Dew Drop – February 6, 2014 (#1717)

Sorry for the missing Dew Drop yesterday. Power was out here for almost 24 hours from an ice storm.

Top Links

• Microsoft appoints Scott Guthrie new Cloud & Enterprise chief (Mary Jo Foley)
• VS/TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) CTP Released (Brian Harry)
• PSA: Caliburn Micro is on GitHub (Nigel Sampson)
• Building Modern Web Apps with ASP.NET – A new day of free ASP.NET Training for 2014 (Scott Hanselman)
• Splunk Eclipse plug-in and Custom Search, new tools for the developer arsenal (Glenn Block)

 

Web Development

• Super Simple Spreadsheet Export from Kendo UI Grid (Rachel Hagerman)
• Working with Kendo UI Templates (Steve Smith)
• JavaScript Array: slice vs splice (Ariya Hidayat)
• How to Use Node.js Packages with Visual Studio (Bruno Terkaly)
• Running D3 in Node.js on Windows without Python (Daniel Mohl)
• Introducing WebStorm Video Tutorials (Ekaterina Prigara)
• AngularJS–Part 11, Promises (Gabriel Schenker)
• Rendering ASP.NET content as PDF (Jimmy Bogard)
• Subtle trap in DeviceInformation.findAllAsync for JavaScript devs (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• File Watchers in PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• JavaScript Tools of the Trade: JSBin (Rey Bango)
• Glimpse 1.8.2 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• How to swap between staging and production on Azure Websites (video + tutorial) (Iris Classon)
• Responsive Web Design Performance (Lara Swanson)
• Promises in LightSwitch (Justin Anderson)
• Go Node Without Code (Simon St. Laurent)

 

XAML

• Building a heatmap with WPF Grids (Marina Stoyanova)
• WPF BDD – Options? (Matt Davey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,002 – Using Larger Values for AlternationCount in an ItemsControl and #1,003 – Set CanContentScroll to False for Smooth Scrolling in a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Text Input Controls – TextBox (Richard Carr)
• App Crashes on Launch as Beta (Works Side-loaded) (Peter Foot)
• Introducing the new hub control for heterogeneous data (Nitin Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New C++ Language Features in Visual Studio 2013 (Gaston Hillar)
• Using LINQ with Collections that Don’t Support LINQ, Revisited (Peter Vogel)
• Reviewing Metrics .NET project (Oren Eini)
• SCOM Management Pack for TFS 2013 Available (Brian Harry)
• Resharper: Add “Locate in Solution Explorer” to the Code Window Tab Context Menu (Chris D.)
• 8 Visual Studio debugging tips – debug like a boss (Damien Guard)
• Deploying a DACPAC and Deploying a DACPAC with Visual Studio (Deborah Kurata)
• MEF and Startup Time (Kathleen Dollard)
• If an asynchronous I/O completes synchronously, is the hEvent in the OVERLAPPED structure signaled anyway? (Raymond Chen)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks: 5 great keyboard shortcuts (Susan Ibach)
• Using Entity Framework 6 with PostgreSQL (Rob Conery)
• Regular Expressions, Part 2: Positioning and More (Ondrej Balas)
• Challenge – Vulnerable Code (Eric Battalio)
• “Auto History” Extension – Keep track of your code changes in VisualStudio 2013 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 C# Things #1,026 – Checking a Flagged enum Type for Validity and #1,027 – Type Parameters vs. Type Arguments in a Generic Class (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Structure Your Agile Enterprise (Mike Cottmeyer)
• All the pieces of a feature (Oren Eini)
• Github Expandinizr (Mike Ward)
• UX is for humans and not for cyborgs (Mitch Harpur)
• Code Quality is the Responsibility of C-level Execs; Not Just the Developer’s! (Addie Ben-Yehuda)
• Run your Coded UI tests against Chrome using the Selenium toolkit (Charles Sterling)
• Design Systems: Building for the Future (Chris Coyier)
• Influencing Change: The Butter Rule and A Retrospective of a Retrospective (Cory Foy)
• Cost of Delay: Not Shipping on Time, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• Codes of Conduct – a call for calm, clarity and common sense (John V. Petersen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android web performance testing takes a big leap forward (Patrick Meenan)
• iOS 7 Interactive Transitions (Yari Dareglia)
• Announcing Sencha Space (Nick Harlow)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 132: The Wooger Snatcher (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Software Patents with Jonathan Zuck (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 257 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell Hero Dave Wyatt on Error Handling (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Bill Gates welcomes Satya Nadella as Microsoft CEO (by… and Satya Nadella: His first interview as CEO of Microsoft (by… (Dave Morin)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joel Kinnaman (Chris Hardwick)
• The Amp Hour #183 – An Interview with Scott Driscoll – Impacable Interdisciplinary Inventor (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Video Tutorial on Running Tests with NCover Bolt Test Runner and Video Tutorial on Code Coverage Visualization with NCover Bolt (Kerry Meade)
• Bill Buxton and Jeff Han – Part 1 of 4 | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)
• RiYL Episode 039: Jason Louv (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – How to Use Code First with Entity Framework – Brendan Richards (SSW Team)
• Video: Fake operator overloading (Axel Rauschmayer)
• What the Tech 200: Microsoft’s New CEO (Paul Thurrott)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft employees give new CEO Satya Nadella a ‘12th man’ welcome (Athima Chansanchai)
• Geek of the Week: Nick Madonna, Founder of PHL Collective (David Goodman)
• A Look Back at the .NET Rocks! Roadshow (James Montemagno)
• India abuzz with Satya Nadella’s hiring (Kip Kniskern)
• Be a Big Shot at work & at play (Michelle Feder)
• Microsoft Facebook Hackathon Recap (Windows Apps Team)
• 23 Days of Devices (Cigdem Patlak)

