Dew Drop – March 27, 2017 (#2448)

Top Links

• Command Line: Using dotnet watch test for continuous testing with .NET Core 1.0 and XUnit.net (Scott Hanselman)
• Modeling Battleship in C# – Introduction and Strategies (Matthew Jones)
• TWC9: Small Big Feature in VS 2017, Insane Dev VM, Howdy Json.NET 10.0, New MVP Show and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Seth Juarez)
• Service Fabric .NET SDK goes open source (Service Fabric Team)

 

Web Development

• Errors on Unused Sections in ASP.NET MVC Views (Peter Vogel)
• Paging in ASP.NET Core MVC and EntityFramework Core (Fons Sonnemans)
• CSS Custom Properties in Microsoft Edge (Greg Whitworth)
• DevStories Meetup: Building an API with ASP.NET Core (Kevin Dockx)
• Animate HTML Components In An Angular Application (Nic Raboy)
• Integrating ASP.NET Core With Webforms Using IIS URL Rewrite (Steve Wilkes)
• Creating an Angular 2 Injectable Service (Todd Motto)
• Using Azure AD with ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• Two ES6 features that help with CommonJS modules (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Manage Azure Resource Policies in the Azure Portal (Chris Pietschmann)
• Day 2 – Exploring Docker for Windows – Stopping and Restarting Containers (Michael Crump)
• Retraining an Azure Machine Learning Application (Michael Washington)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Forms application with MvvmCross – VIII (Can Bilgin)
• Xamarin.Tips – Xamarin.Forms iOS ListView Refresh Spinner Color (Alex Dunn)
• File Persistence in Xamarin.Forms Apps (Jesse Liberty)
• Beautiful Xamarin Apps (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
• Validating User Input in Xamarin.Forms IV (David Britch)
• How the UWP Community Toolkit helps Windows developers easily create well-designed and user-friendly apps (Windows Apps Team)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Exploring C# 7 (David Pine)
• How to use the VS status bar buttons as a shortcut to Team Explorer panes – 083 and How to use git revert to undo a previous commit – 084 and How to revert changes in Visual Studio – 085 (Sara Ford)
• Surface Dial for Dev’s (Greg Duncan)
• Google Spreadsheets and .NET Core (Marcos Placona)
• dotnet new Feature Selection (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Choosing New Habits (J. B. Rainsberger)
• Universal Architecture (Andrea Angella)
• Disabling projects on repositories (Ayman Nadeem)
• VSTest task dons a new avatar – testing with unified agents and phases (Prachi Bora)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Code Your First Ionic 2 App: A Photo Sharing App (Wernher-Bel Ancheta)
• Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 12– More Experiments with Shared Holographic Experiences (Mike Taulty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 034 – Bill Wagner on .NET Core Docs (Matthew Groves)
• Building Your First iOS App with Xamarin for Visual Studio (Chris van Wyk)
• Technology & Friends – Aaron Lerch on Hacking for Good (David Giard)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 223 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Xamarin Podcast: Enhanced XAML Productivity with MFractor (Pierce Boggan & Mike James)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest Micro Packages Angular 4 (Ed Charbeneau)
• Episode 225: Deep Learning with Microsoft CognitiveToolkit (CNTK) | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Chris Risner & mustafakasap)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 133 – Building Robot Vacuum Cleaners: An Intro to Embedded Systems (Chris Svec) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 220 | John Baluka – Fully Engaged (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #341 – All the way with DLJ (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• StarTalk Radio – Science and Technology in the Military, with Ash Carter (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Developer Tea – Using Substitute Questions to Gain a Better Perspective and Developer Tea – One Super Simple Tactic to Regain Your Time (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Inventory and Store System – Part 4.2 (Populating the Data) | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
• Azure Podcast Episode 171 – Secure Productive Enterprise (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• April 6th – Agile Uprising Event in Person! West Chester, PA (Ryan Lockard)
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center To Open In Plymouth Meeting This April — Score Free Tickets! (Michael Butler)
• The Windows Insiders Program – A Perspective (Raymond Dillon)

 

Database

• Performance Impact of SQL Server 2016 Row-Level Security (Aaron Bertrand)
• Script to Disable Non Used SQL Server Indexes (Eli Leiba)
• 5 Signs Your SQL Server Isn’t Wearing Pants (Brent Ozar)
• SQL SERVER – Could Not Use View or Function ‘msdb.dbo.sysdac_instances’ Because of Binding Errors and SQL SERVER – The Lease between Availability Group ‘PRODAG’ and the Windows Server Failover Cluster has Expired and What is the Difference between SUSPECT and RECOVERY PENDING? – Interview Question of the Week #114 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft Professional Program Expanding with More Tracks (Chris Pietschmann)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2308 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1828 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Things I’ve Learnt This Week (26th March) (Steve Gordon)
• Reading Notes #273 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #300 (Pedro Botelho)
• You Don’t Want To Miss These Great Blogs. Check Out The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: March 20th – March 26th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Mar 27, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• GameDev News – Week Ending March 24, 2017 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #147 (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

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