August 2017 – Page 5 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – August 11, 2017 (#2540)

Posted on August 11, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Looking Ahead to Xamarin.Forms 3.0 (Greg Shackles)
The Greatest Visual Studio Code Setup In The World (Burke Holland)
Making Web Sites Look Like Native Apps Without the App Store (Chris Love)
Design Patterns: Factories | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
Xbox Live Creators Program Is Now Live! (Andrew Parsons)

Web & Cloud Development

GraphiQL in ASP.NET Core (Joseph Woodward)
Azure with Scott Guthrie: Custom Dashboards and Azure Monitor (Jeff Martin)
Notes on installing TensorFlow with GPU Support (Larry O’Brien)
ES Modules in Node Today! (John-David Dalton)
Docker Commands for Development to Deployment (Saravanan Subramanian)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

New FlexGrid Features in ComponentOne Studio for Xamarin 2017 v2 (Kelley Ricker)
Using The Linker In Xamarin Projects and Get Element Properties In UITest In Xamarin (Adam Pedley)

Visual Studio & .NET

Public Service Announcement: ConcurrentDictionary.Count is locking (Oren Eini)
Converting System.Drawing.Color to hex (Gunnar Peipman)
Marshal.ReleaseComObject() vs. Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject() (Kunal Chowdhury)
How to choose the right .NET technology or “learn to stop worrying and love NetStandard2.0” (Matthew Adams)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Getting started with C++ unit testing (Dror Helper)
Designers. Work better with developers. (Luke Jones)
Machine learning and Software testing (Shrini Kulkarni)

Mobile & IoT

Android Things Developer Preview 5 (Wayne Piekarski)
iOS Centralized and Decoupled Networking: AFNetworking Tutorial with a Singleton Class (James Cahall)
Kotlin: The Future Of Android Development? (John Sonmez)
How I built a bin color reminder Alexa skill using AWS Lambda and Kotlin (Marcos Placona)
Announcing NativeScript Angular v.4 (Alexander Vakrilov)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Hanselminutes – Pia Mancini explains liquid democracy and the Open Collective (Scott Hanselman)
#Podcast – NTN 34 – #React, #Angular and a rock (Bruno Capuano)
SQL Server 2017 Adaptive QP | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
The Nerdist Podcast – Bryan Cranston Returns (Chris Hardwick)
Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Business agility and the Agility Ladder | Jens Broos (Vasco Duarte)
This Week on Windows: Microsoft Education, MINECON, Mixed Reality and more (Elana Pidgeon)
The TED Talk I Can’t Stop Watching (John Nemo)
Getting Started with .NET Standard 2.0 Part 1 with Immo Landwerth | Code Conversations (Jon Galloway, Immo Landwerth & Maria Naggaga)
Microsoft Windows Insider Podcast – Spotlight on Microsoft internships (Thomas Trombley)
StarTalk Radio – #ICYMI: Planet NASCAR, with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Windows Weekly 530: Lifting Thor’s Hammer (Paul Thurrott)
Table API for Azure Cosmos DB (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
Rocket 135: Appropriating Demons and Daddy (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
Software Engineering Daily – TypeScript at Slack with Felix Rieseberg (Jeff Meyerson)
SSW TV – Saving the World One App at a Time – The Humanitarian Toolbox | Presented by Richard Campbell (Sophie Belle)
Developer Tea – Interview with Kevin Kelly (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Azure Podcast – Episode 191 – Just-In-Time Access (Sujit D’Mello)

Community & Events

New Addition to the Kendo UI Family (John Willoughby)
Please, Give Public Speaking a Try (David Neal)
We need more discourse, not disgust (Donna Malayeri)
10 Questions with Neeraj Wadhwa (James Ashley)

Database

Tracking and Counting SQL Server Agent Job Runs (Rick Dobson)
Monitoring Free Space for SQL Server In-Memory Checkpoint Files (Robert L. Davis)
SQL SERVER – Difference Between spid, kpid and ecid in sysprocesses (Pinal Dave)
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL updated with new extensions (Greg Wilson)

PowerShell

Remove Auto Scaling from an Azure App Service using Azure PowerShell (Benjamin Perkins)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations (Klaus Diaconu)
We stand behind Surface (Panos Panay)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-11 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-11 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2403 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide: Dejan Sarka, Milos Radivojevic, William Durkin: 9781786465344: Books

ISBN: 1786465345
ISBN-13: 9781786465344

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Dew Drop – August 10, 2017 (#2539)

Posted on August 10, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

.NET Standard 2.0 is final (Immo Landwerth)
Debugging React Native with Typescript and Visual Studio Code (Adrian Hall)
NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap (Unni Ravindranathan)
Running Entity Framework (Core) commands in Rider (Maarten Balliauw)

