Dew Drop – January 19, 2015 (#1935)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available (John Montgomery)
• Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015 (Dan J Taylor)
• Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• New UI Performance Analysis Tool for WPF Applications (Harikrishna Menon)
• Porting #MVVMLight to the Xamarin.iOS Unified API (64 bits) (Laurent Bugnion)
• .NET Core API Review 2015-01-14 | .NET Framework (Immo Landwerth)

 

Web Development

• AngularJS Pro-Tip: Be Mindful Of HTML Attribute Ordering and ngSwitchWhen Priority Is Higher Than ngRepeat Priority In AngularJS 1.3 and Binding Multiple ngSwitchWhen Cases To The Same Value In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Theming and Customization jQuery Date Picker Control (Mihail Mateev)
• HTML templating with ES6 template strings (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Is JavaScript Broken? (Dave M. Bush)
• Angular Cloud Data Connector (David Catuhe)
• Getting started with JavaScript Unit Testing using QUnit (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WordPress.com REST API Transitions to v1.1 (Eric Carter)
• Sharing Data in an Angular Controller or an Angular Service (John Papa)
• Globals, IIFEs, this, and strict mode (Julian M. Bucknall)
• The Real MVC in Web Apps (Ryan Reilly)
• Angular and templating (Peter-Paul Koch)
• Building Web API using MVC 6 & MongoDB (Shayne Boyer)
• Upgrading Visual Studio 2015 Preview to ASP.NET 5/MVC 6 RC and ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 3, Adding Client Routing and ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 4, Using Entity Framework 7 and ASP.NET 5 and AngularJS Part 5, Form Validation (Stephen Walther)
• Important Tips Every jQuery Developer Should Know (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Atom API 1.0 Is Stable (Abel Avram)
• New Application Insights functionality on Azure Websites with the Application Insights Website extension (Byron Tardif)
• An introduction to Gulp (Florian Rappl)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.4 (Jonathan Turner)
• What’s new with Docker Hub? (Ken Cochrane)
• Manually Using Fiddler to Authenticate and Manually Using Fiddler to Authenticate (Part II – Actual Walkthrough) (Nick Randolph)
• To SPA, or not to SPA? (Ryan Reilly)
• JSON# – Tutorial #5: Deserialising Complex Objects (Paul Mooney)
• Using JSON Web Tokens with Katana and WebAPI (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Xamarin.Forms Grouped ListView with XAML (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Displaying HTML content in a TextBlock (Shawn Kendrot)
• Using XAML ViewBox in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• How to open and close Flyouts in Universal apps using MVVM (Marco Minerva)
• Adding Azure Active Directory Authentication to Windows Phone 8.0 Application with Xamarin.Forms and Accessing Authentication Required Mobile Service and Authenticating With Azure Active Directory In Universal Windows Platform Applications (Nick Randolph)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Arc Segments (Richard Carr)
• Avoid nightmares updating Azure Mobile Services projects (Sara Silva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Sharpening Developer Productivity with ReSharper (Ondrej Balas)
• Blend Path interfering with C# Project Builds (Rick Strahl)
• Determing MSBuild property values and Looking forward to a better StyleCop (Jared Parsons)
• IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 and Walkthrough of Live Debugging using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 (Text Editor) (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 is available (Brian Harry)
• Insight and Self Servicing needs for Dev & Test Teams (Clemens Reijnen)
• Averages are not good enough (F#) (Jef Claes)
• What’s new in C# 6.0? – Dictionary Initializer (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using Serilog with F# Discriminated Unions (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Format TypeScript with F# (Cameron Taggart)
• FnuPlot: Cross-platform charting with gnuplot (Tomas Petricek)
• NCache 3.1 Open Sourced (Kay Ewbank)
• Adding Support for ISupportInitialize in NHibernate and Lesser-Known NHibernate Features – Generating Database Scripts (Ricardo Peres)
• Watchkit MSMQ (Richard Jones)
• NetMQ : Documentation II (Sacha Barber)
• Implementing std::tuple From The Ground Up – Part 2: Index Sequences (Sasha Goldshtein)
• NCover Pre-Instrumentation (Kerry Meade)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Scaling Agile: Frameworks and Experiences (Ben Linders)
• Article: Conversation Patterns for Software Professionals. Part 3 (Michał Bartyzel)
• The New Agile – Size Matters (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Putting People First to Increase Motivation and Performance (Ben Linders)
• The Habits of Front-End and Back-End Developers (DevToolsGuy)
• 7 things to look for when testing with agility (Daniel McNamee)
• Code Analysis Survey (Eric Battalio)
• How Do I Prioritize Work? (Isaac Hogue)
• First Tries Are Sometimes Ugly and Code Gets Better by Sharing Experience and Expertise (Jeremy Clark)
• Long Lived Codebases: The Challenges (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Combating the lava-layer anti-pattern with rolling refactoring (Jimmy Bogard)
• Does Manual Testing Have a Future? (John Sonmez)
• Article: Building Hybrid Teams (Michi Tyson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Get battery level on Windows and iOS (Peter Freeman Foot)
• How Google Analytics helps you make better decisions for your apps (Russell Ketchum)
• Announcing the Beta Release of the Telerik Mobile Cloud Testing Platform (Brian Rinaldi)
• Developing an Apple Watch App (Sergio De Simone)
• Through the Looking Glass: Adventures in Mobile App Simulation, Emulation, and Device Testing (Jen Looper)
• Azure services and Internet of Things (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Web vs. Hybrid vs. Native Apps – How to pick in 2015 (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 029 on MSDN code samples with Andrew Byrne (Jeremy Thake)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 155 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Performance as a Feature with Matt Warren (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Dev Show – MVVM Light with Laurent Bugnion (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Offline Web Based Data Storage with Cloud Sync using Angular Cloud Data Connector (ACDC) | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 49: Scott Stanfield (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Adventures in Angular 025 – Testing with Ward Bell (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ethan Hawke (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 172 – “Connected Car” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Changelog 137: Better GitHub Issues with HuBoard and Ryan Rauh (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Introduction to Azure Websites Testing in Production with Galin Iliev | Azure Friday (Azure Team)
• Get Up And Code 074: Xopher Reed and His Media Empire (Douglas Coleman)
• TWC9: Windows 10 Media Event, Build Registration Dates, What is .NET Core and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Golnaz, Scott Klein & Nisha Singh)
• Edge Show 132 – KeyVault, Docker images and Big VMs | Edge (RicksterCDN)
• StarTalk Radio – The Story of Life on Earth with Sir David Attenborough (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Coding in 60 Seconds – Roaming Data (ep1) (Tony Champion)
• Nerds At Play 077: It’s PAX Time Y’all (Melisa Snyder)

