Dew Drop – March 21, 2014 (#1748)

Top Links

• Open Source and Microsoft Developer Tools (S.Somasegar)
• Changes in the Microsoft MVP Program – MVPs for Open Source Contributions (Scott Hanselman)
• Polymorphic Podcast – HTML5 Offline Applications (Craig Shoemaker)
• SQL Server Compact Toolbox 3.7.2–Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)

 

Web Development

• Investigating ASP.Net Memory Dumps for Idiots (like Me) (Doug Rathbone)
• Chaining asynchronous JavaScript calls with Angular JS (Daniel Fisher)
• Announcing RTM of ASP.NET Identity 2.0.0 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Rich Object Models & Angular.js: Memoization (Ben Teese)
• Interesting Discovery with CasperJS, jQuery, and Transitions (Raymond Camden)
• “Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET” [Currently] free webook (web ebook) (Greg Duncan)
• PhpStorm 8 EAP 136.1255 (Mikhail Vink)
• AngularJS 2.0 Will Target Mobile Apps, Drop Support For Older Browsers (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Durandal and Object.defineProperty (K. Scott Allen)
• ProudMonkey MessageBox for ASP.NET v4.5–Will be released soon. (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Document Libraries FAQ (Ed Smith)
• LINQ2TypeScript (Super Lloyd)
• Sublime is Sublime 5 and Sublime is Sublime 6 and Sublime is Sublime 7 (Greg Young)
• Reactive Translator for RxJs and RxJs Select or Map (Jim Wooley)
• SparkTree, API Design Best Practices – Part 2 (ANALOGJ)
• Responsive Full Width Tabs (Mary Lou)
• OData core libraries now support OData v4 and OData 6.1 and OData Client 6.1 are now shipped (Yi Ding)

 

XAML

• MEF’ing with WP8 (or Now you’re “cooking with MEF”) (Greg Duncan)
• [Sample Of Mar 20th] How to view word document in WPF applications (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,034 – Limiting the Range of Selectable Dates in a Calendar (Sean Sexton)
• Easily build OpenCV-powered apps for Windows Store! (Eric Mittelette)
• How does WAQS optimizes client – server data transfer 2/6 (Matthieu Mezil)
• Instrumenting Your App for Telemetry and Analytics (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• User friendly SearchBox in Windows Store Apps: separators, suggestions and result items (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Bringing Visual Studio’s CodeLens Into Focus (Jeff Martin)
• Application Analytics – Taking Advantage of Integrated Analytics with UI for WinForms Controls (Carey Payette)
• 2000 C# Things #1,058 – Custom Implicit Conversions in Both Directions (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Triangle of Support for Great Software Teams (Cory Foy)
• Object Oriented Design Principles and Functional Programming (Jan Stenberg)
• Successful IoC container usage (Jimmy Bogard)
• Don’t Reward Yourself Before You Earn It (John Sonmez)
• What my father taught me about Agility Path (34 years before it was invented!) (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 10 Ways to Improve Android App Performance (Alec Noller)
• Android Gesture Recognition and Animation with Xamarin (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Bitcoin Explained with Steve Beauregard, CEO of GoCoin (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Identity 105 – Vittorio extends our existing application to retrieve custom profile information from Windows Azure Active Directory | Windows Azure Friday (Windows Azure)
• Windows Weekly 354: The Foley Effect (Paul Thurrott)
• The Alton Browncast – Brooks Reitz – Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. (Alton Brown)
• Imagine Cup TV Episode 20: Getting Hired at Microsoft | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & John Scott Tynes)
• The Vergecast – March 20th, 2014 (Verge Video)

 

Community / Events

• The Microsoft MVP Program Opens Up (Gianugo Rabellino)

 

Database

• How to recover a suspect msdb database in SQL Server (John Grover)
• User Defined Functions in SQL Server (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• MySQL – Search For Values Within A Comma Separated Values – FIND_IN_SET (Pinal Dave)
• Pretty Patterns With Power Query And Power Map (Chris Webb)
• Solr 4.7 – Efficient Deep Paging (Rafał Kuć)

 

Miscellaneous

• How do you program “Hello World” in Small Basic? (Ed Price)
• Want some interesting books? Check out Packt’s amazing Buy One, Get One Free offer (Vincent Maverick Durano)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1322 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 20, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1573 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: March 21, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-03-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-03-21 (Dan Rigby)
• Community Update 2014-03-20 – #sublime series by Greg Young, #tdd in #javascript, #donet, #aspnet and #WindowsAzure (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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