Dew Drop – September 3, 2015 (#2083)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 1.6 Beta: React/JSX, better error checking, and more (Jonathan Turner)
• Announcing the Biggest VM Sizes Available in the Cloud: New Azure GS-VM Series (Scott Guthrie)
• .NET Rocks! – Becoming a Social Developer with Jeremy Clark (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Apache Cordova Windows 4.1.0 (Rob Paveza)

 

Web Development

• CSS Grid and The Box Alignment Module (Rachel Andrew)
• AngularJS RibbonBar (Bert O’Neill)
• Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta7 (Daniel Roth)
• Asm.js and WebGL for Unity and Unreal Engine and A list of Chrome extensions that I use, and why (David Voyles)
• TypeScript for Visual Studio 2015 and TypeScript for Visual Studio 2013 (MS Downloads)
• Getting Go (Phillip Trelford)
• WebDriver for Windows Insiders (MS Downloads)
• Render an SVG Globe (Kelvin Song)
• Prefetching, preloading, prebrowsing (Robin Rendle)
• Building Applications with Aurelia (K. Scott Allen)
• Introducing the Syncfusion Report Server (Morgan Cartier)

 

XAML

• Building your own Windows 10 Web Browser (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Keep Track of your active file inside Solution Explorer – A Quick Visual Studio Tip (Abhijit Jana)
• Managing the Visual Studio Blog (for a time) (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• C# Yellow Book 2015 Bananas Edition Available (Rob Miles)
• Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Online (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
• Basic Matching with .NET Regular Expressions (Richard Carr)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Making a Mindshift in Management for Agility (Ben Linders)
• Test Your Understanding (Dave Rael)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating and Publishing an Android Library (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Creating a Secondary (bottom) iOS Toolbar in Xamarin Forms (Keith Rome)
• MSDN Article Part 2: Cloud-Connected Mobile Apps – Build a Xamarin App with Authentication and Offline Support (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• Xamarin Forms Password Entry on Windows Runtime (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Xamarin.Forms Walkthrough 2: The Curious Case of Code Sharing (Vaikesh K P)
• Simplified Office Integration with the O365 Unified API (Mayur Tendulkar)
• Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web (Yusuf Ozuysal)
• Mono and LLVM’s BitCode (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 049: How you live one day, is how you live every day (John Sonmez)
• Herding Code 210: Ian Cooper on Microservices and the Brighter library (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, K. Scott Allen & Kevin Dente)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – How success happens for Scrum Masters: Incrementally | Gil Zilberfeld (Vasco Duarte)
• Multithreaded Debugging | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 30 ngAir – Angular UI-Router (Kent C. Dodds)
• 175 JSJ Elm with Evan Czaplicki and Richard Feldman (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Elijah Wood (Chris Hardwick)
• Developer on Fire Podcast – Josh Nielsen – Using Customer Feedback to Create a Great Product (Dave Rael)
• Mark Russinovich demos the new GS variant of VMs on Azure (Mark Russinovich & RicksterCDN)
• Partially Derivative Episode 34: The Data of Sports (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 9 – Getting Started with Cross-platform Apps | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev)
• SSW TV – How to become an front end developer with Justin Schwartzenberger (SSW Team)
• Azure Podcast Episode 92 – An inside look into Azure SQL Database (Sujit D’Mello)
• Away from the Keyboard – Ptah Dunbar: Captain of Code (Richie Rump)
• Introducing Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging (Clemens Vasters)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Author Randy Ribay (Marie Gilbert)
• The Buzz on this Year’s Sixth Annual Philadelphia Honey Festival (Melissa Nevadomski)
• Seattle still falls short in this ranking of the top cities for women techies (Molly Brown)

 

Database

• Know About Temporal Tables in SQL Server 2016 (Zora Stalin)
• Handling error converting data type varchar to numeric in SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• Excel File Data Validation for SQL Server Imports (Jeffrey Yao)
• SQL SERVER – What’s the Difference between ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and DENSE_RANK? – Notes from the Field #096 (Pinal Dave)
• Power BI Personal Gateway (MS Downloads)
• Enabling Query Store in Azure SQL Database (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Blog Post: Learning Regular Expressions (Kenneth Fisher)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Continuum Windows 10 Mobile dock rumored to have HDMI, DisplayPort and USB ports (John Callaham)
• Asus prices ZenWatch 2 aggressively for October release (Vlad Savov)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1548 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading September 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Daily Six Pack: September 3, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily Links 2 Sep 2015 (Jax)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 2nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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