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Dew Drop – September 9, 2015 (#2086)

Top Links

Raspberry Pi Gets Its Official Touch Screen (Harry Fairhead)
Node v4.0.0 (Stable) (Node.js Foundation)
shouldly – Should testing for .net – the way Asserting *Should* be! (Jake Ginnivan)
Unity Support for Windows 10 (Clint Rutkas)

Web Development

Intro to Animations in AngularJS (Lukas Ruebbelke)
Hint.css : A tooltip library in CSS (jQuery Rain)
Using data attributes for custom validation messages in HTML 5 (lmilkov)
12 Responsive jQuery Lightbox Plugins (jQuery By Example)
TypeScript with Visual Studio 2015 (Michael Crump)
Why Should I Care About Immutable Data In ReactJS? (Ben Nadel)
How I Came To Love TypeScript (Burke Holland)
Announcing VP9 support coming to Microsoft Edge (Andy Glass & Jerry Smith)
Developer Tips for Sublime Productivity (Erik Dietrich)

Miscellaneous .NET

Getting Started with Git for Visual Studio Developers and Git with Visual Studio 2015 and TFS 2015 (Graham Smith)
Image / Subscription management for you Dev/Test Lab Environments (Clemens Reijnen)
C#6: String Interpolation (Jeff Yates)
Windows 10 Nav Pane App Template for Visual Studio 2015 (Scott Ge)
Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 (Jb Evain)
Regular Expression Character Escapes (Richard Carr)
9 Top .NET UI Component Collections (Terrence Dorsey)
Converting .NET 4.6 Projects to the VS 2015 Project System (James Chambers)
Update: Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers (Jeremy Clark)
An Upgrade on using a Predicate as a Key to a Dictionary (Tom Hines)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The importance of why? (Bill Wagner)
Exploring Strengths with Core Qualities (Ben Linders)
The definitive answer to the “Hamburger menu” debate (John Day)
ebook deal of the week: More About Software Requirements (Kim Spilker)
How to design for mobile UX (Marc Schenker)

Other Mobile Platforms

#VS2015 – Listing #BlueTooth LE Devices in #Android with #Xamarin (Bruno Capuano)
EjectABed Version 2 – Now Using the Raspberry Pi (Part 1) (Jamie Dixon)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – ReactJS in Web Apps with Cory House (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Visual Studio 2015 with Robert Green | The DEVintersection Countdown Show (Robert Green)
The Nerdist Podcast – Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer (Chris Hardwick)
Developer on Fire Podcast – Ted Neward – Presence and Values (Dave Rael)
Functional Geekery Episode 25 – Jim Freeze (Steven Proctor)
Ping 252: Dodging bullets with NASA, Revo Build by Acer, Chase Grid Battle | Ping! (Greg Duncan, Mark DeFalco & RicksterCDN)
RunAs Radio – Unified Remote Access with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Salesforce, SAP, Uber, Do and Smartsheet add-ins and extensibility solutions for Office 365 | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
Episode 094 | Yo Office, Office UI Fabric and a Real World Azure Performance Retrospective (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)

Community / Events

Join Xamarin for an Oracle Cloud Day Near You (Lacey Butler)
How rising star Vidya Srinivasan launched her career at Microsoft (Emily Alhadeff)

Database

SQL Server Using LIKE with Wildcards (Suprotim Agarwal)
SQL SERVER – Introduction to Disk Systems (Pinal Dave)
Moving Your SQL Databases to Azure – Things to Know (Martina White)
Hadoop Application Architectures (Ian Stirk)

SharePoint

System Center Management Pack for SharePoint Server 2016 IT Preview (MS Downloads)
Developers: SharePoint isn’t a Platform, SharePoint is a Service: Part Two (Andrew Connell)

Miscellaneous

Creating a Portable Windows 10 Environment with Windows To Go (MS Downloads)
Why Augmented Reality is harder than Virtual Reality (James Ashley)
A Remote Worker’s Guide To Staying Healthy (Victor Abadio)
Recruiting – There is no such thing as a developer shortage (Sara Chipps)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading September 8, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (8/31-9/6) (Dara Monasch)
The Daily Six Pack: September 09, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-09-09 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-09-09 (Dan Rigby)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for September 8th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Node.js the Right Way: Practical, Server-Side JavaScript That Scales: Jim R. Wilson: 9781937785734: Books

ISBN: 1937785734
ISBN-13: 9781937785734

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Dew Drop – August 3, 2015 (#2066)

