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Dew Drop – August 3, 2017 (#2534)

Top Links

SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is now available (SQL Server Team)
JetBrains Rider – New Cross-Platform .NET IDE Overview (Maarten Balliauw)
Updating the Windows Console Colors (Craig Loewen)
Visual Studio for Mac version 7.2 Alpha Preview (Miguel de Icaza)

Web & Cloud Development

Meet Vue.js, the Flexible JavaScript Framework (Alex Handy)
PhpStorm 2017.2.1 is here (Anna Lebedeva)
WebStorm 2017.2.1 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
React.js Structures JavaScript for Easy Componentization (Michelle Maher)
Enhancing WordPress Comments Using Twilio and WebServices (Michelle Randolph)
Rotate Text Links using jQuery (jQuery By Example)
How to Send SMS in WordPress with a PHP Plugin (Onwuka Gideon)
Custom response caching in ASP.NET Core (with cache invalidation) (Paul Hiles)
The State of CSS in Angular (Stephen Fluin)
Separate Form Submit Buttons That Go To Different URLs (Chris Coyier)
Run Azure Stack in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud (Chris Pietschmann)
What is the Rest Parameter in a Function? (Dhananjay Kumar)
Find projects infected by malicious npm packages (Dominik Kundel)
Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service (Lior Kamrat)
Securing Your Twilio Account With 2FA (Marcelo Jabali)
Leveraging Security Headers for Better Web App Security (Prithvi Bisht)
Create a Drupal Site and Add Authentication with Auth0 (Prosper Otemuyiwa)
7 Tools for Developing Your First Progressive Web App (Vikas Agrawal)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

WPF Tip #17 – Extended WPF Toolkit – BusyIndicator Control (Me)
Using ARKit with UrhoSharp (Xamarin Team)
The Page Object Pattern Will Make You A Better Xamarin UI Automation Tester (Adam Pedley)
Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.4 Alpha 1 (Bri Brothers)
Breaking Changes for Prism Autofac Users (Dan Siegel)

Visual Studio & .NET

Helper function for your local method – Local Function in C# 7.0 (Abhijit Jana)
Porting a Twilio MMS app to .NET Core with Visual Studio Code (Corey Weathers)
Getting Started with C# 7 (James Montemagno)
A proper terminal for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman)
Converting a Library to NetStandard (Derek Comartin)
AutoMapper joins the .NET Foundation (Jimmy Bogard)
Our experience with using third-party libraries (Patrick Smacchia)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Shield your Agile team (Moses ‘Muhammad’ Soliman)
Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance (Cesar de la Torre)
Unit Testing Implementation – The Plan #EverydayUnitTesting (Gil Zilberfeld)
How Has Static Code Analysis Changed Through the Years? (Erik Dietrich)
Composite UIs for Microservices – Composition options (Jimmy Bogard)
100 Excuses for Designers (Jon Moore)
How to Break into UX Design: Tips from Design Instructor Beth Koloski (Patrick Faller)

Mobile & IoT

Improve Usability in Your iOS App with These Features (Zack Simon)
Android Bug Swatting with Sanitizers (Dan Austin)
Game UI Patterns (Greg Duncan)
Amazon job listing suggests Kindle team is working on virtual and augmented reality (Monica Nickelsburg)
Introduction to Voice Recognition and IoT Automation (Daniel H.)
#Hololens – Tutorial to use Buttons, Dialogs and more with #MRDesignLab (#HoloToolkit ++) (Bruno Capuano)
Seek, and Ye Shall Find: The Algolia Plugin (Jen Looper)
Creating a 3D topographical map in your HoloLens / Windows MR app with the Bing Elevation API (Joost van Schaik)
Unity 2017.1 feature spotlight: Playable API (Pierre Paul Giroux)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

