Dew Drop – July 23, 2013 (#1,590)

Top Links

• Why does a foreach loop silently insert an "explicit" conversion? (Eric Lippert)
• REST API for Team Rooms (Brian Harry)
• Hello, Mr. Bond; Hacking the Agent Watch with Xamarin.Android (Bryan Costanich)
• Add Windows 8 Aero Theme Support to your WPF Custom Control (Brian Lagunas)

Web Development

• In defense of JavaScript’s constructors (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Better readability with PhpStorm’s improved syntax coloring (Maarten Balliauw)
• APress Deal of the Day 23/Jul/2013 – ASP.NET MVC 4 Recipes (Tatworth)
• Get your learn on – Watch awesome content on Pluralsight for free (Derik Whittaker)

XAML

• XAML Spy 1.2 (Koen Zwikstra)
• Improved: WPF DataGrid Performance (Jason Fauchelle)
• Adding Drag and Drop to WPF ListBoxes–Thanks Telerik! (Jesse Liberty)
• Extension methods to animate an object over the screen via waypoints for Windows Phone (Joost van Schaik)
• Multi Select ComboBox in WPF (Santhosh Kumar Jayaraman)
• 2000 WPF Things #869 – You Shouldn’t Typically Leave a Popup Window (Sean Sexton)
• Create Phone Applications Quickly using Telerik Design Templates in Visual Studio Express (Carey Payette)
• Imaging images with the Nokia Imaging SDK (Greg Duncan)
• Windows.Foundation.Collection Types, Part 1: Introduction and Iterators (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• “Easy Settings” – Settings page launcher app for WP8 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Page Header Styles (Peter Foot)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio 2013 – Check Out Some Of The Great New Features (Dirk Strauss)
• LINQ to Twitter v2.1.08 Released (Joe Mayo)
• Mini book: TypeScript for C# Programmers (Steve Fenton)
• Unity 4.2 arrives, drops beta tag for Windows 8 and Windows Phone support (Rich Edmonds)
• Unity 4.2 released: build a better game, get a chance to win big, more than $100,000 in prizes (JC Cimetiere)
• Creating a custom Activity for Team Foundation Build (Martin Hinshelwood)
• Methods should include the state needed to execute them as parameters (Scott Koon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Small Microsoft Test Manager Exploratory Test Tip for WinRT Apps: Action Log Sliced (Clemens Reijnen)
• XP Values: Feedback (Giorgio Sironi)
• Early praise for Software Requirements, Third Edition! (Devon Musgrave)
• Being Uncomfortable (Kevin Hazzard)
• Mucking About with Storyboard Steps (Ambrose Little)
• Bottom-Up Implementation & Top-Down Intent (Andrew Fuqua)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Continuous Delivery on Azure with Cory Fowler (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Herding Code 173: Laurent Bugnion on sharing code with MVVM Light in Windows 8 and Windows Phone (Jon Galloway)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Joss Whedon (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 96: Ruby off Rails with Jesse Wolgamott (Adam Stacoviak & Andrew Thorp)
• Yet Another Podcast #102–Top Pluralsight Authors (Jesse Liberty)
• Defrag Tools: #48 – WPT – Memory Analysis – Pool | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ping 182: Legos & Robots, Bing search, Xbox One Domain name, Kinect spy? | Ping! (Laura Foy)
• Video: Understanding Ruby Blocks (Manya Susoev)

Community / Events

• Upcoming Events for July 22nd, 2013 (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Live Webinar ‘What’s New in ReSharper 8′ on Friday, July 26 (Robert Demmer)
• Comic-Con Recap: What You Need to Know (Sean Fitz-Gerald)

Database

• Understanding the importance of key length with the SQL Server asymmetric encryption algorithms (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL SERVER – Determine if SSRS 2012 is Installed on your SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Using Change Data Capture and CLR to Transfer Data to the Cloud (Matan Yungman)
• Neural Network Data Normalization and Encoding (James McCaffrey)

Miscellaneous

• 6 Reasons Why You Didn’t Get The Developer Job (John Sonmez)
• Unleash your inner Picasso with Fresh Paint for Windows Phone 8 (Michael Stroh)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: July 23, 2013 (Jason Haley)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, July 22nd (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading July 22, 2013 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1165 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1403 and The Morning Brew #1404 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows Store Developer Links – 2013-07-23 (Dan Rigby)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 23, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 7/23/2013 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #42 (Jason Strate)
• Windows Dev News for July 19, 2013 – #0174 (Dave Campbell)

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