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Dew Drop – January 31, 2018 (#2655)

Posted on January 31, 2018 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Building VSTS/TFS Tasks with TypeScript and VS Code (James Montemagno)
Text highlighting in WinDbg Preview (Andy Luhrs)
Webinar Recording | Xamarin University Presents: Ship Better Apps with Visual Studio App Center (Courtney Witmer)
CodePlex has been archived (Martin Woodward)

Web Development

Book Review: Refactoring JavaScript (Ian Elliot)
Aurelia Toolbelt – Get Started (Saeed Ganji)
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 88 – What’s the purpose of ETag in Azure Storage Table? (Michael Crump)
Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Load Testing (Carl Rippon)
Docker for Windows Desktop… Now With Kubernetes! (Jim Armstrong)
PhpStorm 2017.3.4 is released (Maxim Kolmakov)
Copy Table in Excel and Paste as a Markdown Table (Dave Johnson)
Choosing an Approach to Work with Azure REST APIs (K. Scott Allen)
Applying the Builder Pattern to Improve an Angular Service (Steve Smith)
Migrating NServiceBus from v5 to v6 – Injecting IMessageSession when using NServiceBus.Host (Philipp Dolder)
Bootstrap 4.0 Release: What’s New? (Prosper Otemuyiwa)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Save Win2D CanvasControl content (Corrado Cavalli)
Non-suspending UWP Desktop Apps (Magnus Montin)

Visual Studio & .NET

Challenge: Find the bug in the fix–answer (Oren Eini)
TFS 2018 Update 1 RC is available (Brian Harry)
Using Mono to Compile C# to WebAssembly (Jeff Martin)
CodeIt.Right Rules Explained, Part 13 (Erik Dietrich)
LEADTOOLS Version 20 is Here! (Greg Ross)
Sorting myself out, extreme edition (Marc Gravell)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Unit Test for EF LINQ queries using Mocked DbSet (Renso Hollhumer)
Ink To Code Microsoft Draws The UI (Lucy Black)
An Introduction To Clean Architecture (Erik Dietrich)
Stakeholders can now view VSTS Analytics widgets (Gregg Boer)
How Respawn Works (Jimmy Bogard)
Timetracker 4.4.0 Features Performance Improvements and Other Fixes (Leah Copeland)
Work can flow across the Sprint boundary (Martin Hinshelwood)
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: The Future of DevOps Is Now (Matthew Calder)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

#Tutorial – How to build an #Amazon #AlexaSkill using Visual Studio 2017, C# and #Azure (2 on N) (Bruno Capuano)
Tips for Making a Twitch-Friendly Mobile Game (Part 1) (Chris Foley)
(Code) Sharing is caring – An Introduction to Kotlin Multiplatform Projects (Team Novoda)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

JSJ 298: Angular, Vue and TypeScript with John Papa (Charles Max Wood, Cory House, Joe Eames & Aimee Knight)
AiA 174: Reducing Boilerplate of Redux/NGRX Patterns in Angular with Austin McDaniel (Charles Max Wood, John Papa, Alyssa Nicoll, Ward Bell & Shai Reznik)
ngAir 146 – Storybook and Angular With Norbert de Langen (Justin Schwartzenberger)
Microsoft Mechanics – An overview of Azure Event Grid (Bahram Banisadr)
Azure Functions and Logic Apps | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
Dataiku DSS on Azure HDInsight for Data Science | Data Exposed and AtScale on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed (Seth Juarez)
Azure IoT Hub Integration with Azure Event Grid | Internet of Things Show and Serverless and Internet of Things | Internet of Things Show (Olivier Bloch)
RunAs Radio – Managing Customizations in SharePoint Online with Andrew Connell (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 236 | Office 365 News, Goings on and Sheep in Space (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
Functional Geekery Episode 119 – Jared Forsyth (Steven Proctor)
Interview with Peggy Johnson, Executive VP of Business Development | GALs (Golnaz Alibeigi, Kaitlin McKinnon & Katie Stone Perez)
SE-Radio Episode 316: Nicolai Parlog on Java 9 (Nate Black)
Software Engineering Daily – Developer Stereotypes with Sue Loh (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Your Brain Might Betray You (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

New Day for Wilder Minds Training (Shawn Wildermuth)
Empowering Women through Technology, Splunk’s chapter in Saudi Arabia (Mo)
GitHub for data scientists: a webcast series (Bas Peters)

Database

Simple SQL Server Function to Generate Random 8 Character Password (Eli Leiba)
Adding and Removing Nodes to a Containerized Couchbase NoSQL Cluster – Video Tutorial (Nic Raboy)
Reports in SSMS (Day 30) (Wayne Sheffield)

SharePoint

Typescript design patterns for Sharepoint Framework Part 2 – Abstract Factory (Luis Valencia)

PowerShell

VSCode custom snippets (Jonathan Allen)

Miscellaneous

Emaroo 3.5.0 Released – now Supporting Affinity (Roland Weigelt)
Small Basic Reference Updated in TechNet Wiki (Nonki Takahashi)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2018-01-31 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2018-01-31 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2517 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #2025 (Mike Gunderloy)
Linkbait 35 (Peter-Paul Koch)

