Dew Drop – October 14, 2014 (#1876)

Top Links

• Introducing the ReSharper 9 Early Access Program (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Azure VM Available (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Producing combinations, part one (Eric Lippert)
• Modern UI for WPF application by example (Handle Navigation) and Modern UI for WPF application by example ( NavigationMessageService – MVVM ) (Sara Silva)

 

Web Development

• Convert User to ApplicationUser in ASP.Net MVC (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Confirm Password Validation in AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Raygun.io and ignoring specific Web API exception types (Troy Hunt)
• The Astonishing Rise Of Dart (Mike James)
• Improving Site Performance with the Navigation Timing API (Aurelio De Rosa)
• A Guide to SVG Animations (SMIL) (Sara Soueidan)
• Getting Started With Meteor Tutorial (In the Cloud) (John Sonmez)
• Accessing and Using Azure VM Unique ID (Khalid Mouss)

 

XAML

• Win2D – WinRT API for 2D Graphics (Mike Taulty)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,179 – Alignment and Margin Properties for a Custom FrameworkElement (Sean Sexton)
• WinSock and more Open Source for your Windows Store apps (Kevin Gallo)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Released LINQ to Twitter v3.0.5 (Joe Mayo)
• My Favourite Visual Studio Extensions (Nigel Sampson)
• 2000 C# Things #1,203 – C# 6.0 – Using the Null-Conditional with Value Types (Sean Sexton)
• New in PostSharp 4.0: OnInstanceConstructedAdvice and New in PostSharp 4.0: Aspect Repository (Gael Fraiteur)
• Openframeworks + Kinect 4 Windows V2 (Pete D.)
• Enumerating notification icons via UI Automation (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Project Task Management – Using Trello for Kanban Boards (Andrew Connell)
• Is your dev team ready for these 5 challenges? (Don Jones)
• If you’re going to fail, do it fast (Joe Duffy)
• Legacy Code To Testable Code #2: Extract Method (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Defining quality (Wes McClure)
• Linking merged pull requests from commits (Yossef Mendelssohn)
• What Makes a Team? (Tiago Rosa)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 8: Getting Started With Metal (Orlando Pereira)
• NUCLiOS IGGridView QuickTip: Limit Scroll Direction (Stephen Zaharuk)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 286 – PowerScripting Podcast – Alan Renouf from VMware on PowerCLI (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 148 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• CodeChat 014 – Frank Krueger (Xamarin Robotics) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 44: Steve Evans (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Gone Mobile 18: Securing Mobile Apps with Troy Hunt (Greg Shackles)
• Defrag Tools #110 – Writing a CLR Debugger Extension Part 2 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 34 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• Ping Episode 225 with RoomAlive, Transparent SmartCovers, Plex and NHL for xBox, OneNote Class and XIM! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #215: Using AFNetworking v2 with Swift (Peter Shearer)
• Rx and Netflix (Jafar Husain & Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Community / Events

• Article: Q&A with Mike Burrows about the book Kanban from the Inside (Ben Linders)
• Cloud Dev Camps for Azure are coming to cities across the US (David Voyles)
• .NET Developers in Focus (Kerry Meade)
• Question from a Software Apprentice – What blogs do you read? (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Women coders respond to Microsoft CEO’s controversial comments on asking for a raise (Taylor Soper)

 

Database

• Using PerfMon for SQL Server Reporting Services Performance Management (Scott Murray)
• Code Navigation (10 days of SSDT – Day 10) (Jamie Thomson)

 

PowerShell

• Configure and test windows infrastructure using Powershell technologies DSC and Pester running from Chef and Test-Kitchen (Matt Wrock)
• Visualizing Your SharePoint Farm with PowerShell (Nik Charlebois)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 (MS Downloads)
• RDP to Windows Server from a Splunk Dashboard – Example Code (Jason Conger)
• Joe Belfiore: Over one million Windows Insiders have signed up to test Windows 10 (John Callaham)
• Samsung’s new Wi-Fi technology enables 4.6Gbps transfer speeds (Mihaita Bamburic)
• New Windows 10 Public Preview Build is Coming Soon (Nazmus Khandaker)
• 100 Technical Things Non-Technical People Can Learn To Make Their Lives Easier (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Programming Languages Marked for Death (Jeff Cogswell)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, October 13, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of October 6, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 13, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1422 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #158 (Frank)
• The Morning Brew #1715 (Chris Alcock)
• PHP Annotated Monthly – October 2014 (Maarten Balliauw)

 

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