Dew Drop – November 13, 2014 (#1895)

Top Links (aka – News from Connect(); )

• Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 (S.Somasegar)
• Announcing .NET 2015 – .NET as Open Source, .NET on Mac and Linux, and Visual Studio Community (Scott Hanselman)
• The Roadmap for WPF (Harikrishna Menon)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, and More (John Montgomery)
• Announcing Open Source of .NET Core Framework, .NET Core Distribution for Linux/OSX, and Free Visual Studio Community Edition (Scott Guthrie)
• Announcing ASP.NET features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview and VS2013 Update 4 (Xinyang Qiu)
• How Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 Impacts You (Jason Gaylord)
• Profiling JavaScript Cordova Code with Visual Studio (Eric Mittelette)
• Just Released: Visual Studio Community 2013: The Visual Studio everybody loves now for free (Matt Carter)
• Announcing Azure SDK 2.5 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 Preview (Mohit Srivastava)
• Support for debugging lambda expressions with Visual Studio 2015 (Patrick Nelson)
• Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Entity Framework (Rowan Miller)
• The C# and Visual Basic Code-Focused IDE Experience (Dustin Campbell)
• Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure and Announcing Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Availability (Charles Sterling)
• Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C# and VB (CSharpFAQ)
• News from Connect(); (Brian Harry)
• Latest News from the .NET Foundation and The .NET Foundation is poised for future growth. (Gianugo Rabellino)
• .NET Core is Open Source (Immo Landwerth)
• Code Lens for Git “Team Activity View” and Filter link types on Code Map (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.3 (Jonathan Turner)
• Details About Some of the New C++ Language Features (Kangyuan Niu)
• Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
• Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET (The .NET Team)

 

Web Development

• Services And Factories Are Instantiated On-Demand In AngularJS and When To Use $scope vs. scope In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Prototypical inheritance in JavaScript and Child Actions in ASP.NET MVC (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Tag Helpers – The Basics (Jeff Fritz)
• Using Gulp to Build My JavaScript AngularJS App (Peter Kellner)
• Constructor Functions and Controllers in AngularJS (K. Scott Allen)
• Develop LightSwitch and Cloud Business Apps using Visual Studio Community 2013 (Sean Laberee)
• Angular 1.3 and Breaking Change for Controllers (Shawn Wildermuth)
• ASP.NET 5: New configuration files and containers (Gunnar Peipman)
• New Developer and Debugging Features for Azure WebJobs in Visual Studio (Brady Gaster)
• Adobe Declares Brackets is Ready with 1.0 Release (James Chesters)
• Returning to our roots: Edge Code is now Brackets (Ryan Stewart)
• Features of ES6 Part 10: Behind The Class (K. Scott Allen)
• Faking Orchard content items for testing and Stubbing the Orchard content manager (Bertrand LeRoy)

 

