Dew Drop – November 13, 2015 (#2132)

Top Links

• First Major Update for Windows 10 Available Today (Terry Myerson)
• SSW TV – Building ‘Real-World’ Apps with Xamarin.Forms | Michael Ridland and Xamarin Hack Day Sydney (Sophie Belle)
• Microsoft is committed to Windows phone (they just have a hard time showing it) (Jason Ward)
• Rob Eisenberg on Aurelia | DEVIntersection 2015 (Rob Eisenberg & Seth Juarez)

Web Development

• Download the Anatomy of Responsive ASP.NET Apps whitepaper from Telerik (AtWork Team)
• Announcement : Packt’s JavaScript Week 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• NuGet Server and Better Stability now in UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Rumen Jekov)
• An ASP.NET 5 Overview Video (K. Scott Allen)
• Improved Ajax Techniques for WordPress: Object-Oriented Programming (Tom McFarlin)
• Animating an SVG Menu Icon with Segment (Luis Manuel)

XAML

• Vungle SDK for Windows 10 Released (Windows Apps Team)
• Build Charming Apps v9.0 Preview (Peter Freeman Foot)

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Dew Review – Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (Me)
• Async Await in C# (Abhi Jain)
• Creating a True Value Object (Peter Vogel)
• Save and share your Application Insights results for quick access (Abhijit Jana)
• Searching and filtering the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window (Angelos Petropoulos)
• Support for Team Foundation Server 2015 in SonarQube TFVC SCM Plugin (Harysh Menon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile with Internal Coaches and Facilitators (Ben Linders)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSO – A New Way of Working with Azure Resource Manager (Graham Smith)
• The Elements of Usability (Meghan Lien)
• Refactoring is a Development Technique, Not a Project (Erik Dietrich)

Other Mobile Platforms

• The App Developer Checklist: Seven Ways to Design Your App for Virality (Drew Hendricks)
• Core Data and Swift: NSFetchedResultsController and Telerik Platform 2.0: Fast Forward Mobile Development (Bart Jacobs)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Speak Up and Present with Confidence with Poornima Vijayashanker and Azure Rate Card and Billing APIs with Moinak Bandyopadhyay and Exploring the Open Source Field Engineer App with Azure Mobile Apps (Scott Hanselman)
• 067 AiA Consulting in Angular with Jesse Warden (John Papa)
• Doug Seven on IoT | DEVIntersection 2015 (Doug Seven & Seth Juarez)
• A Lap Around Azure with Scott Guthrie | DEVIntersection 2015 (Scott Guthrie & Seth Juarez)
• Live – Microsoft and Open Source (Scott Hunter, Tess Ferrandez, Scott Hanselman & Dag König)
• Steve “Guggs” Guggenheimer on Evangelism | DEVIntersection 2015 (Seth Juarez & Steven Guggenheimer)
• Rocket 44: The Gorilla Arm Problem (Simone De Rochefort, Brianna Wu & Christina Warren)

Community / Events

• Hints for successfully managing an open-source project (David Catuhe)

Database

• Using SQL Server Managed Lock Priority for Online Index Rebuilds (Burt King)
• SQL SERVER – Backup to Azure Blob error – The remote server returned an error: (409) Conflict (Pinal Dave)
• 30 feature updates to “Get & Transform” in Excel 2016 and Power Query add-in (Excel Team)

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Hyperlapse Pro for Mac arrives: Video processing app creates smooth, stable time lapse videos (Athima Chansanchai)
• Will I Lower My Earnings Potential By Not Focusing On The Right Thing? (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading November 12, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1583 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1968 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 12th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

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