Dew Drop – July 9, 2015 (#2050)

Top Links

• Save the date! Visual Studio 2015 Final Release (Radhika Tadinada)
• Xamarin and Oracle Join Forces to Build Better Enterprise Apps (Nat Friedman)
• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Project Westminster – hosted web apps for UWP (HTML5 in Win 10) (David Voyles)

 

Web Development

• Why and How We Migrated Babylon.js to Azure (David Rousset)
• Using HtmlAgilityPack To Strip All HTML Attributes (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• PhpStorm 9 released: Progress. Advance. Develop. Postfix code completion for PHP, inline Debugger, Remote edit, and more. (Mikhail Vink)
• #Video Deal/Day: Modern Web Development with HTML5 and CSS – $24.98 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Demystifying Azure Cloud Services: Azure Cloud Services and Azure Virtual Networks – Part 4 (Adarsha Datta)
• LaunchKit Makes Building Landing Pages For Mobile Apps Ridiculously Easy (Frederic Lardinois)
• Everything you need to know about the long-scrolling trend (Marc Schenker)
• Playful Interaction for Draggable Elements (Manoela Ilic)
• Introducing Graph API v2.4 (Steven Elia)
• How React Components Make UI Testing Easy (Swizec Teller)

 

XAML

• More details emerge on Microsoft’s Windows phone plans (Andy Weir)
• WPF Controls – Window – Showing Dialog Boxes (Richard Carr)
• Full Screen Mode in Windows 10 Universal apps (Marco Minerva)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• What’s New in C# 6.0 (Ricardo Peres)
• Visual Studio Time Saver–Enhanced Scroll bar, everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask! (Susan Ibach)
• VS2015’s C++ Benefits from Over 750 Bug Fixes (Jeff Martin)
• Entity Framework extensions for AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Microservices Resource Guide (Martin Fowler)
• Static Analysis : Code as Data and Signs Craftsmanship May Be For You – Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (Part 2) (Erik Dietrich)
• Test Scope Creep (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 5 Days to a Beautiful Xamarin.Forms User Interface – Icons (Adam J. Wolf)
• Creating Prototypes for iOS and Android With Framer: Basics (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Oracle just struck an important alliance with a startup called Xamarin to take on Amazon, IBM and Microsoft (Julie Bort)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Lean Functional with Bryan Hunter (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 026: SP European Tour 2015 – Ireland (Blarney Castle) (John Sonmez)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Andy Samberg Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• CppCast – WebAssembly with JF Bastien (Rob Irving)
• The Web Ahead 103: Animating the Web with Rachel Nabors (Jen Simmons)
• An Introduction to Entity Framework with Rowan Miller (Rowan Miller & Seth Juarez)
• SSW TV – What’s on the horizon of the Internet of Things (IoT) – SSW TV Interview with Stuart Corner (SSW Team)
• Azure Podcast Episode 84 – Azure AD (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• An Outsider’s View of the Functional Community (Jeremy Clark)
• Geek of the Week: Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Writer and Director (Marie Gilbert)

 

Database

• Securing SQL Server with SQL Secure (Greg Robidoux)
• Layer a database into a SQL Server container (Ed Elliott)
• Use Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.1 (Aaron Bertrand)
• SQL SERVER – Using Project Connections in SSIS – Notes from the Field #088 (Pinal Dave)
• Checking Columns Are Present In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• The sp_rename follies (Erik Darling)
• New DocumentDB ORDER BY Features in the Azure Preview Portal (Stephen Baron)

 

PowerShell

• Automating Microsoft Azure with PowerShell Review (Ricardo Peres)
• PowerShell DSC for Linux: Resources (Bartek Bielawski)
• Validate PowerShell DSC Partial Configurations (Michael Greene)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft axes more jobs, phone portfolio to be more ‘focused’ (Steve Litchfield)
• Microsoft confirms it will lay off 7,800 more employees, mostly from phone division and Satya Nadella still ‘committed’ to Microsoft’s phone business despite layoffs (John Callaham)
• Outside the shack, or “How to be a technology gigolo” (Kyle Baley)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #1899 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 8th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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