The Joy of Coding – Episode 108 (Air Mozilla)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 107: BI for the Little Guy (Carlos L. Chacon)
Developer on Fire Episode 257 | The Hidden Genius Project – Whole Humans (Dave Rael)
The Xamarin Show Episode 27: Azure Active Directory Authentication with Vittorio Bertocci (James Montemagno)
Microsoft .future Podcast – Design For All (Dan Formosa, Angela Glover Blackwell, Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Sean Marihugh, Crystal Jones & Erin Williams)
Microsoft Planner Updates (Microsoft Mechanics)
TPDP Episode #15: Authorizing Access with OAuth (Nic Raboy)
Windows Weekly 529: Things to do While You’re Eating Ham (Paul Thurrott)
Radio TFS – Greg and Martin at it again (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
Software Engineering Daily – Quantum Computing with Vijay Pande (Jeff Meyerson)

Community / Events

Women in Technology – Sarah Kong (Adobe Careers)
10 Questions with Vincent Guigui (James Ashley)
Technovation Challenge Helps Girls Around the World Become Tech Entrepreneurs (Adobe Conversations Team)

Database

SQL Server 2016 Increased Non-Clustered Index Key Size (Ahmad Yaseen)
RavenDB 4.0: Raven Query Language (Oren Eini)
Why Missing Index Recommendations Aren’t Perfect (Brent Ozar)

PowerShell

How to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription (Benjamin Perkins)
Updated! PowerShell Core [Beta] 6.04, AzureRM.NetCore Module, and Az CLI 2.0 Install Scripts for Ubuntu and OS X (Jessica Deen)

Miscellaneous

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16257 for PC & Build 15237 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-08-03 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-08-03 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2397 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1902 (Mike Gunderloy)
Collective #337 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests: Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce: 9780321503626: Books

ISBN: 0321503627
ISBN-13: 9780321503626

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Dew Drop – February 14, 2017 (#2421)

Top Links

Happy 15th Birthday .NET! (Beth Massi)
Cognitive Services APIs: Vision (Windows Apps Team)
Welcoming Jon Galloway as the new Executive Director of the .NET Foundation (Martin Hinshelwood)
TFS 2017 Update 1 RC2 (Brian Harry)
Day 4 – Creating a NuGet Package from .NET Core app (Michael Crump)

Web Development

Azure Application Insights JavaScript SDK: reliability and performance improvements (Beckylin Orooji)
ASP.NET Core CSRF defence with Antiforgery (Daniel Jimenez Garcia)
Use Visually Appealing Fancy Alerts In A NativeScript Angular Application (Nic Raboy)
JavaScript’s Journey through 2016 (Tara Manicsic)
Making use of RxJS in Angular (Wojtek Kwiatek)
Resurrecting Shakespeare using Node, Express, Twilio Add-Ons, IBM Watson and Love (Jarod Reyes)
Using Create React App (Jason Bradley)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Video Rendering Issues for WPF Windows (Rick Strahl)
Using an AutomationId with a Cell in Xamarin.Forms (Kevin Ford)
Bring Stunning Animations to Your Apps with Lottie (Martijn van Dijk)

Miscellaneous .NET

Getting All the Results When Joining with LINQ (Peter Vogel)
C#7: Tuples (Jeff Yates)
Mapping DataTables and DataRows to Objects in C# and .NET (Matthew Jones)
C++ for C# developers – automatic garbage collection (Michał Komorowski)
Code Generation Chronicles #1 – Using Fody to Inject KnownType attributes (Moaid Hathot)
Speell Checker for VS 2017 (Greg Duncan)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Bliki: FunctionAsObject (Martin Fowler)
The Pain of Same: Steer Clear of These 6 Agile Pitfalls (Monte Montoya)
How to create a pull request for a bug fix on a branch on a forked repo that you’ve pushed to GitHub – 044 and How to link directly to a line of code in a file hosted on GitHub – 043 (Sara Ford)
Postpone Work With a Parking Lot (Johanna Rothman)
A Software Developer’s Guide to Maintaining Code (John Sonmez)
Do Designers Always Have to Agree With Client Feedback? (Karol K)
SOLID, GRASP, And Other Basic Principles of Object Oriented Design (Muhammad Umair)
This Is Why Your To-Do List Is Going Nowhere (Scott Friesen)

