Day: April 14, 2015

Top Links

• What is the unchecked keyword good for? Part two (Eric Lippert)
• Build an MVP not a Beta (Stephen Forte)
• Build Your First Hybrid Mobile App with Visual Studio 2013, AngularJS, Ionic, and Adobe PhoneGap (Paul Ballard)
• Extending Classes and Interfaces using TypeScript and The Role of Interfaces in TypeScript (Dan Wahlin)

 

Web Development

• How Azure Web Apps Hosts an ASP.NET 5 Application (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• Playing with css animations (Anders Poulsen)
• Handmade Claims-based Authentication for Old-fashioned ASP.NET Sites (Dino Esposito)
• WebStorm 10.0.2 EAP, 141.614: more TypeScipt 1.5 support and bug fixes (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Document Processing using Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Lohith G N)
• Interesting unknown facts about jQuery (jQuery By Example)
• Protecting ASP.NET Applications Against CSRF Attacks (Paul Mooney)
• The Ultimate AngularJS CheatSheet – Part 2 (Intermediate to Advanced Developers) (Ravi Kiran)
• Advanced Scenarios with the jQuery UI Tab Widget (for HTML as well as ASP.NET websites) (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Make a Kendo MVVM calculated field depend on DataSource data (Adam Anderson)
• New number and Math features in ES6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Look at where DefinitelyTyped is Now (Jason Jarrett)
• When Should You Return 404 Instead of 403 HTTP Status Code? (Max R. McCarty)
• Orchestrating massive parallelisation of Azure WebJobs for fun and profit (Troy Hunt)
• Azure RemoteApp Resources (Zhiming Xue)

 

XAML

• WPF Layout: VirtualizingStackPanel (Mahesh Chand)
• WPF Custom Visualization Part 2 of some: Triggers (Serge Desmedt)
• WPF Triggers – Animation Basics (Richard Carr)
• Windows 10 Preview Jumpstart Summaries (13-14) (Matthias Shapiro)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Namespace Renamer (Rory Primrose)
• Coding Neural Network Back-Propagation Using C# (James McCaffrey)
• Visual Studio Extension that helps you create Visual Studio Extensions (Greg Duncan)
• Detection keys for Visual Studio 2015 (Heath Stewart)
• F# Core vs BCL Immutable Collections: Sorted Sets and F# Core vs the BCL Immutable Collections: Sorted Dictionary (Jon Harrop)
• XSLT Processing in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Rx Challenge #6 (Bnaya Eshet)
• VS Online Update – April 10th (Brian Harry)
• WinForms and threading: The golden rules (DevToolsGuy)
• Solution to Little Puzzlers–Largest Puddle on a Bar Chart (James Michael Hare)
• Using nHibernate EventListeners to validate and audit data (Peter van Ooijen)
• Adding SDK Extension to the Project From a Specific Folder (Sara Silva)
• On the ways of creating a GUID that looks pretty (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Project Manager? Scrum Master? Can both the roles survive? (Devankur Thakur)
• CQRS applied (Gabriel Schenker)
• Banning the word “Agile” from the workplace (Tom Horan)
• Master the Essentials of UI Test Automation Series: Chapter Seven (Jim Holmes)
• In design, what we really need is critical thinking (Mary Treseler)
• Think #Microservices (Vishwas Lele)
• Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 2: Reviewing Changes (No Conflicts) and Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 3: Reviewing Changes (With Conflicts) (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Customize the iOS Navigation Bar / Status Bar with NativeScript (Burke Holland)
• Android and the transparent status bar (Raffaele Garofalo)
• IoT: Raspberry Pi 2, C# and blinking LED (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• WatchKit Packaging and WKInterfaceController (Matt Davey)
• Understanding the WatchKit Layout System (Patrick Balestra)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Docker for Developers with Seth Lachner (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends Episode 361: Dave Voyles on WebGL (David Giard)
• MNR 541: Ed Boon (MKX) and Mel Kirk (Pinball FX2) (Larry Hyrb)
• TWC9: Microsoft@40, Visual Studio Enterprise 2015, Bringing Build to you and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Nikola Metulev & Nisha Singh)
• New Video: Demystifying LINQ Methods and Talk with Dustin Davis on //c0deporn (Jeremy Clark)
• MS Dev Show – Node Tools for Visual Studio with Sara Itani (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Introduction to HTML5 video and How to write games for Xbox One – Video and slides (David Voyles)
• Polymorphic Podcast – Learning Angular (Craig Shoemaker)
• The Changelog 151: Rust with Steve Klabnik and Yehuda Katz (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Get Up And Code 086: Figure Skating and Software Development With Aimee Knight (Andrew Pasaporte)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 60 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Episode 173: Storm with Asad Khan | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• CodeChat 025 – Andy Wilson (Rexter) | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• CppCast – Quick Game Development with Vittorio Romeo (Rob Irving)
• StarTalk Radio – Autism and Animal Science with Dr. Temple Grandin (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Dev Days is Coming to Your Town (James Montemagno)
• Announcing the 2015 “Project Spartan” Web Summit, May 5th and 6th in Mountain View, CA (Kyle Pflug)
• Philly GamesCon Coming Next Weekend! (Jesse Whitworth)
• Join us for the Telerik Party at //BUILD! (Michael Crump)
• .NET Developers Italian Connection (Vicky)

 

Database

• How to Clone a SQL Server Login, Part 1 of 2 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Analysing SSAS Extended Event Data With Power Query: Part 1 (Chris Webb)
• Can DBCC SHRINKFILE Cause Blocking in SQL Server? (Kendra Little)
• SQL SERVER – CONCAT function and NULL values and SQL SERVER – Is XP_CMDSHELL Enabled on the Server? and SQL SERVER – Script – Removing Multiple Databases from Log Shipping (Pinal Dave)
• Handling Mixed Format Data Files in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
• T-SQL Querying (Ian Stirk)
• The @DBAreactions Guide to In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) (Brent Ozar)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint XSLT Web Part (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• Script and Alter SQL Server Database Objects with PowerShell to Correct Collation Issues (Diana Moldovan)
• PSTip: Retrieve scheduled tasks using Schedule.Service COMObject and PSTip: Use Shell.Application to display extended file attributes (Jaap Brasser)

 

Miscellaneous

• Sorry Apple, Microsoft Is Right: Windows Is for People Who Get Things Done (Matt Smith)
• Might Microsoft buy HERE maps (this time) if Nokia sells it? (Mary Jo Foley)
• Java at Microsoft – A great selection of cloud options for Java developers (Brian Benz)
• Project Spartan now available in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones (Kyle Pflug)
• Words We All Disagree On (Lee Brandt)
• In the Game of Thrones, you either live or you…code? (Lindsay Lauck)
• Apple II Watch (Rob Miles)
• Microsoft is improving Windows 10’s touch mode (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 10, 2015 and Geek Reading April 13, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #163 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #181 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1838 and The Morning Brew #1839 (Chris Alcock)
• Daily News Digest 4/14/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Last Week on Channel 9: April 6th – April 12th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (4/6-4/12) (Dara Monasch)
• My weekly newsletter is out (David Voyles)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-13 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-14 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Programming Digest #102 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 9th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 10th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 13th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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