Dew Drop – December 23, 2015 (#2158)

Top Links

• .NET for UWP Part 1: Introduction to CoreFX (Lucian Wischik & Daniel Jacobson)
• Windows App Studio December 2015 Update (Windows Apps Team)
• Mono’s Cooperative Mode for SGen GC (Miguel de Icaza)
• 12 Most Influential Books Every Software Engineer Needs to Read (Jason Roell)

 

Web Development

• Launching the CSS Workshop Online (Rachel Andrew)
• Disabling session affinity in Azure App Service Web Apps (Websites) (Maarten Balliauw)
• Case Study: Migrating Angular 1.x to 2.0 and Observations about Angular 2 (Jeremy Likness)
• Proposing a Better Template System For ASP.NET 5 (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• JavaScript Factory Design Pattern (L. Milkov)
• A small jQuery Resizable Plug-in (Rick Strahl)
• Set up Microsoft Account as an Identity Provider for Azure B2C (Adam Anderson)
• Fiddler—A Segue (Eric Lawrence)
• Running ASPNET 5 and .NET Core on Linux (Vince Chan)

 

XAML

• Display an AppBarButton on the left inside a CommandBar (Rudy Huyn)
• Using Multi-user and roles in Dev Center (Bernardo Zamora)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• #VS2015 – Compare 2 external files in Visual Studio from the IDE (Bruno Capuano)
• Is Visual Studio Code Bugging You For Your User Name and E-Mail Address? (Julie Lerman)
• Sample chapter: Using decision statements (Kim Spilker)
• Unhandled Exception: Cannot print exception string because Exception.ToString() failed. (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why build scripts? (Amir Barylko)
• Handling impediments: Understanding Problems (Ben Linders)
• Rebooting ALM, Part IV: Fantasy (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Script Libraries and Version Control (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Save 50% – Lead the way to great design Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Use App Designer – Part 1 and How to Use App Designer – Part 2 (Brian W.)
• Mobile Bootcamp Part III: Focus on quality (Danielle Landress)
• Editable UITextField inside a UIAlertController (yffaria)
• Creating Tic-tac-toe in Swift: User interface (Josh Smith)
• Azure IoT Hub & IoT Certified Device (Vinoth Rajagopalan)
• Joe Biron on IoT platforms (Jon Bruner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Azure Power Apps with Julia White (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SSW TV – Mastering ReSharper | Dev SuperPowers Episode 18 (Sophie Belle)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Tim Roth (Chris Hardwick)
• The Scrum Master Toolbox – Don’t do retrospectives by the book | Jovan Vidic (Vasco Duarte)
• Developer on Fire Episode 076 | Troy Hunt (Dave Rael)
• The Ops Team #008 – “Didn’t get the Memo” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• Functional Geekery Episode 40 – David Nolen (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – An IT Christmas with Rick Claus and Joey Snow (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• CodeChat 051 – Thali: Who Needs a Cloud Connection! | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• Talk Python to Me #39 Getting your first dev job as a Python developer (part 1) (Michael Kennedy)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Unity Games Contest (Sue Gee)

 

Database

• SQL Server Reporting Parameters Functions (Scott Murray)
• Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016: Mission-Critical Applications, Deeper Insights, Hyperscale Cloud, Preview Edition (Kim Spilker)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to drop login – Msg 15170, Level 16, State 1 (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• How to use PowerShell as a learning tool (Adam Bertram)

 

Miscellaneous

• A Q&A with Andy Weir Author of The Martian [Interview] (Dan)
• What programming language to learn? It doesn’t matter. (Den Delimarsky)
• Upgrading from Lync 2013 to Skype for Business Server 2015 – What You Need to Know (Curtis Johnstone)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading December 22, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1610 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1996 (Chris Alcock)
• Front-End Dev Back-End Nostalgia Tue Dec 22 2015 (Jeremy Likness)
• The week in .NET – 12/22/2015 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-12-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-12-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Dec 22nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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