Dew Drop – March 18, 2014 (#1745)

Top Links

• GA Release for Google APIs Client Library for .NET (Louis Gray)
• We shipped a lot of OneNote today! (John Guin)
• Feel that Code Regions are the devil’s work? Exorcise them with Regionator for VS2012 (Greg Duncan)
• Telerik UI for Android Example App Ready to Download (Michael Crump)
• EF6.1.0 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)
• OneNote and Microsoft’s quiet API revolution (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Using bower in ASP.NET MVC (Jakub Chodounsky)
• == and === operators of JavaScript in simple words (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Identity in Your Own Apps with Windows Azure Active Directory – Part 4 (Martina Grom)
• OneNote API – finally! Now, about that Excel API… (Jamie Thomson)
• Creating a Client-Side Master-Detail Page in an AJAX App with TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• OData v4.0 and OData JSON Format v4.0 approved as OASIS Standards (Brian Benz)
• Custom Icons in Splunk 6 Tables (James Brodsky)
• Use Enumeration types in OData (Tian Ouyang)

 

XAML

• AppAdditives PromotionalCodes, Telerik trial reminder and how to let users unlock the full app on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
• Building Apps for OneNote for Windows Phone, Windows Store and other platforms (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,031 – Update a ProgressBar from a Background Thread (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Review: Head First C# 3rd Edition (Mike James)
• New in PostSharp 3.2: Undo/Redo, Part 4 and VisualDesigner, or how to build your own domain-specific PowerPoint (Gael Fraiteur)
• Generic restrictions (Bnaya Eshet)
• v1 of my .NET wrapper for Coinbase API has been released (Chris G. Williams)
• New CodeRush Plugin Template – NewMetric (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,055 – Defining Your Own Implicit Conversions (Sean Sexton)
• Getting Started with ElasticLINQ (Brad Wilson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to integrate unit tests with desktop applications using the Telerik Testing Framework in Visual Studio (Joana Ivanova)
• Top 10 Negative Personas of a Daily Standup Meeting (Derek Huether)
• Story Specification – Acceptance Criteria “Done” (Matt Davey)
• Feature based development (Remy Sharp)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Apps for Samsung Gear with Tizen SDK for Wearable (Abel Avram)
• Google Play services 4.3 (Android Developers Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Stack Exchange Podcast #56 – Green or Red Curae (Abby T. Miller)
• .NET Rocks! – Usability Testing with Amber DeRosa and Alicia Hatter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 261 – PowerScripting Podcast – Nick Howell from NetApp on the Software Defined Datacenter (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jared Leto (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools: #82 – Performance Counters – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• TechEd Countdown Show: The One with Certification | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Michael Forte Founder and CEO of Phriz.be (Scott Hanselman & Golnaz)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft CEO Nadella may unveil Office on iPad on March 27 (Mary Jo Foley)
• RavenDB Conference Status Update (Oren Eini)
• Get Ready for //build with MVA’s 3-Day Learning Event (Microsoft Virtual Academy)
• Webinar: Cloud based performance, load, & stress testing March 19th and March 20th (Charles Sterling)
• End March with a Great Mobile Meetup! (James Montemagno)
• What to Expect from Microsoft at GDC (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Canadian Finals Imagine Cup deadline this weekend! (Susan Ibach)
• A Journey in Leadership (Angela M. Romei)

 

Database

• Getting started with Indexes on SQL Server Memory Optimized Tables (Arshad Ali)
• SQL SERVER – Performance: Do-it-Yourself Caching with Memcached vs. Automated Caching with SafePeak (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell – System Information (Prashanth Jayaram)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazon’s Set Top Box Will Be A Dongle Like Chromecast, Could Feature OnLive-Style Streaming (Darrell Etherington)
• Windows Server as a Workstation (Eric Lawrence)
• Tools and Apps (Jim Wooley)
• My How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course Is Almost Ready! (John Sonmez)
• OneNote, Surface, and Microsoft’s Brave New (free) world (Kip Kniskern)
• A Modest Proposal For Time (John Ptacek)
• Scan to OneNote with Office Lens for Windows Phone (Brandon LeBlanc)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, March 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 18, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 3/18/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1570 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-18 (Dan Rigby)
• Community Update 2014-03-17 – #ioc in #webdev, #dotnet, #aspnet including #fsharp and some #windowsazure and #onenote API (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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