August 2017 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – August 16, 2017 (#2543)

Posted on August 16, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Exploring refit, an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Standard (Scott Hanselman)
Updates in Visual Studio 2017 based on your UserVoice suggestions (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
Toolkits, Toolkits, Toolkits! (Clint Rutkas)
Announcing the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (Steve Roberts)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Upgrade NgRX to 4.x (Dave M. Bush)
WebStorm 2017.2.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
5 Common Myths Around Moving to Docker (Megan Rees Ahigian)
Azure Functions with Couchbase Server (Matthew Groves)
Node v8.4.0 (Current) (Anna Henningsen)
Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions (Chris Pietschmann)
Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell (Corey Sanders)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

LiveXAML and Xamarin.Forms (Tomasz Cielecki)
Reducing App File Size In Xamarin.Forms (Adam Pedley)
Android and F# are at last friends (Sam Williams)

Visual Studio & .NET

Picking up New Project Template right from the Start Page in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
Practical C# – Sequence Equality (Andrea Angella)
How to use the C++ Core Guidelines Checker outside of Visual Studio (Andrew Pardoe)
Working with JSON in C# & VB (Graeme Grant)
Global query filters in Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
.NET Core 2.0: Everything you need to know (Simon Bisson)
Changes to Project Templates and Code Wizards in 15.3 (Augustin Popa)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Create Gradient-Filled Objects With the Blend Tool in Adobe Illustrator (Creative Cloud Team)
CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 8 (Erik Dietrich)
How to View Usability Study Results in Indigo Studio (Infragistics Team)
Evolving API Pagination at Slack (Michael Hahn)
GitHub – Introducing embedded code snippets (Lexi Galantino)

Mobile & IoT

How to Setup Android Emulator using Android Studio (Karan Rustagi)
Bringing Your User Profile Store to Mobile with NativeScript and Angular (Nic Raboy)
#Hololens – Getting Started with #MixedRealityToolkit #MRToolkit (Bruno Capuano)
Designing Skills for Echo Show: Choosing the Right List Template (Martha Kang)
Scaffold Your Next Mobile App with a NativeScript Template (Sebastian Witalec)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Design Patterns: Adapter and Façade | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Technology and Friends Episode 496: Oren Eini on RavenDB (Oren Eini)
Building Visual Studio Code Extensions with Sean McBreen | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway & Maria Naggaga)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 207 | Microsoft AI Part 2: Bot Framework with Paul Stubbs (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
ngAir 126 – Managing Code for Multiple Apps and Teams with Jeff Whelpley and Gleb Bahmutov (Justin Schwartzenberger)
Functional Geekery Episode 104 – Debasish Ghosh (Steven Proctor)
RunAs Radio – Azure and Azure Stack with Aidan Finn (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Talk Python to Me #125 – Django REST framework and a new API star is born (Michael Kennedy)
Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Container Instances with WINDOWS containers (RicksterCDN)
Enterprise HDInsight Monitoring with Operations Management Suite | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
SE-Radio Episode 300: Jonathan Stark on Mobile App Development (Nate Black)
Are Microservices and APIs Becoming SOA 2.0? (Bob Rhubart)
Software Engineering Daily – Building Developer Communities with Juan Pablo Buriticá (Jeff Meyerson)

Community & Events

Webinar: Publish Your Android APK on Amazon (Serena McIntire)
Live Webinar: Take your .NET Skills from the Desktop to Android and iOS (Mark Smith)
So Your Tech Event Needs Money? (Sam Basu)
Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing for its high-performance cloud computing expertise (Tom Krazit)
Three Hidden Takeaways from Code.org’s AP Computer Science News (Tracey Welson-Rossman)

Database

Additional SERVERPROPERTY properties in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
What If Week: SQL Server Code Review (Erik Darling)

PowerShell

PSSwagger – Automatically generate PowerShell cmdlets from OpenAPI (f.k.a Swagger) specification (Manikyam Bavandla)
Rapidly deploy Serverless Azure Functions using PowerShell (Doug Finke & Albert Duan)

