Dew Drop – March 31, 2016 (#2220)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RTM and Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available (John Montgomery)
• Introducing NuGet 3.4 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Updates for Debugging Installed App Packages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 (Kaycee Anderson)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update brings New Experiences and Developer Opportunity (Terry Myerson)
• Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• How To Mimic Azure Web Sites Deployment Slots In A Basic Plan (Chris Love)
• Entity Framework Core with ASP.NET Core Overview (Shahed Chowdhuri)
• Writing React apps using Bridge.NET – The Dan Way (Part Three) (Dan)
• Something ridiculous in ES6 (glazou)
• Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the world’s first Speech Translation API (Microsoft Translator)
• Announcing template export feature in Azure Resource Manager (Mike Chen)
• Global Cloud – Active-Active and Beyond (Peter D. Stout)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 Anniversary SDK is bringing exciting opportunities to developers (Kevin Gallo)
• Build 2016: Microsoft Makes the Case for UWP to Developers (Paul Thurrott)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• R Tool for Visual Studio—Predictive Analytics for C# Applications (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Singleton Implementation: C# (Ted Neward)
• VS2015 Update 2 and TFS 2015 Update 2 have shipped (Brian Harry)
• New Build 2016 Partner Extensions in the Visual Studio Team Services Marketplace (Ed Blankenship)
• UserVoice Suggestions Completed in Visual Studio 2015 (Eric Battalio)
• Enabling C# 7 Features in Visual Studio “15” Preview (Filip W.)
• Generate C# Code for Google Protobuf Definition in VS 2015 (Kirill Chilingarashvili)
• Strong typing DisplayAttribute reference to Resources (Miha Markic)
• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview (Stacey Haffner)
• Announcing the VC++ 2015 Migration Virtual Development Laboratory (Eric Mittelette)
• Visual C++ for Linux Development (Marc Goodner)
• Optimizing the Layout of Empty Base Classes in VS2015 Update 2 (Vinny Romano)
• Value Objects: Entity Framework vs NHibernate (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How To Be a Better Listener (J.D. Meier)
• Agile and Lean Program Management is Done (Johanna Rothman)
• Executing Automated tests in Build vNext using Test Plan, Test Suites (Atin Bansal)
• How to Add Static Analysis to Your Development Process (Erik Dietrich)
• On the potential of Bash on Windows in a DevOps world (Matteo Emili)
• What is interrupt testing Interruptions are never welcomed. Not just in our live… (Purva Kawatra)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Forms 2.1 upgrade–some surprises (and how to get around it) (Joost van Schaik)
• Code Reuse in Angular 2 Native Mobile Apps with NativeScript (Brad Green)
• An Introduction to Model View Presenter on Android (Tin Megali)
• Xamarin Android List Views and MVVM Light (Richard Woollcott)
• Build 2016: Microsoft HoloLens is Now Available (Paul Thurrott)
• Holo Dev 101 – Getting started with HoloLens Development (Rene Schulte)
• Announcing UI for NativeScript—True Native Cross-Platform UI (Shravanthi Alimilli)
• Building Polished Mobile Apps with Telerik UI for NativeScript (TJ VanToll)
• Build Ionic Apps in Minutes with VS Code (Parashuram N.)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 016 jsAir – JavaScript Frameworks: Vue.js with Taylor Otwell and Evan You (Kent C. Dodds)
• 205 JSJ Shasta with Eric Schoffstall (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• Lock Me Down Show 7: Stuxnet the Story of Digital Sabotage (Max McCarty)
• RiYL Episode 161: Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 117 | Joyce Akiko – Life On Your Terms (Dave Rael)
• Web.Dev Show 3: The Role of C++ in the Modern Web (David Voyles)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 37: Power BI (Lynn Swayze)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 120 | Microsoft invests in Mesosphere, Docker for Mac, Windows and Azure, Google Cloud, Office 365 Connectors and Microsoft’s Build Conference (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)

 

Community / Events

• Diversity at NDC Oslo 2016 (Karoline Klever)
• Git Merge is sold out: see what’s on tap (Alaine Newland)
• Build 2016: Windows 10 “Redstone” to be Branded as Anniversary Update (Paul Thurrott)
• Microsoft Build: The top 10 reasons Day 1 rocked it for developers (Suzanne Choney)
• Philly Nerd Nite No 59: Hydrography, Drosophila, and Mitochondria! Music by Pat Finnerty! (Nerd Nite Team)

 

Database

• How to sync an entity in SQL Server 2016 Master Data Services (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server Referential Integrity without Foreign Keys (Sergey Gigoyan)
• SQL SERVER – Finding If Status of Bulk Logging Enabled or Not From Logs (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Download #Build 2016 Sessions Using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Export Azure Resource Groups to ARM Templates with PowerShell (Chris Pietschmann)
• Azure PowerShell 1.3.0 – PowerShell Gallery installation improvements (Mark Cowlishaw)
• Configure the firewall profile with DSC (Part 2) (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Future of Pen: Windows Ink (Aaron Woodman)
• Run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (Mike Harsh)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-03-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-03-31 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2062 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1667 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 30, 2016 #1073 (Robert Diana)
• Coding4Fun First Quarter 2016 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)

 

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