November 2014 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – November 26, 2014 (#1904)

Top Links

RavenDB 3.0 RTM! (Oren Eini)
Open Sourcing and ASP.NET with “The Scotts” (MVP Award Program)
Android Tips: Hello Toolbar, Goodbye Action Bar (James Montemagno)
Windows App Studio adds Twitter and Instagram OAuth integration (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

Web Development

Speech Recognition in ASP.NET (Ricardo Peres)
JavaScript Progress Indicator on Page Scroll (jQuery Rain)
JavaScript Interview Questions: Event Delegation and This (David Posin)
The Top 5 Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make Part 1: Relying on $scope (Jeremy Likness)
WebAPI REST Routing For AngularJS and ExtJS (Peter Kellner)
Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: User Login (Samantha Zhang)
The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Taxonomies (Tom McFarlin)
Exception Handling in an AngularJS Application (Deborah Kurata)
WebClient and GetWebResponse not firing on Async Requests (Rick Strahl)
Another sign of the “new” Microsoft. Internet Explorer Web Dev Support moving to Stack Overflow (Greg Duncan)
3 Challenges of HTML5 – A SlideShare Presentation (Matthew Jones)
Azure : Redis Cache (Sacha Barber)
Class Inheritance in ECMAScript 6 (K. Scott Allen)

XAML

Leveraging the Nokia Imaging SDK in Your Windows Phone App (Kiril Stanoev)
The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps–Speech Recognition (Lori Lalonde)
Reading and Writing Base64 in the Windows Runtime (Jerry Nixon)
Create the Ultimate Fan Universal App using Windows AppStudio (Lori Lalonde)

Miscellaneous .NET

What’s new in C# 6.0? – String Interpolation (Kunal Chowdhury)
How to debug through .Net source code (B. Conlon)
Apps for Office: Creating a Content App for Excel (Josh Morales)
Garbage Collection and .NET Debugging at Build Stuff (Sasha Goldshtein)
APress Deal of the Day 26/Nov/2014 – Pro WF 4.5 (Tatworth)

Design / Methodology / Testing

A Last Look at Smart Unit Test (Preview): Square Peg & Round Hole (Jeremy Clark)
Different Ways of Scaling Agile (Jim Bird)
Automated end to end testing at Khan Academy using Gecko (Brian Bondy)
When to Use Toggle Buttons (Anthony)
Deploying Transparency and Self Regulating Management to Get Actions Done (Ben Linders)
Sharing Data Between Bounded Contexts in Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
Introducing the Azure Automation Script Converter (Joe Levy)
Chocolatey with Custom Script Extension on Azure VMs (Kundana Palagiri)
Task Lists are open source (Matt Todd)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS / Linux Cross-Platform C++ Survey (Eric Battalio)
Android gradient screenshot madness (Peter-Paul Koch)
Cordova Plugin Roundup (TJ VanToll)
5 Steps to Protect Mobile Apps from Attacks (Jared Blake)
App Development Made Easy (Jessica Skarzynski)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Stack Exchange Podcast #61 – The “What Jay’s Done Wrong” Podcast (Abby T. Miller)
Modern App Development | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Episode 057 | Catching up on the Latest News from Microsoft, Azure and Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Entreprogrammers Episode 40 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez)
Episode 1: Project Spark | Level Up (Greg Duncan & Soumow)
CodeChat 020 – Stefan Negritoiu (FreeBusy.io) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
SSW TV – App Harbour using Git Hub with Continuous Deployment with Michael Demarco (SSW Team)
Azure Podcast Episode 54 – Azure Batch (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Last Nerd Nite of 2014 Offers up Products from 1984 Sears Christmas Catalog, Because Why Not? (Eric Smith)
Dev of the Week: Max Katz (John Walter)
[PT] PGGD25 – 25º Portugal Girl Geek Dinner – Lisboa (Sara Silva)

Database

Power Query Now Works With SSAS (Chris Webb)
Archiving Azure Automation logs to Azure BLOB Storage (Jamie Thomson)
SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan – Maintenance Cleanup Task not Deleting Files (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

How to Develop a Progressive Mobile SharePoint Solution (DevToolsGuy)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft OneNote is a secret weapon for Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping (Brian Fagioli)
Windows 10 to support FLAC audio format (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
How to survive as the family tech support on Thanksgiving (Greg Shields)
Classic Star Wars characters come to Minecraft on Xbox consoles (Joseph Keller)
Holiday gifts for Microsoft Lumia lovers (Rhea)
Hands On with the Xbox One Controller and Cable for Windows (Richard Hay)
paint.net 4.0.4 beta build 5442 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 25, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of November 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading November 25, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Daily News Digest 11/26/2014 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1745 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides): Bill Phillips, Brian Hardy: 9780321804334: Books

ISBN: 0321804333
ISBN-13: 9780321804334

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Dew Drop – November 25, 2014 (#1903)

