Dew Drop – February 14, 2014 (#1423)

Top Links

• Updated PDF for Prism for the Windows Runtime is now available (Blaine Wastell)
• February 2014 .NET Updates (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
• Should You Comment Your Code? (John Sonmez) _{– No.}
• Another Journalist Said Something Stupid (Kathleen Dollard)

 

Web Development

• Windows Azure Storage magic with Shared Access Signatures (Maarten Balliauw)
• Kendo UI ComboBox DropDownList Mashup (Josh Eastburn)
• Multiple Simultaneous Ajax Requests (with one callback) in jQuery (Chris Coyier)
• New book: SignalR Programming in Microsoft ASP.NET (Kim Spilker)
• A cleaner way to use setTimeout and anonymous callbacks (Dave Ward)
• ExtJS form cancel, Save Changes If Changes Have Been Made (Peter Kellner)

 

XAML

• Inheritance in XAML Styles (Kunal Chowdhury)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,009 – ComboBox Data Binding Basics, Part I (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Stateless Designer Visual Studio Extension (with Source) (Greg Duncan)
• LINQ From Scratch #2–Deferred Execution (Jesse Liberty)
• LINQ to CSV library (Matt Perdeck)
• Azure Build: How to Enable A Build Definition in Visual Studio (William Wegerson)
• Productivity, Exploration, Diagnostics, and Collaboration: Visual Studio 2013 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Deep Diving into the Kinect for Windows v2, Part 2… (Greg Duncan)
• What a Powerful Thing Metaprogramming Is! (Rob Galanakis)
• 2000 C# Things #1,033 – Requiring a Generic Type Parameter to Have a Parameterless Constructor (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing 101: Creating Flexible Test Code (Luis Aguilar)
• Time series feature design: System behavior (Oren Eini)
• What Carl Sagan Taught Me About Software (Burke Holland)
• Cost of Delay Due to Technical Debt, Part 4 (Johanna Rothman)
• Continuous Delivery and Source Control. Branching Strategies for Automating Application and Database Delivery (Jon)
• Bridging the Gap – One of the perils of Software Development (Nick Randolph)
• SOLID: Part 4 – The Dependency Inversion Principle (Patkos Csaba)
• Listening to Leaves (Patrick Lioi)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• New Client API Model in Google Play Services (Magnus Hyttsten)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Xbox One Developer with Dave Voyles, formerly of Comcast (Scott Hanselman)
• Edge Show 90 – System Center Configuration Manager and Windows Intune and Managing iOS: What’s New? | Edge (Symon Perriman & Simon May)
• What the Tech 201: Microsoft Fan Paul and Windows Weekly 349: Windroid 8.1 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Donatella Arpaia (Alton Brown)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Live at SF Sketchfest 2014 (Chris Hardwick)
• Partnership & Possibilities – Episode 6, Season 5 (Diana Larsen & Sharon Buckmaster)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 019: Brain Games Winners, Contest Tips, and the Tech Awards | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)

 

Database

• MySQL – When to Use TIMESTAMP or DATETIME – Difference Between TIMESTAMP or DATETIME (Pinal Dave)
• Debugging a Failing Unit-Test Which Interacts with RavenDB (Itamar Syn-hershko)
• Query Stack Overflow With T-SQL – Give Your Queries A Workout (Dirk Strauss)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2013 Out of Box Web Parts (Greg Galipeau)

 

PowerShell

• StudioShell 1.6.2 is all About Better Nuget Support and StudioShell.DependencyExample Nuget Package (Jim Christopher)

 

Miscellaneous

• A high resolution fix for OneNote (John Guin)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1299 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: February 14, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 2/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1548 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-02-14 (Dan Rigby)

 

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