Dew Drop – July 6, 2015 (#2047)

Top Links

• Xamarin Test Cloud Now Available to All Xamarin Developers (Steven Yi)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2015 Release Date, Windows 10, Open WWT, Maker.js and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
• From Zero to Hero in Xamarin Forms in 53 Minutes (Jeff Prosise)
• Node.js Development for .NET Developers: Overview and Node.js Development for .NET Developers: Tools (Andrew Connell)

 

Web Development

• What If AngularJS Had A setState() Method Like ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• Hack Physics and JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the ASP.NET Web API and AngularJS and Understanding scopes in AngularJS custom Directives and How to work with the Bootstrap DropDown in AngularJS and Exploring Angular’s “Controller as” Syntax and the vm Variable (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Windows 10 Upgrade and IIS 503 Errors (Rick Strahl)
• Ractive.js: Web Apps Made Easy (Eugene Mirotin)
• Transitioning from ASP.NET Web API 2 to ASP.NET MVC 6 (Filip W)
• Adding a Pivot Table to HTML5 Apps (Lohith G N)
• Moving to HTML5 Premium Media (David Mebane, Jerry Smith & Kevin Hill)
• Running ASP.NET on Ubuntu (Rush Frisby)
• AngularJS – Basic Application Life Cycle (Sachin Kalia)
• Updates to ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators for beta 5 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
• Day 60 of #100DaysOfSpec: 4.3.3 The section element (Melanie Richards)
• Web Deploy v3.6 (MS Downloads)
• A Brand New Docker Extension (Ahmet Alp Balkan)
• Creating a mobile app with Famo.us and ManifoldJS (Dave Voyles)
• Implementing Bootstrap 3 Remote Modal and An Explanation Of Azure Content Delivery Networks (CDN) (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Node v0.12.6 (Stable) (node.js Team)

 

XAML

• Windows Phone 8.1 store package version change surprise – one act (Adam Kinney)
• Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won’t support Silverlight (John Callaham)
• How to implement a simple notification system in MVVM Windows 8.1 Universal apps (Marco Siccardi)
• WPF Controls – Window – Ownership (Richard Carr)
• Adding photos to the Windows 10 Phone Emulators and Introducing InteractiveToastExtensions for Universal Windows Apps (Scott Lovegrove)
• UWP: How to handle changes of DependencyProperty (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Submitting apps with age ratings in the unified Dev Center (Bernardo Zamora)
• Networking API Improvements in Windows 10 (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Setting up a continual deployment with Visual Studio Release Management (Charles Sterling)
• Simplifying the Liskov Substitution Principle of SOLID in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
• LRN Quick Tip: Bridging Visual Studio and Roslyn (Josh Varty)
• String Interpolation and the Conditional Operators (Bill Wagner)
• How easy is to use a Symbol Server with Team Build vNext? (Matteo Emili)
• Creating a Generative Type Provider (Sergey Tihon)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Defect Prevention using Agile Techniques (Lucas Medina & Raquel Liedke)
• Unit Testing Asserts: Skip the Message Parameter (Jeremy Clark)
• Developers Should Read The Lean Startup (Chris Love)
• Integrating Testing into the CI and CD pipelines and Continuous Integration Lab for MSIT (Charles Sterling)
• Single Responsibility Principle (Software Gardening: Seeds) (Craig Berntson)
• Are You Making These 10 DDD Mistakes? (Daniel Whittaker)
• We’re Not Done Yet (Gil Zilberfeld)
• How to transform user experience into UX design (Jerry Cao)
• Article: User Story Driven Docs (Joao Fernandes)
• IntelliTest – One Test to rule them all (Pratap Lakshman)
• Top Three Signs That You’re Done With Your MVP (Stephen Forte)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Design assets for Android Wear, Microsoft Band and Apple Watch (Håkan Reis)
• New additions to Objective-C in Xcode 7 – Nullability (Jimmie Jensen)
• External Links in Cordova for iOS (Rick Strahl)
• ‘Work Item Studio’ will allow Android users to work on projects on ‘Visual Studio Online’ (Timi Cantisano)
• Code Snippets in IntelliJ and Maven Archetypes in IntelliJ (Daniel Fisher)
• Data Binding Custom Controls in Forms (Jason Farrell)
• Mobile Design Tools and the Future of Telerik AppPrototyper (Brandon Satrom)
• Swift 2.0: Availability Checking (Bart Jacobs)
• Game Performance: Data-Oriented Programming (Shanee Nishry)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ThoughtWorks Podcast: Pixelated and Secure Communication (Gavin Schalliol)
• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #12 (Ron Gilbert)
• Herding Code 205: Udi Dahan on Starting a Company Based on an Open Source Project (Jon Galloway & K. Scott Allen)
• Yet Another Podcast #137 – Basem Emara (Jesse Liberty)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 024: How To Deal With Criticism When Marketing Yourself (John Sonmez)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 052 on client side dev with Mark Rackley (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Relationships, Geek Culture, and Raising Nerds with Anjuan Simmons and What’s new with the Azure CDN – June 2015 and Intro to Machine Learning with Seth Juarez (Scott Hanselman)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 31 (Vic Bonacci)
• 049 AiA Line of Business Applications and Developers with Deborah Kurata (John Papa)
• MS Dev Show – Windows 10 API’s with Arun Singh (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #256 – Is This A Show? (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Get Up And Code 098: My Wife Answers Some Questions (John Sonmez)
• This Week On Xbox – Episode Eight (Larry Hryb)
• Radio TFS – Building on Build vNext (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• SSW TV – Open Source Community with John Papa (SSW Team)
• StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Madame Saturn: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 1) (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Don Syme receives a medal for F# (Ohad Kammar)
• Welcoming the WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source .NET Universe (Martin Woodward)
• EdgeConf 2015 – provoking thoughts. (Robin Osborne)
• Thank you for your contributions (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• .NET Community Movers and Shakers (Vicky)
• Managing Your User Group: Locations (Kevin Griffin)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Services Text Box Orientation (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Building your Brand as a SQL Server Professional with High Quality Feedback (Erica Woods)
• An Update to SQL Server Management Studio is Available (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Difference Between Read Committed Snapshot and Snapshot Isolation Level and SQL SERVER – Secure by Default – The Mantra and SQL SERVER – Creating Dataset Using VALUES Clause Without Creating A Table and Interview Question of the Week #027 – Move TempDB from One Drive to Another Drive When Low Disk Space (Pinal Dave)
• How to Run DBCC CHECKDB to Check SQL Database Integrity (Zora Stalin)
• Hadoop Interview Guide (Ian Stirk)
• Ensuring Columns Are Always Present In A Table Returned By Power Query (Chris Webb)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Pitfalls: Creating a Visual Studio Project Without SharePoint Locally Installed and SharePoint Pitfalls: Save Publishing Site as Template Option Missing (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• [How To] Use Windows PowerShell To Scan Windows 10 (Kapil Arya)
• Creating a Simple DSC Resource (Jan Egil Ring)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 Build 10162 ISOs now available for download (Richard Hay)
• Microsoft surprises us again with Windows 10 PC build 10162 release to Fast ring members (John Callaham)
• The ultimate summer reading list for techies (Stacy Warden)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 2, 2015 and Geek Reading July 3, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1521 and Double Shot #1522 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five on Windows (MVP Award Program)
• Collective #175 (Pedro Botelho)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 3, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: July 6, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: June 29th – July 5th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Links of the month (June Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
• The Morning Brew #1895 and The Morning Brew #1896 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the Week July 4th 2015 (Chris Love)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Friday Links #362 (Mike Ward)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #47 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 2nd, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• F# Weekly #27, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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