Dew Drop – January 20, 2016 (#2171)

Top Links

• ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0 (Scott Hanselman)
• Why we need a public cloud for the public good (Satya Nadella)
• .NET Rocks! – Glimpse V2 with Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• On .NET 12/17/2015–Miguel de Icaza and On .NET 1/7/2016 – Mads Torgersen and On .NET 1/14/2016 – Unity 3D with Jonathan Chanbers (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Web Development

• Submitting a Pull Request to Node.js with ChakraCore (Gaurav Seth)
• Styling all Text Elements with the CSS :not Filter (Rick Strahl)
• AJAX Collection in Application Insights (Beckylin Orooji)

 

XAML

• XAML Spy 3 January 2016 Update (Koen Zwikstra)
• How WPF controls help different industries (DevToolsGuy)
• FreshMvvm 1.0 Preview Release (Michael Ridland)
• Blog post on IdentityMine.com: Enabling applications for Continuum (Laurent Bugnion)
• Win2D 1.14.0 – text analysis, typography, TableTransfer3DEffect, color management, and ComputeHistogram (Shawn Hargreaves)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Combining LINQ Queries (or, When to Call ToList) (Peter Vogel)
• Reverse engineering the Smaz compression library (Oren Eini)
• Explicitly enable the TFS Source Control Binding for a Solution (Abhijit Jana)
• Visual Studio Marketplace hits a major milestone – 1 million page views and 250K unique users! (Divya Vaishnavi)
• .NET: A look through F# lenses (Jacqueline Homan)
• Understanding values and references in Microsoft Visual C# (Kim Spilker)
• Tips for Deploying your .Net project (Gregor Suttie)
• EnableVSIPLogging to show VS command info (Kirill Osenkov)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Feature Toggles (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Results for 2016 (JD Meier)
• Do your best and Own it (Chris Pietschmann)
• Continuous Delivery (Aaron Love)
• Handling Impediments: Deciding on the Actions (Ben Linders)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Understanding User Interface Layout and UI Components for Android Apps (Vipul Patel)
• Announcing the Beta Apache Cordova Plugin for Azure App Service Mobile Apps (Adrian Hall)
• [#XAMARIN] Using and detecting #Estimote Virtual #eBeacons (Bruno Capuano)
• Android User Actions III (Noel Rice)
• Writing UI tests for Android apps using Xamarin and Visual Studio 2015 (Tom Walker)
• watchOS 2 Tutorial: WatchKit Glances (yffaria)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #37 (Ron Gilbert)
• Visual Studio Team Services – Release Management (VS Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 087 | Zach Lieberman – Tech and Expression (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 43 – Brujo Benavides (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Patching Windows Clusters with Luke Swords (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #42 Python in Startups and Investing (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer Tea – Learning On The Job (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• The Philadelphia Auto Show Rolls Into Town January 30 (Dan Wisniewski)
• Planning a Tech Event in 6 Months (Brad Westfall)
• Microsoft to forgo hardware giveaways at Build 2016, will offer deeper technical experiences instead (Jared DiPane)
• Webinar on Storyteller 3 and Why It’s Different (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Save the Date: Microsoft Edge Web Summit returns on April 4th in San Francisco (Kyle Pflug)
• Humanitarian Toolbox Codeathon Twin Cities (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Database

• The Table.Schema() Function In Power BI/M (Chris Webb)
• How to Solve the Tail Insert Problem (Matan Yungman)

 

SharePoint

• ngOfficeUiFabric v0.2.0 Released – Four New Directives (Andrew Connell)

 

Miscellaneous

• Four Tips to Writing Better and Faster (Johanna Rothman)
• New Mersenne Prime Discovered, Largest Known Prime Number: 2^74,207,281 – 1 (Soulskill)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 19, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2013 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1627 and Double Shot #1628 (Mike Gunderloy)
• GitHub Frustration, React Basics, Gulp and Grunt vs. Npm on Wed Jan 20 2016 (Jeremy Likness)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 20, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-01-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-01-20 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 19th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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