Dew Drop – January 25, 2016 (#2173)

Top Links

• Announcing the Azure SDK 2.8.2 for .NET (Brady Gaster)
• Syncing Files Between Devices with Azure File Sync (Nish Anil)
• DotNet APIs (Stephen Cleary) – Generated API docs for .NET open source libraries.

 

Web Development

• DateTime to Unix Ticks in ASP.net Web API (William Wood)
• JSON Configuration in ASP.NET Core MVC and Strongly-Typed Configuration in ASP.NET Core MVC (James Chambers)
• AngularJS 2 Beta 1: Hello World With ES5 And RequireJS and Component Life-Cycle Methods Need To Be Defined On The Prototype In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 and Inputs Are Not Pre-Bound To Component Controllers In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 and Pre-Binding Properties To An Object Constructor In JavaScript and Component Inputs Provide Both Property And Attribute Bindings In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
• Handling Lists of Selectable Items in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
• Components in React and Building Your First React App (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Fixes for common Node.js development issues in Windows (Adam Anderson)
• Fortifying Security in WordPress, Part 1 (Barış Ünver)
• Using Node.js and Gulp with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2015 (Dave M. Bush)
• Common Aspects of ASP.NET Code: in Web Forms and MVC (Dino Esposito)
• Publish from WebStorm (Hadi Hariri)
• Game on: jQuery each() vs. Array.prototype.forEach() (Julian M. Bucknall)
• Using View Components in ASP.NET MVC 6 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Mahesh Sabnis)
• Tiny MCE editor in ASP.Net Web Form (Michael Freidgeim)
• Visual Studio Code and local web server (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
• Go in Action: Benchmarking (William Kennedy, Brian Ketelsen & Erik St. Martin)
• API Explorer for Slack (Daniel Doubrovkine)
• Some Pretty Splendid SVG Links (Chris Coyier)
• Azure Storage Explorer now supports Linux and more (Chris Pietschmann)
• Is React the Future of Meteor? (David Iffland)
• Intel® Collaboration Suite for WebRTC v3.0 Release Announcement (Elmer A.)
• Deploy Azure Web Apps with Parameterization (Jakob Ehn)
• Bloomberg Announces OpenFIGI API (ProgrammableWeb)

 

XAML

• UWP Sound Cloud App on Desktop, Phone & Raspberry Pi 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 10, UWP & Twilio for SMS retrieval (Mike Taulty)
• UI for UWP is Officially Here bringing DataGrid Beta (Nikolay Diyanov)
• Windows 10 IoT Core: Moving to ITemperatureClient interface (Gunnar Peipman)
• What themeresources are available for Windows 10 UWP apps? (Joost van Schaik)
• How to Make Your App Visible in Windows Store (Paul Ballard)
• Stabilizing Win2D (Shawn Hargreaves)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Restrict Blank Line Cut or Copy while coding in Visual Studio and Did you know- You can drag & drop multiple tabs or even pin / unpin them together in Visual Studio ? and Did you know – Pinned tabs never hide in visual Studio ? and Viewing Exceptions Stack trace in Visual Studio Integrated Application Insights Search and Discount on my Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide Book (Abhijit Jana)
• Dividing a C# Application into Components (Deborah Kurata)
• My First Marten C# Application (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• Visual Studio Solution Items (Richard Carr)
• Hiding Methods from IntelliSense (Peter Vogel)
• (Not so) Stupid Question 284-287: What is cyclomatic complexity, how do you calculate it and what does the score mean? (Iris Classon)
• Removing the static API from AutoMapper (Jimmy Bogard)
• Entity Framework 7: Updates and changes (Julie Lerman)
• Added ContentSync command line arguments (Kirill Osenkov)
• Read CSV files with multiple lines (Michael Freidgeim)
• Shared Memory Queue, Adaptive pthread_mutex, and Dynamic Tracing (Sasha Goldshtein)
• VS 2015 Update 2’s STL is C++17-so-far Feature Complete (Stephan T. Lavavej)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Ops and Permissioning Toggles (Martin Fowler)
• Test-Driven Development Tutorial using Visual Studio Unit Tests (David Simmons)
• The most essential agile practice (Patrick Kua)
• Developer Career Patterns: The Technical Communicator (Rodrigo Kyle Mehren)
• Post VSTS Release to Slack (Clemens Reijnen)
• Abstractions (Stephen Roughley)
• How do you learn? (Ted Neward)
• Submitting Your First Pull Request (David Paquette)
• CoachRetreats: A Way to Practice Coaching Skills (Ben Linders)
• That Code’s Not Dead – It Went To a Farm Upstate… And You’re Paying For It (Erik Dietrich)
• Implementing a CI/CD pipeline and Micro service based architecture (Gabriel Schenker)
• ILMerge Meta-Runner for TeamCity (Howard van Rooijen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Forms: Quick & Dirty Cookies Access (iOS & Android) (John Wilson)
• Use IDEA IDE for Android UI design with Visual Studio and Xamarin (Corrado Cavalli)
• Promises, Promises: Oddly Studios Builds A Photobooth with NodeJS, RaspberryPis and Twilio MMS (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• How does Xamarin Studio compare to native Android development? (DevToolsGuy)
• Contest: Report an Exception with Xamarin Insights (Jayme Singleton)
• Fixing Back Behaviour and Navigation Button in Xamarin Forms with BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)
• Android Controls I and Android Controls II and Responding to Android Toasts and Snackbars and Android Gestures (Noel Rice)
• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5 (Linda Zhong & Jordan Matthiesen)
• Create new MahApps window in separate thread (Jan Karger)
• Adding push notification tags from an Azure Mobile Apps client (Glenn Gailey)
• App vs Experience (James Ashley)
• Getting started with Raspberry PI 2 for IoT : Hardware selection. (Karl-Henrik Nilsson)
• HoloLens Interaction Model (Microsoft HoloLens Team)
• Shared Projects or PCL? (Miguel de Icaza)
• Native Mobile Maps from Telerik and Mapbox (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Indie Dev Podcast, Episode 25 – Ethan Lee, FNA (David Voyles)
• Episode 081 on ngOfficeUIFabric with Andrew Connell and Waldek Mastykarz—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Jeremy Thake)
• Hanselminutes – Inside ASP.NET Core 1.0 with Damian Edwards and Azure Mobile Engagement – Introduction and Capturing Analytics data with Azure Mobile Engagement (Scott Hanselman)
• Webinar Recording: Diving into Xamarin Insights (Courtney Witmer)
• RadioTFS – TFS Aggregator 2 with Jesse Houwing (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• TWC9: Build Sells Out, ASP.NET 5 is Dead, Node.js gets ChakraCode’d and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Mark DeFalco)
• SSW TV – ASP.NET 5 De-bamboozled – Lessons I wish some-one else had learned | Adam Stephensen (Sophie Belle)
• 077 AiA 2016 Year Predictions (John Papa)
• MS Dev Show – Presenting and Career Super Powers with James Whittaker (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• AAWP Insight #167: Updates, Bracketing, pricing (Rafe Blandford)
• The Married Gamers Episode 382: The Force Awakens Spoilercast (Chris Brown)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 72 – Security Newbie (Chris Palmer) (Saron Yitbarek)
• Developer on Fire Episode 088 | Michael Bolton – Focus on Problems and Episode 089 | Denise Jacobs – Becoming Self-Referential (Dave Rael)
• 4 | Bing Experimentation and Testing at Scale | DevOps Dimension (David Tesar & Joe Breslin)
• 3 | MSN and Universal Store: Combining PaaS with Configuration Management | DevOps Dimension (Joe Breslin)
• Rocket 54: The Faceless Protagonist (Simone De Rochefort, Brianna Wu & Christina Warren)
• Developer Tea – Sunk Cost Fallacy and 3 Traps to Avoid and Developer Tea – Part 1 – Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• The Amp Hour #283 – An Interview with Jonathan Ellis (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• StarTalk Radio – A Conversation with Alan Rickman, Revisited (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• “Introduction to Marten” Video (Jeremy D. Miller)
• The Top 5 Scott Hanselman Videos on the Web (DevToolsGuy)
• Cortana in Windows 10 (keantonc & Rosshe)

