Dew Drop – July 2, 2014 (#1807)

Top Links

• Safer TypeScript (MS Research)
• The Working Programmer: Fun with C# (Ted Neward)
• Introduction to F# with Xamarin (Rachel Reese)
• Data Points: Tips for Updating and Refactoring Your Entity Framework Code, Part 2 (Julie Lerman)

 

Web Development

• Domain-Driven Design with ASP.NET MVC (Steve Smith)
• How WebStorm Works: Completion for JavaScript Libraries (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Managing a Database Connection in ExpressJS Application (Howard Dierking)
• Scaling a standard Azure website to 380k queries per minute of 163M records with loader.io (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Using Vectors in an App Bar (Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8.1) and How to do Segoe UI icons in XAML (Matthias Shapiro)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,106 – Creating a Single Instance Application (Sean Sexton)
• Modern Apps: Authentication and Identity in Windows Store Apps (Rachel Appel)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Compression finale (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Online Update – July 1 (Brian Harry)
• TFS Ate My Homework (Deborah Kurata)
• Github and Visual Studio and two factor authentication (Kris van der Mast)
• Entity Framework Code First Succinctly (Ricardo Peres)
• Loan calculator (Phillip Trelford)
• 2000 C# Things #1,130 – Checking to See if a Generic Dictionary Already Contains a Key (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD, where did ‘I’ go wrong (Martyn Frank)
• Agile VS Real Life (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Are You Practicing Agile Accountability Responsibly? (Tim Wise)
• Do You Encourage People to Bring You Problems? (Johanna Rothman)
• Choosing the Right Tool for Remote User Testing (Rakesh Vashi)
• Prerequisites to Data Driven Quality (Steve Rowe)
• Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better (Timothy)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Fast App Development: The Case for Cordova (Jonathan Tower)
• What is Xamarin and Why Should I Care? (Filip Ekberg)
• Learning Xamarin–Adding Pages (Jesse Liberty)
• Sharing Code from WinForms to iOS (Rockford Lhotka)
• Simple Puzzle Game in Unity (source code provided) (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)
• Appstore Developer Select Benefits Expands to Fire Phone: 500k Amazon Coins Offer per Qualifying App (Dave Isbitski)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – End-to-End Web Instrumentation with Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 036 | Interview with Rob Howard of the Office 365 Developer Platform Team (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Amp Hour #205 – Solar Factories and HVDC Lines – Pollent Power Pushing (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 19 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)

 

Community / Events

• Web Camp in Los Angeles with Scott Hunter – July 9 (Jon Galloway)
• Dev of the Week: Hernâni Cerqueira (Alec Noller)
• Telerik DevCraft – A Morning Dew Giveaway (Me)
• July 4th In Philadelphia: Our Top Picks For Independence Day Events On The Delaware River Waterfronts, Including Fireworks On Saturday, July 5 (Kristina Jenkins)
• A Product Design Question a Day: Introducing Tavern (Zurb Team)

 

Database

• Automate Registering and Maintaining Servers in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) (Jeffery Yao)
• SQL Server Video Creating Dynamic SQL Commands (Greg Robidoux)
• Restoring the SQL Server Master Database Even Without a Backup (John Grover)
• Cumulative Update – 2 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Is Now Available ! (Rohit Garg)
• Read this if you are using SQL Server in Microsoft #Azure Virtual Machine (Alexandre Brisebois)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS: Server Dashboard Report (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 5 (Bartek Bielawski)
• HDInsight and PoSh: The -Subscription parameter is deprecated, Please use Select-AzureSubscription –Current (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous

• Developer Reading List (Andrew Binstock)
• 5 tips for tip-top typing on Windows Phone (Dylan Romero)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, July 1, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• LightSwitch Community and Content Rollup – June 2014 (LightSwitch Team)
• Double Shot #1380 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 7/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1642 (Chris Alcock)

 

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