Dew Drop – January 23, 2015 (#1939)

Top Links

• DirectX 12 (Matt Sandy)
• Windows 10 is empowering developers to dream again (Kevin Gallo)
• The next chapter of Office on Windows (Julia White)
• Project Spartan and the Windows 10 January Preview Build (Jason Weber)

 

Web Development

• Staggering ngRepeat Animations In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• [Announcement] OData Web API 5.4 Beta (Congyong)
• How to Automatically Bundle Your CSS and Javascript in ASP.Net (Mark Isham)
• ASP.NET Identity 2.1 implementation for MySQL (Radenko Zec)
• Render MVC View as String (Saad Khan)
• Azure Data Services: Blobbing did you say.. What is that? (Part 3) (Adarsha Datta)
• TypeScript 1.4 Released, Adds Union Types, More ES6 Features (David Iffland)
• Why You Should Be Writing ECMA Script 6 Now (Josh Carroll)

 

XAML

• How To Inject Analytics Code into Windows Phone 8.1 Apps (Nick Randolph)
• Get Started with Kinect For Windows (WPF) (Matthias Shapiro)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Internet of Things: What about C# there? (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Inheriting Interfaces (Peter Vogel)
• When Should You Make The Move To Entity Framework 7? (Tony Sneed)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern (Avinash Zala)
• Using the “Worse is Better” Concept with Agile and Lean (Ben Linders)
• Make your team cost aware … cost driven development. (Clemens Reijnen)
• 21 collaboration tools to streamline your teamwork (Cameron Chapman)
• Infographic: Build Right, Shift Left (Cori Hemmah)
• Long Lived Codebases: A Crime Against Computer Science (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Single Responsibility Principle: Why Does it Matter? (Elizabeth Engelman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Fixing activatedBackgroundIndicator in AppCompat Navigation Drawer (James Montemagno)
• Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published (Sara Silva)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 030 on Office 365 APIs with Rob Howard (Jeremy Thake)
• Special Edition – Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 156 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – An Introduction to the Dart Language with Lars Bak and Kasper Lund (Scott Hanselman)
• Data Analysis for Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Adventures in Angular 026 – Testing Tools (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Bill Gates (Chris Hardwick)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 173 – “Windows 10 Briefing” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• SQL Server Radio Show 14 – Carmen Buchmann (Matan Yungman)
• RiYL Episode 089: The Birthday Boys (Brian Heater)
• Azure Podcast Episode 61 – Storage Performance Guidelines (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Students: You can still enter Microsoft’s Imagine Cup (David Voyles)

 

Database

• Using the SQL Server Default Trace to Audit Events (Percy Reyes)
• Common Issues After Upgrading to SSRS 2014 and the BIDS Helper Tool (Scott Murray)
• Managing Oracle Performance with Statistics (Jeremiah Peschka)
• SQL SERVER – Who is Consuming my TempDB Now? (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2016 Coming in 2015 (Tom Resing)

 

PowerShell

• Get Total Line Counts for all SQL Server Source Objects Using PowerShell (Jeffrey Yao)
• Automating web hosting creation in Azure with PowerShell (Troy Hunt)
• Using DSC to deploy Hyper-V converged virtual network – Configuring Host VM Adapters (Part 3) (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• OneNote to rule them all (Kurt Soser)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 22, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• My weekly newsletter is out – HTML5, Game Dev, Startups (David Voyles)
• The Morning Brew #1784 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 22nd, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for January 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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