Dew Drop – August 28, 2015 (#2079)

Top Links

• Announcing Package Management support for VSO/TFS (Karen Ng)
• Prism Joins the .NET Foundation (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10532 for PC (Gabe Aul)
• Announcing Great New SQL Database Capabilities in Azure (Scott Guthrie)
• State of TLS in Mono (Miguel de Icaza)

 

Web Development

• Integrating Updates, Deletes and Inserts with TypeScript and ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• Creating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript (Josh Rennert)
• Meet PhpStorm 9.5 Development Roadmap (Mikhail Vink)
• The Go 1.5 Compiler and Runtime are Written in Go (Abel Avram)
• Building elements for Orchard layouts 1 (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET – 2.7 (MS Downloads)
• Docker: Containerize your Startup–Part 2 (Adarsha Datta)
• Logging variables via an ES6 tagged template (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Responsive Images 101 (Chris Coyier)
• ES6 for now: Template strings (Chris Heilmann)
• Netflix’s Falcor is a Data Fetching Gift to Developers (Shea Simpson)

 

XAML

• How to implement a simple messenger (for MVVM user controls and apps) (Marco Siccardi)
• New advertising and campaign tracking capabilities for Windows Store apps (Bernardo Zamora)
• Automaticly Incrementing the Package.appxmanifest Version Number (Daniel Vaughan)
• CSLA .NET version 4.6.100 release (Rockford Lhotka)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Concurrent max value (Oren Eini)
• Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th and TFS 2015 Power Tools are available and Features timeline refresh (Brian Harry)
• Run Configurations: debug any static method in Visual Studio, and more (Slava Tutushkin)
• Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RTM Released (John Montgomery)
• Interception in .NET – Part 1: Introduction (Ricardo Peres)
• Soft Deleting Entities Cleanly Using Entity Framework 6 Interceptors (Rakesh Babu Paruchuri)
• Performance Profiling in Continuous Integration: dotTrace and TeamCity (Alexey Totin)
• CI Experience Futures (Chris Patterson)
• Open Closed Principle in .NET (Abhi Jain)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Project Management Futures (August 2015) (Aaron Bjork)
• Research: Which Kanban Practices Can Deliver Value When Used next to Mainstream Agile Method? (Ben Linders)
• The Guide to Peer Code Review (SmartBear Software)
• A Test Coverage Primer for Managers (Erik Dietrich)
• 10 Properties Defining Software Architecture (Jan Stenberg)
• Git Experience Futures (Jeremy Epling)
• Interface Segregation Principle (Michael Burns)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Add NuGets To All Projects In Xamarin Studio with 1 Click and Easily Automate Your Xamarin.Forms Apps (James Montemagno)
• Announcing the Android Auto Desktop Head Unit (Josh Gordon)
• 31 Days of Xamarin Android – Day 27: Using HttpClient with Xamarin.Android (Venkata Koppaka)
• Building better apps with Runtime Permissions (Ian Lake)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Herding Code 209: Robert Friberg on In-memory Databases and OrigoDB (Jon Galloway, Scott Koon, Kevin Dente & K. Scott Allen)
• Episode 060 on the new Office Add-in Yeoman Generator—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• CppCast – Real World Template Metaprogamming with Edouard Alligand (Rob Irving)
• AAWP Insight #151: flagship leaks, security, and more (Rafe Blandford)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Oscar Isaac (Chris Hardwick)
• Update on TagHelpers with Taylor Mullen (Cory Fowler)
• Creating & Customizing Prototype Screenparts with Indigo Studio (Infragistics Videos)
• SSW TV – The Internet of Things: Ilija Injac on all things IoT and .NET (SSW Team)
• The Amp Hour #264 – The Cost Of Doing Business (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• Inside AutoRest with David Justice and Microsoft Azure CDN Updates for July 2015 with Anton Kucer | Azure Friday (Scott Hanselman)
• 057 AiA Starting a Local Angular Meetup with Will Buck (John Papa)

 

Community / Events

• Seattle Area Workshop on SharePoint 2016 & Office 365 Digital Workplace (Joel Oleson)
• Succinctly Series E-book Author Q&A with Ricardo Peres (Jennifer Wright)
• Prism Joins the .NET Foundation (Brian Noyes)
• FalafelCon with TWO Free Workshops?? (Jesse Liberty)
• Introducing the team – Oleksandr Shamrai (Willy-P. Schaub)
• How a former elementary teacher translated his skills to a career in the cloud (Tracy Ith)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Different Methods to Extract Scale Part From Decimal Number (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft Azure SQL Supports Up to 1 TB Databases (Benjamin Xue)

 

SharePoint

• Top 10 Improvements in SharePoint 2016 for Business Users (Joel Oleson)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell and ADO.NET Connection String Settings for SQL Server (Tim Smith)
• Development builds for DSC Resources are available (Karol Kaczmarek)
• Azure Template Deployment with PowerShell :: MTUG Norway (Trevor Sullivan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft tests new snipping tool with e-ink, voice annotation (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1546 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading August 27, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #1935 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: August 28, 2015 (Dirk Strauss)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for August 27th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-08-28 (Dan Rigby)

 

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