Dew Drop – March 11, 2015 (#1972)

Top Links

• Welcome Back! – The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Official Pull To Refresh in Xamarin.Forms 1.4.0! (James Montemagno)
• Tools for Apache Cordova Update: Windows Phone 8.1 Debugging Support (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• EF6.1.3 RTM Available (Rowan Miller)

 

Web Development

• Using Method Chaining With The Revealing Module Pattern In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• Microsoft Updates PHP Driver for SQL Server (David Ramel)
• JavaScript Support in ReSharper 9 (Dmitri Nesteruk)
• Asynchronous Validations in AngularJS (Jaco Pretorius)
• AngularJS Integration Tests with Mocks and Magic (Jeremy Likness)
• Tons of statistics and metrics for Microsoft Azure websites (not only Asp.Net) (Frank Boucher)
• User+App & App-Only Permissions (Client Credentials Grant Flow) in Azure AD & Office 365 APIs and Setup Self-Signed Certificates & Trusting them on OS X (Andrew Connell)
• Scaling an FTP Ingestion Service Using #Azure Traffic Manager (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Get Your Reading On: Azure eBooks (Jonathan Rozenblit)
• Want to learn more about Open Source Automation on Azure using Chef? (Kundana Palagiri)
• Creative Gooey Effects (Lucas Bebber)
• Track Certificates to Help Users Stay Safe (Vincent Wehren)

 

XAML

• Add Real-Time Diagnostics to Your Windows Phone 8.1 App with SignalR (Nick Randolph)
• Grouping with ListView and TableView and the TableViewItemsSourceBehavior (Jonathan Yates)
• Attached VM Behaviors (Sacha Barber)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C# 6.0: Language features and its internals Part 2 (Abhishek Sur)
• Freetext Extension in Entity Framework Code First and Entity Framework Extensibility Index (Ricardo Peres)
• The Windows Presentation Foundation Roadmap: What does it mean for WinForms? (DevToolsGuy)
• AutoMapper and Working with Cross-Platform Assemblies (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Identifying an Agile Transformation Scorecard (Isaac Hogue)
• Writing Unit Tests is Hard, Because… (Peter Ritchie)
• Why BDD Can Save Agile (Rui Miguel Ferreira)
• Being a Part of Great Scrum Team (Savita Pahuja)
• dependency injection – a functional way (Carsten Koenig)
• Making the Task of the Code Review Easier for the Reviewers (Michael Sorens)
• A Couple of Simple Continuous Integration Build-Revisioning Tools (John Wilson)
• A Modern Microservices Architecture (Jan Stenberg)
• How to refactor and make static class code testable? (Shashank Bisen)
• Understanding Windows 10 Application Design (Kristin Marks)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android 5.1 Lollipop SDK (Jamal Eason)
• Announcing General Availability of iOS Offline Sync SDK (Donna Malayeri)
• Arduino 101 with an Intel Edison – Hooking up JSON to an LCD Screen (Scott Hanselman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Building Untappd with Greg Avola (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Video: Git and Visual Studio Online (Esteban Garcia)
• SSW TV – AngularJS with TypeScript made easy with Duncan Hunter | Dev SuperPowers 9 (SSW Team)
• AAWP Insight #130: MWC and Lumia 640 and 640 XL, Lumia 435 (Rafe Blandford)
• RunAs Radio – IPv6 in 2014 with Ed Horley (Richard Campbell)
• Countdown to Ignite: The One About the Bag | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, Golnaz, RicksterCDN, Joey Snow & Kaitlin McKinnon)
• The Web Ahead 99: Implementing Responsive Images with Jason Grigsby (Jen Simmons)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Brandon Wright, Animated Filmmaker (Marie Gilbert)
• Author spotlight: Julie Lerman – Programmer, EF expert & mountain dweller (Whitney Larsen)

 

Database

• Inventory SQL Server Services Version and Edition (Jeffrey Yao)
• Using GREATEST(), LEAST(), And Date/Time Values With COALESCE() In MySQL (Ben Nadel)
• SQL SERVER – Error – Msg 6401, Level 16: Cannot roll back Transaction (Pinal Dave)
• Python and Data : SQL Server as a data source for Python applications (Susan Ibach)

 

SharePoint

• Installing and Configuring Reporting Services 2012 SP1 or 2014 in SharePoint-Integrated Mode Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell With Configuration Tables in SQL Server (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Latest Spartan Build Includes Experimental Title Bar (Vygantas)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 10, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1486 and Double Shot #1487 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1817 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-03-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-03-11 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 11th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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