Dew Drop – September 10, 2014 (#1852)

Top Links

• Bart De Smet: Rx and Cortana | Going Deep (Charles Torre)
• New Splunk Tools for .NET Developers (Glenn Block)
• The Game of Life with Functional Swift (Colin Eberhardt)
• Revisiting AngularJS with TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)

 

Web Development

• No connection string named ” could be found in the ASP.NET MVC application config file: Solved (Dhananjay Kumar)
• AngularJS – Different Ways to Declare Controllers (Ajitesh Kumar)
• Fading Item Visibility with a Kendo UI Binding (J. Tower)
• How to Export Data to Microsoft Word with the LightSwitch HTML Client – Part 3 (Elizabeth Maher)
• Ignite UI and NuGet (Alex M.)
• Writing a Site Extension for Azure Websites (Elliott Hamai)
• Announcing Microsoft.AspNet.Facebook 1.1 beta (Kirthi)
• The cost of implementing responsive web design later (Ted Waller)
• WebApiContrib – CollectionJson.Net updated (Glenn Block)

 

XAML

• Error: Windows Phone Emulator is unable to load the application skin (Iris Classon)
• Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) – Part 4 – INotifyDataErrorInfo (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,155 – A Circular Progress Indicator (Sean Sexton)
• VSTO Runtime Update to Address Premature WPF UI Thread Shutdown (Michael Zlatkovsky)
• SpreadProcessing – Complete Solution to Create, Modify and Export Spreadsheets – Part I (Deyan Yosifov)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• JetBrains CLion, a C/C++ IDE, and ReSharper for C++ (Abel Avram)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: HQL Delete Does Not Cascade and Deleting Entities in NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• New CodeRush Plugin – Sort Format Tokens (Rory Becker)
• 2000 C# Things #1,179 – Captured Variables Lifetime Matches Delegate (Sean Sexton)
• September 2014 .NET Security Updates (The .NET Fundamentals Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Throughput Over Backlog (an Agile Value) (Paul Hammant)
• Software Development is Very, Very Hard — Even for Those Who Know It’s Hard (Scott W. Ambler)
• Traction: If you build it they will come (Richard Garside)
• Tackling cross-cutting concerns with a mediator pipeline (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Code Kidnapper (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Acceptance Criteria (Steve Povilaitis)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Online Resources to Get Started with iOS 8 Development (Sergio De Simone)
• Swift Has Reached 1.0 (Swift Team)
• Supercharge Your App Development with Ionic and AppBuilder (TJ VanToll)
• Apple Watch announced (Vlad Savov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Web Forms for Mobile with Paul Sheriff (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 161 – “English Lit 101” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• Enabling Testing in Production in Azure Websites | Web Camps TV (Cory Fowler)
• IoT Hackathon with the Intel Galileo (Golnaz)
• Countdown to TechEd Europe: The One with Schedule Builder | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• StarTalk SoundBite: Motivating Your Brain… with Candy? (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Functional Geekery Episode 15 – Bruce Tate (Steven Proctor)
• SSW TV – How to Use Hot Towel Angular with Duncan Hunter (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Get Ready for iOS 8 with Xamarin Webinar (Courtney Witmer)
• Xamarin Evolve 2014 Speaker Spotlight: Jonathan Peppers (Joseph Hill)
• Dev of the Week: Adam Diaz (Alec Noller)
• Pinal Dave | FalafelCON Speaker Highlight (Ryan Axford)

 

Database

• Azure DocumentDB: Working with Microsoft’s NoSQL Database in the Cloud (Gastón Hillar)
• How to Use a Linked Server in a SQL Server Database Project (Ray Barley)
• SQL SERVER – Video Introduction to Delayed Durability – SQL in Sixty Seconds #074 (Pinal Dave)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.0? (Oren Eini)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Data Protection and More (Scott Field)

 

PowerShell

• Using the ConvertFrom-String cmdlet to parse structured text (Bartek Bielawski)

 

Miscellaneous

• Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen of death (Raymond Chen)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of September 1, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, September 9, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading September 9, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1409 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1691 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 9/10/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-09-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-09-10 (Dan Rigby)

 

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