Dew Drop – February 16, 2016 (#2189)

Top Links

• A Way Forward for Windows Phones (Paul Thurrott)
• Win a ticket to Microsoft Build 2016! (TechRewards Team)
• UWP Tile Generator Extension for Visual Studio (Windows Apps Team)
• Are private members a part of the API surface? (Jared Parsons)

 

Web Development

• Payloads as dynamic Objects in ASP.NET MVC (Ricardo Peres)
• Node.js Foundation Acquires Express Framework From IBM—for Free! (Duncan Brown)
• ASP.NET WebHooks and Slack Slash Commands (Link) (Henrik F. Nielsen)
• Enjoy New Appearance Effects and More in UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Rumen Jekov)
• Enabling HTTPS and HSTS on DreamHost (Anne van Kesteren)
• Azure EventHub – Getting your device data to the cloud (Kris Lankford)

 

XAML

• Building a Flickr Viewer App with BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Did you know– You can Drag-Drop & Copy-Paste code inside Watch Window in Visual Studio? (Abhijit Jana)
• 10 Steps to move a Git repo from GitHub to Visual Studio Team Services (Esteban Garcia)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Enhancing a CI Build to Help Bake Quality In (Graham Smith)
• Stop the Solution Explorer’s Expansion Madness (Greg Duncan)
• Remote Level Control in Serilog using Seq (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• #VisualStudio 2015 Tips – How to show output window while building? (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Challenges Faced in Distributed Development (Sunil Mundra)
• Messaging Architecture: What is AMQP? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Using Domain-Driven Design When Creating Microservices (Jan Stenberg)
• 10 Exploratory Testing Tours You Can Use to Analyze Artifacts (Terry Wiegmann)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to Get Started With Push Notifications On Android (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Building Dynamic Layouts for iOS with UIStackView (Mike James)
• How to Mobile-Enable Existing Business Systems with REST APIs (Rob Tiffany)
• Using Native Libraries in NativeScript (Brad Martin)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Scaling Agile using Business Mapping with Dan North (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 104 “Adult Category” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Scrum Master Toolkit Podcast – Teams are much more than a bunch of individuals | Dennis Mansell (Vasco Duarte)
• Lock Me Down Show 6: Interview with Dave Rael (Max McCarty)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ed Elliott and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kevin Mack (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Community Gathers for TechDays Palestine! (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• New Oracle NoSQL Database Whitepaper on Bulk Put and Bulk Get (Michael Schulman)
• SQL SERVER – View Dependencies on SQL Server: Hard & Soft Way (Pinal Dave)
• RethinkDB For Windows (Kay Ewbank)

 

PowerShell

• Select files based on CSV with Powershell (Jakub Chodounský)
• Automate file cleanup on SQL Server drives using PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Kotlin 1.0 Is Now Available and the Newest JVM Language Is a Breeze (John Esposito)
• On Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile strategy for 2016 (Daniel Rubino)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 15, 2016 #1042 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew – #2032 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #221 (Frank Boucher)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 15th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links of the Week 2-14-16 (Chris Love)

 

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