Web & Cloud Development

Even Better JavaScript Error Reports (Todd H. Gardner)
Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance (Cesar de la Torre)
Custom control validation in Angular (Dominique St-Amand)
JavaScript-Based Animations Using Anime.js, Part 2: Parameters (Monty Shokeen)
HTTP Requests in Node.js (Sam Agnew)
ASPNET-Core-2.0-Stripping-Away-Cross-Cutting-Concerns (Tim Seaward)
Google releases new TensorFlow Object Detection API (John Mannes)
Node v8.3.0 (Current) (Colin Ihrig)
Announcing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics (Ketan Ghelani)
Azure Functions with Couchbase Server (Matthew Groves)
Book Review Docker on Windows by Elton Stoneman (Roland Meertens)
Docker Commands for Development to Deployment (Saravanan Subramanian)
Release of SDK 2.7.198 and Runtime 5.7.198 for Windows (Service Fabric Team)
Organizing Azure resources with Tags (Shayne Boyer)
Logging and Monitoring are Requirements and Testing Logging in ASPNET Core (Steve Smith)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Using The Linker In Xamarin Projects (Adam Pedley)
Using PKCE with IdentityServer from a Xamarin Client (David Britch)

Visual Studio & .NET

How C# Reflection Works With Code Examples (Angela Stringfellow)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Soft Skills to Ace the Interview (BJ Burns & Will Gant)
The Role of Static Analysis in Testing (Erik Dietrich)
Clearing the Fog: A Better Status Report (Gil Zilberfeld)
GitHub for Unity 0.16-alpha released (Lee Reilly)
Run a SonarQube analysis in VSTS for unsupported .NET Core projects (Matteo Emili)
Hard Problems in Software Testing (2017) – Part 1 (Shrini Kulkarni)

Mobile & IoT

Two-Way Data Binding on Android: Observing Your View with XML (Andrew Bailey)
Firewall issues with iOS simulators (Jim Bennett)
Integrating Realm Database in an Android Application (Joyce Echessa)
iOS ARKit Tutorial: Drawing in the Air with Bare Fingers (Osama Abdelkarim Aboulhassan)
Controlling LifeCam Cinema on Raspberry Pi (Gunnar Peipman)
Releasing Your App to the Store in Style Part 3 (Kayleigh Oliver)
How I built a bin color reminder Alexa skill using AWS Lambda and Kotlin (Marcos Placona)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – The Evolution of Serilog with Nicholas Blumhardt (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Episode 28: Azure Functions for Mobile Apps with Donna Malayeri | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
RadioTFS – TFS to VSTS High Fidelity Migration with Rogan Ferguson and Dan Hellem (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Developer on Fire Episode 259 | Terence McGhee – Visible Leadership (Dave Rael)
.future Podcast – Work in the .future (Ram Devineni, Anton Andrews, Ben Waber & Janice Marturano)
Tuesdays with Corey: Kubernetes Connector for Azure Container Instances! | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
Software Engineering Daily – Lottie Animation with Brandon Withrow and Gabriel Peal (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Interview with Kevin Kelly (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)
GoingNative 60: ISO C++ @Toronto Debriefing | C9::GoingNative (Steve Carroll & Augustin Popa)

Community & Events

Boston Geek Dinner–Tuesday August 15, 2017 – 6:00pm–8:30pm (Jason Haley)
10 Questions with Tim Huckaby (James Ashley)

Database

SQL Server 2017 Adaptive Query Processing Query Plan Enhancements with Interleaved Execution (Rajendra Gupta)
ETL Peformance Gains Using SQL Server In-Memory OLTP (Artemakis Artemiou)
SQL Server: How can I get a distinct count(*) with multiple columns? (Paula DiTallo)
SQL SERVER – Database Scoped Configurations – Query Optimizer Fixes (Pinal Dave)
Introducing the New Data Replication Protocol in Couchbase Mobile 2.0 (Priya Rajagopal)

PowerShell

Remove Auto Scaling from an Azure App Service using Azure PowerShell (Benjamin Perkins)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15240 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
3D Dungeon Dev with DungeonScript (Greg Duncan)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-10 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-10 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2402 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #339 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS: Lee Naylor: 9781484221365: Books

ISBN: 1484221362
ISBN-13: 9781484221365

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Dew Drop – August 9, 2017 (#2538)

Posted on August 9, 2017 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Announcing the PowerShell Module Browser (Jeff Sandquist)
Using PowerShell to check if your password has been in a breach (Rob Sewell)
Thoughts on the Google Echo Chamber (Donna Malayeri)
Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16257 and Mobile Emulator Build 15235 Released (Clint Rutkas)