Top Links

Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension (Peaky Yuter)
Creating Visual Studio Code Tasks for Shell Commands (Etienne van Delden)
TWC9: Windows 10, Windows 10, Windows 10, Win2D, Modern C++ and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
Report: Windows 10 is now installed on 67 million PCs as of this morning (Daniel Rubino)

Web Development

Switch Cases Do Not Have To Be Static In JavaScript and How JSX Renders Different Data Types In ReactJS and A Quick Look At Rendering White Space Using JSX In ReactJS (Ben Nadel)
5 Tips for Dealing with Unreliable Web APIs (Martin W. Brennan)
Connecting to MongoDB from Node.js using MongoDB driver (Ravi Kiran)
Dynamically Generating Robots.txt Using ASP.NET MVC (Rehan Saeed)
Git 2.5 Adds Worktrees, Improves Triangular Workflows, Performance, and More (Sergio De Simone)
Beginner’s Guide to MVC with Spring Framework (Stefan Varga)
Dependency injection in ASP.NET 5 (Gunnar Peipman)
Four New ComponentOne Wijmo Controls for LightSwitch Cloud Business Apps (Michael Washington)

XAML

Win10 dev: Where’s [UITestMethod]? and Win10 dev: enabling Windows.UI.Composition and Win10 dev: using SystemAccentColor and Win10 dev: MSBuild, UWP and project.json (Koen Zwikstra)
TypedMVVM samples for Windows 10 UWP and IoC fixes (Davide Zordan)
ShowEditNewAppointmentAsync Weirdness (Peter Freeman Foot)
UWP: New Controls (part 5 – Media) (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
Pivot in Windows 10 universal apps (Daniel Hindrikes)

Miscellaneous .NET

The Colour Selector Dialog Box (Richard Carr)
5 Lesser Known Reasons To Upgrade To Visual Studio 2015 (Darren Hall)
Hard Lessons Learned For C# Integration Testing (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
Microservices in C# Part 2: Consistent Message Delivery (Paul Mooney)
Building Azure Service Fabric Actors with F# – Part 1 (Sergey Tihon)
Two More Major Bugs Revealed in .NET 4.6’s RyuJIT Compiler (Jeff Martin)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Creating Unit Testing Strategy – Part II (Gil Zilberfeld)
Kanban Deployment with the X-Matrix (Karl Scotland)
Book Review: Difficult Conversations (Patrick Kua)
17 Theses on Software Estimation and #NoEstimates – Response to Ron Jeffries (Steve McConnell)
Development Teams and Operations (David Starr)
Meaningful versus mundane (Eric Brechner)
Six Ways of Improving Behaviour-Driven Development (Jan Stenberg)

Other Mobile Platforms

Understanding Android Code Structure (Manoj Debnath)
iOS 9: Getting Started With SFSafariViewController (Jordan Morgan)
31 Days of Xamarin.Android and Day 1: Introduction and Installation and Day 2: Emulators for Android Development, lots of choices (Venkata Koppaka)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Thimbleweed Park Podcast #16 (Ron Gilbert)
Simple Programmer Podcast 036: How Everyone Thinks They’ll Someday Become Rich (John Sonmez)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 171 #OTP (Richard Hay)
WinBeta Podcast 26: Windows 10 Special (Sean Michael)
How can I use MVVM with Xamarin.Forms? (Michael Crump)
The Nerdist Podcast – David Wain (Chris Hardwick)
Day 5 Post Award Ceremony Wrap-Up | Imagine Cup World Finals 2015 (Golnaz Alibeigi)
MS Dev Show – Windows 10 for Developers with Ginny Caughey (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
The Changelog 167: Mesos and Mesosphere DCOS with Toby Knaup (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
2015 Imagine Cup World Championship (Imagine Cup Admin)
New Azure AD options and Office 365 sign-in updates | Office Mechanics (formerly Garage Series) (Jeremy Chapman)
Get Up And Code 102: Talking About Routines (John Sonmez)
Mac Power Users 270: Workflows with Christina Warren (Katie Floyd & David Sparks)
Radio TFS – Building with Chris Patterson (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Super Powers (Neil de Grasse Tyson)
GeekWire Radio: Windows 10’s debut, Amazon’s new drone plan, and unlocking innovation at UW (Todd Bishop)
Xamarin Podcast – Building Apps for a Connected World (Mike James & Pierce Boggan)

Community / Events

.NET Developers to Know (Vicky)
Windows Insider head Gabe Aul now VP of Engineering Systems for Windows and Devices group (John Callaham)

