Dew Drop – April 1, 2015 (#1985)

Top Links

• Announcing the Visual Studio 2015 Product Line (Mitra Azizirad)
• Visual Studio 2015 and Graphics Tools for Windows 10 (Rudolph Balaz)
• Microsoft reveals Surface 3 with Windows 8.1, starting at $499 and on sale May 5 (John Callaham)
• Compiling C# Code Into Memory and Executing It with Roslyn (Tugberk Ugurlu)

 

Web Development

• Continuous Integration for Node.js Projects with TeamCity (Ariya Hidayat)
• Simplifying AngularJS in 60 minutes: Webinar recap (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 10 released: improved JavaScript support, TypeScript 1.4, V8 profiling, and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• How ASP.NET MVC 6 discovers controllers? (Filip W)
• Testing an ASP.NET MVC Controller using NUnit (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Azure Web Apps: Package Restore against a private NuGet Feed (Howard van Rooijen)
• Prism Effect Slider with Canvas (Claudio Calautti)
• Google to Support Pointer Events API in Chrome (Candice McMillan)
• Applying a “Web and Worker Roles” pattern to the Azure App Service (Tom Hollander)
• Node v0.12.2 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• Registering to any DependencyProperty changing in Windows 10 Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
• A Succinct Look at Windows 10 Tools for Developers (Michael Crump)
• Staying Alive! – WriteableBitmapEx 1.5 is out (Rene Schulte)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Pattern matching in action using C# 6 (Tomas Petricek)
• Parsing with SNOBOL (Phillip Trelford)
• Prettifying a JSON String in .NET (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Coaching (Mark Smith)
• Missing Test Competencies in Agile (Manuel Pais)
• Is it time to part ways? (Aaron Skonnard)
• Pixel Perfect 2, Developer Tool Extension Architecture (Jan Odvarko)
• Do You Know How to Say No? (Johanna Rothman)
• Why we switched to Font Awesome for Balsamiq Mockups 3 (Leon)
• Are You Really Done, Done? (Robert Sfeir)
• The Need for a Product Champion (Shane Hastie)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Sharing Resource Dictionaries in your Xamarin.Forms App (Richard Garside)
• Google Strategies for Automated Android UI Testing (Abel Avram)
• Power Great Gaming with New Analytics from Play Games (Ben Frenkel)
• The importance of testing your mobile apps (DevToolsGuy)
• IoT For Humans (and Developers) – Getting Started with my Microsoft Band (James Chambers)
• Electronics 101 – Getting started with Arduino (Dror Helper)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – UX Thoughts with Danielle Cooley (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Creating a Google Chrome Extension with AngularJS Part 2 (Paul Welden & Keith Ott)
• SSW TV – Xamarin.Forms & MVVM | Dev Superpowers Episode 10 (SSW Team)
• In JavaScript, declaring variables at the top of functions is a bad idea (free video tutorial) (Wes Higbee)
• Gone Mobile 25: Performance Comparisons: Part Two with Harry Cheung (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 072 | Azure App Service (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – Azure Stream Analytics with Scott Klein (Richard Campbell)
• Countdown to Ignite: The One About Schedule Builder on MyIgnite | Microsoft Ignite Countdown (D. Begley, RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• How to get Office free if you are a student | The Garage Series for Office 365 (Jeremy Chapman)

 

Community / Events

• March was for Makers – Fantastic Hardware Tutorials, Videos, Podcasts and more! (Scott Hanselman)
• Steve Smith Earns Xamarin Certification (Jennifer Staretorp)
• Live APAC Webinar: Say Hello to Xamarin.Forms (Courtney Witmer)
• Microsoft Opens Up: A Q&A with Scott Hanselman (Wallace McClure)
• Nokia Developer will dead today… and I will be part of the history (Sara Silva)
• Unity Roadshow and other Philly Game News (Amanda Lange)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Quiz on knowing DATEPART and DATENAME Behaviors (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Microsoft Azure – PowerShell March 2015 Update (Dan Usher)

 

Miscellaneous

• A side by side comparison – Surface 3 vs Surface Pro 3 (Richard Hay)
• Amazon launches STEM store for kids (Molly Brown)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading March 31, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1832 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1497 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Daily News Digest 3/31/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for March 31st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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