Dew Drop – August 3, 2015 (#2066)

Top Links

• Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension (Peaky Yuter)
• Creating Visual Studio Code Tasks for Shell Commands (Etienne van Delden)
• TWC9: Windows 10, Windows 10, Windows 10, Win2D, Modern C++ and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Report: Windows 10 is now installed on 67 million PCs as of this morning (Daniel Rubino)

 

Web Development

• Switch Cases Do Not Have To Be Static In JavaScript and How JSX Renders Different Data Types In ReactJS and A Quick Look At Rendering White Space Using JSX In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
• 5 Tips for Dealing with Unreliable Web APIs (Martin W. Brennan)
• Connecting to MongoDB from Node.js using MongoDB driver (Ravi Kiran)
• Dynamically Generating Robots.txt Using ASP.NET MVC (Rehan Saeed)
• Git 2.5 Adds Worktrees, Improves Triangular Workflows, Performance, and More (Sergio De Simone)
• Beginner’s Guide to MVC with Spring Framework (Stefan Varga)
• Dependency injection in ASP.NET 5 (Gunnar Peipman)
• Four New ComponentOne Wijmo Controls for LightSwitch Cloud Business Apps (Michael Washington)

 

XAML

• Win10 dev: Where’s [UITestMethod]? and Win10 dev: enabling Windows.UI.Composition and Win10 dev: using SystemAccentColor and Win10 dev: MSBuild, UWP and project.json (Koen Zwikstra)
• TypedMVVM samples for Windows 10 UWP and IoC fixes (Davide Zordan)
• ShowEditNewAppointmentAsync Weirdness (Peter Freeman Foot)
• UWP: New Controls (part 5 – Media) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Pivot in Windows 10 universal apps (Daniel Hindrikes)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Colour Selector Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
• 5 Lesser Known Reasons To Upgrade To Visual Studio 2015 (Darren Hall)
• Hard Lessons Learned For C# Integration Testing (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Microservices in C# Part 2: Consistent Message Delivery (Paul Mooney)
• Building Azure Service Fabric Actors with F# – Part 1 (Sergey Tihon)
• Two More Major Bugs Revealed in .NET 4.6’s RyuJIT Compiler (Jeff Martin)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Creating Unit Testing Strategy – Part II (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Kanban Deployment with the X-Matrix (Karl Scotland)
• Book Review: Difficult Conversations (Patrick Kua)
• 17 Theses on Software Estimation and #NoEstimates – Response to Ron Jeffries (Steve McConnell)
• Development Teams and Operations (David Starr)
• Meaningful versus mundane (Eric Brechner)
• Six Ways of Improving Behaviour-Driven Development (Jan Stenberg)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Understanding Android Code Structure (Manoj Debnath)
• iOS 9: Getting Started With SFSafariViewController (Jordan Morgan)
• 31 Days of Xamarin.Android and Day 1: Introduction and Installation and Day 2: Emulators for Android Development, lots of choices (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #16 (Ron Gilbert)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 036: How Everyone Thinks They’ll Someday Become Rich (John Sonmez)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 171 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• WinBeta Podcast 26: Windows 10 Special (Sean Michael)
• How can I use MVVM with Xamarin.Forms? (Michael Crump)
• The Nerdist Podcast – David Wain (Chris Hardwick)
• Day 5 Post Award Ceremony Wrap-Up | Imagine Cup World Finals 2015 (Golnaz Alibeigi)
• MS Dev Show – Windows 10 for Developers with Ginny Caughey (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• The Changelog 167: Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS with Toby Knaup (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• 2015 Imagine Cup World Championship (Imagine Cup Admin)
• New Azure AD options and Office 365 sign-in updates | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
• Get Up And Code 102: Talking About Routines (John Sonmez)
• Mac Power Users 270: Workflows with Christina Warren (Katie Floyd & David Sparks)
• Radio TFS – Building with Chris Patterson (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Super Powers (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• GeekWire Radio: Windows 10’s debut, Amazon’s new drone plan, and unlocking innovation at UW (Todd Bishop)
• Xamarin Podcast – Building Apps for a Connected World (Mike James & Pierce Boggan)

 

Community / Events

• .NET Developers to Know (Vicky)
• Windows Insider head Gabe Aul now VP of Engineering Systems for Windows and Devices group (John Callaham)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 T-SQL Syntax to Query Temporal Tables (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – How to Remove All Characters From a String Using T-SQL? and SQL SERVER – Increase Characters Displayed in Text Results and Interview Question of the Week #030 – Retrieve Last Inserted Identity of Record (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• 25 comic books for nerdy newbies to read first (Andrea Romano)
• Rumor: Acer to announce four Windows 10 Mobile phones at IFA (Joseph Finney)
• Satya Nadella says HoloLens coming ‘within the next year’ for developers and enterprise users (Joseph Keller)
• paint.net 4.0.6 is now available (Rick Brewster)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 31, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1532 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Friday Five: Welcome to Windows 10! (MVP Award Program)
• Coding4Fun July 2015 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: July 27th – August 2nd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1916 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the Week August 2, 2015 (Chris Love)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-31 (Dan Rigby)
• .NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – ( Visual Studio 2015, Windows Universal App Development, Microsoft Band, Xamarin ) – July 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• WeeklyXamarin Newsletter Issue #51 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 31st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• F# Weekly #31, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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