Dew Drop – May 18, 2016 (#2254)

Top Links

• .NET Core Plans to Drop project.json (Jonathan Allen)
• Announcing the new Desktop to UWP Packaging Project for Visual Studio “15” (Pete Faraday)
• .NET Core Goes RC2 (Ed Charbeneau)
• VB Language Design Meeting Notes – 2016.05.06 (ByRef Returns and Tuples) (Anthony D. Green)
• Now More than Ever, Work on Coding Fundamentals (Jason Bock)

 

Web Development

• Simplifying Data Retrieval with CQRS in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• The Angular 2 CLI and TypeScript and Tic-Tac-Toe in Angular 2 and TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
• Ready-to-Use Grid UI for AngularJS Applications (Konstantin Dikov)
• JavaScript Closures (L. Milkov)
• SignalR – difference between broadcast to all and Group message (Rajesh Londhe)
• Converting an ASP.NET Core RC1 Project to RC2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Angular 2 : A Re-Quickstart using the CLI and Angular 2 : Giving Your CLI a Server (Shayne Boyer)
• What’s the Difference Between Java and JavaScript? (Tom McFarlin)
• Join a VM to existing AD Domain using ARM template in Azure Dev Test Lab (Tarun Arora)
• Easier Web Application Debugging with the Command Line API (Aurelio De Rosa)
• Interactive Azure Platform Big Picture (Chris Pietschmann)
• Node v6.2.0 (Current) (Evan Lucas)
• Introducing Dual Channel Recording (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Previewing ES6 Modules and more from ES2015, ES2016 and beyond (Taylor Woll, Limin Zhu & Brian Terlson)
• Reducing JPG File size (Robin Rendle)

 

XAML

• Bringing your existing desktop apps to UWP (Andrew Clinick)
• New UWP quickstart project, Mobile Services transition begins, and other Azure Mobile news (Glenn Gailey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Add Using command for misspelled types using”fuzzy” matching – Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source (Den Delimarsky)
• Versioning NuGet packages in a continuous delivery world: part 2 (Matt Cooper)
• .NET Core, a call to action (Mark Rendle)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and the Theory of Constraints – Part 2: The development cycle (Eric Gunnerson)
• Reliable and “Debuggable” Automated Testing of Message Based Systems in a Crazy Async World (Jeremy D. Miller)
• UX-Driven Design (Kim Spilker)
• Microsoft Release Management – Deploy to multiple environments with appropriate configurations (Subodh Sohoni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Building better mobile apps for work (Matt Goodridge)
• Improving the Security and User Experience of your Google Sign In Implementation (Isabella Chen)
• Sketching your app design (Windows Apps Team)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 129 | Microsoft Azure and .NET Updates, Office 365 Vulnerability and How This Podcast Dogfoods Azure (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• .NET Rocks! – The .NET Community with Sam Basu and John Bristowe (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• RiYL Episode 168: Ariel Schrag (Brian Heater)
• Functional Geekery Episode 52 – Rúnar Bjarnason (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Hacking a Country with Troy Hunt (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #59 SageMath – Open source is ready to compete in the classroom (Michael Kennedy)
• SE-Radio Episode 257: Michael Nygard on Clojure in Practice (Stefan Tilkov)
• Developer Tea – Flexible Decision Terms (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Attend a Xamarin University Spring Fling! (Karina Ung)
• Science + coding + chance to win = Imagine Cup Earth! Enter today! (Imagine Cup Student Developer Evangelism Team)

 

Database

• How to Identify Useful SQL Server Table Statistics (Fikrat Azizov)
• SQL SERVER 2016 – Management Studio Highlighting Current Line Option (Pinal Dave)
• The design of RavenDB 4.0: The cost of Load Document in indexing (Oren Eini)
• What TRY/CATCH Doesn’t Handle (Tara Kizer)

 

PowerShell

• Accessing SQL Server Reporting Services Data Using PowerShell (Nat Sundar)
• Deploy WMF5.0 on Windows 7 (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• We’re finally about to get the Nokia Android phone we’ve always wanted (Harish Jonnalagadda)
• How Math Secretly Affects Your Life (Bill Gates)
• Scratch and Google Introduce Scratch Blocks (Champika Fernando & Kasia Chmielinski)
• Microsoft Band introduces hiking experience with the new Explore Tile (Lindsey Matese)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-18 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2095 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1687 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107 (Robert Diana)
• Daily Links 17 May 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• The week in .NET – 5/16/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 17th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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