Other Mobile Platforms

AlexaDev Tuesday: Alexa Speechcons Make Her Slang Sound Natural (April Hamilton)
How-to: Spectator View, a new tool to help others see what you see in HoloLens (Brandon Bray)
5. The MonoGame Game Loop (Chris G. Williams)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

MS Dev Show – Windows Developer Day Recap with Giorgio Sardo (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
.NET Rocks! – Machine Learning Panel at NDC London (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
AFH: 054 Make It Easy to Be Successful with Bryan Beecham [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
Windows Central Podcast 36: Neon Teased (Zac Bowden)
The Agile Uprising Podcast – Interview about the Agile Manifesto (Ryan Lockard)
Hello World Podcast Episode 82: Jon Galloway (Shawn Wildermuth)
Defrag Tools #174 – Security Baseline, Policy Analyzer and LGPO | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
The Married Gamers Presents Episode 413: Ninja Swords Make Good Games (Chris Brown)
Merge Conflict 32: Building “Super” Computers (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
Functional Geekery Episode 84 – Niki Vazou (Steven Proctor)
Partially Derivative Podcast – Your Surveys Suck (Chris Albon, Jonathon Morgan & Vidya Spandana)
Revision Path 178: Ron Tinsley (Maurice Cherry)

Community / Events

I would love some feedback on my book (draft) (Iris Classon)
How to organize a meetup (Jef Claes)
Meet Steve McNiven-Scott, Developer Expert (Jen Looper)
I’ll be speaking at DevIntersection 2017 (Jesse Liberty)
Eight Winning Ways to Promote Your Event When the Budget Won’t Cooperate (Kalahari Meetings)

Database

Search for Multiple File Extenstions with the SSIS Foreach File Enumerator (Nat Sundar)
Adding #AzureSearch to #DocumentDB collections with a click of a button (Evan Boyle)

SharePoint

Web part properties in the SharePoint Framework – part 2 (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

ebook deal of the week: Windows PowerShell Step by Step, 3rd Edition (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding (Clive Thompson)
Windows 10 Tip: Stay organized with Task View and Snap (Elana Pidgeon)
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine (Berit Anderson)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-14 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-14 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2279 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1808 (Mike Gunderloy)
Interesting links of the week (02/06 – 02/12) (Mike Eaton)
Reading Notes #267 (Frank Boucher)
Top Ten Most Popular Developer Links for the Week of February 6, 2017 (Dmitry Lyalin)

The Geek Shelf

Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks: Adventures in Better Web Apps (Pragmatic Programmers): Jack Moffitt, Frederic Daoud: 9781937785635: Books

ISBN: 1937785637
ISBN-13: 9781937785635

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Dew Drop – October 26, 2016 (#2353)

Top Links

Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 and Announcing the ASP.NET Core September 2016 Patch Release (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse (Bertrand Le Roy)
Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1 (Rich Lander)
Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.1 Preview 1 (Rowan Miller)

Web Development

Learn to Code Series: Use CSS to Style a Web Page and Learn to Code Series: CSS Basics Resources and Activities (Abby Larner)
What is the difference between CSS variables and preprocessor variables? (Chris Coyier)
Getting Started with Angular 2 (Dave M. Bush)
Getting Started With Paper.js: Animation and Images (Monty Shokeen)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Refactoring JavaScript – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise Part 2: Hosting (K. Scott Allen)
Testing SSL in ASP.NET Core (Shawn Wildermuth)
Book Review: Modern Web Development (Mike James)
Big news for the web dev community! Ignite UI is now open source! (Ignite UI Team)
Node v7.0.0 (Current) (James M. Snell)
Breaking down the new Swift.org Server API Work Group (John Ponzo)
Building Node-based APIs with the LoopBack Framework (Raymond Camden)
Announcing support for Files in the Storage Client Library for C++ (Sercan Guler)
Building Hybrid Applications with Electron (Paul Betts)

