August 2017 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – August 31, 2017 (#2552)

Top Links

Xamarin Live Player Preview 2: Continuously Run and Debug Apps (James Montemagno)
Free ebook: Introduction to Windows Containers (Kim Spilker)
Upgrading to .NET Core and .NET Standard Made Easy (Daniel Crabtree)
The UWP Community Toolkit v2.0 (Nikola Metulev)

Web & Cloud Development

Your First Angular App: Events and Updating (Peter Vogel)
WebStorm 2017.2.3 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
Concurrent JavaScript: It can work! (Filip Pizlo)
4 Benefits of Migrating to ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jonathan Danylko)
AWS X-Ray SDK for Go (Beta) (AWS Team)
React Crash Course for Beginners, Part 2 (David Gwyer)
Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric (Ahmed Metwally)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

2000 WPF Things #1,215 – Binding a TreeView to a Hierarchical Data Source (Sean Sexton)
Prism Template Pack in Visual Studio for Mac (Dan Siegel)
Xamarin Forms ListView grouping and styling the jump list (Steven Thewissen)
Upgrade PCL to .NET Standard Class Library (Adam Pedley)
UWP News – UWP Community Toolkit 2.0 has been released (Me)

Visual Studio & .NET

Developers: Updates to Visual Studio Team Services include preview of Release Definition Editor and more (Bill Briggs)
TFS 2018 RC1 is available (Brian Harry)
Visual Studio 2017 Installer Projects (Dirk Strauss)
Breakpoint Labels in Visual Studio (Steve Smith)
Concatenating Segments of an Audio File with NAudio (Mark Heath)
Diagnosing a VS-only build problem (Jon Skeet)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Merging Agile and DevOps (James Betteley & Matthew Skelton)
Grouping and Filtering Tests in Visual Studio Test Explorer (Jason Roberts)
Motivating Software Engineers 101 (7pace Team)
Understanding the Difference Between Static And Dynamic Code Analysis (Erik Dietrich)
You might not know this: Service Execution History in VSTS (Matteo Emili)
Microsoft .NET Architecture Guidance Released (Michael Stiefel)

Mobile & IoT

Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions (Chike Mgbemena)
#Opinion – How will #ARKit and #ARCore impact on #MixedReality (2017 is still on fire!) (Bruno Capuano)
NativeScript Licensing Explained (Rob Lauer)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Empathy Mapping with Diane Zajac-Woodie (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Xamarin Show Episode 29: Simple iOS Provisioning with fastlane (James Montemagno)
SSW TV – PowerShell on Office365 and SharePoint with Vlad Catrinescu and Adam Cogan – Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney 2017 and SSW TV – Effective Engagement and Collaboration with Christian Buckley and Adam Cogan – Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)
Developer on Fire Episode 265 | Indi Young – Empathy In the Problem Space (Dave Rael)
Low-Priority Virtual Machines (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Software Engineering Daily – Lending Machine Learning with Ofer Mendelevitch (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

Exclusive! Q&A with MS Paint Post-Imminent Death Rumors in July (Jacqueline Bieringer)
A Personal Journey – Swetha Machanavajhala (Microsoft Accessibility Team)
5 Tech Companies With Great Parental Leave Policies (Alyssa Mazzina)
Xbox Is At PAX West 2017 (Larry Hryb)
Philly Nerd Nite No. 78: Beer History, Neutrinos, and Voting Theory (Nerd Nite Team)

Database

Using ssh to connect to Linux for the SQL Server DBA (John Grover)
SQL SERVER – How to Migrate Master Database to New Location? (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

PowerShell – How to detect bad state VMs in a Hyper-V cluster? (Ramazan Can)

Miscellaneous

How to switch to the dark mode automatically on Windows 10 (Mauro Huculak)
JSON Serialization in Python using serpy (Siddhant Goel)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-31 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-31 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2416 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1921 (Mike Gunderloy)
Coding4Fun August 2017 Round-up (Greg Duncan)
Collective #344 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Kotlin in Action: Dmitry Jemerov, Svetlana Isakova: 9781617293290: Books

ISBN: 1617293296
ISBN-13: 9781617293290

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Dew Drop – August 30, 2017 (#2551)

