Dew Drop – July 31, 2015 (#2065)

Top Links

• Universal Windows apps in .NET (Rich Lander)
• Dev Center open for Windows 10 app submissions, adds new features (Bernardo Zamora)
• Top VS2015 Extensions: C# Essentials (Tim Sneath)
• Windows 10 is on 14 million machines already (Sam Byford)

 

Web Development

• Object Mode Streams Do Not Decode Strings Into Buffers In Node.js and Should The Relationship Between Object Mode And Read Size Be Symmetric In Node.js Streams? (Ben Nadel)
• Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer: The Envato WordPress Toolkit (Barış Ünver)
• How to perform a CRUD operation on the jQuery igGrid with the ASP.NET Web API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Unity with MVC: How to Level Up Your Game Development (Eduardo Dias Da Costa)
• 4 ways Windows 10 will impact web design (Benjie Moss)
• Stop the Shake When Adding a Border on Hover (Keith Burnell)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy July 2015 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• Windows 10 Built in Apps (or the Unexpected Virtue of XAML) and Using the XAML Live Visual Tree Debugger against Windows 10 Core Apps (Bill Reiss)
• Unexpected Windows Phone errors (Matt Lacey)
• SplitView in Windows 10 universal app (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Taming the SplitView Control in Windows 10 (Jeff Prosise)
• Windows 10 Development: Upgrading from Preview SDK to Release (Josh Morales)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Difference between Shared project and Class Library Project in Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• My UWP Nuget Package is Missing a File? (Scott Lovegrove)
• C# Puzzle 2 (Thomas Levesque)
• Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels (Kevin Lane)
• PSA: Add noexcept When Migrating to Visual C++ 2015 (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Cross-platform code sharing with Visual C++ (Marian Luparu)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Speeding up Unit Test Execution in TFS (Atin Bansal)
• Creating Unit Testing Strategy – Part II (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Embracing the Zen of Program Management (Johanna Rothman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Understanding Android Code Structure (Manoj Debnath)
• Get your hands on Android Studio 1.3 (Jamal Eason)
• Iterate faster on Google Play with improved beta testing (Ellie Powers)
• The Future of Mobile App Testing and Telerik Platform (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Designing Usable Security with Google’s Adrienne Porter Felt (Scott Hanselman)
• Episode 056 on building products on top of SharePoint Online with Doug Ware—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• 053 AiA Angular Apps That Scale with Ben Drucker (John Papa)
• Day 4 Imagine Cup 2015 Recap | Imagine Cup World Finals 2015 (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Wain (Chris Hardwick)
• Imagine Cup IoT Lunch and Learn | Imagine Cup World Finals 2015 (Asobo Mongwa, Phil Weber & Eben Upton)
• Rocket 29: Security Through Obesity (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Developer on Fire Episode 16: Matt Wynne – Strong Communication and Passionate Dedication (Dave Rael)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft <3 Startups (Adarsha Datta)
• Author spotlight: Filip Ekberg – Self-taught software engineer & scuba diver (Callie Johnson)
• Philadelphia’s First Ever Major Cheesesteak Festival Is Coming This Fall (Jillian Wilson)

 

Database

• Amazon Aurora MySQL Database Engine for Amazon RDS Now Available (Janet Wagner)
• SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Inside Working of Datatype smalldatetime (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB On Linux–Status Update (Oren Eini)

 

PowerShell

• What’s new in DSC Resource Kit (Karol Kaczmarek)

 

Miscellaneous

• How Do I Come Up With A Profitable Side Project Idea? (John Sonmez)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1531 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading July 30, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1915 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: 31 July, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-31 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 30th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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