July 2015 – Page 7 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – July 7, 2015 (#2048)

Top Links

Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event (Visual Studio Team)
Project Westminster in a nutshell (Kiril Seksenov)
Microsoft reportedly finalizing Windows 10 RTM later this week (Rich Edmonds)
Prism.Windows for Windows 10 UWP Initial Port complete (Brian Noyes)
Share Your Open Source Extension on the Visual Studio Gallery! (Robin Liu)

Web Development

Farewell, ASP.NET Web Forms, We Hardly Knew Ye (Ricardo Peres)
Visual Studio Code ♥ ES6 and Visual Studio Code – July Update (0.5.0) (Sean McBreen)
What a CSS Code Review Might Look Like (Geoff Graham)
My new homepage (Julian M. Bucknall)
8 things you should know about editing WordPress with Microsoft WebMatrix (Michael Simmons)
Google Announces Classroom API (Eric Carter)
#Video Deal/Day: Introduction to WebRTC – $29.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Test the speed of the Azure datacenters from your location (Toni Pohl)
The Web’s Cruft Problem (TJ VanToll)

XAML

Obtaining the CoreCLR DAC DLL for Windows Phone (Sasha Goldshtein)
EnumStateTrigger for Universal Windows Platform (Marco Minerva)
UWP: New Controls (part 1 – RelativePanel) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Miscellaneous .NET

Start Automation Runbooks in Response to Events in Visual Studio Online (Christopher Mank)
LRN Quick Tip: Bridging Visual Studio and Roslyn (Josh Varty)
Team Explorer Everywhere 2015 RTM (Brian Harry)
Refactoring Essentials – Open Source, Cross Platform Refactoring and Analyzers (Greg Duncan)
A complete list of Microsoft SDKs for developers (Jialiang)
A Look At Akka .NET (Sacha Barber)
Folder Management – Visual Studio Online Extension, by Wouter De Kort (Anisha Pindoria)
Trying out all the different ways of recognizing different types of timestamps from quite a long way away (Raymond Chen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Tracking Property Changes in Unit Tests (Jeremy Clark)
How to do painless TDD (Vladimir Khorikov)
The Simple Programmer Soft Skills Quiz (John Sonmez)
Git Branching Basics (Steve Smith)
Modern Application Performance Testing (Terri Calderone)

Other Mobile Platforms

5 Days to a Beautiful Xamarin.Forms User Interface – Colors (Adam J. Wolf)
Connect to Customers with My Shoppe (James Montemagno)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Building a Compiler with Philip Laureano (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Simple Programmer Podcast 025: Interview with Sir John Hargrave (John Sonmez)
Boagworld – A podcast about my lifestyle business (Paul Boag)
Entreprogrammers Episode 72 “F Chiggers” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
Defrag Tools: #132 – PATH | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Episode 178: Azure API Apps with Panos Kefalidis | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
Partially Derivative Episode 27: Robots Are Racist (Jonathon Morgan & Chris Albon)
Tuesdays with Corey: DSC and ARM templates with Jeffrey Snover | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
Azure Machine Learning with Corporate Vice President Joseph Sirosh (Seth Juarez)

Community / Events

Nerd Nite Philly Celebrates It’s 5th Birthday At Johnny Brenda’s This Thursday (Chris Cummins)
MVP Community Camp 2015 Roundup (MVP Award Program)
Say hello to Lumia Voices, the new brand for Microsoft Connects (Richard Devine)

Database

Execute All Packages Within SSIS Project Catalog (Sifiso W. Ndlovu)
SQL Server and PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper Configuration – Part 3 (Sadequl Hussain)
SQL Server 2016: Live Query Statistics (Jonathan Allen)
SQL SERVER – Identifying Blocking Chain Using SQL Scripts (Pinal Dave)

SharePoint

SharePoint 2016: What Can We Expect From The UI? (Mobile Man)

PowerShell

PowerShell DSC for Linux: Installation (Bartek Bielawski)
Validate features of PowerShell DSC and Validate PowerShell DSC RunAsCredential (Michael Greene)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft rebrands Xbox Music as ‘Groove’ (Mary Jo Foley)
Kodu Game Lab (MS Downloads)
What is Groove Music Pass and what does it have to do with Xbox Music? (Daniel Rubino)
Small Basic – Using Command Line Arguments – Updated (Nonki Takahashi)
How I learned to love Alexa (and Amazon’s Echo) (Devindra Hardawar)
Skype for Business app debuts for Windows Phone (Chuck Osborn)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading July 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Reading Notes 193 (Frank Boucher)
The Morning Brew #1897 (Chris Alcock)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-07 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
My weekly newsletter for HTML5, Startups, VC, and game dev (David Voyles)

