Dew Drop – December 1, 2015 (#2142)

Top Links

• What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• NuGet 3.3 Release (Jeff Fritz)
• Visual Studio Update 1 RTM (John Montgomery)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.7 (Gaurav Seth)

 

Web Development

• HTML5 Mastery: Scoping Rules (Florian Rappl)
• PHP 7 RC7 x86 is here for Azure Web Apps (Openness Team)
• Working With Typed Headers in ASP.NET (K. Scott Allen)
• TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 3 (Stephen Walther)
• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.1 for .NET (Brady Gaster)
• Azure Web App: Application Settings (Chris Pietschmann)
• New Themes in Few Clicks for AJAX Web Applications (Lohith Goudagere Nagaraj)
• Simple as Azure Marketplace (Frank Boucher)
• All about that npm no Bower (Shayne Boyer)
• Generalizing OData (Thomas Kelly)
• Your REPL can teach you something (Pam Selle)

 

XAML

• Working with JumpLists in WPF Apps (Robert Muehsig)
• XAML Behaviors, open source and on UWP (Jon Chu)
• Debug UWP Prelaunch with VS2015 (Andrew B. Hall)
• The case of potentially broken PackageManagement for Windows 10 Insiders (Ben Gelens)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Regular Expressions – Unicode Categories and Blocks (Richard Carr)
• .NET Tips and Tricks – Back to Basic, Visual Studio and Application Insights – November 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
• VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1 are available (Brian Harry)
• Coroutines in Visual Studio 2015 – Update 1 (Eric Mittelette)
• Improvements for C++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (Ramkumar Ramesh)
• .NET Framework 4.6.1 is now available! (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
• Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015 (Ankit Asthana)
• Code, code and more code.: The road to DNX (Marc Gravell)
• Optimizing Marten Part 2 (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How Agile Team Working Helps to Deliver High Quality Software (Ben Linders)
• Adobe unveil major update to Photoshop (Benjie Moss)
• Rebooting ALM, Part II: Power (Gil Zilberfeld)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• #Ebook Deal/Day: iOS 9 Programming Fundamentals with Swift – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Magic Mirror – Amazon Echo and AWS IoT (Arlo Carreon)
• Web Mobile Hybrid Framework Choices and Getting Started (Karl Shifflett)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – HTTP2 with Robert Boedigheimer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 180 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• MS Dev Show – Our Hardware of Past Present Future (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 93 “Just the Die Hards” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 105 | News from Microsoft Connect (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• PowerApps + Azure App Service for Developers | PowerApps (Scott Hanselman)
• Functional Geekery Episode 37 – Eric Smith (Steven Proctor)

 

Community / Events

• Tips for Winning a Xammy at Xamarin Evolve 2016 (Joseph Hill)
• Succinctly Series E-book Author Q&A with James Beresford (Jennifer Wright)
• EVENT: The Game Awards 2015 & Xbox Fan Celebration – Los Angeles, CA Thursday, December 3, 2015 (First come, first served) (Kurt Shintaku)
• Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions (samzenpus)

 

Database

• Microsoft® SQL Server® Data-Tier Application Framework (November 2015 Preview) (MS Downloads)
• Importing character columns containing binary zeros into SQL Server (Daniel Farina)
• Minimum Permissions for SQL Server TRUNCATE TABLE (K. Brian Kelley)
• SQL Server – 2016 – T-SQL Enhancement “Drop if Exists” clause (Pinal Dave)

 

SharePoint

• Microsoft® SQL Server® 2016 CTP3.1 PowerPivot® for Microsoft SharePoint® 2016 (MS Downloads)

 

Miscellaneous

• Meet the new smartphone that runs Windows 10 Desktop and Android (Brad Stephenson)
• Five Realizations that Helped Me Write Regularly (Joel Gascoigne)
• Modernizing Communication and Collaboration in Healthcare (Bill Crounse)
• Microsoft reportedly lays off 60 HoloLens team members in Israel (John Callaham)
• Microsoft responds to carrier availability questions about Lumia 950 and 950 XL (Kellogg Brengel)
• ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Excel 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson says the Enterprise would destroy the Millennium Falcon (Kwame Opam)
• Cortana Gets Even Smarter with Power BI Integration (Marcus Ash)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1596 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (Tim Sneath)
• Reading Notes #211 (Frank Boucher)
• Reading List: geek Xmas advents (Bruce Lawson)
• The Morning Brew #1980 (Chris Alcock)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (11/16-11/29) (Dara Monasch)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-01 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Nov 30th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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