Dew Drop – October 3, 2014 (#1869)

Top Links

• C#/XAML for HTML5 beta1 released! Create HTML5 apps using only C# and XAML. (Giovanni Albani)
• IoT Developer Program Update: Support for Intel Galileo Gen 2 Boards (Steve Teixeira)
• We need your help! Glimpse vNext is coming… (Anthony van der Hoorn)
• Hanselminutes – A Sass Primer with Claudina Sarahe (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• EasyLoader JavaScript Library for Page Loading (jQuery Rain)
• 4 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a JavaScript Framework (Arthur Kay)
• Custom Login Scopes, Single Sign-On, new ASP.NET Web API – updates to the Azure Mobile Services .NET backend (Carlos Figueira)
• Could not load file or assembly Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0 and Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Dealing with Dependencies (David Paquette)
• Upcoming video series: Single Page Apps w/ jQuery and Angular (David Voyles)
• Promises in the Google APIs JavaScript Client Library (Gary Lewis)
• Show Content Based On User in MVC Views (Steve Smith)
• Building a WebAPI route in Orchard (Bertrand LeRoy)
• A chatroom for all! Part 5 – Connecting the Chatroom with WebSockets (Rami Sayar)
• FREE Pluralsight Course: Understanding the Shellshock Bash Bug (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML

• Is XAML still worth your time? (Kevin Docx)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,172 – Custom Panel, part IV (Sean Sexton)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A follow-up to “Implementing F#-inspired ‘with’ updates in C#” (Dan)
• New Features in C# 6.0 – Null-Conditional Operator (Bahrudin Hrnjica)
• Updated Feature List for C# 6 and VB 12 (Jonathan Allen)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Kinect Studio–the “Swiss Army Knife” (Mike Taulty)
• NimbleText: An Editor, Only Better (Peter Vogel)
• Type Conversions in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Problems installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2? Like error: 0x800F0906? Check for an already in-place 3.5 Update… (Greg Duncan)
• NServiceBus 5.0 behaviors in action: routing slips (Jimmy Bogard)
• 2000 C# Things #1,196 – Using Fluent-Style Syntax when Chaining Iterators (Sean Sexton)
• Not Dead Yet – PDB Inspector (Rene Schulte)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making System Interventions with Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• Management Feedback: Are You Abrasive or Assertive? (Johanna Rothman)
• UX and the Spaces In-Between (Kevin Richardson)
• Acceptance Testing with FitNesse: Database Fixtures, Project Overview (Michael Sorens)
• The Power of the Team (Vicky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building Localizable Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin Forms and Calcium (Daniel Vaughan)
• Intel IoT Dev Kit (Harry Fairhead)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 018 with Steve Walker on SharePoint UX developer guidance (Office Dev Team)
• Gone Mobile 17: What’s New in iOS 8 (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Adventures in Angular 010 – Preferred Backends (John Papa)
• AAWP Insight #112: Windows 10 and Lumia 735 (Rafe Blandford)
• Defrag: Windows 10, Minecraft, Edison Robot, EMET and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Seeding Data in your Azure Mobile Service .NET Backend | Windows Store Developer Solutions (Jeff Sanders)
• Imagine Cup Champs Talk With Bill Gates (Jritz & Golnaz)
• Radio TFS – Greg Duncan MVP 2014 (Martin Woodward, Mickey Gousset & Paul Hacker)
• StarTalk Radio Cosmic Minute: Bionic Cities by 2040 (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Android Video-Developing cross platform apps with App Game Kit (Jeremiah R.)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Greg Shackles (Joseph Hill)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Jansen (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Get your Community on at .conf2014! (Rachel Perkins)

 

Database

• MySQL Extras Released (Kay Ewbank)
• NoSQL Databases: An Overview (Pramod Sadalage)
• Custom report to show SQL Server tables per filegroup for SSMS (Koen Verbeeck)
• The Third Concern for SQL Server Virtualization: Capacity Planning (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – GROUP BY Columns with XMLPATH (Pinal Dave)
• APress Deal of the Day 3/Oct/2014 – Troubleshooting Oracle Performance (Tatworth)
• Introducing Elastic Scale preview for Azure SQL Database (Eron Kelly)
• Let’s play with Azure SQL Database backup and the Point in Time Restore (Frank)
• Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2010: Cascading Dropdown for Lookup with more than 20 Items (Sagar P)
• Debugging SharePoint Workflows (Todd Crenshaw)

 

PowerShell

• Windows PowerShell books and ebooks lineup (Kim Spilker)
• PowerShell: Build Windows 10 Server Technical Preview VM in Azure (Trevor Sullivan)
• Partial DSC Configurations in Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Lies, Damn Lies and Version Numbers (Burke Holland)
• Joe Belfiore: Windows 10 preview for phones and ARM devices isn’t due until ‘well into 2015’ and Roku Screen Mirroring beta launched for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 (John Callaham)
• Agility and Windows 10: Upgrading my Surface Pro 2 (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Thursday, October 2, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 2, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
• Double Shot #1419 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1708 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/3/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-03 (Dan Rigby)

 

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