Dew Drop – April 14, 2016 (#2230)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – MonoGame and XBox One with Tom Spilman (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows App Studio Update: Installer companion app (Windows App Studio Team)
• An update on ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2 (Scott Hanselman)
• React Native on the Universal Windows Platform (Eric Rozell)

 

Web Development

• Adding JavaScript modules to the web platform (Domenic Denicola)
• 20 Useful WordPress Gallery Plugins (Eric Dye)
• WordPress 4.5 launched (Ezequiel Bruni)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Building Clouds with Windows Azure Pack – $19.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Send a Text Message JavaScript/Node.js in 30 seconds with Twilio (Sam Agnew)
• ASP.NET Core MVC + Web API (Shahed C)
• Docker Engine 1.11 with runC: Announcing the general availability of the industry’s first OCI-compliant runtime (Arnaud Porterie)
• JavaScript MVVM – You’re (Probably) Doing it Wrong (Dave M. Bush)
• React v15 Released (David Iffland)
• Building Microservices using Azure Service Fabric 2.0 (Jon Hilton)
• Roadmap update for Real Time Communications in Microsoft Edge (Shijun Sun & Bernard Aboba)

 

XAML

• Overview of the UWP App Model at Build 2016 (Pierre-Luc Maheu)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• The Power of CQLinq for Developers (Erik Dietrich)
• Why does the Nameof operator in VB.NET return the member name with the wrong case? (Spencer Schneidenbach)
• Continuous Integration and Deployment of a Web application from Visual Studio Team Services to a Azure VM (Subodh Sohoni)
• Improving the C++ Developer Experience in Visual Studio 2015 (Eric Battalio)
• Modern Logging with SeriLog and Seq – part 2. Entry Point Logging (Darren Hall)
• Microsoft Press Round-Up for April 13 and Go green & save 45% on all ebooks (Kim Spilker)
• #VisualStudio 2015 Tips – Execute code in Interactive is just a click away! (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A really COOL feature we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services … boards becomes alive (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Team Services and TFS Roadmap update – Apr 2016 and VS Team Services Update – April 13 (Brian Harry)
• SpecFlow 2, Part Two: Gherkin Steps (Jason Roberts)
• Live Application Metrics from Application Insights – Live Stream Metrics (Abhijit Jana)
• Avoid Programming in TeamCity or Jenkins with Cake (Dave Diehl)
• Work item follow, move & change type – April 13 (Jamie Cool)
• Give yourself permission to have work-life balance (Scott Hanselman)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Behaviors for animated scroll-down and slide-in menus in Xamarin Forms (Joost van Schaik)
• Simple Cross-Platform File IO for iOS, Android, and Windows (Pierce Boggan)
• FactoryMethod: Swift (Ted Neward)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 7 – Refresh Tokens (Adrian Hall)
• Getting Started With Ionic: Services (Jeremy Wilken)
• Optimize, Develop, and Debug with Vulkan Developer Tools (Shannon Woods)
• Bringing True Native App Development to Telerik Platform (Rob Lauer)
• How I Build For Proprietary Platforms and Sleep at Night (TJ VanToll)
• Create a VR Bike Route with Raspberry Pi and a Stationary Bike (Caleb Kraft)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit Videos Online (Don Jones)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 45 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• 62 ngAir – Using Web Workers for High Performance Angular 2 Web App and 017 jsAir – Reactive Programming in JavaScript with André Staltz, Ben Lesh, and Matthew Podwysocki (Kent C. Dodds)
• Introduction to ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Scott Hunter & Scott Hanselman)
• Yet Another Podcast #152 – John Papa on Angular 2 (Jesse Liberty)
• K. Scott Allen on Angular 2 | NDC London 2016 (K. Scott Allen)
• 207 JSJ Growing Happy Developers with Marcus Blankenship (AJ O’Neal, Jamison Dance, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 39: Statistics Parser (Carlos Chacon)
• Developer on Fire Episode 121 | TJ VanToll – Community Engagement (Dave Rael)
• Philly Code Camp – Creating and debugging remote web apps with ManifoldJS and VorlonJS and Philly Code Camp – Emscripten and C++ on the web (David Voyles)
• The Married Gamers Episode 386: Going Back in Time (Kelly Brown)
• What The Tech 303: Generational Change in Computing (Paul Thurrott)
• How happy are you? | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby & Martin Kearn)

 

Community / Events

• Call for proposals: CodeConf LA – June 27-29, 2016 (Brandon Keepers)
• ‘Super Girls’ invade D.C. for White House Science Fair (Colin Daileda)

 

Database

• Resolve SQL Server Database Index Reorganization Page Level Locking Problem (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL SERVER – Backup Randomly Failing with Error 112 (There is not enough space on the disk.) (Pinal Dave)
• Old and Busted: DBCC Commands in 2016 (Erik Darling)

 

PowerShell

• How To Import User Pictures in Exchange Online (Richard Diphoorn)

 

Miscellaneous

• When a nation is hacked: Understanding the ginormous Philippines data breach (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2072 (Chris Alcock)
• Geek Reading April 13, 2016 #1083 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 13th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Links of the Week 4-10-16 (Chris Love)

 

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