The Geek Shelf

Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap: Simone Chiaretta: 9781119181316: Books

ISBN: 1119181313
ISBN-13: 9781119181316

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Dew Drop – April 29, 2014 (#1765)

Posted on April 29, 2014 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Introducing the Microsoft .NET Framework Repair Tool (The .NET Fundamentals Team)
Roslyn Update (Miguel de Icaza)
New TDN Article Published on 5 Ways to Build Mobile Apps with Visual Studio (Michael Crump)
Lowering in language design, part one (Eric Lippert)
Here’s how NPR introduced the Internet 20 years ago (Amanda Kooser)

Web Development

Restricting Drag & Drop Levels for Kendo UI Treeview (Rachel Hagerman)
Small Stories With Angular (case study) (Paul Hammant)
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS (Chris Coyier)
FubuMVC Lessons Learned — Strong Naming Woes and Workarounds (Jeremy D. Miller)
Sneak Peek: WYSIWYG Design in HTML5 (Jessica Skarzynski)
ASP.NET MVC – Multiple Files Upload Bug or by-design issue? (Michael Sync)
Json.NET 6.0 Release 3 (CodePlex)
JSON Web Tokens, OWIN, and AngularJS (Mike Hadlow)
Using an Azure PublishSettings File From C# (K. Scott Allen)
Loading an Image or Video from a File Input control. (Phillip Haydon)
Lucene and Solr 4.8 (Rafał Kuć)
A Second Look at Project Orleans (Neil Mackenzie)
Task lists in all markdown documents (Reg Braithwaite)

XAML

Migrating from the LongListSelector to the ListView in Windows Phone XAML Apps (Shawn Kendrot)
Windows Phone 8.1 TextBox Control – What’s new for #WPDev? (Kunal Chowdhury)
2000 WPF Things #1,061 – Scaling Content Using a ViewBox (Sean Sexton)
Are your WPF Apps leaking memory? Maybe it’s a feature of WPF! (Vincent Grondin)
WPF Base Classes – TextBoxBase – Clipboard (Richard Carr)

Miscellaneous .NET

Announcing the NuGet 3 Roadmap (Jonathan Allen)
F#22 : Abstract classes / Overriding Methods / Implementing Interfaces (Sacha Barber)
Sandcastle Help File Builder and Tools v2014.4.22.0 (CodePlex)
Debugging GPU Code in Microsoft C++ AMP (Gaston Hillar)
Message Queue Fundamentals in .NET (Elton Stoneman)
Westwind Application Configuration Updates (Rick Strahl)
Limitations of Portable Class Libraries (Rockford Lhotka)
.NET Native Performance and Internals (Sasha Goldshtein)
2000 C# Things #1,085 – Binary Floating Point Numbers (Sean Sexton)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Value is Everybody’s Job (JD Meier)

Other Mobile Platforms

Objective-C: Introduction to Categories (Nick Hanan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Service Bus Update with Udi Dahan (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
The Nerdist Podcast – Jim Rash Returns (Chris Hardwick)
Video: Designing Stored Procedure Solutions (Jen McCown)
Defrag Tools: #87 – Symbol Folder Hierarchy – index2.txt | Defrag Tools (Larry Larsen, Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)

Community / Events

Free 3 day course on Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 (& Windows Store Apps) (Iris Classon)
Philadelphia Science Festival 2014: Beer Chemistry (David Goodman)
Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30 (Eric Battalio)
Dear Jeff: Good. For. You. (Jim Holmes)
A Day of Unity comes to Malvern’s Microsoft Campus (Nicole Kline)

Database

Truncate all tables in a SQL Server database (Dave Bennett)
Free (Email Address-ware) “Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views” eBook from Red Gate (Greg Duncan)
SQL SERVER – Optimizing Three Important Resources – CPU, Memory and Disk (Pinal Dave)
Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (Ian Stirk)
Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others (Sam Vanga)
What is a Non-Clustered Columnstore Index? (Patrick Keisler)

PowerShell

PowerShell-Input-Validation Scripts (Prashanth Jayaram)
PowerShell 4.0 and more Quick Refs from PowerShell Magazine and Microsoft (Greg Duncan)
Getting Started with PowerShell (Joel Bennett)

Miscellaneous

Upgrading Windows Inputs from Splunk 5.x to Splunk 6.x (Adrian Hall)
Reflections on a Splunk developer’s journey : Part 2 (Damien Dallimore)
Xbox Originals coming in June, including two Halo shows (Derek Kessler)
Not Doing THIS Could Very Well Be The Biggest Mistake You Make In Your Software Development Career (John Sonmez)
Skype group video calling is finally free for everyone (Tom Warren)
Terminals Version 3.5 – Release (CodePlex)

More Link Collections

Geek Reading April 28, 2014 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1344 (Mike Gunderloy)
Reading Notes #137 (Frank)
The Morning Brew #1598 (Chris Alcock)
Daily News Digest 4/29/2014 (Silverlight Show)
Windows App Developer Links – 2014-04-29 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2014-04-29 (Dan Rigby)
Community Update 2014-04-28–#aspnet, #webapi, #owin, #azure and #elasticsearch (Maxime Rouiller)

The Geek Shelf

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides): Bill Phillips, Brian Hardy: 9780321804334: Books

ISBN: 0321804333
ISBN-13: 9780321804334

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Dew Drop – October 4, 2013 (#1,638)

Posted on October 4, 2013 | by Alvin A.

