Dew Drop – January 5, 2015 (#1926)

Top Links

• Visual Basic .NET: 14 Top Improvements in Visual Basic 14 (Lucian Wischik)
• Top 10 Things Every ScrumMaster Should Be Doing (Michael Burns)
• Tech Predictions, 2015 (Ted Neward)
• C# String Equality: == vs .Equals() and LINQ: LET vs INTO (Dustin Davis)

 

Web Development

• Forcing MVC Model State to invalid for Unit Tests (Derik Whittaker)
• How to Roll Your Own Simple WordPress Podcast Plugin (Geoff Graham)
• Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin with WordPress (Jeff Reifman)
• Evolving ASP.NET Apps–Security (Simon Timms)
• Moving Items from One Multi Select List To Another using jQuery (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Reading Azure config in ASPNet5 (Aaron Powell)
• Why JSON Triumphed Over SOAP (Bill Doerrfeld)
• TypeScript: Understanding TypeScript (Peter Vogel)

 

XAML

• Changing the Pivot Header template in Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone WinRT (Iris Classon)
• Using XAML ScrollViewer in WPF (Mahesh Chand)
• Windows Phone 8.1: Adding Application Data to the Windows Phone 8.1 Map Control (Keith Pijanowski)
• Connecting Windows/Windows Phone Apps to Azure Mobile Service and Creating Your Solution and Your Azure Mobile Service and Updating the Data Model with Azure Mobile Service (Nick Randolph)
• Sensing the future with WPF (Pete O’Hanlon)
• WPF Windows XP Style ProgressBar (Tanna)
• WPF Shapes – Path – Simple Geometry (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual F# Power Tools – v1.7.0 Release (F# Projects Team)
• How to get MSBuild log files in Markdown format (Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi)
• What’s new in C# 6.0? – await in catch and finally blocks (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Porting a commercial compiler from OCaml to F# (Jon Harrop)
• Fix Visual Studio Error “No exports were found that match the constraint” (Zhiming Xue)
• .NET SQL Server Stored Procedure Data Access Layer (Peter Piotti)
• Walkthrough: Scheduling jobs using Quartz.net – Part 1: What is Quartz.Net? (Tarun Arora)
• Data Points: Looking Ahead to Entity Framework 7 (Julie Lerman)
• How do you prevent the linker from discarding a function you want to make available for debugging? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introducing Bug Magnet – an exploratory testing helper (Gojko Adzic)
• Some Thoughts on LeadingAgile Going Into 2015 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Continuous Improvement in Scrum: Peer Feedback (Rajeev Kumar Gupta)
• Concurrency, part 2: Patterns for Asynchronous Methods (Schabse Laks)
• Mindmapping Software: A Game Changer for Project Management (Chance Brown)
• Stop solving problems (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Launching the Native Map App from Xamarin.Forms and Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms Apps (Chris Sells)
• Jump Start the New Year with Xamarin! (Jayme Singleton)
• INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE: Watch your Android App Version (Rick Strahl)
• Lollipop AppCompat PreferenceActivity (James Montemagno)
• Swift from Scratch: Optionals and Control Flow (Bart Jacobs)
• Hello IoT… (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 291 – PowerScripting Podcast – Garrett Serack from Microsoft on OneGet (Jonathan Walz + Hal Rottenberg)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – A New Podcast Will Be Born January 2015 (Luis Gonçalves & Vasco Duarte)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Kate Walsh (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 072: It’s a New Year (Douglas Coleman)
• StarTalk Radio – Season 5 Time Capsule (Part 2) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Welcome to 2015: A look ahead as Microsoft faces perhaps its biggest year, ever (Kip Kniskern)
• Big Start to the New Year at MSDN Magazine (Michael Desmond)
• Lenovo unveils new Thinkpad products at CES 2015 (Richard Devine)

 

Database

• Parameterizing Connections and Values at Runtime Using SSIS Environment Variables (Melissa Coates)
• SQL SERVER – UNION With TEXT DataType Returns Error but and UNION ALL Works – Reasons and SQL SERVER – Filter In-Memory OLTP Tables in SSMS and Interview Question of Week #001 – Script to List Foreign Key Relationships and Constraint Name (Pinal Dave)
• Blog Post: Power BI and R and the role of Data Visualisation in Data Audits (Jen Stirrup)
• Does Updating Statistics Cause a Recompile if No Data Has Changed? (Kendra Little)

 

SharePoint / O365

• Developing for Office 365 – thoughts on use of custom master pages and web templates etc. (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Drop and Re-Create All Foreign Key Constraints in a SQL Server database using PowerShell (Johan Bijnens)
• SQL Server Table and Index Compression Information With PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Do elite software developers exist? (Eric Sink)
• HTC One M9 (Hima) photos surface ahead of CES 2015 (Adrian Potoroaca)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #169 (Frank)
• Collective #149 (Mary Lou)
• Double Shot #1454 and Double Shot #1455 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 1/5/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• The Morning Brew #1770 (Chris Alcock)
• Last Week on Channel 9: December 29th, 2014 – January 4th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reblog: December 26 to January 1 (Jason Strate)
• Weekly Programming Digest #88 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Links of the month (December Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

 

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