Dew Drop – July 5, 2016 (#2280)

Top Links

• Introducing the Windows Insider MVP Program (Dona Sarkar)
• Angular 2 RC4 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Aurelia: An Introduction (Jim Duffy & Jeremy Brown)
• Working through things on other OSs (Maoni Stephens)

 

Web Development

• Using An Item Template With An HTML Dropdown Menu Component In Angular 2 RC 3 (Ben Nadel)
• The Journey to Angular: Part 2 (Paul D. Sheriff)
• Proxying HTTP requests in ASP.NET Core using Kestrel (Joseph Woodward)
• Leverage WordPress Functions to Reduce HTML in your Posts (Alessandro Vendruscolo)
• Simple Modularity Through Areas In ASP.NET MVC (Rion Williams)
• How to Validate Phone numbers in Node/JavaScript with the Twilio Lookup API (Sam Agnew)
• Authorization Filters in ASP.NET Web API 2 & AngularJS (Shashangka Shekhar)
• Multi-Term jQuery Table Filter (Steve Smith)
• Build an API platform with Azure (Clemens Reijnen)
• Access Google Cloud Source Repositories from Visual Studio (Chris Sells)
• New Bing Search API portfolio now available (Bing Team)
• Creating A Facebook Bot Using Microsoft Bot Framework (Michael Washington)
• Running Ghost on Ubuntu on Windows (Bobby Johnson)

 

XAML

• Xamarin.Forms: Creating a sliding drawer with behaviors, messages and MVVM Light (Jesse Liberty)
• Designing for Intuitive Navigation (Windows Apps Team)
• UWP App and the Azure IoT Hub (Greg Duncan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• How to Write Your Own Programming Language in C# (Vassili Kaplan)
• 16bpp.net: C# Networking/HttpClient (Benjamin Summerton)
• The async/await model and its perils and The cost of the async state machine (Oren Eini)
• How exception filters can help you investigate runtime errors in C# (Abhishek Sur)
• What is the Extension Method in C#? (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Querying JSON using LINQ (Mahesh Sabnis)
• C++ Edit and Continue in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (Ramkumar Ramesh)
• Cropping EMF Images With Shift or Rectangle Approaches in .NET (Sheraz Khan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Occam’s Razor and Agile Frameworks (Derek Huether)
• Unit testing with Xamarin.Forms’ DependencyService (Rob Gibbens)
• Export and Import your build definitions in VSTS and TFS between team projects (Utkarsh Shigihalli)
• Explore Telemetry Trends using Application Insights Trends Tool in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Abstract Factory (Ted Neward)
• Be an API Testing Hero with the New Test Studio (Antonia Bozhkova)
• Productivity mechanics (Eric Brechner)
• I Have So Many Goals I Can’t Focus… What Should I Do? (John Sonmez)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• .NET Standard Library with Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Forms Architectural Guidance (Adam Pedley)
• Cross platform testing example for Android and iOS using Appium (Thomas Hansson)
• Introduction to Kotlin: Android Programming For Humans (Tomasz Czura)
• Gotcha–”The associated script could not be loaded” on all C# scripts in a HoloLens Unity3D project (Joost van Schaik)
• Introduction to IoT Using the Raspberry Pi (Wei-Meng Lee & Clarence Chng)
• Swift Essentials (Caitlin Candelmo)
• Universal rendering with SwiftShader, now open source (Nicolas Capens)
• Closures In Swift (Khawar Islam)
• Add a Backend to Your App in 10 Minutes (Pierce Boggan)
• A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 2, assembling and installing the software (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Small Basic – Talking to Raspberry Pi (litdev)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Microsoft Bot Framework with Dan Driscoll (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• .NET Rocks! – Cloud Infrastructure with Paul Stack (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Yet Another Podcast 155 – Humanitarian Toolbox with Bill Wagner (Jesse Liberty)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 200 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Episode 097 on the Office 365 Connectors and Xamarin development—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Office Dev)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, episode 49 – podcast – Agile Coffee (Vic Bonacci)
• 099 AiA Firebase and AngularFire2 with David East and Jeff Cross (John Papa)
• Rocket 77: That’s Non-Trivial (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 95 – Is The Website Down? (Stella Cotton) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 144 | James Edward Gray II – Play and People (Dave Rael)
• Developer Digest 6 (Ed Charbeneau)
• Episode 209: Azure SQL Data Warehouse with Matt Usher | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• The Web Ahead 117: Transforming the Shapes with Eva Ferreira (Jen Simmons)
• Defrag Tools #164 – Sysinternals for Nano Server – Mark Russinovich | Defrag Tools (Mark Russinovich, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Windows Weekly 472: Six Buckets of Features (Paul Thurrott)
• Away From the Keyboard – Looking All The Way Up With James Montemagno (Richie Rump)
• VIDEO: How to run Linux with “Bash on Windows 10 Anniversary Update.” (Scott Hanselman)
• Developer Tea – Listener Jack Asks About Applying New Knowledge and Developer Tea – Part 1: Interview with Rita Rovira (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 133 – Service Fabric in the real world (Sujit D’Mello)
• The Amp Hour #305 – An Interview With Dave Young (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)
• Gone Mobile 35: Mobile Testing with Alexandra Marin (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 124 “Keep Those Huskies Mushing…” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Developer Events in July (Jayme Singleton)
• Red Hat DevNation / Summit Trip Report– .NET Core 1.0 Releases! (Beth Massi)

Database

• Understanding database recovery with SQL Server 2016 Extended Events (Rajendra Gupta)
• Changes to SSDT and SqlPackage.exe installation and updates (Kevin Cunnane)
• SQL Server Data Tools July Update (Kevin Cunnane)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to cast object of type ‘System.DBNull’ to type ‘System.String’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) and SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP LOB Datatype Enhancement and How to Attach MDF Data File Without LDF Log File – Interview Question of the Week #078 (Pinal Dave)
• Step Descriptions And Comments In M Code In Power BI Desktop (Chris Webb)
• Tips for Using Azure Data Catalog (Melissa Coates)

 

SharePoint

• Understanding the web part manifest, bundle.json and other key files and folders in the SharePoint Framework (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• SQL PowerShell gets first substantial improvements in years with July updates (Suzanne Choney)

 

Miscellaneous

• Mystery file in preview build hints at Windows 10 subscriptions (Ed Bott)
• Your Programming Resume is Garbage (Dave M. Bush)
• Go (Ted Neward)
• Quick Tip: How to Read Extremely Large Text Files Using Python (Abder-Rahman Ali)
• Splunking a Microsoft Word document for metadata and content analysis (Cedric Le Roux)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14379 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update will also hit mobile on August 2 (Rich Edmonds)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading June 30, 2016 #1139 and Geek Reading July 1, 2016 #1140 and Geek Reading July 5, 2016 #1141 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #239 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #226 (Pedro Botelho)
• Daily Links 4 Jul 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• Last Week on Channel 9: June 27th – July 3rd, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• The Morning Brew #2126 and The Morning Brew #2127 and The Morning Brew #2128 (Chris Alcock)
• Azure Weekly: July 4, 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-01 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-04 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-05 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-01 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-05 (Dan Rigby)
• GameDev News – Week Ending July 1, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for June 30th, 2016 and Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 1st, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #109 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #27, 2016 – EAP (Sergey Tihon)

 

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