Top Links

Math from scratch, part five: natural subtraction (Eric Lippert)
ASP.NET Web API OWIN Self Host on Windows Azure (Shiju Varghese)
Getting Started with OWIN and Katana (Howard Dierking)
NDepend 5 Can Chart Code Trends (Abel Avram)

Web Development

Creating an Editable Grid with DHTMLX and Node.js (dhtmlx Team)
Logging Client-Side Errors With AngularJS And Stacktrace.js (Ben Nadel)
Running JavaScript tests with Karma in WebStorm 7 (Ekaterina Prigara)
Backbone.js, JSON API, and Relational Data: A Primer (Josh Clayton)
Meteor.js Fundamentals for Single Page Applications (John Sonmez)
Drag and Drop with LightSwitch HTML Client (Rohit Agrawal)
MVC Table Styling selection to CSS and demo table (Tatworth)
Scaling lessons learned–from 0 to 15 million users (Jimmy Bogard)
Building a Pluggable REST API (Damien Metzler)
A Collection of Separator Styles (Mary Lou)

XAML

New Ebook Added to SilverlightShow Shelf: Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML – Part 2 and Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Ebook and Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML – Part 2: Ebook (Silverlight Show)
2000 WPF Things #920 – TextBox Sizes to Fit Its Content (Sean Sexton)
Enterprise, Touch This (Karl Shifflett)
Just a few steps to make your WP app recognizes your speech (Kunal Chowdhury)

Miscellaneous .NET

The Infragistics Visual Studio Extension – The best way to stay up to date with our amazing products (Borislav Traykov)
RadControls for Windows 8 Q3, Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 (Georgi Atanasov)
Debug Diagnostic Tool v2.0 (MS Downloads)
Create Windows Services Easily with Topshelf (Ondrej Balas)
"Analysis of the Kinect For Windows SDK 1.8 Background Removal API" (Greg Duncan)
The relationship between module resources and resource-derived objects in 32-bit Windows (Raymond Chen)
2000 C# Things #945 – Lazy Instantiation, an Easier Solution (Sean Sexton)
Why should .NET developers use Application Analytics? The answer is coming on Tuesday. (Vassil Petev)

Design / Methodology / Testing

The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2 Released (Patrick Kua)
Why you should be doing continuous delivery (Richard Muscat)
Disruption and woulda, coulda, shoulda (Steven Sinofsky)

Other Mobile Platforms

Snapshotting Views in iOS 7 (Mike Bluestein)
Improved App Insight by Linking Google Analytics with Google Play (Ellie Powers)
Three Key Benefits of Icenium for Enterprises (Aygun Suleymanova)
Animating UITableView cells (Yari D’areglia)
PhoneGap Build and PhoneGap 3.0: Things to Remember (Raymond Camden)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Hanselminutes – Controlling Robots with node.js and Johnny-Five with Raquel Vélez (Scott Hanselman)
Bootstrap yourself on Boostrap with Pranav Rastogi | Web Camps TV (Haishi Bai, Cory Fowler & "The Jaffe")
Video: How to Design Great APIs (Kevin Lacker)
Countdown to TechEd: The One Where It All Begins | The Countdown Show (RicksterCDN & Joey Snow)

Community / Events

Thinking Big About Women in Computing (Katie Doran)
Why I Told a Dude to Go to a Women’s Conference (Betsy Aoki)
The RavenDB Experts Network (Oren Eini)
Looking for student app developers. Imagine Cup 2014 is on! (Todd Brix)

Database

Making Tables Look Good (Jes Schultz Borland)
Big Data – Basics of Big Data Architecture – Day 4 of 21 (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

Hosting GPLv3 Projects on CodePlex (Brian Harry)
Supposed images of a Nokia Lumia smartwatch leak, revealing a black mysterious device (Daniel Rubino)
VMware or Microsoft? 35 posts, six weeks, two products, one great series… (Greg Duncan)
Choose Your Own ‘Breaking Bad’ Adventure (Hazel Chua)
Marking Discussions as Answered (Martin Woodward)
5 reasons to become a consultant (Paul Ballard)

More Link Collections

Interesting Finds: October 4, 2013 (Jason Haley)
Geek Reading October 3, 2013 (Robert Diana)
Double Shot #1215 (Mike Gunderloy)
The Daily Six Pack: October 4, 2013 (Dirk Strauss)
Daily News Digest 10/4/2013 (Silverlight Show)
The Morning Brew #1455 (Chris Alcock)
Windows Store App Developer Links – 2013-10-04 (Dan Rigby)
Windows Dev News for Oct 03, 2013 – #0197 (Dave Campbell)

The Geek Shelf

C# 5.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference eBook: Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari: Kindle Store

ASIN: B008E6I1K8

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