Dew Drop – January 28, 2016 (#2176)

Top Links

• Visual Studio Walkthrough for iOS Developers (Windows Apps Team)
• No, Estimates Are Not Evil (J. B. Rainsberger)
• Getting Started with Selenium Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio (Charles Sterling)
• Seven Swift Snares & How to Avoid Them (David Ungar)

 

Web Development

• Inline Images in ASP.NET MVC Core (Ricardo Peres)
• Introducing React (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• New option in JSLint for multiple var declarations (Julian M. Bucknall)
• What to Expect in 2016 for Kendo UI with Angular 2 and More (Stefan Rahnev)
• Exploiting TypeScript Arrays (Peter Vogel)
• Improved commenting with Markdown (Aaron Shekey)
• Azure Media Player update with a 33% size reduction (Amit Rajput)
• Automatically Evaluating Compressibility (Eric Lawrence)

 

XAML

• Crash debugging Windows 10 Mobile UWP apps (Stephen Roughley)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Options for displaying modal dialogs in Visual Studio extensions (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Fastest code is the one not run: Part I – The cost of escaping strings (Oren Eini)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – A Lap Around the Contoso University Sample Application (Graham Smith)
• Branch and pull requests improvements for Visual Studio (Jeremy Epling)
• Release 1.0 of Suave, a Web Server and Development Library for F# (Pierre-Luc Maheu)
• How to skip the confirmation dialog before deleting all breakpoints? (Abhijit Jana)
• Morning Dew Deal – Reactive Applications with Akka.NET – Discount Code (Me)
• VS Team Services Update – Jan 25th (Brian Harry)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing different categories of toggles (Martin Fowler)
• What does it mean to be an Agile tester? (DevToolsGuy)
• Trello’s Evernote Integration: Perfect For Writers With Workflows (Lauren Moon)
• Microservices: It’s Not Just for Netflix and Unicorns (Brian Whipple)
• Calculating the ROI of NDepend (Erik Dietrich)
• Service discovery (Gabriel Schenker)
• Four Tips for Pair Writing (Johanna Rothman)
• Application Insights announces availability of Release Annotations (Mike Gresley)
• Powerful Integration Testing (Patrick Lioi)
• Adding Performance/load test to Azure Web and Mobile App Continuous Deployment (Ranganath G.)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• iOS 9: An Introduction to the Contacts Framework (Davis Allie)
• Instrumenting iOS Apps, What could go wrong? (Noel Rice)
• Where to Place Your Accordion Menu Icons (Anthony)
• Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp (Greg Duncan)
• Updates to Node.js SDK for Azure Mobile Apps (MS Openness Team)
• Simplifying Events with Commanding (David Britch)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #38 (Ron Gilbert)
• .NET Rocks! – Understanding R with Barbara Fusinska (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 21 – Getting Started with Native iOS Development | Office Dev Show (Sonya Koptyev & Richard diZerega)
• 196 JSJ Tabris.js with Jochen Krause and Ian Bull (Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• 007 jsAir – Chakra, Microsoft’s Open Source JavaScript Engine with Ed Maurer, Gaurav Seth, and Steve Lucco (Kent C. Dodds)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 42 (Air Mozilla)
• Defrag: Endoscope USB Camera, The Final [HoloLens] Vote, Adblock Pi and more… | The Defrag Show (Larry Larsen)
• SQL Server Radio Show 40 – Just Another Show (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: YA Author & Poet Cordelia Jensen (Samantha Paradise)
• A Tribute to VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Hosted UI (Christian Hammond)

 

Database

• Tabular vs Multidimensional models for SQL Server Analysis Services (Daniel Calbimonte)
• SQL Server Agent is an application server. (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Fixing Annoying Network Binding Order Error – Notes from the Field #112 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14251 (Gabe Aul)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 27, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2019 (Chris Alcock)
• Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 28, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 27th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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