Dew Drop – May 26, 2016 (#2260)

Top Links

• Protected: Announcing WCF Connected Service for .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2 (Miguell)
• FakeItEasy 2.0.0 released. This major release of FakeItEasy comes jam packed with new features, improvements and bug fixes. (Blair Conrad)
• Custom ETW Heap Events in Visual Studio 15 Preview 2 (Adam Welch)
• Open sourcing ReSharper’s external annotations (Matt Ellis)

 

Web Development

• Better Type Checking With In-Browser TypeScript Transpiling In Angular 2 (Ben Nadel)
• JavaScript: The Semicolon Debate (Adam Anderson)
• TypeWriting.js : JavaScript Library for Typewriter Effect (jQuery Rain)
• Visual Studio 2015 JavaScript Memory Leak? Solved. (Brian Noyes)
• WebAssembly: Finally Freed from JavaScript? (David Ackerman)
• ASP.NET Core : Getting Clean with SOAP (Shayne Boyer)
• Messaging and WebRTC Video with Telerik Platform and Bit6 (Julia Goloshubina)
• Ensuring high-quality browser accessibility with automation (David Brett & Greg Whitworth)
• More Deeper about ‘this’ in ES6 Arrow Function (Shaun Xu)

 

XAML

• View Model Page Navigation with MVVM Light (Jesse Liberty)
• Kickstart your next UWP App with new Code Snips and Windows App Studio OSS Libs (Greg Duncan)
• Microsoft teases ‘Project Europe’, a secret UWP initiative (Rich Edmonds)
• Notes about confidentiality and purchasing (Dev Center Tip #6) (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Initialize Member Variables in the Order You Declare Them (Kate Gregory)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Basics of Web Application Security: Hash and Salt Your Users’ Passwords (Martin Fowler)
• Agile Practices — What Comes Next? (Gary Tuohy)
• 3 Reasons You Believe 100% Code Coverage Is Impossible (Dave M. Bush)
• Using VSTS Release Management for Continuous Deployments to AzureDevTestLabs (Tarun Arora)
• dotMemory Unit update: version 2.3 (Alexey Totin)
• Embrace Limitations to Complete Projects (Cindy Potvin)
• Managing Risk in your Project with Static Analysis (Erik Dietrich)
• Flat Design : Everything you Need to Know (Keval Padia)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• How to add push notifications to Android (Marcos Placona)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 25: The Push to Sync Pattern (Adrian Hall)
• Realm Launches Version 1.0 Featuring Updated API (Janet Wagner)
• Building Smart Apps with Microsoft Cognitive Services (Mike James)
• Windows 10 IoT Core, Raspberry PI 3 and 14342 and More on Lightbulbs–Bit of Fun With Windows 10, UWP, IoT Core, AllJoyn (Mike Taulty)
• mono DisplayAttribute problem repro (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Changing Developers Minds with Julie Lerman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Devnology Podcast 052 – Pieter Joost van de Sande (Daan van Berkel & Angelo vd Sijpt)
• SSW TV – SharePoint 2016 – The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades | Adam Cogan (Sophie Belle)
• NuGet Hits A Billion Downloads | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Game Dev Show 15 – Building a Windows 10 Game with C#, XAML and Win2D | Game Dev Show (Nick Landry)
• 213 JSJ Developer Evangelism with Greg Baugues (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Dave Smith)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Happiness Period and The Nerdist Podcast – Duncan Jones (Chris Hardwick)
• AAWP Insight #181: Microsoft layoffs, Pay, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 58 (Air Mozilla)
• RiYL Episode 169: Mara Wilson (Brian Heater)
• The Married Gamers Episode 389: Is E3 Still Relevant? (Kelly Brown)
• 024 jsAir – Progressive Web Apps with Henrik Joreteg, Ada Rose Edwards, Nolan Lawson, and Ben Kelly and 68 ngAir – OSS Round II (Kent C. Dodds)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – Interview: Machine Bias with Jeff Larson, Data Scientist at ProPublica (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)
• What The Tech 308: Microsoft Windows 10 Upgradegate (Paul Thurrott)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 31 – Office Online WOPI Integration (Richard diZerega)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Tony Hillerson (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft may launch two Xbox streaming devices at E3 (John Callaham)
• Philly In The News: Five Awesome Spring Accolades (Jillian Wilson)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 61: Plant Intelligence, Macrophages, and Park Ranger Life. Plus SKELETOR! (Nerd Nite Team)
• Xbox One slim rumored for E3 and more powerful console expected in 2017 (Tom Warren)

 

Database

• SQL Server Performance Tuning Tip – Index Foreign Key Columns (Mike Eastland)
• Spring Cleaning Your Databases (Tara Kizer)

 

Miscellaneous

• #Ebook Deal/Day: Python Crash Course – $15.97 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2101 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1692 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 25th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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