Dew Drop – December 10, 2014 (#1912)

Top Links

• Two Tasty NuGets – “Create and Push NuGet Package in Visual Studio 2013” & “NuGet 101 – A Bootcamp” (Greg Duncan)
• User Interfaces in WPF | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Parallel Foreach loops, one reason to use Powershell Workflow instead of SSIS (Jamie Thomson)
• Announcing the redesigned F12 developer tools interface (Ruben Rios)

 

Web Development

• Directive Templates Have A Small Impact On Performance In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• AngularJS – Further with Directives (John Ptacek)
• HTML5 Face Builder and jQuery Face Detection Plugin (jQuery Rain)
• Data Binding and Observable in WinJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Azure Security SSL 3.0 Update (Ben Ridgway)
• Using Grunt/Karma/Jasmine-Ajax inside your Jasmine Tests (Derik Whittaker)
• RESTful API Design With NodeJS & Restify (Hüseyin Babal)
• December 2014 Internet Explorer security updates & disabling SSL 3.0 fallback (Alec Oot)
• Everything You Need to Know About Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Part 1) (Max R. McCarty)
• Arrow Function In ES6 (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Tips for Creating Windows Phone Apps Using Blend for Visual Studio 2015 (Nick Randolph)
• Solutions for WPF Performance Issue (comiscience)
• Xaml Generator – a New App for Office (Michael S. Scherotter)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Article: Using C# and Wix# to Build Windows Installer Packages (Jonathan Allen)
• Extracting effective permissions from TFS whitepaper and sample (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Replacing Throwing Exceptions with Notification in Validations (Martin Fowler)
• What’s Important in Coding Conventions (Peter Vogel)
• Syntax Highlighted Diffs (Adam Roben)
• Looking at UX trends (Håkan Reis)
• Which Hat Do I Need Today? (Tom Williamson)
• Top 10 Things Every Product Owner Should Be Doing (Michael Burns)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Studio 1.0 Released – Eclipse ADT Development Stopped (Mike James)
• Four Steps to Supercharge Deep Linking for Android Apps (Gary Lewis)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Chrome Developer Tools with Shay Friedman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Benedict Cumberbatch (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 059 | Office 365 Developer Training Interview with Jeremy Thake (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Game of Owns: The Hounds (Game of Owns)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 216: Adrian Cockcroft on the Modern Cloud-based Platform (SE-Radio Team)
• SSW TV – Code Auditor and Roslyn – Happy Ever After | Danijel Malik (SSW Team)
• Querying in DocumentDB | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Yahoo Mobile Schedules First Ever Developer Conference (Bill Doerrfeld)
• Hour of Code – Orlando (Esteban Garcia)
• Dev of the Week: Rabeb Othmani (John Walter)
• Remaining ’12 Days of Deals’ lineup for the Microsoft Store allegedly leaked (Sam Sabri)
• Geek of the Week: Lisa Picard sees real estate as ‘art in its largest form’ (Todd Bishop)
• Internet Explorer: Microsoft Moves Away From MSDN (Vygantas)
• Dreamweaver celebrates 17 years of web development (Lindsay Munro)

 

Database

• Get Progress Information for SSIS Script Tasks (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Fixing Backup Error – Operating system error 5(Access is denied.) – SQL in Sixty Seconds #077 (Pinal Dave)
• Auditing for Azure SQL Database Generally Available and with more Troubleshooting Features (Eyal Carmel)
• Free eBook: SQL Server Execution Plans (Red Gate)

 

Miscellaneous

• Is Microsoft squandering its opportunity to roll out a new flagship? (Phone Arena Team)
• A few weeks with the Microsoft Band (Dave Ward)
• OneNote Class Notebook Creator gets several new features in latest update and Video: Getting Started with OneNote Class Notebook Creator (Richard Hay)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1443 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading December 9, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 10, 2014 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #1755 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (12/1-12/7) (Dara Monasch)

 

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