Dew Drop – November 24, 2014 (#1902)

Top Links

• How To Refactor for Dependency Injection, Part 7: Using the Managed Extensibility Framework (Ondrej Balas)
• MS Press Sale: Save up to 55% on all books & eBooks (Kim Spilker)
• Pull/Swipe To Refresh for Xamarin.Forms Android Apps (James Montemagno)
• 5 Common C# tasks in Apple Swift Programming Language (Chris Pietschmann)

 

Web Development

• Unbinding Scope.$on() Event Handlers In AngularJS and Scope.$broadcast() Is Surprisingly Efficient In AngularJS and How Scope.$broadcast() Interacts With Isolate Scopes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• ASP.NET NHibernateDataSource and Loading ASP.NET MVC Controllers and Views From an Assembly (Ricardo Peres)
• Gulp in WebStorm 9 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Four Simple Tips to Improve your Asp.Net MVC Project (Frank)
• Playing Around with Telerik Tools and VS2015, ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 Preview (Vassil Petev)
• Web Performance Optimization is a Competitive-Advantage (Chris Love)
• Use grunt.config.merge (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Sitefinity, Sitecore and Orchard – Different Choices (Lino Tadros)
• Yoooman! Getting Started with Yeoman (Part 1) (Rami Sayar)

 

XAML

• TypedMVVM and WinJS: Binding event handlers in a ListView ItemTemplate (Davide Zordan)
• C# & Browser controls in WF / WPF: WebBrowser vs Awesomium comparison + few tricks (Emiliarge)
• You Will Not Be Able to Developer Unlock Your Windows Phone 7.x Devices After December 31st 2014 (Kiril Stanoev)
• Now available: xUnit for Windows Phone 8 Silverlight (Oren Novotny)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Entity Framework Pitfalls – Registering Custom Database Functions for LINQ (Ricardo Peres)
• Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5 Expert Cookbook – Book Review (Abhijit Jana)
• Avoiding Visual Studio Fakes Build break (Ajay Arora)
• Using Visual Studio as an Azure File Explorer (Rachel Hagerman)
• Retrieving Multiple RecordSets in a Single Trip to the Database (Peter Vogel)
• Native Memory Diagnostics in VS2015 Preview (Adam Welch)
• Here’s your Game Changer for 2014: IntelliRush in CodeRush 14.2 (Mark Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Property Injection – Additional Unit Tests (Jeremy Clark)
• Scrumdamentals 101: Product Backlog (Michael Burns)
• Unit testing concurrent code using custom TaskScheduler (Dror Helper)
• A Tech Lead Paradox: Delivering vs Learning (Patrick Kua)
• Managing team dev and build environments with vagrant and chef (Matt Wrock)
• Persuasive UX – Beyond Good and Evil (Sayan Mukherjee)
• Is this technology worth learning? (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Want to preview our new DataGrid for Xamarin.Forms? (Eric Sink)
• Beyond JSON: Spearal Serialization Protocol for iOS (Franck Wolff)
• Get Started with Xamarin.Forms via the Evolve Mini-Hack (Mike Bluestein)
• Mobile Development for Everyone (Jennifer W.)
• Adding Jumping To My Unity 2D Game and Game Over Animation And Restarting (Jesse Freeman)
• Connect your Swift Application to Parse.com and Swift: Create user sign up based app with Parse.com using PFUser (Mark Petherbridge)
• Kinect 4 Windows v2 – Custom Gestures in Unity (Pete D.)
• Internet of Things: My first experience with Galileo (part 3) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 53: Busy week of game launches, Syracuse Store Open and more (Larry Hyrb)
• MS Dev Show – Getting People Excited about Technology with Anthony Russell (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Adam Savage Returns and The Nerdist Podcast – John Cleese (Chris Hardwick)
• Inside Windows Platform – Inside Microsoft OCR Libraries (Emilio Salvador Prieto)
• TWC9: The Three C’s – Cortana, C++ Con, Connect(); and more…. | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Episode 162: Azure 2.5 SDK with Paul Yuknewicz | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Delve (Codename Oslo) – Next Generation Discovery and Search | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Get Up And Code 066: Programmer Fitness (John Sonmez)
• Evolving the NuGet.org Architecture (Jeff Handley)
• StarTalk Radio – Reporting on Science (Part 1) – extended with Elise Andrew of IFLS and Bill Nye (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Our 3rd Annual Geeky Holiday Gift & Gadget Guide (Todd Bishop)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Stephen Olner and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Gerson Dias and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Danijel Malik (Willy-P. Schaub)
• The Microsoft Band and me (Joost van Schaik)
• .NET Pioneers (Vicky Hammond)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – How to use Procedure sp_user_counter1 to sp_user_counter10 and SQL SERVER – SSMS Trick – Generating CSV file using Management Studio (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Splunk App for SharePoint goes Open Source (Adrian Hall)

 

PowerShell

• Using WMI Event Log Event Consumer DSC resource (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• How to use an authenticator app to improve your online security (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Strategy Vice President Teper: ‘Minecraft is a development tool’ (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft says the kernel version for Windows 10 will jump from 6.4 to 10.0 (John Callaham)
• The long, promising (and frustrating) history of Microsoft’s consumer file sync services (Kip Kniskern)
• Small Basic – Mouse Position (litdev)
• Wood Grain Drawn with Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Friday, November 21, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 21, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #143 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1436 and Double Shot #1437 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1743 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 11/24/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #164 (Frank)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 17th – 23rd, 2014 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #83 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Reblog: November 14 to November 20 (Jason Strate)
• Office 365 news round-up (Jake Zborowski)

 

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