Dew Drop – May 1, 2015 (#2005)

Top Links

• Android and iOS developers are my new friends (Rudy Huyn)
• Welcoming Developers to Windows 10 (Terry Myerson)
• XAML Anti-Patterns: Code-Behind (Markus Egger)
• Announcing TypeScript 1.5 Beta and Using TypeScript in Visual Studio Code (Jonathan Turner)

 

Web Development

• Easier AngularJS Routing with Angular UI Router (Craig Shoemaker)
• DevExpress maintains AjaxControlToolkit for ASP.NET WebForms Developers (Cory Fowler)
• Extensibility is a wonderful thing [A set of Visual Studio Code tasks for common npm functionality in Node.js and io.js] (David Anson)
• Simple inheritance with JavaScript (David Catuhe)
• VorlonJS, ManifoldJS, a new Flight Sim Arcade, asm.js from Microsoft (David Voyles)
• Improving the GitHub workflow for the Microsoft Community (Phil Haack)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 6 (Jay Raj)
• Pushing Market Depth (Level 2) to HTML Clients (Matt Davey)
• Updates for ASP.NET 4.6 – Web Forms/ MVC 5/ Web API 2 (Pranav Rastogi)
• Application Insights now supports asp.net v5 applications (Sergey Kanzhelev)
• Integrating Splunk with Docker, CoreOS, and JournalD (Hal Rottenberg)
• New F12 Developer Tools for the New Microsoft Edge (Jeff Martin)
• Docker Tutorial 7 – Dockerfile (Part 2) (John Willis)
• Use Stuntman For Development Authentication in OWIN (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Aurelia May Status and Releases (Rob Eisenberg)

 

XAML

• Asynchronous Pattern Redux for XAML Developers (Bill Catlan)
• Converting WinForms to WPF: Should you consider it? (DevToolsGuy)
• Material Design Themed TimePicker and Clock Controls for WPF (James Willock)
• Deep Dive into Universal Applications (Jonathan Allen)
• Microsoft Details Bridges to Windows Universal Apps (Paul Ballard)
• A deeper dive into the Universal Windows Platform (Kevin Gallo)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• A Quick Lap Around Visual Studio Code (Abhijit Jana)
• Github extensions for Visual Studio 2015 now available (Kris van der Mast)
• Announcing the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio (Anthony Cangialosi)
• Extensions for Visual Studio Online, REST APIs for TFS 2015 RC, and more from Build 2015 (Will Smythe)
• What’s New in Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps (Windows Apps Team)
• GitHub Integration in Developer Assistant (Anuj Jain)
• I Love QueryableExtensions (Adam Anderson)
• Wizards and warriors, part two (Eric Lippert)
• Learn Roslyn Now: Part 10 Introduction to Analyzers (Josh Varty)
• How can I tell if a file is an image of some type? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Ben Linders)
• The evils of inventory (Eric Brechner)
• Git 2.4 — atomic pushes, push to deploy, and more (Michael Haggerty)
• How to Start to Solve the Problems of Your Product Development Organization (Tim Wise)
• The HoloCoder’s Bookshelf (James Ashley)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Exploring the Xamarin.Forms Ecosystem (Walt Ritscher)
• Introducing the Windows 10 Apache Cordova platform (Polita Paulus)
• Microsoft Band Galvanic Skin Response Sensor (Bary Nusz)
• Microsoft Band SDK update- with Windows apps support and interactive tiles (Iris Classon)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Developing StaffPad, a new class of music notation application with Dr. Matthew Tesch (Scott Hanselman)
• 040 AiA ng-wat with Shai Reznik (John Papa)
• AAWP Insight #137: BUILD 2015 (Rafe Blandford)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Robin Lord Taylor (Chris Hardwick)
• The Changelog 153: 17 Years of cURL with Daniel Stenberg (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The Amp Hour #247 – An Interview with Voja Antonic – Gerontogenous Galaksija Genesis (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Video update of my Unity shmup (David Voyles)
• Azure Podcast Episode 75 – Logic Apps (Sujit D’Mello)
• Parallel Programming Models – Tips and Tricks (James Tullos)

 

Community / Events

• Build 2015 marks an important step in our journey with developers – and it’s just the beginning (Steve Guggenheimer)

 

Database

• Online Article: The Baker’s Dozen State of the Union: 13 Points on SQL Server Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (Kevin S. Goff)
• Identify SQL Server Indexes With Duplicate Columns (Ben Snaidero)
• Announcing partitioning support in the DocumentDB SDK (Aravind Ramachandran)
• Using Function.InvokeAfter() In Power Query (Chris Webb)
• Full-Text Search is now available for preview in Azure SQL Database (Mihaela Blendea)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Reference Document (Ricardo Peres)

 

PowerShell

• Reduce Merge Conflicts in .NET Solutions with PowerShell based Git Hooks (Howard van Rooijen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is becoming cool again (Eric Sink)
• Microsoft (yes, Microsoft) has a far-out vision (Nick Wingfield)
• Windows 10 desktop will come out before Phone in a staggered release cycle (Daniel Rubino)
• Windows 10 build 10074: Everything you need to know (Mauro Huculak)
• The Future of Technology – Today! (Sam Basu)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 30, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1852 (Chris Alcock)
• Mostly Cloudy – April 30th, 2015 (Mike Wood)
• Links of the month (April Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
• The Daily Six Pack: May 1, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 29th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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