Dew Drop – January 12, 2015 (#1931)

Top Links

• We’re moving to GitHub! (Kasey Uhlenhuth) – Roslyn is moving from CodePlex to GitHub
• IncrediBuild and the Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Eric Battalio)
• Write C# on a Mac like a Champ! (Sam Basu)
• What’s the Best Time for a Daily Scrum? (Michael Burns)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Web Forms Prompt Validator (Ricardo Peres)
• Experimenting With ngModel And ngModelController In AngularJS and Creating An HTML-Based Select Menu In AngularJS Using ngModel And ngModelController (Ben Nadel)
• Anti Forgery Tokens with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API (Frez)
• Writing an Angular JS application end-2-end–Part 2 (Gabriel Schenker)
• Developer Plugin: Essential for WordPress Theme Development (Patrick Mwachugu)
• How to consume SQL Spatial Data with Web API V2.2 for OData V4 (Sam_Xu)
• Authoring your First jQuery Plugin (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Authomatic redirection when logging out of a Thinktecture Identity Server (Aaron Powell)
• Markdown Edit 1.2.0 Released (Mike Ward)
• Sublime ReactJS Bootstrap HelloWorld Template for Quickstart (Ajitesh Kumar)
• JSON# – Tutorial #4: Deserialising Simple Objects (Paul Mooney)
• [Announcement] RESTier – A turn-key solution to build OData services (Yi Ding)

 

XAML

• Shared XAML and localization in Universal Windows apps (Andreas Hammar)
• Visual Studio 2010 WPF Trace Settings Default Is Incorrect (Karl Shifflett)
• Thinking About MVVM and View Models and Building the Xamarin.Forms Basic Layout Using XAML and Adding Xamarin.Forms Support and Improving the Differential Synchronisation using Azure Mobile Services (Nick Randolph)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Combined Geometry (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• HOWTO: Monitor solution events in Visual Studio extensions (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Issue I ran into when using Nuget/SlowCheetah (Gregor Suttie)
• Tip: Create a Visual Studio Menu option to Open a Command Window (Rick Strahl)
• Visual Studio Time Saver – How can I keep track of unfinished code? (Susan Ibach)
• Finding the leaked object reference by scanning memory: Example (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Using Agile Retrospectives for Organizational Change (Ben Linders)
• Scrum: Committing While Discovering (Isaac Hogue)
• Reducing Test Times by Only Running Impacted Tests (Paul Hammant)
• Mocking Current Time with a Time Provider (Jeremy Clark)
• A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach to Digital Design (Kent Eisenhuth)
• Sample chapter: Scenario-Focused Engineering: Take an Experimental Approach (Kim Spilker)
• Testing Economics Article on StickyMinds (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Spring cleaning of git branches (Jessica Kerr)
• New features added to simplified browser-based Load Test authoring (Ranganath G.)
• Failing Properly (Rob Miles)
• How to deal with negative co-workers (Stacy Warden)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Load More Items at End of ListView in Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
• “System.IO.FileNotFoundException” using controls from another assembly in Xamarin Forms on iOS. (Joost van Schaik)
• Xamarin Test Cloud Video Series: Uploading Test Scripts and Viewing Mobile Test Results (Steven Yi)
• Swift from Scratch: An Introduction to Functions (Bart Jacobs)
• oData NAV Swift and Me (Richard Jones)
• Getting Started with LittleBits (Rob Miles)
• Azure Mobile Services: The story of the real application (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 293 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVP Brian Ehlert from Citrix (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• MNR 532: Welcome to 2015 (Larry Hyrb)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 154 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Azure Podcast Episode 59 – Visual Studio & Azure (Sujit D’Mello)
• MS Dev Show – Azure Stream Analytics with Janet Yeilding (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Vacation Brain (Chris Hardwick)
• What the Tech 242: CES 2015 Highlights (Paul Thurrott)
• Get Up And Code 073: Amir Rajan And His #1 App (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: Hello 2015, Greg and Nisha too! | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nisha Singh)
• Episode 165: Docker with Jeff Mendoza | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Inside Windows Platform – How to Add Push Notifications to Your App (Larry Lieberman)
• SSW TV – Using Virtualisation to Debug Mobile Applications | Craig Woollett (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• The Verge Awards at CES 2015: the year in tech starts here (Verge Staff)
• Webcast: Asynchronous Programming Demystified – Jan 14th # (SubMain Team)
• Winter Festival Alert: The All-New Winterfest Brewfest Debuts At The Blue Cross RiverRink At Penn’s Landing, January 23-25 (Kristina Jenkins)

 

Database

• Using a Simple SQL Server Bulk Insert to View and Validate Data (Rick Dobson)
• Transforming Hospitality with Windows Mobility – Oracle Micros (Baldwin Ng)
• SQL SERVER – What is the query used in sp_cursorfetch and FETCH API_CURSOR? and SQL SERVER – Finding Tables Created Last Week – DBA Tip Part II and Interview Question of the Week #002 – Script to Find Byte Size of a Row for All the Tables in Database (Pinal Dave)
• Managing Encryption Keys in SQL – Azure Key Vault (Simon Sabin)
• T-SQL script to find the highly populated tables in database and T-SQL script to find the growth size of database files (Vivek Johari)

 

SharePoint

• Why would I use SharePoint as a Content Management System (CMS)? (Todd Crenshaw)

 

PowerShell

• Automate Trace Imports With PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why I don’t like open source: my thoughts (Remy Sharp)
• Small Basic – Errors (Nonki Takahashi)
• Former Google employees rip off Microsoft’s Surface with copycat Android tablet (Brad Sams)
• WP8.1 GDR2 skipped, Windows Mobile 10 to be the next preview update. (Kamal)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 9, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #150 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1458 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/12/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 5th – January 11th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1775 (Chris Alcock)
• Weekly Programming Digest #89 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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