Dew Drop – April 28, 2015 (#2002)

Top Links

• Squirrel – replace ClickOnce the easy way (Gregor Suttie)
• Wizards and warriors, part one (Eric Lippert)
• //build/ 2015 (Greg Duncan)
• What’s New in Fiddler 4.5.1 (Eric Lawrence)
• Running Suave.io and F# with FAKE in Azure Web Apps with Git and the Deploy Button (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Securing ASP.NET MVC applications using Windows Azure Active Directory (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Emberjs – Simple Global Event Bus (Paul Cowan)
• API Pattern: Self-documenting REST Responses (Michael Mahemoff)
• Introducing the DZone Guide to Cloud Development (Benjamin Ball)
• Understanding ECMAScript 6: Class and Inheritance (David Catuhe)
• Brackets 1.3 Release Is Here (Ryan Stewart)
• Policy Expressions in Azure API Management (Santosh Chandwani)
• #Video Deal/Day: Architecture of the MEAN Stack – $29.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML

• Silverlight DynamicResource (Ricardo Peres)
• Localize Property Names, Descriptions, and Categories for the XamPropertyGrid (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 10 build 10061 fixes MapIcon woes! (Joost van Schaik)
• UAP: Speech Recognition (part 1) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• First TFS 2015 RC production upgrade I know of and VS Online Update – April 27th (Brian Harry)
• C# Futures: Tuples and Anonymous Structs (Jonathan Allen)
• LRN Quick Tip: PCL References and MSBuildWorkspace (Josh Varty)
• ebook deal of the week: Adaptive Code via C# and Quick news: Save 40% on all books and ebooks (Kim Spilker)
• Changes in creating VSO Environments in Visual Studio IDE (Muthukumaran)
• Geek Talk: Are Strings Value Types or Reference Types? (Peter Vogel)
• Solution to Little Puzzlers–Largest Square of ‘1’s in a Matrix (James Michael Hare)
• How do I extract the path to Control Panel from this shortcut so I can launch it? (Raymond Chen)
• Validation logic and NHibernate event listeners (Vladimir Khorikov)
• Add fields to cards, board filtering – Apr 27 (Aaron Bjork)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Design Patterns: Singletons (Bart Jacobs)
• Obstructive Developers (Fran Hoey)
• Look Twice Before You Cross that Road (Michael Burns)
• Using Load Testing Tools for More Than Just Load Testing (Nels Hoenig)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms and iOS segemented control (Daniel Hindrikes)
• Hiding the Android Activity icon in Xamarin Forms (Keith Rome)
• Xamarin Guide 8. Change the App.cs to App.xaml and Xamarin Guide 11: Create a LoginView (Sara Silva)
• Getting Started with Android Wearable using Xamarin and Visual Studio and Xamarin Android and Visual Studio Build Failed with no Errors (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• What Mongo-ish API would mobile developers want? (Eric Sink)
• From the MVPs: Introduction to the Internet of Things – From the Device to Microsoft Azure Cloud (Alon Fliess)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Open Source Panel Discussion at .NET Fringe (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Will Forte Returns (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 62 “Ham Is Made From Hamsters” (Derick Bailey, Josh Earl, John Sonmez & Charles Max Wood)
• Microsoft Campus Tours – Inside the Channel 9 Studio | Microsoft Campus Tours (Larry Larsen, Golnaz & Kaitlin McKinnon)
• SE-Radio Episode 225 Brendan Gregg on Systems Performance (SE-Radio Team)

 

Community / Events

• A Quick Parse of the //Build 2015 Session List (Mike Taulty)
• Come meet the Azure DocumentDB team at Ignite, May 4–8th (Andrew Hoh)
• Going to Microsoft Ignite? Take the Trip Report Challenge! (Office 365 Team)
• The Calm Before the Storm – Preparing for Microsoft Build 2015 (Paul Ballard)
• Telerik @ Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference! (Sam Basu)
• Dev of the Week: Andrew Phillips (John Walter)

 

Database

• The SSIS Object Variable and Multiple Result Sets (Tim Mitchell)
• Display a fixed number of rows per page for an SSRS report (Ghanesh Prasad)
• SQL SERVER – Collect and Analyze SQL Server Data Efficiently (Pinal Dave)
• DocumentDb Limits and Statistical Outliers (K. Scott Allen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Memoir Cover Reveal! (Felicia Day)
• Swipe right: Is Microsoft finally cool enough to attract hip, new app developers? (Jacob Demmitt)
• Lessons from running Windows 10 for business for the last 60 days (Keith Lynch)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading April 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Microsoft Tuesday – Interesting Links – #10 (Kunal Chowdhury)
• The Morning Brew #1849 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 27th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• The Daily Six Pack: April 28, 2015 – Windows 10 Developers (Dirk Strauss)

 

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