Dew Dump – August 17, 2015 (#2070)

Today’s post is a mostly-unorganized dump of what happened while I was away last week. We’ll return to the standard Dew Drop format tomorrow.

Web Development

• Exploring the Spring Web MVC for Web Application Development ()
• Possible Bug: Empty Animations Are Cached In AngularJS 1.4 ()
• Conditional Animations And Transition Timing In AngularJS ()
• Experimenting With Russian Doll Error Reporting In Node.js ()
• Node.js Development for .NET Developers: Developing & Debugging Workflow – with Visual Studio Code ()
• Rate Limiting in ASP.NET MVC (admin)
• Using Gulp and Karma to test a jQuery Plugin (Andy Summerfield)
• Desktop Apps With Electron And Kendo UI (Burke Holland)
• JavaScript Error Tracking with Todd Gardner | Episode 12 (Craig McKeachie)
• Introduction to JavaScript Variables (Dan Wellman)
• 12 tips to increase the performance of ASP.NET application drastically – Part 1 (DevToolsGuy)
• Creating an ASP.NET Web API using the Entity Framework Code First approach and the Repository pattern (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Disposing resources at the end of Web API request (filek)
• Use JavaScript and MapQuest To Get A User’s Zipcode (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Using Raphael.js Charts in ASP.NET MVC (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Learning to Export Kendo UI Widgets without a Browser Using PhantomJS Part 3: Debugging (Rachel Hagerman)
• Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Projects between Beta Versions (Rick Strahl)
• Real-Time Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin and SignalR (Spencer Schneidenbach)
• LightSwitch HTML Tree Administrator (webmaster@adefwebserver.com)

 

XAML

• UWP: external navigation in code (Koen Zwikstra)
• Xaml Reference for Xamarin.Forms (Adam J Wolf)
• Windows 10 Development: MvvmLight NavigationService and the Behaviors SDK (Josh Morales)
• Windows 10 UWP–Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 4 of N) (Mike Taulty)
• Windows 10 UWP–Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 5 of N) (Mike Taulty)
• Windows 10 UWP–Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 6 of N) (Mike Taulty)
• Windows 10 UWP–Migrating a Windows 8.1 App (Part 7 of N) (Mike Taulty)
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM, Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Developer Tools and Debugging on a Windows Phone device (nick@builttoroam.com)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A LINQ Style Cumulative Moving Average Operator (Richard Carr)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: Filters & transformers with RavenDB Replication (Oren Eini)
• Nuget2 Movetogithub ()
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: Monitoring active I/O operations (Oren Eini)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: Monitoring support (Oren Eini)
• Top 10 C# 6.0 Language Features ()
• 15 Visual Studio Project Templates To Jump Start Your Code ()
• Hassle-free immutable type updates in C# ()
• TFS Upgrade – Short Lead Checklist (Bazul)
• TFS Upgrade – Long Lead Preparations (Bazul)
• TFS Upgrade – Long Lead Checklist (Bazul)
• .NET 4.5 new Async API (Bnaya Eshet)
• Async Local (Bnaya Eshet)
• Update on .NET Framework 4.6 and Azure (Brady Gaster)
• Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th (Brian Harry MS)
• Angular Custom Services: Factory vs Service (Deborah Kurata)
• Automatic Compilation in VS Code for TypeScript (Deborah Kurata)
• How to Change Drop Location in TFS Build (Gaurav Bodar)
• ReSharper 9.2 Release Candidate 2 (Jura Gorohovsky)
• C#: Program Entirely With Static Methods (Mike Hadlow)
• TypeScript projects in Visual Studio (Look ma, nolib) (nwolverson@scottlogic.com (Nicholas Wolverson))
• Microsoft Visual Studio as a Python IDE (pcgeek86)
• Visual Studio Code | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Roaming Extension Manager | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Visual Studio Code – August Update (0.7.0) (Sean McBreen [MSFT])
• Visual Studio 2015 Dotfuscator CE Adoption: The first 500 users (Sebastian Holst)
• Live Visual Tree in Visual Studio (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• New features of C# 6 (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 and ALM 2015 with Adam Cogan (ssw)
• Asynchronous Programming understanding async await in c# (Sunil Singh)
• Weak events in C#, take two (Thomas Levesque)
• Visual Studio 2015 FAQ (Visual Studio Blog)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why dedicated Full-Time Scrum masters are hard to implement – and what’s the alternative (BenLinders)
• 2015 State of Scrum Report published (BenLinders)
• Importance of writing Unit Tests (Divya Dhuria)
• Creating Unit Testing Strategy – Part III (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Creating A Unit Testing Strategy – Part IV (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Unit Testing Your Xamarin Forms Applications with F# and FsUnit (Jonathan Wood)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 35 (vBonacci)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Onboarding Screens for Android Apps (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• iOS 9: Introducing Search APIs (Davis Allie)
• Building Data-Bound Apps in Xamarin.Forms (DevToolsGuy)
• TWC9: Xbox Gamescon, Coding World Record, ANGLE, Windows Bridge for iOS OSS and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Giorgio Sardo, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Nikola Metulev)
• Visualize Your Data with Charts, Graphs, and Xamarin.Forms (James Montemagno)
• Contest: Test Your Way to Xamarin Evolve (Jayme Singleton)
• 52 Weeks of Xamarin – Week 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• Xamarin Applications and Dotfuscator (Michael Letterle)
• Xamarin.UITest Reaches 1.0 Release (Steven Yi)
• Xamarin Forms: Optional Rendering (xximjasonxx)
• Day 7: Relative Layout (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 8: Grid and Table Layout (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 9: Android Main Concepts: Intents (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 10: Android Main Concepts: Activities (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 11: Android Main Concepts: Services (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 12: Controls: Input Controls, Part 1 (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 13: Controls: Input Controls, Part 2 (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 14: Spinner (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 15: Controls: DateTime Controls (Venkata Koppaka)
• Day 16: Controls: Media Controls (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• NuGet and Windows 10 with Jeff Fritz (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Javascript Messaging with Derick Bailey (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 378: Ed Thomson on libgit2 (David Giard)
• Episode 379: Cory House on React (David Giard)
• Herding Code 207: Damian Edwards on ASP.NET 5, DNX everywhere, and experimental servers on Windows (Jon Galloway)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 039: Sex & Drugs In Amsterdam – Simple Programmer European Tour 2015 (John Sonmez)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 040: Will My Blogging Get Me Fired? (John Sonmez)
• Redesigning Computer Science 101 Education with Omoju Miller (Scott Hanselman)
• RangersTalk – Q&A with Jamie Cool | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (WPSchaub, Anisha)
• MVVM frameworks with James Montemagno (Xamarin Podcast)

