Dew Drop – July 22, 2015 (#2058)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download (S.Somasegar)
• Visual Studio 2015 Released plus ASP.NET 5 Roadmap (Scott Hanselman)
• Released Today: Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET 4.6, ASP.NET 5 & EF 7 Previews (Scott Guthrie)
• Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015 (Dan Taylor)
• Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• A fun surprise for Windows Insiders… (Gabe Aul)

 

Web Development

• Using Module.decorator() In AngularJS 1.4 and Managing Conditional Links And Route Changes In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• What are your favorite JavaScript ES6 features? (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 released today–behind the scenes goodies, t-shirts, and lots of open development (Beth Massi)
• Not romantically binding [promise-ring wraps Node.js callbacks with native ES6 Promises] (David Anson)
• Announcing ASP.NET 4.6 and ASP.NET 5 beta 5 in Visual Studio 2015 Release (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Build an Angular 2 App – Data Binding Syntax (Josh Carroll)
• JavaScript for VBA Developers: A Short History (Cindy Meister)
• Set the asterisk in project.json version numbers (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Synchronize Node.JS Install Version with Visual Studio 2015 (Ryan Hayes)
• How To Get Visual Studio LightSwitch For Free (Michael Washington)
• Upgrading ASP.NET 5 Beta4 to Beta5 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Go 1.5 In Beta (Alex Denham)
• Freebie: Cinema Icon Set (SVG) (Icons8)
• Getting Started With the Instagram API: Media Endpoints (Jeff Reifman)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.5 (Jonathan Turner)
• Announcing SupUrlative – Hypermedia Url and Template Generators for WebAPI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Announcing the latest improvements for the F12 developer tools in Windows 10 (Ruben Rios)

 

