Dew Drop – August 25, 2014 (#1841)

Top Links

• When is a constant not a constant? When it’s a decimal… (Jon Skeet)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 14 CTP 3, PerfTips, .NET vNext, Bing Developer Assistant and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• How to customize scaffolding templates for ASP.NET vNext (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Async StackTraceEx 1.0.0 (Lucian Wischik)

 

Web Development

• Creating Custom AngularJS Directives Part 4 – Transclusion and Restriction (Dan Wahlin)
• An End-To-End Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 HTML5 Application (Michael Washington)
• AngularJS Lifetime Management, Lazy-Loading, and other Advanced DI Techniques (Jeremy Likness)
• Sample chapter: Designing Windows Store Apps with HTML and JavaScript: An Overview (Kim Spilker)
• ASP.NET vNext Projects Get Simpler (Roopesh Shenoy)
• Customizing Web API controller selector (Yishai G.)
• How to get integrated debugging in Visual Studio with OwinHost in Owin-based Katana web applications (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using secure cookies in Node on Azure (Scott K. Smith)

 

XAML

• Breaking apart the Windows Phone 8.1 ComboBox Style and Colors and Multiple Flyout Templates for ComboBox and Changing the Header (Nick Randolph)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,143 – Coordinate System for StreamGeometry (Sean Sexton)
• WPF Data Binding – Binding to Controls (Richard Carr)
• Microsoft Windows Phone 9 Likely to Succeed Windows Phone 8.1: Developer Preview of New OS Rumored to Start Seeding in December (Rahul R.)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Batch processing Visual Studio Project Items with the NuGet Package Management PowerShell Console (Daniel Fisher)
• Survey for Web App developers or Cordova developers (Pratap Lakshman)
• Kinect for Windows SDK V2: Mixing with some Reactive Extensions (Mike Taulty)
• Mono 3.6 Delivers Improved Debugger (Jeff Martin)
• Why does the OpenThread function behave differently when the target thread belongs to another process? (Raymond Chen)
• Galileo and Windows Development Just Got Interesting (Rob Miles)
• Marshaling .NET and STL Collections in C++/CLI (Sasha Goldshtein)
• 2000 C# Things #1,167 – Passing a Lambda Expression to a Method (Sean Sexton)
• Semantic Logging Application Block (SLAB) – Out-of-process Service is not Logging to #Azure Table Storage? (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• CRC – Components, Responsibilities, Collaborations and C4 model poster (Simon Brown)
• Counting Chickens: Undone Work in Scrum (Ian Mitchell)
• The End: The Power of Finishing What You Start (J.D. Meier)
• Getting Started with Git and GitHub (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Why Iterative Planning? (Jann Thomas)
• Why Testers Are Losing The ISO 29119 Battle (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Progress isn’t that complicated (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to turn on developer options in Android (Phone Arena Team)
• Using the Android Emulator with Hybrid Mobile Apps and Telerik AppBuilder (Rob Lauer)
• Book Review – Application Development in iOS7 (Bill Jones)
• An Introduction to Android Transitions (Sue Smith)
• Internet of Things blog series (Morten Nielsen)
• 5 Strategies for Building Mobile Apps with Telerik (Cody Lindley)
• Ultimate Guide to Mobile Web Icon Markup (Jeffrey Fritz)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 521: Stories from gamescom, and we get ready for PAX Prime (Larry Hyrb)
• Fun with the Interns: Zach Montoya Builds a Visual Studio Designer for .NET Native (Beth Massi)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Chris D’Elia (Chris Hardwick)
• Episode 007 – Greg Bulmash (Coder Dojo) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Episode 150: Azure Remote App with Thomas Willingham and Nihar Namjoshi | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Nick Harris & Chris)
• Introduction to Azure DocumentDB | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• StarTalk Radio – A Conversation With Seth Meyers (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Database

• Force Start a Windows Server Failover Cluster without a Quorum to bring a SQL Server Failover Clustered Instance Online (Edwin Sarmiento)
• SQL SERVER – How to See Active SQL Server Connections For Database (Pinal Dave)
• Azure DocumentDB (Oren Eini)
• How Flash changes the design of database storage engines (Andy Oram)
• Power Query Functions That Return Functions (Chris Webb)
• Resolving Errors from Deployment of Database to Azure SQL DB (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Your SharePoint 2013 farm in Microsoft Azure is just clicks away and Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part and faceted navigation now available in SharePoint Online for intranet scenarios (SharePoint Team)
• Embedding Your LightSwitch Cloud Business App Inside SharePoint As a App Part (Michael Washington)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to Seed #Azure DocumentDB From Blob Storage (Alexandre Brisebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• Excessively loud fan, constant overheating during idle and light tasks (now on my second third fourth Surface Pro 3 i7) (MS Answers) – i7 Surface Pro 3 overheating issues related to background Windows Installer processes?

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, August 22, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading August 22, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 8/22/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #151 (Frank)
• Daily Links 22 Aug 2014 (Jax)
• Weekly Programming Digest #70 (Jakub Chodounský)
• The Morning Brew #1679 (Chris Alcock)
• Friday Links #317 (Mike Ward)
• Reblog: August 15 to August 21 (Jason Strate)

 

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