Dew Drop – January 25, 2017 (#2407)

Top Links

• TFS 2017 Update 1 RC available (Brian Harry)
• Announcing the SQL Server v.Next Early Adoption Program and SQL Server next version CTP 1.2 now available (SQL Server Team)
• TWC9: New PIX, NuGet UWPDesktop, VSTS Getting Personal, Kinect Powered Grocery Store and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Dmitry Lyalin, Greg Duncan, Nikola Metulev)
• How to Send Daily SMS Reminders Using C#, Azure Functions and Twilio (Brent Schooley)
• Working with Multiple .NET Core SDKs – both project.json and msbuild/csproj (Scott Hanselman)
• ASP.NET Core Authentication with IdentityServer4 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

 

Web Development

• Bare metal APIs with ASP.NET Core MVC (Ben Foster)
• CSS Overlay Techniques (Sara Soueidan)
• ASP.NET Core – Migrating to MSBuild (Aaron Marisi)
• WebStorm 2017.1 EAP, 171.2455: improved integration with TSLint and Debugging React apps created with Create React App in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Building microservices with ASP.NET Core (without MVC) (Filip W.)
• How do I change the name of my ASP.NET Core project? (George Stocker)
• An Introduction to Observables for Angular Developers (Jen Looper)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 10, 2017 (Maria Naggaga)
• OutDir vs OutputPath for Visual studio 2015 and Asp.Net Core (Michael Freidgeim)
• ASP.NET MVC with Simple Windows Authorization (Sergey Tihon)
• Using WebStorm for Building Angular Apps (Victor Savkin)
• Building simple plug-ins system for ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• Porting Azure Web Apps to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (Adam Anderson)
• Optimizing the Performance of Your React Application (Alex Sears)
• Making transpiled ES modules more spec-compliant (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Consuming JSON Web Data Using Google Sheets (Dave Johnson)
• Docker for Devs Part 4: Composing Multi-container Networks with Docker Compose (Max McCarty)
• CPU Management in Docker 1.13 (Michael Crosby)
• Native Facebook Authentication with Azure App Service (Mike James)
• Custom BotFramework Intent Service Implementation (Robin Osborne)
• Using the API Management APIs-PREVIEW blade in the new Azure Portal (Tomasso Groenendijk)

 