Miscellaneous

Surface Laptop Core i7 in Burgundy and Cobalt Blue are now available in the U.S. (Daniel Rubino)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-16 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2406 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1910 (Mike Gunderloy)
The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links! (Bertrand Le Roy)

The Geek Shelf

Amazon Web Services in Action: Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig: 4708364244448: Books

ISBN: 1617292885
ISBN-13: 9781617292880

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Dew Drop – August 15, 2017 (#2542)

Posted on August 15, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released (John Montgomery)
Announcing .NET Core 2.0 (Rich Lander)
Announcing .NET Standard 2.0 (Immo Landwerth)
New for Visual Basic: .NET Standard Class Libraries and the dotnet CLI! (Anthony D. Green)
Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

Web & Cloud Development

How to Upgrade NgRX to 4.x (Dave M. Bush)
Azure Functions Tools released for Visual Studio 2017 Update 3 (Donna Malayeri)
Me on React: an old dog with new tricks (Remy Sharp)
What’s New In 2.1.0 – URL Rewrite Administration (IIS Team)
Launch – AWS Glue Now Generally Available (Randall Hunt)
The SDK ‘Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Web’ specified could not be found (Andrew Lock)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

WPF Tip #18 – Extended WPF Toolkit – Using the CheckedListBox Control (Me)
Xamarin.Mac and netstandard2 (Chris Hamons)
Xamarin Stable Release: 15.3 (Bri Brothers)
Adding Storage to Mobile Apps with OneDrive for Business (Mayur Tendulkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Practical C# – Sequence Equality (Andrea Angella)
F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update (Phillip Carter)
Mastering Visual Studio 2017 (Dirk Strauss)
Using ES2017 Async Functions (Eric Windmill)
The Visual Studio 2017 Color Theme Editor is Finally Available! (Greg Duncan)
Like-operator in Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Gunnar Peipman)
How Visual Studio’s Private Gallery Helps Us Create a Better Product (Mark Miller)
CRUD Operation With JSON File Data In C# (Mukesh Kumar)
Accessibility improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 (Dante Gagne)
CMake Support in Visual Studio: Customizing your Environment (Will Buik)
Akka.NET v1.3 is Now Available on .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 1.6 (Aaron Stannard)
Managing warnings in the C++ Core Guidelines Checker (Andrew Pardoe)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.0 (Diego B. Vega)
Using .NET Core 2.0 SDK on Travis (Jon Skeet)
.NET Core 2.0 Changes – 4 Key Things to Know (Matt Watson)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Creating Agile HR, Part 6: the Agile Compensation System (Johanna Rothman)
ebook deal of the week: Agile Project Management with Kanban (Kim Spilker)
Code Unit Testing – 5 Essential Tips You Can’t Neglect (Leah Grantz)
Testing Automation: The Big Picture (Jason Roberts)
Git vulnerability with submodules (Edward Thomson)
Keep track of GitHub issues using a Postman collection (Harendra Singh)

Mobile & IoT

Universal iOS Apps with React Native (Adrian Hall)
AlexaDev Tuesday: A Simplified Approach To Coding Skills For Echo Show (April Hamilton)
Unity for Xbox One X (Oli Williams)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Technology & Friends – Kent Alstad on Leadership (David Giard)
InfoQ Podcast: Jez Humble on Making Continuous Delivery Work and Responding to Discrimination in Tech (Jez Humble)
Windows Central Podcast 61: Are Surface devices unreliable? (Zac Bowden)
.NET Core 2.0 Released! (Beth Massi)
Gone Mobile 55: Embeddinating .NET Everywhere with Jonathan Peppers (Greg Shackles & Jon Dick)
JSJ 274: Amazon Voice Services and Echo Skills with Terrance Smith (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Joe Eames)
App Service Domains | Azure Friday (Donovan Brown & Rob Caron)
Functional Geekery Episode 104 – Debasish Ghosh (Steven Proctor)
Revision Path 204: Hans Dorsinville (Maurice Cherry)
Partially Derivative Podcast – Art-ificial Intelligence (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
Software Engineering Daily – QA Testing with Jonathan Alexander (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Plate’s Cave and Defeating Biases (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Philly .NET Meetup – Azure DevOps (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
Swift creator Chris Lattner joins Google Brain after Tesla Autopilot stint (Darrell Etherington)
10 Questions with Michael Gourlay (James Ashley)
Our Culture and Values at Auth0 (Kim Maida)
Congratulations Team X.GLU – The 2017 Imagine Cup Champions! (MVP Award Program)
NativeScript Developer Day—Announcing the Final Speaker Lineup (TJ VanToll)

