Dew Drop – March 8, 2017 (#2436)

Top Links – Visual Studio 2017 Launch Edition

• Announcing Visual Studio 2017 General Availability… and more (Julia Liuson)
• Visual Studio 2017: Productivity, Performance, and Partners (John Montgomery)
• Extend your App Success with Visual Studio 2017 Launch Partners and New benefits for Visual Studio subscribers and Dev Essentials members (Shawn Nandi)
• Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0 (Rich Lander)
• What’s New in the .NET Platform (Scott Hunter)
• Better Apps Faster with Visual Studio 2017 and Xamarin (Miguel de Icaza)
• Preview 4 – Visual Studio for Mac (Bri Brothers)
• Run To Click Debugging in Visual Studio 2017 (Kaycee Anderson)
• Mobile Center: Xamarin support, detailed app analytics, and more (Keith Ballinger)
• Visual Studio 2017 – Now Ready for Your Windows Application Development Needs (Karan Nandwani)
• Announcing F# 4.1 and the Visual F# Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (Visual F# Team)
• Announcing Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017 (Carly Meichen)
• OzCode v3.0: New Subscription Model (OzCode Team)
• Binary Compatibility and Pain-free Upgrade: Why Moving to Visual Studio 2017 is almost “too easy” (Marian Luparu)

 

Web Development

• Hello World: Concurrency In Node.js Using The Cluster Module (Ben Nadel)
• Reloading strongly typed options in ASP.NET Core 1.1.0 (Andrew Lock)
• Project.json to MSBuild conversion guide (Nate McMaster)
• WordPress.com now supports collaborative editing through Google Docs (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• Managing State in Angular with ngrx/store (Kim Maida)
• Building an app with express.js – pt1 (Timmy Kokke)
• Component Event Binding with @Output() in Angular 2 (Todd Motto)
• Autocomplete and Tooltips for Variables are Here (Bhawna Agarwal)
• Introduction to Azure Logic Apps (Christos Matskas)
• Orchestrating ngrx store access, rest API calls, and front-end logic (Michael Lang)
• Working with Windows Containers and Docker: Up and Running (Nicolas Prigent)
• Introduction to Animations in React (Roy Agasthyan)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Controls – Creating your own Markdown TextBlock in UWP (Alex Dunn)
• Validating User Input in Xamarin.Forms II (David Britch)
• Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.1 Alpha Preview 2 (Bri Brothers)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio 2017 RTM Is Here and We’re Ready (Galina Choliova)
• Visual Studio 2017 Development using a VM in Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
• How to create a Visual Studio 2017 offline installer? (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension March 2017 Update (RongLu)
• Open Source Scanning in Visual Studio Team Services with WhiteSource Bolt (Sam Guckenheimer)
• Released: Python support in Visual Studio 2017 (Steve Dower)
• C++ Code Analysis improvements in Visual Studio 2017 RTM (Sunny Chatterjee)
• Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017 (Jeff Gao)
• C++14 conformance improvements: constexpr and aggregate initialization and C++ Standards Conformance from Microsoft and MSVC: The best choice for Windows (Andrew Pardoe)
• .NET Core application, where is my EXE, how to publish and How to deploy a .NET Core console application to Azure, WebJob (Benjamin Perkins)
• Check for const correctness with the C++ Core Guidelines Checker (Sunny Chatterjee)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Introduction to Scrum for your database projects (Parvathy Natraj)
• Scrum Myth: The Sprint Backlog is a Commitment (Alasdair Macleod)
• How to use the GitHub tool window to make changes to a Pull Request from a contributor in Visual Studio – 066 (Sara Ford)
• What is Functional Testing? Types, Tips, Limitations & More (Angela Stringfellow)
• The Sublime Joy of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) (Matthew Jones)
• Microspeak: to reason over (Raymond Chen)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Official Release of TFVC Support for the Visual Studio Team Services Plugin for Android Studio and IntelliJ (Leah Antkiewicz)
• Adding Watson Speech-to-Text to your Android App (Vidyasagar Machupalli)
• MonoGame – v3.6 now available (Chris G. Williams)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio 2017 with Tim Sneath (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• What’s new for .NET Core and Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2017 Launch (Kendra Havens)
• Database DevOps with Redgate Data Tools | Visual Studio 2017 Launch (David Simner)
• Getting started with Azure in Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2017 Launch (Anthony Cangialosi)
• AiA 133 RxJS with Angular (John Papa)
• .NET Docker Development with Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio 2017 Launch (Steve Lasker)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 183 | Nintex Workflow Cloud with Ryan Duguid (Andrew Connell)
• Functional Geekery Episode 86 – Adelbert Chang (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – OneDrive for Business with Stephen Rose (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• SE-Radio Episode 284: John Allspaw on System Failures: Preventing, Responding, and Learning From (Robert Blumen)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Dain Miller (@dainmiller, part 1 of 3) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• GoingNative 57: VS 20th Anniversary Special | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll, Augustin Popa & Bryan DiLaura)

 

Community / Events

• Syncfusion to host Xamarin Dev Days Raleigh – June 10th 2017 (Marissa Keller Outten)
• SQL Clone competition – win an Amazon Echo Dot (Karis Brummitt)

 

Database

• Configure SQL Server on Linux (Daniel Farina)
• Moving from SQL Server to Couchbase Part 3: App Migration (Matthew Groves)
• SQL SERVER – Queries are in KILLED/ROLLBACK State with Wait PREEMPTIVE_OLEDB_RELEASE (Pinal Dave)
• Azure Data Lake Tools for VSCode (Preview) – March Update (Jenny Jiang)
• How to customize your formatting styles with SQL Prompt Pro (Tom Crossman & Andrei Rusitoru)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft’s Slack competitor, Teams, to be generally available March 14 (Mary Jo Foley)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-08 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-08 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2295 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1819 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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