 

Database

• Essentially Everything you need to Monitor SQL Server at no cost! (Greg Robidoux)
• SQL Server 2014 Developer Training Kit Sample Databases (MS Downloads)
• SQL Server Security Checklist (Tibor Nagy)
• Prevent Accidental Table Data Deletion In SQL Server Management Studio (Dirk Strauss)
• SQL SERVER – Retrieve All the Data from VARCHAR(MAX) Column and SQL SERVER – Learning SSIS – Where Do I Start? – Notes from the Field #014 (Pinal Dave)
• Loading Power Query M Code From Text Files (Chris Webb)
• Statistics Matter on Temp Tables, Too (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint

• Workflow in SharePoint 2013: More options, easier solutions (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Keeping my Powershell profile in sync (Nigel Sampson)
• PowerShell – SQL Inventory – Automatic – Excel File – EMAIL (Prashanth Jararam)
• How to enable Updatable Help for your PowerShell Module (Francisco Gamino)

 

Miscellaneous

• Meet Microsoft’s new board chairman John Thompson and Reading between the software lines of Nadella’s first CEO speech and Windows 8.1 Update 1 now looking like April (Mary Jo Foley)
• How to extract Camtasia video files from .camrec file (Iris Classon)
• 5 simple tips for nailing a job interview (Jack Wallen)
• Satya Nadella’s full memo to Microsoft staffers: ‘We need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable’ (John Cook)
• An ode to Bill Gates: Our favorite moments and Get hype: Tekpub courses now available (Manya Susoev)
• What I hope for, from Xbox Music, in 2014. (Marques Lyons)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: February 5, 2014 and Interesting Finds: February 6, 2014 (Jason Haley)
• LightSwitch Community & Content Rollup–January 2014 (Beth Massi)
• Top 8 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, February 4, 2013 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading February 4, 2014 and Geek Reading February 6, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1541 and The Morning Brew #1542 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1293 and Double Shot #1294 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 5, 2014 and The Daily Six Pack: February 6, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/5/2014 and Daily News Digest 2/6/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-05 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-06 (Dan Rigby)

 

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