Dew Drop – May 4, 2015 (#2006)

May the 4th be with you!

Top Links

• Roslyn ships v1.0-rc2 with “Go-Live” license (Anthony D. Green)
• May the 4th be with you ScrumMaster (Michael Burns)
• First Word: Any App, Any Developer (S. Somasegar)
• .Net on Mac for the OS X n00b without Mono via Visual Studio Code (Lee Richardson)

 

Web Development

• Go actions responses (Karl Seguin)
• Video: Building a Single-Page App with Angular, TypeScript, Azure Active Directory and Office 365 APIs (Dan Wahlin)
• What do you mean by shaders? Learn how to create them with HTML5 and WebGL (David Catuhe)
• How to share data between controllers in the AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Data Points: The EF6, EF7 and ASP.NET 5 Soup (Julie Lerman)
• Emberjs – Action Maker (Paul Cowan)
• Microsoft Edge: What designers need to know (Benjie Moss)
• Debugging web apps with Vorlon JS (David Voyles)
• Start Your Transpilers (K. Scott Allen)
• Dynamically Adding and Deleting Rows in GridView and Saving All Rows at Once (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• ES6 In Depth: Iterators and the for-of loop (Jason Orendorff)
• //build with Bing – New APIs, Bing Solutions and Developer Resources (The Bing Team)

 

XAML

• WPF Animation – Basic Animations (Richard Carr)
• Get ready for the Unified Dev Center dashboard preview and upcoming Store changes (Bernardo Zamora)
• Using compiled bindings in your Windows 10 universal app (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Using AdaptiveTrigger to Build Adaptive UIs in Windows 10 (Jeff Prosise)
• Universal Programs and API Contracts (Jonathan Allen)
• Modern Apps: End-to-End Testing in Modern Web Sites and Apps (Rachel Appel)
• Windows 10: An Introduction to Building Windows Apps for Windows 10 Devices (Andy Wigley & Jerry Nixon)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Writing Faster Code With Visual Studio 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
• Commonly Used C# Snippets for SQL CRUD Operations (Jay Raj)
• Reducing Technical Debt with SonarQube and Visual Studio (Jeff Martin)
• C# Futures: Extension Properties and More and C# Futures: Closure Annotations and Code Aware Libraries with Roslyn (Jonathan Allen)
• Visual Studio 2015: Use IntelliTrace to Diagnose Issues Faster (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Visual Studio 2015: Analyze Performance While Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 (Charles Willis & Dan Taylor)
• importing FSharp.Targets, compatible with Visual Studio 2015 and Mono 4 (Cameron Taggart)
• Bringing Clang to Windows (Raman Sharma)
• How does the window manager adjust ptMaxSize and ptMaxPosition for multiple monitors? (Raymond Chen)
• Xbox API for Windows 10 games will still require certification (Jez Corden)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Software architecture as code (Simon Brown)
• Untangling a Monolith (Howard Dierking)
• Sometimes You Just Have to Scale Up! (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Article: Staying Connected When Working Remote (Ben Linders)
• Object Oriented Programming (Software Gardening – Seeds) (Craig Berntson)
• Loose Coupling FTW! (Jeremy Clark)
• Damn it, can’t you make your code less complex? (Jesse Liberty)
• Integrating NCover With TeamCity (Kerry Meade)
• Fitting in v. Belonging (Jessica Kerr)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Best Practices for Developing Apps and Games for Intel® Android Tablets (Intel Corporation)
• Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 5 (Jeff Prosise)
• Voice Dictation with WatchKit and Xamarin (Mike Bluestein)
• Xamarin Guide 10: Move ItemTemplate to Resources and Xamarin Guide 11: Create a LoginView (Sara Silva)
• Tools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio 2015 RC (Ryan J. Salva & Ali Satter)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Beginning Swift Programming – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi (Rob Miles)
• IoT: I2C and Galileo board (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• HoloCoding resources from Build 2015 (James Ashley)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #4 (Ron Gilbert)
• Windows Weekly Episode 411: Back from Build now available for podcasting, streaming (Daniel Rubino)
• The Changelog 153: 17 Years of cURL with Daniel Stenberg (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 076 | News from Build 2015 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Get Up And Code 089: Traveling And Staying In Shape With Jesse Taber (Andrew Pasaporte)
• Video from the 2015 Imagine Cup US Finals is online (David Voyles)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science of Interstellar with Christopher Nolan (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• Microsoft puts the focus on Windows 10 developers in two new videos (John Callaham)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Edge Web Summit (Chris Love)
• Build 2015 Announcements – My Humble Opinion (Atley Hunter)

 

Database

• Identify SQL Server Indexes With Duplicate Columns (Ben Snaidero)
• Announcing Minion Enterprise: the new SQL Server Management Solution (Jen McCown)
• SQL SERVER – Who ALTER’ed My Database? Catch Them Via DDL Trigger and Interview Question of the Week #018 – Script to Remove Special Characters – Script to Parse Alpha Numerics (Pinal Dave)
• Apache Hive Essentials (Ian Stirk)
• Schema Refactoring with Views (Kevin Hazzard)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Filter Web Part (Ricardo Peres)

 

Miscellaneous

• Free ebook: Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals, Preview Edition (Kim Spilker)
• Where to get the Channel 9 Guy 3D Model (Larry Larsen)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading May 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #166 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 4, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: April 26th – May 3rd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #38 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 1st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Scrumptious Links from the Interwebs (Michael Burns)
• Weekly Programming Digest #105 (Jakub Chodounský)

 

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