Dew Drop – April 20, 2015 (#1996)

Top Links

• Visual Studio for Game Development: New Partnerships with Unity, Unreal Engine and Cocos2d (S.Somasegar)
• Visual Studio Partners with Unity, Unreal, and Cocos2d Game Engines (John Montgomery)
• General Availability of CodeLens in Visual Studio Online (Mathew Aniyan)
• Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right? (Raymond Chen)

 

Web Development

• Using Basic Authentication in ASP.NET WebAPI (Robert Muehsig)
• The Affect Of Back-Pressure When Piping Data Into Multiple Writable Streams In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• HTML vs Body in CSS (Geoff Graham)
• A Better Validation Result For ASP.NET WebAPI and ASP.NET WebAPI and Multi-Column Sorting Queryables (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• jQuery considered harmful (Lea Verou)
• Completing Project Tracking website using AngularJS and Web API – Part VII (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Emberjs – Refactoring Away From arrayComputed (Paul Cowan)
• Client-Side Productivity with Browser Link (Aaron Marisi)
• Dropbox Unveils API Version 2 Preview (Patricio Robles)
• UPDATED for 2015: How to install the nodejs Ghost blog software on Azure Web Apps (and the Deploy to Azure Button) (Scott Hanselman)
• Improve JavaScript Performance Analysis Results with User Marks (David Catuhe)
• Brain Bleeding JavaScript Obfuscation (Tyler Hudak)
• Azure BizTalk Services: BizTalk in Azure Infrastructure as a Service (Matt Milner)

 

XAML

• WPF Triggers – Event Triggers (Richard Carr)
• Animating list items within Windows apps (Shawn Kendrot)
• Windows Presentation Foundation vs WinForms (DevToolsGuy)
• Game rating certificates for Windows Apps games (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Converting PDF to Text in C# (Dan Letecky)
• Parsing command line arguments with F# (Jef Claes)
• Rx Challenge #6 Solution (Bnaya Eshet)
• NCover Updates For Desktop & Bolt (Kerry Meade)
• Kinect V2 – Simple Sound Detection C++ (Pete D.)
• ANTS Performance Profiler 9.1 release notes (Redgate) – A new release last week.

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: The Observer Pattern (Avinash Zala)
• Saga Implementation Patterns: Singleton (Jimmy Bogard)
• Managing Agile Open Source Software using Visual Studio Online (MS Press) (Mike Fourie)
• Smart Unit Tests – Test to Code Binding, Test Case Management (Pratap Lakshman)
• Testing System Integration (Andy Tinkham)
• Virtual Panel: Should Testers be Technical? (Yang Du)
• Article: Using Storytelling in Organizational Change and What if we fail? (Ben Linders)
• Making Sure They Do It the “Right Way” (Dave Prior)
• The Lean Learning Board (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Here is why Microsoft wants hamburger menus in Windows 10 for phone (John Callaham)
• 6 best practices for giving a product critique (Mary Treseler)
• 7 ways tech pros can reduce stress right at their desks (Stacy Warden)
• Free download: Sketch UI Kit (WebdesignerDepot Staff)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• An Introduction to Android’s Spelling Checker Framework (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 4 (Jeff Prosise)
• Xamarin: Rate this article! (Jesse Liberty)
• Xamarin Guide 3. Create the SessionsView and Xamarin Guide 4. Create the SessionDetailsView and Xamarin Guide 5. Add ShareService (Sara Silva)
• Splunk MINT: Security & Privacy (Panos Papadopoulos)
• Unity 5 Overview (Shahed C)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MNR 542 Star Wars Trailer, WWAP and more (Larry Hyrb)
• The challenges for Video in Mobile Engagement (David)
• Developing Facebook’s Messenger app for Windows Phone with Visual Studio (Larry Larsen)
• What’s New in the Ignite UI HTML5 Page Designer (Infragistics Videos)
• MS Dev Show – Prism, the Coolest Framework You’re Not Using with Brian Lagunas (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Nerdist Podcast – The Goodest (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 087: Ego Depletion and Fasting with Joel Gregory (Andrew Pasaporte)
• TWC9: Project Spartan Web Summit, Azure Media Player, The Krewe of Build and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nisha Singh)
• Episode 174: Big Data with Lara Rubbelke and James Baker | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• The Vergecast 149: gold MacBook, Surface 3, Star Wars trailer, and Ryan Gosling (John Lagomarsino)
• Side Projects and Community Contributions with Mads Kristensen | Web Camps TV (Mads Kristensen & Cory Fowler)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: LightSail with Bill Nye (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• MVP Showcase 2015 (Ricardo Peres)
• Register to attend the Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference (Daniel Vaughan)
• Wizard World Comic Con Returns To Philadelphia For Its 15th Annual Event With Celebrity Guests, A Film Festival And More, May 7-10; Get 10% Off Tickets! (Jillian Wilson)
• Developer User Group Tips (Steve Smith)

 

Database

• Time Testing SQL Azure Point In Time Database Restores (Tim Smith)
• SQL SERVER – Create Login with SID – Way to Synchronize Logins on Secondary Server and SQL SERVER – How to View the Dirty Pages In Memory of a Database? (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 is now available for download (Sean Cameron)
• Download Azure Publish Settings file/Publish Profile (Simon Sabin)
• Optimizing a Big RethinkDB Query, and a Correction (Rob Conery)
• Generate Random Strings with High Performance with a SQL CLR function (Jeffrey Yao)
• Rebuild Indexes of database with fragmentation more than 30% (Azhar Iqbal)
• Building A Reporting Solution Using Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

PowerShell

• Great PowerShell Q&A on MVA (Kim Spilker)

 

Miscellaneous

• What’s next for Microsoft’s ‘universal’ Office apps (Mary Jo Foley)
• Navigate the World with new Windows 10 Maps (Bing Maps Team)
• Star Wars: Battlefront will connect Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens (Bryan Bishop)
• Nokia Plots 2016 Return to Phone Market (Ina Fried)
• Open source at Microsoft: The next chapter for Microsoft Open Technologies (Jean Paoli)
• Satya Nadella on empowering people to do great work (Jennifer Chen)
• How to stay connected to the office while working remotely (Nishtha Arora)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 17, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #164 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #182 (Frank Boucher)
• The Morning Brew #1843 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Office 365 news roundup (Office 365 Team)
• Daily News Digest 4/17/2015 (Silverlight Show)
• Developing for the Microsoft Band Link Round-up and Last Week on Channel 9: April 13th – April 19th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Weekly Programming Digest #103 (Jakub Chodounský)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-17 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-17 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 17th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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