Database

Miscellaneous

25 comic books for nerdy newbies to read first (Andrea Romano)
Rumor: Acer to announce four Windows 10 Mobile phones at IFA (Joseph Finney)
Satya Nadella says HoloLens coming ‘within the next year’ for developers and enterprise users (Joseph Keller)
paint.net 4.0.6 is now available (Rick Brewster)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading July 31, 2015 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1532 (Mike Gunderloy)
Friday Five: Welcome to Windows 10! (MVP Award Program)
Coding4Fun July 2015 Round-Up and Last Week on Channel 9: July 27th – August 2nd, 2015 (Greg Duncan)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
The Morning Brew #1916 (Chris Alcock)
Links of the Week August 2, 2015 (Chris Love)
Windows App Developer Links – 2015-07-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-07-31 (Dan Rigby)
.NET Tips and Tricks from Daily .NET Tips – ( Visual Studio 2015, Windows Universal App Development, Microsoft Band, Xamarin ) – July 2015 Links (Abhijit Jana)
WeeklyXamarin Newsletter Issue #51 (Adam J. Wolf)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 31st, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
F# Weekly #31, 2015 (Sergey Tihon)

The Geek Shelf

Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Stephen Cleary: 9781449367565: Books

ISBN: 1449367569
ISBN-13: 9781449367565

del.icio.us Tags: visual studio,c#,f#,xamarin,android,hololens,xaml,sql server,angularjs,javascript,universal apps,agile,software estimation,asp.net

Dew Drop – April 30, 2015 (#2004)

Top Links

Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac (S.Somasegar)
Introducing Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Scott Hanselman)
Introducing Visual Studio Code and Getting Started with Visual Studio Code and Intellisense with Visual Studio Code and Refactoring with Visual Studio Code and Debugging with Visual Studio Code and Git and Preferences in Visual Studio Code (John Papa)
New video shows how Windows 10 phone apps can work on a big screen with Continuum and Two new videos show the promise of Microsoft HoloLens, more info coming at E3 2015 (John Callaham)
Microsoft Edge is the browser for Windows 10 (Kyle Pflug)
New services for intelligent apps + tools and runtimes for any platform & every device (Scott Guthrie)

Web Development

Introducing TagHelpers with ASP.NET 5 on EverLeap and New ASP.NET Features and Fixes in Visual Studio 2015 RC (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
Adding minimal OWIN Identity Authentication to an Existing ASP.NET MVC Application (Rick Strahl)
Build ASP.NET Apps with Visual Studio Code on Windows or Mac (Steve Smith)
Managing Asynchronous Processes in TypeScript (Peter Vogel)
Comparing JS Compression Methods in Sencha Cmd (Arthur Kay)
The Priority+ Navigation Pattern (Chris Coyier)
Web apps get push notifications and more in Windows 10 (Jared DiPane)
Microsoft Demonstrates Docker in Build 2015 Keynote Address (Julien Barbier)
Preview the OneDrive API for Work and Life (Ryan Gregg)
VSCode: Creating an Application with Yeoman aspnet generators (Shayne Boyer)
LightSwitch Videos On YouTube (Michael Washington)

XAML

Blend for Visual Studio 2015 RC (Harikrishna Menon)
Compile Time Bindings in Universal XAML (Jonathan Allen)
Xamarin Guide 9: Use MVVM pattern (Sara Silva)
DVLUP launches new website as part of MSDN (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Distributing Windows Apps to the World (Todd Brix)
Expanding the Universal Windows Platform at Build 2015 (David Treadwell)
Build conference gives developers more insights about Windows 10 app development and distribution (Athima Chansanchai)

