Day: April 19, 2017

Top Links

• Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.2 (Sarika Calla)
• Facebook announces React Fiber, a rewrite of its React framework (Frederic Lardinois)
• Building a Telepresence App with HoloLens and Kinect (James E. Ashley)
• ASP.NET – Overposting/Mass Assignment Model Binding Security (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Cache Dependency in ASP.NET Core (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Removing the MVC Razor dependencies from the Web API template in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock)
• Angular(2+) Model Driven Forms Are Superior (Dave M. Bush)
• Using Storyteller with ASP.Net Core Systems (Jeremy D. Miller)
• You Need ES2017’s Async Functions. Here’s Why … (Derick Bailey)
• Getting Started With Chart.js: Introduction (Monty Shokeen)
• Freezing JavaScript Objects With Object.freeze() (Swathi Prasad)
• Using memory cache in ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman)
• IBM Has A Nice API Explorer (Kin Lane)
• Cloud Speech API is now generally available (Dan Aharon)
• Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems (Justin Cormack)
• Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 2 (Olivier Martin)
• Vuejs 2 Authentication Tutorial (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
• Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement (Solomon Hykes)
• Introducing Graph API v2.9 (Steven Elia)
• Running Docker containers on Bash on Windows (Tomas Lycken)
• All your websites using StartCom certificates are about to break (Troy Hunt)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tips – MVVM Light Set Expressions Explained (Alex Dunn)
• #VS2017 – About C# regions and now #Xaml regions also (What?!) (Bruno Capuano)
• Xamarin.Tips – Android Bar Background Images in Xamarin.Forms (Alex Dunn)
• Building a hybrid app with Xamarin.Forms (Gerald Versluis)
• Adding a Calendar to Your Xamarin.Forms Apps with the Telerik Calendar (Sam Basu)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Using Entity Framework Core in-memory database for unit testing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Covariant and Contravariant Casting is 3x Slower than Dynamic (Daniel Crabtree)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile and the Theory of Constraints – Part 3: The Development Team (3) (Eric Gunnerson)
• Domain Command Patterns – Validation (Jimmy Bogard)
• How to know what the capitalized letter means in [Y/n] – 108 (Sara Ford)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android and iOS development with C++ in Visual Studio (RongLu)
• 15 Best Ionic App Templates (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Announcing New Alexa Skill Builder (Beta), a Tool for Creating Skills and Improve Skill Quality with the New Beta Testing Tool for Alexa Skills (Beta) (Martha Kang)
• Messenger Platform 2.0 Debuts at F8 (Mikhail Larionov)
• 5 Plugins to Monetize Your NativeScript App (Rob Lauer)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 92: SSDT (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest – Automapper update, Native Mobile, Editors and JavaScript Dominates (Ed Charbeneau)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 189 | Discussion with Paul Schaeflein about developing in Hybrid Environments (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole, TinyORM, 911 Operator (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Functional Geekery Episode 91 – Jay McCarthy (Steven Proctor)
• RunAs Radio – Automation using Azure with Jennelle Crothers (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Synonyms in Azure Search | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 288: DevSecOps (Kim Carter)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Ben Halpern (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community & Events

• How to Join the SQL Server Community Chat in Slack (Brent Ozar)
• Microsoft buys Intentional Software; Simonyi to rejoin Microsoft (Mary Jo Foley)
• Facebook Introduces Developer Circles (Ime Archibong)
• Announcing the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 agenda (Matthew Panzarino & Chrystine L. Villarreal)

 

Database

• Exporting and Importing SQL Server Always Encrypted Certificates for Client Access (Thomas LaRock)
• Upgrading SQL Server running on Ubuntu to latest update (Manvendra Singh)
• Top three capabilities to get excited about in the next version of SQL Server (SQL Server Team)
• Announcing Couchbase Analytics Developer Preview 2 (Sachin Smotra)

 

Miscellaneous

• Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launches USAFacts, using business principles for unprecedented government analysis (Todd Bishop)
• Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1.20 now available for download! (Simon Coter)
• Introducing Power Throttling (Bill Karagounis)
• Developer Digest: Automating Wedding Stress Away in Python (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Part Three: Become acquainted with PowerApps and Flow (Adis Jugo & Tony Champion)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-19 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-19 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2323 (Chris Alcock)

 

The Geek Shelf