Dew Drop – March 9, 2017 (#2437)

Top Links

• Iterations on infinity (John Lea)
• Optimize your productivity with .NET in Visual Studio 2017 (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
• Announcing NuGet 4.0 RTM (Anand Gaurav)
• Setting up Visual Studio 2017 for Xamarin Development (James Montemagno)
• Day 11 – Exploring .NET Core with Visual Studio 2017 and the updated CLI Tools (Michael Crump)

 

Web Development

• JavaScript Interview Day # 1: How to create a Class (Dhananjay Kumar)
• ASP.NET Core Response Cache (Gunnar Peipman)
• Azure Functions vs Web Jobs: How to choose? (Chris Pietschmann)
• Node v7.7.2 (Current) (Evan Lucas)
• A way too early discussion of “Jasper” (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Debugging the Web Browser Control with FireBug (Rick Strahl)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms Layout Challenges – Timeline (Kym)
• Join Xamarin University for Free Mobile Development Training (Mark Smith)
• Validating User Input in Xamarin.Forms II (David Britch)
• Build Your First App with UI for Xamarin and Visual Studio 2017 (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Forms Previewer and Custom Controls (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• How to call an async method from a console app main method (Benjamin Perkins)
• BizTalk Server 2016 Developer edition is now available on Visual Studio Dev Essentials (BizTalk Team)
• Azure Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio (Jie Su)
• Using Dependency Injection in Multiple .NET Core Projects (Juergen Gutsch)
• Big Stackify .NET APM Update is Here! v4.6 of Windows Agent Release (Matt Watson)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to make quick edits in the diff view in Visual Studio – 067 (Sara Ford)
• Customized backlog levels, mobile work item form improvements, notifications for extensions – Mar 8 (Aaron Bjork)
• Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 1 Available (Brian Harry)
• What It Means to Care Personally About Your Team (Russ Laraway)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• PhoneGap vs Xamarin vs Titanium: Which is Better (Prateek Tiwari)
• Visual Studio Mobile Center – First Thoughts (Kevin Ford)
• Frequency Matters When It Comes to Push Notifications (Becky Young)
• New Split Pane and more, Ionic 2.2.0 is out! (Mike Hartington)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – Azure App Service Killer Features with Nick Walker (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• AiA MAS 008 Shai Reznik: My Angular Story (John Papa)
• SSW TV – Top 3 Features of C# 7 in 2 minutes! and SSW TV – Highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2017 Gold Coast (Sophie Belle)
• The week in .NET – Visual Studio 2017, .NET Core SDK, F# 4.1, On .NET with Phillip Carter, Happy Birthday from John Shewchuk, FNA, Pyre (Bertrand Le Roy)
• RiYL Episode 207: Tommy Stinson and Chip Roberts (Brian Heater)
• Talk Python to Me #102 – Effective Code Reviews (Michael Kennedy)
• What The Tech Ep. 346: Microsoft’s Link to the Cloud (Paul Thurrott)
• Radio TFS – Back with Ben Day (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Dain Miller (@dainmiller, part 1 of 3) (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Becoming a software developer – episode VII (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

Community / Events

• Philly .NET Meeting (March 15th) – Visual Studio 2017 (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
• Celebrating the Women Who Inspire Us (Bing Team)
• Why I strike: for women in science (Elizabeth Lopatto)

 

Database

• Configure SQL Server on Linux (Daniel Farina)
• Introduction to PolyBase in SQL Server 2016 – Part 2 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Automatically filling your SQL Server test databases with data (Phil Factor)

 

PowerShell

• Developers perspective on PowerShell Desired State Configuration (Szymon Warda)
• DSC Resource Kit Release March 2017 (Katie Keim)

 

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15051 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Relationship Hacks – Mindfulness – Don’t live your life by default (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-09 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2296 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #295 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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