XAML

Over 100 Improvements Packed in the R3 2016 SP of UI for WPF (Rossitza Fakalieva)
What’s New for WPF in Infragistics Ultimate 16.2 (DevToolsGuy)
Windows 10, UWP, Unity, HoloLens– Small Explorations of D3D and XAML based Unity Projects (Mike Taulty)
Prism DelegateCommand.FromAsyncHandler is Obsolete! (Brian Lagunas)
Windows 10 UWP Unity and Adding a Reference to a (UWP) Class Library and Windows 10, UWP, HoloLens and Switching 2D/3D Views (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

Optimizing read transaction startup time: The performance triage (Oren Eini)
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 EAP 5 (Dmitry Matveev)
Addressing Visual Studio 15’s Memory Usage (Jeff Martin)
C# Yellow Book 2016 “Cheese Edition” Now Available (Rob Miles)
Advanced Use Cases for the Repository Pattern in .NET (Jonathan Allen)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Having an independent facilitator for your agile retrospectives (Ben Linders)
7 Deadly Sins of Project Management You Should Never Commit (Jessica Morgan)
Fighting Bloviating BS with Radical Candor (Kim Scott)
How Teams At Trello Use Trello (Leah Ryder)
Automating Installation Builds and Chocolatey Packaging (Rick Strahl)
Elements of Helpful Code Documentation (Serge Baranovsky)

Other Mobile Platforms

Getting Started With Auto Layout for iOS in Xcode 8 (Brent Schooley)
How to Install or Upgrade to Node.js v7 on the Raspberry Pi (Dave Johnson)
Kickstart Your Project with Our New Bootstrapped Mobile Apps (Pierce Boggan)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – Angular 2 Docs with Ward Bell (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Latency and Durability with SQL Server 2016 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
The Nerdist Podcast – Dakota Fanning (Chris Hardwick)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 162 | Kubernetes with Microsoft’s Brendan Burns (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
RunAs Radio – Episode 500! (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Using Microsoft Graph with Cortana (keantonc & Rosshe)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries – Expanding Our Perspectives, with Bill Nye – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Tuesdays with Corey: Microsoft Philanthropies | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
SE-Radio Episode 272: Frances Perry on Apache Beam (Jeff Meyerson)
Developer Tea – Interview with David Rael (Part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Welcome Polly (.NET Foundation)
Gates Foundation announces $210M donation to UW’s Population Health Initiative (Monica Nickelsburg)

Database

SQL Server 2016 Exec Query Stats DMV Enhancements (Ahmad Yaseen)
SQL SERVER – FIX Error 5120 – Database is in Read Only Mode After Attaching Files (Pinal Dave)

PowerShell

Getting dbatools in Powershell (Steve Jones)
Download Microsoft Ignite 2016 Sessions Using PowerShell (Alexandre Brisebois)
Treat Google Cloud Storage like a file system with our new PowerShell provider (Jim Przybylinski & Chris Smith)

Miscellaneous

Speaking Tips: Evaluating Your Talk (Ted Neward)
How to Train a Deep-Learned Object Detection Model in the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Patrick Buehler & T. J. Hazen)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14955 for Mobile and PC (Dona Sarkar)
Windows 10’s Registry Editor gets an address bar for easy navigation (Kunal Chowdhury)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-26 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-26 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2208 (Chris Alcock)
Amazon Developer Blog – Week in Review October 17th (Peter Heinrich)

The Geek Shelf

Programming F# 3.0: Chris Smith: 9781449320294: Books

ISBN: 1449320295
ISBN-13: 9781449320294

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