Dew Drop – April 3, 2014 (#1757)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC: Windows Phone 8.1 Tools, Shared Projects and Universal Windows Apps (S.Somasegar)
• Bringing WinJS cross-platform and open source (Maria Kang)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.0 (Jonathan Turner)
• About Windows Phone 8.1 and universal apps and Building a Universal Application for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 with MVVM Light (Laurent Bugnion)
• Caliburn.Micro 2.0 Beta 2 (Rob Eisenberg)

 

Web Development

• State of the Microsoft Security: ASP.NET Identity 2.0 (Don Kiely)
• F12 Refresh – The JavaScript Debugger and F12 Refresh – The JavaScript Console and F12 Refresh – CSS editor (Aaron Powell)
• Announcing an updated version of Internet Explorer 11 – available on Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows Phone 8.1 (Sam George)
• The New Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode or Why You Should Never Use IE 8 Anymore and What Standards Does Internet Explorer Support and Are They Planning to Support a Specification? (Chris Love)
• Stay up to date with Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 (Kevin Miller & Fred Pullen)
• Consensus: Bringing it all together (Nick Berardi)
• Available Now: Preview of Project “Orleans” – Cloud Services at Scale (Niklas Gustafsson)

 

XAML

• Comparing Windows Phone APIs (Koen Zwikstra)
• First Look at Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Universal Apps with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC (Josh Morales)
• Features coming in Windows Phone 8.1 (Windows Phone UK Team)
• EntranceThemeTransitionBehavior Behavior for WPF (Jeremiah Morrill)
• [Sample Of Apr 2nd] How to use multi-touch events to manipulate a 3D scene in WPF applications (Philip Fu)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,043 – Using a DockPanel as the Items Panel for a ListBox (Sean Sexton)
• Caliburn.Micro and Universal Apps (Nigel Sampson)
• Transitioning your app from the Panorama control to the Hub control (Shawn Kendrot)
• Extending platform commonality through universal Windows apps (Kevin Gallo)
• Windows 8 side loading improvements (Rockford Lhotka)
• Windows Store universal Windows app opportunity (Todd Brix)
• Link your app to search results with new Bing feature (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Devs Blast Microsoft Turnaround on WCF Data Services and OData (David Ramel)
• Announcing new web features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC (Xinyang Qiu)
• TFS 2013.2 (Update 2) Released (Brian Harry)
• Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 Release Candidate now available (Charles Sterling)
• Diagnosing memory issues with the new Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio (Harikrishna Menon)
• What’s to love about Seq 1.2? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• 2000 C# Things #1,067 – Covariance and Generic Interfaces (Sean Sexton)
• Announcing .NET Native Preview (Subramanian Ramaswamy & Andrew Pardoe)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Scalable and Available Cloud Architectures (Jonathan Allen)
• Microsoft’s Trunk Based Development (Paul Hammant)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android/iOS Testing with Devices as a Service (Jonathan Allen)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek podcast 140: Understanding Bitcoin (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – EU Data Protection Laws with Hugh Jones (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Inside .NET Native | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• Engadget HD Podcast 392 – 4.2.14 (Jon Turi)
• 102 JSJ Angular and Open Source Projects with Brad Green (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Joe Eames, Tim Caswell & Merrick Christensen)

 

Community / Events

• Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Blog, Brand, Biz, Buzz Panel (Andrea Kiliany Thatcher)
• Detailed notes and news: BUILD 2014 Keynote (Iris Classon)
• Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: Machining for Makers (Justin Mummert)
• Key takeaways from the Build Day One keynote (Kip Kniskern)

 

Database

• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Say No to DB Data Roles – SQL Security – Notes from the Field #022 (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.0 milestone (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Pushing Hadoop Cluster Configuration Changes using PowerShell (Carl Nolan)
• Blog Post: PowerShell GUI Tool – Network Ping – Version 2 (Prashanth Yayaram)
• Is native Windows PowerShell support coming to Visual Studio? (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to bring back Start menu, windowed apps to Windows (Mary Jo Foley)
• Visual Basic 6: The Looming Crisis (Jonathan Allen)
• How to dress for a tech interview (Michelle Feder)
• Windows 8.1 Update for Windows RT Available via MSDN (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, April 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1328 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1582 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 4/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Community Update 2014-04-02 – #bldwin special including my picks for Day 1 with some #winjs, #ef6, #typescript and more (Maxime Rouiller)

 

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