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Dew Drop – July 7, 2015 (#2048)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event (Visual Studio Team)
Project Westminster in a nutshell (Kiril Seksenov)
Microsoft reportedly finalizing Windows 10 RTM later this week (Rich Edmonds)
Prism.Windows for Windows 10 UWP Initial Port complete (Brian Noyes)
Share Your Open Source Extension on the Visual Studio Gallery! (Robin Liu)

Web Development

Farewell, ASP.NET Web Forms, We Hardly Knew Ye (Ricardo Peres)
Visual Studio Code ♥ ES6 and Visual Studio Code – July Update (0.5.0) (Sean McBreen)
What a CSS Code Review Might Look Like (Geoff Graham)
My new homepage (Julian M. Bucknall)
8 things you should know about editing WordPress with Microsoft WebMatrix (Michael Simmons)
Google Announces Classroom API (Eric Carter)
#Video Deal/Day: Introduction to WebRTC – $29.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Test the speed of the Azure datacenters from your location (Toni Pohl)
The Web’s Cruft Problem (TJ VanToll)

XAML

Obtaining the CoreCLR DAC DLL for Windows Phone (Sasha Goldshtein)
EnumStateTrigger for Universal Windows Platform (Marco Minerva)
UWP: New Controls (part 1 – RelativePanel) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Miscellaneous .NET

Start Automation Runbooks in Response to Events in Visual Studio Online (Christopher Mank)
LRN Quick Tip: Bridging Visual Studio and Roslyn (Josh Varty)
Team Explorer Everywhere 2015 RTM (Brian Harry)
Refactoring Essentials – Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers (Greg Duncan)
A complete list of Microsoft SDKs for developers (Jialiang)
A Look At Akka .NET (Sacha Barber)
Folder Management – Visual Studio Online Extension, by Wouter De Kort (Anisha Pindoria)
Trying out all the different ways of recognizing different types of timestamps from quite a long way away (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Tracking Property Changes in Unit Tests (Jeremy Clark)
How to do painless TDD (Vladimir Khorikov)
The Simple Programmer Soft Skills Quiz (John Sonmez)
Git Branching Basics (Steve Smith)
Modern Application Performance Testing (Terri Calderone)

Other Mobile Platforms

5 Days to a Beautiful Xamarin.Forms User Interface – Colors (Adam J. Wolf)
Connect to Customers with My Shoppe (James Montemagno)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Building a Compiler with Philip Laureano (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Simple Programmer Podcast 025: Interview with Sir John Hargrave (John Sonmez)
Boagworld – A podcast about my lifestyle business (Paul Boag)
Entreprogrammers Episode 72 “F Chiggers” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
Defrag Tools: #132 – PATH | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Episode 178: Azure API Apps with Panos Kefalidis | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
Partially Derivative Episode 27: Robots Are Racist (Jonathon Morgan & Chris Albon)
Tuesdays with Corey: DSC and ARM templates with Jeffrey Snover | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
Azure Machine Learning with Corporate Vice President Joseph Sirosh (Seth Juarez)

Community / Events

Nerd Nite Philly Celebrates It’s 5th Birthday At Johnny Brenda’s This Thursday (Chris Cummins)
MVP Community Camp 2015 Roundup (MVP Award Program)
Say hello to Lumia Voices, the new brand for Microsoft Connects (Richard Devine)

Database

Execute All Packages Within SSIS Project Catalog (Sifiso W. Ndlovu)
SQL Server and PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper Configuration – Part 3 (Sadequl Hussain)
SQL Server 2016: Live Query Statistics (Jonathan Allen)
SQL SERVER – Identifying Blocking Chain Using SQL Scripts (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2016: What Can We Expect From The UI? (Mobile Man)

PowerShell

PowerShell DSC for Linux: Installation (Bartek Bielawski)
Validate features of PowerShell DSC and Validate PowerShell DSC RunAsCredential (Michael Greene)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft rebrands Xbox Music as ‘Groove’ (Mary Jo Foley)
Kodu Game Lab (MS Downloads)
What is Groove Music Pass and what does it have to do with Xbox Music? (Daniel Rubino)
Small Basic – Using Command Line Arguments – Updated (Nonki Takahashi)
How I learned to love Alexa (and Amazon’s Echo) (Devindra Hardawar)
Skype for Business app debuts for Windows Phone (Chuck Osborn)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading July 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes 193 (Frank Boucher)
The Morning Brew #1897 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-07 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
My weekly newsletter for HTML5, Startups, VC, and game dev (David Voyles)

