Dew Drop – June 27, 2017 (#2508)

Top Links

• 7 lesser known hacks for debugging in Visual Studio (Kaycee Anderson)
• Exploring CQRS within the Brighter .NET open source project (Scott Hanselman)
• .NET Rocks! – Ideas from Build with Holger Mueller (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Interactive 3D with UrhoSharp and Workbooks (Charles Petzold)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Testing ASP.NET Core Controllers in Isolation with Mock Objects and Moq (Jason Roberts)
• Form Validation Part 1: Constraint Validation in HTML (Chris Ferdinandi)
• Hashing, Encryption and Random in ASP.NET Core (Paul Hiles)
• Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning (Ankit Asthana)
• Microsoft’s Logic Apps Aims to Bring Serverless Functionality to Non-Coders (Mark Boyd)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• MultiSelect ListView in Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Welcome to UWP Tips – Quick tips and tricks for UWP app developers! (Me)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• C# Goes Back to BASICs with Local Functions (Tim Patrick)
• Bug stories: The data corruption in the cluster (Oren Eini)
• TFS 2017 Update 2 RC2 is available (Brian Harry)
• ebook deal of the week: Begin to Code with C# (Kim Spilker)
• Installing Visual Studio for Mac (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
• Extracting pages from a PDF document and saving them as separate image files, C# edition (Raymond Chen)
• Extracting text with iTextSharp throws an InvalidCastException (Kunal Chowdhury)
• CodeRush for Roslyn, Version 17.1.5 is Available (Mark Miller)
• Win2D 1.21.0 – SVG, improved HDR support, and bugfixes (Shawn Hargreaves)
• Remarkable Comments with Remarker (Greg Duncan)

 

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Money Transfer Saga, Part 1 — The Scenario (Tom Liversidge)
• Using nDepend to understand, and improve legacy codebases (Dror Helper)
• The Source Code IS the Design, not documents (Troy Lightfoot)
• The Surprising Cognitive Benefits Of Small Talk At Work (Lauren Moon)
• Properly Implementing the Singleton Pattern (David McCarter)

 

Mobile & IoT

• Android Notes App: Master-Detail Walkthrough (Adrian Hall)
• Accept Signatures in Your NativeScript Angular Mobile Application (Nic Raboy)
• Exploring the Mixed Reality Design Labs–Introduction and Experiment #1 (Mike Taulty)
• Building a floating HoloLens ‘info screen’ – 1 (Joost van Schaik)

 

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• InfoQ Podcast: Experiences in the Submarine Service and Tackling Big Issues Using Startup Weekend Events (Colart Miles)
• Technology & Friends – Radu Vunvulea on Surviving in the IoT World (David Giard)
• Windows Central Podcast 54: Apps in the Store (Zac Bowden)
• The Nerdist Podcast – Edgar Wright (Chris Hardwick)
• Entreprogrammers Episode 173 “John’s Law” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• Defrag Tools #181 – System Power Report | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Code PaLOUsa Mobile Panel (Ed Charbeneau)
• Functional Geekery Episode 99 – Christiano Haesbaert (Steven Proctor)
• Revision Path 197: Ekpemi Anni (Maurice Cherry)
• Talk Python to Me #118 – Serverless software (Michael Kennedy)
• Partially Derivative Podcast – Do. Or Do Not. There Is No AI (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
• Security Features on IoT Core and SysSieve: Extracting Actionable Insights from Unstructured Text (Seth Juarez)

 

Community & Events

• Attending Microsoft Inspire 2017? Hear firsthand about technical services to accelerate your business! (Christi Jastram)
• Paint.NET developer planning to bring app to Windows Store using Microsoft’s Desktop Bridge (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• 10+ Museums Offering Free Admission During July 4th Week In Philadelphia (Grace Dickinson)
• 30+ Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, June 26-July 2 (Jillian Wilson)
• A Software Developer’s Guide to Speaking and Conferences (John Sonmez)
• Save the Date: NativeScript Developer Day Sept 18-19 in NYC (Rob Lauer)

 

Database

• 3 Solutions For Auditing Long SQL Server Extracts or Loads (Tim Smith)
• MySQL – Fix – Error – Your Password does not Satisfy the Current Policy Requirements (Pinal Dave)
• Testing the Extract, Transform, and Load Process in Data Warehouses (Matthew Heusser)

 

PowerShell

• What is PowerShell Start Process? How to Execute a File from a Command Line in Windows (Angela Stringfellow)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft delays Teams’ Guest Access feature (Mary Jo Foley)
• [How To] Use Windows Memory Diagnostics In Windows 10 (Kapil Arya)
• Windows 10 Tip: Personalize your PC with new themes in the Windows Store (Bill Davis)
• Buy a book on the Windows Store and score $5 in free credit (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• What’s new with OneNote in the classroom—LMS integrations, Researcher and more stickers (Scott Shapiro)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-27 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-27 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2370 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1876 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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