Dew Drop – July 27, 2015 (#2061)

Top Links

• CSLA .NET version 4.6 just around the corner (Rockford Lhotka)
• ReSharper 9.1.3 to the Rescue (Jura Gorohovsky)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2015 Launch is a Go! | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Getting Your Build Server Ready for VS 2015 (James Chambers)

 

Web Development

• Limitations with Caching in ASP.NET Applications (Michael K. Campbell)
• Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer: The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate (Barış Ünver)
• WebStorm 11 Early Access Program (Ekaterina Prigara)
• WOFF files and Azure: the 404 conundrum (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Exploring the Struts 2 Web Application Framework (Manoj Debnath)
• Front End Development is Development (Geoff Graham)
• DOWNLOAD: Free MS Press ebook, “Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Web Apps for Developers” (Kurt Shintaku)
• SignalRChat with MassTransit v3 (maldworth)
• The Refactoring Tales (Jack Franklin)
• ES6 In Depth: Classes (Eric Faust)
• Building Plugins for React Apps (Evan Morikawa & Ben Gotow)

 

XAML

• WinRT exceptions : how to know what the hexadecimal error code means (Jonathan Antoine)
• How to fix the camera freezing issue when switching between Apps in a windows store app? (Arun Kumar)
• UWP: New Controls (part 4 – Inking) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• PerfTips – Easiest way to get Performance Information during Debugging in Visual Studio 2015 and How To customize PerfTips Colors in Visual Studio 2015 ? and Debugging Lambda Expression in Visual Studio 2015 – Watch Windows, Immediate Windows and also in DataTips (Abhijit Jana)
• “No such interface supported” in Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 (Charles Willis)
• Setup Changes in Visual Studio 2015 Affecting C++ Developers (Eric Battalio)
• Installing EF Power Tools into VS2015 (Julie Lerman)
• How To Tell If A C# Type Is An Implementation Of A Generic Interface (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• mbeddr: an Extensible C-based Programming Language and IDE for Embedded Systems (Allan McInnes)
• Rx Challenge #8 (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Do you rotate Scrum masters in teams? (Ben Linders)
• Getting started with .NET unit testing using NUnit (Dhananjay Kumar)
• New Series: Creating A Unit Testing Strategy (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Why TDD – A Question (James Bender)
• Unit Test Generators Extensibility – hats off to our community (Pratap Lakshman)
• Self forming teams at scale (Brian Harry)
• Team Project rename: is it that easy? (Matteo Emili)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Designing Delivery – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Advances in Testing With Xcode 7 and Swift 2 (Bart Jacobs)
• Simplifying RESTful API Use and Data Persistence on iOS with Mantle and Realm (Marcin Kmiec)
• SideDrawer for Xamarin.Forms Makes Navigation Easier (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Windows Remote Arduino with Windows 10 (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #15 (Ron Gilbert)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Scrum as a method to help companies succeed | Luis Gonçalves (Vasco Duarte)
• Radio TFS – Visual Studio 2015 Ships Show (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• How do I disable C# 6 Support in Visual Studio 2015? (Michael Crump)
• The Changelog 166: JavaScript in the Wild at NEJS Conf with Nick, Zach and Jerod (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• CppCast – Rust with Steve Klabnik (Rob Irving)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Lea Thompson (Chris Hardwick)
• MS Dev Show – TypeScript with Jonathan Turner (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Eat Sleep Code – Season 1, Episode 3 (Ed Charbeneau)
• Episode 180: Mesosphere with Ben Hindman | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• Integrating the Ignite UI Linear Gauge with the Grid (Infragistics Videos)
• Get Up And Code 101: The WiMP Competition With Charlie Olson (John Sonmez)
• StarTalk Radio – Exploring Science and Religion with Richard Dawkins (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
• Azure Podcast Episode 86 – Tales from the field (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• IFTTT joins the open source community (Mark Wilson)
• MongoDB Days Silicon Valley (MongoDB Team)
• Telemetry, Planning and Customer Obsession (Tim Sneath)
• The Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem (Tom Lindeman)

 

Database

• Change operating modes for SQL Server Database Mirroring (Manvendra Singh)
• Boost your OLTP database performance with SQL Server 2014 in-memory tables (Forrards Group)
• SQL SERVER – How to Find If Queries are Run in Parallel? and SQL SERVER – Inserting into Sparse Column Sets and Errors Associated With It (Pinal Dave)
• 3 Tips for Developing Database Tests (Adam Anderson)
• Power BI is now generally available (Vanessa Ho)
• Indexes on GUIDs – Not Only Fragmentation (Matan Yungman)

 

Miscellaneous

• Java in Flames (Brendan Gregg)
• Regulators approve AT&T’s $49 billion deal to buy DirecTV (Marguerite Reardon)
• Michael Catanzaro: Useful DuckDuckGo bangs (Michael Catanzaro)
• Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Mobile flagships to also come in cyan (Muhammad Jarir Kanji)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1527 (Mike Gunderloy)
• More Awesome Content from Our Community (Pierce Boggan)
• Last Week on Channel 9: July 20th – July 26th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #1911 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: July 27, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Links of the Week July 25 2015 (Chris Love)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-27 (Dan Rigby)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #50 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Friday Five: Visual Studio 2015 and More (MVP Award Program)
• F# Weekly #30, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 24th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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