Dew Drop – May 19, 2016 (#2255)

Top Links

• Consolidated REST API deployed (Maarten Balliauw)
• .NET Rocks! – GMO, BT and Glyphosate Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Do async lambdas return Tasks? (Bill Wagner)
• Deep Link Content with Xamarin.Forms URL Navigation (James Montemagno)

 

Web Development

• Getting started with Electron in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• ASP.NET Core: Watching Code (Shayne Boyer)
• Docker for Mac and Windows introduces new open source components (Anil Madhavapeddy)
• Interactive Azure Platform Big Picture (Chris Pietschmann)
• Drupal 8: Properly Injecting Dependencies Using DI (Danny Sipos)

 

XAML

• Third-party and legacy distribution options (Dev Center Tip #3) (Windows Apps Team)
• Generic databinding for MapIcons in Universal Windows Apps (Joost van Schaik)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Add Using command for misspelled types using”fuzzy” matching – Visual Studio 2015 (Abhijit Jana)
• The .NET Core RC2 stack has been released, and a new platform download site (Simone Chiaretta)
• Using Westwind.Globalization to edit loose RESX Files (Rick Strahl)
• Write-Host And Write-Debug differently interpret double quotes (Michael Freidgeim)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile and software development conferences before the holidays (Ben Linders)
• The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force (J.D. Meier)
• Announcing collaboration with the Jenkins project (Corey Sanders)
• Modifying test data for privacy (Chris Miller)
• Static Analysis and The Other Kind of False Positives (Erik Dietrich)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Introducing Android Instant Apps (Suresh Ganapathy)
• Enhancing Android Pay APIs (Rali Bhat)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 22 – More on Custom APIs (Adrian Hall)
• Swift 3 Will Not Have a Stable ABI (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• 212 JSJ Horizon.js with Horizon.js with Michael Glukhovsky: Live from ng-conf! (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood, Dave Smith, Jamison Dance & Joe Eames)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Anthony Mackie (Chris Hardwick)
• Game Dev Show 14 – Physics in Unity | Game Dev Show (Adam Tuliper)
• The Joy of Coding – Episode 57 (Air Mozilla)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 44: Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Carlos Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 131 | Rob Reynolds – Automate Everything (Dave Rael)
• 023 jsAir – Transitioning from REST to GraphQL with Lee Byron and Steven Luscher (Kent C. Dodds)
• Office Dev Show – Episode 30 – Getting Started with Office 365 Connectors (Richard diZerega)
• Anders Hejlsberg on TypeScript 2 (Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – Flexible Decision Terms (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Functions | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby & Martin Kearn)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: Tim Smyth, the Comics Inspired Teacher (Monica Piluso)
• Meet Jim Holmes: Developer Expert for Test Studio (Jen Looper)
• Want to meet with the Azure Service Fabric engineering team? (Ed Price)

 

Database

• SQL Server Stored Procedure Native Compilation Advisor (Mohammed Moinudheen)
• RavenDB 3.5 whirl wind tour: What did you subscribe to again? (Oren Eini)
• How to version a Master Data Services model (Siddharth Mehta)
• A basic guide to Firebase for the web (Dean Hume)
• Extended Events: Where They Hide The Good Stuff (Erik Darling)

 

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit – Anniversary Release (Katie Keim)

 

Miscellaneous

• The new User voice Sidebar (Charles Sterling)
• Microsoft brings Windows 10 build 14342 to Slow ring Insiders (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Windows 10 Mobile preview build 14342.1003 launched for Fast ring Insiders (John Callaham)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-05-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-05-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2096 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1687 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading May 18, 2016 #1108 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for May 18th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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