Dew Drop – March 6, 2017 (#2434)

Top Links

• Day 10 – Using JetBrains Rider with a .NET Core Console Application (Michael Crump)
• Just Released – Windows Developer Evaluation Virtual Machines – February 2017 Build (Clint Rutkas)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15048 for PC and Build 15047 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• TWC9: Xbox Dev for Everyone, Game Pass, Windows Mixed Reality and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Deltakosh & Nikola Metulev)

 

Web Development

• Parsing And Serializing Large Datasets Using Newline-Delimited JSON In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Learning CSS Grid Layout (Rachel Andrew)
• Unit Testing Self-Invoking JavaScript Functions (Bendix Saeltz)
• Integrate Bot App with Cognitive Services LUIS, RESTful Services and Web APIs (Benjamin Xue)
• TypeScript 2.2 Release Gives JavaScript Developers More of What They Expect (David Iffland)
• Track The Device Geolocation In A NativeScript Angular Mobile Application and Upload Files To A Minio Object Storage Cloud With Node.js And Multer (Nic Raboy)
• Getting JavaScript Properties for Object Maps by Index or Name (Rick Strahl)
• Customising ASP.NET MVC Core Behaviour with an IApplicationModelConvention (Steve Gordon)
• Component Property Binding with @Input() in Angular 2 (Todd Motto)
• ASP.NET Core: How log filtering works (Gunnar Peipman)
• TypeScript 2.2: Dotted Properties and String Index Signatures (Marius Schulz)
• Creating Versioned APIs with Azure Functions and Proxies (Jason Roberts)
• Just Another HTTPS Nudge (Chris Coyier)
• How to Monitor Azure App Services with Retrace (Matt Watson)
• Ngrx without a switch statement (Michael Lang)
• Fixing Sublime Text 3 Package Manager (Rob Bazinet)
• Freebie: Hand-drawn Geek’s Treasure Chest (AI, EPS, PDF, SVG, PNG) (Tatiana Lapina)
• Convert PDF files to PNG Images using Azure Functions (Michael Washington)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #1 – IsAsync and WPF Bindings and WPF Tip #2 – Using FallbackValue with Async WPF Bindings (Alvin Ashcraft)
• 2000 WPF Things #1,201 – How to Share Star Sized Column Sizes (Sean Sexton)
• Social Network App Layout Design in Xamarin.Forms (Kym Phillpotts)
• Xamarin Forms: ToolbarItem with Bindable IsVisible Property (Malcolm Jack)
• Xamarin Forms with Microsoft Azure (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Validating User Input in Xamarin.Forms (David Britch)
• Xamarin.Controls – Creating Your Own iOS Markdown UILabel (Alex Dunn)
• Swipe to Delete and more on Xamarin.iOS (Can Bilgin)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Analyzing RavenDB 4.0 with NDepends (Oren Eini)
• 20 Years of Visual Studio: Visual Basic (Paul Thurrott)
• Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. and Choosing centralized logging and monitoring system (Szymon Warda)
• Fast acquisition of vswhere (Heath Stewart)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• TDD Harms Architecture: Great article by Uncle Bob Martin! (Troy)
• The Product Owner in Scrum (Gunther Verheyen)
• There is no such thing called “Agile Testing” – Part II (Shrini Kulkarni)
• How to create your own local Git remote repo that’s not hosted on a Git server (–bare option) – 062 and How to interpret the blue pad lock icon when using Git in Solution Explorer – 063 and How to view changes to your working directory in Visual Studio (and via command line) – 064 (Sara Ford)
• When Life Gives You Options, Make Sure Not To Choose Some(null) (Yuval Itzchakov)
• Always Set Impossible Goals (Bogdan Mihalcea)
• Exploring the Technical Debt In Your Codebase (Erik Dietrich)
• A new issue tracker for Google Cloud Platform (Kasla Derc-Fenske & Jesse Scherer)
• Reducing Slack’s memory footprint (Johnny Rodgers, Charlie Hess, Raissa Largman, Jamie Scheinblum & Chris Sullivan)
• How we are improving notifications in Team Services (Will Smythe)
• Visualize the health of your builds – latest sneak preview of the Team Project Health extension (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Get Started With RxJava 2 for Android (Jessica Thornsby)
• Back-End as a Service for Mobile Apps (Bala Durage Sandamal Siripathi)
• #Review – #Hololens, #hardware and how the hologram process works ! (Bruno Capuano)
• Sparking, Seeding and a some Pie – IoT Azure Starter Kits (Greg Duncan)
• Tinkering Arduino and Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• Avoid these six mobile development pitfalls (Cormac Foster)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Technology & Friends – Maggie Pint on JS Foundation (David Giard)
• March 2017 podcast list update (Dror Helper)
• Herding Code 222: Ben Hall on using Windows Containers for ASP.NET Applications (Jon Galloway)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 220 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 031 – Jesse Riley sucks at unit testing (Matthew Groves)
• Intro to Xamarin for Visual Studio: Native iOS, Android, and Windows Apps in C# ()
• Gone Mobile Podcast Episode 44: Fluxing Up Your Xamarin Apps with Alex Dunn (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
• Talk Python to Me #101 – Adding a full featured Python environment to Visual Studio Code (Michael Kennedy)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest Machine Learning Bots And Visual Studio (Ed Charbeneau)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 130 – 30 Million Downloads (Jo Overline) (CodeNewbie Team)
• CodingBlocks.NET Episode 56 – Clean Code – How to Build Maintainable Systems (Allen Underwood, Michael Outlaw & Joe Zack)
• Developer on Fire Episode 214 | Angie Jones – Extreme Involvement (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #338 – An Interview with Jørgen Jakobsen (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Adding a Content Script to your Edge Extension (keantonc & Rosshe)
• Windows Weekly 507: Cortana With Benefits and What The Tech Ep. 345: Project Scorpio Will Support Mixed Reality (Paul Thurrott)
• SSW TV – How to get started with VR with Alex Mackey and Lars Klint – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 and SSW TV – Developing Intelligent Apps with Power BI Embedded | Peter Myers and SSW TV – An introduction to Azure Functions with Paul Batum and Thiago Passos – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Not So Trivial: Things That Can Kill Your Focus and Developer Tea – Don’t Trust Your Friends (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Cosmic Queries: Spacetime (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• Xamarin Dev Days are Coming to your City! (Jayme Singleton)
• Vermont .NET Birthday Cakes Throughout the Years (Julie Lerman)
• Guru! Where are you? Time for the March 2017 Microsoft Small Basic Guru awards! (Ed Price)
• The Ebb & Flow of Community Participation (Andy)

 

Database

• How to change default port for SQL Server on Linux (Rajendra Gupta)
• 4 Free Things to Do with a Slow SQL Server (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – How to Apply Patch in AlwaysOn Availability Group Configuration? and Why to Use SQL Server Configuration Manager Over Services applet (services.msc)? – Interview Question of the Week #112 and SQL SERVER – SQL Browser not Starting. Error – The SQL Configuration for SQL is Inaccessible or Invalid (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Developers perspective on PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Szymon Warda)

 

Miscellaneous

• What to expect from the Windows 10 Creators Update (Ed Bott)
• How To Use Trello To Get A Better Handle on Your Writing (Desiree)
• Introducing Python Fire, a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (David Bieber)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-06 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-06 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2293 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1818 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #294 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #270 (Frank Boucher)
• Daily Links 4 Mar 2017 (Malcolm Jack)
• Happy March! It’s the Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 27th – March 5th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Mar 6, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending March 3, 2017 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #144 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #10, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)
• Things I’ve Learnt This Week (5th March) (Steve Gordon)

 

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