Dew Drop – October 13, 2016 (#2344)

Top Links

• Angular 2.1.0 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)
• Introducing The Aurelia VS Code Plugin (Erik Lieben)
• Yarn – Fast, Reliable, and Secure Dependency Management (Yarn Team)
• Using the Desktop Bridge | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web Development

• Learning redux with reducks – beyond JavaScript the movie (Aaron Powell)
• Some Tips for Minimizing the Pain of HTML Input Forms (Dino Esposito)
• Angular Router: Preloading Modules (Victor Savkin)
• Sending a Regular SMS with Azure Functions and Twilio (Jason Roberts)
• Manage Azure App Service Deployments with Deployment Slots (Chris Pietschmann)
• Line Maker: Animated Decorative Lines (Mary Lou)

 

XAML

• Desktop App Converter Base Images (MS Downloads)
• Getting Started With UWP Community Toolkit 1.1 (Amit Mishra)
• UWP++ with UWP Community Toolkit 1.1 (Greg Duncan)
• Windows 10 1607, UWP Apps Packaged with ‘Companion’ Desktop Apps (Mike Taulty)
• How to develop augmented reality apps with Vuforia for Windows 10 (Petri Tapio Wilhelmsen)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• #Windows10 – Device Portal Wrapper available via NuGet and source code in #GitHub (Bruno Capuano)
• Reduced Out of Memory Crashes in Visual Studio “15” (Ashok Kamath)
• Unable to start process dotnet.exe (Eric L. Anderson)
• Simpler Azure management libraries for .NET (Asir Selvasingh)
• Learning .NET Core by example (Jon Hilton)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Test Hub Enhancements in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) (Gouri Sohoni)
• Great Product Design is Also About Avoiding Bad User Experiences (Luis Mizutani)
• How We Test Software: Chapter Three Part II—Telerik Websites Division (Anton Angelov)
• The Relationship between Static Analysis and Continuous Testing (Erik Dietrich)
• (Not so) Stupid Question 293: What is a buddy class? (Iris Classon)
• Test & Feedback extension – Create artifacts (Kapil Ratra)
• Dismissing reviews on Pull Requests (Naomi Plasterer)
• Maven and Gradle build tasks support powerful code analysis tools (Shu Sam Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Templates and Extensions for Xamarin & Mono (Terrence Dorsey)
• Understanding Android’s Doze Functionality (James Montemagno)
• Windows IoT Core: Software PWM (Carey Payette)
• Fun With RFID and NFC (Erich Styger)
• Building Skills for Amazon Echo (Irena Shaigorodsky)
• Baby Steps on my HoloLens Developer Journey (Mike Taulty)
• Using HoloLens Toolkit to Deploy Your App (Noel Rice)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Growing a .NET Meetup Group with Blake Helms and Robb Schiefer (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Xamarin Show 6: User Interface Automation with Charles Wang | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• 044 jsAir – Async Patterns in JavaScript with Valeri Karpov and Peter Lyons (Kent C. Dodds)
• 233 JSJ Google Chrome Extensions with John Sonmez (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Norm Macdonald (Chris Hardwick)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Resiliency, the magic of load balancers | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Using Distributed Caching in .NET Applications with NCache (Open Source) and NoSQL Database Programming in .NET with NosDB (Open Source) (Seth Juarez)
• Richard Blais: The Alton Browncast #61 (Alton Brown)

 

Community / Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian A. Randell (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Join Redgate at PASS Summit (Annabel Bradford)
• Meet Brian Donohue: Alexa Champion, Developer, and All-Around Meetup Master (Zoey Collier)

 

Database

• Delete old SQL Server backup files with a Stored Procedure (Eli Leiba)
• Git as a NoSql database (Kenneth Truyers)
• SQL SERVER – Error – Attempted to Perform an Unauthorized Operation (Pinal Dave)
• Solving Visual Studio database delivery problems with ReadyRoll (Dan Nolan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Amazon Music Unlimited + Alexa: What Do You Get? (April Hamilton)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-13 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2199 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1755 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #254 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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