The Geek Shelf

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Stephen Cleary: 8601402245338: Books

ISBN: 1449367569
ISBN-13: 9781449367565

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Dew Drop – July 6, 2015 (#2047)

Top Links

Xamarin Test Cloud Now Available to All Xamarin Developers (Steven Yi)
TWC9: Visual Studio 2015 Release Date, Windows 10, Open WWT, Maker.js and more | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Jeremy Foster)
From Zero to Hero in Xamarin Forms in 53 Minutes (Jeff Prosise)
Node.js Development for .NET Developers: Overview and Node.js Development for .NET Developers: Tools (Andrew Connell)

Web Development

What If AngularJS Had A setState() Method Like ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
Hack Physics and JavaScript (Chris Coyier)
A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the ASP.NET Web API and AngularJS and Understanding scopes in AngularJS custom Directives and How to work with the Bootstrap DropDown in AngularJS and Exploring Angular’s “Controller as” Syntax and the vm Variable (Dhananjay Kumar)
Windows 10 Upgrade and IIS 503 Errors (Rick Strahl)
Ractive.js: Web Apps Made Easy (Eugene Mirotin)
Transitioning from ASP.NET Web API 2 to ASP.NET MVC 6 (Filip W)
Adding a Pivot Table to HTML5 Apps (Lohith G N)
Moving to HTML5 Premium Media (David Mebane, Jerry Smith & Kevin Hill)
Running ASP.NET on Ubuntu (Rush Frisby)
AngularJS – Basic Application Life Cycle (Sachin Kalia)
Updates to ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators for beta 5 (Sayed-Ibrahim-Hashimi)
Day 60 of #100DaysOfSpec: 4.3.3 The section element (Melanie Richards)
Web Deploy v3.6 (MS Downloads)
A Brand New Docker Extension (Ahmet Alp Balkan)
Creating a mobile app with Famo.us and ManifoldJS (Dave Voyles)
Implementing Bootstrap 3 Remote Modal and An Explanation Of Azure Content Delivery Networks (CDN) (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Node v0.12.6 (Stable) (node.js Team)

XAML

Windows Phone 8.1 store package version change surprise – one act (Adam Kinney)
Microsoft confirms its new Edge browser won’t support Silverlight (John Callaham)
How to implement a simple notification system in MVVM Windows 8.1 Universal apps (Marco Siccardi)
WPF Controls – Window – Ownership (Richard Carr)
Adding photos to the Windows 10 Phone Emulators and Introducing InteractiveToastExtensions for Universal Windows Apps (Scott Lovegrove)
UWP: How to handle changes of DependencyProperty (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
Submitting apps with age ratings in the unified Dev Center (Bernardo Zamora)
Networking API Improvements in Windows 10 (Windows Apps Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

Setting up a continual deployment with Visual Studio Release Management (Charles Sterling)
Simplifying the Liskov Substitution Principle of SOLID in C# (Dhananjay Kumar)
LRN Quick Tip: Bridging Visual Studio and Roslyn (Josh Varty)
String Interpolation and the Conditional Operators (Bill Wagner)
How easy is to use a Symbol Server with Team Build vNext? (Matteo Emili)
Creating a Generative Type Provider (Sergey Tihon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Defect Prevention using Agile Techniques (Lucas Medina & Raquel Liedke)
Unit Testing Asserts: Skip the Message Parameter (Jeremy Clark)
Developers Should Read The Lean Startup (Chris Love)
Integrating Testing into the CI and CD pipelines and Continuous Integration Lab for MSIT (Charles Sterling)
Single Responsibility Principle (Software Gardening: Seeds) (Craig Berntson)
Are You Making These 10 DDD Mistakes? (Daniel Whittaker)
We’re Not Done Yet (Gil Zilberfeld)
How to transform user experience into UX design (Jerry Cao)
Article: User Story Driven Docs (Joao Fernandes)
IntelliTest – One Test to rule them all (Pratap Lakshman)
Top Three Signs That You’re Done With Your MVP (Stephen Forte)

