Dew Drop – November 19, 2013 (#1669)

Top Links

• Working Remotely Considered Dystopian (Scott Hanselman)
• A simple C# and F# example with IoC and unit tests (Iris Classon)
• Don’t trust the .NET web forms email regex validator (or most others) (Troy Hunt)
• Enterprise Library 6: Developer’s Guide Released (Grigori Melnik)

 

Web Development

• Announcing FogJS for Windows Azure with Node.js (Daniel Mohl)
• Setting up Visual Studio 2013 for Knockoutjs Development (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Ignite UI: What’s New in jQuery, HTML5 & ASP.NET MVC in 13.2 (Jason Beres)
• Visual Studio Online with Windows Azure MSDN benefit and Adding Visual Studio Online to an Windows Azure MSDN Benefit Subscription (JOe Guadagno)
• HotTowel.Angular and ASP.NET Web API 2 Compat (John Papa)
• Node.js Stream Playground (John Resig)
• window.onerror and WinJS.Application.onerror (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Disabling ARR’s Instance Affinity in Windows Azure Web Sites (Mark Brown)
• PhpStorm 7.1 EAP 133.51 (Mikhail Vink)
• Announcing release of ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1 for Visual Studio 2012 (pranav rastogi)
• Table Manipulation using jQuery – Performance Tips and Best Practices (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Fixing ghoulish HTML behaviour after Ghostery breaks the web to block Disqus (Troy Hunt)
• ASP.NET Performance: Prefetch and Multi-Core Jitting and ASP.NET Performance: Managed runtime loader and ASP.NET Performance: Debugging W3WP Startup and ASP.NET Performance: Performance Counters on Windows Client + IIS Express (Xinyang Qiu)
• Saving Design Changes from Internet Explorer to Visual Studio 2013 (Jason Gaylord)
• Browser Link APIs in Visual Studio 2013 RTM (Reshmi Mangalore)
• Even Quicker and Easier Way to Run IIS Express on Any Path (J. Tower)
• ECMAScript 6 modules in future browsers (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Using web.config transforms with App.config files (Gunnar Peipman)
• Frameworkless JS – encapsulation of views (Rob Ashton)
• When Do You Set The URL, In A BackboneJS App? (Derick Bailey)
• RichTextBox Threading issue when used in a List Control (I think….!) (Derik Whittaker)
• Heroku OAuth as Single Sign On (John Sheehan)
• A Look Into Our Plans for Kerrb (Andrew Connell)

 

