Dew Drop – February 13, 2017 (#2420)

Top Links

• scriptcs – Release v0.17.0 (Glenn Block)
• TPL Dataflow Is The Best Library You’re Not Using (Bar Arnon)
• .NET Renaissance (Mark Rendle)
• Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 4: Together, in the Open (Pratap Lakshman)

 

Web Development

• Using ANY Type Prevents Function Parameter Type-Checking In TypeScript 2.1.5 (Ben Nadel)
• jQuery SVG Animated PopUp (jQuery Rain)
• An in-depth look at the various ways of specifying the IP or host ASP.NET Core listens on (Joseph Woodward)
• Updating My Blog to Visual Studio 2017 and .csproj and Why I Moved to Vue.js from Angular 2 (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Creating Scalable WCF Service for Azure Service Fabric (Jorge Gaona)
• How to Auto-Upgrade to HTTPS (aka Avoid Mixed Content) (Akshay Rangnekar)
• 70-775 Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight Certification Exam (Chris Pietschmann)
• Setting Up A Modern React Development Environment (Daniel Gynn)
• Azure Logic Apps – Release Update 2017-02-10 (Jeff Holland)
• Empty SoapActions in ASMX Web Services (Rick Strahl)
• TypeScript 2.2 Adds New Object Type, Better Mixin Support, and More (Sergio De Simone)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Calligraphy with MvvmCross (Sven-Michael Stübe)
• Entity Framework Core with Xamarin Forms and Visual Studio 2017, .NET Standard and Xamarin and Patterns for Referencing Dependencies in Cross Platform Development (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin.Android Continuous Integration with Visual Studio Team Service (Alex Dunn)
• Adding a Local Database using SQLite and Xamarin.Forms (Mario Jesús Galván Miranda)
• Sending Files to a Xamarin.Forms App – Part 1: iOS (Matthew Soucoup)
• Call an Azure AD protected API in Xamarin/UWP apps (Timothé Larivière)
• Unable to start Build 4.3.0.664 agent. when building iOS apps and The type ‘Object’ is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly ‘mscorlib, Version=2.0.5.0 (David Yardy)
• Windows SDK for Google Analytics (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Face or no face (finding faces in photos using C# and Accord.NET) (Dan)
• C# Exception Filters (Jasminder Singh)
• Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core (Steve Gordon)
• Introducing Type Providers (Isaac Abraham)
• Refactoring Towards Resilience: Evaluating RabbitMQ Options (Jimmy Bogard)
• Exploring the new dotnet cli (Shayne Boyer)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Why I Use a Paper Kanban Board (Johanna Rothman)
• Why Kanban May Not Be Working For You and How to Fix That. (Zuheb SM)
• The Future of Design Tools: Focus on the User (Cisco Guzman)
• The Future of Microservices: Functional Service Design and Observability (Daniel Bryant)
• Reasons you should use Microservices to build your next application. (George Stocker)
• 6 Ways To Be A More Productive Developer (Grzegorz Ziemoński)
• Performance Under Pressure (Robin Rendle)
• Why Collaboration is No Longer Just a Strategy But Key to Long-term Business Success (Sabrina Loureiro)
• How to Plan Effective Test Automation (Sameer Arora)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Apache Cordova Windows 5.0.0 (Sergey Shakhnazarov)
• Want to start IoT’ing? Check out this Virtual Bootcamp! (Greg Duncan)
• Braille Language In Raspberry Pi Using C# With Visual Studio (Kishore Chowdary)
• A behavior for dynamically loading and applying image textures in HoloLens apps (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 028 – Jeremy Miller on Marten (Matthew Groves)
• Interactive Development in C# (Seth Juarez)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Alan Tudyk (Chris Hardwick)
• Scrum Master Toolbox – An alternative to formal Retrospectives | Anssi Lehtelä (Vasco Duarte)
• The Changelog 238: ANTHOLOGY – Hacker Stories From OSCON and All Things Open with Karen Sandler, Rachel Nabors, and Jono Bacon (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 127 – Creating a Game for Vets (Evan Sanderson) (CodeNewbie Team)
• The Amp Hour #335 – When the TV watches you (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• TWC9: NexTech Africa, Windows Dev Day, VS 2017 Launch Date, MVP TechDay and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Nikola Metulev)
• StarTalk Radio Extended Classic: UFO Remix (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 60: The Humble Beginnings of Charles Max Wood (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – Three Insights About Heuristics and Developer Tea – Create an Effective Communication Protocol With these Rules (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Getting Started with SadConsole | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• Azure Podcast Episode 165 – Desired State Configuration (Sujit D’Mello)
• Mobile Center Webinar Recordings | Ship Mobile Apps Faster and Give Your Apps an Instant Cloud Backend (Courtney Witmer)

 

Community / Events

• TechBash 2017 – Call for Speakers is Open #cfp (Alvin A.)
• Want to speak at a conference? Submit to these! (David Giard)
• SIGNAL 2017: Ahoy, World! (Andres Krogh)
• A Year of Open Source (2016) (Ken Dale & Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• When TED Calls… You Answer. (Greg Plum)
• Five Ways To Celebrate Black History Month In Philadelphia (Jillian Wilson)
• The Riches Of Remote Work: An Interview With Ramit Sethi (Jessica Webb)

 

Database

• How to Add Date to Database Backup Filename? – Interview Question of the Week #109 (Pinal Dave)
• Announcing Azure SQL Database Threat Detection general availability coming in April 2017 (Ron Matchoro)
• Microsoft’s SQL Platform continues to lead the market with advanced data security (Rohan Kumar)
• SQL Clone and databases protected with TDE (Steve Jones)

 

PowerShell

• Add, Remove, and Get SQL Logins, New SQL PowerShell 2016 cmdlets (Aaron Nelson)

 

Miscellaneous

• How the forgetfulness of one of Microsoft’s top scientists inspired a killer new feature for Windows 10 (Matt Weinberger)
• Book Review: Murach’s Python Programming (Mike Driscoll)
• Push Notifications and Buttons with Microsoft Flow: Part 3 (Jason Roberts)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-13 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-13 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2278 (Chris Alcock)
• Reading Notes #267 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #288 (Pedro Botelho)
• Daily Links 11 Feb 2017 (Malcolm Jack)
• The Fantastic Friday Five ! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 6th – February 12th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Feb 13, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #141 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• GameDev News – Week Ending February 10, 2017 (Brian Peek)
• F# Weekly #7, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)
• Things I’ve Learnt This Week (12th February) (Steve Gordon)

 

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