Other Mobile Platforms

Design assets for Android Wear, Microsoft Band and Apple Watch (Håkan Reis)
New additions to Objective-C in Xcode 7 – Nullability (Jimmie Jensen)
External Links in Cordova for iOS (Rick Strahl)
‘Work Item Studio’ will allow Android users to work on projects on ‘Visual Studio Online’ (Timi Cantisano)
Code Snippets in IntelliJ and Maven Archetypes in IntelliJ (Daniel Fisher)
Data Binding Custom Controls in Forms (Jason Farrell)
Mobile Design Tools and the Future of Telerik AppPrototyper (Brandon Satrom)
Swift 2.0: Availability Checking (Bart Jacobs)
Game Performance: Data-Oriented Programming (Shanee Nishry)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

ThoughtWorks Podcast: Pixelated and Secure Communication (Gavin Schalliol)
Thimbleweed Park Podcast #12 (Ron Gilbert)
Herding Code 205: Udi Dahan on Starting a Company Based on an Open Source Project (Jon Galloway & K. Scott Allen)
Yet Another Podcast #137 – Basem Emara (Jesse Liberty)
Simple Programmer Podcast 024: How To Deal With Criticism When Marketing Yourself (John Sonmez)
Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 052 on client side dev with Mark Rackley (Jeremy Thake)
Hanselminutes – Relationships, Geek Culture, and Raising Nerds with Anjuan Simmons and What’s new with the Azure CDN – June 2015 and Intro to Machine Learning with Seth Juarez (Scott Hanselman)
Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 31 (Vic Bonacci)
049 AiA Line of Business Applications and Developers with Deborah Kurata (John Papa)
MS Dev Show – Windows 10 API’s with Arun Singh (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
The Changelog 163: Go in the Modern Enterprise Using gokit with Peter Bourgon (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
The Amp Hour #256 – Is This A Show? (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Get Up And Code 098: My Wife Answers Some Questions (John Sonmez)
This Week On Xbox – Episode Eight (Larry Hryb)
Radio TFS – Building on Build vNext (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
SSW TV – Open Source Community with John Papa (SSW Team)
StarTalk Radio – Extended Classic: Madame Saturn: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco (Part 1) (Neil de Grasse Tyson)

Community / Events

Don Syme receives a medal for F# (Ohad Kammar)
Welcoming the WorldWide Telescope to the Open Source .NET Universe (Martin Woodward)
EdgeConf 2015 – provoking thoughts. (Robin Osborne)
Thank you for your contributions (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
.NET Community Movers and Shakers (Vicky)
Managing Your User Group: Locations (Kevin Griffin)

Database

SQL Server Reporting Services Text Box Orientation (Ghanesh Prasad)
Building your Brand as a SQL Server Professional with High Quality Feedback (Erica Woods)
An Update to SQL Server Management Studio is Available (Brent Ozar)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between Read Committed Snapshot and Snapshot Isolation Level and SQL SERVER – Secure by Default – The Mantra and SQL SERVER – Creating Dataset Using VALUES Clause Without Creating A Table and Interview Question of the Week #027 – Move TempDB from One Drive to Another Drive When Low Disk Space (Pinal Dave)
How to Run DBCC CHECKDB to Check SQL Database Integrity (Zora Stalin)
Hadoop Interview Guide (Ian Stirk)
Ensuring Columns Are Always Present In A Table Returned By Power Query (Chris Webb)

SharePoint

SharePoint Pitfalls: Creating a Visual Studio Project Without SharePoint Locally Installed and SharePoint Pitfalls: Save Publishing Site as Template Option Missing (Ricardo Peres)

PowerShell

[How To] Use Windows PowerShell To Scan Windows 10 (Kapil Arya)
Creating a Simple DSC Resource (Jan Egil Ring)

