Dew Drop – July 3, 2014 (#1808)

Top Links

• Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio (S.Somasegar)
• VS/TFS 2013.3 (Update 3) RC (Brian Harry)
• Microsoft .NET Native – Developer Preview 3 Now Available (MS Research)
• Microsoft’s upcoming wearable will allegedly be priced the same as Samsung Gear (Sam Sabri)

 

Web Development

• Announcing the Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.2, Web API 2.2 and Web Pages 3.2 (Daniel Roth)
• Sketch to HTML (Lubos Kmetko)
• Ecma Approves Dart (Alex Denham)
• Fixed Table Layouts (Chris Coyier)
• Fiddler for Linux Updated (Eric Lawrence)

 

XAML

• Universal Windows Apps: Mobile Apps for the Windows Ecosystem (Jason Follas)
• Writing a SQLite wrapper component for universal Windows apps (Dave Risney)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• CodeLens for Git improvements in Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate Update 3 RC (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• How to delete work items from TFS or VSO (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Graphics Diagnostics in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC (RongLu)
• Update 3 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 (John Montgomery)
• LLBLGen Pro v4.2 RTM has been released! (Frans Bouma)
• ODataLib 6.5.0 Release (LeoHu1)
• 2000 C# Things #1,131 – Example of Using a Generic Dictionary (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Quantifying the Impact of Agile Software Development Practices (Ben Linders)
• Flags Over Objects (Brendan Enrick)
• Do You Encourage People to Bring You Problems? (Johanna Rothman)
• 6 ways to find more leisure time in your swamped schedule (Stacy Warden)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Learning Xamarin – Adding Tabbed Pages (Jesse Liberty)
• Telerik AppBuilder Release: Sharing Projects, Cordova Update, NativeScript Preview, and More (Rob Lauer)
• Google Play Services 5.0 (Android Developers Team)
• A Flappy Bird Clone in Unity (source code included) (Δημήτρης Γκανάτσιος)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Gweek 153 (Mark Frauenfelder)
• .NET Rocks! – Building Computer Vision Systems with Martin Jul (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
• GoingNative 27: Improvements to Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)’’
• SSW TV – Dev Superpowers Episode #2 – Web API (SSW Team)
• What The Tech 217: Solidifying Windows (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Nick Thune (Chris Hardwick)
• RiYL Episode 060: James Kochalka (Brian Heater)
• 115 JSJ The ES6 Module Loader Polyfill, SystemJS, and jspm with Guy Bedford (woody2shoes)
• Functional Geekery Episode 12 – Adi Bolboaca (Steven Proctor)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Stacey Swigart, Director of Collections & Content at the Please Touch Museum (Alex Greco)
• dotnetConf 2014 Wrapup (The .NET Team)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Automate Database Operations for Success – Notes from the Field #035 (Pinal Dave)
• Visualizing Map/Reduce in RavenDB 3.0 (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• #PSTip Using XPath in PowerShell, Part 6 (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Quickly navigate to a command line in Windows (Aaron T. Grogg)
• Redirecting the Favorites folder is technically legal, but you wouldn’t like it (Raymond Chen)
• What’s the future of Windows Phone? (Kip Kniskern)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, July 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1382 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1643 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 7/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-07-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-07-03 (Dan Rigby)

 

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