Dew Drop – April 20, 2017 (#2462)

Top Links

• SQL Server 2017 Community Technology Preview 2.0 now available (SQL Server Team)
• Visual Studio Code – April 2017 Update | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
• New Offline Books for Visual Studio 2017 Available for Download (Den Delimarsky)
• Keynote | Microsoft Data Amp 2017 (Scott Guthrie & Joseph Sirosh)
• 7 habits of highly effective C# developers (Jakub Chodounsky)

 

Web Development

• As A Node.js Novice, I Don’t Understand Why Uncaught Exceptions Are So Dangerous (Ben Nadel)
• Creating a basic Web API template using dotnet new custom templates (Andrew Lock)
• A Vue.js introduction for people who know just enough jQuery to get by (Chris Coyier)
• Getting Started With Chart.js: Line and Bar Charts (Monty Shokeen)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• ASP.NET Core Middleware Components are Singletons (K. Scott Allen)
• OSS Spotlight: Swagger (Chris Pietschmann)
• With ES7 And Beyond, Do You Need To Know ES6 Generators? (Derick Bailey)
• See what’s coming soon on Postman’s product roadmap (Joyce)
• Modernizing the DOM tree in Microsoft Edge (Travis Leithead & Matt Kotsenas)
• DZone Refcardz – RESTful API Lifecycle Management (John Vester)
• Running Docker containers on Bash on Windows (Tomas Lycken)
• All your websites using StartCom certificates are about to break (Troy Hunt)
• Radzen–The New LightSwitch? (Michael Washington)
• Two Ways To Build a Recursive Logic App (Frank Boucher)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Share Dialog with Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin.Controls – Android ArcLayout and Xamarin.Tips – Fixing the Highlighting Drop In Your Xamarin.Forms Projects (Alex Dunn)
• Trigger PropertyChanged of indexed property in Xamarin Forms (Pieter Nijs)
• Preview: Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
• Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.2 Alpha Preview 3 (Bri Brothers)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Code Reviews and Presentations with Visual Studio, Part 2 (Terrence Dorsey)
• Using Entity Framework Core in-memory database for unit testing (Gunnar Peipman)
• Value Tuples in C# 7: Please Tell Me I’m Doing This Wrong (Jeremy Clark)
• C# Futures: Read-Only References and Structs (Jonathan Allen)
• How to add Git Bash to your Visual Studio menu – 109 (Sara Ford)
• .NET Core and SQL Server in Docker – Part 1: Building the Service (Lauri Nevala)
• C++ Unit Testing in Visual Studio (Augustin Popa)
• Covariant and Contravariant Casting is 3x Slower than Dynamic (Daniel Crabtree)
• Built-in High DPI Support Coming to Telerik UI for WinForms (Ivan Petrov)
• How I removed 50% of the code (Michał Komorowski)
• A Year of Tips (Steve Smith)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Anatomy of a Great Product Design Engineer (with Infographic) (Nicole Pontius)
• A Guide to Security Best Practices for Remote Teams (Amin Shah Gilani)
• Book Discussion Questions for Radical Candor (Elisse Lockhart)
• The Most Productive People Think This More Often: Charles Duhigg (Jessica Webb)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Quick Tip: Working With Custom Fonts in Android O (Jessica Thornsby)
• ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps (Greg Duncan)
• Introducing the Modernize Traditional Apps Program (Scott Johnston)
• DZone Refcardz – Getting Started With Appium (Dave Haeffner)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – Antibiotic Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Windows Insider Program gets its own community-focused podcast (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• Snack Pack 10: Planet Xamarin – Community Blog Feed | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Developer on Fire Episode 227 | Robert Blumen – Content Creation Mentor (Dave Rael)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XIII (Piotr Gankiewicz)
• Radio TFS – Richard and Rik Spring into DevOps (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

 

Community & Events

• MVP Community Connection 2017: Belgrade (MVP Award Program)
• Windows Developers at Microsoft Build 2017 (Windows Apps Team)

 

Database & Analytics

• SQL Server 2016 enhancements – Truncate Table and Table Partitioning (Prashanth Jayaram)
• Step-by-step Installation of SQL Server 2016 on a Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster – Part 3 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Announcing the General Availability (GA) Release of SSDT 17.0 (April 2017) (Ken Van Hyning)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: The SQL Server Failed to Initialize VIA Support Library [QLVipl.dll] (Pinal Dave)
• When should I add an index? (Kenneth Fisher)
• Introducing Microsoft R Server 9.1 release (Nagesh Pabbisetty)
• Delivering AI with data: the next generation of Microsoft’s data platform (Joseph Sirosh)

 

PowerShell

• DSC Resource Kit Release April 2017 (Katie Keim)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introduction to Microsoft To-Do (Gunnar Peipman)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16179 for PC + Build 15205 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• Introducing Microsoft To-Do—now available in Preview (Ori Artman)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2324 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #307 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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