Miscellaneous .NET

First Hours with Visual Studio Code on Mac and Windows (Tugberk Ugurlu)
Visual Studio Code first impressions (Bertrand Le Roy)
Some tips for Using C# Libraries in F# (Tamizh Vendan)
.NET EnC support for Lambdas and other improvements in Visual Studio 2015 and Open Sourcing Visual Studio’s GDB/LLDB Debug Engine (Andrew B. Hall)
Visualize a Weighted Average / Composite Color of Multiple Custom Colors Using C# (B. Clay Shannon)
Announcing the Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 RC (Brady Gaster)
Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015 (Brian Harry)
Load Test Enhancements in Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition (Charles Sterling)
Diagnosing Event Handler Leaks with the Memory Usage Tool in Visual Studio 2015 (Charles Willis)
Continued Improvements for Breakpoint Configuration in Visual Studio 2015 (Kaycee Anderson)
Upgrading to TFS 2015 in production – DONE and Install TFS 2015 today and How to rename a Team Project in TFS 2015 (Martin Hinshelwood)
What’s new in CodeLens for Visual Studio 2015 RC? (Mathew Aniyan)
Entity Framework and Visual Studio 2015 RC (Rowan Miller)
Rounding out Visual F# 4.0 in VS 2015 RC (Visual F# Team)
BUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (John Montgomery)
With new SDKs, Microsoft helps developers bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, Android and iOS to Windows 10 (Suzanne Choney)
Developers will be able to convert their .NET, Win32 apps for the Windows Store (Joseph Keller)
Code maps now differentiate test projects, and bring code context into map elements (Mathew Aniyan)
Announcing Application Insights Public Preview (Merav Davidson)
The CodeProject API – Part 1 (Pete O’Hanlon)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Good Agile Metrics or Working Software (Jim Magers)
Run NUnit from Visual Studio (Dave M. Bush)
Interview: Ben Linders on Retrospectives and Helping Teams Improve (Ben Linders)
The Quality Wheel and Data v Awareness (Jessica Kerr)

Other Mobile Platforms

Natvis support for Android debugging (Andrew B. Hall)
Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RC (John Kemnetz)
Creating a Xamarin Forms Accordion Control, without custom renders. (Jonathan Yates)
Visual Studio Code with Xamarin on a Mac (Mike Bluestein)
UI for Xamarin Ships Extensible API for Easy Access to Platform-Specific Features (Nikolay Diyanov)
Microsoft brings Android and iOS code to Windows 10 devices (Samantha Murphy Kelly)
MonoGame 3.4 is out, has support for Windows 10, and that will include Xbox One (David Voyles)
Creating ASCII art in functional Swift (Josh Smith)
Consistent Mobile UI Theming (Keith Rome)
Building for Windows 10 with Objective-C and Java IS AWESOME! (Matt Lacey)
Integrate Play data into your workflow with data exports (Frederic Mayot)
Microsoft brings Windows 10 to Makers (Steve Teixeira)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

jsj 157 Moving Your Rendering Engine to React with Amit Kaufman and Avi Marcus (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance & Aimee Knight)
The Nerdist Podcast – Dave Holmes (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft posts new videos showcasing the Windows 10 experience (Joseph Keller)
No Spartan, it’s “Microsoft Edge”. Will support extensions. New demo video (Kamal)
RiYL Episode 105: Jean Grae (Brian Heater)

Community / Events

Xamarin Passes 1 Million Developer Milestone (Nat Friedman)
I’m Presenting At Microsoft’s Ignite Conference (Andrew Connell)
Build is here! (Steve Guggenheimer)
A lean UX conference (Stefan Ivanov)
Great news for open source developers at Build this week (Jean Paoli)

Database

Comparison of SQL Server and Oracle terminology (Daniel Calbimonte)
Basic VMware and Hyper-V Terminology for the SQL Server DBA (Kendra Little)
SQL Server Compact ADO.NET data access performance – part 2: INSERTs (Erik EJ)
SQL SERVER – Recovering from Snapshots – Notes from the Field #078 (Pinal Dave)
Using Function.InvokeAfter() In Power Query (Chris Webb)
Azure SQL Database previews major updates for BUILD (Tiffany Wissner)

SharePoint

Enable Breadcrumb / Navigate Up on SharePoint 2013 (venkatx5)

PowerShell

Azure PowerShell 0.9.0 Released with Azure Resource Manager! (Trevor Sullivan)
ScriptAnalyzer in GitHub and availability on Powershell Gallery (Raghu Shantha)

Miscellaneous

Your Windows 10 phone can turn into a full PC (Chris Welch)
So, I tried the HoloLens! (Laurent Bugnion)
OneNote: the ONE tool I can’t do without (and neither can my school) (Kelli Etheredge)
Microsoft Windows on the walls: How HoloLens will work at home (Todd Bishop)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading April 29, 2015 (Robert Diana)
The Daily Six Pack: April 30, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
Coding4Fun April 2015 Round-Up (Greg Duncan)
The Morning Brew #1851 (Chris Alcock)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for April 29th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Beginning iPhone Development with Swift: Exploring the iOS SDK (9781484204108): David Mark, Jack Nutting, Kim Topley, Fredrik Olsson, Jeff LaMarche: Books

ISBN: 1484204107
ISBN-13: 9781484204108

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