Dew Drop – November 25, 2014 (#1903)

Top Links

• Announcing DotNetAnalyzers: Diagnostics and Code Fix Open Source projects (Bill Wagner)
• Advisory Council Proposal — Call for Community Feedback Extended to December 5th (Immo Landwerth)
• Yet More Smart Unit Tests (Preview): Fix and Roadblock (Jeremy Clark)
• Introducing the Child Process Debugging Power Tool (Andrew B Hall)

 

Web Development

• Gulp in WebStorm 9 (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Custom Services in AngularJS (Manjunath K)
• Content negotiation in MVC 6 (or how can I just write JSON) (Yishai G.)
• Creating Pretty Tabs with HTML and CSS (Deborah Kurata)
• ASP.NET 5: Using POCO controllers (Gunnar Peipman)
• Grunt in a modular application (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Script Polyglots (Eric Lawrence)
• Sublime Text for Front End Developers (Wes Bos)
• Debugging IIS Express website from a HyperV Virtual Machine (Jeff Yates)
• Unattended authentication to Azure Management APIs with Azure Active Directory (Tom Hollander)

 

XAML

• We love XAML – Blend for Windows och Phone development (Andreas Hammar)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Formatting (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Building a Better Visual Studio Start Page… (Greg Duncan)
• C# Tips eBook Complete (Jason Roberts)
• What’s new in C# 6.0? – Setting default values to Auto Properties (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Using SQLite with the Entity Framework 6 designer – a troubleshooting guide (Erik EJ)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Strategy Deployment, the X-Matrix and Kanban Thinking (Karl Scotland)
• A Tech Lead Paradox: Delivering vs Learning (Patrick Kua)
• Managing team dev and build environments with vagrant and chef (Matt Wrock)
• Reap the benefits of automated testing by making it contagious (Wes McClure)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 8: Creating a Custom Keyboard in Swift (Andrei Puni)
• Using Windows Runtime Component with Cordova Project (Eric Mittelette)
• Debugging Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Intel XDK (Gastón Hillar)
• 5 Steps to Protect Mobile Apps from Attacks (Jared Blake)
• Twitter’s new search API closed to third-party apps (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Tutorial: Connecting your Xbox One / 360 gamepad to Unity (David Voyles)
• Adding Intelligent Analytics and Crash Reporting to Your Apps (James Montemagno)
• Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 8) (Rob Tiffany)
• Building Cross-Platform Apps with the Telerik Platform and The State of Hybrid Tooling (TJ VanToll)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Defrag Tools #116 – PerfView Part 4 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards, Vance Morrison & Chad Beeder)

 

Community / Events

• Thanks to a Drexel Professor, You Can Learn to Program with LocoRobo (David Goodman)
• LiveSide is retiring, thanks for all your support! (Kip Kniskern)
• A gamer’s guide to paving a career path (Michelle Feder)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – FIX – The database ‘model’ is marked RESTORING and is in a state that does not allow recovery to be run (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Using WMI SMTP Event Consumer DSC resource (Ravikanth C)
• PowerShell : Http Get/Post (Sacha Barber)

 

Miscellaneous

• Recruit to Catch the Good Ones (Ben Linders)
• ISO files for the standard Windows 10 9879 preview build have been released (John Callaham)
• Ransom is the new black – the increasing trend of online extortion (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1438 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Monday, November 24, 2014 (Rob Caron)
• Geek Reading November 24, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #110 (Jason Strate)
• The Morning Brew #1744 (Chris Alcock)

 

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