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Dew Drop – June 28, 2017 (#2509)

Top Links

Smooth Interaction and Motion with the Visual Layer in Windows 10 Creators Update (Windows UI Team)
The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit (Bertrand Le Roy)
.NET Framework June 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10 (Rich Lander)
Announcing TypeScript 2.4 (Daniel Rosenwasser)

Web & Cloud Development

Use IServer from ASP.NET Core to create your own web server (Fanie Reynders)
Controller activation and dependency injection in ASP.NET Core MVC (Andrew Lock)
PhpStorm 2017.2 EAP 172.3198 and Learn PhpStorm with PhpStorm Workshop project (Anna Lebedeva)
Form Validation Part 2: The Constraint Validation API (JavaScript) (Chris Ferdinandi)
Monitoring Cryptocurrency Prices using JavaScript, Twilio Functions and SMS (Chris Hranj)
The Developer’s Edition of HTML makes a comeback (Domenic Denicola)
Teach Them How To Do ASP.NET MVC Right (And Let Them Figure Out the Rest) (Dino Esposito)
Extracting pages from a PDF document and saving them as separate image files, JavaScript edition with Promises (Raymond Chen)
Quick stats on html/js/css sizes (Stoyan)
Learn MVC Using Angular Wizard (Thiruppathi Rengasamy)
Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Web Development? (Tomas Holas)
Installing public certificates in App Service (Ashish Kurmi)
Five Practices for Better Web Development (Chris Walden)
ZeroKit End-to-End Encryption SDK launches in Azure Marketplace today! (Hugo Salcedo)
9 Exciting Open Source Sass Frameworks (Jake Rocheleau)
Madcap Idea Part 6: Static Screen Design (Sacha Barber)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

ComponentOne Xamarin Enterprise Replaces Xuni in July 2017 (Kelley Ricker)
Xamarin.Forms ViewModel First Navigation Library (Matthew Soucoup)
Going Global with Xamarin and Azure Cosmos DB (Mayur Tendulkar)

Visual Studio & .NET

Bug stories: How do I call myself? (Oren Eini)
Generate C# API Documentation with Wyam (Derek Comartin)
How C# Spell Check Helps Your Team and Your Code (Erik Dietrich)
Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension June 2017 Update (Jim Griesmer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

What If Unit Testing Wasn’t Necessary? #noTDD (Dave M. Bush)
Unit testing in C# using xUnit, Entity Framework, Effort and ASP.NET Boilerplate. (Halil ibrahim Kalkan)
Where’s the Ops in DevOps? Part 3 (DevOpsGuys)
What Makes A Great Tester? (Gil Zilberfeld)
How to adopt an iterative approach to UI design (Paul Boag)
Git LFS 2.2.0 released (Taylor Blau)

Mobile & IoT

tvOS Games, Part 3: Animations (Steve Sparks)
Deciding PaaS or SaaS for Building IoT Solutions in Microsoft Azure (Chris Pietschmann)
Building Conversations With Alexa (Lorna Mitchell)
CALayer and Auto Layout With Swift (Marco Santarossa)
A HoloLens helper class to get a position dead ahead of the user–on a hologram or at a max distance (Joost van Schaik)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

[Video] Xamarin.Basics – Ad Hoc iOS Builds, Part 1: Certificates and Profiles (Alex Dunn)
Video: Configuring an MVC App Using a Standard Visual Studio Template (Erin Sloan)
JSJ 267 Node 8 with Mikeal Rogers, Arunesh Chandra, and Anna Henningsen (Joe Eames, AJ O’Neil, Amiee Knight & Charles Max Wood)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 201 | Sponsor Highlight – Codeship (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
ngAir 119 – ngGirls and ngAtl with Shmuela Jacobs and Zackary Chapple (Justin Schwartzenberger)
RunAs Radio – ITIL and DevOps with Akshay Ananad and Kaimar Karu (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
Spark Performance Tuning – Part 2 | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
SE-Radio Episode 295: Michael Feathers on Legacy Code (Felienne)
Interview with Joy Chick, Corporate Vice President for the Identity Division at Microsoft | GALs (Soumow Atitallah)
Introducing the Dream.Build.Play Game Developer Competition | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)