 

Database

• Clustering SQL Server Analysis Services Part 1 ()
• Merge parent and child SQL Server tables that use identity keys ()
• Blog Post: TSQL Script to Clear SQL Server Cache (Devi Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – Adding File to Database in AlwaysOn Availability Group and SQL SERVER – Error while starting SQL Server logFileSize <= BlkToByteOffset ((ULONG)-1) and SQL SERVER – How to Identify Locked Table in SQL Server? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: PowerShell Module Usage (Ben Gelens)
• Background jobs in PowerShell- a screen scraping example (Iris Classon)
• Compress & Extract ZIP Archives with PowerShell and Create a Visual Studio Project for your PowerShell Scripts (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kevin Bacon Returns ()
• VS2015 and the Universal CRT with James McNellis ()
• Hosted Web Apps (Westminster) with Jeff Burtoft ()
• Bryan Cranston Returns ()
• Parsing TypeScript definitions (functional-ly.. ish) ()
• Product Owner or Product Manager ()
• Initialize Instance Variables In getInitialState() For Consistency In ReactJS ()
• Making a very small MP3 player with QML ()
• Introducing FunSharp (Phillip Trelford)
• 172 JSJ NodeSchool with Jason Rhodes ()
• Swift-er SDK ()
• 055 AiA Promises ()
• ES6 Modules For People Who Know CommonJS ES6 modules are here, and they’re here to free us from the… ()
• Bounded Integers with David Stone ()
• Live from That Conference ()
• 168: Prometheus and Service Monitoring with Julius Volz from SoundCloud (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• GitHub Desktop is now available (ammeep)
• Inter App Communication – How to communicate between two Windows Universal Apps ? (Arun Kumar)
• How to Implement Drag and Drop in Windows Universal Apps ? (Arun Kumar)
• Implementing Adaptive Toast in Windows 10 Universal Apps (Arun Kumar)
• Getting Started with DocumentDB (Ashish Kumar)
• Announcing Docker 1.8: Content Trust, Toolbox, and Updates to Registry and Orchestration (Ben Firshman)
• Building a Data Warehouse on Azure with Michael Blumenthal (Carl Franklin)
• The Married Gamers Episode 371: Riding with the Digital Cowboys (Chris Brown)
• Push Notifications for the Web (Chris Coyier)
• Getting Started with Docker (Chris Dias [MSFT])
• Getting noticed and installed more often (10 by 10) (Cliff Simpkins)
• Gojko Adzic – Software as Magic and Impact Mapping to Avoid the Underpants Gnomes (Dave Rael)
• An Introduction to Handoff (Davis Allie)
• Product Owner Team: Supporting the Portfolio Team (Dean Stevens)
• Key Generation Strategies in Entity Framework 7 (dotNetDave)
• Universal Windows Apps: Debugging and Profiling (dotNetDave)
• Clustered Index key columns in Nonclustered Indexes (Erik Darling)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10512 (Gabe Aul)
• And Google is now Alphabet (Gareth Myles)
• Why Microsoft Makes Bad Programmers – The Sequel (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Ping 249: Imagine Cup, Windows 10, #ILookLikeAnEngineer | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Golnaz, RicksterCDN)
• TWC9: Dev Guide to Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile 10512, IoT Core and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 181: Azure Data Factory and Big Legacy Data with Shweta Gupta | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Chris Risner)
• Little Puzzlers–Lowest Common Ancestor (James Michael Hare)
• Converting .NET 4.6 Projects to the VS 2015 Project System (james.chambers)
• Links of the month (July Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
• Personal Development Insights from the Greatest Book on Personal Development Ever (JD Meier)
• Welcome to The Internet of Compromised Things (Jeff Atwood)
• When Does DRY Become ARID? (Jeremy Clark)
• This is Office 2016 for Mac | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
• Platform generalists versus framework specialists (Jimmy Bogard)
• Reasons for Continuous Planning (johanna)
• Get Up And Code 103: Bulking and Cutting (John Sonmez)
