Dew Drop – February 6, 2017 (#2415)

Top Links

• Announcing GVFS (Git Virtual File System) (Saeed Noursalehi)
• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 15021 Released (Clint Rutkas)
• DZone Refcardz – .NET on Linux (Don Schenck)
• TWC9: This Week on Channel 9 Turns Nine! | This Week On Channel 9 (Drew Robbins, Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)

 

Web Development

• Creating An Animated Slack-Inspired “Reaction” Emoticon Button In Angular 2.4.4 (Ben Nadel)
• Custom Tag Helper: Toggling Visibility On Existing HTML elements (Scott Sauber)
• Creating a windows container for a ASP.Net MVC 5 project (Fredrik Norman)
• Tilt.js : jQuery Parallax Tilt Hover Effect (jQuery Rain)
• Introduction to PayPal for C# – ASP.NET developers (lepipele)
• Intro to Vue.js: Animations (Sarah Drasner)
• An Angular 2+ Web Application Configuration Wizard (Michael Washington)
• TypeScript 2.1: Literal Type Widening (Marius Schulz)
• New Azure Preview Portal Grants Early Access to Features (Chris Pietschmann)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Developing Universal/Cross-Platform Apps with MVVM – VI (Can Bilgin)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,199 – Complete WPF Command Example (Sean Sexton)
• Visual Studio 2017–IOS Build Debug Error (David Yardy)
• Xamarin Forms DataTemplateSelector (Adam Pedley)
• Try the Latest in Xamarin.Forms with Nightly Builds (David Ortinau)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Shortcuts for Defining Anonymous Objects in C# and VB (Peter Vogel)
• Visual Studio Code Condensed (Damir Arh)
• Enabling LINQ to SQL in Visual Studio 2017 (Jim Wooley)
• How to read Microsoft Word document contents using C#/.NET? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Setting Visual Studio Code to Auto-Update in the Background (Lee Holmes)
• C++ for C# developers – virtual destructors (Michał Komorowski)
• Accessing Facebook API using C# (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Why am I getting a crash at shutdown inside the thread pool? (Raymond Chen)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why Agile and DevOps Are More Effective Together (Ritu Mahandru)
• Extreme Programming in Agile Development (Rohit Sharma)
• Why you should avoid graceful error handling like the plague that it is (Oren Eini)
• TFS 2017 Process Template Editor is available and Scaling Git (and some back story) (Brian Harry)
• Continuous Delivery – how does application and database development really compare? (Kate Duggan)
• User Acceptance Testing and the Application Lifecycle (Sophia Segal)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Starting emulator for AVD ‘Phone_x86_ToolsForApacheCordova (David Yardy)
• Using a HoloLens scanned room inside your HoloLens app (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – 3D Web Using Babylon JS with David Catuhe (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Agile Coffee Podcast, Episode 52 – Scrum Alliance’s Scrum Gathering in Munich, Germany (Vic Bonacci)
• RavenDB Conference videos: Introducing RavenDB 4.0 (Oren Eini)
• The Changelog 237: Reproducible Builds and Secure Software with Chris Lamb (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• RiYL Episode 204: Kid Congo Powers (Brian Heater)
• Developer on Fire Episode 206 | David Bernstein – Beyond Legacy Code (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #334 – An Interview with Gerry Roston (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict 31: One UI to Rule Them All (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• StarTalk Radio – Comedy and Cars with Jay Leno (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• What The Tech 341: Windows Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Lauren Cutrell (part 1) and Developer Tea – Interview with Lauren Cutrell (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• .GAME’s Item System – Part 1 Challenge Explained (Stacey Haffner)
• Azure Podcast Episode 164 – Licensing and Pricing (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• The Helplessness of Tragedy (David Giard)
• On Making Badass Developers… (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• NXTA – NexTech Africa Conference – Day 1 perspectives (Scott Hanselman)

 

Database

• SQL Server Function to Encrypt Integer Values (Eli Leiba)
• Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 1: Data Modeling (Matthew Groves)
• Couchbase and the Document-Oriented NoSQL Database (Nic Raboy)
• SQL SERVER – SQL Server: Getting OS information using DMV and How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics with T-SQL – Interview Question of the Week #108 (Pinal Dave)
• A New Beta Exam Opportunity! 774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning (Liberty Munson)
• Updating Documents in DocumentDb (Adrian Hall)

 

PowerShell

• Add SQL Server Analysis Services Role Members via PowerShell or XMLA (Scott Murray)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2273 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1803 (Mike Gunderloy)
• ICYMI – Six Updates and a New SDK (Windows Apps Team)
• Things I’ve Learnt This Week (5th February) (Steve Gordon)
• Collective #286 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #266 (Frank Boucher)
• Why, hello there Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 30th – February 5th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Feb 6, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending February 3, 2017 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #140 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #6, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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