Dew Drop – December 2, 2015 (#2143)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Code Beta Update (v0.10.3) (Chris Dias)
• StructureMap 4.0 is Out! (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Build Apps Faster with Plugins for Xamarin 2.0! and Inspect, Visualize, and Debug Your App Live (James Montemagno)
• XAML Behaviors, Windows 10 UWP and Open-Source (Davide Zordan)

Web Development

• AngularJS: MVC implementation (Matt Milner)
• Converting a Controller Method in MVC5 to async (Peter Kellner)
• Process to use manual bootstrapping in AngularJs with examples (Priyanka Jain)
• Image Manipulation with HTML5 element (Tim Brock)
• Redis Doesn’t Store Empty Sets Or Hashes (And Will Delete Empty Sets And Hashes) (Ben Nadel)
• Material Design Hierarchical Display (jQuery Rain)
• Flash is dead, long live Adobe Animate CC (Benjie Moss)
• Free codes for React & Flux course (Pam Selle)

XAML

• Microsoft’s Universal Windows app design documents include downloadable PowerPoint and Adobe templates (Kareem Anderson)

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to Copy Specific Code Metrics Results in Visual Studio ? and Integrated Application Insights Search within Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Is Here (Eric Battalio)
• Adding C# Scripting to Your Development Arsenal (Filip W.)
• How to Parse Twitter’s Date Time Format with C# (Jon Gallant)
• The dedoublifier, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Adding Csharp Scripting – Part 1 (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
• How to restore Viual Studio 2015 after Update 1 (dependency dance) (Sergey Tihon)
• Go To Implementation (Eric Potter)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Leadership Principles for Agile Organizations (Ben Linders)
• Article: Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises (Sanjay Zalavadia)
• Developer Relations: A Five-Level Maturity Model (Michael Mahemoff)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Git for Teams – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

Other Mobile Platforms

• Understanding the iOS Ecosystem (Bart Jacobs)
• Microsoft developer shows how to turn an iOS app into a Windows 10 app (John Callaham)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – The F# Web Stack with Henrik Feldt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 42 ngAir – The Angular Community (Kent C. Dodds)
• RiYL Episode 141: Scott Fagan (Brian Heater)
• Functional Geekery Episode 37 – Eric Smith (Steven Proctor)
• GoingNative 44: ISOC++ @Kona Debriefing | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
• RunAs Radio – Learning from Data Breaches with Troy Hunt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #36 Python IDEs with the PyCharm team (Michael Kennedy)
• Away from the Keyboard Episode 26: Deep Thoughts with David Haney (Richie Rump)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Service Fabric public preview | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 243: Ben Hindman on Apache Mesos (Jeff Meyerson)

Community / Events

• Announcing the Microsoft HoloLens ‘Share Your Idea’ campaign (HoloLens Team)

Database

• SQL Server Transactional Replication Static Row and Column Filters (Rajendra Gupta)
• Best Practices For Deleting SQL Server Data (Ben Snaidero)
• Announcing Improved Azure SQL Database connection experience in SQL Server Data Tools and SQL Server Data Tools Preview update for November 2015 (Eric S. Kang)
• What You Are Missing by Sticking with SQL Server 2005: Data Architects Version (Karen Lopez)
• SQL SERVER – XEvents to Find Cardinality Estimation Issues (Pinal Dave)
• Sample chapter: Understanding Evaluation Contexts in DAX (Kim Spilker)
• Cortana Gets Even Smarter with Power BI Integration (Marcus Ash)
• The ongoing scourge that is SQL injection and Azure’s new SQL Database Threat Detection (Troy Hunt)
• AXMicrosoft Azure DocumentDB: Retirement of Preview SDKs (Ryan CrawCour)

PowerShell

• Reading Temperature from a Google Nest Thermostat with PowerShell (Adam Driscoll)
• Pester Explained: Introduction and Assertions (Jakub Jareš)

Miscellaneous

• Fixed: Microsoft Edge can’t see or open VirtualBox-hosted local web sites (Scott Hanselman)

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1597 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1981 (Chris Alcock)
• The Week in .NET – 12/1/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-02 (Dan Rigby)
• Links of the month (November Edition) (Jan Hentschel)

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