Dew Drop – October 29, 2014 (#1887)

Top Links

• Celebrating HTML5 Recommendation with the W3C (IE Team)
• Azure: New Marketplace, Network Improvements, New Batch Service, Automation Service, more (Scott Guthrie)
• Use Your C# Skills to Build Native iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps with Telerik UI for Xamarin (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Microsoft opens up about more Windows 10 preview features in the works and Microsoft’s latest target release date for Office 16: Second half 2015 (Mary Jo Foley)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 5.1 New Features (Eric Vogel)
• Statically typed JavaScript via Microsoft TypeScript, Facebook Flow and Google AtScript (Axel Rauschmayer)
• On HTML5 vs Living Standard, W3C vs WHATWG (Bruce Lawson)
• Shape Blobbing in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Using ConfigR as a Configuration Source in ASP.NET vNext (Filip W)
• AngularDart Reaches 1.0 (João Paulo Marques)
• Announcing Sencha Space 1.2 (Nick Harlow)
• Creating AngularJS Controllers with ES6 (mithundaa)
• APress Deal of the Day 29/October/2014 – Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 (Tatworth)
• ASP.NET MVC Security Bulletin MS14-059 ships to help secure .NET NuGet Libraries (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
• TypeScript Import casing matters (Kevin Logan)
• Data Factory Public Preview – build and manage information production pipelines (Mike Flasko)
• Announcing Azure Stream Analytics for real-time event processing (Oliver Chiu)
• Migrate your Websites to Azure in just a Few Clicks (Owais Shaikh)

 

XAML

• Epic Saga Chapter 2: Wherein I try to use an XMLHttpRequest in a Cordova app on my Windows Phone (Glenn Gailey)
• The Power of Speech in Your Windows Phone 8.1 Apps – Text-to-Speech (Lori Lalonde)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,189 – MeasureOverride Input and Output (Sean Sexton)
• Introducing UI for Windows Universal: The Toolset for Windows Store Development (Kiril Stanoev)
• How to generate a round image button for your Windows (Phone 8.1) app (to use everywhere) (Marco Siccardi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Tricks you can play on yourself #789–Linq (Eric Gunnerson)
• 2000 C# Things #1,214 – C# 6.0 – using Directive with Static Class (Sean Sexton)
• How to Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 6: Binding by Convention (Ondrej Balas)
• TechEd Europe 2014 News (Brian Harry)
• Jumping into Kinect for Windows v2 development series and SharpDevelop 5.0 is Final as in Final, but “… not the final version of SharpDevelop” (Greg Duncan)
• Rewriting a Legacy App – Part 4: Completing the MVP with Scheduling (Jeremy)
• Use corporate identities with existing VSO accounts (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Comparing processing times of NServiceBus saga patterns (Jimmy Bogard)
• My Experiences and Guidance for Software Engineers on Beginning Your Career (Part 2 of 3) (Allen Conway)
• Legacy Code to Testable Code #6: Add Overload (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Material Design on Android Checklist (Roman Nurik)
• Tips for integrating with Google Accounts on Android (Laurence Moroney)
• IntelliJ/Android Studio plugin connects Android Apps and Java Cloud middleware to Office 365 and Azure Services – New “MS Open Tech Tools” (Doug Mahugh)
• Using the Xcode iOS Simulator with Hybrid Mobile Apps and Telerik AppBuilder (Rob Lauer)
• BugSense is now Splunk MINT Express—why the change? (Bill Emmett)
• Google Fit SDK available now (Gary Lewis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Developing in Office 365 with Jeremy Thake (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Devnology Podcast 048 – Emma Armstrong (Daan van Berkel & Freek Leemhuis)
• Real World IT – The App for That! 101 of SharePoint Apps (4th of 5) | Real World IT (Ruth Van Dyke)
• Join the Intel® Software Academic Program (Intel Dev Zone)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 053 | Azure News, G-Series VMs, Docker, Premium Storage and so much more! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Amp Hour #222 – An Interview With Bil Herd – Zany Z80 Zygology (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Ping 227 – Xbox Digital TV Tuner, November System Update, PhotoMath, Titanfall updates, and Sunset Overdrive! | Ping! (Mark DeFalco & Golnaz)
• Functional Geekery Episode 17 – José Valim (Steven Proctor)

 

Community / Events

• Office 365 Developer Announcements from TechEd Europe 2014 (Andrew Connell)
• The Power of Community (Jan Egil Ring)
• Dev of the Week: Michael Hunger (John Walter)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – ISNUMERIC and Unexpected Results – SQL in Sixty Seconds #076 (Pinal Dave)
• Corvus: Manage your databases from your Android (Oren Eini)

 

SharePoint

• Modify SQL Server Reporting Services Rendering Format In SharePoint-Integrated Mode (Edwin Sarmiento)
• SharePoint Online Integrated Workflow Apps – Workflows as Apps in the HostWeb! (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• Manage the PowerShell DSC Extension in the Azure Preview Portal (David Coulter)
• Powershell DSC ResKit Wave 8: Now with 100+ Resources! (PowerShell Team)
• Azure PowerShell Tools 0.8.10 is available (Ravikanth C)
• PowerShell : Create MSMQ (Sacha Barber)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Best of Project Spark (So Far!) (Eric Neigher)
• Surface Pro 3: A long-term review and How the Surface Pro 3 changed the way I work (Ed Bott)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, October 28, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading October 28, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1725 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 10/29/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-10-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-10-29 (Dan Rigby)

 

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