Dew Drop – April 5, 2017 (#2456)

Top Links

• Reviewing ASP.Net Core (Jeremy D. Miller)
• MSTest V2 is open source (Pratap Lakshman)
• Eat, Sleep Code – Automapper for .NET Core (Ed Charbeneau)
• Rider EAP update: .csproj-based .NET Core support (and how to migrate) (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Non-Module File Paths Are Relative To The “Working Directory” In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• Unit Testing Angular(2+) with JSDOM (Dave M. Bush)
• PhpStorm 2017.1 Brings New Debugger Improvements (Gary Hockin)
• Add SSO for Disqus on your WordPress Site with Auth0 (Carlos Mostek)
• Deploy a Node.js with Couchbase Web Application as Docker Containers (Nic Raboy)
• Avoid Lazy Loading Entities in ASP.NET Applications (Steve Smith)
• Glimpse from the TagHelpers Future – Adding TagHelpers via Dependency Injection (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Edge starts work on their Grid implementation update (Rachel Andrew)
• Swagger, the REST Kryptonite (Jimmy Bogard)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: JSON at Work – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Test Cloud – Building 5 star apps (Gerald Versluis)
• MarkdownTextBlock Improvements in UWP Community Toolkit 1.4 (Roland Weigelt)
• Securing Web Requests with TLS 1.2 (James Montemagno)
• Await your event handlers completion with Deferred Events (Pedro Lamas)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• The cost of allocating memory and cheating like crazy for best performance (Oren Eini)
• Setting up and using GitHub in Visual Studio 2017 (Benjamin Perkins)
• C# 7.0: Throw expressions (Gunnar Peipman)
• Here’s how to read emails from Outlook using C# (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Abstract Factory Design Pattern In C# (Ranjeet Patra)
• How to not quit your career when Git (via Visual Studio) adds <<<< HEAD into your code – 094 (Sara Ford)
• Cannot Go To Definition on Generic Types in VS2017 (Daniel Crabtree)
• Developing with .NET on Microsoft Azure (K. Scott Allen)
• Working with the API Management REST API using .NET (Steef-Jan Wiggers)
• High-DPI Scaling Improvements for Desktop Applications in the Windows 10 Creators Update (Peter Felts)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• QA in Production (Martin Fowler)
• How To Checkin Files To 2 TFVC Projects At The Same Time – Developer Support Team Foundation Server (Jeff Lambert)
• Integrating Smoke Tests into your Continuous Delivery Pipeline (Ed Blankenship)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Creating Your First Native Mobile App with Visual Studio (Part 1) (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• App Compatibility with SQL Server on Linux | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 187 | Cloud News on Office 365, Skype, Azure, and ISVs (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – On .NET on SonarLint and SonarQube, Happy birthday .NET with Dan Fernandez, nopCommerce, Steve Gordon (Bertrand Le Roy)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 90: DBCC CheckDB (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Mission to Mars (Ceren)
• STEM Everyday #59: The moment you realize you were meant to be a teacher (Chris Woods)
• Functional Geekery Episode 89 – Baishampayan Ghose (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – The Delivery Pipeline with Steven Murawski (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• A Mavic change for Ch9 | Drones Garage (Larry Larsen & Jacob Orchard)
• Interview with Laura Butler, Microsoft Vice President Star Treknical Goddess | GALs (Soumow Atitallah)

 

Community & Events

• Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Sanchez Aguilar (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft on this day, April 4, in 1975 (Al Sacco)

 

Database

• SQL SERVER – Msg 3136, Level 16 – This Differential Backup Cannot be Restored Because the Database has not Been Restored to the Correct Earlier State (Pinal Dave)
• Backup and restore of a SQL Clone (Steve Jones)

 

Miscellaneous

• Getting started with Microsoft Teams (MS Downloads)
• Time to check your Windows Insider Program settings! (Dona Sarkar)
• Learn Small Basic (Ed Price)
• Autoruns in Windows (Kim Spilker)
• Part 1: Become acquainted with PowerApps and Flow (Martina Grom & Tony Champion)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-05 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-05 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2315 (Chris Alcock)

 

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