Dew Drop – February 22, 2016 (#2193)

Top Links

• Setting up a TypeScript + Visual Studio Code development environment (Remo H. Jansen)
• Incrementally Migrating JavaScript to TypeScript (Clay Allsopp)
• Getting Started with Xamarin & MVVM Light (Richard Woollcott)
• HP Elite x3 – Full specs of the ultra-powerful Windows Phone (Daniel Rubino)
• Porting to .NET Core (Immo Landwerth)

 

Web Development

• Throwing Errors In The Future Using RxJS In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Visual Studio Community – Free Node.js Development Tools! (Ed Price)
• You got your CSS in my JavaScript (Jonathan Snook)
• Web Mail—A New Demo Application using UI for ASP.NET AJAX (Lohith Goudagere Nagaraj)
• Angular JS Tutorial – MVC and MVVM Design Patterns (Andrey Prikaznov)
• es6 cheatsheet at DuckDuckGo (DuckDuckGo)
• ESLint v2.0.0 released (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• Setting up Webpack for ES6, React, SASS and Bootstrap (Andrej Gajdos)
• RxJs Testing in real world applications (Simon Jentsch)
• Get Last Sync Time for Read-Access Geo-Redundant Azure Storage (Alexandre Brisebois)
• Three D’s of Web Development #2: Data-Binding (Jeremy Likness)
• Scalable APIs with Azure API Apps and Azure API Management: Secure, Document, Monitor, and more (Josh Eastburn)
• Microsoft Launches Azure PaaS Services and DevOps Tools Preview for Azure Stack (Kent Weare)
• One HTTP Request From Stardom: How Alan Shreve Built ngrok Using Go (Kyle Kelly-Yahner)
• Two Razor view errors you might be doing too (Simone Chiaretta)

 

XAML

• WPF Window Start-Up Locations (Richard Carr)
• Pay attention to .NET Native when using Reflection (MVVM scenario) (Marco Minerva)
• “Project Oxford”–Speaker Identification from a Windows 10/UWP App (Mike Taulty)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Working with running totals in F# (Isaac Abraham)
• ReSharper Ultimate 10.1 EAP 3 (Daria Dovzhikova)
• Insert new line in multiple xml files using Visual Studio (Michael Freidgeim)
• Using StructureMap 4 in a Console App (Steve Smith)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Agile Approaches in Test Planning (Ben Linders)
• Service Fabric Concept, Guidelines and Patterns #6-Deadlock (Bnaya Eshet)
• Tracking Properties in Unit Tests – Update 1: Supporting “All Properties” and Tracking Properties in Unit Tests – Update 2: Finer-Grained Timeout and Tracking Changes in Unit Tests – Part 3: Async Tests (Jeremy Clark)
• Mini book: Why Agile Works (Michael de la Maza & David Benz)
• Death of a Scrum Room (Steve Wilkes)
• Dependencies management in a crisis (Oren Eini)
• 20 Material Design Resources (Bart Jacobs)
• Print cards v2 extension (Anisha Pindoria)
• Book on Continuous Deployment (Brian Harry)
• Applying Product Management to Your Life (Jonathan Snook)
• Why You Should, or Shouldn’t Version Your API (Martin W. Brennan)
• Upskilling your upskilling skills. Part 1: The Topics (Karoline Klever)
• Partially initialized entities anti-pattern (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Fix for “could not connect to the debugger” while deploying Xamarin Forms apps to the Visual Studio Android Emulator (Joost van Schaik)
• Creating an Imgur App with NativeScript (Wern Ancheta)
• Binding with Bond (Colin Eberhardt)
• A makefile-based build system for Swift (Daniel Glazman)
• Beer IoT (need I say more?) and GameMaker your Pi! (Greg Duncan)
• 5 Things to Know Before Building a Career in Mobile App Development (Hannah Dickins)
• Quick Tip: Set Location of Simulator when Requesting Users Location (iOS-Blog Team)
• Using Credentials between your Server and Google Services (Laurence Moroney)
• Cloud Foundry Buildpack for Swift on Bluemix (Ricardo Olivieri)
• RxSwift Brings Native Reactive Functional Programming to Swift (Sergio De Simone)
• How to build a Unity game for Windows 10 (Timmy Kokke)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #42 (Ron Gilbert)
• WinBeta Podcast 53: Redstone build, Surface updates and waterproof phones (Sean Michael)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Apprenticeship for Scrum Masters | Zach Bonaker (Vasco Duarte)
• Steve Lasker on Docker Tools for Visual Studio (Seth Juarez)
• TWC9: Stacking Microsoft, Windows 10 Pi, Bobble Head your Node.js and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• Random Meeting on Campus at Microsoft (Scott Hanselman)
• MS Dev Show – Azure Data Lake with Matt Winkler (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• On .NET 2/19/2016 – Joe Duffy (Bertrand Le Roy)
• CodeNewbie Podcast Ep. 76 – Data Journalist (Matt Mitchell) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 101 | Christin Gorman – Making the World a Better Place (Dave Rael)
• Episode 200: Azure Resource Manager Tooling with Brian Moore | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Haishi Bai & Chris Risner)
• CodeChat 055 – Stealing Some Time with David Crook | CodeChat (Jeremy Foster)
• GeekWire Radio: Robert Scoble on augmented reality, Amazon, and how technology is changing what it means to be human (Madeline Vuong)
• SQL Server Radio Show 41 – IFI (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• RadioTFS – Catching up with Josh Garverick (Martin Woodward & Greg Duncan)
• SSW TV – Introducing Entity Framework Core: Everything you need to know | by Brendan Richards (Sophie Belle)
• Developer Tea – Client Relationships: Meeting Preparation Tips and Developer Tea – Part One: Interview w/ Jason Snell (Jonathan Cutrell)
• StarTalk Radio – Season 6 Time Capsule (Part 1) (Neil deGrasse Tyson)

 

Community / Events

• New Open Connectivity Foundation Will Further Innovation of the Internet of Things (Terry Myerson)

 

Database

• Reading Always Encrypted Data with SQL Server Integration Services 2016 (Koen Verbeeck)
• SQL SERVER – Starting Up Database – Why Multiple Times in Errorlog? (Pinal Dave)
• Introduction to Big Data (Guy Glantser)
• Interview Question of the Week #059 – What are Limitations of User Defined Functions (UDF) ? (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• Using PowerShell to export Active Directory information (Douglas Correa)
• SQL SERVER – Scripting Tip: PowerShell to Identify Last Bootup Time (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• Making the most of www.codeproject.com (DevToolsGuy)
• Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 14267 (Gabe Aul)
• Need an SSH client on Windows? Don’t use Putty or CygWin…use Git (Matt Wrock)
• The HP Elite x3 with Windows 10 – Redefining the Mobile Computing Experience for Businesses (Mollie Ruiz-Hopper)
• Vector Sample in Small Basic (Nonki Takahashi)
• Kids and Code: Simple programming on code.org (Troy Hunt)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 19, 2016 #1046 (Robert Diana)
• The Morning Brew #2036 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #207 (Pedro Botelho)
• Happy #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Last Week on Channel 9: February 15th – February 21st, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending February 19, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #80 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 19th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #90 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #7-#8, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)
• Links of the Week 2-21-2016 (Chris Love)
• Daily Links 20 Feb 216 (Malcolm Jack)
• CSS-Tricks Chronicle XXVI (Chris Coyier)

 

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