Dew Drop – February 24, 2015 (#1961)

Top Links

• Edit & Continue and Make Object ID Improvements in CTP 6 (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• The New Exception Settings Window in Visual Studio 2015 (Kaycee Anderson)
• Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP Released (John Montgomery)
• ASP.NET 5 Updates and other improvements for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and NuGet 3.0 Beta Released (Jeff Fritz)
• Code Map improvements in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Introducing ASP.NET 5 (Scott Guthrie)
• Microsoft Band, Health updated, Developer SDK Preview released (Richard Devine)

 

Web Development

• Consuming Plupload Data URIs In An AngularJS Application (Ben Nadel)
• Mastering Kendo UI (Burke Holland)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 3 (Jay)
• Top 10 Changes in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 (Stephen Walther)
•  Dynamic types in Web API and Dynamic schema in Web API (Rory Primrose)
• Waiting for gulp tasks to finish in Visual Studio (Dave Paquette)
• Dropdown Menus with More Forgiving Mouse Movement Paths (Chris Coyier)
• #Video Deal/Day: Designing APIs for the Web – $64.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Running the Ruby Middleman Static Site Generator on Microsoft Azure (Scott Hanselman)
• Essentials: 256 Shades of Grey (Tony)

 

XAML

• An improved NavigationService for MVVM Light in Universal apps (Marco Minerva)
•  How to choose the right programming languages for my Universal Windows app project? (Christian Hissibini)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• FAKE: Building C# projects FAKE without knowing a tiny bit of F# (Robert Muehsig)
• Long running async and memory fragmentation (Oren Eini)
• EnC Improvements for .NET Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 and Performance Improvement When Debugging .NET Code With Visual Studio 2015 (Andrew B Hall)
• VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today (Brian Harry)
• LINQ Methods With or Without Predicates: What’s the Difference? (Jeremy Clark)
• Customizing string interpolation in C# 6 (Thomas Levesque)
•  C# 6.0 in 6 Screenshots (Mike Taulty)
• Creating a Simple Collection Class (Peter Vogel)
• But this property is defined as undefined… (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

•  What I have learnt being a designer, developer and product manager. (Scott Barnes)
• Domain Language: The Playthrough Bonus (Jef Claes)
• How I Use Git On Windows – Repository Setup (Jesse Taber)
• It’s Not The Critic Who Counts (John Sonmez)
• Are you a Professional? (Peter Gfader)
• xUnit Device Runners 1.0 RC3 (Oren Novotny)
• ORMs are not just about replacing SQL (Scott Koon)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing Xamarin Android Native Applications (Ankit Asthana)
• The Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 CTP6 (John Kemnetz)
• Deploying a database file with a Xamarin.Forms app (Rob Gibbens)
•  Adding Real-world Context with Estimote Beacons and Stickers (James Montemagno)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Azure Update with Michele Leroux Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 51: Frans Bouma (Shawn Wildermuth)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Brian Cox and Eric Idle (Chris Hardwick)
• Defrag Tools #126 – Internet Explorer F12 Developer Tools – Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• EntreProgrammers Episode 53 (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)

 

Community / Events

•  Interview with Matthew Gertz (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• How to Join to the Same Table Multiple Times for a SQL Server query (Dallas Snider)
• The Most Underrated Features of SQL Server 2014 — Part 3 (Jonathan Rozenblit)
• SQL SERVER – Configure, Monitor and Restore Backups from Mobile & Web browser (Pinal Dave)
•  Embracing SQL In Postgres (Rob Conery)

 

PowerShell

• Working with PowerShell DSC for Linux, part 1 (Bartek Bielawski)
• ISE Module Browser – A new way to manage your PowerShell modules (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• First look: Microsoft Health for the web (Richard Devine)

 

More Link Collections

•  Geek Reading February 23, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1478 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #174 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 16th – February 22nd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (2/16-2/22) (Dara Monasch)
• The Morning Brew #1806 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-02-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-02-24 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for February 23rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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