Dew Drop – October 28, 2014 (#1886)

Top Links

• European Datacenter & REST 1.0 (Jamie Cool) – REST API for VS Online announced.
• EF7 – v1 or v7? (Rowan Miller)
• 5 Ways Software Developers Can Become Better at Estimation (John Sonmez)
• Building a working Robot controlled by an iPhone, C#, and Monkey.Robotics (Scott Hanselman)
• Telerik DevCraft Release for .NET Devs to Go Mobile and X-Plat (Jeff Fritz)

 

Web Development

• A Quick Look At How DOM Structure Affects Text Interpolation Watchers In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• How Google broke the OSS compact with Angular 2.0 (John V. Petersen)
• JavaScript unit testing: using the Chutzpah test runner in Visual Studio (Matt Harrington)
• APress Deal of the Day 28/Oct/2014 – Pro ASP.NET 4.5 in C# (Tatworth)
• AngularJS, HTML5, Groovy, Java and MongoDB All Together: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Trisha Gee)
• Microsoft Adaptive Streaming Plugin for OSMF Update (Amit Rajput)
• Bringing Interoperable Real-Time Communications to the Web (Shijun Sun)
• Announcing the Azure Marketplace (Kyle Wilson)
• Using Certificates in Azure Websites Applications (Nazim Lala)
• Exciting updates to Microsoft Azure at TechEd Europe, enabling simplicity, scale and innovation (Vibhor Kapoor)
• 4 Killer Features You Need to Leverage in Your WebForms Apps—Right Now (Rumen Jekov)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8 Guide – Maps Tasks Launcher in Windows Phone (Senthil Kumar)
• Windows, Windows Phone, App Studio, Privacy Policies, Certification and legal responsibilities (Matt Lacey)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,189 – MeasureOverride Input and Output (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Display Controls – TreeView – Basics (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Linq and XML (Mike James)
• TFS Cheat Sheet every TFS power user will want – “TFS Command-line Cheat Sheet” (Greg Duncan)
• Caching with LinqPad.Extensions.Cache (Jeff Yates)
• ThinqLinq Samples on Github (Jim Wooley)
• 2000 C# Things #1,213 – Visual Studio 2014 – Unused using Statements Greyed Out (Sean Sexton)
• Free book from Syncfusion – Machine Learning Using C# Succinctly (Tatworth)
• Producing combinations, part five (Eric Lippert)
• “.NET Serializers Comparison Chart” – Six Serializers compared (Greg Duncan)
• Review: Progress Rollbase (Kevin Griffin)
• Simple.Data 2.0 fundraiser (Mark Rendle)
• Kinect 4 Windows V2 – Unity 3D (Pete D.)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Adapting Test Teams to Agile Projects and Having Leadership Emerge in Organizations and Article: Q&A about the book Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls (Ben Linders)
• Agile Assessments – A Deeper Dive (Sandi Keller)
• Modeling exercise: The grocery store’s checkout model process approach (Oren Eini)
• My Experiences and Guidance for Software Engineers on Beginning Your Career (Part 1 of 3) (Allen Conway)
• Bulk editing MTM 2013 test cases (Esteban Garcia)
• Software development must deliver on budget – always (Ralf Westphal)
• Learning Game Production Basics (Amanda Lange)
• Brute force learning (Wes McClure)
• How to Get Started –and Stick with– Usability Testing (Gareth Wilson)
• Announcing a simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience for Load Testing (Charles Sterling)
• Parameterized Tests with NUnit (Jeremy)
• Using Entity Mapping For Dynamics CRM Solution Documentation and Design (Leon Tribe)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 3 Essential Pebble Apps for Android – Part 1 (Adam Anderson)
• IntelliJ/Android Studio plugin connects Android Apps and Java Cloud middleware to Office 365 and Azure Services – New “MS Open Tech Tools” (Doug Mahugh)
• Epic Saga: Uploading Images from PhoneGap/Cordova to Azure Storage using Mobile Services (Glenn Gailey)
• Office 365 Adds iOS and Android SDKs for Native App Support (Jeff Martin)
• Adding REST-based Web Services to IoT Devices (Gastón Hillar)
• Cocos2d-x Now Supporting Windows Universal Apps (Adalberto Foresti)
• Logging in with Google, Microsoft and Facebook SDKs to Azure Mobile Services (Carlos Figueira)
• Insight Into Your Mobile Application (Jesse Liberty)
• Adding Native Touches to Your Hybrid App (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Web User Interfaces with Jen Myers (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Check Out the Prairie Dev Con Podcast (D’Arcy Lussier)
• Gone Mobile 19: Runscope with John Sheehan (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bob Odenkirk Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – How to Get Your Boss to Pay for Azure with Kenny Young (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 36 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Ping 227 – Xbox Digital TV Tuner, November System Update, PhotoMath, Titanfall updates, and Sunset Overdrive! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & Golnaz)

 

Community / Events

• Join Us for a Xamarin Fall European Roadshow (Jo Ann Buckner)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Exploring SQL Auditing with SQL Compliance Manager (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL database resources from author Eric Boyd (Kim Spilker)
• When To Choose Analysis Services vs. Power Pivot? (Melissa Coates)
• “Database First” with SQLite in a Universal App using the SQLite Toolbox and sqlite-net (Erik EJ)

 

SharePoint

• Modify SQL Server Reporting Services Rendering Format In SharePoint-Integrated Mode (Edwin Sarmiento)

 

Miscellaneous

• Presenting from a Mac – My Toolbox & Techniques (Andrew Connell)
• Pushing a new project to Chocolatey (Gordon W. Beeming)
• Microsoft is the tenth most profitable company in the world (Mark Wilson)
• Roadmap: From student to Software Engineer (Briannon Schaeffer)
• Why I hire MBAs (Olga Petrikova)
• Customizing VPN Security Settings on Windows 8.1Pro (Rachel Hagerman)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, October 27, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of October 20, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Double Shot #1425 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1724 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (10/20-10/26) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest (10/28/2014) (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #160 (Frank)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-28 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #79 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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