Dew Drop – July 16, 2015 (#2055)

Top Links

• Build 10240 now available for Windows Insiders in Fast and Slow rings (Gabe Aul)
• Microsoft releases new license terms for Windows 10: Biggest surprise? No gotchas (Ed Bott)
• Microsoft Windows 10 for PCs hits RTM: Sources (Mary Jo Foley)
• Announcing PostSharp 4.2 Preview 4: Code Saving Metrics (Gael Fraiteur)

 

Web Development

• Quick Note: Favor $exceptionHandler() Over $log.error() In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Recycling Action Methods in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• jQuery 3.0 Alpha Announced, Developers Need to Test (David Iffland)
• ViewComponents in ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET MVC 6 (Filip W)
• CSS Layout Primer: From Classic Approaches to the Latest Techniques (Laureano Martin Arcanio)
• New version of ASP.NET Merge Tool (Matt FJH)
• Microsoft Edge and Web Components (Travis Leithead & Arron Eicholz)
• How to drive UX with AJAX (Mira Brody)

 

XAML

• Create a Universal 3D App in a matter of minutes (Morten Nielsen)
• Using Extended Execution in Windows 10 Universal Apps (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Database Connection Hazards with Entity Framework (Doug Lane)
• Allocating on the stack or the heap? (Maoni Stephens)
• Why doesn’t the Print command appear when I select 20 files and right-click? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to Unit Test Private Methods in MS Test (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Test Studio R2 Release with Test Studio Mobile (Shravanthi Alimilli)
• Domain-Driven Design: Everything You Believe Is Wrong! (Peter Vogel)
• Test Triangulation (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Article: UX – Are you Doing it Yet? (Ted McCarthy)
• Software – Is it “Engineering” Yet? (Ben Linders)
• Being productive with negative emotions (Wes Higbee)
• Using NDepend to Make You a Better Programmer (Erik Dietrich)
• Git for IT Professionals: Working with Repositories (Ravikanth C)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• TaskCompletionSource + Xamarin = Beautiful Async (Michael Ridland)
• Share Even More Code with Plugins for Xamarin (Pierce Boggan)
• Time spent in mobile apps considered harmful (Michael Mahemoff)
• Health Cloud API, Web Tiles and Bex (Greg Duncan)
• A Guided Tour of Windows 10 IoT Core (Michael Crump)
• Microsoft Band and Health developer platform (Ali Alvi)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 028: Some Questions About The Pomodoro Technique and Simple Programmer Podcast 029: Marcus Blankenship Quit His Job (And You Can Too) (John Sonmez)
• Agile Toolkit Podcast – Ty Crockett – Agile Coaches Camp 2014 and Agile Toolkit Podcast – Agile Coaches Camp 2014 – Tim Ottinger (Bob Payne)
• 23 ngAir – angular-formly (Kent C. Dodds)
• 168 JSJ The Future of JavaScript with Jafar Husain (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Chad Coleman (Chris Hardwick)
• AAWP Insight #146: job losses, focussed portfolio, Windows 10 Mobile (Rafe Blandford)
• The Amp Hour #258 – An Interview with Bertrand Irrisou and Gerald Friedland of Audeme (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Defrag: Windows 10, Microsoft Edge, Wi-Fi Channels and more… | The Defrag Show (Greg Duncan & Larry Larsen)
• Azure Podcast Episode 85 – Azure for non-Microsoft people (Sujit D’Mello)
• Radio TFS – Everyone is an Impostor (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

 

Community / Events

• WPC: Disrupt or be Disrupted (Steve Guggenheimer)
• Geek of the Week: Vulcan Productions GM Carole Tomko drives social change through storytelling (Todd Bishop)
• Azure HDInsight launches ISV Partner Program at WPC (Oliver Chiu)

 

Database

• SQL Server Integration Services 2016 Incremental Package Deployment (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Enhancing Reference Data in Master Data Services – Notes from the Field #089 (Pinal Dave)
• Importing Data to DocumentDB Just Keeps Getting Better (Stephen Baron)
• What Your Database Security Design…. (Karen Lopez)
• Resolving the MERGE statement attempted to UPDATE or DELETE the same row more than once error (Dallas Snider)

 

SharePoint

• Debugging errors in SharePoint add-in (app) development (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Azure Mobile Service deployment with Team City part 3. Build Azure Mobile Service with PowerShell using psake (Ruslan Albu)

 

Miscellaneous

• Multiple Desktops in Windows (Rick Strahl)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 15, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1524 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1904 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-16 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-16 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 15th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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