Top Links

Experimental: Reducing the size of .NET Core applications with Mono’s Linker (Scott Hanselman)
React Crash Course for Beginners, Part 1 (David Gwyer)
Share More Code with .NET Standard 2.0 (James Montemagno)
Getting started with Rider and Unity (Matt Ellis)

Web & Cloud Development

React and Vue Support Coming to Kendo UI (Brian Rinaldi)
Model View Presenter, Angular, and Testing (Dave M. Bush)
ASP.NET Core 2 Brings (Jeff Martin)
4 Benefits of Migrating to ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jonathan Danylko)
BackboneJS: Getting Started (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
Exploring multi-stage Docker builds for Angular apps (Shayne Boyer)
Filtering in Angular (Deborah Kurata)
Azure Functions Visual Studio 2017 Tooling (Mark Heath)
Developing a User Profile Store with Golang and a NoSQL Database (Nic Raboy)
Go 1.9 Adds Parallel Compilation (Kay Ewbank)
Announcing Azure Blob storage events preview (Chris Brooks)
Set Up a React Environment, Part 3 and Set Up a React Environment, Part 4 (David Gwyer)
Creating distributed workflows with Azure Durable Functions (Tamir Dresher)
Expanding Kubernetes in the enterprise: Google Container Engine + Pivotal Container Service (Nan Boden)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

How to cook Azure Mobile Apps (node.js): Xamarin and .NET Standard (Sergiy Baydachnyy)
Xamarin.Forms Maps (Adam Pedley)
Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.4.0.269-pre2 (David Ortinau)

Visual Studio & .NET

Book Review: C# 7 and .NET Core: Modern Cross-Platform Development 2e (Mike James)
Get the Size of a File in FTP with C# (Srinath M S)
Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017 (Adam Welch)
Use all TFM’s with SDK-style projects in Visual Studio for Mac (Oren Novotny)
Getting Started Testing .NET Core Code with xUnit.net (Jason Roberts)
Importing raw memory dumps in dotMemory 2017.2 (Alexey Totin)
Aligning strings within string.Format and interpolated strings (Andrew Lock)
CodeSmith Generator 8.0.1 (Blake Niemyjski)
Manipulating blob storage from nodeJS & .NET (Dave Voyles)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Free e-books for software architecture meetups (Simon Brown)
Waterfall, Agile and Lean (Oh My!) (Cory Foy)
How To Get Your Team On Board (Leah Grantz)
The Getting Started Questions (K. Scott Allen)

Mobile & IoT

Report: Microsoft and Amazon are preparing to integrate Cortana and Alexa (Jez Corden)
A framework for evaluating your IoT infrastructure security (Microsoft IoT)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Functional Geekery Episode 105 – David Koontz (Steven Proctor)
RunAs Radio – Microsoft Reporting Ecosystem with David Pless (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
STEM Everyday #76: Creating a STEM Culture (Chris Woods)
Introducing Razor Pages (Seth Juarez)
Software Engineering Daily – Industrial IoT with Jayson Delancey (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Planning Series: Scaling and Detailing of Features (Jonathan Cutrell)
New React & Azure Cosmos DB Videos Are HERE (Burke H✪lland)

Community & Events

Progress Telerik UI for UWP Joins the .NET Foundation (Brian Rinaldi)
Top Ways To Celebrate Labor Day Weekend In Philadelphia (Grace Dickinson)
10 Questions with Kevin Collins (James Ashley)
An Inside Look at the Docker Captains Program (Jenny Burcio)
Save lives with code (and The Red Cross) (Karoline Klever)
SIGNAL London is coming! (Phil Nash)
Enjoy Dinosaurs & Beer at The Academy of Natural Sciences on September 8! (Yali Perez)
A Tale of Two Industries: How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries (David Robinson)

Database

SQL Server 2017 Graph Database Query Examples (Rajendra Gupta)
Sql Server: How do I get the filegroup, data file name, size and path of a database? (Paula DiTallo)
LocalDB: The Database Without a Connection String (Peter Vogel)
Aggregate grouping with N1QL or with MapReduce (Matthew Groves)

PowerShell

PowerShell Scripts for Obtaining File Metadata (Tim Smith)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16278 for PC (Dona Sarkar)
Inside the Massive 711 Million Record Onliner Spambot Dump (Troy Hunt)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-30 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-30 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2415 (Chris Alcock)
The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017 (Bertrand Le Roy)
Double Shot #1920 (Mike Gunderloy)

