Dew Drop – March 8, 2016 (#2203)

Top Links

• Announcing SQL Server on Linux (Openness Team)
• SQL Server Data Tools Preview update for Feb 2016 (Eric S. Kang)
• React v15.0 Release Candidate (Paul O’Shannessy)
• Introducing our new Roslyn-powered Samples Browser (Gael Fraiteur)

 

Web Development

• Creating User and Roles Administration Pages for an MVC5 Application (Michael Washington)
• Creating A “Run Block” In AngularJS 2 Beta 8 (Ben Nadel)
• Ember.js Team Announces 2.4 LTS, 2.5 Beta (James Chesters)
• ngOfficeUIFabric – How We Do It – Continuous Delivery… Automate All The Things! and ngOfficeUiFabric v0.6.0 Released – Two New Directives (Andrew Connell)
• #SwarmWeek: Introduction to container orchestration with Docker Swarm (Betty Junod)
• WP REST API: Retrieving Data (Bilal Shahid)
• Developer’s Guide to Improving Project Structure in Meteor Applications (Darion Cassel)
• Building SMS Weather Forecasts With Stamplay, Twilio and NodeJS (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Chrome vs FireFox: WebRTC Stats API with Twilio Video (Sam Agnew)
• KnockoutJS is an MVVM(Model-View-ViewModel) framework that is written in pure Va… (Satyamev Porwal)

 

XAML

• How to add and consume an AppService to your UWP app (complete walkthrough) (Marco Siccardi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Share Information Among Asynchronous Processes Sans Locks (Peter Vogel)
• “Related Items” in Application Insight Search Window inside Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• How to ZIP/Unzip files using .NET/C# (without 3rd party libraries)? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Scoping With Unity IoC (Bnaya Eshet)
• Project Settings Sprawl Help with Project Configuration Manager (Greg Duncan)
• Thanks to a utility library by Erik Bergstedt, Protobuf for .NET just got easier. and AutoMapper and the Static Class Debate (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Anarchy – is Agile dead? (Sebastien Lambla)
• Overhaul to “It’s not just standing up” (Martin Fowler)
• Continuous Improvement Matters in Agile (Ben Linders)
• Testers in TDD teams (Maarten Folkers)
• Upskilling your upskilling skills. Part 3: The Schedule (Karoline Klever)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• My NativeScript Experience (Bao Nguyen)
• Barcode Scanning Made Easy with ZXing.Net Mobile (James Montemagno)
• How to build a Unity game for Windows 10–part 3 (Timmy Kokke)
• Hosted Web Apps: Go Beyond the App (Jeff Burtoft)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Release Management with Kevin Mack & Brandon Rohrer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 191 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• On .NET 3/3/2016 – Rachel Reese on F# at Jet.com (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Cordova Tools Update – VS Code ACE CodePush | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green & Ryan J. Salva)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 59: Todd Miranda (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 107 “It’s Not a Negotiation Unless There’s Blood” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Defrag Tools #156 – Critical Path Analysis with Windows Performance Analyzer | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Ben Hall on Docker | NDC London 2016 (Ben Hall)
• RiYL Episode 156: Douglas Rushkoff (Brian Heater)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Accessibility a developer’s user story (Ed Charbeneau)
• Partially Derivative Season 2, Episode 4: Naughty Millennials, Star Wars and Zombies! (Jonathon Morgan, Vidya Spandana & Chris Albon)

 

Community / Events

• Join Us for a Webinar on Polished UI for Xamarin Apps (Shravanthi Alimilli)
• Update Since joining Microsoft (Michael Crump)
• Microsoft Virtual Security Summit Registration (MSFT in Business Team)
• How Female Computers Mapped the Universe and Brought America to the Moon (Natalie Zarrelli)
• Making the Most of Your Trade Show Exhibiting Experience (Kalahari Meetings)
• MVPDays Community Roadshow 2016 Hits Eastern Canada (MVP Award Program)
• Telerik Developer Experts (Lino Tadros)
• Global Azure Bootcamp 2016 (Toni Pohl)

 

Database

• SQL Server T-SQL Code to Calculate a Moving Average (Dallas Snider)
• SQL Server Integration Services 2016 Lookups With Always Encrypted Data (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL Server 2016: The Death of the Trace Flag (Brent Ozar)
• Microsoft to release SQL Server for Linux in another big open-source move (Todd Bishop)

 

PowerShell

• Announcing the Underhanded PowerShell Contest (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Cancels Fable Legends, Will Likely Close Lionhead Studios (Paul Thurrott)
• Skype now integrated with OneDrive (Omar Shahine)

 

More Link Collections

• Double Shot #1653 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading March 7, 2016 #1057 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Mar 7th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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