Dew Drop – June 26, 2014 (#1804)

Top Links

• Google I/O 2014: Everything You Need to Know (Karissa Bell)
• New in Android: L Developer Preview and Google Play Services 5.0 (Jamal Eason)
• Glimpse 1.8.6 released (Anthony van der Hoorn)

 

Web Development

• Resolving Dependencies in ASP.NET MVC 5 with StructureMap and How Do I Use StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC 3 (Steve Smith)
• Real-Time Visitor Count in Sitefinity with SignalR (Josh Morales)
• Kendo UI Q2 2014 Beta Is HERE (Burke Holland)
• Node Security Project Aims at Making Node.js More Secure (Sergio De Simone)
• HTTP DELETE: HTTP 200, 202 or 204 All the Time? (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• 8 NPM tips for better Node development (Scott Smith)
• Installing web apps natively (Axel Rauschmayer)
• MS Open Tech releases Open XML SDK as open source project (Doug Mahugh)
• Making open source projects accessible with Vagrant (Wes McClure)
• Refactoring Legacy Code: Part 6 – Attacking Complex Methods (Patkos Csaba)

 

XAML

• DEVELOPER SPEAK: Nowak and Keller help enterprises & IT Professionals become more efficient using Windows Phone 8.1 (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• How to send string and content messages with MVVM Light Messenger (Marco Minerva)
• Using SensorCore and MVVMLight to build a ‘what did I do where and when’ Windows Phone 8.1 app (Joost van Schaik)
• How to make your Windows Phone app vibrate? (Paras Wadehra)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,101 – Defining a Handler for Unhandled Exceptions (Sean Sexton)
• Give your lists the space they deserve (Shawn Kendrot)
• Building multi-resolution popups in an Universal App (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Shared dictionary generation (Oren Eini)
• 2000 C# Things #1,126 – Rewriting a Loop to Avoid continue Statement (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Adventures in Custom Testing Infrastructure (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Do You Need to Create Virtual Teams with Freelancers? (Johanna Rothman)
• More #NoEstimates (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Forms: Converting Integers and Xamarin–Converting int to string (Jesse Liberty)
• Announcing Telerik UI for iOS (Nikolay Diyanov)
• From Objective-C to Swift: Introduction and From Objective-C to Swift: Swift Goodies (Jens Jakob Jensen)
• Emulate valueForKey: in Swift (Josh Smith)
• Telerik AppPrototyper: Coming out of Beta with a handful of new features (Vladimir Dragoev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 152 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Getting into the Zone with Mark Seeman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 136 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Step-by-step video: remote SharePoint code in Azure (Chris O’Brien)
• Defrag: WiFi vs Ethernet, Surface tips, The Future of the Kinect and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Ping 212: Cortana in Canada, NASAs new ride, Charging trousers, Home automation ventures, and Xbox July update! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Nerds At Play 068: The Not-So-Brief E3 Debrief (Melisa Snyder)
• RiYL Episode 059: Scott Aukerman (Again) (Brian Heater)
• SSW TV – Twitter Bootstrap – Make your web apps accidentally excellent | Ben Cull (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Science Fiction Author, Tom Purdom (Chris Urie)
• Google I/O: Design, Develop, Distribute (Louis Gray)
• The 17 most important things Google announced at I/O (Verge Staff)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – SSIS Component Error Outputs – Notes from the Field #034 (Pinal Dave)
• Using List.Generate() To Make Multiple Replacements Of Words In Text In Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Lower cost, more control. Why an Azure lab is the perfect place for SharePoint 2013 development (Larry Smithmier)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 2 (Bartek Bielawski)
• Quick Tip: Upload Logs to Splunk from Windows PowerShell (Hal Rottenberg)

 

Miscellaneous

• Trends in Hiring Practices: The Behavioral Interview (MS JobsBlog)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, June 25, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• The Morning Brew #1638 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 6/26/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-06-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-06-26 (Dan Rigby)

 

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