Dew Drop – June 4, 2015 (#2028)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Making a Developer Calendar with Steve Smith and Brendan Enrick (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What’s New in C# 6 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Backwards compatibility is (still) hard (Jon Skeet)
• Build Your Own Selfies App with Xamarin.Forms and Azure (Pierce Boggan)

 

Web Development

• MVC 6 Cache Tag Helper (Dave Paquette)
• You do not create WCF REST Service using ASP.NET Web API (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Creating a Web App From Scratch Using AngularJS and Firebase: Part 7 and Create a Simple Shopping Cart Using AngularJS: Part 1 (Jay Raj)
• Strongly typed AppSettings Configuration in ASP.NET 5 (Rick Strahl)
• How to make WordPress images responsive (Sebastian Green)
• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Seth Juarez)
• JSDoc Support in ReSharper 9.1 (Artem Bukhonov)
• Designing for Performance (Chris Love)
• Google Moves Dart to GitHub and Kills the Chrome Dev Editor (Abel Avram)
• Azure data services part 1: HDInsight (Alice Waddicor)
• Deploying an ES6, JSPM, NodeJS Application to Azure (Dave Baskin)
• End-to-End Hypermedia: Building the Server (Jimmy Bogard)
• Working with Office 365 REST API with Fiddler (Senthil Kumar)
• Auto-update your Azure Site Extension (Zain Rizvi)
• Getting Started with Angular and Visual Studio Code (Chris Dias)

 

XAML

• 5 Steps to an Ideal Windows 10 App Development Environment (Michael Crump)
• A Look Inside the Windows 10 App Model: What Does It Mean for Developers? (Vipul Patel)
• ANGLE for Windows Store Is Now Available via NuGet (Eric Mittelette)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Async and cancellation support for wait handles (Thomas Levesque)
• Swim lanes, #mention, Build test steps – Jun 3 (Aaron Bjork)
• Team Foundation Server and VS Online adoption at Microsoft (Brian Harry)
• BREAKPOINT: Know Your App Inside and Out with Application Insights (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
• A note on reusing your custom fields (Matteo Emili)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Bliki: MonolithFirst (Martin Fowler)
• Meeting Regulatory Demands with Agile Software Development (Ben Linders)
• The Five Measures Canvas for Agile Transformation (Dave Prior)
• Have we lost the art of “Agile”? (Jerry Stubbs)
• Breaking the Rules on Building Talent (Jian Tong)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin.Forms in Anger – Mall Dash (Adam J. Wolf)
• WatchKit Navigation, Transitions, and Contexts (Davis Allie)
• How to create a Bootable Windows 10 VHD for cocos2d-x Development (Eric Mittelette)
• Gmail API Adds Push Notification Support (Patricio Robles)
• Learning Unity 3D (Greg Duncan)
• Realtime Framework – Launching Xamarin support (Realtime Team)
• Data Storage Using Xamarin (Uma Narayanan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Simple Programmer Podcast 010: Simple Programmer European Tour 2015 – The Eiffel Tower and Simple Programmer Podcast 011: Do You Work 7 Days a Week? (John Sonmez)
• Defining agility in a concrete and actionable way | Claudio Perrone (Vasco Duarte)
• The Amp Hour #252 – An Interview with Eric Bogatin – Tilded Thumb Tenets (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• RiYL Episode 110: Jon Spencer (Brian Heater)
• CppCast – Better Code Currency with Sean Parent (Rob Irving & Jason Turner)
• MVA – Best of Build and Windows 10 (MS Virtual Academy)

 

Community / Events

• Xbox at E3 2015: Everything You Need to Know (Will Tuttle)
• Announcing GitHub Japan (Daisuke Don Horie)
• Be our Small Basic Guru of the month! Let us bestow glory and kudos upon you! (Ed Price)
• Atom at CodeConf 2015 (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• Getting the most out of your next hackathon (Mickey MacDonald)
• Hull Windows 10 Three Thing Game – Still Time to Register (Rob Miles)
• An Interview With REST Author Brian Sletten (G. Ryan Spain)

 

Database

• How to Clone a SQL Server Login, Part 3 of 3 (K. Brian Kelley)
• Features SQL Server Needs to Add (And Drop) (Brent Ozar)
• SQL Server 2016: Clustered Columnstore Index Enhancements (Jonathan Allen)
• Prototyping Layout and Design with Datazen (Melissa Coates)

 

PowerShell

• Automating A Heartbeat Check Against an Azure-SQL Database Using PowerShell (Tim Smith)
• Powershell : Get Process Stats (Sacha Barber)
• Looking Forward: Microsoft Support for Secure Shell (SSH) (Angel Calvo)

 

Miscellaneous

• An attempt to organize Microsoft’s growing list of organizing tools (Mary Jo Foley)
• The New Windows 10 Store App now supports Desktop Apps Updates (Denny McAkins)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 3, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1874 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: June 4, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-04 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 3rd, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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