Dew Drop – June 13, 2015 (#2035)

Top Links

• What Is Code? (Paul Ford)
• View model driven animations using behaviors and MVVMLight in Xamarin Forms (Joost van Schaik)
• Cool ASP.NET Web Forms Features in 2015 – Async Model Binding (Jeff Fritz)
• 5 JustCode Features that Improve Visual Studio Development (Sam Basu)

 

Web Development

• Angular Filters (Aaron Marisi)
• JavaScript like a boss: Understanding Fluent APIs (David Catuhe)
• Ember.js 1.13 Brings Glimmer Rendering Engine and 2.0 Beta (James Chesters)
• Rethinking our Practices with the MVC Framework (James Chambers)
• ASP.NET 5: What’s the Big Deal (Jim Duffy)
• Everything You Need to Know to Unit Test AngularJS Code (Rabi Kiran)
• Azure data services part 2: Stream Insight (Alice Waddicor)
• ES6 In Depth: Symbols (Jason Orendorff)
• Build an AngularJS App with Stamplay: The IFTTT for Developers (Chris Sevilleja)
• Building Modern Web Applications with AngularJS and Play Framework (Denys Sinyakov)

 

XAML

• Xamarin.Forms Image Caching in XAML (James Montemagno)
• [TIP] Prevent Data Wastage With Data Sense App For Windows Phone (Kapil Arya)
• Windows 10 IoT Core–Network Enabling the Blinking LED Demo with AllJoyn (Mike Taulty)
• Why Silverlight 8.1 doesn’t display splashscreens on 1080p devices (Rudy Huyn)
• Azure : Upload and stream video content to WPF from blob storage (Sacha Barber)
• WPF Commanding – Creating Custom Commands (Richard Carr)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Deploying an Azure Web Site using the new build system in Visual Studio Online (Charles Sterling)
• Developer Productivity: What’s New in C# 6 (David McCarter)
• Visual Studio Online Wunderlist extension on GitHub (Clemens Reijnen)
• Throwing exceptions through COM (Dan)
• Devart Code Compare (Dirk Strauss)
• What’s The Deal With Nullables and Lambdas? (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Entity Framework Stored Procedure Instructions (William Wegerson)
• How can I force a CreateFile call to hang, in order to test something? (Raymond Chen)
• ReSharper 9.2 Expected in August, Will Support Visual Studio 2015 RTM, Windows 10 (Jura Gorohovsky)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit and integration are ambiguous names for tests (Simon Brown)
• Keeping a project’s public Git or Mercurial remote safe from your private stuff (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Event Sourcing applied – the application service (Gabriel Schenker)
• xUnit.net 2 Cheat Sheet (Jason Roberts)
• Property Injection: Simple vs. Safe (Jeremy Clark)
• Broken windows and software development (Dror Helper)
• Bonding Over Old Code and Why I Like Pair (or More) Programming… (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Create an auto-mocking container with Unity and FakeItEasy (Thomas Levesque)
• KISS revisited (Vladimir Khorikov)
• To break or not to break stories down into tasks … (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Seven Deadly Sins of a Software Project (Yegor Bugayenko)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How To Start Building Android App using Xamarin in Visual Studio 2013 ? (Arun Kumar)
• Detect and Resolve Performance Problems on Android (Jessica Thornsby)
• Android App Development Keeping it Simple (Per-Erik Bergman)
• Updates to Unity, C++, and iOS tools for Play game services (Benjamin Frenkel)
• Offline Support for Hybrid, Web and NativeScript Apps (Hristo Borisov)
• Rollerball – Unity 3D Tutorial (Shahed C)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #9 (Ron Gilbert)
• Technology & Friends Episode 370: Andy Cross on Big Data in Azure (David Giard)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 015: Should I Use A Recruiter Or Apply Directly? (John Sonmez)
• Video: AngularJS and KendoUI (Jeremy Likness)
• The Changelog 160: Ampersand.js, SPAs, and WebRTC with Henrik Joreteg (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 181 – “Bing Solutions” (Travis Lowdermilk & Ryan Lowdermilk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Norton Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Get Up And Code 095: Get Up and Code in Paris (John Sonmez)
• The Married Gamers Episode 366: E3 2015 Preview (Chris Brown)
• StarTalk Radio – The Impact of Twitter on Society with Biz Stone (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• Xamarin Podcast Special Edition: Google I/O 2015 and Xamarin Podcast Special Edition: WWDC 2015 (James Montemagno, Jérémie Laval & Pierce Boggan)

 

Community / Events

• Why One .NET Developer is Leaving the Ecosystem (Martin W. Brennan)

 

Database

• Error Applying SQL Server 2012 SP2 with Availability Groups (Carla Abanes)
• Using Stored Procedures in SSIS and Call Stored Procedures from Script Components (Mr. Data Integration)
• SQL Server: Login failed for User ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON’ (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Query Google Calendars, Contacts, and Documents from PowerShell (Mr. Data Integration)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Sandbox file object – Small Basic – Safe file operations for Seamless Sharing (Ed Price)
• The 50 Best Apps and Resources For Writers (Brendan Brown)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 12, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #172 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: June 8th – June 14th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 15, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1881 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-15 (Dan Rigby)
• links of the week june 12 (Chris Love)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #44 (Adam J. Wolf)
• F# Weekly #24, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 12th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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