• Which of These Fears is Holding You Back (John Sonmez)
• Get Up And Code 104: Looking Good, Getting Bang For The Buck (John Sonmez)
• Windows 10 Development: Maintaining Application State (Josh Morales)
• Microsoft announces REST APIs for #Outlook and #Office 365 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Download #VisualStudio 2015 Succinctly eBook for free (@Syncfusion) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Show 27 – Earth 2.0 (Matan Yungman)
• Announcing Docker Toolbox (Michael Chiang)
• #20 Interactive Python and Teaching Python: Beyond Text Books (Michael Kennedy)
• Toptal’s List Of Top Free Programming Books (NERMIN HAJDARBEGOVIC)
• Application Development Using States and Transitions and Certifying and Distributing Windows Store Applications to Earlier (ie Non-Supported) Versions of Windows 10 Mobile (Nick Randolph)
• Bluetooth Development made easier in Windows 10 (Peter Freeman Foot)
• CodeRush on Roslyn (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• Key Generation Strategies in Entity Framework 7 (Rowan Miller & Seth Juarez)
• The Evergreen Web (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating a Weather App Style Adaptive Tile (Scott Lovecraft)
• Rocket 30: A Beautiful Disaster (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Hello, Windows 10 IoT Core (Steve Teixeira)
• August 2015 .NET Security Updates (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
• How to change the default directory for an existing Azure subscription (Toni Pohl)
• Authentication for Windows 10 Developers (Toni Pohl)
• Introduction to Debugging (Visual Studio Blog)
• Contextual sensing in Windows 10 (Windows Apps Team)

 

More Link Collections

• WeeklyXamarin Newsletter Issue #52 and Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #53 (Adam J Wolf)
• Reading Notes #197 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #180 and Collective #181 (Pedro Botelho)
• Geek Reading August 7, 2015 and Geek Reading August 10, 2015 and Geek Reading August 11, 2015 and Geek Reading August 12, 2015 and Geek Reading August 14, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-08-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-08-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-08-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-08-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Internet of Things (IoT), Mobility, Azure, Universal Windows Platform and Devices – The Daily Developers Links – #1 and Internet of Things (IoT), Mobility, Azure, Universal Windows Platform and Devices – The Daily Developers Links – #2 and Internet of Things (IoT), Mobility, Azure, Universal Windows Platform and Devices – The Daily Developers Links – #3 (Abhijit Jana)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1920 and The Morning Brew #1921 and The Morning Brew #1922 and The Morning Brew #1923 and The Morning Brew #1925 and The Morning Brew #1926 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (8/3-8/9) (Dara Monasch)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 11, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: August 13, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: August 17, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: August 3rd – August 9th, 2015 and Last Week on Channel 9: August 10th – August 16th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Double Shot #1535 and Double Shot #1536 and Double Shot #1537 and Double Shot #1539 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Links of the Week August 9 2015 (Chris Love)
• Friday Links #368 (Mike Ward)
• F# Weekly #32, 2015 and F# Weekly #33, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 7th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 11th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 12th, 2015 and Visual Studio On-Demand Videos “The Big List” and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 14th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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