Dew Drop – April 7, 2014 (#1759)

Top Links

• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta (S.Somasegar)
• Windows/Phone 8.1–Class Libraries, Portable Class Libraries, WinRT Components and Windows/Phone 8.1– a “universal” background task and Windows/Phone 8.1–Trying Out Push Notifications (Mike Taulty)
• C# 6: First reactions (Jon Skeet)
• Visual Studio extensions for web developers (Mads Kristensen)
• Node.js for .NET Developers (Shawn Wildermuth)

Web Development

• Stacking Up Error Handlers in ASP.NET (Peter Vogel)
• Custom Editors with Kendo Grid (Josh Eastburn)
• Directive Controller And Link Timing In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Aggregates with Kendo DataSource (Noel Rice)
• Tracking JavaScript Annotations (Ariya Hidayat)
• Stripes in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• How does TypeScript help prevent bugs in JavaScript (Derik Whittaker)
• JavaScript Chaos with Canvas (Jeremy Likness)
• Integrating Node.js with a C# DLL (Juri Strumpflohner)
• Safely Encoding Strings On ASP.NET MVC Razor Pages (sometimes) (Peter Kellner)
• Tailoring CSS for performance (Roseanne Fallin)
• ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS SPA Demo App Updated and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Managed Client SDK with Offline Support (Shiju Varghese)
• Creating A LightSwitch HTML Report Using ActiveReports (using Parameters and Intrinsic Data) (Michael Washington)
• Diagnosing Mobile Website Issues on Windows Phone 8.1 with Visual Studio (Andrew B Hall)
• Open RIA Services Tooling Released: April Project Update (Colin Blair)
• Create and validate own Json-Web-Tokens (JWTs) (Code Inside Team)
• It’s not much of a prompt if the user can’t see it [Raising awareness of window.prompt's troublesome behavior in Internet Explorer on Windows 8] (David Anson)

XAML

• XAML Spy April 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Showing the system ProgressIndicator in a Windows Phone 8.1 XAML app and Using a behavior to control the ProgressIndicator in Windows Phone 8.1 XAML Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
• Windows Phone 8.1 for Developers-Choose your weapons (Alexander Persson)
• Windows Phone 8.1 to allow developers to reply to store reviews, unify app data (Derek Kessler)
• Enterprise WinRT Apps Build Roundup (Harry Pierson)
• Microsoft Quiet On New APIs for Windows Phone 8.1 (Eric Zeman)
• Common XAML UI Framework: Notes BUILD 2014 (Iris Classon)
• Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Power Tools and Developing for Windows Phone 8.1 using XAML and Windows Phone 8.1 Emulator (Nick Randolph)
• Using Coded UI to test XAML-based Windows Phone apps (Prachi Bora)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,045 – Control Layering of Elements in a Grid Using ZIndex (Sean Sexton)
• Building Universal Apps with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Jeff Prosise)
• Phone Debugging in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Andrew Chan)
• WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Text Editing (Richard Carr)
• Tapping into your phone’s sensors: Nokia SensorCore (Adam Fraser)
• Windows Store 3.0 – A Major Upgrade (with Screenshots) (Nazmus Shakib Khandaker)
• Updated LayoutRules Code (Peter Torr)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Cloud Load testing with Visual Studio Online – Launching General Availability (Charles Sterling)
• Get Application Performance data during load runs with Visual Studio Online (Manas Maheshwari)
• Case for VB.Net vNext (Phillip Trelford)
• The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (Visual Studio Blog)
• List of Visual Studio Project Type GUIDs (Yvan Rodrigues)
• Announcing the General Availability of the Microsoft Azure Management Libraries for .NET (Brady Gaster)
• Implementing a WaitCursor Class (Jonathan Wood)
• Microsoft’s open sourcing of .Net: The back story (Mary Jo Foley)
• SIMD Support for .NET Arrived! (Alois Kraus)
• 2000 C# Things #1,069 – Contravariance and Generic Interfaces (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrum: a 5-step guide for managers and Scrum: The Necessary Conditions (Tobias Mayer)
• Article: Bug Fixing Vs. Problem Solving – From Agile to Lean (Cecil Dijoux)
• Keep Motivate Yourself by Self Reward (Abhijit Jana)
• UI: What is it? | Guest blog by Peter Shaw (Jennifer Warner)
• Using Git subtrees to split a repository (John Teague)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Idle States for Walking Characters using BlendTrees in Unity (Michael Cummings)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Engadget Podcast 391 – 4.4.14 (Jon Turi)
• Episode 264 – PowerScripting Podcast – Eric Williams and Jeff Foster on the Cisco UCS PowerTool (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 506: Phil Spencer, the new Head of Xbox (Larry Hyrb)
• Scalable Information Stream Processing by Bing in Support of Cortana Scenarios (Larry Larsen)
• Get Up And Code 048: Brian Lagunas: XAML and Oats (John Sonmez)
• Windows Weekly 356: Build 2014 (Paul Thurrott)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Todd Barry and The Nerdist Podcast – David J. Peterson (Chris Hardwick)
• New In-Depth Cortana BUILD Session Showing Features & App Integration (Video) (MBGW)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Venus with Dr. FunkySpoon (Leighann Lord)
• GeekWire Radio: How technology shapes our cities, politics and everything else (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

• Philly Tech Week 2014 Spotlight: #Failfest: A Conversation In Failure (David Goodman)
• Build Impressions (Jim Wooley)
• Build 2014 recap: what you might have missed (Luke)
• Live Webinar: Deconstructing Clippy – Common Issues for an Uncommon Extension, April 16th (Robert Demmer)

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Embedding .NET Code for Report Formatting and Error Handling (Scott Murray)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to ALTER Computed Column in SQL Server – How to ALTER Computed Column and SQL SERVER – Fix – Error 1759 Computed column in table is not allowed to be used in another computed-column definition (Pinal Dave)
• Data Collector in SQLServer 2014 – What’s New ! (Anup SivaDas)

Miscellaneous

• Amazon Fire TV review (Dan Seifert)
• Bing Is Here To Stay (Frederic Lardinois)
• I, Cortana: How Microsoft’s Answer to Siri Was Born (Pete Pachal)
• NASA Is Open Sourcing Its Code In A Searchable Database (Steven)
• Windows-compatible hardware development boards available soon (Viraf Gandhi)

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1330 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading April 4, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #110 (Mary Lou)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1584 (Chris Alcock)
• Pie in the Sky (April 4th, 2014) (Larry Franks)
• Daily Links 4 Apr 2014 (Jax)
• Daily News Digest 4/7/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Friday Links #298 (Mike Ward)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Community Update 2014-04-04– #bldwin Day 3, #aspconf on async with #aspnet, #nodejs and #WindowsAzure (Maxime Rouiller)

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