Dew Drop – June 19, 2015 (#2038)

Top Links

• Want to try Xamarin University? Now you can! (Bryan Costanich)
• New XAML Tools in Visual Studio 2015 and Blend | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Seth Juarez)
• Errant Architectures (Martin Fowler)
• Creating less2css using Aurelia (Luke Page)

 

Web Development

• Handling Bad URLs in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• JavaScript HTML5 File Reader (jQuery Rain)
• Playing Around with LINQ for JavaScript (Duke Of Haren)
• Strongly typed AppSettings Configuration in ASP.NET 5 (Rick Strahl)
• .NET JavaScript Engine Performance Results (Rush Frisby)
• Nodejs Azure WebJob nodejs require(‘util’)._extend (Chris Love)
• Many ways to relate Orchard things, part 5: media (Bertrand Le Roy)
• WebAssembly: a binary format for the web (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Card Expansion Effect with SVG clipPath (Claudio Calautti)
• From Zero to Docker: Migrating to the Whale (Fredric Paul)
• End-to-End Hypermedia: Building the Client (Jimmy Bogard)
• Docker Tutorial 12 – Kitematic (John Willis)
• 5 Ways to Optimize Website Loading Times (Larry Alton)
• Conical gradients, today! (Lea Verou)
• New Microsoft Edge Test Drive web demos go open-source (Antón Molleda)
• Authenticating to Azure Resource Manager using AAD and Certificates (Tom Hollander)

 

XAML

• WPF Commanding – Keyboard Shortcuts (Richard Carr)
• Using a keyboard shortcut for the back button on your Windows [10] desktop app? Set IsTabStop on the page to True (Matt Lacey)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Creating a Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RC Virtual Machine with ARM (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Handling Exceptions In C# Console Applications (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• What’s New in Visual Basic 14: Parameterless Constructors in Structures (Peter Vogel)
• Newest NLog Improves Exception Logging, Adds JSON/Zip support (Jeff Martin)
• .NET open source (Beth Massi)
• How come the technique for launching an unelevated process from an elevated process doesn’t work? (Raymond Chen)
• Xml Schemas From Code / XML validation against Schema File And More (Sacha Barber)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Create and Run Subset of Unit Tests Using Playlist in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Tech Lead – Circles of Responsibility (Patrick Kua)
• Scrum Masters with the Imposter Syndrome (Savita Pahuja)
• Article: Q&A on Test Driven Development and Code Smells with James Grenning (Ben Linders)
• Microsoft Band design template (Håkan Reis)
• How to Write Testable Code and Why it Matters (Sergey Kolodiy)
• The Growth Debt (Tarun Kohli)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• UI Design with Xamarin.Forms Lecture (Adam J. Wolf)
• Getting Started With Android: Creating a Customized Toolbar (Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz)
• Building Smart Apps that Understand Language, Speech, Images, and Face Recognition (Vipul Patel)
• Announcing the DZone Guide to Mobile Development – 2015 Edition (John Walter)
• Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Office 365 Developer Podcast: Episode 050 on the Office 365 Groups API (Jeremy Thake)
• Quick news: Eric Brechner on Agile Project Management with Kanban (Kim Spilker)
• 047 AiA Angular 1 to Angular 2 with Patrick Stapleton (John Papa)
• The Changelog 161: HTTP/2 with Ilya Grigorik (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• The HTTP Platform Handler with Scott Hanselman and Azure Web App Log Streaming with Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman)

 

Community / Events

• Your Essential Guide To July 4th In Philadelphia — A Day-By-Day Guide To The Fireworks And Festivities Celebrating Independence Day In Philly (Kristina Jenkins)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Database Snapshots and Replica Causing Write Delays (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• BYOD with OneNote Class Notebooks—classroom learning with any device on any platform (James Gill)
• Remote Desktop Services Survey: Connecting remotely back to your PC (Remote Desktop Team)
• Is This The End For Lumia? (Paul Ballard)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 18, 2015 (Robert Diana)
• Double Shot #1515 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #1885 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2015-06-19 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2015-06-19 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 18th, 2015 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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