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Dew Drop – April 29, 2014 (#1765)

ISBN: 0321804333
ISBN-13: 9780321804334

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Dew Drop – November 15, 2013 (#1668)

The MVP Summit in Redmond, WA is next week, so the Dew Drop posts will probably not be happening every day. I’ll do my best to keep up!

Web Development

Create Predictable GUIDs for your Windows Azure Table Storage Entities (Alexandre Brisebois)
Showcasing Open Source Community Contributors to Entity Framework, ASP.NET and Web API for Visual Studio (Brian Benz)
An Example of How Node.js is Faster Than PHP: Part 2 (Jim Hirschauer)
Vertical Percentages in CSS (Louis Lazaris)
HTTP katas (Giorgio Sironi)
Routes, Extensionless Paths and UrlEncoding in ASP.NET (Rick Strahl)
New API Commons Platform For Sharing APIs (Alex Armstrong)
AngularJS 1.2 Released (I Programmer)
Azure Web Site now supports WebSockets (Gustavo Armenta Valdez)

XAML

Microsoft Adds Facebook Login Support to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 (Dhiren Patel)
New WPF Heatmap Chart (Jason Fauchelle)
The Very Weird Way of Checking if Bluetooth or Location is Enabled on Windows Phone (Marco Siccardi)
Being successful in the Windows Phone Marketplace for developers (Richard Hay)
2000 WPF Things #951 – Security Issues when Storing Confidential Data in Strings (Sean Sexton)
Windows Phone UI Tip – 95px Padding at the Bottom (Toni Petrina)
Windows 8.1: Contacts API (Mike Taulty)
Telerik Data Storage for Windows 8: Working With Indices (Bulent Karaahmed)
[Sample Of Nov 14th] How to post JSON data to WebService in Windows Store apps (Philip Fu)

Miscellaneous .NET

The Font Selection Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
System.Collections.Immutable 1.0.27 (for .NET 4.0) (James Lanng)
Debugging Asynchronous Code in Visual Studio 2013 (Filip Ekberg)
Visual Studio 2013 Launch Partners (Visual Studio Team)
Implementing Deployment Markers in Application Insights (Charles Sterling)
LLBLGen Pro v4.1 Released! (Frans Bouma)
New Unity 2D Guide Is Almost Finished (Jesse Freeman)
Why is my FormatMessage call crashing trying to read my insertion parameter? (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #975 – Guidelines for Commenting Your Code (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

How DevOps Complements Agile at Nokia Entertainment (Ben Linders)
Barriers to Agile Adoption (Derek Huether)
Acceptance Testing with FitNesse: Debugging, Control Flow, and Tracing (Michael Sorens)
Applying the 80:20 Rule in Software Development (Jim Bird)

Other Mobile Platforms

Gradle for Android: A Full Set of Tips and Tricks (Alec Noller)
Monetizing Your iOS Apps with Bitcoin (Alex Curylo)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Getting Started with MVVM | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Stack Exchange Podcast #54 – The One With All The Anachronisms (Alex Miller)
Edge Show 82 New Microsoft Rights Management | Edge (David Tesar)
The Vergecast 102 – November 14th, 2013 (Verge Video)
Watch Building beautiful websites with Bootstrap (Michael Kennedy)

Community / Events

SQL SERVER – SQLPASS 2013, Charlotte Memories – Friends and Technology – Part 1 (Pinal Dave)
Article: Interview with Simon Brown about Sustainable Competence (Ben Linders)
MVP Global Summit Tips – Rodney Buike (MVP Award Program)
The Power of Code for Social Innovation (Rachel Roumeliotis)
Interview With Eric Bowman of Gilt.com (Rey Bango)

Database

PostgreSQL Now Available On Amazon’s Relational Database Service (Alex Williams)

SharePoint

All About Newsfeeds With Your Cloud Business App (Nicole Haugen)

PowerShell

Automated Permissions Auditing With Powershell and T-SQL: Part 3 (Tracy McKibben)
Powershell in a Month – Day 2, Help (Steve Jones)
De-Duping Files With Powershell (Jesse Taber)

Miscellaneous

Splunk (Denis Gladkikh)
A practical use of multiplicative inverses (Eric Lippert)
Getting rid of unwanted line breaks when pasting to OneNote (John Guin)
What is codecasting? (Remy Sharp)
Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8.1 handset includes ‘3D Touch’ technology (Tom Warren)

The Geek Shelf

C# 5.0 Unleashed eBook: Bart De Smet: Kindle Store

ASIN: B00CECCFUA

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Dew Drop – October 30, 2013 (#1,656)