Miscellaneous

Windows 10 Build 10162 ISOs now available for download (Richard Hay)
Microsoft surprises us again with Windows 10 PC build 10162 release to Fast ring members (John Callaham)
The ultimate summer reading list for techies (Stacy Warden)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading July 2, 2015 and Geek Reading July 3, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1521 and Double Shot #1522 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five on Windows (MVP Award Program)
Collective #175 (Pedro Botelho)
The Daily Six Pack: July 3, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: July 6, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Last Week on Channel 9: June 29th – July 5th, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
Links of the month (June Edition) (Jan Hentschel)
The Morning Brew #1895 and The Morning Brew #1896 (Chris Alcock)
Links of the Week July 4th 2015 (Chris Love)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-03 (Dan Rigby)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Friday Links #362 (Mike Ward)
Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #47 (Adam J. Wolf)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 2nd, 2015 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
F# Weekly #27, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

[Qualcomm Certified] Tronsmart Quick Charge 2.0 30W Dual Ports USB Car Charger for Samsung Galaxy S6,S6 Edge,Note 4,Note Edge/ Google Nexus 6/ Sony Xperia Z4,Z3/ HTC One M9,One M8/ Asus Zenfone 2 (Included an 3.3ft 20AWG Micro USB Cable): Electronics

ASIN: B00XU0GP10

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Dew Drop – July 2, 2015 (#2046)

Top Links

Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 10158 Released (Clint Rutkas)
iOS 9 Preview Now Available (Miguel de Icaza)
Diamond dependencies (Eric Brechner)
The New Shiny: Is Visual Studio Code for You? (G. Andrew Duthie)

Web Development

Consuming The Uniform jQuery Plugin In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
Integrating Ajax and Partial Views in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
How to Access Server-Side Values from jQuery (B. Clay Shannon)
Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer: WordPress GitHub Plugin Updater and Toolbox of the Smart WordPress Developer: Series Introduction (Barış Ünver)
New Poll: What’s your take on managing styles entirely in JavaScript? (Chris Coyier)
ASP.NET 5 Beta5 Now Available (Daniel Roth)
MVC 6 Image Tag Helper (Dave Paquette)
JavaScript: How to Embed Private Members Into an Object (David Catuhe)
Exploring Angular’s “Controller as” Syntax and the vm Variable (Dhananjay Kumar)
Adding a Pivot Table to HTML5 Apps (Lohith G N)
Seven Surprising JavaScript ‘Features’ (Luke Page)
Tail call optimization in ECMAScript 6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
The DNA of Responsive Web Design (Ed Charbeneau)
The Need For Speed (Jeff Yates)
End-to-end Hypermedia: Building a React Client (Jimmy Bogard)
Sample chapter: Design Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Networking (Kim Spilker)
Docker Machine 0.3.0 Deep Dive (Nathan LeClaire)

XAML

A simpler FilePicker for Windows Phone and Windows apps (Shawn Kendrot)
Infragistics Webinar “MVVM Made Simple with Prism” Sample Code (Brian Lagunas)
WPF Controls – Window – Display and Activation (Richard Carr)
Handling the Back Button in Windows 10 UWP Apps (Jeff Prosise)
Using Unplated “Tile” Images In UWP Apps and Windows Universal Apps, Cimbalino and the App Back Button (Scott Lovegrove)

Miscellaneous .NET

Unleashing C# Generic Constraints with Extension Methods (Jeff Walker)
Debugging and Profiling LINQ Queries using Devart LINQ Insight (Rabi Kiran)
ReSharper Unified NuGet-based Installer. How? (Sergey Shkredov)
Visualizing interesting world facts with FsLab (Tomas Petricek)
Getting started with .NET on Linux (Christian Jacobsen)
How secure are GUIDs? Can I use it to generate passwords? (Raymond Chen)
IncrediBuild for C# (IncrediBuild)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Third installment of Refactoring Loops to Collection Pipelines and Microservice Trade Offs (Martin Fowler)
Book Review: The Art of Unit Testing with Examples in C# and Git Miscellany: Stuff I Didn’t Know But I Do Now (Jeremy Clark)
Big Scrum: All you need and not enough (Martin Hinshelwood)
Succeeding with Geographically Distributed Scrum Teams – New White Paper (Steve McConnell)
Story Splitting: Where Do I Start? (Andrew Fuqua)
Challenges When Implementing Microservices and Why Programming Style Matters (Ben Linders)
Take an early look at the new GitHub Desktop (Brenna Heaps)
(Mis) Using Multiple Asserts (Gil Zilberfeld)
On UI Testing (Kyle Baley)
Automocking fields using NUnit (Dror Helper)
Expertise is developed one step at a time (Wes Higbee)

