Dew Drop – February 3, 2017 (#2414)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 2.2 RC (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Roslyn Analyzer Deltas for VS2017 RC3 (Joe Healy)
• Pattern Matching in C# 7.0 Case Blocks (Tim Patrick)
• Entity Framework Core | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• JavaScript Will Finally Get Proper Asynchronous Programming (Mary Branscombe)
• Triple A File Uploads with Azure, ASP.NET Core and Angular (Ed Charbeneau)
• WebStorm 2017.1 EAP, 171.2822: Vue support, trailing comma, Dart improvements (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup –January 24, 2017 (Maria Naggaga)
• Intro to Vue.js: Vuex (Sarah Drasner)
• Adventures in Yak Shaving: AsciiDoc with Visual Studio Code, Ruby, and Gem (Matthew Groves)
• Announcing the new Azure Marketplace experience (Shankar Sivadasan & Vybava Ramadoss)
• Microsoft IIS Administration Preview 1.0.38: Introducing the Files API (IIS Team)
• New Azure Preview Portal Grants Early Access to Features (Chris Pietschmann)
• Event Hubs .NET Standard client is now generally available (John Taubensee)
• 22 tips to lower Azure pricing and optimize hosting costs (Matt Watson)
• Entity Framework with Google Cloud SQL (Rachel Hagerman)
• Building Azure Functions: Part 3 – Coding Concerns (Tim Murphy)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Integrating In-App Purchases in Mobile Apps (James Montemagno)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Introducing scoped API keys (Anand Gaurav)
• What happened to my Thread.CurrentPrincipal (David Pine)
• Using C++ Resumable Functions with Libuv (Jim Springfield)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Implementing Unit testing using xUnit.Net (Yuvaranjani Kalichamy)
• Octopus Deploy certificate health check (Rory Primrose)
• If You Automate Your Tests, Automate Your Code Review (Erik Dietrich)
• Refactoring Towards Resilience: Evaluating SendGrid Options (Jimmy Bogard)
• Anticipatory Design: How to Create Magical User Experiences (Miklos Philips)
• We’re discussing a common VC question – to fork or not to fork a Git repository (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Making Slack Faster By Being Lazy: Part 2 (Scott Schiller)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Integrating Progressive Web Apps deeply into Android (Yaron Friedman)
• 6 Do’s and Don’ts for a Great Android User Experience (Jessica Thornsby)
• “Shared reality” combines Microsoft HoloLens and HTC Vive (Kit McDonald)
• A complete user acquisition & engagement platform (Vikram Bodavula)
• Find Experienced Alexa Skill Builders and Tools (Zoey Collier)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 116 on Sage and Office 365 bundling with Richard Custance—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• Hanselminutes – Discovering WebVR with Ada Rose Edwards (Scott Hanselman)
• RavenDB Conference videos: Introducing RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• This Week on Windows: The Big Game Collection, tips for OneDrive and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story (Elisse Lockhart)
• Talk Python to Me #97 – Flask, Django style with Flask-Diamond (Michael Kennedy)
• StarTalk Playing with Science – The Big Game Special Edition feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Windows Weekly 503: Sneaker Streaker (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 108: ZuckSweat (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Inventory and Store System – Part 2 (Scriptable Objects) | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• MVP API Intro (Daron Yondem)

 

Community / Events

• If Microsoft doesn’t kill at BUILD 2017, the Surface phone may be dead on arrival (Jason Ward)
• Around The World With MVPs: MS Cloud Summit Paris (MVP Award Program)

 

Database

• SQL Server Function to Encrypt Integer Values (Eli Leiba)
• SQL Server DBA’s Guide to the Gitlab Outage (Brent Ozar)
• Enhanced Automated Backup for SQL Server 2016 in Azure Virtual Machines (Ninar Nuemah)
• SQL SERVER – Error: 566, Severity: 21 – An Error Occurred While Writing an Audit Trace. SQL Server is Shutting Down (Pinal Dave)
• Managing Oracle Database Code with SQL Developer, Git, and Developer Cloud Service (Shay Shmeltzer)
• Updating Documents in DocumentDb (Adrian Hall)
• Streamlining database deployments with SQL Compare (Carly Meichen)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing The Trello Add-In For Outlook (Brian Cervino)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15025 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-03 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2272 (Chris Alcock)

 

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