Dew Drop – November 18, 2014 (#1898)

Top Links

• Still More Smart Unit Tests (Preview): Exploring Exceptions (Jeremy Clark)
• The Future of .NET (Sam Basu)
• Leaving Angular (Rob Eisenberg)
• Leveraging Reactive Extensions for Asynchronous Processing (Peter Vogel)

 

Web Development

• Using Plupload As A Global Uploader In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Styling Native Apps with CSS (Georgi Atanasov)
• Avoid circular dependencies with AngularJS Directives (Matthew Adams)
• Syncing Brackets extensions across multiple machines (Raymond Camden)
• Grunt + Traceur + AngularJS = CLUSTER! (Mithun Patel)
• Monitoring Azure Services and External Systems with Azure Automation (Eamon O’Reilly)
• Building With the Twitter API: Using Real-Time Streams (Jeff Reifman)
• Announcing Feature Updates for Microsoft Azure StorSimple (Manu Aery)
• Modern Debugging Experience: Part 1 (Umar Hansa)

 

XAML

• How to capture a photo in your Windows Phone 8.1 Runtime app – Part III: capturing and saving the photo (Marco Siccardi)
• Implementing In-App Purchase on Windows Phone 8 (Vivek Maskara)
• Universal Windows Applications Across Multiple Form Factors Devices: From 4 to 82 Inches: (Gian Paolo Santopaolo)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Getting the SQL from a LINQ Query in NHibernate (Ricardo Peres)
• C# 6 Features – Private Auto Properties (Derik Whittaker)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Treating Skeletal Data as a Sequence of Sequences and Shared Projects, Common Libraries on Kinect for Windows V2 SDK Bits (Mike Taulty)
• Exception Filters in C-Sharp 6.0 and Property Initializers in C-Sharp 6.0 (Dhananjay Kumar)
• How do I enumerate drives the same way that the NET USE command does? (Raymond Chen)
• A Loop of Nested Exceptions (Sasha Goldshtein)
• C++11/14/17 Features In VS 2015 Preview (Stephan T. Lavavej)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Case Charts in TFS 2013 Update 4 (Esteban Garcia)
• Dependency Injection: Inject Your Dependencies, Period! (Tugberk Ugurlu)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android 5.0 Lollipop: As Sweet as Promised (Ross Gerbasi)
• Google Play services 6.5 (Ian Lake)
• Driving the Value of the Internet of Things (Jonathan Rozenblit)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 6) (Rob Tiffany)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Taking Over a Brownfield Application with Scott Ford (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 288 – PowerScripting Podcast – Hal and Jon talk about Splunk and DSC troubleshooting (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 151 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Defrag Tools #115 – PerfView Part 3 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 39 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl & John Sonmez)
• CodeChat 019 – Tobiah Marks (Gaming) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Corrupt Your Database – On Purpose! [Video] (Jes Schultz Borland)
• Video: The evolution of Cortana (Rhea)

 

Community / Events

• 5 Questions With Kevin Griffin (Tony Verguldi)
• How can you help the next generation discover the power of code? (Susan Ibach)

 

Database

• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals (Ian Stirk)
• SQL Server Analysis Services Aggregation Designs (Scott Murray)
• SQL SERVER – Restricting Access to Contained Databases using Logon Triggers (Pinal Dave)
• Exam Prep 70-463: Tables and Schemas (Colleen Morrow)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell ISE add-on to manage WMI permanent event filters, consumers, and bindings (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• How To Build a Roadmap for Your Digital Business Transformation (JD Meier)
• Top Developer Gifts (And Tech Geek Gifts) (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, November 17, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 17, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1434 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1739 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/18/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-18 (Dan Rigby)

 

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