Dew Drop – April 3, 2015 (#1987)

Top Links

• NuGet 2.8.5 Released (Jeff Fritz)
• Introducing the IE Diagnostics Adapter for third party developer tools (Andy Sterland)
• Announcement: I am part of the .NET Foundation Advisory Board (Bill Wagner)
• You can now run Android apps on a Mac or PC with Google Chrome (Tom Warren)

 

Web Development

• Paper: JavaScript Web Tools with Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 (MS Downloads)
• Working with AngularJS Services – (Project Tracking Website Part V) (Pravinkumar Dabade)
• Azure Resource Explorer: a new tool to discover the Azure API (David Ebbo)
• How to Decide How Many HTTP Status Codes Your API Needs (Wendell Santos)

 

XAML

• WPF Styles (Richard Carr)
• Creating DeviceFamily specific layouts in a Universal App (Morten Nielsen)
• Creating different page views for Windows Apps based on the device (Shawn Kendrot)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Visual Studio Tips 2 (Ricardo Peres)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Getting the Name of an Identifier and C#/.NET Little Wonders & Little Pitfalls: The Complete Collection (James Michael Hare)
• String and StringBuilder revisited (Phillip Trelford)
• Rx Challenge #4 (More Solutions) and Rx Challenge #5 (Bnaya Eshet)
• Kinect for Windows v2 Speech Recognition Sample (Greg Duncan)
• XML Transformation: Xslt vs .NET. Part 3. (Leonid Ganeline)
• Lowercase Keywords Revisited (not an April Fools’ Day joke this time, I promise) (Anthony D. Green)
• FluentValidation and CascadeMode – Optimizing your validation execution (Khalid Abuhakmeh)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Guest article: Kanban anti-patterns (Eric Brechner)
• NuDoq – Enjoyable API Documentation (Clarius Consulting)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Insights Updates Bring Enhanced App Monitoring (Neil Patel)
• Cocos2d-x Games for Windows apps in JavaScript. Develop now for a chance to win. (Windows Apps Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Bitcoin Explained with Rhian Lewis (Scott Hanselman)
• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 040 on Xamarin development with James Montemagno (Jeremy Thake)
• Getting Started With Infragistics Xamarin.Forms (Infragistics Videos)
• Monthly Catch-up: S80 with special co-host Keith Bankston | Visual Studio ALM Rangers (WPSchaub & Anisha)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 52: Matt Pietrek (Shawn Wildermuth)
• 036 AiA Protractor with Julie Ralph (John Papa)
• 46 – What was this show name? | Patch And Switch (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)
• CppCast – Fit and Tick with Paul Fultz II (Rob Irving)

 

Community / Events

• Ranger Flash – March 2015 … lots of community gems (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Panos Panay and the Surface team will be holding a Reddit AMA on April 3 (Harish Jonnalagadda)

 

Database

• Prevent and Log Certain SQL Server Login Attempts (Aaron Bertrand)
• Identity Columns in Oracle (Jeremiah Peschka)
• Stored Procedure Execution with Parameters, Variables, and Literals (Paul S. Randal)
• SQL SERVER – Log Shipping – Sharing Tab Missing in Folder Properties (Pinal Dave)
• New RavenDB 3.0 RC is out (Oren Eini)
• Connect the Nots (Jen McCown)
• Announcing the availability of the latest version of Splunk DB Connect! (Manish Jiandani)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell: Retrieve Azure Storage Blob Containers Asynchronously (Trevor Sullivan)
• Configure Applocker with Desired State Configuration (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Brings Collaboration To New Office Tool Sway (Alex Wilhelm)
• Is It OK For New Programmers To Blog About What They Are Learning? (Douglas Coleman)
• Setting up a VPN and Remote Desktop back into your home with a Synology (from an iPhone) (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 2, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Top News from March 2015 (Radhika Tadinada)
• Double Shot #1498 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-04-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-04-03 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 2nd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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