Web Development

Windows Azure Website issue with Portable class library (David Burela)
Free ebook: Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Second Edition (second preview) (Devon Musgrave)
Windows Azure Guidance – Cloud Design Patterns Alpha drop… (Greg Duncan)
Well Rounded: Compound Shapes in CSS (Parker Bennett)
Combining and Compressing JavaScript and CSS During Deployment (Joe Kuemerle)
Second Preview of Programming Windows Store Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, 2nd Edition, now available (Kraig Brockschmidt)
“Cloudy with a chance of file uploads” or how to successfully upload files to Azure, Amazon S3 and Telerik Everlive in ASP.NET (Peter Filipov)
Web publishing updates for app offline and usechecksum (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
Animating DOM transitions (Chris Coyier)
ImageResizer – AzureReader2 with Azure SDK 2.2 (Chris Skardon)
AngularJS CRUD Grid v7: Now with Lookup Tables, AngularJS 1.2 RC3 and a nicer UI (Jon Gallant)
Multi-Item Selection (Pedro Botelho)
A new look for managing your APIs (Scott Knaster)
Partitioned Service Bus Queues and Topics (Ruppert Koch)

XAML

Microsoft partners with Corona Labs to attract more Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 apps (Mary Jo Foley)
RadSpreadsheet for WPF and Silverlight is Now Officially Ready to Rock! (Boryana Goncharenko)
Corona Labs announces support for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store apps (JC Cimetiere)
Prism Application Core Scenario Broken In Visual Studio 2013 XAML Designer (Karl Shifflett)
2000 WPF Things #939 – Retrieving Individual Lines of Text from a TextBox (Sean Sexton)
Aligning sensors with your app’s orientation (Brian Rockwell)

Miscellaneous .NET

C# Preprocessor Directives (Richard Carr)
Hey, Microsoft: Make CodeLens Available in Visual Studio 2013 Professional (Keith Ward)
WCF Bindings: How to Implement Reliable Messaging (Bruno Terkaly)
Visual Studio 2013 support (John-Daniel Trask)
RabbitMQ Request-Response Pattern (Mike Hadlow)
TFS API Part 52 – Getting Work Item History (Shai Raiten)
Windows Azure Management Client Libraries for .NET and It Supports Portable Class Library (Tugberk Ugurlu)
D3Dxx_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG with SharpDX or MonoGame in Windows 8.1 Store Apps (Michael Cummings)
Interactive Extensions as a PCL (Nigel Sampson)
What is Nothing? (Dan)
The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration (Ankit Asthana)
Announcing the new http://dev.office.com (Brian Jones)
Help me optimize this code which enumerates all possible GUIDs (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #963 – Use Braces to Enclose a Block of Statements (Sean Sexton)
Security Driven .NET – A practical book for .NET security engineers. (Stan Drapkin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

5 Tips For Creating Agile Development Environment (Gil Zilberfeld)
The Story of Agile and the Band-Aid (Venkatesh Krishnamurthy)
Book Review: Remote: Office Not Required, by 37Signals (Scott Berkun)
TeamPulse R3 2013 Halloween Edition: Git integration, REST API & more (Yordan Dimitrov)
Getting Requirements Right (Tim Murphy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Web Dev Radio Episode 112 – Facebook CSRF, KnockoutJS 3 (Michael Kimsal)
The Nerdist Podcast – Harrison Ford (Chris Hardwick)
GoingNative 19: PdbProject – IntelliSense for Your C++ Executable | C9::GoingNative (alecont & Charles Torre)
The Amp Hour #169 – An Interview with Vincent Himpe – Escaped Electron Elocution (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
The Verge Mobile Show 066 – October 29th, 2013 (Evan Rodgers)
Luminaries: Jeannette Wing of Microsoft Research | Microsoft Research Luminaries (Larry Larsen)

Community / Events

Pair Programming at Hibernating Rhinos (Oren Eini)
IT pros now have a Windows Phone support forum of their own (Robert Hoover)
Dev of the Week: Sean Hull (Allen Coin)
Exponential Growth in Xamarin Expertise in Just One Year (Erik Polzin)

Database

T-SQL Count of Tables, Views, Stored Procedures and Functions (Jason Gaylord)
Big Data – Learning Basics of Big Data in 21 Days – Bookmark (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

HTML Upload Control For LightSwitch SharePoint Apps (Matt Sampson)
Debugging SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio 2013 (SharePoint Developer Team)

PowerShell

Windows Management Framework 4.0 Adds New PowerShell Features, Improvements and Documentation (Anand Narayanaswamy)
Article: Deploying it right with AppVeyor CI and PowerShell (Feodor Fitsner)

Miscellaneous

Oh Canada! Talking healthcare IT with my neighbors up north. (Bill Crounse)

The Geek Shelf

AngularJS Directives: Alex Vanston: 9781783280339: Books

ISBN: 1783280336
ISBN-13: 9781783280339

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