Dew Drop – October 2, 2014 (#1868)

Top Links

• C#: The New and Improved C# 6.0 (Mark Michaelis)
• C# 6 Cuts (Phillip Trelford)
• Thinking about delayed getters on properties in C#6.0 or after that (Miha Markic)
• Announcing Office Sway: reimagine how your ideas come to life (Sway Team)

 

Windows 10

• Microsoft to detail more of its next-generation developer story in November and First preview build of Windows Server Next available to testers on October 1 (Mary Jo Foley)
• Windows 10 Technical Preview has some restrictions that may bar a few PC owners from using it and Windows 10 app strategy may be revealed by Microsoft November 12 (John Callaham)
• How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview (Sara Silva)
• Windows 10 gets a fresh command prompt and lots of hotkeys (Scott Hanselman)
• Get the Windows 10 Technical Preview by joining the Windows Insider Program (Suzanne Choney)

 

Web Development

• Stack Overflow Adds Live JavaScript to Answers (David Iffland)
• Customize the MVC 5 Application Users’ using ASP.Net Identity 2.0 and Attribute Routing in ASP.NET MVC 5 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Building a Customer Management App Using AngularJS and Laravel (Maciej Sopyło)
• Async Programming: Introduction to Async/Await on ASP.NET (Steven Cleary)
• Modern Apps: Use SignalR to Build Modern Apps (Rachel Appel)
• I Was Wrong About AngularJS (Swizec Teller)
• Adding dependencies that don’t implement IDependency to Orchard and Cleanly getting a WebAPI action URL (Bertrand LeRoy)
• Internet Explorer and the Windows 10 Technical Preview (Charles Morris)
• New Google APIs Client Libraries for Dart (James Chesters)
• Lower your encoding costs with Azure Media Encoder (John Deutscher)
• Diagnosing Issues with ModSecurity in Azure Websites (Nazim Lala)
• The anatomy of a Shellshock attack in the wild (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Kinect for Windows V2: Hello (Audio) World for the .NET Windows App Developer & Harmonica Player 😉 (Mike Taulty)
• Windows Phone 8: Pivot And Panorama (Sani Yusuf)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,171 – Custom Panel, part III (Sean Sexton)
• Pack your Windows App package yourself (Andrej Tozon)
• Universal Windows Apps: Reuse Code Assets with Universal Windows Apps (Joel Reyes)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Implement Step-by-Step Generic Repository Pattern in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Unity: Developing Your First Game with Unity and C#, Part 3 (Adam Tuliper)
• Test Run: Probit Classification Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Blog Post: CodeSmith Tools Turns 10 This Month – 30% Off Generator! (CodeSmith Tools Team)
• ATBG: Better than nothing (Eric Lippert)
• Data Points: A Pattern for Sharing Data Across Domain-Driven Design Bounded Contexts (Julie Lerman)
• DirectX Factor: Pixel Shaders and the Reflection of Light (Charles Petzold)
• Cutting Edge: Source Code Readability Tips (Dino Esposito)
• dotMemory 4.1 is Released: 6+ Reasons to Upgrade (Olga Kosyreva)
• You can name your car, and you can name your kernel objects, but there is a qualitative difference between the two (Raymond Chen)
• 2000 C# Things #1,195 – Iterator Produces Only as Many Elements as Are Needed (Sean Sexton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Modularity and testability (Simon Brown)
• Kickstart Agile the Kanban Way (Ben Linders)
• The Productivity Killer (Michael Burns)
• Finding the bad commit with Git (Hanna Sahle)
• Teams 101 and Teams 102 (Mike Cottmeyer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Powerful NoSQL JSON Database Support in Your Hybrid Apps with the Couchbase Lite Verified Cordova Plugin (Steve Forte)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Tax and Coders with Steve DelBianco (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Podcast: The Security Influencer’s Channel (Troy Hunt)
• .NET Micro Framework | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 048| SPTechCon Panel Recap – I’m a Developer: Why Should I Have to Learn a New Skill Set? and Episode 049| SPTechCon Panel Recap – InfoPath Is a Dead End: What Form Should Your Forms Take? (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Edge Show 121 – Azure Resource Manager | Edge (David Tesar & Simon May)
• Boagworld – 10 common mistakes made by clients (Paul Boag)
• 128 JSJ Famo.us with Steve Newcomb (woody2shoes)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Frank Krueger (Joseph Hill)
• What’s in store for Developers at .conf2014 (Jon Rooney)
• Geek of the Week: Sean Mellody of Mellody Brewing Company (Mary E. Brickthrower)
• Charles Petzold Departing (Michael Desmond)
• Women: Launch your career at Grace Hopper (Michelle Feder)
• Congratulations to All the New and Renewed MVPs (MVP Award Program)
• A Growing Azure and Windows Community at PuppetConf (Ross Gardler)

 

Database

• SQL Server In-Memory Tables Impact on Startup and Recovery (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL Server AlwaysOn and ILB (Narayan Annamalai)
• SQL SERVER – ​Building Technical Reference Library – Notes from the Field #048 (Pinal Dave)
• Why Put Your Database into Source Control? (Grant_Fritchey)
• Why don’t they make the optimizer faster? (An essay on nested views) (Jen McCown)
• Azure SQL Database Point in Time Restore (Tony Petrossian)

 

Miscellaneous

• Using the commandline to write a book (Leon Bambrick)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, October 1, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 1, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1418 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1707 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: October 2, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 10/2/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-02 (Dan Rigby)

 

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