Dew Drop – October 26, 2016 (#2353)

Top Links

• Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 and Announcing the ASP.NET Core September 2016 Patch Release (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 (Rich Lander)
• Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1 Preview 1 (Rowan Miller)

 

Web Development

• Learn to Code Series: Use CSS to Style a Web Page and Learn to Code Series: CSS Basics Resources and Activities (Abby Larner)
• What is the difference between CSS variables and preprocessor variables? (Chris Coyier)
• Getting Started with Angular 2 (Dave M. Bush)
• Getting Started With Paper.js: Animation and Images (Monty Shokeen)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Refactoring JavaScript – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise Part 2: Hosting (K. Scott Allen)
• Testing SSL in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Book Review: Modern Web Development (Mike James)
• Big news for the web dev community! Ignite UI is now open source! (Ignite UI Team)
• Node v7.0.0 (Current) (James M. Snell)
• Breaking down the new Swift.org Server API Work Group (John Ponzo)
• Building Node-based APIs with the LoopBack Framework (Raymond Camden)
• Announcing support for Files in the Storage Client Library for C++ (Sercan Guler)
• Building Hybrid Applications with Electron (Paul Betts)

 

XAML

• Over 100 Improvements Packed in the R3 2016 SP of UI for WPF (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• What’s New for WPF in Infragistics Ultimate 16.2 (DevToolsGuy)
• Windows 10, UWP, Unity, HoloLens– Small Explorations of D3D and XAML based Unity Projects (Mike Taulty)
• Prism DelegateCommand.FromAsyncHandler is Obsolete! (Brian Lagunas)
• Windows 10 UWP Unity and Adding a Reference to a (UWP) Class Library and Windows 10, UWP, HoloLens and Switching 2D/3D Views (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Optimizing read transaction startup time: The performance triage (Oren Eini)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 EAP 5 (Dmitry Matveev)
• Addressing Visual Studio 15’s Memory Usage (Jeff Martin)
• C# Yellow Book 2016 “Cheese Edition” Now Available (Rob Miles)
• Advanced Use Cases for the Repository Pattern in .NET (Jonathan Allen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Having an independent facilitator for your agile retrospectives (Ben Linders)
• 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management You Should Never Commit (Jessica Morgan)
• Fighting Bloviating BS with Radical Candor (Kim Scott)
• How Teams At Trello Use Trello (Leah Ryder)
• Automating Installation Builds and Chocolatey Packaging (Rick Strahl)
• Elements of Helpful Code Documentation (Serge Baranovsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Getting Started With Auto Layout for iOS in Xcode 8 (Brent Schooley)
• How to Install or Upgrade to Node.js v7 on the Raspberry Pi (Dave Johnson)
• Kickstart Your Project with Our New Bootstrapped Mobile Apps (Pierce Boggan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Angular 2 Docs with Ward Bell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Latency and Durability with SQL Server 2016 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Dakota Fanning (Chris Hardwick)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 162 | Kubernetes with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• RunAs Radio – Episode 500! (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Using Microsoft Graph with Cortana (keantonc & Rosshe)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries – Expanding Our Perspectives, with Bill Nye – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Microsoft Philanthropies | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 272: Frances Perry on Apache Beam (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – Interview with David Rael (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Welcome Polly (.NET Foundation)
• Gates Foundation announces $210M donation to UW’s Population Health Initiative (Monica Nickelsburg)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 Exec Query Stats DMV Enhancements (Ahmad Yaseen)
• SQL SERVER – FIX Error 5120 – Database is in Read Only Mode After Attaching Files (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Getting dbatools in Powershell (Steve Jones)
• Download Microsoft Ignite 2016 Sessions Using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Treat Google Cloud Storage like a file system with our new PowerShell provider (Jim Przybylinski & Chris Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Speaking Tips: Evaluating Your Talk (Ted Neward)
• How to Train a Deep-Learned Object Detection Model in the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Patrick Buehler & T. J. Hazen)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14955 for Mobile and PC (Dona Sarkar)
• Windows 10’s Registry Editor gets an address bar for easy navigation (Kunal Chowdhury)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2208 (Chris Alcock)
• Amazon Developer Blog – Week in Review October 17th (Peter Heinrich)

 

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