Day: January 19, 2017

Top Links

• Introducing Electron to the Windows Runtime (Paul Betts)
• New code coverage highlighting in dotCover 2016.3 (Alexey Totin)
• Great Angular, ASP.NET Core Starter Templates (Aaron Marisi)
• Exploring Intermediate Language (IL) with ReSharper and dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web Development

• From JavaScript mess to Cleaner Code – Step 4.2 – Angular2 (Kevin Logan)
• Consuming Auth0-Secured WebTask.io Resources In Angular 2.4.1 (Ben Nadel)
• Generic Repository Pattern In ASP.NET Core (Sandeep Singh Shekhawat)
• Amazing Angular2 DOM Tips, Tricks, and Warnings (Dave M. Bush)
• What is Angular? and Angular 2: What’s Working, What Needs Work and Where It’s Heading (TJ VanToll)
• Using Namespaces and Autoloading in WordPress Plugins, Part 4 (Tom McFarlin)
• Controlling Time with Zone.js and FakeAsync (Victor Savkin)
• AWS Serverless Lambda Scheduled Events to Store Tweets in Couchbase (Arun Gupta)
• Collaboration and federation: Azure Service Bus Messaging on-premises futures (Clemens Vasters)
• Docker for Windows Server and Image2Docker (Elton Stoneman)
• Element Dragging in Web Inspectors (Eric Meyer)
• Docker-Compose API too old for Windows? (Jeff Fritz)
• Curing the Post MAGFest Blues with Twilio, Ruby, Sinatra and SEGA music (Sam Agnew)

 

XAML

• Announcing “UWPDesktop” NuGet Package Version 14393 (Vladimir Postel)
• New Year, New Dev: Developing your idea into a UWP app (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Challenge: What does this code do? (Oren Eini)
• Download Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool For Windows 10 ( Kapil Arya)
• C# Support for the Google Cloud Platform (Josh Morales)
• C# methods in git diff hunk headers (Thomas Levesque)
• Introduction to Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET (Bartosz Sypytkowski)
• Entity Framework and Primary Keys (David Yardy)
• Custom Project Templates Using dotnet new (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)
• Be careful with Path.GetExtension() and Path.GetFileName() (Rudy Huyn)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Slack and the Agile Manager’s Role: Be the Slack (Andrew Fuqua)
• DZone Refcardz – Continuous Delivery (Paul Duvall)
• The 5 Productive Morning Routines Of Highly Effective People (Britt Joiner)
• Your First Github PR – A Guided Tour (David Humphrey)
• Radical Candor in Digital Services: Interview with ThreeSixtyEight (Elisse Lockhart)
• The Relationship Between Team Size and Code Quality (Erik Dietrich)
• Navigate file history faster with improved blame view (Jason Rudolph)
• Weaving Threads (Paul Rosania)
• What Do You Mean The Ship Is Sinking? (Rick Austin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Xamarin Mac Agent–Unable to connect (David Yardy)
• Mobile Composer Transforms Products, People, and Processes with Xamarin Apps (Lacey Butler)
• Learning The Angular Platform As Well As NativeScript In Ng-Book 2 (Nic Raboy)
• Read/Write data from/to USB thumb drive on a Windows IoT Core device (Bary Nusz)
• Dragging holograms with gaze and tapping them in place on a surface (Joost van Schaik)
• ASP.Net Web API and Alexa Skills (Greg Duncan)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Azure Key Vault with Sumedh Barde and .NET Rocks! – Space in 2017 Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Radical Candor Podcast Episode 3: Ruinous Empathy and Praise (Elisse Lockhart)
• The Monsters Weekly – Episode 88 – Inside Compiled Views in the Razor View Engine (David Paquette, James Chambers & Simon Timms)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 176 | 2017 Predictions, Wishes and Goals (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – On .NET with David Pine, PwdLess, Terraria (Bertrand Le Roy)
• The Married Gamers Presents Episode 410: Back In The Square Circle (Chris Brown)
• Functional Geekery Episode 81 – Ody Mbegbu (Steven Proctor)
• SQL Unplugged – January 2017 Edition | SQL Unplugged (Golnaz Alibeigi & Scott Klein)
• RunAs Radio – WireShark with Timothy Warner (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Talk Python to Me #95 Grumpy: Running Python on Go (Michael Kennedy)
• Developer Tea – Interview w/ Wes Bos (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• 15 New Restaurants To Look Forward To In Philly In 2017 (Jillian Wilson)
• TRAINING: Microsoft Teams Online Training (Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 8) (Kurt Shintaku)
• Ship Better Apps Faster with the Mobile Center Webinar Series (Keith Ballinger)

 

Database

• Using JSON as a data source for a SQL Server Reporting Services report (Scott Murray)
• Faster SQL Server troubleshooting using SQL Prompt snippets (Brent McCracken)
• New – Create an Amazon Aurora Read Replica from an RDS MySQL DB Instance (Jeff Barr)
• SQL SERVER – Understanding JSON Use is Case-Sensitive (Pinal Dave)
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Secondary indexes on column store now available (Shivani Gupta)

 

Miscellaneous

• How Slack brought its desktop app to the Windows Store (Mary Jo Foley)
• Speaking Tips: Managing T&E (Ted Neward)
• Microsoft pulls support for Minecraft Pocket Edition on Windows 8.x and Windows 10 Mobile (Kit McDonald)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-18 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-18 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2265 and The Morning Brew #2266 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1793 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #281 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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