 

Community / Events

• Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Champion Awards 2015 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Goodbye (Paul Thurrott)
• 5 Questions With Jeff Fritz (Tony Verguldi)
• Contest: Show Us Your App! (Jayme Singleton)

 

Database

• Making SQL Server metadata queries easier with these new Views (Aaron Bertrand)
• Pagination in SQL Server (Kenneth Fisher)
• SQL Servers Lag and Lead Functions to Help Identify Date Differences (Thomas LeBlanc)
• How to fix Mysql Version Mismatch with Nuget when it’s make error when you share your code with others. (Anirudha Gupta)
• The Basics of Oracle Statistics (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – Configuration and Performance of SQL Server is Now Easy to Master and SQL SERVER – Watching Table Variable Data in TempDB and SQL SERVER – How to Find Weak Passwords Using T-SQL? (Pinal Dave)
• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Routing (Oren Eini)
• Azure Data Services: SQL in the Cloud (Part 2) (Adarsha Datta)

 

PowerShell

• Safely running windows automation operations that fail inside winrm or powershell remoting (Matt Wrock)

 

Miscellaneous

• Small Basic Featured Article – How to Create For Loops. How to Create For Loops. How to Create For Loops. (Ed Price)
• Reality TV for Developers – Where is Twitch.tv for Programmers? (Scott Hanselman)
• 3 more tech jobs to watch in 2015 (Stacy Warden)
• Seahawks’ miracle win registers ‘close to a real earthquake’ on seismic sensors (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 15, 2015 and Geek Reading January 16, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #151 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1460 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/15/2015 and Daily News Digest 1/19/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 12th – January 18th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1779 and The Morning Brew #1780 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #338 (Mike Ward)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 15th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 16th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 19th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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