Dew Drop – August 6, 2015 (#2068)

Top Links

• Apt-Get for Windows – OneGet and Chocolatey on Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman)
• My favorite Visual Studio 2015 Extensions (Bill Wagner)
• AutoMapper 4.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Modern Tooling for the the Next-Gen Windows Developer (Sam Basu)

 

Web Development

• Replaying IIS request logs using Apache JMeter (Maarten Balliauw)
• ASP.NET MVC 6, Part 1: Tag Helpers (Eric Vogel)
• How The $destroy Event Affects The Scope Tree In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• 26 ngAir – FalcorJS and Angular 2 (Kent C. Dodds)
• The JavaScript Looping Evolution (Cody Lindley)
• Create a jQuery Plugin to Sort and Paginate a Table (Irvin Dominin)
• How to Migrate npm Packages When Upgrading Node.js using nvm (Rey Bango)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 4 – Getting Started with PHP | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• Getting Started with ES6 – Using Classes (Dan Wahlin)
• Docker is coming whether you like it or not (Kyle Baley)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 Development: Adding Design-Time Data with Blend (Josh Morales)
• Adding Toast Notification to your new Windows Universal App created from an existing web app. and How to create App Service communication in Windows Universal Apps. (Arun Kumar)
• UWP AccessViolationException when Navigating to a Page in Another Assembly (Daniel Vaughan)
• Build better apps: Windows 10 by 10 development series (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Use Fluent Builders In Your Tests – C# (Darren Hall)
• Roslyn And The New Language Features of C# 6 (Dirk Strauss)
• LLILUM SDK is now available for Visual Studio 2015 (Lorenzo Tessiore)
• Visual Studio 2015, First and Second Impressions (Peter Kellner)
• [Guest post] Visual F# Power Tools: community-led tooling for F# in Visual Studio (Anh-Dung Phan & Vasily Kirichenko)
• ANGLE for Windows Now Available On NuGet (Windows Apps Team)
• Solution to Little Puzzlers–“List All Anagrams in a Word” (James Michael Hare)
• Tracepoints, Conditional Breakpoints, and Function Breakpoints (Jeff Yates)
• Exploring App Domains (Marcin Kawalerowicz)
• Detecting a hung windows process (Matt Wrock)
• Change the Release Management URL when the console is stuck (Matteo Emili)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Create IntelliTest in Visual Studio 2015 – another way of start writing Smart Unit Test (Abhijit Jana)
• Guest Blog: The Value of Continuous Agile Retrospectives (Ben Linders)
• F#, REPL Driven Development, and Scrum (Jamie Dixon)
• Three Things You Need to Know to Transform Any Sized Organization Into an Agile Enterprise #agile2015 (Mike Cottmeyer)
• Article published on Information Age: Why expert developers make the worst tech leads (Patrick Kua)
• Who Should be Your Product Owner? (Johanna Rothman)
• GitHub Enterprise 2.3 is now available (Matt Colyer)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Improves Beta Testing For Android (Lucy Black)
• iOS Tip: Force UIWebView to Display Mobile Sites on iPad (James Montemagno)
• Workaround if you have a lots of errors for your Xamarin projects in Visual Studio 2015 (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Altostratus Extra #1: Platform-specific behaviors encountered with Xamarin.Forms and Building Xamarin apps with the Visual Studio Online build system and MSDN Magazine article, two parts: Cloud-Connected Mobile Apps and Altostratus Extra #2: OAuth Credential Flow (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Introduction to Azure App Service (Sara Silva)
• Xamarin Android Video Playback – Part 4: Handling Network Connectivity (Lori Lalonde)
• Introducing Visual Studio’s Eclipse Android Project Importer (Marian Luparu)
• Put Some Azure Active Directory in Xamarin.Forms (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Day 5: Layouts in Android and Xamarin Android Visual Designer (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 305 – PowerScripting Podcast – Josh Atwell from SolidFire (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and Open Source | Cloud, Server, Tools (Scott Klein)
• Simple Programmer Podcast 038: Designing Interfaces for iOS apps (John Sonmez)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 089 | Azure Application Proxy & Gateways with Scott Hoag (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – Desired State Configuration V2 with Don Jones (Richard Campbell)
• Episode 10: Interview with Jason Strayer | Level Up (Greg Duncan & Seth Juarez)
• How to optimize your network connectivity and performance with Office 365 and Azure | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
• Talk Python to Me #19 Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Julie Lerman On Becoming The Expert (Richie Rump)
• SQL Generation Improvements in Entity Framework 7 (Rowan Miller & Seth Juarez)
• SE-Radio Episode 234: Barry OReilly on Lean Enterprise (SE-Radio Team)
• Isolated User Mode in Windows 10 with Dave Probert (Seth Juarez)
• Azure SQL DB Index Advisor | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Azure Podcast Episode 88 – SDK and Web Apps Enhancements (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Database

• Find Tables, Columns or Stored Procedures used in a SQL Server Reporting Services Report (Scott Murray)
• New Features in SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Server 2016 (Daniel Farina)
• Webinar Recording: Mobile Enterprise Success with Xamarin and Oracle (Courtney Witmer)
• SQL SERVER – Knowing Which Database is Consuming My Memory and SQL SERVER – A Stored Procedure for Executing SSIS Packages in the SSIS Catalog – Notes from the Field #092 (Pinal Dave)
• Reducing parsing costs in RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• Using Sequences in SQL Server (Richard Carr)
• Getting the last good DBCC CHECKDB date (Erik Darling)

 

SharePoint

• Introduction to Node.js for the SharePoint & Office 365 Developer (Andrew Connell)

 

PowerShell

• How many errors can the PowerShell error buffer hold? (Chris Sommer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Improving Healthcare with MDLIVE and Windows 10 (Baldwin Ng)
• New and updated PC accessories for Windows 10 (Brandon LeBlanc)
• Images of the Microsoft Lumia 950 (XL) prototype revealed for the first time (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows 10 update will arrive for the Xbox One in November (Jared DiPane)
• 21 best Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts you should know (Mark Guim)
• The Most Popular Programming Languages of 2015 (Martin W. Brennan)
• Making a clean exit – how to leave your company with friends, not dependencies (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading August 4, 2015 and Geek Reading August 5, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1533 and Double Shot #1534 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1918 and The Morning Brew #1919 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 5, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: August 6, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 4th, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 5th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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