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Dew Drop – June 26, 2015 (#2043)

Top Links

Announcing Atom 1.0 (Kevin Sawicki)
Announcing the 1.0.0 release of Application Insights Windows SDKs (Joshua Weber)
Introducing the Alexa Skills Kit, Enabling Developers to Create Entirely New Voice Driven Capabilities (Dave Isbitski)
Windows 10 Mobile Preview build 10149 is now live for Fast Ring! (Daniel Rubino)
Reading between the lines of Nadella’s state of the union missive (Mary Jo Foley)

Web Development

AngularJS In Firefox: TypeError: Missing Argument 1 When Calling Function b.get() (Ben Nadel)
Why we made vorlon.js and how to use it to debug your JavaScript remotely and ECMAScript 6 Power Tutorial: Template Strings (David Catuhe)
Angular2 Databinding is Fast! (Josh Carroll)
Ember.js 2.0 Beta Announced, Various APIs Deprecated (Martin W. Brennan)
Demystifying Azure Cloud Service: Cloud Services and Virtual Machines – Part 3 (Adarsha Datta)
Developers Score Instant NFL Data Via the Sportradar API (Alan Joch)
Azure data services part 3: Azure Machine Learning (Alice Waddicor)
Navigating the React Ecosystem (Tomas Holas)
Overawe (Tyler Gaw)

XAML

RangeSelector: A new control for your XAML for WinRT application (David Catuhe)
UWP: New features of Visual State Manager (part 1) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
Publishing on Windows 8 & 10 and Xbox One (Shahed C)

Miscellaneous .NET

Getting LineNumber(s) in your XLINQ (Sacha Barber)
Exposing Private Collection Properties to Entity Framework and Managing Entity Relationship Complexity (Steve Smith)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Aggregate Pattern (DevIQ)
How to design for multiple languages (Ezequiel Bruni)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin Pages: The Screens of an App (Walt Ritscher)
Implementing a Flickr Search iOS Application Using Swift (Mohammad Azam)
HoloLens App Development with Unity3D (James Ashley)
Beyond the Phone: Developing for Apple Watch (Jason Bender)
Hanselman.Forms – The most awesome Hanselman app (James Montemagno)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 051 on Office UI Fabric (Jeremy Thake)
048 AiA The Road to NG2 (John Papa)
The Amp Hour #255 – Inspirations and Aspirations – Recanting Rocket Rationale (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
How to Bind Data with the XamRichTextEditor (Infragistics Videos)
Managing Large amounts of Data Throughput using Azure Event Hubs with Nicole Berdy and Treating the Azure CLI as a Docker Container to speed development (Scott Hanselman)

Community / Events

Microsoft Pride: This is who I am (Tracy Ith)

Database

Why Wait for Updates? SQL Server 2016 Shifts into Rapid Preview (David Ramel)
Amazon Unbundles Alexa Virtual Assistant From Echo With New Dev Tools (Darrell Etherington)
SQL SERVER – Tips working with Files inside SQL Server (Pinal Dave)
The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Miscellaneous Transact-SQL Tips (Kevin S. Goff)
Automatically Generating Date Dimension Tables In Excel 2016 Power Pivot (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

Extending Office 365: The Developer’s Architectural Guide (Sahil Malik)

PowerShell

Improve PowerShell SMO Performance for SQL Server (Diana Moldovan)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10 Mobile build 10149 brings native printing (Harish Jonnalagadda)
Former Xbox head thinks Microsoft should have released an ‘Xphone’ (John Callaham)
Office 365 users gain one-click access to third-party apps (Office 365 Team)
Got a blue screen of death installing Windows 10 Mobile? Here’s the fix! (Richard Devine)
Bringing Sway apps to more platforms and devices (Sway Team)
Windows 10’s new desktop wallpaper is made out of light (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading June 25, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1517 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: June 26, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
The Morning Brew #1890 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-26 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-26 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

The Planetary Omnibus (9781401242381): Warren Ellis: Books

ISBN: 1401242383
ISBN-13: 9781401242381

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Dew Drop – June 12, 2015 (#2034)

Top Links

Concurrency, part 6: Easier asynchrony in C# with await (Schabse Laks)
Writing Windows 10 App Services in JavaScript (Guillaume Leborgne)
SOLID Principles – Software Craftsmanship Calendar Topics (Brendan Enrick)
A Lap Around NativeScript (Session Recording) (TJ VanToll)