Community / Events

Philly .NET Meetup – Azure Serverless Computing (Bill Wolff & Rob Keiser)
Dissertation Grant Winners Announced (Alyssa Hughes)
Meet the NativeScript Ambassadors (Jen Looper)
Delaware River Waterfront To Get An Awesome New Shopping & Dining Attraction With Cherry Street Pier (Jillian Wilson)
Contribute on Open Source Friday (Mike McQuaid)
PyData Seattle is next week! (Steve Dower)

Database

SQL Server Data Access Using R – Part 3 (Derek Colley)
Automating the Synchronization of RDS SQL Server Agent Jobs in a Multi-AZ Environment (Laerte Junior)
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Incorrect Results with Decimal (Pinal Dave)
My SQL Server Development Toolbox (Tim Mitchell)

PowerShell

Minify CSS and JS Files through PowerShell Scripts (Nirman B. Doshi)

Miscellaneous

How STEM tools on Chromebooks turn students into makers and inventors (Karen Greenleaf)
New images of the cancelled Lumia 960 leak online (Laurent Giret)
Announcing end-to-end security features in Windows 10 (Rob Lefferts)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-28 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-28 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2371 (Chris Alcock)
Reading Notes #286 (Frank Boucher)

The Geek Shelf

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Dew Drop – June 12, 2017 (#2498)

Top Links

LLBLGen Pro for .NET and .NET Core – Database Entity Modeling with any ORM (Scott Hanselman)
E3 2017 Briefing recap: Introducing Xbox One X and an epic lineup of new games (Will Tuttle)
E3 2017: Introducing Xbox One X, the world’s most powerful console (Albert Penello)
Xbox One backward compatibility expanding to original Xbox games (Matt Brown)

Web Development

Add a Multi-Select ListBox or DropDownList to Your ASP.NET MVC View (Peter Vogel)
Global Antiforgery Token Validation in ASP.NET Core and TypeScript 2.3: The –strict Compiler Option (Marius Schulz)
Using Module Augmentation To Safely Inject Runtime Methods Using TypeScript And Node.js (Ben Nadel)
Automatically validating anti-forgery tokens in ASP.NET Core with the AutoValidateAntiforgeryTokenAttribute (Andrew Lock)
OpenID Connect Session Management an Angular application using IdentityServer4 (Damien Bowden)
Stuffing Angular into a Tiny Docker Container (< 2 MB) (Jeremy Likness)
ASP.NET Core deployment using Docker, Nginx and Ubuntu Server (Piotr Gankiewicz)
Eight CSS Tips for Advanced Layouts and Effects (Rico Mossesgeld)
Microsoft Cognitive Custom Vision Service .Net Core Angular 4 Application (Part One) (Michael Washington)
Razor Pages – The Elevator Pitch (Mike Brind)
SPA in a nutshell | Manning (Emmit A. Scott, Jr.)
ESLint v4.0.0 released (ESLint Team)
Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service (atulm)
Go, without package scoped variables (Dave Cheney)
The 3 Best Ways To Create the Single Vision of A Customer (And What to Do With It) (Diego Poza)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Is Xamarin Forms Making Traditional Xamarin Obsolete? (Adam Pedley)
Growing Your First Xamarin.Forms Mac App (Matthew Soucoup)
Visual States in Xamarin.Forms using BuildIt.Forms and Xamarin.Forms Visual States with View Models and Adding Fluent Design Acrylic Material to UWP via Xamarin.Forms. (Nick Randolph)
Xamarin Forms ChatBot Application using the Microsoft Bot Framework (Suthahar J.)

Visual Studio & .NET

C# 7.1 and Beyond: Polishing Usability (Erik Heemskerk)
NuGet Package Hierarchical Versioning (Chris Cavanagh)
My Favorite C# 7 Feature: More expression-bodied members (James Montemagno)
How to Catch All Exceptions in C# & Find All Application Errors (Matt Watson)
Creating your first shared library in .NET Core (Paul Hiles)
Different ways to implement Singleton in .NET (and make people hate you along the way) (Nikola Živković)
dotnet CLI Tab completions now available in 2.0 (Shayne Boyer)

Design, Methodology & Testing

When to Unit Test in F# (Isaac Abraham)
Thinking About What to Call Team Members and Managers (Johanna Rothman)