The Geek Shelf

Cross-platform Desktop Application Development: Electron, Node, NW.js, and React: Dmitry Sheiko: 9781788295697: Books

ISBN: 1788295692
ISBN-13: 9781788295697

del.icio.us Tags: visual studio,react,xamarin.forms,xamarin,.net standard,sql server,nosql,localdb,powershell,alexa,cortana,agile,unit testing,javascript,microsoft azure,kubernetes,windows 10

Dew Drop – August 29, 2017 (#2550)

Top Links

New WinDbg available in preview! (Andy Luhrs)
Telerik UI for UWP—Free and Updated XAML Controls (Daniel Jacobson)
Dependency Injection with Visual Basic .NET – Part 1 (André Obelink)
Leaner, meaner ASP.NET Core 2 logging (Nicholas Blumhardt)

Web & Cloud Development

Exploiting the Validation Tools in ASP.NET MVC (Peter Vogel)
TypeScript vs. JavaScript: Should you Migrate your JavaScript Coding Project to TypeScript? (Angela Stringfellow)
JavaScript Scope and Closures (Chris Coyier)
ASP.NET Core developers, meet Stackdriver diagnostics (Ian Talarico)
ebook deal of the week: ASP.NET Core Application Development (Kim Spilker)
Set Up a React Environment, Part 1 (David Gwyer)
How to build a conversational app using Cloud Machine Learning APIs, Part 3 (Chang Luo & Bob Liu)
Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications (free video course) (Jeffrey Richter)
Go 1.9 Introduces Type Aliases, Improves Runtime and Tooling (Sergio De Simone)
Troubleshooting Razor Pages and PageModel Classes (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

#Xamarin – Xamarin Live Player available with Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 (only for #VS2017 Preview) (Bruno Capuano)
Introducing the Xamarin Certified Mobile Professional Badge (Mark Smith)
Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 2 (Adrian Murphy)

Visual Studio & .NET

Azure via C# – Azure Functions in C# (Andrea Angella)
Importing raw memory dumps in dotMemory 2017.2 (Alexey Totin)
Missed Clippy? He’s baaackkkk… (Greg Duncan)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Unit testing multi-tenant database provider (Gunnar Peipman)
Learn how to use GitHub with your favorite IDE (Cynthia Rich)
Can’t Stop The Rush? Why Hurry Worry Is Plaguing Team Productivity (Leah Ryder)

Mobile & IoT

AlexaDev Tuesday: Three Quick Alexa Skill Debug Tips (April Hamilton)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Going Serverless Panel at NDC Oslo (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Working with team members that don’t accept Scrum | Blerina Ilia (Vasco Duarte)
Defrag Tools #183 – WinDbg Preview Part 2 | Defrag Tools and Defrag Tools #182 – WinDbg Preview Part 1 | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
The Amp Hour #357 – An Interview with Rick Altherr (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
Video Series: Modernizing .NET Apps for IT Pros (Elton Stoneman)
Functional Geekery Episode 105 – David Koontz (Steven Proctor)
Revision Path 206: Kim Goulbourne (Maurice Cherry)
SSW TV – Making Governance Consumable with Susan Handley and Adam Cogan – Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney 2017 (Sophie Belle)

Community & Events

Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Henry Been and Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Lia Keston (Willy-P. Schaub)
Windows Mixed Reality holiday update (Alex Kipman)
22+ Excellent Things To Do In Philly This Week, August 28-September 4 (Jillian Wilson)
You can be a girl who writes code and wears makeup (Liz Bander)
Kalamazoo X Conference 2018 (Mike Eaton)

Database

Setup and Implement SQL Server 2016 Always On Distributed Availability Groups (Edwin Sarmiento)
Protecting SQL Server from Ransomware (K. Brian Kelley)
SQL SERVER – Wait Stats Collection Scripts for 2016 and Later Versions (Pinal Dave)
Default compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases (Joseph Sack)

Miscellaneous

Does Microsoft’s brass still believe it has a chance in the phone market? (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-29 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-29 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2414 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Designing Bots: Creating Conversational Experiences: Amir Shevat: 9781491974827: Books

ISBN: 1491974826
ISBN-13: 9781491974827

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