Dew Drop – January 21, 2016 (#2172)

Top Links

• Prism for Xamarin.Forms 6.2.0 Preview 3 (Brian Lagunas)
• Advancing Node.js for Windows 10 IoT Core (Windows Apps Team)
• Building a Simple App with the Windows Bridge for iOS (Nick Gerard)
• .NET Rocks! – Space Elevators and Tethers Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

 

Web Development

• Handling Request too large and identify limits in ASP.NET (Daniel Fisher)
• Configuration in ASP.NET Core MVC (James Chambers)
• NuGet Targets for Project.Json now open source (Jeff Fritz)
• CSS Specificity is Base-Infinite (Chris Coyier)
• Creating Unit Tests for ASP.NET MVC Controllers (Dhananjay Kumar)
• WebStorm 12 EAP, 144.3143: remote debug for Node.js, unused imports warning, debugging Electron and more (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Monkeying around with Kendo UI and Modulus (Jen Looper)
• ASP.NET Core Naming History and Reaction (Steve Smith)
• Keeping Promises With JavaScript (Stuart Memo)
• Troubleshooting Web API and Angular 2 beta (G. Andrew Duthie)
• Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET – 2.8.1 (MS Downloads)
• Brendan Eich Launches Brave New Browser (Ian Elliot)
• Contributing to the Microsoft Edge Browser (Jason Gaylord)
• Node v5.5.0 (Stable) (Evan Lucas)
• Angle Forward with TypeScript (Jeremy Likness)
• Create a Slack Docker Proxy in Go — Part 1 (Jos Dirksen)
• WebAuthenticationBroker Hints (Peter Freeman Foot)
• Which Browser Extensions do Web Developers Use? (Rey Bango)

 

XAML

• Measuring temperature with Windows 10 IoT Core and Raspberry Pi (Gunnar Peipman)
• #UWP Tips: Building a simple Toast Notification with text (Part 1) (Kunal Chowdhury)
• Visual States in XForms with BuildIt.Lifecycle (Nick Randolph)
• Accessing Azure IoT Hub Service Endpoint from UWP Applications (Vinoth Rajagopalan)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Static dictionary vs. dynamic dictionary tryouts (Oren Eini)
• Persevering and Separating the pinned tabs in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana)
• Continuous Delivery with TFS / VSTS – Configuring a Sample Application for Git in Visual Studio 2015 (Graham Smith)
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1: New Experimental Feature – MPX (Jim Hogg)
• Application Insights Proactive Detection (Anton Fritz)
• Myth-Busting: Memory-Mapped Files and Shared Memory on Windows (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Clang with Microsoft CodeGen (January 2016) released (Yuriy Solodkyy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• 5 Tips to Keep Getting Value from Agile Retrospectives (Ben Linders)
• Service Fabric Concept, Guidelines and Patterns #5–Map Reduce (Bnaya Eshet)
• Why I prefer spaces to tabs (Bertrand Le Roy)
• Automated Failure Testing (Kolton Andrus)
• Architecting Scalable, Dynamic Systems when Eventual Consistency Won’t Work (Michael Stiefel)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Working with the Android Picker Control to Select Date and Time (Vipul Patel)
• How To Create Vector Graphics on iOS (Akiel Khan)
• Data Binding Tips and Tricks for iOS, Android, and Windows (David Britch)
• What’s New in the IBM Swift Sandbox v0.4 (Jim Avery)
• The Evolution of Swift’s Standard Library (Sergio De Simone)
• Building the First Alexa App for a Conference (Steven Willmott)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• The Joy of Coding – Episode 41 (Mike Conley)
• How to Convert your iOS app to Windows (keantonc & Rosshe)
• 49 ngAir – What’s new in RxJS 5.0 with Ben Lesh and 006 jsAir – Introducing the JavaScript Air Panel with Dan Abramov, Brian Lonsdorf, Kyle Simpson, Iheanyi Ekechukwu, Lin Clark, Matt Zabriskie, Pam Selle, and Tyler McGinnis (Kent C. Dodds)
• Tuesdays with Corey: Simplest way to deploy SQL Server to the Cloud | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)
• Lock Me Down Show 5: The Notorious Hacker (Max McCarty)
• 195 JSJ Rollup.js with Rich Harris and Oskar Segersvärd (Joe Eames, Charles Max Wood, Dave Smith & Aimee Knight)
• The Ops Team Episode #010 – “Ghost Pepper Shots” | The Ops Team (RicksterCDN, Matt McSpirit, Simon May & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• In-Memory OLTP for Azure SQL DB | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
• SE-Radio Episode 247: Andrew Phillips on DevOps (Sven Johann)
• Interview with Ezgi Can and Jessica Engström during the #MVPSummit | GALs (Soumow)
• Azure Podcast Episode 111 – Azure Resource Health (Sujit D’Mello)

 

Community / Events

• Voting starts Jan. 21 for finalists in Microsoft’s HoloLens ‘Share your idea’ contest and Microsoft to hold Windows 10 and Xbox gaming press event Feb. 25 (John Callaham)
• No Hardware Freebies at Build 2016, But There Is a Free Mini-Conference (Paul Ballard)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2016 R Services: Executing R code in Revolution R Enterprise (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 4335, Level 16, State 1 – The specified STOPAT time is too early (Pinal Dave)
• Data Visualization Basics for Data Scientists (Buck Woody)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint Server 2016 and Project Server 2016 Release Candidate available (SharePoint Team)

 

PowerShell

• Finding the newest file in folder using PowerShell (Sean Rhone)

 

Miscellaneous

• All NYPD officers will soon use a translator app on their Windows Phone (John Callaham)
• BETA: Skype for Business Macintosh Client Pre-release Nominations now open (Kurt Shintaku)
• Review: littleBits Gadgets and Gizmos electronics kits for STEM kids (Scott Hanselman)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2014 (Chris Alcock)
• The Daily Six Pack: January 21, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)
• The week in .NET – 1/19/2016 (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

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