XAML

• What’s new in Infragistics WPF and Silverlight in 13.2 (Brian Lagunas)
• LEGO Mindstorms EV3 API, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Desktop and you! and A new v1 power tool for your Windows Phone Image tasks, the Nokia Imaging SDK 1.0 (Greg Duncan)
• Why Windows Phone developers should care about large screen devices (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #952 – Security Issues with Managed Strings and #953 – Use a SecureString Object to Store Confidential Text Data (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Base Classes – Selector (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8.1: Search Contracts and Search Boxes (Mike Taulty)
• Microsoft Releases ‘3D Builder,’ A 3D Printing App For Windows 8.1 (Alex Wilhelm)
• Hello Windows 8.1: what’s new in the update for developers: Part 4: The new user experience (Gill Cleeren)
• In Your Own Words: Try-and-buy yields repeated success for veteran game studio, 10tons (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• How to launch the Map settings page to download maps in WP8? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Updating Windows Store Apps for Windows 8.1 (Synergist)
• Nokia Imaging SDK v1.0 RTW now available, officially a “boatload of new features and functionality” (Greg Duncan)
• Using Publish Settings Files to Authenticate the Management Libraries (Brady Gaster)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Using LINQ with Collections That Don’t Support LINQ (Peter Vogel)
• Detecting if the Process is Interactive (Richard Carr)
• Visual Studio 2013 Asynchronous Debugging (Gaston Hillar)
• SmartOffice4TFS (Brian Harry)
• Time to get the WCF Data Services 5.6.0 RTM Tools (Glenn Gailey)
• An actor model implementation in C# using TPL DataFlow (Johan Olsson)
• Book Review: Async in C# 5.0 by Alex Davies (Dror Helper)
• EasyNetQ: Send Receive Pattern (Mike Hadlow)
• Now that’s creative power: 1000+ Unity apps across Windows Store and Windows Phone (JC Cimetiere)
• Handling Record Contention in Code-First Entity Framework (Peter Vogel)
• Managing the number of concurrent tasks using the TAP (Bill Wagner)
• Announcing the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP (Eric Battalio)
• Unity 2d Map Editor Is Done! and How To Make A Game Part 3: Creating Artwork and Sounds (Jesse Freeman)
• Intro to the React Framework (Pavan Podila)
• Voice Recognition and Synthesis Using the Intel® Perceptual Computing SDK (Pete O’Hanlon)
• Restoring symbols to a stack trace originally generated without symbols (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #976 – Security Issues when Storing Confidential Data in Strings and #977 – Security Issues with Managed Strings (Sean Sexton)
• So you want to be a Unity3D game developer? (Simon Jackson)
• RyuJIT .NET JIT compiler CTP1 FAQ (Kevin Frei)
• Expected Objects Custom Comparisons (Derek Greer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 30 Days of TDD – Day 22 – When is a Test Not a Unit Test? (James Bender)
• The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence (Book Review) (J.D. Meier)
• Agile and Testing: It Only Makes Sense (Peter Varhol)
• Case Study: Using froglogic for test UI automation with Java based applications and Microsoft Test Manager (Charles Sterling)
• How to Become a More Valuable Software Developer (John Sonmez)
• Git: Viewing the last commit on all the tags (Mark Needham)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Apportable brings Objective-C to Android (Ralph Winzinger)
• How To Use SignalR in iOS and Android Apps (Greg Shackles)
• Two Helpful Screen Share Utilities for Mobile Devices (Jim Cowart)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Windows Developer Show Episode 138 – “XPlat” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• .NET Rocks! – Agents and Actor Models in F# 3.0 with Rachel Reese (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 292: Ido Flatow on Fiddler (David Giard)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio Online Launch Edition | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• The Tablet Show – Xamarin and Visual Studio 2013 with Chris Hardy (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Defrag Tools: #65 – Windows 8.1 – Jeffrey Richter – Windows Runtime via C# | Defrag Tools (Jeffrey Richter, Larry Larsen & Andrew Richards)
• Windows Weekly 337: Unstacked (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jackie Kashian and The Nerdist Podcast – Chris Elliott (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 112: Foundation 5 with Jonathan Smiley and Mark Hayes (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• 084 JSJ Node with Mikeal Rogers (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)
• Devnology Podcast 042 – Linda Rising (Devnology)
• The Vergecast 102 – the PS4, Moto G, and Xbox TV (Evan Rodgers)
• Yet Another Podcast #113–John Sonmez–Pluralsight Author and a focus on ServiceStack (Jesse Liberty)
• Get Up And Code 28: Alcohol Is Bad For You (John Sonmez & Iris Classon)
• Inside Soundlab | Microspotting and The Future of Affective Computing | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 113 (Richard Hay)
• Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++, 10 of n (Nov 2013 CTP) | C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej – Core C++ (STL & Golnaz)

 

Community / Events

• SQL SERVER – SQLPASS 2013, Charlotte Memories – Book and Book Signing – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)
• Moving On… To Guard Insurance Group (Jason Gaylord)
• The Geek’s Guide to Dating Release Party: December 5th @ National Mechanics! (Eric Smith)
• Announcing contest winners + TouchDevelop v3.2: Interactive Tutorials (Nikolai Tillmann)
• 4 signs it’s time to start speaking at conferences (Pam Selle)

 

Database

• Testing connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server without any tools installed (Doug Rathbone)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1 Cumulative Update 7 (Glenn Berry)
• Entity Framework 6 & SQL Server Compact 4 (1)–Workflows and tooling (Erik EJ)
• SQL Server Database Unit Testing using SQL Server Data Tools [SSDT] (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• SQLAuthority News – Presenting 3 Session at SQL Server Live, Orlando, Florida (Pinal Dave)
• What You Can (and Can’t) Do With Indexed Views (Jes Schultz Borland)

 

SharePoint

• Apps for Office and SharePoint SDK and SharePoint 2013 SDK (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Hungry for more Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration Resources? (Sharath Gopalappa)
• Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 4 (Tracy McKibben)

 

Miscellaneous

• Run more apps and show more tiles on your Surface 2 or high-dpi Windows 8.1 Laptop (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: November 16, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 17, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 18, 2013 and Interesting Finds: November 19, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Collective #90 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1243 and Double Shot #1244 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, November 15, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 15, 2013 and Geek Reading November 18, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1487 and The Morning Brew #1488 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-18 and Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-11-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: November 18, 2013 and The Daily Six Pack: November 19, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/15/2013 and Daily News Digest 11/18/2013 and Daily News Digest 11/19/2013 (Silverlight Show )
• Reading Notes #116 (Frank)
• Pie in the Sky (November 15, 2013) (Larry Franks)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #58 and Reblog: November 8 to November 14 (Jason Strate)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly Digest 39 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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