Other Mobile Platforms

Getting Started with Android Using Java (Manoth Debnath)
How to Edit Entities and Card Deck Layouts in UI for Android (Kiril Stanoev)
Apache Cordova: Using Merges for Multiple Platforms (Raymond K. Camden)
Taking Attendance with Xamarin, Beacons and Microsoft Azure (Adam J. Wolf)
Amazon Releases Cloud Drive SDK for Android and iOS (Sergio De Simone)
Swift 2.0: Exit Early With guard (Bart Jacobs)
API Design Considerations for The Internet of Things (Jennifer Riggins)
Working Toward Universal Interoperability in IoT (Steve Teixeira)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

The Next at Microsoft Podcast Ep. 5 – The World of Wearables (Athima Chansanchai)
Windows 10 is coming…here’s what to tell non-technical parent (Scott Hanselman)
.NET Rocks! – Elixir and Phoenix with Chris McCord and .NET Rocks! – No Estimates with Woody Zuill (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Simple Programmer Podcast 023: Accept Criticism But Don’t Give It (John Sonmez)
RunAs Radio – Using DSC on SharePoint with Patrick Curran (Richard Campbell)
Talk Python to Me #14 Moving from PHP to Python 3 with Patreon (Michael Kennedy)
ASP.NET Community Standup – June 30, 2015 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 084 | AngularU and SPTechCon DevDays (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
The Nerdist Podcast – Brad Meltzer Returns (Chris Hardwick)
166 JSJ New Relic with Wraithan and Ben Weintraub (AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
CppCast – POCO Project with Aleksandar Fabijanic (Rob Irving)
Debugging with Fiddler by Eric Lawrence (Session Recording) (Brian Rinaldi)
Functional Geekery Episode 22 – LambdaConf 2015, Part 1 (Steven Proctor)
GoingNative 39: await/coroutines | C9::GoingNative (Gabriel Ha)
CodeChat 029 – On Simplifying Cloud DevOps with Paul Allen | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
Away From the Keyboard Episode 11: Paola Valiente on Modeling and Coding (Richie Rump)
Tuesdays with Corey: Nano Coolness with Jeffrey Snover | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
SE-Radio Episode 231: Joshua Suereth and Matthew Farwell on SBT and Software Builds (SE-Radio Team)
SSW TV – Jumping into Windows Internet of Things development by using the Universal Windows Platform | Dev Superpowers Episode 12 (SSW Team)
Azure Podcast Episode 83 – Azure Billing API (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Summer Fun with Xamarin Events in July (Jayme Singleton)
Meet Your Advisory Council – Phil Haack (Beth Massi)
Running Your First Code Camp (D’Arcy Lussier)
The Best Places To Watch Philly’s Official July 4th Fireworks Above The Philadelphia Museum Of Art (Jillian Wilson)
Microsoft launches new Minecraft in Education program to help kids in school (John Callaham)

Database

Temporarily Change SQL Server Log Shipping Database to Read Only (Manvendra Singh)
SQL Server Reporting Services Text Box Orientation (Ghanesh Prasad)
The Joy of SQL Server Database Projects (Adam Anderson)
Creating a Web App From Scratch Using Python Flask and MySQL: Part 8 (Jay Raj)
SQL SERVER – Steps to Generate Windows Cluster Log? (Pinal Dave)
Indexing for GROUP BY (Erik Darling)
The Fastest Way to Reconfigure a Bunch of Servers (Jeremiah Peschka)

PowerShell

New book: Deploying and Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: Tools for cloud-based and hybrid environments (Kim Spilker)
Get started on PowerShell for Office 365 (Lawrence Chiu)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft pushes out second new Windows 10 preview build for PCs in two days (Mary Jo Foley)
Office 2016 Preview—update 2 (Office Team)

More Link Collections

Top News from May 2015 (Radhika Tadinada)
Geek Reading June 30, 2015 and Geek Reading July 1, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1520 and Double Shot #1521 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #1893 and The Morning Brew #1894 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: July 1, 2015 and The Daily Six Pack: July 2, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-02 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-02 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 1st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
.NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – June 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)

The Geek Shelf

Xamarin Essentials: Mark Reynolds: 9781783550838: Books

ISBN: 178355083X
ISBN-13: 9781783550838

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