January 2016 – Page 2 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – January 27, 2016 (#2175)

Posted on January 27, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Servicing Update Available for Visual Studio Update 1 (Kaycee Anderson)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 is available on Windows Update and WSUS (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
The Static Void Podcast – .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Todd Snyder, Chris Gomez & Jess Chadwick)
You suck at TDD #4 – External dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)

Web Development

Correlating Directive Life-Cycle Events To DOM State In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
MVC Controller Resolver Cache (Ricardo Peres)
PhpStorm 11 EAP 144.3398 (Anna Lebedeva)
Fortifying Security in WordPress, Part 2 (Barış Ünver)
Ember.js 2.3 Release Brings Significant Changes (James Chesters)
CSS Font Features (Myles Maxfield)
Two Factor Authentication in Rails 4 with Devise, Authy and Puppies (Phil Nash)
jQuery UI 1.12.0 Beta 1 (Scott González)
Creating a Filter Pipe in Angular 2 (Deborah Kurata)
Azure Cloud Load Testing – Part 2 (Lachezar Arabadzhiev)
Making the Firefox developer tools accessible (Marco Zehe)
Announcing the first Technical Preview of Microsoft Azure Stack (Mike Neil)
Paging in ASP.NET Web API (Spencer Schneidenbach)

XAML

Windows SDK for Facebook (Doug Mahugh)
#UWP – Single source code line to find if our app is on Desktop, #IoT, Mobile, or #XBox (Bruno Capuano)
Intel RealSense SR300, Windows 10 and UWP? (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

Different ways to launch the Application Insights Search Window in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
How to compute the Hash value of a file using #CSharp? (Kunal Chowdhury)
Steering LED RGBW light bulb in .NET (Marcin Kawalerowicz)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Production Postmortem: The Razor Suicide (Oren Eini)
The Wrong Abstraction (Sandi Metz)
Fixing Spaghetti: How to Work With Legacy Code (Jason Ables)
Three Common Mistakes of the First Time Tech Lead (Patrick Kua)
Technical Debt and Team Morale when Maintaining a Large System (Ben Linders)
Mood Driven Development (Chris Coyier)
How I’m Testing Redux’ified React Components (Jeremy D. Miller)
Some senior executives are afraid to provide feedback, because they know that their feedback will be given too much weight (Raymond Chen)
Continuous Deployment With Heroku and Github (Sam Atkinson)
Git 2.7: a Major New Release with Many New Features and Improvements (Sergio De Simone)

Other Mobile Platforms

Using the Basic UI Controls in Android: Buttons, Texts, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Toggle Buttons, and Spinners (Building a Simple Android Application Demo) (Vipul Patel)
Progress update: Node.js SDK for Azure App Service Mobile Apps (Adrian Hall)
Instrumenting iOS Apps III (Noel Rice)
6 mobility trends to look out for in 2016 (Neudesic Team)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Service Discovery with Ian Cooper (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Gone Mobile 29: Push Notifications (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
Startup Success Podcast 3.15 Welcome to 2016 (Bob Walsh)
RiYL Episode 149: Josie Long (Brian Heater)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 28: How Do You Know There Is A Problem? Baselines! (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 090 | Jamie Dixon – Consistently Virtuous (Dave Rael)
RunAs Radio – Microsoft Operations Management Suite with Cameron Fuller (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 112 | Build conference tickets, MS $Billion donation, Node with Chakra, Office UI Fabric and the cloud news (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Tuesdays with Corey: Troubleshooting and Diagnostics for VMs in Azure | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
SSW TV – API Management | Dev Superpowers Episode 19 – Danijel Malik (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – Part 2 – Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Xamarin Evolve 2016 Speaker Spotlight: Charles Petzold (Joseph Hill)
Software Industry Pioneer Ed Yourdon Dies (Shane Hastie)
First-ever Hack for Her Summit champions gender inclusiveness for the benefit of everyone (Christina Chen)

Database

SQL SERVER – Add failover cluster node fails with “number of cluster nodes supported for edition” (Pinal Dave)
Learning To Love Data Science (Kay Ewbank)
Another reason why scalar functions in computed columns is a bad idea (Erik Darling)
Memory Optimized Tables and Columnstore (Jeremiah Peschka)

PowerShell

Using PowerShell To Record SQL Server Virtual Log File (VLF) Growth (Tim Smith)
PowerShell function to delete if exist and create empty folder and Batch file that required administrative privileges. (Michael Freidgeim)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft rolls out Universal Windows 10 Power BI apps (Mary Jo Foley)
Introduction to Microsoft’s Small Basic by TheFishiVersity – Class 1 (Ed Price)
Microsoft: Surface tablets have not experienced a single failure in 2 years on NFL sidelines (Kurt Schlosser)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 26, 2016 (Robert Diana)
Top News from October-December 2015, Part 1 (Kraig Brockschmidt)
Double Shot #1633 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Morning Brew #2018 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: January 27, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
The week in .NET – 1/25/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 26th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Docker: Up & Running (9781491917572): Karl Matthias, Sean P. Kane: Books

ISBN: 1491917571
ISBN-13: 9781491917572

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Dew Drop – January 26, 2016 (#2174)