Mobile & IoT

Writing a Weather App for Android: Refresh (Adrian Hall)
Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API (Wei Liu)
Introducing Blockly 1.0 for Android and iOS (Erik Pasternak)
Building Your Dog A Button with a Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Twilio (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
Generating Splash Screens and Application Icons for NativeScript Mobile Apps (Nic Raboy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast 049 – Eat Sleep Code Stir Trek Crossover Special with Ed Charbeneau (Matthew Groves)
InfoQ Podcast: Sid Anand on Building Agrai’s Cloud-native Data Pipelines with AWS Kinesis and Serverless (Sid Anand)
Merge Conflict 49: The Magic of MVVM (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
Rocket 126: WWDC! (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
Developer Tea – Interview with Tom Eich (part 1) and Developer Tea – Interview with Tom Eich (part 2) (Jonathan Cutrell)
Getting started with Mixer Interactivity in Unity | .GAME (Stacey Haffner)
The Changelog 252: GitHub’s Open Source Survey (2017) with Frannie Zlotnick and Nadia Eghbal (Adam Stacoviak & Mikeal Rogers)
Developer on Fire Episode 242 | Alex Papadimoulis – Inventions And Products (Dave Rael)
TWC9: Build Touring in Beijing, Xbox at E3, Holographic Cortana and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Petri Wilhelmsen & Nikola Metulev)
StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: A Taste of Space, with Matt O’Dowd (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

Community & Events

WebStorm team at the events this summer (Ekaterina Prigara)
Minecraft is getting the 4K treatment on Xbox One X (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Microsoft connects Minecraft players across Nintendo Switch, Xbox, mobile, and Windows 10 (Jez Corden)

Database

Getting Started with SQL Server Agent – Part 1 (Rick Dobson)
SQL SERVER – Not Able to Kill SPID with KILL WITH STATUSONLY and SQL SERVER – Learning New Multipurpose FORMAT Function and How to Add Column at Specific Location in Table? – Interview Question of the Week #126 (Pinal Dave)
ARM Template Deployments for MySQL and PostgreSQL (Sam Cogan)
RavenDB 4.0: Data subscriptions, Part II (Oren Eini)
Query Folding And Writing Your Own SQL Queries In Power Query/Power BI/Excel Get & Transform (Chris Webb)
Redgate puts its resources behind SQL Code Guard (Oleksii Kovalov)
SQL Data Mask: masking configurations and reports (Santiago Arias)

SharePoint

Use an SPFx Application Customizer to add JavaScript (e.g. header) to every page in a site (Chris O’Brien)

PowerShell

Uploading Static Web Content to Azure Blob Storage with PowerShell and AzCopy (Mark Heath)
Getting Started with PowerShell Core on Windows, Mac, and Linux (Ashley McGlone)

Miscellaneous

Microsoft to shut down its Docs.com file-sharing site December 15 (Mary Jo Foley)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-06-12 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-06-12 (Dan Rigby)
Here It Is Again: The Friday Five! (MVP Award Program)
The Morning Brew #2359 (Chris Alcock)
Double Shot #1866 (Mike Gunderloy)
Weekly C# Digest Issue #158 (Jakub Chodounsky)
F# Weekly #24, 2017 – Suave learning discount inside (Sergey Tihon)
Reading Notes #284 (Frank Boucher)
Collective #322 (Pedro Botelho)
Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
Azure Weekly: June 12, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
Last Week on Channel 9: June 5th – June 11th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)

The Geek Shelf

Microsoft Xbox One X Console: Video Games

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Dew Drop – April 20, 2017 (#2462)

Top Links

SQL Server 2017 Community Technology Preview 2.0 now available (SQL Server Team)
Visual Studio Code – April 2017 Update | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
New Offline Books for Visual Studio 2017 Available for Download (Den Delimarsky)
Keynote | Microsoft Data Amp 2017 (Scott Guthrie & Joseph Sirosh)
7 habits of highly effective C# developers (Jakub Chodounsky)

Web Development

As A Node.js Novice, I Don’t Understand Why Uncaught Exceptions Are So Dangerous (Ben Nadel)
Creating a basic Web API template using dotnet new custom templates (Andrew Lock)
A Vue.js introduction for people who know just enough jQuery to get by (Chris Coyier)
Getting Started With Chart.js: Line and Bar Charts (Monty Shokeen)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development – $17.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
ASP.NET Core Middleware Components are Singletons (K. Scott Allen)
OSS Spotlight: Swagger (Chris Pietschmann)
With ES7 And Beyond, Do You Need To Know ES6 Generators? (Derick Bailey)
See what’s coming soon on Postman’s product roadmap (Joyce)
Modernizing the DOM tree in Microsoft Edge (Travis Leithead & Matt Kotsenas)
DZone Refcardz – RESTful API Lifecycle Management (John Vester)
Running Docker containers on Bash on Windows (Tomas Lycken)
All your websites using StartCom certificates are about to break (Troy Hunt)
Radzen–The New LightSwitch? (Michael Washington)
Two Ways To Build a Recursive Logic App (Frank Boucher)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