The Geek Shelf

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Stephen Cleary: 8601402245338: Books

ISBN: 1449367569
ISBN-13: 9781449367565

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Dew Drop – June 16, 2015 (#2036)

Top Links

There’s an Xbox 360 inside my Xbox One (Tom Warren)
Fix your code, don’t disable static analysis (Derik Whittaker)
#Video Deal/Day: Software Architecture Fundamentals Part 3 – $39.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Running Cocos2d-x on Windows 10 (Windows Apps Team)

Web Development

Level 4 CSS Selectors and Importing CSS Breakpoints Into JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
Secure Node Apps Against OWASP Top 10 – Authentication & Sessions (Scott K. Smith)
Filterable Product Grid (Manoela Ilic)
Learning Redis – Part 6: Redis Publish-Subscribe (Rami Sayar)

XAML

Resources in WPF and difference between Static Resource and Dynamic Resource (Pravinkumar Dabade)

Miscellaneous .NET

LINQ: Notation, Syntax, and Snags (Jeff Yates)
Remember the cool HP Sprout? There’s now Emulator available! (Greg Duncan)
Solution to Little Puzzlers–Fun With Random Number Generators (James Michael Hare)
How can I reposition my window so it isn’t covered by the touch keyboard? (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Running xUnit tests in TFS Build vNext (Esteban Garcia)
Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises—and What to Do about It (Josiah Renaudin)
DDD and Living Documentation (Jan Stenberg)
“How Was This Tested?” Providing Evidence of Your Testing (Pete Walen)
Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway (Patrick Nommensen)
Working Towards Perfection (Robert Henson)
How to Load Test & Tune Performance on Your API (Part II) (Steven Willmott)
KISS revisited (Vladimir Khorikov)
Developers: Proceed with caution before commenting your code (Zoran Horvat)

Other Mobile Platforms

Q2 Telerik UI for Xamarin Beta Debuts ListView for Xamarin.Forms (Nikolay Diyanov)
Xamarin.Forms InputTransparent Nugget (Adam J. Wolf)
iOS 9: Getting Started with UIStackView (Jordan Morgan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Extending C# using Fody with Simon Cropp (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Simple Programmer Podcast 016: I Literally Don’t Give A Shit! (John Sonmez)
MS Dev Show – Hardware and Software We Use (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
The Nerdist Podcast – Chris Pratt and Colin Trevorrow (Chris Hardwick)
Web Application Performance with Nik Molnar | Front-End Developer Podcast Episode 10 (Craig McKeachie)

Community / Events

Useful resources for Philly developers (David Voyles)
Xamarin Forums Updates: Badges and More! (Jayme Singleton)
CSLA .NET forum has moved (Rockford Lhotka)
Software Craftsmanship Calendars (Steve Smith)

Database

Error Applying SQL Server 2012 SP2 with Availability Groups (Carla Abanes)
SQL Server 2016 – Stretch Databases (Andrew Pruski)
SQL Server 2016: Temporal Tables (Jonathan Allen)
SQL SERVER – SPARSE Property Doesn’t Carry Forward Using SELECT INTO (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

The future of Skype on Windows: More questions and some answers (Mary Jo Foley)
You’ve Cracked The Coding Interview, Now What? (John Sonmez)
Xbox One uses a full Xbox 360 emulator for backward compatibility (Joseph Keller)
Small Basic – Limits of Literals (Nonki Takahashi)
Microsoft announces Xbox 360 game support for Xbox One and Minecraft becomes a whole new experience with Microsoft HoloLens (Richard Devine)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading June 15, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes #189 (Frank Boucher)
The Daily Six Pack: June 16, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Last Week on Channel 9: June 8th – June 14th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (6/8-6/14) (Dara Monasch)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Michael Washam, Rick Rainey: 9780735697065: Books