Web & Cloud Development

Embellish Your Web API Responses with Header Data (Tim Patrick)
Angular Observable Secrets Revealed (Dave M. Bush)
JavaScript-Based Animations Using Anime.js, Part 1: Targets and Properties (Monty Shokeen)
Creating a Front-End for Your User Profile Store with Angular and TypeScript (Nic Raboy)
Converting multiple C# enums to JavaScript (Gunnar Peipman)
ASP.NET – Intro, Life Cycle & Hello World Program (Guru99)
Passing data between Promise callbacks and ES proposal: Promise.try() (Axel Rauschmayer)
Bringing AI to BI – Text Analytics in Azure Machine Learning (Sudarshan Raghunathan, Darren Edge & Jonathan Larson)
Azure QuickStart Templates (Dan Usher)
Operating Azure Stack (Daniel Savage)
Morphing Page Transition (Mary Lou)
Security Monitoring In Azure IaaS Resources (Thuan Nguyen)
Logic Apps upsert logic! (Toon Vanhoutte)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Reactive Extensions And Exrin MVVM Framework In Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
Validation in Xamarin.Forms Enterprise Apps (David Britch)
Incredible Image Tools in MFractor 3.2 (Matthew Robbins)
Loading and Loaded in UWP (Robert Hedgate)

Visual Studio & .NET

The innocuous code that tripped me (Oren Eini)
Practical C# – Project References (Andrea Angella)
OOP Concepts in C#: Code Examples and How to Create a Class (Angela Stringfellow)
dotnet-script 0.11 out – with inline Nuget support (Filip W.)
.NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup (Rich Lander)
Lazy loading images using Intersection Observer (Dean Hume)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Sprint Planning in Visual Studio Team Services (Aaron Marisi)
VSTS Update – Aug 4 (Brian Harry)
Examining Code Review Myths (Erik Dietrich)
How to Take Part in a Usability Study in Indigo Studio (Infragistics Team)
Better together with Microsoft Teams (Kyle Elliott)
Announcing deploy to Azure app service Jenkins plugin and more (Pui Chee Chan)
Making a Switch as a Software Developer (Rion Williams)
The founder retreat revisited (Thomas Ardal)

Mobile & IoT

Bring Your Existing Android App to the Amazon Appstore (Becky Young)
How to Launch Android Emulators and iOS Simulators From the Command Line (TJ VanToll)
Visual Studio Mobile Center: Solving a Problem with Package Restore (Kevin Ford)
An Introduction to Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (Deepak Vohra)
Ionic Framework: Getting Started (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

Software Engineering Daily – State of JavaScript with Sacha Greif (Jeff Meyerson)
Design Patterns: Singleton | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
SQL Server 2017 Built-in Diagnostics | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
SQL Server and Couchbase side-by-side (video) (Matthew Groves)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 206 | Latest News from Azure, Office 365 Plus Epic Container News (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – NanoServer and Containers with Jason Helmick (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
How to Control Stage Fright | Answers from James (James Whittaker & Cameron Tomisser)
Developer Tea – Interview with Kevin Kelly (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

Ways to get involved in the local tech community (2 of 5) (Jason Haley)
An intern’s guide to the top women at Microsoft (Priscilla Samadi)
Announcing exciting changes coming to MINECON! (Elana Pidgeon)
10 Questions with Michelle Ma (James Ashley)
An Open Letter to James Damore (Kim Scott)
Bring Your Nerdy Mind to Science on Tap Un-Tapped Quizzo! (Monica Piluso)
Orlando Meetup: Using Protobuf in .NET (Rush Frisby)
Even after firing an engineer, Google is facing an existential and cultural crisis (Tom Krazit)

Database

Installing SQL Server Tools on SUSE Linux (Manvendra Singh)
SQL Download – SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – Performance Dashboard (Pinal Dave)
Using Snapshot Replication with an Azure SQL Database (John Miner)
Azure AD authentication extensions for Azure SQL DB and SQL DW tools (Mirek Sztajno)

PowerShell

Using PowerShell, Azure Automation, and OMS – Part III (Will Anderson)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16257 (Dona Sarkar)
Spotify Comes to Xbox One (Mikael Ericsson)
Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server (Sarah Cooley)
Introducing the Outlook.com beta (Outlook Team)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-09 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-09 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2401 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1906 (Mike Gunderloy)
The week in .NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links! (Bertrand Le Roy)

The Geek Shelf

Mobile App Development with Ionic 2: Cross-Platform Apps with Ionic, Angular, and Cordova: Chris Griffith: 9781491937785: Books

ISBN: 1491937785
ISBN-13: 9781491937785

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