 79 Microsoft Remote Desktop App | Edge (adambomb & David Tesar)
• The Vergecast 098 – Facebook teens, Windows 8.1, and Apple rumors (Evan Rodgers)
• Webinar Recording: Using and building cross-platform components with Xamarin (Rich Taylor)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 110 (Richard Hay)
• The Vergecast 098 – October 17th, 2013 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• PASS Summit (Chris McGowan)
• Public Sector: Upcoming Events! (MS Public Sector Team)
• Geek of the Week: David Mattes is bringing security to the ‘Internet of Things’ (Todd Bishop)

 

Database

• Memory Optimized Tables and Transactions in SQL Server 2014 (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• NuoDB Blackbirds 2.0 Gets Geospatial Capability (Abel Avram)
• Big Data – Operational Databases Supporting Big Data – Columnar, Graph and Spatial Database – Day 14 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Get Windows 8.1 now! (Jennifer J. Chen)
• BizTalk Sever 2013 Enhancements (Madhukar Konda)
• Windows 8.1 review (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 18, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 17th (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 17, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1224 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1466 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 18, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/18/2013 (Silverlight Show)

 

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