Dew Drop – January 16, 2014 (#1703)

Top Links

• Visually Creating Snippets (Ala Shiban & Maya Arbel)
• Roslyn performance (Matt Gertz)
• Debugging Internet Explorer – A Beginner’s Guide (Eric Lawrence)
• ATBG: inconsistent equality (Eric Lippert)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Kinetic Scrolling: Part 5 (Cover Flow Effect) (Ariya Hidayat)
• The Next Phase of Node.js (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
• Some notes on using Organizational Auth with ASP.NET (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Learn the Secrets Behind Modern Single Page Web Application Development (Chris Love)
• When to use target=”_blank” (Chris Coyier)
• Moving from iframe to webview, part 2: capturing webview content (Kraig Brockschmidt)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone Page Lifecycle, Tombstoning and Data Caching (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #988 – Enabling Live Sorting in a CollectionViewSource (Sean Sexton)
• How to detect WP App, is running on Emulator or real Phone Device (Pavan Pareta)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Lab: Creating packages with NuGet (Johan Olsson)
• Creating a C++ Project from a PDB file: PDB Project [[Version 2.0]] (Eric Battalio)
• There are so many things that call themselves messages queues (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,012 – Options for Array Declaration, Instantiation and Initialization (Sean Sexton)
• VB.NET Nullable Value Types (Dave M. Bush)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: BoundedContext (Martin Fowler)
• How To Standardize Data for Neural Networks (James McCaffrey)
• What is service-oriented architecture? (Manya Susoev)
• Acceptance Testing with FitNesse: Symbols, Variables and Code-behind Styles (Michael Sorens)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started Using NucliOS IGCalendarView with Xamarin.iOS (Brent Schooley)
• How to check iOS version at runtime (Vasilica Costescu)
• Immutable AVL Tree in Objective-C (Chris Cavanagh)
• Building a Tizen App With Sencha Touch (Gautam Agrawal)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 129: Bondage Britney! (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Retro Tech Addicts Podcast 09: Back to 1993… (Gareth Myles)
• Charles Petzold on the Hello World Podcast! (Shawn Wildermuth)
• XAML Spy | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• What the Tech 197: Nesting Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• RiYL Episode 036: Mike Park and Dan Potthast (Brian Heater)
• Videos from JetBrains .NET Tools Evening in Prague (Robert Demmer)
• It Turns Out That The Xbox One Has Some Serious Tricks Up Its Sleeve [Video] (Steven)

 

Community / Events

• Congratulations to all the Visual Studio ALM Ranger 2014 Champions‎ (Willy-P. Schaub)
• AzureDev Community Campaign Winner Announcement (Cameron Rogers)
• Proposing a Compelling OSCON Talk (Simon St. Laurent)
• Microsoft’s Build 2014 event sells out as developers anticipate Windows 9 details (Tom Warren)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Check for Database Integrity – Notes from the Field #011 (Pinal Dave)
• Big Data Search (Oren Eini)
• SSMS Trick: Edit Large Procedures with the Splitter Bar (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint

• Publishing apps for Office and SharePoint to Windows Azure Websites (Michael Zlatkovsky)

 

PowerShell

• Use Powershell to Send Email Notification for SQL Server Cluster Failover (Ben Snaidero)
• Powershell in a Month – Day 10 – Formatting (Steve Jones)
• Starting and stopping Application Pool using Powershell (Manjunath K)
• About_PipelineBinding (Joel Bennett)
• Performing Management tasks using Cimcmdlets [2] – Computer Hardware (Vaibhav Chugh)

 

Miscellaneous

• Available now: DNG color profiles for Adobe Lightroom (Tiina Jaatinen)
• ‘Bing tell me’: Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant to hit Lumias in April, voice-over done by Halo’s Jen Taylor (Phone Arena Team)
• 17 tips to extend battery life on Windows Phone 8 (Mark Guim)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: January 16, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #1527 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading January 15, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1279 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-01-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 16, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 1/16/2014 (Silverlight Show)

 

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