Dew Drop – October 30, 2015 (#2123)

Top Links

• WPF Community Projects (The WPF Team)
• Visual Studio Update 1 RC (John Montgomery)
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.1 RC (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10581 and Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10576 (Gabe Aul)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC 6 and Tag Helpers, Part 2 (Eric Vogel)
• Persisting SignalR Connections Across Page Reloads (Ricardo Peres)
• TypeScript: The Best Way to Write JavaScript (Sahil Malik)
• CRUD in HTML, JavaScript, and jQuery (Paul D. Sheriff)
• Telerik Kendo UI Outside the Box (Bilal Haidar)
• JavaScript Promises (Abhi Jain)
• Node v5.0.0 (Stable) (Rod Vagg)

 

XAML

• WPF in .NET 4.6.1 (Harikrishna Menon)
• #MSBAND – Update Tiles live data with #VS2015 and #Windows10 (Bruno Capuano)
• Windows App Studio Release – Windows 10 Store Package support and other new features (Emilio Salvador Prieto)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Online Article: Visual Studio 2015: Ushering in a New Paradigm (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Available (Eric Battalio)
• Improvement to Debugging C++ Access Violations in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (Kaycee Anderson)
• Profile Your CPU in the Debugger in Visual Studio 2015 (Nikhil Joglekar)
• Enabling Underflow And Overflow Checking Within Visual Studio (Rion Williams)
• GitHub Integration in Visual Studio 2015 (Tillman Dickson)
• Properties with Parameters (and Making Them the Default) (Peter Vogel)
• Adventures in String Concatenation: Introducing String Interpolation (Rion Williams)
• What’s new in LLBLGen Pro v5.0 CTP 2 (Frans Bouma)
• Using Pex And Microsoft Code Digger To Better Understand And Test Your Code (Rion Williams)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Agile isn’t the answer. (Wes Higbee)
• Online Article: Managed Coder: On Motivation (Ted Neward)
• Getting Business Advantage from Continuous Delivery (Ben Linders)
• Adobe releases award-winning Slate app for the web (Benjie Moss)
• Adam Connor on culture, codes of conduct, and critiques (Mary Treseler)
• Fixing Stupid Mistakes in Git Pull Requests (TJ VanToll)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started With Android Studio To Avoid The Zombies (I Programmer)
• New Course on Developing Android Apps for Google Cast and Android TV (Josh Gordon)
• Use MvvmLight in Xamarin.iOS (Daniel Hindrikes)
• How To Get Started with tvOS and Apple TV (Doron Katz)
• What’s Next for Enterprise Developers (Steven Yi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Understanding Web Components and Polymer with Monica Dinculescu and Inside Web APIs and Customizing Swagger with Brady Gaster and Azure API Apps 102 – Adding Authentication (Scott Hanselman)
• Episode 069 with Bradly Green on AngularJS—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Office Dev)
• 065 AiA News From AngularConnect (John Papa)
• Start Up Success Podcast 3.7: Lena Ramfelt (Bob Walsh)
• Rocket 42: I Don’t Want to See Real Life (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• Dime Casts.NET Episode #220: Setting up A Web Development Environment On OSX – Part 2 (Dave Schinkel)
• Developer on Fire Episode 053 | Derick Bailey – On Fire for Software and LIfe (Dave Rael)
• Azure Podcast Episode 100 – We are in the 3-digits! (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #273 – Part Choice Triathlon (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Have Microsoft Press books helped you? (Kim Spilker)
• Coding in the open: Open source at Microsoft (Sophie Belle)

 

Database

• Online Article: The Baker’s Dozen: A 13-Question Pop Quiz of SQL Server Items (Kevin S. Goff)
• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3) Feature Pack (MS Downloads)
• SQL SERVER – Adding Datetime and Time Values Using Variables (Pinal Dave)
• Creating big data pipelines using Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory (Gaurav Malhotra)
• How Halo 5 implemented social gameplay using Azure DocumentDB (Aravind Ramachandran)
• U-SQL, the new big data language for Azure Data Lake (Oliver Chiu)

 

SharePoint

• My wish list for Office 365 and SharePoint (late 2015) (Chris O’Brien)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Band 2 review from a first-time fitness band user (Mary Jo Foley)
• Microsoft Band Sync app for Windows (MS Downloads)
• Making it Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10 (Terry Myerson)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1575 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1958 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-30 (Dan Rigby)

 

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