Posted on January 26, 2016 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

“Let’s Encrypt” Azure Web Apps the Free and Easy Way and Two Strategies for Crossing Origins with Performance in Mind (Nik Molnar)
EF7 is now EF Core 1.0, Package and namespaces change too (Julie Lerman)
Angular 1.x to Angular 2 Quick Reference (Deborah Kurata)
.NET Rocks! – Containers and Microservices in Azure with Michele Bustamante (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

Microsoft renames ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core 1.0 and FontAwesome Fonts and Mime Types in IIS and other Web Servers (Rick Strahl)
Creating A Pseudo “Link Function” For A Component In AngularJS 2 Beta 1 (Ben Nadel)
HTML Standard now more community-driven (Anne van Kesteren)
Fortifying Security in WordPress, Part 1 (Barış Ünver)
Project Nami: WordPress for Azure SQL Database/SQL Server (Casey Karst)
Creating a photo album for ASP.NET MVC 5 Users using Azure BLOB storage (Dhananjay Kumar)
Customizing the WebStorm layout (Ekaterina Prigara)
Thinking functionally in JavaScript (part one) (Julian M. Bucknall)
How to add AngularJS to your ASP.NET 5 applications (Matt Honeycutt)
Revisiting the Float Label Pattern with CSS (Robin Rendle)
Create a really, really simple offline page using Service Workers (Dean Hume)
Free eBook: Enterprise Cloud Strategy (Chris Pietschmann)
Front-end Application Libraries and Component Architectures (Cody Lindley)
Setting Up Trello SMS Alerts with Twilio and Zapier (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
React and the economics of dynamic web interfaces (Nicholas C. Zakas)

XAML

Troubleshooting launch issues with xaml based apps using Coded UI Test (Abhitej)
XAML relative binding trick (Corrado Cavalli)
Magically format your XAML with XAML Magic (Greg Duncan)
Color Theme Generator is now available for WPF (Kalin Todorov)
Using MVVM Light ViewModelBase class with Template 10 (Marco Minerva)

Miscellaneous .NET

Dashboard widget SDK, create branch from work item, test visualizations and so much more – Jan 25 (Karen Ng)
How to compute the Hash value of a file using #CSharp? (Kunal Chowdhury)

Design / Methodology / Testing

VeST Redux – Specification-driven development and Don’t Run With Feature Toggles In Your Hands (Sebastien Lambla)
Technical Debt in your team (Gregor Suttie)
ebook deal of the week: Microsoft Visio 2016 Step By Step (Kim Spilker)

Other Mobile Platforms

#Xamarin – Resource list to create “nice apps” with #XamarinForms (Bruno Capuano)
Android Layout Background Color and Instrumenting iOS Apps II (Noel Rice)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Indie Dev Podcast – Ep 26 – Howard Dortch, Shawnee State University (David Voyles)
On .NET 1/21/2016 – F# with Don Syme (Bertrand Le Roy)
Entreprogrammers Episode 101 “Wedgie Of A Lifetime” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
The Nerdist Podcast – David Duchovny (Chris Hardwick)
Defrag Tools #151 – Media eXperience Analyzer part 3: Audio Glitch Analysis | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
Microsoft Campus Tours – Reactor Space in San Francisco | Microsoft Campus Tours (Larry Larsen, Golnaz Alibeigi & Kaitlin McKinnon)
Talk Python to Me #43 Monitoring high performance Python apps at Opbeat (Michael Kennedy)
Partially Derivative Episode 38: Mind Control and Parasites (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)
Away from the Keyboard Episode 30: Adam Saxton Is A Guy In A Cube (Richie Rump)
Introduction to the new Azure Portal and A Brief Look at the .NET Portability Analyzer (Seth Juarez)

Community / Events

Xamarin’s Newest Most Valued Professionals (Joseph Hill)
Recruiting, Selecting and Motivating Event Volunteers (Kalahari Meetings)
Top 10 Things To Do In Philly This Week, January 25-31 (Kristina Jenkins)

Database

SharePoint

ngOfficeUiFabric v0.3.0 Released – One New Directive, One Breaking Change & More (Andrew Connell)

PowerShell

Azure DNS – Using PowerShell V1.0 to Add a Subdomain (Alexandre Brisebois)
Working with shutdown reason code (Emin Atac)

Miscellaneous

This is Microsoft’s iPhone keyboard (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading January 25, 2016 (Robert Diana)
The Morning Brew #2017 (Chris Alcock)
Reading Notes #218 (Frank Boucher)
Double Shot #1632 (Mike Gunderloy)
Developer News – What’s IN with the Infragistics Community? (1/11-1/24) (Dara Monasch)
The Daily Six Pack: January 26, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Jan 25th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words: Randall Munroe: 9780544668256: Books

ISBN: 0544668251
ISBN-13: 9780544668256

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Dew Drop – January 25, 2016 (#2173)

Posted on January 25, 2016 | by Alvin A.

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)

The Geek Shelf

The Walking Dead: Compendium Three (9781632154569): Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard: Books

ISBN: 1632154560
ISBN-13: 9781632154569

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