 

Community / Events

• How Melinda Gates got her daughters excited about science, and slept in on Saturday mornings (Todd Bishop)
• 66 Pounds in 108 Days – My Latest Book (Chris Love)
• Microsoft VSCode Challenge: Win Gift Cards and More (Jason Gaylord)
• Looking Back and Ahead at the Telerik Test Studio Webinar (Antonia Bozhkova)
• How to join the Office Insider Program (Richard Hay)

 

Database

• Simplify SQL Server ETL Processes with T-SQL Stored Procedures (Jeremy Kadlec)
• Automate Alerting for SQL Server Suspect Database Pages (Ben Snaidero)
• Monitoring SSAS Multidimensional MDX Query Results Serialisation, Part 1 (Chris Webb)
• SQL SERVER – 2016 – Creating Additional Indexes with Clustered ColumnStore Indexes and SQL SERVER – Why is My Query Switching to Row Processing and Not Doing Batch Processing? and Interview Question of the Week #055 – How to Convert ASCII to DECIMAL or DECIMAL to ASCII? (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft.SqlServer.Types–Getting it done. (David Yardy)
• New DocumentDB articles help you find samples for the most common tasks (Mimi Gentz)

 

PowerShell

• SQL SERVER – Script: Change Service Account Using WMI / SMO (Pinal Dave)
• Create Windows Shortcuts or Favorites With PowerShell (Steve Parankewich)
• Issuing linux commands with embedded quotes from PowerShell. and Calling Cronacle web service QueryJob1 from PowerShell (Jamie Thomson)

 

Miscellaneous

• Surface Phone? You Have No Idea What You’re Talking About (Paul Thurrott)
• Trumpscript Programming won’t Admit to its Coding Failures (Dan Isacsson)
• Windows 10 build 10586.71 update due this Tuesday, may come to Mobile Insiders too (Daniel Rubino)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 11102 (Gabe Aul)
• Starting the process of switching to a standard OSS license (Rockford Lhotka)
• Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is stepping down after next season (Ross Miller)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading January 21, 2016 and Geek Reading January 22, 2016 (Robert Diana)
• Collective #203 (Pedro Botelho)
• Double Shot #1629 and Double Shot #1630 and Double Shot #1631 (Mike Gunderloy)
• #FridayFive with a Channel 9 Post! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 18 – January 24, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 22, 2016 and The Daily Six Pack: January 25, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• The Morning Brew #2015 and The Morning Brew #2016 (Chris Alcock)
• GameDev News – Week Ending January 22, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 20th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 21st, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 22nd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #86 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #4, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of The Week Snowzilla (Chris Love)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #76 (Adam J. Wolf)

 

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