Dew Drop – November 17, 2014 (#1897)

Top Links

• DotNetAnalyzers – A project for the community to make a common code base of .NET code analyzers using the new VS14 code analyzer functionality. (Bill Wagner)
• An Open Future for .NET (Jason Bock)
• Installing Xamarin for Visual Studio 2015 Preview Side by Side with Visual Studio 2013 (Brian Lagunas)
• Building a Visual Studio Extension with Roslyn (Mickey MacDonald)

 

Web Development

• scope.$apply() May Return A Value In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Can we make commas optional in JavaScript literals? and Adding fields to a fake Orchard content item (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows Azure Websites Succinctly and Distinct Values in XSLT (Ricardo Peres)
• Use Twitter Bootstrap grid layout inside a Kendo widget (Adam Anderson)
• Getting Started with DevExpress and AngularJS (Basem Emara)
• HTML to PDF Conversion Using the WebKit Rendering Engine (Diljith Harshan)
• Top 3 Javascript IDEs/Text Editors to Consider (Ajitesh Kumar)
• Bootstrap Theme Switcher jQuery plugin (Joseph Guadagno)
• Single Page CRUD Application (SPA) using ASP.NET Web API, MVC and Angular.js (Mahesh Sabnis)
• PhpStorm 8.0.2 RC2 139.425 (Mikhail Vink)
• Angular and ngAnnotate, a Better Way (Peter Kellner)
• The Ashton Disinterest Curve – Javascript and Node (Rob Ashton)
• ASP.NET 5: How to debug with ASP.NET source? and ASP.NET 5: Using shared sources (Gunnar Peipman)
• 9 basic principles of responsive web design (Chris Coyier)
• Building Games with Google Cast is Easy and Powerful (Gary Lewis)
• 5 Evolving Docker Technologies (Phil Whenlan)

 

XAML

• How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app-Part II: some common modifications (Marco Siccardi)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Resizing and Reordering (Richard Carr)
• Windows 8.1 Universal App Support in cocos2d-x v2.2.5 (Eric Mittelette)
• Windows Runtime Optical Character Recognition and Speech Synthesis- adding additional language support (Iris Classon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Microsoft Announces Pre-release of F# 4.0 in Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Sergio De Simone)
• 5 Quick Tips for Presenting Code in Visual Studio (Cory House)
• Set breakpoints on auto-implemented properties with Visual Studio 2015 (Daniel Moth)
• Hot aggregate detection using F# (Jef Claes)
• Full Power, No Charge: Visual Studio Community 2013 (Jeff Martin)
• How to get setup with Netduino and Visual Studio 2013 (Jon Gallant)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview Features – Part 1 (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• DevOps style deployment in Visual Studio 2015 preview – A detailed look (Muthukumaran)
• MEF v2, Roslyn, and Visual Studio: An Adventure in Compatibility (Schabse Laks)
• Updated my Alternating Line Color Visual Studio Extension (Steve Naughton)
• Visual Studio Time Saver: How to get rid of /the/really/long/file/path/that/shows/up/in/searchresults (Susan Ibach)
• Visual Studio 2015 and NUnit, with a little NuGet issue (Terje Sandstrom)
• Passing Exception Information (Peter Vogel)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Refreshing Manually Created Entities Does Not Bring Lazy Properties of Base Types (Ricardo Peres)
• Nostalgia, horror, and a very old bug (Eric Lippert)
• Microsoft .NET is Open for Every Developer (Robert Kim)
• How to roll log files at the beginning of the day using Enterprise Library logging block (Simone Chiaretta)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Case Study of Agile and HR Collaboration and Research: What Influences the Mood of Agile Teams? (Ben Linders)
• More Smart Unit Tests (Preview): Guard Clauses (Jeremy Clark)
• Scrumdamentals Part 3: Artifacts (Michael Burns)
• A Tech Lead Paradox: Consistency vs Improvement (Patrick Kua)
• MockupScreens Community Edition (Igor Jese) – 1000 Requests are needed before the Community Edition will be created.
• Succeeding With UI Automation Testing (Jim Holmes)
• Using Selenium with Cloud Load Testing (Ranganath G.)
• Gaming Your .NET Code Coverage Score (Vicky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova Windows Store apps and certificate expired error (Davide Zordan)
• View Debugging in Xcode 6 (Jordan Morgan)
• iOS Localization Tricks for Storyboard and NIB Files (Lammert Westerhoff)
• Structuring your Android activities (Laurent Bugnion)
• Native Android Application Development with C++ and Visual Studio 2015 (Rene Schulte)
• Reducing Expenses via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 4) (Rob Tiffany)
• Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo 2 (part 2) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Video from “Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban” now online (Cory Foy)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Gilbert Gottfried (Chris Hardwick)
• Windows Weekly 388: Clutter and Sway and What The Tech 235: Rethinking Microsoft (Paul Thurrott)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 167 – “MVP Summit” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• MS Dev Show – Chocolatey with Rob Reynolds (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Married Gamers Episode 348: Gamehounds In My Pants (Chris Brown)
• Get Up And Code 065: How to Be Fit While Working Crazy Hours (John Sonmez)
• Nerds At Play 075: The Dark Side of Accessories (Melisa Snyder)
• Edge Show 126 Corey Sanders and TechEd Europe Azure Announcements | Edge (RicksterCDN & Simon May)

 

Community / Events

• So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! (Jeff Fritz)
• Microsoft Connect conference links and key takeaways (Jim Wooley)

 

Database

• Guidelines for Using Natively-Compiled Stored Procedures in SSIS Packages (Daniel Farina)
• SQL Server Database Project targeting SQL 2014 (Esteban Garcia)
• SQL SERVER – How to Chang Audit Location? (Pinal Dave)
• Timing Power Query Queries (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• Downloadable eBook: Explore SharePoint 2013 (MS Downloads)

 

PowerShell

• Posting a feed to Google Search Appliance (GSA) from PowerShell (Chinh Do)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft starts rolling out Skype for Web beta (Mary Jo Foley)
• Perfectly legal ways you can still get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) (Ed Bott)
• Small Basic: Network Object (Nonki Takahashi)
• How Passion Saved Windows (Rob Reynolds)
• ‘Sesame Street’ is 45, so Ernie got a colonoscopy (Tricia Gilbride)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 14, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #142 (Mary Lou)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-17 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #82 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1738 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/14/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #163 (Frank)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 10th – 16th, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Blog Post: Reblog: November 7 to November 13 (Jason Strate)

 

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