Top Links

Announcing DotNetAnalyzers: Diagnostics and Code Fix Open Source projects (Bill Wagner)
Advisory Council Proposal — Call for Community Feedback Extended to December 5th (Immo Landwerth)
Yet More Smart Unit Tests (Preview): Fix and Roadblock (Jeremy Clark)
Introducing the Child Process Debugging Power Tool (Andrew B Hall)

Web Development

Gulp in WebStorm 9 (Ekaterina Prigara)
Custom Services in AngularJS (Manjunath K)
Content negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON) (Yishai G.)
Creating Pretty Tabs with HTML and CSS (Deborah Kurata)
ASP.NET 5: Using POCO controllers (Gunnar Peipman)
Grunt in a modular application (Bertrand Le Roy)
Script Polyglots (Eric Lawrence)
Sublime Text for Front End Developers (Wes Bos)
Debugging IIS Express website from a HyperV Virtual Machine (Jeff Yates)
Unattended authentication to Azure Management APIs with Azure Active Directory (Tom Hollander)

XAML

We love XAML – Blend for Windows och Phone development (Andreas Hammar)
WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Formatting (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

Building a Better Visual Studio Start Page… (Greg Duncan)
C# Tips eBook Complete (Jason Roberts)
What’s new in C# 6.0? – Setting default values to Auto Properties (Kunal Chowdhury)
Using SQLite with the Entity Framework 6 designer – a troubleshooting guide (Erik EJ)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Strategy Deployment, the X-Matrix and Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
A Tech Lead Paradox: Delivering vs Learning (Patrick Kua)
Managing team dev and build environments with vagrant and chef (Matt Wrock)
Reap the benefits of automated testing by making it contagious (Wes McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

iOS 8: Creating a Custom Keyboard in Swift (Andrei Puni)
Using Windows Runtime Component with Cordova Project (Eric Mittelette)
Debugging Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Intel XDK (Gastón Hillar)
5 Steps to Protect Mobile Apps from Attacks (Jared Blake)
Twitter’s new search API closed to third-party apps (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Tutorial: Connecting your Xbox One / 360 gamepad to Unity (David Voyles)
Adding Intelligent Analytics and Crash Reporting to Your Apps (James Montemagno)
Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 8) (Rob Tiffany)
Building Cross-Platform Apps with the Telerik Platform and The State of Hybrid Tooling (TJ VanToll)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Defrag Tools #116 – PerfView Part 4 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

Thanks to a Drexel Professor, You Can Learn to Program with LocoRobo (David Goodman)
LiveSide is retiring, thanks for all your support! (Kip Kniskern)
A gamer’s guide to paving a career path (Michelle Feder)

Database

SQL SERVER – FIX – The database ‘model’ is marked RESTORING and is in a state that does not allow recovery to be run (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Using WMI SMTP Event Consumer DSC resource (Ravikanth C)
PowerShell : Http Get/Post (Sacha Barber)

Miscellaneous

Recruit to Catch the Good Ones (Ben Linders)
ISO files for the standard Windows 10 9879 preview build have been released (John Callaham)
Ransom is the new black – the increasing trend of online extortion (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

Double Shot #1438 (Mike Gunderloy)
Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, November 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading November 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #110 (Jason Strate)
The Morning Brew #1744 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

[2-in-1] RAVPower® Qi-Enabled Wireless Charger / 5000mAh External Battery Pack Charger (Matt Black, Free AC Adapter Included, 5V / 1.5A Input, Powered by AC Adapter or USB Port), for Nexus 5 / 7 / 4; Samsung Galaxy S4, S3, Note3, Note2; Droid Charge; LG Optimus LTE2, Spectrum; HTC Rezound, Incredible 2, Incredible 4 LTE; Motorola Droid 4; Nokia Lumia 920 and other Other Qi-Enabled Phones: Cell Phones & Accessories

ASIN: B00HYAZMU2

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Dew Drop – November 24, 2014 (#1902)

Top Links

How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 7: Using the Managed Extensibility Framework (Ondrej Balas)
MS Press Sale: Save up to 55% on all books & eBooks (Kim Spilker)
Pull/Swipe To Refresh for Xamarin.Forms Android Apps (James Montemagno)
5 Common C# tasks in Apple Swift Programming Language (Chris Pietschmann)

Web Development

Unbinding Scope.$on() Event Handlers In AngularJS and Scope.$broadcast() Is Surprisingly Efficient In AngularJS and How Scope.$broadcast() Interacts With Isolate Scopes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
ASP.NET NHibernateDataSource and Loading ASP.NET MVC Controllers and Views From an Assembly (Ricardo Peres)
Gulp in WebStorm 9 (Ekaterina Prigara)
Four Simple Tips to Improve your Asp.Net MVC Project (Frank)
Playing Around with Telerik Tools and VS2015, ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 Preview (Vassil Petev)
Web Performance Optimization is a Competitive-Advantage (Chris Love)
Use grunt.config.merge (Bertrand Le Roy)
Sitefinity, Sitecore and Orchard – Different Choices (Lino Tadros)
Yoooman! Getting Started with Yeoman (Part 1) (Rami Sayar)

