Dew Drop – February 16, 2015 (#1955)

Top Links

• Announcing Limited Preview for Visual Studio Online Code Search (Biju Venugopal)
• Sample project for using ASP.NET Web API in Xamarin iOS apps (David Voyles)
• OneNote is now (even more) free! (Brad Corob)
• Roslyn Code Gems – Performance Goals (K. Scott Allen)
• Everything you need to know about Windows 10 for phones (Richard Devine)

 

Web Development

• Route Resolution Using Factory Functions vs. Services In AngularJS and Deferring Route Configuration Using Decorators And Route Resolution In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Review: Developing Backbone.js Applications (Ian Elliot)
• Testing a Kendo ViewModel DataSource (Adam Anderson)
• How to use NodeJS, Express, and Bower to Create AngularJS apps and 21 points cheat sheet on AngularJS controller and the $scope object and How to use NodeJS, Express, and Bower to Create AngularJS apps (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 10 EAP, 140.2424: spy-js application dependency diagram and fixes (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Custom Skin for Kendo UI DataViz Components (George Saadeh)
• Send Data into Azure Event Hubs using Web Api’s HttpClient (Howard van Rooijen)
• Top 10 Best jQuery Image Slider Plugins (Learning JQuery)
• PhpStorm 8.0.3 bug fix update is available (Mikhail Vink)
• Publishing Just Your JavaScript Folder With Visual Studio (Peter Kellner)
• Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 (Shivprasad Koirala & Marla Sukesh)
•  Custom Events in JavaScript (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• JavaScript Has Won: Run Flash with Mozilla Shumway and Develop Silverlight in JS with Fayde (Scott Hanselman)
• DataTyping in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
• Classes in ECMAScript 6 (final semantics) (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Deploying Go applications to Azure Websites (Hang Ruan)
• 50 incredible freebies for web designers, February 2015 (Juan Pablo Sarmiento)

 

XAML

• Virtualization in WPF Using VirtualizingStackPanel (Mahesh Chand)
• Navigation in the WPF Application Between View Models and Refactoring ViewModelLocator with Autofac and Navigation Service for Cross Platform Page/View Navigation from View Model (Nick Randolph)
• Using the xamTabControl as a Prism Region and Closing Tab Items (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows Store Apps Icon Generator (Pete D.)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Facets of information, Part II (Oren Eini)
• Article: Simplifying F# Type Provider Development (Dave Fancher)
• C# Smappee (Greg Duncan)
• Find Your Favorite Library for C++ in NuGet (Hong Hong)
• Custom Debugger Display Information in Visual Studio (Pankaj Bhandari)
• How to add custom XSD validation intellisense in Visual Studio (RemcoReitsma)
• Bulk Insert Into SQL From C# (Sacha Barber)
• Code Search on VS Online (Brian Harry)
• Cross-Platform AutoMapper (again) (Jimmy Bogard)
• FileNotFoundException When Looking for YourAssembly.resources.dll? Here’s Your Fix! (John Robbins)
• Implementing std::tuple From The Ground Up: Part 6, tuple_cat Take 1 (Sasha Goldshtein)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Article: Increasing Enterprise Agility and Agile Innovation (Ben Linders)
• Software Gardening – Agile is not for the faint of heart (Craig Berntson)
• 6 Key Steps to Successful Agile Testing Projects (Fani Kondova)
• TDD Practice – Parsing Data from a Service (Jeremy Clark)
• Can You Mandate Your Agile Transformation? (Mike Cottmeyer)
• No Estimation in Small And Large Scale Agile Projects and Scrum For Individuals (Savita Pahuja)
• The Importance of Design Language in Modern App Development (Anthony Handley)
• Software Applications Should Work Like Restaurants (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Condition Coverage Explained in IL (Kerry Meade)
• Release Management Service Futures (Vijay M.)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Beta Channel for the Android WebView (Richard Coles)
• Android emulator does not contain a SD card (Iris Classon)
• What is New in Xamarin Forms 1.3: Inherited APP Class (Nirmal Hota)
• beakn v0.4.2 – Lync Status Light – Now with easy to edit config settings and reset light on start support. (Jon Gallant)
• Introduction to Swift Programming for beginners (Mark Petherbridge)
• Internet if Things: How to create a simple Web server (part 1) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Reapp – Hybrid Mobile App Development Using React (Matt McComb)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends Episode 354: Robert C. Martin on Software Professionalism (David Giard)
• MNR 535: Evolve Launch (and a some really random conversations) (Larry Hyrb)
•  Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Mario Lucero shares lessons learned about distributed agile development and Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Matt Dominici shares his thoughts on involving the right stakeholders (Vasco Duarte)
• TWC9: TouchDevelop Opens, Microsoft Helps Create Node.js Foundation, Git Training, ngrok and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
• The Changelog 142: Laravel PHP Framework with Taylor Otwell (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Married Gamers Episode 358: OFR Pre-PAX South Roundtable (Chris Brown)
• Making the Internet of Things – TweetHeart – A NeoPixel Heart that is Twitter Sensitive (DevRadio, ChrisCaldwell & Stacey Mulcahy)
• Get Up And Code 078: Developer Health with Lino Tadros (Douglas Coleman)
• StarTalk Radio – Rocket City Rednecks (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Contest: Give Us The Gist Of It! (Jayme Singleton)
• Imagine Cup: Achievement Unlocked! TAGStudios gets Honorable Mention in the Games Category (Mickey MacDonald)
• The Know It. Prove It. Challenge: Join the 28 day challenge to rock your tech skills (Sara Silva)

 

Database

• SQL Server Date Time Calculation Examples (Jeffrey Yao)
•  SQL Unit Testing (Ronnie Mukherjee)
• RavenDB on Linux, first steps… (Oren Eini)
• Interview Question of the Week #007 – How to Reindex Every Table of the Database? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Error handling with try-catch-finally in PowerShell for SQL Server (Diana Moldovan)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: PowerShell Troubleshooting Guide – $8.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Miscellaneous

• I’m a Mac and a PC: Virtualizing Windows on the Mac (Jason Snell)
• Installing Windows 10 Technical Preview on the HP Stream 7 (Richard Hay)
• I wish Subversion had a query language and Bash script to convert Subversion to Git (Paul Hammant)
• UPDATE: Unique Features of Microsoft Small Basic (Ed Price)
•  Windows Phone 8.1 GDR2 confirmed in Microsoft docs, supports video conferencing (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Collective #155 (Pedro Botelho)
• Geek Reading February 13, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Daily News Digest 2/13/2015 and Daily News Digest 2/16/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 9th – February 15th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1800 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/26-2/1) (Dara Monasch)
• Weekly Programming Digest #94 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 13th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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