Web Development

Is HTML ‘complete’? (Bruce Lawson)
Understanding scopes in AngularJS custom Directives (Dhananjay Kumar)
Making JavaScript Editing Easier in Visual Studio 2015 (Jeff Martin)
PhpStorm 9 Public Preview (Mikhail Vink)
Scope in AngularJS for Beginners (Pradeep K)
Make the body Element Take Up 100% of the Browser Height (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
Many ways to relate Orchard things, part 2: content item picker field (Bertrand Le Roy)
Demystifying Azure Cloud Services – Part 1 (Adarsha Datta)
Azure data services part 2: Stream Insight (Alice Waddicor)
ECMAScript 6 Power Tutorial: Class and Inheritance (David Catuhe)
Microsoft Azure Services Infographic (Paul Ballard)
Building a Product CSV Export Tool in OpenCart (Zaman Riaz)

XAML

Azure : Upload and stream video content to WPF from blob storage (Sacha Barber)
Why Should We Write Universal Apps When Microsoft Drops Them – Skype To Go Desktop Only (Mike James)

Miscellaneous .NET

LINQ to QuickBooks (Mr. Data Integration)
What’s New in Visual Basic 14: IsNot Works with TypeOf (Peter Vogel)
Customize Neural Networks with Alternative Activation Functions (James McCaffrey)
Contender for .NET’s Prettiest Console? (Nicholas Blumhardt)
Keep your eye on the code page: Is this string CP_ACP or UTF-8? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Run Tests After Build – Automatically Running Unit Test After Build Success in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
Building GitHub repositories in TFS Build vNext (Jakob Ehn)
Thought Experiment: No Private Methods In Object Oriented Design (Ben Nadel)
4 essential elements of successful UX design (Andy Brattle)
Copy-Paste Culture (Gil Zilberfeld)
Liskov Substitution Principle (Michael Burns)
YAGNI revisited (Vladimir Khorikov)
Questions to figure out how you can help someone else (Wes Higbee)
Seven Deadly Sins of a Software Project (Yegor Bugayenko)

Other Mobile Platforms

Telerik UI for iOS Works Flawlessly with iOS 9 Beta (Nikolay Diyanov)
Crafting 5 Star iOS Experiences with Transitions (Mike James)
Android Developer Story: Trello Increases engagement with material design (Laura Della Torre)
An Exercise for the Reader (Adam J. Wolf)
Better Apps & Faster Release Cycles Part IV (Karl Krukow)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 049 with Eric Shupps on building a dev community (Jeremy Thake)
Hanselminutes – Building Community around the XPRIZE with Jono Bacon and The Docker Visual Studio Extension with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Docker 101 with Ahmet Alp Balkan (Scott Hanselman)
046 AiA Preparing for NG2 with Shai Reznik (John Papa)
Scrum Master Toolbox – Retrospectives as a systems thinking tool | Ben Linders (Vasco Duarte)
The Amp Hour #253 – Consolidate All The Things – Zonked Zelotic Zaitech (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Azure Podcast Episode 81 – All About Azure App (Sujit D’Mello)
Introducing NativeScript (Burke Holland)

Community / Events

Free Webinar: What’s New in C# 6.0 (Joe Mayo)
Welcome to MajorNelson.com 4.0 (Larry Hryb)
Oculus shows off the first consumer version of the Rift VR headset (Richard Devine)
Looking Toward E3 And Beyond (Phil Spencer)

Database

Comparing Oracle and SQL Server Code – Part 1 (Daniel Calbimonte)
SQL SERVER – How Many Line of Code Do You Have in Database? (Pinal Dave)
Querying and Editing DocumentDB Data Just Got Better (Stephen Baron)
Faster queries using narrow indexes and CROSS APPLY (Jeremiah Peschka)

SharePoint

Production Ready SharePoint Applications with Little or No Code (Todd Crenshaw)

PowerShell

Step through creating a Resource Manager-based Azure Virtual Machine with PowerShell (Joe Davies)
#PSTip Convert .docx to .pdf using Word.Application (Jaap Brasser)

Miscellaneous

Which programming languages will stand the test of time? (Callie Johnson)
Christopher Lee’s greatest hits: From Dracula to Saruman (Chris Grasinger)
Small Basic Featured Article – How to Remove Goto Statements (Ed Price)
Oculus Rift will include Xbox One wireless controller, will support Xbox-to-PC game streaming (John Callaham)
Is Paying for Developer Bootcamp Worth It? (John Sonmez)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading June 11, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1880 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-12 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 11th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One: Daniel Abraham, George R. R. Martin, Tommy Patterson: 9780440423218: Books

ISBN: 044042321X
ISBN-13: 9780440423218

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Dew Drop – May 7, 2015 (#2009)