Database

Using SQL Server sqlcmd scripting variables (Daniel Farina)
SQL SERVER – Database Files Initial Size Changing Automatically (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

New Tools in Windows Device Portal for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Hirsch Singhal)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-15 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2405 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1909 (Mike Gunderloy)
Azure Weekly: Aug 14, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Starting Out With Visual Basic (7th Edition): 9780134400150: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com

ISBN: 0134400151
ISBN-13: 9780134400150

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Dew Drop – August 14, 2017 (#2541)

Posted on August 14, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Hello WebAssembly (Miguel de Icaza)
.NET and WebAssembly – Is this the future of the front-end? (Scott Hanselman)
Multilingual (Localization) Plugin for Xamarin (Charlin Agramonte)
Build your own VPN with Microsoft Azure #OSS (Cheng Bin Tham)

Web & Cloud Development

An Introduction To Programming In Go By Caleb Doxsey (Ben Nadel)
Angular Configuration using ASP.NET Core settings (Damien Bowden)
Easy JavaScript Part 4: What is the arguments object in a function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Working with Environment Variables in Node.js (Dominik Kundel)
Taking Advantage of the Angular Material Datepicker (Miles Malerba)
JavaScript-Based Animations Using Anime.js, Part 4: Callbacks, Easings, and SVG (Monty Shokeen)
ASP.NET Core: Converting C# enums to JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
ES proposal: Optional catch binding (Axel Rauschmayer)
DZone Refcard #244 – Getting To Know Google Compute Engine And How To Use It (David Posin)
How to change the Tomcat port from 8080 to 80 in a Dockerfile (Donovan Brown)
Uploading Files to Azure Data Lake Using a .NET App (Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan)
Creating a Custom .NET Activity Pipeline for Azure Data Factory (Feodor Georgiev)
Microsoft details updates to the Bing Maps Web Control (Jack Wilkinson)
Azure with Scott Guthrie: Azure Security Center and Role Based Access Controls (Jeff Martin)
Docker Containers at Scale with Azure Web App on Linux (Jeremy Likness)
How to choose a cloud provider (Jesse Anderson)
Azure Service Bus .NET Standard Client GA (Justin Conway)
Logic Apps solution for Log Analytics (OMS) strengthens Microsoft iPaaS monitoring capability in Azure (Steef-Jan Wiggers)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Live XAML Previewer In Xamarin.Forms and Consuming RESTful Services In Xamarin.Forms – Part One (Umair Hassan)
Monitor your Xamarin Forms application with Mobile Center (Pam Lahoud)
Creating The Instagram UI In Xamarin.Forms and Improving Xamarin.Forms Startup Performance (Adam Pedley)
Xamarin Preview: XCode 9 Beta 5, iOS 11, MacOS 10.13 Support – Preview 4 (Bri Brothers)
CloudRail’s Universal API Now Supports Xamarin (Eric Carter)
Implementing Localization with Xamarin.Forms using Resx files (Bryan Anthony Garcia)
App wrapping a website with Xamarin (Tim Klingeleers)
Text-To-Speech with Windows 10 IoT Core & UWP on Raspberry Pi Part 2 (Andrej Tozon)

