Dew Drop – November 19, 2014 (#1899)

Top Links

• The Future of WPF (Jerry Nixon, DevRadio & Chris Caldwell)
• Improving the Visual Studio Account Management Experience (Ji Eun Kwon)
• Visual Studio Community 2013: The New Essential for Your Open Source Toolbox (Eric Mittelette)
• An Improved Cross-Platform Settings Library for iOS, Android, and Windows (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• Creating And Extending A Lodash / Underscore Service In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Ember.js – Rendering Dynamic Content (Paul Cowan)
• ASP.NET Web Forms Extensibility: Output Encoders (Ricardo Peres)
• Facebook releases “Flow”, a statically typed JavaScript variant (James Iry)
• Fun Times with CSS Counters and CSS Specificity Graph Generator (Chris Coyier)
• Angular or Backbone: Go Mobile! (Doris Chen)
• HTML5 Cheat Sheet and Google goes Git and GitHub with Go (Greg Duncan)
• jQuery Twitter Bootstrap Flickr Carousel (Joseph Guadagno)
• How to Deploy and Manage your Ext JS and Other HTML5 Apps (Nick Harlow)
• My five promise patterns (Remy Sharp)
• Mobile-friendly web pages (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Become Part of the Web of Apps: Developers Tricks to Drive App Engagement Up (Ina Tontcheva)
• Docker CLI for Windows Clients (Khalid Mouss)
• TypeScript 1.4 sneak peek: union types, type guards, and more (Ryan Cavanaugh)

 

XAML

• WP8: In-App Purchasing, Maps and Wallet (Michael Crump)
• Calling all Windows Developers: Take the Vision Mobile Developer Economics Survey and win! (James Falconer)
• How to integrate “Ad Mediator” in your apps? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Coming soon to C#: Expression-bodied members (Gunnar Peipman)
• Visual Studio Release Manager for Azure VMs (Kundana Palagiri)
• Comparing Value Objects and Null (Steve Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Makes Me Happy (Patrick Steele)
• Testing Strategies in a Microservice Architecture (Martin Fowler)
• What is a Monolith? (Simon Brown)
• Scrum Book Giveaway (Michael Burns)
• Article: The Resurrection of Product Risk Analysis (Chris Schotanus)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Begin developing with Android Auto (Daniel Holle)
• With VS 2015 and Android development in VS… “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play” (Greg Duncan)
• Getting Started with the Xamarin Android Player (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Enriching the iOS SDK (Michael Crump)
• iOS 8 and Native Transitions (TJ VanToll)
• Developing Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Intel XDK (Gastón Hillar)
• Keeping Your Saved Games in the Cloud (Todd Kerpelman)
• You’re invited to submit an app to the Google Fit Developer Challenge (Gary Lewis)
• Add To Homescreen 3.1.0 (Matteo Spinelli)
• Increasing Customer Satisfaction via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 1) (Rob Tiffany)
• Developers can now help themselves to HERE services (Ian Delaney)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Changelog 131: The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Make Simple Tasks Simple! | C++ Con 2014 (Bjarne Stroustrup)
• Functional Geekery Episode 18 – Eric Normand (Steven Proctor)
• Introducing Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• GeekWire Gala: Enter to win two tickets to the geekiest holiday party of the year (Monica Nickelsburg)

 

Database

• Update all SSRS reports to apply consistent header / footer on demand (Jared Zagelbaum)
• SQL SERVER – SQLCMD to Build Comma Separated String (Pinal Dave)
• Returning Error Messages As Well As Results In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Azure Storage Performance Checklist (Jeff Irwin)
• When Does Index Fragmentation Matter? (Jeremiah Peschka)

 

SharePoint

• APress Deal of the Day 19/November/2014 – Beginning PowerShell for SharePoint 2013 (Tatworth)

 

PowerShell

• Azure Fridays – A PowerShell script to Download RSS Videos (Marc Gagné)
• PowerShell DSC Resource Design and Testing Checklist (Karol Kaczmarek)
• Using the WMI Commandline Event Consumer DSC resource and DSC changes in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014 release (Ravikanth C)
• Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with PowerShell (Rob Sewell)
• Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview November 2014 is now available (John Lisco)

 

Miscellaneous

• Online, All Students Sit in the Front Row (Bill Gates)
• Bing Rewards members can now earn up to 3,000 credits by shopping the Microsoft Store online (Matthew Guinlan)
• Introducing Office 365 Video (Mark Kashman)
• This is the new Nokia (Vlad Savov)
• Refactoring Computer Engineer Barbie (Karen Lopez)
• Official Wolfram Alpha app lands on Windows Phone (Harish Jonnalagadda)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 18, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of November 10, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 18, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1435 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1740 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/19/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-19 (Dan Rigby)

 

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