Dew Drop – June 28, 2016 (#2277)

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and .NET Core 1.0 Available Now (John Montgomery)
• Announcing .NET Core 1.0 (Rich Lander)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.0 (Rowan Miller)
• Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• .NET Core 1.0 is now released! (Scott Hanselman)
• Introducing .NET Core Docs (Jeff Sandquist)
• Installing .NET Core 1.0 on a Dirty OSX (Bobby Johnson)

 

Web Development

• A Real-World React.js Setup for ASP.NET Core and MVC5 (Jon Smith)
• Loading Components on Demand – An Introduction to Angular 2 (George Saadeh)
• 13 jQuery Plugins to Create One Page Scroll (Megan Rafferty)
• Using JavaScript for on-demand functions with AWS Lambda (Pam Selle)
• Upgrading to ASP.NET Core RTM from RC2 (Rick Strahl)
• Extending MVC Controllers from External Assemblies and Projects (Rion Williams)
• ASP.NET Core 1.0 Released! and Converting ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2 to RTM Bits (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Mimic Relative Positioning Inside an SVG with Nested SVGs (Sara Soueidan)
• CPU throttling using Chrome Developer Tools (Dean Hume)

 

XAML

• Drag and Drop Forms with XAML Power Tools (Greg Duncan)
• Scaling your phone app design to all UWP device families (Rajen Kishna)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Announcing NuGet 3.5 Beta 2 and 2.12 RTM (Harikrishna Menon)
• History of Microsoft .NET Framework and it’s Key Features (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Digit Recognizer – Grouping Items and Visualizing Errors (Jeremy Clark)
• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 is available (Erin Dormier)
• Persistent data structures (Rohit Sharma)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Test Factory Methods: Return an Interface or a Mock? (Jeremy Clark)
• 20 free eBooks for designers (Sam Hampton-Smith)
• Introducing Blue Ocean: A new user experience for Jenkins (James Dumay)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Infrastructure as Code – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Preview: Xamarin Inspector 0.9.0 (Xamarin Team)
• New Google Cast SDK released for Android and iOS (Adam Champy)
• Android changes for NDK developers (Dmitry Malykhanov)
• Tips And Tools For Optimizing Android Apps (Tibor Kaputa)
• How to Work With Geofences on Android (Tin Megali)
• TensorFlow v0.9 now available with improved mobile support (Pete Warden)
• All Your Snacks Are Belong To Us – NativeScriptSnacks Contest (Jen Looper)
• Create Intelligent, Context-Aware Apps with the Google Awareness APIs (Bhavik Singh)
• Programmatic Access to LiveSync in Telerik Platform (Rob Lauer)
• Creating a Hello World! Bot Using The Microsoft Bot Framework (Michael Washington)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – C# 7 with Mads Torgersen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• AFH 040: The Responsibility Process with Christopher Avery [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 123 “Cake and Burritos” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• ngAir 70 – The making of ng-show with Shai Reznik (Kent C. Dodds)
• Introducing Microsoft Planner – a new way to organize work and Azure Classic to Azure Resource Manager Migration and Deploying and managing Red Hat solutions on Azure (Microsoft Mechanics)
• Pen and Ink | Context (Mike Taulty & Andrew Spooner)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Brad Asks About Leadership (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Xamarin Podcast – Building Connected Apps with Microsoft Azure (Pierce Boggan & Mike James)

 

Community / Events

• Samsung joins the .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group (Martin Woodward)
• SQL in the City goes virtual (Annabel Bradford)
• Did You Know Most Speakers At Software Conferences Don’t Get Paid? (David McCarter)
• Philly Celebrates July 4th Week With Free Admission To Six Museums (Jillian Wilson)
• Microsoft announcing new open source advancements for the enterprise cloud at Red Hat Summit (MS Openness Team)

 

Database

• SQL Server Power BI Cortana Search (Scott Murray)
• SQL Server Alter Table with Add Column (Mandar Mulay)
• The Guts n’ Glory of Database Internals: Managing records (Oren Eini)
• Recover Lost Data Using the Transaction Log Files (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• To ping or not to ping..The PowerShell way (Graham Beer)
• PowerShell Desired State Configuration: Automating and Monitoring Pull mode (Nicolas Prigent)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft is focusing on enterprise users with Windows 10 Mobile (Killian Bell)
• Volkswagen reaches $14.7 billion Dieselgate settlement for US owners (Chris Ziegler)
• You will be able to see the Minecraft movie in theaters on May 24, 2019 (John Callaham)
• From the MVPs: Comparing Open XML Documents without Automating Word (Eric White)
• Small Basic Art with Turtle (Nonki Takahashi)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 27, 2016 #1136 (Robert Diana)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 27th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Reading Notes #238 (Frank Boucher)
• The Morning Brew #2123 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-06-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-06-28 (Dan Rigby)

 

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