Day: April 26, 2017

Top Links

• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Lift and Shift vs App Services – When a VM in the Cloud isn’t what you want (Scott Hanselman)
• Turn your Postman Collection into a Microsoft integration (Joyce)
• Reactive Programming in Angular (Victor Savkin)
• Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – IV: Everything Else (Ben Bowen)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• TypeScript 2.3 gets smarter about JavaScript standards (Paul Krill)
• Using ImageSharp to resize images in ASP.NET Core – a comparison with CoreCompat.System.Drawing (Andrew Lock)
• Dynamically Add Components in Angular (Dave M. Bush)
• Best Practices for Error Handling in ASP.NET MVC (Matt Watson)
• How to create dynamic menu and page title with Angular Material and CLI (Michael Lang)
• Getting Started With Chart.js: Scales (Monty Shokeen)
• Using Custom Environments in ASP.NET Core (Dave White & Simon Timms)
• Automatically build and deploy ASP.NET Core projects to Azure App Services (Ahmed Metwally)
• Provide opt-out mechanism for new functionality using AppContext in .NET Core (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• Using Microsoft’s Deep Learning Toolkit with Spark on Azure HDInsight Clusters (Miruna Oprescu & Mary Wahl)
• Now announcing: Azure Media Player v2.0 (Saili Raje)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• 3 reasons to use the MVVM pattern (Matt Lacey)
• Xamarin Forms FastRenderers for Android (Adam Pedley)
• Xamarin Beta Release: 15.2 Preview 1 (Bri Brothers)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Visual Studio Team Services Integration with Jenkins (David Staheli)
• Implementing a Fibonacci Sequence with Value Tuples in C# 7 (Jeremy Clark)
• Visual Studio 2017 for the Mobile Developer (Mayur Tendulkar)
• A Visual Lexicon of LINQ (Michael Sorens)
• Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension April 2017 Update (RongLu)
• 7 Killer Visual Studio 2017 Features for Mobile Developers (Sam Basu)
• How to resolve a conflict during a rebase in Visual Studio – 115 (Sara Ford)
• Breakpoint Generator extension is open source (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Build & Deploy a Java Web Application using Team Services and Azure (Paul T. Barham)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Releasing Updates to Your NativeScript Apps on the iOS App Store and Google Play (TJ VanToll)
• Ionic 3: New Features In TypeScript 2.1 & 2.2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• 15 Best Swift App Templates (Davis Allie)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• The week in .NET – Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core book, We are the Dwarves (Bertrand Le Roy)
• AiA 139 ng-conf Roundup (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, Lukas Reubbelke & Ward Bell)
• Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 190 | News update on Office 365, Docker, Azure Functions, Azure Search and More Azure! (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 93: Making Mistakes (Carlos L. Chacon)
• Interview with Maria Naggaga, Program Manager on the .NET Team | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi & Maria Naggaga)
• RunAs Radio – Direct Memory Access Vulnerabilities with Sami Laiho (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
• Tuesdays with Corey – DockerCon Announces | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• MSSQL Extension for VS Code | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 289: James Turnbull on Declarative Programming with Terraform (Robert Blumen)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Chris Albon (Part 1 of 3) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community & Events

• Thank You, Linda Rising (Jeremy Clark)
• Back on the Road: KalamazooX, Work, and StirTrek (Jim Holmes)

 

Database

• Step-by-step Installation of SQL Server 2016 on a Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster – Part 4 (Edwin Sarmiento)
• Azure Load Balancers and SQL Server (Joshua Feierman)
• Get to cloud faster with a new database migration service private preview (SQL Server Team)

 

SharePoint

• Calling an Azure Function from a SharePoint Framework web part (SPFx) – part 1: use of PnP Core, CORS and continuous deployment (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Basics: Detecting if a String Ends with a Certain Character (Thomas Rayner)
• PowerShell Script to list WSUS Content Path (Ryan Catlin)

 

Miscellaneous

• Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 IT pro docs are now on docs.microsoft.com (Jeff Sandquist & Den Delimarsky)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-26 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2328 (Chris Alcock)

 

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