Dew Drop – March 31, 2015 (#1984)

Top Links

• What’s New in Fiddler 4.5 (Eric Lawrence)
• “Project Spartan” in the Windows Technical Preview build 10049 (Kyle Pflug)
• Announcing PostSharp 4.1 RTM (Gael Fraiteur)
• Developing for Microsoft Band Tutorial part 2: Connecting to the band and retrieving band information (Iris Classon)

 

Web Development

• Entry Points for ASP.NET 5 Commands (K. Scott Allen)
• In JavaScript, declaring variables at the top of functions is a bad idea (free video tutorial) (Wes Higbee)
• Asynchronous Processing with TypeScript and Generic Promises (Peter Vogel)
• Dart Adds Support for Asynchronous Programming (James Chesters)
• Building Distributed Cloud Apps With Azure WebSites, WebJobs And Azure Service Bus Topic (Shiju Varghese)
• Writing DecentCMS documentation (Bertrand Le Roy)
• OWASP #5 Security Misconfiguration: Hardening your ASP.NET App (Max McCarty)
• At Bloomberg We’ve Made Brisket. And It Can Make Anything. (Bloomberg Consumer Web Team)
• Getting interesting data into Azure Machine Learning (AzureML) (Jennifer Marsman)
• My Recommended Brackets Extensions (John Papa)
• Premium Tier for Azure App Service (Nir Mashkowski)
• The Rise of TypeScript? (TJ VanToll)

 

XAML

• Multiple Animations in WPF (lally727)
• A Succinct Look at Windows 10 Tools for Developers (Michael Crump)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• JSON.NET deserialize to abstract class or interface (Robert Muehsig)
• Rx Challenge #4 (solution) (Bnaya Eshet)
• Wix# (WixSharp) – managed interface for WiX – Release v1.0.10.0 (CodePlex)
• Solution: Little Puzzlers–Is tree a Binary Search Tree? (James Michael Hare)
• Analyzing Control Flow with Roslyn (John Robbins)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How a Scrum Master Helped a Team to Increase Their Agility (Ben Linders)
• 9 Fundamental Laws of Effective Communication Skills (J.D. Meier)
• Using git commits to drive a live coding session (Tomas Lycken)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Sharing Resource Dictionaries in your Xamarin.Forms App (Richard Garside)
• How to Use Android Media Effects With OpenGL ES (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• How Xamarin is empowering developers to create better mobile apps and Monitor your apps with Xamarin Insights (DevToolsGuy)
• Creating Beautiful iOS Controls with PaintCode (Michael James)
• You can now use JavaScript to build Cocos2d-x Games for Modern Windows and Join the Challenge to Build a Cocos2d Modern Windows game using C++ or JavaScript (Eric Mittelette)
• IoT For Humans (and Developers) – Getting Started with my Microsoft Band (James Chambers)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Azure App Service with Scott Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ben Gibbard (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #130 – Services | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• EntreProgrammers Episode 58 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Tuesdays with Corey: OS Disk Size and Azure IaaS Backup | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Pedersen (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Top 100 .Net Bloggers from 2014 (Phillip Trelford)
• Why You Need to Speak at Your Next Code Camp (John Sonmez)
• Imagine Cup: It’s almost game over! (Mickey MacDonald)
• Microsoft Virtual Academy presents Developing Solutions with Azure DocumentDB (Ryan CrawCour)

 

Database

• Create a Greenbar Report in SQL Server Reporting Services (Dallas Snider)
• Foreign Keys in SQL Server (video) (Kendra Little)
• SQL Server High Availability in the Azure Cloud Part 1: The Basics (David Bermingham)
• SQL Server Compact & SQLite Toolbox 4.2 – Visual Guide of new features (Erik EJ)
• SQL SERVER – Script to find SQL Startup Account using WMIC (Pinal Dave)
• Changing the autogrowth settings for a set of databases (Wesley Bakker)

 

SharePoint

• Lots of Updates for Breeze + SharePoint (Andrew Connell)
• Querying SharePoint (Ricardo Peres)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft starts rolling out mobile device management to Office 365 business customers and Microsoft’s OneDrive, SharePoint chief to take on a new role (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 30, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1496 (Mike Gunderloy)
•  Coding4Fun First Quarter 2015 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1831 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (3/23-3/22) (Dara Monasch)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 30th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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