XAML

• Feature Spotlight: Visual Studio 2015 Preview XAML Peek and Edit (Brian Lagunas)
• WPF Data Display Controls – DataGrid – Sorting (Richard Carr)
• Bind Custom Radio Buttons to True/False Property (Paul Sheriff)
• Returning Task from a Windows Runtime Component and Executing and testing geofencing background tasks in Universal Apps (Joost van Schaik)
• Combining app development and trying to make the world a better place and Making an App Studio app better and How to add a Twitter feed to your App Studio app (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• NuGet 3.0 Preview (Jeff Handley)
• C# and .NET’s Sudden Ubiquity (Andrew Binstock)
• Error: Access denied when running SpeechSynthesizer().SynthesizeTextToStreamAsync(text) (Iris Classon)
• My essential Visual Studio extensions (Mark Rendle)
• Installing Visual Studio 2015 side by side with 2013 on Windows 10 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• CodeLens in Visual Studio Online enabled as a Limited CTP (Mathew Aniyan)
• Dialog box may be displayed to users when opening projects in Microsoft Visual Studio after installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 (Xinyang Qiu)
• Kinect for Windows V2 SDK: Drawing with Win2D (Mike Taulty)
• NHibernate Goodies Coming Soon (Ricardo Peres)
• Open Source .NET – why should you care? (Filip W)
• Microsoft Opens Up .NET (Steve Smith)
• November 2014 .NET Security Updates (The .NET Fundamentals Team)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Using Kanban for Change: A Case Study from an Insurer and Examples of Applying Metrics in Kanban (Ben Linders)
• How Effective Leaders Get Their Team on Board and How Leaders are Building Digital Skills (JD Meier)
• Simple sketches for diagramming your software architecture (Simon Brown)
• What Can Haruki Murakami Teach Us About Sustainable Pace? (Chris Spagnuolo)
• Traffic light UX (Eric Lippert)
• Could not find mappings for all states defined in ‘Test Suit’ work item type (Martin Hinshelwood)
• This one simple change will make your apps more secure (Mary Branscombe)
• The Legacy of Ivory Tower Architects (Matt Davey)
• I Don’t Know (Michael Burns)
• Deploying and testing web applications using Release Management (Vijay M)
• Configurable or deployable? and Stop making software configurable! (Wes McClure)
• Using Release Management VSO service to manage releases (Anand Gaurav)
• What’s new in Release Management for VS 2013 Update 4? (Roopesh Nair)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Adding Shared Projects Support For Xamarin In Visual Studio 2013 (James Montemagno)
• Debugging C++ code on Android with Visual Studio 2015 (Andrew B Hall)
• EyeEm Improves User Engagement through Android Design (Leticia Lago)
• Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android (Daniel Moth)
• Numerous updates to Cordova tools for Visual Studio, iOS & Android apps (David Voyles)
• Dealing with the linker in Xamarin apps (Jimmy Bogard)
• Microsoft and Xamarin Expand Global Partnership (Nat Friedman)
• Application Performance Monitoring with the Crittercism Cordova Plugin (Steve Forte)
• C++ Tools Acquisition for Windows Phone and Store Development (Vaishnavi)
• NativeScript: Second Preview Version Release (Valio Stoychev)
• Introduction to the Swift REPL (Swift Team)
• Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Visual C++ (Ankit Asthana)
• Reducing Expenses via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 3) and Increasing Revenue via the Internet of Things (IoT Example 4) (Rob Tiffany)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Continuous Integration of Mobile Apps with Greg Shackles and .NET Rocks! – Changing Platforms with David Dennison (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
• 133 JSJ Remote Work with Mike Hostetler (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Dave Smith)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Peter Farrelly Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 130: Inspeqtor and OSS Products With Mike Perham (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 055 | Panel Discussion: How is the Cloud Impacting IT Pros and Developers (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The Married Gamers Episode 347: Choose Your Gaming Couples (Chris Brown)
• The Amp Hour #224 – Meracious Mike Manuduction (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• New user experiences with Groups, Attachments and Office 365 mail | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)
• RiYL Episode 079: Glenn Tilbrook (Brian Heater)
• Software Engineering Radio Episode 214: Grant Ingersoll on his book, Taming Text (SE-Radio Team)
• Azure Podcast Episode 52 – Migrating to Azure – Lessons Learned (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• MVP Summit experience: Meeting international C# developers (Bill Wagner)
• The story behind the new GitHub Enterprise (Chris Wanstrath)
• Thinktecture’s IdentityServer and IdentityManager are now part of the .NET Foundation (Ingo Rammer)
• Dev of the Week: Daniel Bryant (John Walter)
• A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise (Matt Colyer)
• How veterans thrive at Microsoft (Sarah Roberts)
• BarCamp Philly Number 7 Is This Saturday! (Nicole Kline)

 

Database

• Visual Studio is free for developers. How about SQL Server? and An appeal for SSDT developers – Red Gate want to hear from you (Jamie Thomson)
• How to Restore a Page in SQL Server Standard and Enterprise Edition (Jes Schultz Borland)
• SQL SERVER – What is Hypothetical Indexes? (Pinal Dave)
• Success by a thousand cuts: Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and SQL Azure (Troy Hunt)
• Are your database changes second class citizens? (Wes McClure)
• Azure DocumentDB – Bulk Add Documents and Query Syntax Highlighting (John Macintyre)

 

SharePoint

• Displaying All Fields in a SharePoint Data Source and Exposing SharePoint Context to XSLT (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• Monitor SQL Server Database Size, Growth and Expected Growth with PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• DSC resource for managing WMI permanent event filters, consumers, and bindings (Ravikanth C)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft delivers second update to Windows 10 tech preview (Mary Jo Foley)
• Hands-on with Windows 10 Preview build 9879 (Ed Bott)
• Use Clutter to clean up your Office 365 inbox (Athima Chansanchai)
• Introducing Skype for Business (Gurdeep Pall)

 

More Link Collections

• Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Tuesday, November 11, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for the Week of November 3, 2014 and Top 10 Microsoft Developer Links for Wednesday, November 12, 2014 (RobCaron)
• Geek Reading November 12, 2014 (Robert Diana)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (11/3-11/9) (Dara Monasch)
• Daily News Digest 11/12/2014 and Daily News Digest 11/13/2014 (Silverlight Show)
• Double Shot #1432 and Double Shot #1433 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1735 and The Morning Brew #1736 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2014-11-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-11-13 (Dan Rigby)

 

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