Visual Studio & .NET

Mastering Visual Studio 2017 – Book Review and Set Conditions for Exception in Visual Studio 2017 (Abhijit Jana)
C++ Core Guidelines Checker in Visual Studio 2017 (Andrew Pardoe)
EncryptValidate – My First NuGet Package (Dirk Strauss)
.NET Standard 2.0 Has Been Finalized (Abel Avram)
Roslyn tricked me again (Michał Komorowski)
Win32: How to get the refresh rate for a window (Rick Brewster)
C++17 Features And STL Fixes In VS 2017 15.3 (Stephan T. Lavavej)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Introduction To Microsoft’s Coco Framework For Blockchain Applications – Part One (Akshay Deshmukh)
Dependency Injection – Part 3 (Implicit Vs Explicit Dependencies) (Gaurav Gahlot)
Five and a Half Ways to Motivate Work-From-Home Employees (Geoffrey James)
Inclusive Design Principle: Be Consistent (Heydon Pickering)
Frameworks Are Like Radio Stations (Jurgen Appelo)
Coding: A Hobby for the Waste-Adverse (Pamela Fox)
Message in Test section of VSTS Team Project: “You can’t create test cases without a test plan. Click here to create a test plan.” (Trevor Hancock)

Mobile & IoT

How IoT could benefit from Bluetooth’s new mesh specs (Skip Ashton)
Integrating React Native, TypeScript and MobX (Adrian Hall)
Next-generation Dex Compiler Now in Preview (James Lau)
Azure IoT Developer Kit Ready for Pre-Order (Chris Pietschmann)
Using your ad units correctly when you have multiple store apps (Shreyas Ganesh Narayanaswamy)
Parsing Hex Strings in Swift (Steve Tibbett)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 054 – J Wolfgang Goerlich on Encryption Frameworks (Matthew Groves)
MS Dev Show – That Conference 2017 – Part 1 (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
InfoQ Podcast: Jessica Kerr on Productivity, Slack Chatbots, Yak Shaving, & Why Diversity Matters for Innovation (Jessica Kerr)
Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 241 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Xamarin Podcast: Contributing to Xamarin.Forms, C# 7, Input Validation, Android’s BottomNavigationView, and more! (Pierce Boggan)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business agility and the Agility Ladder | Jens Broos (Vasco Duarte)
The Married Gamers Presents Episode 425: Being Rashanii (Chris Brown)
Developer on Fire Episode 260 | Matthew Renze – Voice For Data Science (Dave Rael)
Merge Conflict 58: Dealing with Rejection (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
TWC9: Brewing the News, .NET Standard 2.0 is done, .NET Conf, Eye Typing and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan & Christina Warren)
Episode 232: Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Sean McKenna, Thiago Almeida & Chris Risner)
Developer Tea – Plate’s Cave and Defeating Biases (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Akka.NET has Joined the .NET Foundation (Aaron Stannard)
Public Speaking Transformed My Life…and Can Change Yours Too (Cory House)
10 Questions with Chad Carter (James Ashley)

Database

SQL Server: Why is it taking so long to take a database offline? (Paula DiTallo)
SQL SERVER – How to Clear Plan Cache with Database Scoped Configuration? and SQL SERVER – SQL Agent Not Starting. The EventLog Service has Not Been Started (Pinal Dave)
RavenDB 4.0: Maintaining transaction boundary integrity in a distributed cluster (Oren Eini)
How to Drop All Your Indexes – Fast (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

Creating A Data Volume In Windows PowerShell (Kishore Chowdary)

Miscellaneous

Introducing the Windows Console Colortool (Craig Loewen)
Why I Love Microsoft Teams (David Branscome)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-14 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2404 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1908 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #167 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #33, 2017 – Hello WebAssembly (Sergey Tihon)
See What These Tech Experts Have To Say On The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
Collective #340 (Pedro Botelho)
Last Week on Channel 9: August 7th – August 13th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
Azure Weekly: Aug 14, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)

The Geek Shelf

Essential Angular for ASP.NET Core MVC 1st ed., Adam Freeman, eBook – Amazon.com

ASIN: B0749HQCWQ

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