Dew Drop – March 14, 2014 (#1743)

Top Links

• Blend for HTML Behaviors and Actions (Greg Smith)
• AppBuilder March Release: A Full CLI, Windows Phone 8 Support, Sublime Text Integration, and More (TJ VanToll)
• Hanselminutes – Creating the Plex Software Ecosystem with Elan Feingold (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft’s Tech Advisor Bill Gates is talking about tech (again) and Six clicks: What we think we know about Windows 9 (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Web Development

• Cookbook for ASP.NET MVC and Angular.js Web Apps (Dave Baskin)
• Five Reasons ASP.NET Developers Should Care About Node.js (Josh Lane)
• The Truth About False in JavaScript (Basem Emara)
• Getting started with ASP.NET Web API 2.2 for OData v4.0 (Javier Calvarro Nelson)
• Develop Responsive Web Experiences with ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET MVC – Session Wrap Up and Resources (Jeff Fritz)
• Avoiding duplicity in Razor with helpers (Jakub Chodounsky)
• Same Origin Policy Part 0: Origins (Eric Lawrence)
• Four Awesome IIS 8.5 New Features (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• The World’s Greatest Azure Demo (Troy Hunt)
• Back to Basics: Assert your assumptions and diff your source code (Scott Hanselman)

 

XAML

• Detect and remove Emojis from Text on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,029 – Simple ProgressBar Example (Sean Sexton)
• Scaling with a PathIcon (Nigel Sampson)
• The Windows 8 Store is now open to openFrameworks applications (Adalberto Foresti)
• Corona SDK coming to Windows devices thanks to open source ANGLE project (Olivier Bloch)
• Build apps that connect with People and Calendar, Part 2: Appointments (Zainab Hakim)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Things to think of when using Team Member IDE on Azure, networks. (Clemens Reijnen)
• F#9 : Option types (Sacha Barber)
• Why does the Directory.GetFiles method sometimes ignore *.html files when I ask for *.htm? (Raymond Chen)
• Sho for IronPython 2.6 (MS Research)
• Getting started with the ArcGIS Runtime (beta) Mapping SDK for .NET and Building a map app with the ArcGIS Runtime Map (Shawn Kendrot)
• Defining Conversions for Visual Basic Classes (Peter Vogel)
• Using Git for .NET development part 3 – branching and pushing your changes (Alice Waddicor)
• How does WAQS optimizes client – server data transfer 1/6 (Matthieu Mezil)
• 2000 C# Things #1,053 – Implicit Conversion from Type dynamic (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Your Agile Project, Part 1 (Johanna Rothman)
• What to do with UX Findings and Recommendations (Jim Ross)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Application Insights for Windows Phone 8.0 Direct3D C++ Apps (Rahul Bagaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Webinar Recording: Xamarin and SAP Mobile Platform for Mobile Enterprise Success (Rich Taylor)
• Windows Weekly 353: Made Ya Look! (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Kevin Brauch (Alton Brown)
• TechEd Countdown Special: The One with the Party Announcement | The Countdown Show (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Office Dev Tools for VS2013 – Improvements in Working with Large Data Sources (Bilal Waheed, Chris Rummel, Nate Amundson & Rohit Agrawal)
• The Vergecast 115 – March 13th, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• MVPs, Trending Topics, Live Webcasts at the MVP ComCamp (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Error – Resolution – Could not allocate space for object in database because the filegroup is full (Pinal Dave)
• Using WMI alerts to import SQL Server Default Trace events (Svetlana Golovko)

 

Miscellaneous

• The benefits of hiring remote workers (Adam Bertram)
• Google slashes Google Drive storage pricing, offers 1TB for $9.99 (Chris Welch)
• Is Xbox Reader on the way? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1567 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1317 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 14, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Windows Dev News for March 13, 2014 – #0213 (Dave Campbell)
• Community Update 2014-03-13 – #WebDevelopment, #dotnet, #cqrs, #azure and lots more (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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