Top Links

A break from the past, part 2: Saying goodbye to ActiveX, VBScript, attachEvent… (Charles Morris & Jacob Rossi)
BUILD 2015 ASP.NET 5 Training Videos – Introduction and Deep Dive (Scott Hanselman)
Getting Started with Aurelia and TypeScript (Mike Graham)
Using Fiddler to monitor network traffic from the VS Emulator for Android (John Kemnetz)

Web Development

Link and Script Tag Helpers in MVC6 (Dave Paquette)
Wakanda + Kendo UI Core = WaKendo Widgets for the Masses (Jen Looper)
Understanding $q in Angular.js (Shaun Xu)
Using the WP-API to Fetch Posts (Andy Adams)
Releases metadata for GitHub Pages (Ben Balter)
Atom 1 Year Open Source Anniversary (Ben Ogle)
Docker Tutorial 8 – Troubleshooting with Sysdig (John Willis)
Guild Wars 2 API Drops OAuth2 Support (Janet Wagner)
Let’s Get Technical: Splunk Enterprise 6.2 (Kevin Faulkner)
The Code Project API – Part 2 – Getting Some REST (Pete O’Hanlon)
Implementing a content security policy with NWebsec, Azure Table Storage and Raygun (Troy Hunt)

XAML

Making circular images in XAML (Tim Heuer)
Spicing Up Universal Windows Apps with Per-Platform Views and Compiled Data Bindings (Jeff Prosise)

Miscellaneous .NET

Getting the types in an F# union type (Steve Gilham)
Different ways to get Distinct Values from a List<T> using LINQ (Vincent Maverick Durano)
Sign-in to Mobile Services using custom authentication from a Windows client (Glenn Gailey)
Fun with DateTime: DateTimeKind.Unspecified (Jeremy Clark)
Serializers in .NET. v.2 (Leonid Ganeline)
CodeLens and Team Project Rename (Mathew Aniyan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

From Agile to DevOps at Microsoft Developer Division e-book (MS Downloads)
Advantages of CQRS (Jan Stenberg)
Say Goodbye to the Old School Corporate Software Developer (Tom Williamson)
Who the Heck Is “The Business”? (Tim Wise)

Other Mobile Platforms

Xamarin.Forms Grid Recipe (Adam J. Wolf)
Top 10 Tips for Building an Apple Watch App (Michael Ridland)
Creating a mobile app with Famo.us and ManifoldJS (David Voyles)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Patents, Copyright and Open Source with Jeffrey Strauss (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 298 – PowerScripting Podcast -Vaughn Stewart and Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 27 (Victor Bonacci)
158 JSJ Roots with Jeff Escalante (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal & Aimee Knight)
The Nerdist Podcast – Matthew Weiner Returns (Chris Hardwick)
Glance and Go Radio 65 – Blue Moon (Andrew & Vernon)
RiYL Episode 106: Joe Biel (Microcosm Publishing) (Brian Heater)
CppCast – SQLpp11 with Roland Bock (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
Docker Overview for .NET Developers (Dan Fernandez, Dmitry Lyalin & Lan Kaim)

Community / Events

Microsoft Ignite: Day 1 sessions now available on-demand (Richard Hay)
Start planning for Google I/O! (Gary Lewis)
Break into Code – Become a Technology Creator (Greg Duncan)
Geek of the Week: Fred Siegel, Man of Mystery (Nicole Kline)
Geekadelphia’s Panel Picks for Wizard World Philadelphia (Ross Currie)

Database

Alternate Row Background Color in SQL Server Reporting Services Tablix and Matrix (Ghanesh Prasad)
SQL SERVER – Using Package Configurations in SSIS 2012 and Beyond – Notes from the Field #079 (Pinal Dave)
Combining SQL Server and MongoDB using NHibernate (Vladimir Khorikov)
New DocumentDB SQL Keywords, Operators and Functions (Aravind Ramachandran)
Forcing Join Order Without Hints (Erik Darling)
Debug Managed Code and Stored Procedures Seamlessly (Guy Glantser)

PowerShell

Monitor SQL Server Master Database Changes with WMI Alerts (Svetlana Golovko)

Miscellaneous

Oculus Rift Consumer VR System Pre-Orders Start Later This Year, Ships Q1 2016 (Josh Constine)
Xbox One will reportedly include TV DVR feature soon (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading May 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Daily Six Pack: May 7, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 5/7/2015 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1855 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-05-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-05-07 (Dan Rigby)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin Essentials: Mark Reynolds: 9781783550838: Books

ISBN: 178355083X
ISBN-13: 9781783550838

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