Dew Drop – February 23, 2017 (#2428)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 2.2 (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Xamarin Stable Release: Cycle 9 (Bri Brothers)
• Building Your First macOS App (Adam Hartley)
• Day 9 – Creating a .NET Core Console App inside of Visual Studio Code (Michael Crump)

 

Web Development

• Thinking About Exception Chaining And Error Reporting In JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
• PhpStorm 2017.1 EAP 171.3566: IP for Zend Debugger, new Find In Path, highlighting of current editor tab (Anna Lebedeva)
• Serverless REST API with Angular, Persistence and Security (Bruno Krebs)
• WebStorm 2017.1 EAP, 171.3566: module dependency diagram, auto imports for React components (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Build A Full Stack Movie Database With NoSQL, Node.js, and Angular (Nic Raboy)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript Cookbook – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• SPA^2 using ASP.Net Core 1.1 + Angular 2.4 – part 4 (Robert Dyball)
• Life after AngularJS – Dependency Injection (Rory Primrose)
• Flurl: Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP for .NET (Todd Menier)
• Getting started with the Web Share API (Dean Hume)
• Rapid API Development with Azure Functions (Mark Heath)
• Cross Function App Proxies and Proxy Request Parameters in Azure Functions (Jason Roberts)
• Introducing Custom Domains for Postman Pro (Aniket Panse)
• What is TypeScript? (Rob Lauer)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Visual Studio 2017 & More in UI for WPF and Silverlight SP1 (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Xamarin.Tips – Create a Bindable Picker in Xamarin.Forms (Alex Dunn)
• Version Bumping iOS & Android apps in VSTS and Xamarin Cycle 9: Preparing Machines (James Montemagno)
• UWP Community Toolkit Gets New Controls, Services and More in 1.3 (Greg Duncan)
• Real-Time Communications on the Universal Windows Platform with WebRTC and ORTC (James Cadd)
• Screenshots for a UWP Xbox App (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous VS & .NET

• Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python support in Visual Studio 2017 (Steve Dower)
• Learn C++ Concepts with Visual Studio and the WSL (Andrew Pardoe)
• Demangling C++ Symbols (Nick Fitzgerald)
• Rider EAP update: Editor presentation improvements (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Rise of eSports, and What that Means for Software Development (Carolyn Sullivan)
• An Effective Developer Asks Lots of Good Questions (Christopher Washington)
• E-Shaped Staff (Derek Huether)
• Why you should have release notes (Dominique St-Amand)
• What Are the Three Trees in Git? (Ed Wassermann)
• Asserting on Non-Null: New Anti-Pattern Post on #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Candor’s “Give Feedback” Playbook (Russ Laraway)
• Clean up unused git branches (Steve Smith)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Why Should iOS Developers Choose Swift Programming For Applications? (Ritesh Patil)
• Publish your app with confidence from the Google Play Developer Console (Kobi Glick)
• 7. MonoGame – Putting Text Onscreen With SpriteFonts (Chris G. Williams)
• Introduction to Ionic 2 (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Conway`s Law with Mark Seemann (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Xamarin Show 16: Polished UI for Xamarin.Forms with Sam Basu | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Beth Massi, NeinLinq (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Using Expresso tests | Visual Studio Toolbox (Donovan Brown & Robert Green)
• RavenDB Conference videos: Implementing CQRS and Event Sourcing with RavenDB (Oren Eini)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Jordan Peele (Chris Hardwick)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 84: MVP (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Building Apps with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Talk Python to Me #100 – Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum (Michael Kennedy)
• Radio TFS – To be or not to be a local admin (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Tuesdays with Corey – more AzureCLI 2.0 Goodness | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Laurence Bradford (@learncodewithme), Part Two (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Web Notification API | Web Hack Wednesday (Martin Beeby & Martin Kearn)
• Becoming a software developer – episode V (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Live Code Demo & Review of Exceptionless 4.0 Launch (Eric J. Smith)

 

Community / Events

• Geek of the Week: André Carrington, Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Drexel (Alex G)
• Bring back alt.NET? But… why? (Dylan Beattie)
• GitHub GDC Party 2017 (Lee Reilly)
• Philly Nerd Nite No. 72: A Celebration of One Book One Philadelphia! (Nerd Nite Team)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Improve Application Performance on Cloud While Reducing Bandwidth Cost (Pinal Dave)
• Two T-SQL Alternatives For Tracking Changes (Tim Smith)
• 70-765 Provisioning SQL Databases Certification Exam (Chris Pietschmann)
• DocumentDB Caching Tips (Derek Comartin)

 

PowerShell

• Get Last Nights Failed SQL Server Agent Jobs from Multiple Instances with PowerShell (Aaron Nelson)
• Code Coverage – Part 2 (James W. Truher)
• Multithreading with PowerShell using RunspacePool (Herve Roggero)

 

Miscellaneous

• Warren Buffett’s Best Investment (Bill Gates)
• Minecraft: Pocket Edition arrives on Windows 10 Mobile (Elana Pidgeon)
• I Spoke to 100 Pro-asteroid Dinosaurs and Here’s What I Learned (Frank Barbieri)
• OneNote Class Notebook add-in now includes grade scales, improved LMS integration and sticker customization (OneNote Team)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-23 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-23 (Dan Rigby)
• Double Shot #1812 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #291 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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