Dew Drop – May 11, 2016 (#2249)

Top Links

• Visual Studio “15” Preview 2 (John Montgomery)
• Welcoming Protobuild to the .NET Foundation (June Rhodes)
• Fun with Expressions (Robert Mikhayelyan)
• NuGet – The 1st Billion (Harikrishna Menon)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET Core tag helpers – with great power comes great responsibility (Joe Woodward)
• Factory Pattern and Lazy Initialization with AngularJS and Typescript (Dustin Horne)
• Telerik: You Know Angular. Now You Know Mobile. (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Making New TypeScript Projects a Breeze (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Using the C# 6.0 nameof Operator in ASP.NET MVC Razor Views (Jason Roberts)
• Writing API Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 6 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Distorted Button Effects with SVG Filters (Adrien Denat)
• Better discoverability for GitHub Pages sites (Ben Balter)
• Slack debuts ‘Sign in with Slack’, the collaboration platform’s answer to Facebook Connect (Ingrid Lunden & Josh Constine)
• Electron 1.0 is here (Jessica Lord)
• It Takes All Kinds (Justin Etheredge)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning Node – $14.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• Windows 10, WPF, RealSense SR300, Person Tracking–Continued (Mike Taulty)
• Deploying Your Universal Windows Apps to HockeyApp using VSTS Build vNext and Obtaining the App specific HockeyApp API Token (Abhijit Jana)
• Getting started storing app data locally (Hector Barbera)
• Unlocked Frame Rate and More Now Enabled for UWP (Bryan Langley)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Business Case for Actors and Akka.NET (Aaron Stannard)
• Reactive (Jesse Liberty)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Economics: Scale And The City (Gil Zilberfeld)
• High Functioning Dysfunction (Adam Asch)
• Digital Transformation Explained (JD Meier)
• Introducing unlimited private repositories (Kakul Srivastava)
• Non-Tech Factors to Consider When Choosing Your Tech Stack (Kevin Griffin)
• How The “Silo Effect” Is Hurting Cross Team Collaboration (Lauren Marchese)
• New Business Models are the Key to Successful Digital Transformation (MS in Business Team)
• GitHub Desktop now has a dark side (Markus Olsson)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing Realm Xamarin – Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & Core Data (Realm Team)
• Xamarin Dev Ops with VSTS – Getting Started (Richard Woollcott)
• NativeScript 2.0 Release Brings Mobile App Development with Angular 2 (James Chesters)
• Angular 2 Support in UI for NativeScript 1.1.0 (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Unity and IPv6 Support (Mantas Puida)
• Visualizing a Room Mesh with HoloToolkit for Unity (Josh Morales)
• Windows 10 Embedded Mode – Because IoT isn’t the only solution for a dedicated device (Matt Lacey)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Thinking Android with Joshua Vergara (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• [MSCloudShow] Episode 128 is live – Future of SharePoint Event Recap and SharePoint Server 2016 with Todd Klindt (Andrew Connell)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – ng-conf and C# futures (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jodie Foster (Chris Hardwick)
• Functional Geekery Episode 51 – Brian Lonsdorf (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Going Deep on Operations Management Suite with Jeremy Winter (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Developer Tea – Live @SquaresConference Interview w/ @KimBost: Part 2 (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• WEBINAR: Hello, My name is NativeScript (Kris Lankford)
• Pennsylvania Guild Of Craftsmen’s Fine Craft Fair Returns To Rittenhouse Square May 13-15 (Layla Jones)
• New ‘Meet the Microsofties’ program connects employees with students and teachers through Skype (Vanessa Ho)

 

Database

• Remodel Poorly Designed SQL Server Database Tables (Derek Colley)
• SQL Server Database Integrity Check Best Practices (Tim Smith)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Server – TDSSNIClient Initialization Failed with error 0xd (Pinal Dave)
• RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: Digging deep into the internals (Oren Eini)
• An introduction to U-SQL – SQL and C# combined! (Edward Ridge)
• Big Data and the Internet of Things (Ian Stirk)
• Writing Documentation in Rust (Jeremiah Peschka)
• New Marten Release and What’s Next? (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14342 (Gabe Aul)
• Microsoft has the most beautiful stores you’ve never seen. (Ina Fried)
• Creating and formatting notes in OneNote (Kim Spilker)
• Amazon Video Direct Launches To Compete With Google’s YouTube, Here Are The Details (Paul Morris)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-11 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-11 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning BRew #2090 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1681 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 10, 2016 #1102 (Robert Diana)
• Daily Links 11 May 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• The week in .NET – 5/10/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 10th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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