ISBN: 073569706X
ISBN-13: 9780735697065

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Dew Drop – June 5, 2015 (#2029)

Top Links

Ten Awesome Features of Visual Studio Code (Sam Basu)
HP Sprout Developer Center (HP Sprout)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: Null Conditional Operator in C# 6 (James Michael Hare)
What’s the deal with Windows 10 for the Non-Technical Friend (Scott Hanselman)

Web Development

A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the ASP.NET Web API and AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar)
Google Moves Dart to GitHub and Kills the Chrome Dev Editor (Abel Avram)
Lazy Arrays (Alex R. Young)
KinemotoSDK (Kinect v2 Web Player) (Greg Duncan)
Color Extraction Effect (Manoela Ilic)
Azure : Event Hub A First Look (Sacha Barber)
The State of SVG Animation (Sara Soueidan)
Adding A Watermark To Your LightSwitch Application (Michael Washington)

XAML

WPF Control Templates – ItemsPresenter (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

How to Compare files in Visual Studio Code ? and 25 Productivity and Debugging Tips for Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
C#: How to Record What Gets Written to or Read From a Stream (Mike Hadlow)
The Great Conversion Function (Mark Bowytz)
Entity Framework Poised to Come of Age (Don Kiely)
It’s not magic (Eric Lippert)

Design / Methodology / Testing

SpecFlow Tutorial (Dave M. Bush)
Introduction to Jenkins: An Open Source Continuous Integration Server (Jeff Reifman)
Lean UX: Turn User Experience Design Inside Out: An Interview with Jeff Patton (Josiah Renaudin)
Code Reviews: Before You Even Run The Code (Lorna Mitchell)
For hardware startups, technology enables scale (Susan Conant)
Save 50% – Work your way to great UX design Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Git Basics (Steve Smith)

Other Mobile Platforms

Why the Internet of Things isn’t the same as the new hardware movement (Jon Bruner)
Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android – Second Edition Announced (Nilanchala Panigrahy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutiae LIVE 16 with Richard Campbell and What’s new in Azure Resource Manager – June 2015 and What’s new in Azure Resource Manager Compute Templates (Scott Hanselman)
Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 048 with Eric Shupps on SharePoint Add-ins (Jeremy Thake)
Using Redis Cache in ASP.NET with Pranav Rastogi and Caching Principles in ASP.NET with Pranav Rastogi and Working Redis Cache in Azure with Pranav Rastogi (Seth Juarez)
045 AiA Performance with Gleb Bahmutov (John Papa)
The Nerdist Podcast – Allison Janney (Chris Hardwick)
The Changelog 159: Sustaining Open Source Software with Mike Perham (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
Azure Podcast Episode 80 – @AzureSupport (Sujit D’Mello)

Database

Intelligent SQL Server and VMware Performance Monitoring Software – Database Performance Analyzer (Jeremy Kadlec)
SQL Server 2016: Clustered Columnstore Index Enhancements (Jonathan Allen)
SQL SERVER – FIX – Msg 3702, Level 16, State 3 – Cannot Drop Database “DB_Name” Because it is Currently in Use (Pinal Dave)
New Titan DB offering from ClearDB (Byron Tardif)
4 updates to Power Query (Miguel Llopis)

SharePoint

Add Collaboration To Your Mobile Apps with SharePoint (Mayur Tendulkar)

PowerShell

#PSTip Access remote registry using PowerShell (Jaap Brasser)
Azure PowerShell: Azure Virtual Network for the Command Line Junkie – Part 4.2 (Adarsha Datta)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft starts rolling out real-time coauthoring in Office 2016 preview (Mary Jo Foley)
Organize your life with Wunderlist (Chuck Osborn)
A BASIC Emulator – Small Basic Featured Program (Nonki Takahashi)
Attract the Right Candidates with These Essential Online Tools (Rina Sagayamary)
Self-marketing tips for introverts (Stacy Warden)
Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading June 4, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #1875 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-05 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 4th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons: George R.R. Martin: 9780345535528: Books

ISBN: 0345535529
ISBN-13: 9780345535528

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