Dew Drop – July 10, 2015 (#2051)

Top Links

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10166 (Gabe Aul)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10166 Released (Clint Rutkas)
• Office 2016 for Mac is here! (Kirk Koenigsbauer)
• Microsoft Code Contracts – VS2015 support (Sergey Teplyakov)
• Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health introduces Web Tiles and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs (Ali Alvi)

 

Web Development

• Kendo UI at Any Screen Size (Cody Lindley)
• Generate Reliable URLs in ASP.NET MVC AJAX Calls (Peter Vogel)
• Applying styles to parent elements before children in AngularJS (Robat Williams)
• Get Started Building Your Blog With Parse.js: Edit (Samantha Zhang)
• Building Docker Images From a Container (Jeff Nickoloff)
• Demystifying Azure Cloud Services: Azure Cloud Services and Azure Virtual Networks – Part 4 (Adarsha Datta)
• Postman 3.0 Releases New Developer Experience – Q&A with Founder (Jerome Louvel)
• Docker Tutorial 13 – Getting Started with the New Experimental Docker Networking (John Willis)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) WG: 2 Drafts Published (Maria Auday)
• Gotcha: Azure website debugging not working in mixed VS2015RC solutions (Joost van Schaik)
• 5 Tips for Migrating Web Sites to Azure Web Apps (Paul Ballard)
• Node v0.10.40 (Maintenance) and Node v0.12.7 (Stable) (node.js Team)
• AWS Launches API Gateway as a Cloud Service (Michael Vizard)

 

XAML

• UWP: New Controls (part 2 – SplitView) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Just released: Windows 10 Application Deployment tool (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Five more COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Online today (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Preview: Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers (Jeremy Clark)
• Introducing Bex, A PCL Library for the MS Health APIs (Scott Lovegrove)
• Why is my x64 process getting heap address above 4GB on Windows 8? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile management (Eric Gunnerson)
• Bliki: DevOpsCulture (Martin Fowler)
• Unit Testing for Sass with Sassaby (Ryan Bahniuk)
• Article: Practices for DevOps and Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
• Take Command Of Your NCover Code Coverage Projects (Kerry Meade)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Create a Private NuGet Package Repo with UI for Xamarin (Michael Crump)
• New & Improved Xamarin.Android Templates for Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
• 5 Days to a Beautiful Xamarin.Forms User Interface – Backgrounds (Adam J. Wolf)
• How to Play Audio using MediaPlayer using Xamarin in Visual Studio (Arun Kumar)
• Customize Your Xamarin.Forms App With Pages For Each Platform (Pierce Boggan)
• Easily create Microsoft Band Web Tiles with the Web Tiles Authoring website (Shawn Kendrot)
• 5 Tips for a Successful App Store Optimization Strategy (Jen Looper)
• The App Developer Business Kit: Now available in 10 languages (Sean Meng)
• M Developer Preview Gets Its First Update (Jamal Eason)
• Amazon Introduces “Amazon Fling,” A Developer Toolkit For Sending Media From Mobile Apps To Fire TV (Sarah Perez)
• Introducing Web Tiles for Microsoft Band – My diabetes data on a Band! (Scott Hanselman)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 053 on micro services with Bob German (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Debugging Windows Problems with Mario Hewardt and Azure Media Indexer automatically creates transcripts for your media – with Adarsh Solanki and Announcing Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman)
• Podcast about my career and the SQL Server Community with Chris Bell (Ayman El-Ghazali)
• 050 AiA Angular Meteor with Uri Goldshtein (John Papa)
• The Amp Hour #257 – An Interview with Fabienne Serrière of KnitYak (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• ‘Re/code Decode’: Kara Swisher Interviews Slack’s Stewart Butterfield (Full Video) (Noah Kulwin)

 

Community / Events

• Meet Farah Shariff, the Xbox engineer behind the Microsoft Band (Sean Cameron)

 

Database

• Parallelize Data Flows with SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transformation (Daniel Farina)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Working with functions to Concatenate columns (Pinal Dave)
• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: Smuggling data across servers (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• Validate PowerShell DSC WaitFor (Michael Greene)

 

Miscellaneous

• New Office 2016 for Mac makes life easier for the cross-platform crowd and A closer look at Office 2016 for the Mac (Ed Bott)
• How To Say the Right Things at a Developer Job Interview (Mark Bowytz)
• Pluralsight + HackHands: Enhancing online learning with live mentoring (Aaron Skonnard)
• Universal touch-first Office apps for Windows 10 will be available on July 29 (Jared DiPane)
• I’m giving away MILLIONS of FREE Microsoft eBooks again! Including: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server (Eric Ligman)
• Office 2016 for Mac is now available, with major updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote (Vanessa Ho)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 9, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1900 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-10 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-10 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 9th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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