Dew Drop – February 25, 2015 (#1962)

Top Links

• Expanding WPF for UI Debugging (Harikrishna Menon)
• Introducing the UI debugging tools for XAML (Dante Gagne)
• The new OneDrive API (Ryan Gregg)
• .NET Rocks! – Mobile Testing on Xamarin with James Montemagno (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

• Creating A Factory Provider For The Configuration Phase In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Manipulating HTML Tables – Part 1 (Adding Rows) and Manipulating HTML Tables – Part 2 (Adding Rows) (Paul Sheriff)
• RWD, Mobile-first, JavaScript and Performance (Dino Esposito)
• Updating to ASP.NET 5 beta3 (Mark Rendle)
• CodeLens file activity and history now available for C++, JavaScript and SQL files stored in Git (Mathew Aniyan)
•  Posting dynamic data to Web API (Rory Primrose)
• Oops! I did it again: introducing DecentCMS (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Microsoft ups its push to get developers onboard with its cloud-service APIs (Mary Jo Foley)
• Giving Octopus Deploy a Test Drive (Gregor Suttie)
• Pointer Events W3C Recommendation, Interoperable Touch, and Removing the Dreaded 300ms Tap Delay (Jacob Rossi)
• Algorithmia API Exposes Collective Knowledge of Developers (Martin W. Brennan)
• The Curious Case of the Missing Azure Connection String (Max McCarty)
• Announcing the 1.0.1-alpha preview of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK (Pranav Rastogi)

XAML

•  WPF Brushes – Tiled Images (Richard Carr)
• Enterprise guidance for publishing Windows apps (Jennifer Marsman)

Miscellaneous .NET

• Book Review: Concurrency in C# Cookbook (Bill Wagner)
• Java vs C# – Part 1 and Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Versioning and Optimistic Concurrency (Ricardo Peres)
• The LINQ OfType<TResult> Method: Cast or Filter? (Jeremy Clark)
•  FAKE: Running xUnit Tests with FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F# (Robert Muehsig)
• Open source .NET: A progress report (DevToolsGuy)
• C/C++ Code analysis in VS2015 (Joe Morris & Jim Springfield)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing Structurizr (Simon Brown)
• Teams of Teams: The Big Scrum Series (David Starr)
• Agile Misconceptions: Agile is Just a Project Management Framework (Johanna Rothman)
• The New Agile–Decisions, Decisions (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation: Chapter Two (Antonia Bozhkova)
• Behaviour-Driven Development Combined with Domain-Driven Design (Jan Stenberg)
• Don’t Waste Time Tracking Technical Debt (Jim Bird)
• Handling Events in TestComplete Keyword Tests (Noel Rice)
• Meta-design: The intersection of art, design, and computation (Rune Madsen)
• Article: Linda Rising & Richard Sheridan on Creating a Culture of Joy – Part 2 (Shane Hastie)
• Code usability testing (Wes Higbee)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Easily launch the iOS Simulator from the command line (Rob Gibbens)
• New Playgrounds (Swift Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

•  SSW TV – AngularJS with Dan Wahlin (SSW Team)
• Video Tutorial: Developing for Microsoft Band – Getting Started with Windows Phone (Iris Classon)
• Countdown to Ignite: The One with Q&A from the Ignite Forum + Cool Things to do in Chicago! | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin McKinnon)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Building 20 Remodel | Microsoft Campus Tours (Jamey T, Larry Larsen, Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon & ehavir)
• Ping 237: Battlebots, an unlikely pairing, Mars One selects its finalists | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Identity 201: Cloud Identity for Developers | Explain that to me (Mat Velloso)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 221: Jez Humble on Continuous Delivery (SE-Radio Team)

Community / Events

•  Live APAC Webinar: Go Mobile with Xamarin (Courtney Witmer)
• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Derek Keeler (Willy-P. Schaub)
• We’ll see you at GDC 2015! (Greg Hartrell)
• Dev of the Week: Tim Rosenblatt (John Walter)
• Why are women leaving the tech industry in droves? (Tracey Lien)

Database

• Using Extended Events to Monitor SQL Server Availability Groups (Carla Abanes)
• SQL SERVER – Storing Data in Hindi, Chinese, Gujarati and Tamil (or any other) Language in the Same Table (Pinal Dave)
• Solving a slow running query issue with UNION (Koen Verbeeck)
• Please Bypass the Database (Nimish Doshi)
• Azure Blob Storage Part 7: Snapshots (Robin Shahan)

SharePoint

•  Developing with Office 365, SharePoint, Breeze and Angular JS (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

• Date arithmetic with PowerShell (Adam Bertram)
• PowerShell Script Analyzer: Static Code analysis for Windows PowerShell scripts & modules (Raghu Shantha)

Miscellaneous

• Stardock to deliver a Windows 10 Start menu replacement (Mary Jo Foley)
• Steam in-home streaming to a Dell Venue Pro (David Voyles)
• 2015 is year of the Chromebook (Joe Wilcox)
• Microsoft Surface Hub featured at international defense conference (Vanessa Ho)

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 24, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1807 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-25 (Dan Rigby)

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