Dew Drop – December 4, 2015 (#2145)

Top Links

• Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2.0 Preview (Brian Lagunas)
• What’s new for Windows 10 IoT this fall (Billy Anders)
• 2016 Software Craftsmanship Wall Calendar (Steve Smith)
• What’s New for Developers in the Windows 10 SDK Build 10586 Update (Kevin Gallo)

 

Web Development

• Rendering Image Previews Using Object URLs vs. Base64 Data URIs In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Just a Reminder Internet Explorer Support Ends in 6 Weeks (Chris Love)
• Top 4 Javascript Concepts a Node.js Beginner Must Know (Ankit Singh)
• Debugging Node.js in Production (Kim Trott)
• Brainstorming development workflows with Docker, Kitematic, VirtualBox, Azure, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
• Creating a NuGet Web Site (Peter Vogel)
• Writing A MongoDB Shell In NodeJS (Mike Hostetler)
• How does the browser actually render a website? (Robin Rendle)
• Node v5.1.1 (Stable) (Rod Vagg)

 

XAML

• Got Unexpected, Extra Languages in Your UWP Store Submission? (Scott Lovegrove)
• Windows 10 SDK Build 10586 breakdown (Clint Rutkas)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Calculating Values using Calculated Values in LINQ (Nick Chamberlain)
• Application Insights Events Filtering inside Visual Studio Diagnostic tools (Abhijit Jana)
• Universal Windows Apps in Visual Studio (David McCarter)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Penny Pinching with Azure Automation (Graham Smith)
• Search For Queryable Collections in C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• What’s happened to the Visual Studio installer? (Matteo Emili)
• Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide (Krzysztof Cieślak)
• C++ Modules in VS 2015 Update 1 and C++ Core Guidelines Checkers available for VS 2015 Update 1 (Andrew Pardoe)
• NDepend updated to Version 6.2 (NDepend Team)
• VS2015 Update 1 brings (back) parallel test execution (Dror Helper)
• Get more awesome Pluralsight content than ever for zero dollars! (Troy Hunt)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: EvolvingPublication and Bliki: ListAndHash (Martin Fowler)
• Cloud Scalability Patterns with Matt Johnson (Seth Juarez)
• Coded UI Test Extensibility V2 (Abhitej)
• The Daily Pre-Standup (Andrew Fuqua)
• A Real-World DevOps Implementation – and Food for Thought (Don Jones)
• TFVC and Git repositories in the same team project (Jeremy Epling)
• 3 new enhancements to Project Online (Chris Boyd)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Test an iOS Application on a Device (Bart Jacobs)
• Microsoft updates Windows 10 IoT, adds new Core Pro version (Mary Jo Foley)
• Apple open-sources Swift on GitHub (Brandon Keepers)
• Lego Mindstorms EV3 Basic – Leveraging the Small Basic Graphics Window (Ed Price)
• Building a holographic development team (Microsoft HoloLens Team)
• Azure Mobile Services TableController Role Based Authorization (Adam Anderson)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 074 on Microsoft Graph with Yina Arenas—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake & Richard DiZerega)
• Hanselminutiae LIVE 17 with Richard Campbell (Scott Hanselman)
• Webinar Recording | Xamarin 4: The Future of Apps (Courtney Witmer)
• 070 AiA Holiday Pick List (John Papa)
• Rocket 47: The Final SB Discussion (Brianna Wu, Christina Warren & Simone De Rochefort)
• Developer on Fire Episode 068 | Gary Wizniewski – Fundamentals Matter (Dave Rael)
• ICTV032: Big Idea: Pitch and Hello Cloud Winners, Upcoming Contests, and Team Prognosis Interview | Imagine Cup TV (Golnaz Alibeigi & Pablo)
• Azure Podcast Episode 105 – DSC for Linux Extensions (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #276 – Eating An Elephant (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• Schedule meetings faster with FindTime—a Microsoft Garage project (Anne Legato)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the inaugural Microsoft Data Insights Summit (Excel Team)

 

Database

• Solve Common SQL Server Restore Issues (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQL SERVER – 2016 – Opening JSON with OPENJSON() (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Bulk Copy (Kevin Logan)

 

PowerShell

• Saving RDP sessions with PoSh (Iris Classon)
• Pester Explained: Describe, Context, and It Blocks (Jakub Jareš)

 

Miscellaneous

• New book: Microsoft Office 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1599 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1983 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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