Dew Drop – December 16, 2016 (#2385)

Top Links

• Code Style Configuration in the VS2017 RC Update (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 is Released! (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Christmas Trees in WPF, 2016 Edition (Reed Copsey)
• Node.js and Password Storage with Bcrypt (Max McCarty)
• Simple Progress Reporting with Task and Custom Progress Reporting with Task (Jeremy Clark)

 

Web Development

• Your First Angular 2, ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio Code – Part 4 (Aaron Marisi)
• Drag and Drop Grouping and Sorting with Angular 2 (Ed Charbeneau)
• Introducing Postman Pro (Abhinav Asthana)
• Semantic Variable Colors – New in PhpStorm 2016.3! (Gary Hockin)
• 9 Node.JS Frameworks Available for Your Next Project (Kasia Hoffman)
• Building MVC Sites with Enterprise Stability and Open Source Flexibility (Peter Filipov)
• Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2 (Tom McFarlin)
• Writing HTTP CRUD in Azure Functions (Adrian Hall)
• Declaration scopes in Go (Dave Cheney)
• Easily add authorization rules to your Azure App (Mitul Suthar)
• Release of SDK 2.4.145 and Runtime 5.4.145 for Windows (Service Fabric Team)
• New Theme Chooser for GitHub Pages (Jurgen Leschner)

 

XAML

• 2000 Things About WPF #1,198 – Selectively Enabling Child Elements in a Disabled Panel (Sean Sexton)
• GameAnalytics SDK for Microsoft UWP Released (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• RX .NET demo (SDP session) (Bnaya Eshet)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• On Creating Your Own Flavor of Agile (Oliver Hookins)
• The Importance of Time Boxes (David Bernstein)
• WebDriver / UI Testing: Where to Start (Jim Holmes)
• DevOps for the database – the inside story (Matt Hilbert)
• Testing a Team Services extension and tracking code coverage (Mikael Krief)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Google Targets IoT with Android Things (Abel Avram)
• EditorVR Experimental Build Available Today (Amir Ebrahimi)
• Get a glimpse of Wear 2.0’s upcoming standalone apps (Kacey Fahey)
• System X-Ray for Amazon Fire TV: Displaying Custom Information (Andy Haldeman)
• Data Synchronization with Couchbase in Ionic 2 Hybrid Mobile Apps (Nic Raboy)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 213 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing and Henry Segerman (Scott Hanselman)
• Episode 111 with John Bristowe and John Liu about Office 365 development with KendoUI and Angular2—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Office Dev)
• 123 AiA Upgrading from Angular 1 to Angular 2 with Victor Savkin (John Papa)
• [Webinar Recording] Applying Object Composition to Build Rich Domain Models (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Ian McShane (Chris Hardwick)
• Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story (Elisse Lockhart)
• SQL Server Radio – Matan Loves Marriage (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Talk Python to Me #89 – A conversation with the Chief Data Scientist of the United States (Michael Kennedy)
• Microsoft Mechanics – An overview of modern management for Windows 10 (Janani Vasudevan)
• Rocket 101: BRI IS BACK (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Azure Podcast Episode 157 – Partner Spotlight – Stackify (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Git Merge 2017: the full agenda is now live (Brittany Walker)
• Q&A With MVPs: How to host a conference (Alan Smith & Magnus Mårtensson)
• IoT Hackathon Winners See Voice Command as the Interface of the Future (Jen Gilbert)

 

Database

• Configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group on a Multi-Subnet Cluster (Manvendra Singh)
• Does updating SQL Server statistics cause blocking (Daniel Farina)
• Free eBook: Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
• The Definitive Guide to NoSQL Databases (Mohamad Altarade)
• SQL Server + C#: What’s new (Andrea Lam)
• Zip Files in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
• RavenDB 4.0 Alpha is out! (Oren Eini)
• Always Use A Deterministic ORDER BY When Using LIMIT And OFFSET In MySQL (Ben Nadel)

 

PowerShell

• The Key to Understanding PowerShell – on Windows or Linux (Don Jones)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-16 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2245 (Chris Alcock)

 

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