XAML

TypedMVVM and WinJS: Binding event handlers in a ListView ItemTemplate (Davide Zordan)
C# & Browser controls in WF / WPF: WebBrowser vs Awesomium comparison + few tricks (Emiliarge)
You Will Not Be Able to Developer Unlock Your Windows Phone 7.x Devices After December 31st 2014 (Kiril Stanoev)
Now available: xUnit for Windows Phone 8 Silverlight (Oren Novotny)

Miscellaneous .NET

Entity Framework Pitfalls – Registering Custom Database Functions for LINQ (Ricardo Peres)
Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook – Book Review (Abhijit Jana)
Avoiding Visual Studio Fakes Build break (Ajay Arora)
Using Visual Studio as an Azure File Explorer (Rachel Hagerman)
Retrieving Multiple RecordSets in a Single Trip to the Database (Peter Vogel)
Native Memory Diagnostics in VS2015 Preview (Adam Welch)
Here’s your Game Changer for 2014: IntelliRush in CodeRush 14.2 (Mark Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Property Injection – Additional Unit Tests (Jeremy Clark)
Scrumdamentals 101: Product Backlog (Michael Burns)
Unit testing concurrent code using custom TaskScheduler (Dror Helper)
A Tech Lead Paradox: Delivering vs Learning (Patrick Kua)
Managing team dev and build environments with vagrant and chef (Matt Wrock)
Persuasive UX – Beyond Good and Evil (Sayan Mukherjee)
Is this technology worth learning? (Wes McClure)

Other Mobile Platforms

Want to preview our new DataGrid for Xamarin.Forms? (Eric Sink)
Beyond JSON: Spearal Serialization Protocol for iOS (Franck Wolff)
Get Started with Xamarin.Forms via the Evolve Mini-Hack (Mike Bluestein)
Mobile Development for Everyone (Jennifer W.)
Adding Jumping To My Unity 2D Game and Game Over Animation And Restarting (Jesse Freeman)
Connect your Swift Application to Parse.com and Swift: Create user sign up based app with Parse.com using PFUser (Mark Petherbridge)
Kinect 4 Windows v2 – Custom Gestures in Unity (Pete D.)
Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo (part 3) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MNR 53: Busy week of game launches, Syracuse Store Open and more (Larry Hyrb)
MS Dev Show – Getting People Excited about Technology with Anthony Russell (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
The Nerdist Podcast – Adam Savage Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – John Cleese (Chris Hardwick)
Inside Windows Platform – Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
TWC9: The Three C’s – Cortana, C++ Con, Connect(); and more…. | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
Episode 162: Azure 2.5 SDK with Paul Yuknewicz | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
Delve (Codename Oslo) – Next Generation Discovery and Search | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
Get Up And Code 066: Programmer Fitness (John Sonmez)
Evolving the NuGet.org Architecture (Jeff Handley)
StarTalk Radio – Reporting on Science (Part 1) – extended with Elise Andrew of IFLS and Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
GeekWire Radio: Our 3rd Annual Geeky Holiday Gift & Gadget Guide (Todd Bishop)

Community / Events

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Stephen Olner and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Gerson Dias and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Danijel Malik (Willy-P. Schaub)
The Microsoft Band and me (Joost van Schaik)
.NET Pioneers (Vicky Hammond)

Database

SQL SERVER – How to use Procedure sp_user_counter1 to sp_user_counter10 and SQL SERVER – SSMS Trick – Generating CSV file using Management Studio (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

Splunk App for SharePoint goes Open Source (Adrian Hall)

PowerShell

Using WMI Event Log Event Consumer DSC resource (Ravikanth C)

Miscellaneous

How to use an authenticator app to improve your online security (Ed Bott)
Microsoft Strategy Vice President Teper: ‘Minecraft is a development tool’ (Mary Jo Foley)
Microsoft says the kernel version for Windows 10 will jump from 6.4 to 10.0 (John Callaham)
The long, promising (and frustrating) history of Microsoft’s consumer file sync services (Kip Kniskern)
Small Basic – Mouse Position (litdev)
Wood Grain Drawn with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, November 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
Geek Reading November 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Collective #143 (Mary Lou)
Double Shot #1436 and Double Shot #1437 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1743 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 11/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Reading Notes #164 (Frank)
Last Week on Channel 9: November 17th – 23rd, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-24 (Dan Rigby)
Weekly Programming Digest #83 (Jakub Chodounský)
Reblog: November 14 to November 20 (Jason Strate)
Office 365 news round-up (Jake Zborowski)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step (Step by Step Developer): John Sharp: 9780735681835: Books

ISBN: 073568183X
ISBN-13: 9780735681835

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