Dew Drop – July 23, 2015 (#2059)

Top Links

• Identity Management Features in Visual Studio 2015 (Ji Eun Kwon & Anthony Cangialosi)
• NuGet 3.0 Released (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Xamarin Dev Days Recap and Expansion (James Montemagno)
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer: GenerateWP (Barış Ünver)
• What is project.lock.json (Steve Smith)
• Announcing general availability of premium encoding (Anil Murching)
• Get All Route Names From A RouteCollection – WebAPI (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

 

XAML

• Working With App Resources on Windows Phone (Ines Azouz)
• Creating an Universal App that Reads Your Heart Rates from Microsoft Band (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• C++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015 (Andrew B. Hall)
• Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 release delivers editor and debugger improvements, code snippets and more (Athima Chansanchai)
• Visual Studio 2015 IntelliTrace – Enable Historical Debugging (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio 2015 RTM and the case of the missing Microsoft Advertising SDK for Windows 8.1 (Nick Randolph)
• Developers: Learn about Visual Studio Code’s capabilities July 29 in online class (Suzanne Choney)
• .NET 4.6 and DateTime extras (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• More than Testing: QA’s Value in Requirements Analysis (Sam Flood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• AWS Device Farm Enables Cloud Testing for Android and Fire OS (Sergio De Simone)
• Line spacing label in Xamarin Forms (Rob Waggott)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 032: How Do I Come Up With A Profitable Side Project Idea? (John Sonmez)
• Episode 304 – PowerScripting Podcast – Ben Armstrong from Microsoft on Windows Containers (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lemme Finnish (Chris Hardwick)
• ICTV030: World Finals Judges, Awards, and Break Into Code winners | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz & Pablo)
• RiYL Episode: 117: Jeff Smith (Brian Heater)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 2 – Getting Started Part 1 (Sonya Koptyev)
• SSW TV – Julie Lerman: Domain Driven Design and Separation of Concerns (SSW Team)

 

Community / Events

• Bring Kindness back to Open Source (Scott Hanselman)
• Girls Who Code: nurturing the next generation of technologists (Adam Fraser)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – What are T-SQL Window Functions? – Notes from the Field #090 (Pinal Dave)
• Getting Started with Power BI Designer (Scott Murray)
• Reporting on Work Items with Power BI (Jeff Levinson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Office 365 Training: Get it done from anywhere (MS Downloads)
• Tuts+ for Kids (Andrew Blackman)
• What programming language should you learn? (Mark Frauenfelder)
• Office gains Google Drive and IFTTT support (Mark Wilson)
• Location consent prompts and settings improvements in Windows 10 Mobile (Windows Apps Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 22, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1909 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 23, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 22nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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