Dew Drop – October 7, 2015 (#2106)

Top Links

• Update News: Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1, Visual Studio Emulator for Android, Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
• A New Era of Windows 10 Devices from Microsoft (Terry Myerson)
• HTTP Event Collector, your DIRECT event pipe to Splunk 6.3 (Glenn Block)
• Microsoft HoloLens developer kit coming Q1 2016 for $3,000 (Joseph Keller)

 

Web Development

• Overriding Directive Definitions In AngularJS (Ben Nadel)
• Using Kendo UI in a Meteor Application (Cody Lindley)
• Authorization Policies and Middleware in ASP.NET 5 (K. Scott Allen)
• Getting started with Emscripten (David Voyles)
• Splunk admin & some basics around working with REST APIs (Hal Rottenberg)

 

XAML

• NavigationService with MVVM Light and Template 10 (Marco Minerva)
• Using PasswordRevealMode for unmasking the Password in Universal Windows Apps (Abhijit Jana)
• Custom trigger with user interaction mode in Universal Windows App (Arun Kumar)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• AppVeyor extension for Visual Studio 2013/2015 (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Exploiting Generic Types with StructureMap (Jeremy D. Miller)
• First, try reading the error message, episode 4: Even programmers see error messages without reading them (Raymond Chen)
• Making Reports Suck Less (Sam Basu)
• New Mobile Features – Day 7 – VS 2015 Series (Venkata Koppaka)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Getting NUnit Test Parameters From a File (or Other Source) (Jeremy Clark)
• Be Quick, but Don’t Hurry (Dave Rael)
• How to Estimate Software Projects Like a Pro: Setting up the Right Team and Structuring Communication (Sergey Smetyukh & Artyom Vorobyov)
• Defining and Dealing with Technical Debt (Geoff Graham)
• Master “The Art of Stage Presence” with James Whittaker (PowerPoint Team)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• 52 Weeks of Xamarin – Week 9: Databases part 1 (Jesse Liberty)
• In-app translations in Android Marshmallow (Barak Turovsky)
• Now available: Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3 (Jordan Matthiesen)
• 5 Tips for Android Developers Transitioning to Windows Phone Using Unity (Susan Ibach)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Omnisharp with David Driscoll (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• SSW TV – ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6, Where’s my cheese? | Dev Superpowers Episode 15 (SSW Team)
• AAWP Insight #155: Lumia 950 and 950 XL event (Rafe Blandford)
• The state of open source in .Net (Amy Palamountain)
• Developer on Fire Episode 043 | Greger Wikstrand – Specializing in Generalizing (Dave Rael)
• Functional Geekery Episode 29 – Carin Meier (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Understanding How Apps are Used with Andreas Grabner (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #28 Making Python Fast: Profiling Python Code (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 097 | Recapping the News from AzureCon 2015 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• Away from the Keyboard Episode 21: Brent Ozar Takes Over The World (Richie Rump)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Out and About – John Ashenden, Head of Design at Mesosphere | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft demos mixed reality gaming on HoloLens with Project Xray and Microsoft announces the Surface Book, available on October 26 starting at $1499 (Jared DiPane)
• Microsoft unveils a new Surface docking station, compatible with the Pro 3, 4 and Book (Jez Corden)
• The new Surface Pen for the Surface Pro 4 has a tail eraser and full year of battery life (John Callaham)
• Microsoft’s new Display Dock turns your Lumia 950 into a desktop PC (Joseph Keller)
• Microsoft’s new Type Cover has a fingerprint reader and a bigger trackpad (Joseph Keller)
• The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 is official! (Richard Devine)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Query Store SSMS Panes (Svetlana Golovko)
• SQL SERVER – SSMS Query Command(s) completed successfully without ANY Results – Part 2 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• WP 8.1 to 10 Device Upgrade Eligibility List (MS Downloads)
• Moving to Skype for Business: Know Your In-Place Upgrade Options (Dino Caputo)
• Surface Book or Surface Pro 4? (Oren Novotny)
• Business Customers and Windows 10 (The Windows Team)
• How To Learn a New Programming Language While Maintaining Your Day Job and Still Being There For Your Family (Rob Conery)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading October 6, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2015-10-07 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-06 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-10-07 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Oct 6th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• The Morning Brew #1941 (Chris Alcock)

 

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