XAML & Xamarin

• UWP Form Validation with the Calcium MVVM Framework (Daniel Vaughan)
• MvvmCross extension for Visual Studio 2017 (Jim Bennett)
• Xamarin Forms with MVVM Light (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• ICYMI – Tutorials, UWPDesktop Nuget, and MVP Updates (Windows Apps Team)
• Automated CI/CD for your Xamarin App using VSTS, Bitrise and HockeyApp (Gerald Versluis)
• Xamarin Forms Profiling (Adam Pedley)
• Opening App Store for Ratings on iOS and Android (James Montemagno)
• How To Build Planet Scale Mobile App in Minutes with Xamarin and DocumentDB (Kirill Gavrylyuk)
• The Xamarin ListView on Steroids (Sam Basu)
• Don’t use ReactiveUI (Eric Sink)
• windows.updateTask – the hidden gem in Universal Windows Platform (Martin Suchan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Answer: What does this code do? (Oren Eini)
• Convert .NET Framework Lists into Dictionaries (Peter Vogel)
• New Feature: Delivery Plans for Visual Studio Team Services (Derrick Fu)
• Modelling State in F# (Isaac Abraham)
• Enhanced Device Logging in Visual Studio (James Montemagno)
• C#7: Pattern Matching (Jeff Yates)
• Deep event analysis with dotTrace 2016.3 and Analyzing native memory allocation with dotTrace 2016.3 (Alexey Totin)
• Authenticating Your C# Application for the Google Cloud Platform – Part 2 (Josh Morales)
• Some Insights into Features (Besides EDMX) Being Dropped in the Move From EF6 to EF Core (Julie Lerman)
• C++ for C# developers – code like in Google (Michał Komorowski)
• How to MongoDB in C# – Part 2 (Stas Rivkin)
• Task.Run vs. Task.Factory.StartNew (Part 1) (Bnaya Eshet)
• How we use Cake to build .NET Core apps and version assemblies and New Relic .NET Core Alternative APM (Matt Watson)
• A .NET Programmer Tries Out GNU / Linux As A Primary OS. (Rajiv Popat)
• Search Results Filtering Arrives in JustDecompile (Tsviatko Yovtchev)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Conducting User Story Estimation Meetings (Steven Schwenke)
• Manage pull requests with the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio (Sara Ford)
• Do not forget: only leaves are shown on a board! (Matteo Emili)
• Development Tools: NDepend & Quality (Mitchel Sellers)
• Filter pull request reviews and review requests (Naomi Plasterer)
• Continuous Code Quality Inspection with SonarQube (Vishwas Parameshwarappa)
• 6 Tips for Taking Feedback Well (Russ Laraway)
• Retrospective Actions: Start with Why (Ben Linders)
• Contributing to the VSTS Developer Tools Build Tasks extension (Jesse Houwing)
• How to Keep a Git Fork up to Date (Gary Hockin)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Final Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview: iOS support. Time to upload your apps to the Play Store! (Hoi Lam)
• Accessing The Device Camera In A NativeScript Angular Application and Using Modal Dialogs In A NativeScript Angular Mobile Application (Nic Raboy)
• Promote your App – Anywhere. Anytime. (Anusha Subramanian)
• Webinar: Integrating Amazon APIs in Unity (Becky Young)
• Function composition in Swift (Josh Smith)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Microsoft Philanthropies with Jeremy Pitman and .NET Rocks! – ASP.NET Core Opinionated Approach with Scott Allen (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Technology & Friends – Glenn Block on Serverless Computing (David Giard)
• Episode 319 – PowerScripting Podcast – MVPs Don Jones and Adam Bertram on Pester (Jonathan Walz)
• Android Central 321: U, Mi and Huawei (Daniel Bader)
• CodingBlocks.NET Episode 54 – Clean Code – How to Write Amazing Unit Tests (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• The Requested Operation Requires Elevation (Jess Pardue)
• Episode 221: Azure Analysis Services with Josh Caplan | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai, Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
• RunAs Radio – DirectAccess on Windows 10 with Richard Hicks (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Radical Candor Podcast Ep. 4: Ruinous Empathy and Criticism (Kim Scott & Russ Laraway)
• Lock Me Down Podcast Show 9: DDoS History as a Cyber Weapon Part 1 (Max McCarty)
• StarTalk Radio – The Science of Fitness, with Terry Crews (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Away From the  Keyboard Episode 58: Luis Atencio Reacts to Everything (Richie Rump)
• Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Stack update with Jeffrey Snover | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• SE-Radio Episode 280: Gerald Weinberg on Bugs Errors and Software Quality (Marcus Blankenship)
• Developer Tea – 3 Questions Your Should Be Asking Before Starting A Project (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Unity Navigation – Part 2 | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 80: Stacey Mulcahy (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 177 | Geek Out on Cutting the Cord (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• ngAir 97 – RxJS with Ben Lesh and Tracy Lee (Kent C. Dodds)
• The week in .NET – Adafruit Class Library for Windows IoT Core, Floor Plan (Bertrand Le Roy)
• This Week on Windows: Windows 10 features, Halo Wars: 2, and More | This Week On Windows (Cameron Tomisser)
• Developer on Fire Episode 202 | Clarice Bouwer – Leaving Comfort Behind (Dave Rael)
• Merge Conflict 29: What Developers Ought to Try in 2017 (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)

 

Community / Events

• Announcing the Newest Xamarin MVPs! (Jayme Singleton)
• Open sourcing the VS Test platform (Brian Harry)
• Orlando Code Camp – Call for Speakers (Esteban Garcia)
• Announcing the Telerik DevCraft R1 2017 Release Webinar (Sam Basu)
• Anybody want a gently used StructureMap? (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• How Incorrect SQL Server Table Statistic Estimates Can Cause Slow Query Execution (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL Server Bulk Insert Row Terminator Issues (Rahul Mehta)
• Ingesting JSON data into Couchbase NoSQL Database using Streamsets (Laura Czajkowski)
• GroupBy Conference – 3 Common Mistakes to Kill SQL Server Performance (Pinal Dave)
• Retrieve a List of Files from FTP using SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
• Enforce Referential Integrity Between Documents in Marten (Jason Roberts)
• New book: Exam Ref 70-762 Developing SQL Databases (Kim Spilker)

 

PowerShell

• Visual Studio Setup PowerShell Module Available (Heath Stewart)

 

Miscellaneous

• The Stage is the New Jungle (James Whittaker)
• Command Line Fun for Windows 10 Users (Michael Crump)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-25 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-25 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2267 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1794 and Double Shot #1796 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #282 (Pedro Botelho)
• Smile, It’s The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 16th – January 22nd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Logic App Updates January 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• F# Weekly #4, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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