Dew Drop – December 9, 2015 (#2148)

Top Links

• Announcing PostSharp 4.2 RTM (Gael Fraiteur)
• .NET Rocks! – MassTransit Update with Chris Patterson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• C# regions is a design smell (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Contest: Xamarin for the Holidays (Jayme Singleton)

 

Web Development

• Passing ngModelController Into A Component Directive Controller In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Understanding JavaScript Modules (Aaron Marisi)
• HTML5 Mastery: Tree Traversal (Florian Rappl)
• Why I’m Excited About Native CSS Variables (Robin Rendle)
• TypeScript + ASP.NET Web API + AngularJS Bootcamp – Week 4 (Stephen Walther)
• Glimpse at Application Insights Telemetry (Beckylin Orooji)
• Microsoft Bumps TypeScript to Version 1.7 (David Iffland)
• Node v5.2.0 (Stable) (Rod Vagg)
• Connect(“demos”); // 2015: HealthClinic.biz (Erika Ehrli Cabral)

 

XAML

• Load a PDF in Windows Store App (8.1 & UWP) (Matthias Shapiro)
• How do you test your Windows Apps? (Matt Lacey)
• Awaken Your Creativity with the new Windows.UI.Composition (John Serna)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Quick Look at F# In Visual Studio Code (Jonathan Wood)
• Prefix and Postfix Increment Deep Dive (Eric Potter)
• Leveraging Interfaces Instead of Inheritance (Peter Vogel)
• Did you know – Code Map can be used to visualize the call stack directly ? (Abhijit Jana)
• Marten is Ready for Early Adopters (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Prototyping Mental Models with Lego Serious Play for Agile and Using Kanban to Innovate and Handling Impediments: Why it matters and Self Assessing your Agility (Ben Linders)
• Single Responsibility Principle: A Recipe for Great Code (Adel Fayzrakhmanov)
• Understanding the value of UX (Anton Sten)
• Creating Load Test Plugins for Cloud-based Load Test (Charles Sterling)
• Announcing the Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.0 (Jeremy Epling)
• Be flexible with personal issues at work. (Wes Higbee)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Going cross-platform with Apache Cordova for Visual Studio 2015 (Andrei Marukovich)
• Change ListView RowHeight programmatically in Xamarin Android (Corrado Cavalli)
• Introduction to Swift Tutorial using the IBM Swift Sandbox (Karl Weinmeister)
• Understanding AsyncTaks Values in 60 Seconds (Bart Jacobs)
• #HourofCode: Learn Swift in three easy steps today! (Aaron Kettl)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• JavaScript Development with John Papa | DEVIntersection 2015 (John Papa)
• RiYL Episode 142: Jules Feiffer (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 070 | Eric Lawrence – Fiddler on the HTTP Port (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 38 – Dr. Conrad Barski (Steven Proctor)
• Ep10: Interview with Sonya Koptyev, Technical Product Manager of Office 365 at Microsoft | GALs (Golnaz, Kaitlin McKinnon, Sonya Koptyev & Soumow)
• RunAs Radio – Microsoft Azure Backup Services with Aidan Finn (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)

 

Community / Events

• Inspire Students to Learn to Code with the Minecraft Hour of Code (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Database

• T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – InMemory Tables on SQL Azure DB (Pinal Dave)
• Working With Compression In Power Query And Power BI Desktop (Chris Webb)
• Filtered Indexes: Just Add Includes (Erik Darling)

 

Miscellaneous

• Legoland Is Coming To Philadelphia (CBS Philly)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1602 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1986 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The week in .NET – 12/08/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

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