Dew Drop – April 1, 2016 (#2221) – No Foolin’ Edition

Doing my best to filter to fake stuff on April Fool’s Day.

Top Links

• .NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE (Rich Lander)
• Xamarin for Everyone (Nat Friedman)
• VS2015 Update 2 and TFS 2015 Update 2 have shipped (Brian Harry)
• Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin (John Montgomery)
• Announcing the Visual Studio Azure Tools and SDK 2.9 (Brady Gaster)

 

Web Development

• How to compile TypeScript in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Microsoft releases preview of new Azure ‘serverless compute’ service to take on AWS Lambda (Mary Jo Foley)
• Azure App Service Tools Updates in the Azure SDK for .NET 2.9 (Brady Gaster)
• What’s new in Azure Developer Tools and Services (Cristy Gonzalez)
• Node v5.10.0 (Stable) (Evan Lucas)
• Don’t Reinvent The Wheel: Whispir Helps Developers Deploy Faster (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Azure Service Fabric is GA! (Mark Fussell)
• Developing for the intelligent cloud at //Build (Nicole Herskowitz)
• Introducing Azure Functions (Nir Mashkowski)
• Issues Running Redis In Azure (Rush Frisby)
• Building a Website with Node and a Bunch of Other Stuff, Part 4 (Shawn Rakowski)
• Building a React Powered Video Chat (Eddie Zaneski)

 

XAML

• Silverlight Resurrection (Phillip Trelford)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Singleton Implementation: C# (Ted Neward)
• C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (Ankit Asthana)
• Developer Analytics Tools for Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 (Arun Abraham)
• Break on Exceptions Thrown only from Specific Modules in Visual Studio “15” Preview and Using the New Exception Helper in Visual Studio “15” Preview (Kaycee Anderson)
• Method Parameters in C# (Abhi Jain)
• Release Management in TFS 2015 Update 2 (Vijay M.)
• C++ Core Guidelines Checkers: Preview of the Lifetime Safety checker and Announcing the official release of the Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 and Clang with Microsoft CodeGen (March 2016) released (Andrew Pardoe)
• Team Foundation Server Extensions (Mathew Aniyan)
• Logging Method Counts and Durations (Steve Smith)
• Office at Build 2016—new opportunities for developers (Kirk Koenigsbauer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Is Agile a Subset of Lean Manufacturing? (Dan Greening)
• Agile Can Be Difficult to Adopt (Jake Bartlett)
• An Explanation of the Flux Pattern (Dave M. Bush)
• Factory Method and Constructor Function (Ted Neward)
• Test failures (Eric Brechner)
• How to Add Static Analysis to Your Development Process (Erik Dietrich)
• What’s new in Git for Windows 2.8? (Johannes Schindelin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building Native Android Libraries with the Latest Experimental Android Plugin (Aaron Alaniz)
• Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms (Kim Spilker)
• The Xamarin Promise – Realized! (Sam Basu)
• Announcing New Dev Center Capabilities to Increase App Revenue and Streamline Management (Bernardo Zamora)
• Top 10 HoloLens Development Recommendations (Rene Schulte)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Understanding Microsoft Graph with Jeremy Thake (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• 60 ngAir- Angular Universal (Kent C. Dodds)
• LIVE from Build 2016 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Ryan J. Salva)
• 086 AiA Being a Good Open Source Citizen (John Papa)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 121 | Microsoft Build 2016 Day 1 Keynote Recap (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Radio TFS – Back at Build (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Away From the Keyboard – Planes, Aurelia, and Automobiles with Ashley Grant and Guest Host Julie Lerman (Richie Rump)
• Introducing Microsoft Power BI Embedded and Azure App Service Advisor (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Podcast Episode 121 – Live from Build 2016 (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Technical Steering Group (Martin Woodward)
• Microsoft Build: The top 10 reasons Day 2 rocked the developer world (Athima Chansanchai)
• Microsoft’s Build Tour will visit nine cities later this year (John Callaham)
• Resources for increasing diversity at tech conferences (Karoline Kleever)
• Build 2016, Our Conversation with Developers (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER 2016 – Early Thoughts and Observations – Notes from the Field #120 (Pinal Dave)
• DocumentDB goes planet scale with global databases, new pricing and more developer choices (John Macintyre)

 

SharePoint

• Download a free chapter from our Wrox SharePoint 2013 eBook! – Workflow Development in SharePoint 2013 (Paul J. Swider)

 

PowerShell

• Validating PowerShell Parameters – Part I (Tim Smith)
• Configure the firewall profile with DSC (Part 3) (Emin Atac)
• Bash on Windows–What it Means for Chocolatey (Rob Reynolds)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Digital Revolution (Ian Stirk)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-04-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-04-01 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2063 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading March 31, 2016 #1074 (Robert Diana)

 

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