Dew Drop – January 21, 2015 (#1937)

Top Links

• First Windows 10 mobile preview, due in February, key to Microsoft’s OneCore vision (Mary Jo Foley)
• Navigation Improvements in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Spartan Might Support Chrome Extensions (Vygantas)
• Removing Distractions (Dan Counsell)

 

Web Development

• Stateless Filters Don’t Apply To Objects, Arrays, or ngRepeat In AngularJS 1.3 (Ben Nadel)
• Testable ViewModels with Kendo and Jasmine (Adam Anderson)
• What’s Coming in jQuery 3.0 (DevToolsGuy)
• 11 things about JavaScript functions .NET developers must know: Part 1 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• io.js already in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Integrating MediatR with Web API (Jimmy Bogard)
• What is new in ASP.NET 5 – See it at Microsoft Virtual Acadamy (Kris van der Mast)
• Laravel Development using PhpStorm (Maarten Balliauw)
• Using Windows Azure Service Bus for communication across two ASP.NET MVC Applications (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Custom ValidationSummary in MVC (Saad Khan)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Password Hashing (Simon Timms)
• Durandal View´s with Razor and C# ViewModel (Tim Cadenbach)
• Snippable: a human-writable multipart document format (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Azure Search – How to Add Suggestions (auto-complete) to your Search Applications (Liam Cavanagh)
• The for of Loop in ES6 (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Speed up the XAML editor in Visual Studio (Latish Sehgal)
• XAML Spy January 2015 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Adding WPF Client with Azure Active Directory Authentication and Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Bézier Segments (Richard Carr)
• How to Use Expandable List Items in Windows Store Apps (Kiril Stanoev)
• Windows Store apps: Invoke ScriptNotify event when we click in a button inside a WebView (Sara Silva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Multi-Swarm Optimization for Neural Networks Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Quake Mode Console for Visual Studio – Open a Command Prompt with a hotkey (Scott Hanselman)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Result Transformers (Ricardo Peres)
• Search your logs instantly using property filters (Guru Kirthigavasan)
• Data Annotations & Entity Type Configuration (Saad Khan)
• Spatial Sorting (Maxim Buriak)
• Small Basic on Mac & Linux (Phillip Trelford)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Getting RID of Risk with Agile (Jacob Creech)
• The DevOps battle field … provision, configure and deploy environments. (Clemens Reijnen)
• Retrospective exercise: Wheel of Five (Anders M. Andersen)
• Hone Your Craft, Raise Your Hand (Jim Holmes)
• Announcing GitHub Enterprise 2.1.0 (Matt Colyer)
• Business Rules – When to Break Them (Daniel Whittaker)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Mapping with Xamarin Talk (Roger Peters)
• Sample chapter: Exam Ref 70-696 Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps: Plan and Implement Software Updates (Kim Spilker)
• Windows IoT with the Grove Starter Kit on the Intel Galileo board (Matthias Shapiro)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Duck Punching with Todd Gardner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Real World IT – The App for That! 101 of SharePoint Apps (5 of 5) | Real World IT (Karuana Gatimu)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 064 | Latest News & Node.js Geek Out (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• AAWP Insight #124: Yezz Billy 4.7, Lumia 532 and 435 (Rafe Blandford)
• The Married Gamers Episode 356: Nintendo Love (Chris Brown)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 48.2 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Functional Geekery Episode 19 – Julie Moronuki and Chris Allen (Steven Proctor)
• Episode 3: Magma Mobile’s Nicolas Sorel, CEO and Founder | Level Up (Greg Duncan, Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon & Soumow)
• Coding in 60 Seconds Series (Tony Champion)

 

Community / Events

• C# Corner’s Top 10 Authors of 2014 is out! (Sara Silva)
• Windows 10: The ‘Next Chapter’ live and all you need to know (Daniel Rubino)
• Watch the Windows 10 media briefing live webcast on Wednesday (Suzanne Choney)
• Philly ALM User Group Meetings (Andy Schwam)

 

Database

• Using T-SQL to Perform Z-Score Column Normalization in SQL Server (Dallas Snider)
• Microsoft BI and SQL Server Courses For 2015 and Rendering Images In An Excel Worksheet With Power Query Using Cells As Pixels (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – Backups are Non-negotiable Lifeline for DBAs (Pinal Dave)
• The Data Loading Performance Presentation (Matan Yungman)
• Application vs. Reference Data (Jessica Kerr)
• Performance Tips for Azure DocumentDB – Part 1 (Stephen Baron)

 

PowerShell

• Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Creating a host team (Part 1) (Ravikanth C)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1462 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading January 20, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/12-1/18) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest 1/21/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1782 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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