Day: January 8, 2015

Top Links

• Code Contracts on GitHub (Code Contracts Team) – .NET Code Contracts goes open source!
• CES 2015: Intel Compute Stick Provides Windows 8.1 with Bing on an HDMI Dongle (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft is Open‐Sourcing WorldWide Telescope in 2015 (Doug Roberts)
• Why should I use Visual Studio ALM whether TFS or VSO (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Web Development

• Quick tip: conditional form fields with CSS (Chris Heilmann)
• [JavaScript] Shoud I have to cache my array’s length? (David Catuhe)
• How to Back Up Your WordPress Database (Andy Adams)
• Define multiple Angular apps in one page (jQuery By Example)
• Deploying a node.js application on Azure (Per-Olof Bondesson)
• What’s Exciting in New JavaScript Libraries (Philip De Smedt)
• Gulp Your TypeScript in ASP.NET 5 (Shayne P. Boyer)
• Indexing PDF: once again with a big red nose (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Part 1: An Introduction to Azure Data Services (Adarsha Datta)
• Private Members in ES6 Classes (S. Ravi Kiran)
• Application Insights and Azure WebSites (Vlad J.)

 

XAML

• Bing Maps Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Control, Version 1.0 (MS Downloads)
• Using XAML TabControl in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• Updating the Windows and Windows Phone Applications with the new Azure Mobile Service Entities and Synchronizing Data for Offline Access with Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Grouped Geometry (Richard Carr)
• Http Requests and POST for Windows Store Apps (Matthias Shapiro)
• How to develop a WPF APP that use Realsense SDK (Marco D.P.)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to change Menu Bar Style in Visual Studio 2015? and Automatically place the ‘System’ directives first when ‘Sorting Usings’ option in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Migrating TFS Project Collection From One TFS Server to other (Gino Abraham)
• MonoGame, F# and Santa! and “Wax keeps your candle burning” (You’ll get that if you know WiX) (Greg Duncan)
• Recreating the Star Wars opening crawl in AutoCAD using F# Part 3 (Kean Walmsley)
• NHibernate Pitfalls: Versioned Entities Are Not Batcheable (Ricardo Peres)
• Task Continuations: Checking IsFaulted, IsCompleted, and TaskStatus (Jeremy Clark)
• 14 Top Features of Visual Basic 14: The Q&A (Michael Desmond)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Teams and Managers can Collaborate to Solve Impediments (Ben Linders)
• Habits, Dreams, and Goals (JD Meier)
• Change the Indispensable Employee Mindset (Johanna Rothman)
• Becoming data driven (Mike Loukides)
• Naming Things is Hard: Keeping Context in Mind (Steve Wilkes)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Happy 2015 from Xamarin! (Joseph Hill)
• Building a Seismograph App with CoreMotion, Swift and Telerik UI for iOS (Nikolay Diyanov)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Different Databases with David Simons (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SQL Server Compact and SQLite Toolbox | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• The Amp Hour #231 – Supply Chain Woes And Wares – Nonplussed Neotechnic Nithing (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• What’s new in Information Security and Compliance with Office 365 | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 217: James Turnbull on Docker (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• CES Day 2 round up (Derek Kessler)

 

Database

• Move Database Files for a SQL Server Mirrored Database Without Impacting Database Mirroring (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Using SFTP with SQL Server Integration Services (Junaith Haja)
• Oracle Flashback: Undeleting Data (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – Iterating over Metadata with BimlScript – Notes from the Field #061 (Pinal Dave)
• Using Power BI to access on-premise data (James Serra)
• Multiselect, Filtering And Functions In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Parameterization Part 7: Summary (Guy Glantser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Advertisers can now buy ads on cross-platform MSN apps (Athima Chansanchai)
• Introducing boards in Office Delve—a new way to organize and share work (Office 365 Team)
• Refresh Your PC in Windows, AppData, and my missing Minecraft worlds (Scott Hanselman)
• Article: Introduction to Puppet (Susannah Axelrod)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 7, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 1/8/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Daily Links 7 Jan 2015 (Jax)
• The Morning Brew #1773 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 8th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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