Dew Drop – April 15, 2016 (#2231)

Top Links

• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.1 is released (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio Code 1.0 (Paul Thurrott)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14322 (Gabe Aul)
• Using Cache in ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC1 (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

Web Development

• 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins (Eric Dye)
• Adding push notification tags from a Node.js backend (Glenn Gailey)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – April 12, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Setting up ASP.NET Core debugging in VS Code (Shayne Boyer)
• Building a slack bot with botkit node and docker (Andrew Siemer)
• WP REST API: Internals and Customization (Bilal Shahid)
• Slack Nails the Reasons Why You Open Up and Share Your API Road Map (Kin Lane)
• Using Postman to load test an Azure Machine Learning web service (Richard Kerslake)
• Update about Extract for Brackets (Preview) (Ryan Stewart)

 

XAML

• .NET 4.6.2 Makes WPF For Big Apps Fun Again (Alois Kraus)
• Tips for porting apps from Windows Phone Silverlight to UWP (Rajen Kishna)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Events Using Delegates in C# (Abhi Jain)
• node-semver: CLI Tool for Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• STL Fixes In VS 2015 Update 2 (Stephan T. Lavavej)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Basics of Web Application Security: Protect Data in Transit (Martin Fowler)
• Hosting nugets in TeamCity (Laurent Kempé)
• Burnout (Ben Linders)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using Xamarin Forms Effects (Corrado Cavalli)
• Download the Xamarin Evolve 2016 Conference App (James Montemagno)
• [Release] Easier Access to Alternates, More Android-y Controls and Lots of Little Bug Fixes! (Peldi Guilizzoni)
• Raspberry Pi Display Shows Your Day at a Glance (Jeremy S. Cook)
• Find keys by value in Swift dictionary (Josh Smith)
• Are you Ready to Bring in a Partner to Help Create a Mobile App? (Kevin Ford)
• Unity 5 Jumpstart: Kickoff (Shahed Chowdhuri)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• AAWP Insight #177: Redstone, 920 vs 435, and 950 vs iPhone SE (Rafe Blandford)
• MyDriving Sample Application | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• 088 AiA Angular Style Guides (John Papa)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Sir Patrick Stewart #3 (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 199: Your Huginn Agents Are Standing by With Andrew Cantino (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• Rocket 66: 1337 Stopped Being Cool (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
• Dominick Baier on Identity Server | NDC London 2016 (Dominick Baier)
• Talk Python to Me #54 Enterprise Software with Python (Michael Kennedy)
• Office Dev Podcast Episode 090 on the 2016 Build Conference (Jeremy Thake & Richard DiZerega)
• Windows Weekly 461: Made from the Finest Lint (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – DevOps with Wouter de Kort (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Azure Container Service 101 (Scott Hanselman)
• Azure Podcast Episode 123 – VM Scale Sets (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #294 – Live from Serbia with Mike Harrison (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• Troy Hunt on Security | NDC London 2016 (Troy Hunt)

 

Community / Events

• 3D Game Design with Blender and Unity and GeekNight April 2016 – Designing Distributed Applications (Malisa Ncube)
• Recap: Bing at //Build 2016 (Bing Team)
• Winners of Microsoft Office Hackathon breaking through old paradigms of Productivity (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Join us for the Splunk SFBA User Group next week! (Hal Rottenberg)
• GitHub Satellite sessions announced (Kelsey Schimmelman)

 

Database

• MySQL – FOUND_ROWS() Function for Total Number of Rows Affected (Pinal Dave)
• Simulate Reporting Services Data Driven Subscriptions on Unsupported Editions (Daniel Farina)

 

PowerShell

• The Unicode PowerShell module (Carlo Mancini)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft announces its Windows Phone keyboard for iPhone (Tom Warren)
• Windows to iPhone to Android (Rockford Lhotka)
• Here’s The Programming Game You Never Asked For (Jeff Atwood)
• Announcing new experiences for teachers and students in Office 365 Education (Eran Megiddo)
• New updates for the OneNote Class Notebook add-in, including LMS assignment and grade integration (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2073 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading April 14, 2016 #1084 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 14th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• HoloLens Dev Link Round-up (Greg Duncan)

 

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