Dew Drop – April 27, 2017 (#2467)

Top Links

• The MVP Show Learns about ASP.NET, Identity Server, and Heidelberg (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Rearchitecting Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Packaging a self-contained .NET Core app for Windows Installer (Nicholas Blumhardt)
• Angular 4.1.0 Now Available (Stephen Fluin)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• WebStorm 2017.1.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Enable Ignite UI for JavaScript Grid Features in ASP.NET MVC Applications (Infragistics Team)
• ASP.NET Core Logging with Azure App Service and Serilog (Mike Rousos)
• Twilio Notify – Public Beta Now Open (Donnie Wang)
• A Gif Guide to Getting Started with Kendo UI (Tara Z. Manicsic)
• Better Node.js Install Management with Node Version Manager (Andrew Connell)
• General CSS path transform for ASP.NET bundling (Gunnar Peipman)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin Forms FastRenderers for Android (Adam Pedley)
• WPF Tip #9 – ObservableCollection and the CollectionChanged Event (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Xamarin.Controls – Xamarin.Forms FloatingActionButton (including iOS!) and Xamarin.Tips – Fixing the Highlighting Drop In Your Xamarin.Android Projects (Alex Dunn)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5.235-pre2 (David Ortinau)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• New, Updated C++ Tooling in Visual Studio 2017, VS Code (Michael Domingo)
• Visual Studio 2017 – Update 2 Preview (Jeff Martin)
• C# Futures: Relaxed Overrides (Jonathan Allen)
• How to create a local copy of a remote branch in Visual Studio – 116 (Sara Ford)
• Where can I find the Visual Studio ALM Ranger bits? Bookmark one URL! (Willy-P. Schaub)
• dotnet CLI Tool Build Redux (Greg Duncan)
• Surprise! Creating an instance of an open generic type (Jon Skeet)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• How to Execute Postman Collections in your Continuous Integration Pipeline with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and newman (Jon Gallant)
• The Ultimate Guide to Performance Testing and Software Testing: Testing Types, Performance Testing Steps, Best Practices, and More (Angela Stringfellow)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Cordova iOS 4.4.0 (Shazron Abdullah)
• #Hololens – Alternative fix to the TapToPlace and WorldAnchor issue (until official #HoloToolkit release) (Bruno Capuano)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• .NET Rocks! – DevOps Readiness Assessment with Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Episode 22: Kimono Designer for SkiaSharp with Kevin Mullins | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• Developer on Fire Episode 229 | John Le Drew – Stimulus and Response (Dave Rael)
• Becoming a software developer – episode XIV (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

Community / Events

• Philly Nerd Nite No. 74: A collaboration with YPACS (Nerd Nite Team)

 

Database

• Checking SQL Server Query Cardinality Estimator Version (Ben Snaidero)
• SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Service – OS Error 5 (Access is denied.) for TempDB (Pinal Dave)
• Using striped backups with SQL Clone (Steve Jones)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Basics: Detecting if a String Ends with a Certain Character (Thomas Rayner)

 

Miscellaneous

• Programming newsletters are the future (Jakub Chodounsky)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Learning TensorFlow – $21.25 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-27 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2329 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1836 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #309 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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