XAML

• A Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Xamarin.Forms App with MvvmCross (Part 5 of 5) (Brent Edwards)
• Peek Definition Everywhere – Using it with CSHTML, XAML, ASPX … along with C# in Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• XAML Tools for Visual Studio 2015 (Jonathan Allen)
• Implementing custom navigation in FreshMvvm for Xamarin.Forms (Michael Ridland)
• Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft Lumia 640XL and the case of the Virtual Hardware Buttons (Nick Randolph)
•  Obtaining the Mouse Pointer Screen Co-ordinates (Richard Carr)
• UWP: New Controls (part 3 – Maps) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Service Oriented Solutions using MSMQ and WCF (Ahmed Ilyas)
• Finding swallowed and async exceptions using IntelliTrace in VS2015 (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has surpassed 500,000 downloads (Brad Sams)
• Visual Studio Online Update – July 17 and Licensing and packaging changes for TFS 2015 and Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RC Available (Brian Harry)
• Application Insights Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM (Dimah Zaidalkilani)
• PerfTips – Visual Studio 2015 New Features In The Spotlight and Visual Studio 2015 Light Bulb – Lighting Your Path To Great Code (Dirk Strauss)
• ASP.NET 5 and CSS bundling: Fixing image paths (Gunnar Peipman)
• Response from Postsharp.net is not a Valid Nuget v2 Service Response (James Chambers)
• ReSharper 9.1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 RTM (Jura Gorohovsky)
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 (Rich Lander)
• C# Yellow Book Code Samples (Rob Miles)
• Announcing the RTM of Visual F# 4.0 (Visual F# Team)
• Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released (John Montgomery)
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM: What’s New in the IDE (Ji Eun Kwon & Tarek Madkour)
• Profiling SQL Server in .NET (Ricardo Peres)
• Source now available for GDB/LLDB debug engine (Andrew B. Hall)
• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.7 for .NET (Brady Gaster)
• Choosing a Responsive Framework for Your Next .NET App (Ed Charbeneau)
• CodeRush for Roslyn v1.0.4 (Mark Miller)
• Roslyn and Mono (Miguel de Icaza)
• .NET Strings are immutable … except that they’re not (Rick Brewster)
• Is that image a photo? (Robin Osborne)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Critical Look at CQRS (Jan Stenberg)
• The most important TDD rule (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Semantic Versioning in a nutshell (Robert Muehsig)
• How Testers Can Add Value Earlier in the Development Lifecycle (Antoin Boerboom)
• Moving to xUnit.net (Maxime Lemaitre)
• How To Make The Most Of Failure (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Know exactly what you’re about to deploy with Git, TeamCity and Octopus and Know exactly what you’ve deployed with Git, TeamCity and Octopus (Edward Ridge)
• There is no such thing as technical debt (Ralf Westphal)
• Version Control Guidance – Visuals to decorate your office wall or hide cracks in the wall resembling complex branches (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms Typographic Scale and Xamarin.Forms Nugget – Card Shadows (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RTM (John Kemnetz)
• Using the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from Eclipse or ADT (John Kemnetz)
• Azure Mobile Service deployment with Team City part 4. Deploying Azure Mobile Services (Ruslan Albu)
• Try the new HERE Mobile SDK for free (Lori Castle)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Devnology Podcast 050 – Scott Wlaschin (Freek Leemhuis & Daan van Berkel)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 031: Some Conflicting Advice On Working Hard (John Sonmez)
• The Agile Revolution – Episode 91 (Simon Brown)
• SSW TV – C# Is The Future – Filip Ekberg and SSW TV – No More Deadlocks – Filip Ekberg (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sir Ian McKellen (Chris Hardwick)
• AAWP Insight #147: Windows 10 Mobile upgrade, IAPs, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 087 | Catching up with Paul Schaeflein on Azure AD Improvements (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Defrag Tools: #134 – Microsoft Symbol Proxy (SymProxy) | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• RunAs Radio – ITIL in the Cloud with Carroll Moon (Richard Campbell)
• The Married Gamers Episode 370: Turning Heel (Chris Brown)
• Carl Franklin – Just Be Awesome (Dave Rael)
• Ping 247: Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Giant Fighting Robots and the Commodore is back | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
• CodeChat 032 – Henry and George Show How Beagle Uses React to Sniff the Fine Print | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Talk Python to Me #17 Python on bare metal with MicroPython (Michael Kennedy)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 13: Dmitry Lyalin is a Product Manager not a Marketing Suit (Richie Rump)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Linux Announcements and MOAR ARM | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• 54 – Kelvin Leak Keg | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• Introducing the new Power BI | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)

 

Community / Events

• Join Microsoft Stores to Celebrate Windows 10 with Special Events, Guest Appearances, Workshops and More (The Windows Team)
• Continuously Improving .NET Developers (Vicky)

 

Database

• Freeze Excel Column Header for SQL Server Reporting Services Report (Ghanesh Prasad)
• Using Bit Values In COALESCE() In MySQL Results In Binary Values (Ben Nadel)
• SQL SERVER – FIX – Server principal ‘Login Name’ has granted one or more permission(s). Revoke the permission(s) before dropping the server principal and SQL SERVER – Generating Meaningful Test Data with dbForge Data Generator for SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
• Inside RavenDB–Chapter 10 (Map/Reduce) is done (Oren Eini)
• SqlSmash V2: Faster and Better (Latish Sehgal)
• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (4th ed) (Ian Stirk)
• DOWNLOAD: Power BI Starter Kit (Kurt Shintaku)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Pitfalls: GUID Formats (Ricardo Peres)
• JSLink List View asynchronous field in SharePoint 2013 (Greg Galipeau)

 

PowerShell

• Welcoming the new home of PowerShell (Joey Aiello)
• Introducing Azure Resource Manager cmdlets for Azure PowerShell DSC Extension and Azure DSC Extension v2.1 released (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Why I got the MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect Certification (Chris Pietschmann)
• Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 RT Update 3 said to include smaller Start menu – but not much else (Andy Weir)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 20, 2015 and Geek Reading July 21, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1526 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1907 and The Morning Brew #1909 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #194 (Frank Boucher)
• Daily Links 20 Jul 2015 (Jax)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 21, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: July 22, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 13th – July 19th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-21 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-22 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-21 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-22 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 21st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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