Dew Drop – June 14, 2016 (#2271)

Top Links

• Reviewing Microsoft’s Automatic Insertion of Telemetry into C++ Binaries (Jeff Martin)
• Apple launches Swift Playgrounds for iPad to teach kids to code (Frederic Lardinois)
• I Am an OzCode Magician and I Have a New LINQ Trick (Jeff Yates)
• The Next Generation of Scratch (My Nguyen)
• Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn (Jennifer Chen)

 

Web Development

• Configuring SQL Server Endpoint and ACL Access in Windows Azure (Derek Colley)
• Language Options – An Introduction to Angular2 (George Saadeh)
• Bootstrapping Your App – An Introduction to Angular 2 (Keith Burnell)
• Using the HTML lang attribute (Léonie Watson)
• ASP.NET Core and .NET Core Overview (Rick Strahl)
• ES7 Async/Await in Node.js with Babel.js (Shaun Xu)
• Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.1.150 and Runtime 5.1.150 (Service Fabric Team)
• New book: Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (Kim Spilker)

 

XAML

• Understanding Prism – Part 4 – Region Behaviours (Rohit Sharma)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Scripty, a C# T4 Alternative (Greg Duncan)
• Exploring the Digit Recognizer with F# (Jeremy Clark)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are you ready for the new testing battlefields? (Antonia Bozhkova)
• 10 Lessons from a Long Running DDD Project – Part 1 (Jimmy Bogard)
• The Case for and Against Estimates, Part 5 (Johanna Rothman)
• ebook deal of the week: Code (Kim Spilker)
• Git 2.9 has been released (Jeff King)
• How to write a clean and easily understandable, maintainable, reusable code. Wha… (Rohit Kandpal)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Using a Candlestick Chart in Xamarin Forms (Pavel Pavlov)
• Swift and Regular Expressions: Syntax (Akiel Khan)
• IBM Cloud Tools for Swift (Brian L. White Eagle)
• 2D Experimental Preview (Johaness Reuben)
• Update on transitioning Mobile Apps from Application Insights to HockeyApp (Shiva Sivakumar)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Peer to Peer Using Thali with Yaron Goland (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – DevOps is Dead with Wes Higbee (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Xamarin Studio 6, Cycle 7, and more! (Xamarin Podcast)
• Episode 19: Why Unity Developers Love Visual Studio | Level Up (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon & Katie Stone Perez)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 68: G. Andrew Duthie (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Functional Geekery Episode 55 – Andreas Stefik (Steven Proctor)
• The Best of dotnetConf 2016 for Mobile Developers (Pierce Boggan)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing SIGNAL London (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)

 

Database

• SQL Server differences of char, nchar, varchar and nvarchar data types (Sherlee Dizon)
• We Must Wait for SP1 before Upgrading to SQL Server 2016 (Guy Glantser)
• Announcing SQL Server 2016 Developer image in the Azure Gallery (Luis Vargas)
• SQL SERVER to Oracle Numeric Datatype Mapping (Pinal Dave)
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: B+Tree (Oren Eini)
• Why SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Still Exist (Dan Kuykendall)

 

SharePoint

• Building SharePoint Add-ins with Kendo UI (John Bristowe)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft announces the Xbox One S, its smallest Xbox yet (Andrew Webster)
• Microsoft’s new Xbox finally ditches the annoying power brick (Chris Welch)
• Developers: Jump-Start Your Foray into ML with the Cortana Intelligence Gallery (Cortana Intelligence and ML Team)
• Microsoft’s LinkedIn acquisition could boost its Azure cloud platform (Dan Richman)
• Phil Spencer Shares His Vision for the Future of Xbox (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• Announcing OneNote Class Notebook Tools for Mac! (OneNote Team)
• Microsoft says new Xbox One S console won’t have a dedicated Kinect port and Xbox ‘Project Scorpio’ will be ‘the most powerful console ever built,’ Microsoft vows (Todd Bishop)
• Microsoft provides more details on newly announced Project Scorpio console coming next year (Zac Bowden)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 13, 2016 #1126 (Robert Diana)
• Interesting links of the week (6/6 – 6/12) (Mike Eaton)
• Reading Notes #236 (Frank Boucher)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-06-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-06-14 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2113 (Chris Alcock)
• GameDev News – Week Ending June 10, 2016 (Brian Peek)

 

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