Dew Drop – June 3, 2015 (#2027)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – CSS for Developers with Elijah Manor (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• iOS Development for Windows Developers (Michael James)
• A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 Insider Preview on MVA (Windows Apps Team)
• Visual Studio Code – Update 1 (0.3.0) (Sean McBreen)

 

Web Development

• Asp.Net Identity for Web Forms Introduction (Stephen Naughton)
• Upsource 2.0 Released (Kay Ewbank)
• Manually Serializing A String Using JSON-Encoding In ColdFusion (Ben Nadel)
• Node dependency injection library extracted from DecentCMS (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Time to First Byte, Why It is Important and How You Can Improve Your Time (Chris Love)
• New content in the Microsoft Press Guided Tours app: Fundamentals of Azure (Kim Spilker)
• ​Instagram Launches API for Advertisers (Patricio Robles)

 

XAML

• Finding the right SQLite package for a Xamarin app with Windows Phone 8.1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• When you go truly multi platform with UWP everything will be paid for with In App Purchases (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Create and read NuGet Packages via Code (Robert Muehsig)
• Visual Studio Online Update – June 3rd (Brian Harry)
• Lesser-Known NHibernate Features: Dynamic Components (Ricardo Peres)
• Test automation for VS 2015 (Kevin Logan)
• Custom Task Scheduler and await (Bnaya Eshet)
• A little something that made me happy… (Eric Gunnerson)
• Microsoft MPI v6 release (Karan Batta)
• Introducing the Project System Extensibility SDK Preview (Andrew Arnott)
• constexpr Complete For VS 2015 RTM: C++11 compiler, C++17 STL (Stephan T. Lavavej)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Managing Technical Debt Using Total Cost of Ownership (Ben Linders)
• Load Test Series Part III: Taking your load test to the Cloud (i.e. Creating a Cloud-based Load test) (Charles Sterling)
• What makes a good metric? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Four Product Management Universals (Smith Forte)
• Open Closed Principle (Michael Burns)
• Filter Pull Requests by Status (Pat Nakajima)
• Focus on your changes in GitHub for Windows (Markus Olsson)
• Using Lines of Code as a Software Size Measure – New Lecture Posted (Steve McConnell)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Developing Your First Apple Watch App (Greg Shackles)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 008: Hey John! It Doesn’t Seem You Are Following Your Own Advice! and Simple Programmer Podcast 009: Tech Academy Simple Programmer (John Sonmez)
• 17 ngAir – Angular Internals (Kent C. Dodds)
• SSW TV – Controlling NuGet packages in your solutions with Marcel de Vries and SSW TV – Visual Studio extensibility & Web Essentials with Mads Kristensen (SSW Team)
• The Nerdist Podcast – John Cusack (Chris Hardwick)
• AAWP Insight #141: Windows 10, Band, and Store bloat (Rafe Blandford)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 080 | We answer listener questions and comments (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – SQL Panel from SQL Intersection Spring 2015 (Richard Campbell)
• Talk Python to Me #10 Bringing Python to the Masses with Hosting and DevOps at PythonAnywhere (Michael Kennedy)
• 7 Ways Your Server is Lying To You | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the Ultimate Bing Experience III (Nicholas Kerr)
• Geek of the Week: Colin Walker is a technical evangelist by day, gamer by night (Monica Nickelsburg)
• MVPs Bring the Power of Community to the Cloud with the Global Azure Bootcamp (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• Why is SSDT so slow? (Ed Elliott)
• SQL Server Reporting Services Expression Builder to Reformat or Convert Text Box Values (Dallas Snider)
• SQL Server 2016: Updatable, Non-Clustered Columnstore Indexes (Jonathan Allen)
• The #1 Enemy of Data Loading in SQL Server (Matan Yungman)
• SQL SERVER – Finding Out Identity Column Without Using Column Name (Pinal Dave)
• Who’s Backing Up That Database? (Kendra Little)
• Importing Data to DocumentDB Just Got Faster and Easier (Stephen Baron)

 

PowerShell

• SQL Server Monitoring with Powershell and the SQL Server Platform: Analysis and Reporting (Part 3 of 3) (Fikrat Azizov)
• A simple PackageManagement (aka Oneget) Provider for Windows Update (Emin Atac)
• Coding defensively against enums (Jakub Jareš)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Large Hadron Collider is officially doing science again (James Vincent)
• GameStop buys Geeknet, home to ThinkGeek, in $140M deal (Molly Brown)
• Microsoft acquires 6Wunderkinder, creator of to-do list app Wunderlist (OneNote Team)
• Microsoft gives a sneak peek at new Windows 10 hardware (Rich McCormick)
• Is Windows 10 ready? (Tom Warren)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #1873 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-03 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-03 (Dan Rigby)

 

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