Share Dialog with Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
Xamarin.Controls – Android ArcLayout and Xamarin.Tips – Fixing the Highlighting Drop In Your Xamarin.Forms Projects (Alex Dunn)
Trigger PropertyChanged of indexed property in Xamarin Forms (Pieter Nijs)
Preview: Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms (David Ortinau)
Xamarin Alpha Release: 15.2 Alpha Preview 3 (Bri Brothers)

Visual Studio & .NET

Code Reviews and Presentations with Visual Studio, Part 2 (Terrence Dorsey)
Using Entity Framework Core in-memory database for unit testing (Gunnar Peipman)
Value Tuples in C# 7: Please Tell Me I’m Doing This Wrong (Jeremy Clark)
C# Futures: Read-Only References and Structs (Jonathan Allen)
How to add Git Bash to your Visual Studio menu – 109 (Sara Ford)
.NET Core and SQL Server in Docker – Part 1: Building the Service (Lauri Nevala)
C++ Unit Testing in Visual Studio (Augustin Popa)
Covariant and Contravariant Casting is 3x Slower than Dynamic (Daniel Crabtree)
Built-in High DPI Support Coming to Telerik UI for WinForms (Ivan Petrov)
How I removed 50% of the code (Michał Komorowski)
A Year of Tips (Steve Smith)

Design, Methodology & Testing

Anatomy of a Great Product Design Engineer (with Infographic) (Nicole Pontius)
A Guide to Security Best Practices for Remote Teams (Amin Shah Gilani)
Book Discussion Questions for Radical Candor (Elisse Lockhart)
The Most Productive People Think This More Often: Charles Duhigg (Jessica Webb)

Other Mobile Platforms

Quick Tip: Working With Custom Fonts in Android O (Jessica Thornsby)
ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps (Greg Duncan)
Introducing the Modernize Traditional Apps Program (Scott Johnston)
DZone Refcardz – Getting Started With Appium (Dave Haeffner)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

.NET Rocks! – Antibiotic Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Windows Insider Program gets its own community-focused podcast (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
Snack Pack 10: Planet Xamarin – Community Blog Feed | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
Developer on Fire Episode 227 | Robert Blumen – Content Creation Mentor (Dave Rael)
Becoming a software developer – episode XIII (Piotr Gankiewicz)
Radio TFS – Richard and Rik Spring into DevOps (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)

Community & Events

MVP Community Connection 2017: Belgrade (MVP Award Program)
Windows Developers at Microsoft Build 2017 (Windows Apps Team)

Database & Analytics

SQL Server 2016 enhancements – Truncate Table and Table Partitioning (Prashanth Jayaram)
Step-by-step Installation of SQL Server 2016 on a Windows Server 2016 Failover Cluster – Part 3 (Edwin Sarmiento)
Announcing the General Availability (GA) Release of SSDT 17.0 (April 2017) (Ken Van Hyning)
SQL SERVER – FIX: The SQL Server Failed to Initialize VIA Support Library [QLVipl.dll] (Pinal Dave)
When should I add an index? (Kenneth Fisher)
Introducing Microsoft R Server 9.1 release (Nagesh Pabbisetty)
Delivering AI with data: the next generation of Microsoft’s data platform (Joseph Sirosh)

PowerShell

DSC Resource Kit Release April 2017 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

Introduction to Microsoft To-Do (Gunnar Peipman)
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16179 for PC + Build 15205 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
Introducing Microsoft To-Do—now available in Preview (Ori Artman)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-04-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-04-20 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2324 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #307 (Pedro Botelho)

The Geek Shelf

Microservices, IoT and Azure: Leveraging DevOps and Microservice Architecture to deliver SaaS Solutions: Bob Familiar: 9781484212769: Books

ISBN: 1484212762
ISBN-13: 9781484212769

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