Dew Drop – October 27, 2014 (#1885)

Top Links

• Chocolatey Now has Package Moderation (Rob Reynolds)
• Sample chapter: Using XAML Styles (Kim Spilker)
• Implementing material design in your Android app (Chris Banes & Nick Butcher)
• .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) – String Interpolation for C# (v2) (Neal Gafter)

 

Web Development

• AtScript – Another Language to Compile Down to JavaScript? (Andrew Connell)
• Mobile App Introduction Template with CSS3 & jQuery (jQuery Rain)
• Angular 2.0 Details Emerge (David Iffland)
• AngularJS – How to Create a Custom Filter – Code Example (Ajitesh Kumar)
• AngularJs and Promises with the $http Service (Rick Strahl)
• Using AngularJS Wijmo Grid With LightSwitch OData (Michael Washington)
• AngularJS First Application: Part 1 and AngularJS Application: Part 2 (Yogendra Kumar)
• Part 6: Get started with Python: Build your first Django Application in PTVS (Adarsha Datta)
• Datalists for Different Input Types (Chris Coyier)
• Announcing the Enterprise Site Discovery Toolkit for Internet Explorer 11 (Deen King-Smith)
• Announcing the 1.0.0 RTM of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy October 2014 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Windows Phone and Mobile Services on ioProgrammo (Marco Minerva)
• How to create a folder in Windows Phone 8.1 Pictures Library (and save/read files into/from it) (Marco Siccardi)
• Comparing WP7 stats: AdDuplex and Microsoft (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,187 – Using an ItemContainerStyle to Change Items in an ItemsControl (Sean Sexton)
• Is the CSLA .NET ViewModelBase class useful? (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Basic ANGLE debugging in Visual Studio (Eric Mittelette)
• The Multi-Device Hybrid Apps extension for Visual Studio Kinda Rocks (Glenn Gailey)
• Upcoming Changes in Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Developing in F# impressions (Johan Olsson)
• Visual Studio GenerateResource Error Building on Windows 10 (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 C# Things #1,212 – List of Features Shipping in C# 6.0 (Sean Sexton)
• .Net Penetration Testing: Cheat Sheet and .NET Reverse Engineering: Part 2 and .NET Reverse Engineering: Part 3 and Extreme .NET Reverse Engineering: Part 5 (Ajay Yadav)
• Programmatically force create a new LocalDB database (Jef Claes)
• Rewriting a Legacy App – Part 1: Looking for the MVP and Rewriting a Legacy App – Part 2: Working with the Hardware and Rewriting a Legacy App – Part 3: Accepting Commands (Jeremy)
• Animating Lohse (Phillip Trelford)
• Debugging a hang: Chasing the wait chain inside a process (Raymond Chen)
• Using await to build cool UI tutorials (Slobodan Pavkov)
• NServiceBus: Could not enumerate all types (Ryan Hayes)
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment with Team Foundation Server 2013 & VS 2013 Update 2 (Subodh Sohoni)
• Getting Started with .NET Code Coverage (Vicky)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scrumdamentals 101: Daily Scrum (Michael Burns)
• On Removing Organizational Mental Constraints (Peter Saddington)
• What’s new and Changed in the Art of Unit Testing 2nd Edition (Roy Osherove)
• Using Complexity Measurements to Improve Software Quality (Ben Linders)
• Legacy Code to Testable Code #5: Extract Class (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms: Customizing User Interface (Derek Jensen)
• Cortana Plugin for Cordova: PhoneGap Day Demo (Eric Mittelette)
• Data Resources for Creating Healthcare Apps (Zhiming Xue)
• Reach a bigger audience with your Unity game (Mickey MacDonald)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 341 – Sam Basu and Michael Crump on the Telerik Platform7 (David Giard)
• A new episode of the Indie Dev Podcast is up (David Voyles)
• MNR 525: Sunset Overdrive, Halo MCC and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Krysten Ritter (Chris Hardwick)
• TWC9: Nikola, Vlad, Windows 10 Update, More Azure, Kinect SDK 2.0 and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 159: StorSimple with Ahmed El-Shimi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Get Up And Code 062: Getting Cut, Squatting and Deadlifting (John Sonmez)
• Mark Russinovich – Chief Technology Officer – Microsoft Azure (MVP Award Program)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Superheroes (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Ballmer vs. Bezos — who will get the last laugh? (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Marcelo Silva (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Xammy Award Winners and Join Xamarin at TechEd Europe 2014 (Jo Ann Buckner)
• 1st Ever SharePoint MVP Reddit AMA – October 29th, 2014 1pm Eastern (Andrew Connell)
• Help raise the Chocolatey experiment to the Chocolatey experience and support the Chocolatey Kickstarter! (Matt Wrock)
• Watch the Modern Web Conference 2014 Videos Today (Ralph Whitbeck)
• .NET Developers Striking the Right Chord (Kerry Meade)

 

Database

• Find all triggers in a SQL Server Database (Chris Bell)
• Format Durations in SQL Server Analysis Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – How to Flip Value of Bit Field in SQL Server? and SQL SERVER – How to Flip Value of Bit Field in SQL Server? – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Implementing a .NET Class in PowerShell v5 (Trevor Sullivan)
• Powershell To Clean Visual Studio Bin/Obj folders (Sacha Barber)
• PowerShell Risk Assessment with ISESteroids 2.0 (Tobias Weltner)

 

Miscellaneous

• How big does a tech product have to be before we take it seriously? (Ed Bott)
• Small Basic for Kids – Featured Small Basic Book! – Ages 10-12 (Ed Price)
• Small Basic – WebCam Motion Detection (litdev)
• Stack in Small Basic? (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Reblog: October 17 to October 23 (Jason Strate)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, October 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #139 (Mary Lou)
• The Morning Brew #1723 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/27/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• 100 Top Agile Blogs (JD Meier)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)

 

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