Dew Drop – April 10, 2015 (#1991)

No Dew Drop on Monday. I’ll be heading to NYC for some baseball. Regular link service returns on Tuesday, 14-Apr. Cheers!

Top Links

• What is the unchecked keyword good for? Part one (Eric Lippert)
• Xamarin’s Got Game (Development) (Victor Chelaru)
• This fake Microsoft Surface phone is the flagship smartphone we want (Mark Hachman)
• Introducing ReSharper C++ (Dmitri Nesteruk)

 

Web Development

• Protecting ASP.NET Applications Against CSRF Attacks (Paul Mooney)
• ASP.NET MVC HttpVerbs.Delete/Put Routes not firing (Rick Strahl)
• Angular Directive to Show Highlight Style when Model Changed (Shaun Xu)
• Emberjs – Passing Block Params From a Component (Paul Cowan)
• Azure Data Factory 103 – Monitoring and Managing Big Data Workflows and Azure Data Factory 102 – Analyzing complex Churn Models with Azure Data Factory (Scott Hanselman)
• How to get your SSL for free on a Shared Azure website with CloudFlare (Troy Hunt)
• Exploring The GrapeCity Wijmo 5 FlexGrid (Michael Washington)
• AngularJS + ASP.NET Web API: Building a simple grid in AngularJS with server-side paging, sorting, searching (Part 7) (Sangeet Agarwal)

 

XAML

• Display HTML in WPF and CefSharp Tutorial Part 2 (Dirkster99 & Alex Maitland)
• How to make a Windows Store game with C# and XAML, part 3 (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Multimedia Applications (Matteo Pagani)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Updating from previous versions of ReSharper to 9.1 from within Visual Studio (Daria Dovzhikova)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Exception Filtering in C# 6 (James Michael Hare)
• Layer Validation in Visual Studio architecture modeling tools may result in excessive size of user’s temporary folder (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Rx Challenge #5 Solution (Bnaya Eshet)
• An Overview of Lambdas in .NET (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• ServiceBouncer (Paul Stovell)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• MS Press – Managing Agile Open Source Software using Visual Studio Online (Willy-P. Schaub)
• The Costs of Entrepreneurship (Brandon Stecklein)
• Stop Making Lists, Start Making Products (David Hussman)
• Boost Your Confidence with the Right Words (JD Meier)
• Good Enough (Rick Austin)
• 8 things to do before taking a major career risk (Stacy Warden)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Trying to get Apple Testflight to send new build notifications (Chris Miller)
• WatchKit Packaging and WKInterfaceController (Matt Davey)
• Get started with Xamarin.Forms for Windows and Xamarin.Forms Android CardView (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Azure Mobile Services and APIs – RESTful and Custom (Adarsha Datta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 041 on the Property Inspector hero demo with Todd Baginski (Jeremy Thake)
• 037 AiA Animations with Matias Niemelä (John Papa)
• The Amp Hour #244 – The Art Of Staying Interested In Electronics – Exponible Electronics Ennui (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 72 – Hybrid Networking (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Welcomes Student Developers to Our Home (Pablo Veramendi)
• Recap of Connect(“Live”); Q&A Events for February & March (Radhika Tadinada)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Login Failed For User – Reason Server is in Script Upgrade Mode (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SSRS–adding a pipe delimited text export option in Sharepoint Integrated mode (Darren Gosbell)

 

PowerShell

• Interview Questions for Hiring PowerShell Database Developers (Tim Smith)
• CompatAware: Scripting against different PowerShell versions (Tobias Weltner)
• PSTip: Use Windows Forms to generate GUI messagebox (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Hands on with Office Online and Dropbox: A surprisingly smooth combo (Ed Bott)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 9, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 4/9/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1837 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-10 (Dan Rigby)

 

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