Dew Drop – February 23, 2016 (#2194)

Top Links

• Announcing TypeScript 1.8 (Bowden Kelly)
• Switching from WCF OData to Web API (Maarten Balliauw)
• Porting MSBuild to .NET Core (Daniel Plaisted)
• Cross-Platform 2D Graphics with SkiaSharp (Miguel de Icaza)
• Cordova Tools for Visual Studio Code (Sergiy Baydachnyy)

 

Web Development

• RxJS Streams Are Inconsistently Asynchronous In Angular 2 Beta 6 (Ben Nadel)
• Video Review: Introduction to ASP.NET 5 with Simone Chiaretta (Morgan Weston)
• Examples of name clashes in JavaScript’s standard library (Axel Rauschmayer)
• What is a Provider () in AngularJS? and Understanding the Grid Layout in Bootstrap (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Battleground of Frameworks — AngularJS or EmberJS (Pushpendra Singh)
• Delivering Octicons with SVG (Aaron Shekey)
• Get started with Polymer 1.0 and Sublime Text 3.0 (Raffaele Garofalo)
• Using Let’s Encrypt with IIS on Windows (Rick Strahl)
• Node v5.7.0 (Stable) (Rod Vagg)
• Binding Aurelia Routing Rules (K. Scott Allen)

 

XAML

• Improvements to Windows Store apps and games visibility (Bernardo Zamora)
• Win2D 1.16.0 – changing experimental APIs to stable (Shawn Hargreaves)
• Windows App Studio February 2016 update – agenda layout, searching in apps, and other new features (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• New Free eBook C# 6.0: What’s New Quick Start (Jason Roberts)
• Visual Studio Shortcuts: Implementing the Dispose Pattern (Jeremy Clark)
• Develop ReactNative apps in Visual Studio Code (Parashuram N.)
• Implementing Missing Features in Entity Framework Core (Ricardo Peres)
• New toolchain for .NET – dotnet CLI (Paweł Grudzień)
• Creating Type-Safe Structures (and Dictionaries) with Tuples (Peter Vogel)
• Fast Square Root calculation for the BigInteger class in .NET (Alex Hildyard)
• New Options for Managing Character Sets in the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler (Jim Springfield)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Basics of Web Application Security: Bind Parameters for Database Queries (Martin Fowler)
• VeST Redux – Components, mains, simulators and test rigs (Sebastien Lambla)
• Performance Testing in a Nutshell (Srinivas Murty)
• The Search For Predictability (Gil Zilberfeld)
• Getting started with a modern source control system and DevOps (Martin Hinshelwood)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Game Templates, Construct 2 (Greg Duncan)
• Explore the IBM Swift Sandbox 1-2-3 (Karl Weinmeister)
• Introducing the Swift Package Catalog (Manuel Silveyra)
• Sharing – A perspective on Swift collaboration (Patrick Bohrer)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Entreprogrammers Episode 105 “This Week, In Podcasting Problems” (Josh Earl, John Sonmez, Derick Bailey & Charles Max Wood)
• .NET Rocks! – Agile Change with Chris McDermott (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 189 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Webinar Recording | Xamarin vs. Hybrid HTML: Making the Right Choice for the Enterprise (Steven Yi)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Pressure to perform can destroy a team | Zach Bonaker (Vasco Duarte)
• Defrag Tools #154 – Memory Footprint and Leaks | Defrag Tools (Andrew Richards & Chad Beeder)
• It’s Always Sunny at Philly Codefest (David Voyles)
• The Web Ahead 113: Standing on Turtles with Husani Oakley (Jen Simmons)
• SE-Radio Epislode 250: Jürgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier on Why Large IT Projects Fail (Robert Blumen)
• Eat, Sleep, Code Podcast – Why Microsoft Open Source (Ed Charbeneau)

 

Community / Events

• The unicorn Silicon Valley doesn’t like to talk about (Prashant Deva)
• Philly Bierfest Celebrates German-Style Brews With 30+ Varieties (Amy Gordon)
• Inside the Open Source Programs Office – Part 1 (Doug Mahugh)
• Announcing the Microsoft Press User Group Program (Kim Spilker)
• NEWS: James Whittaker added to “TechNet Virtual Conference” speakers – March 1, 2016 (Kurt Shintaku)

 

Database

• Tracking Query Statistics on Memory Grants and Parallelism in SQL Server 2016 (Marios Philippopoulos)
• SQL SERVER – How to Start SQL Server Service Without tempdb? (Pinal Dave)
• Generating new row numbers in SQL based on a starting value (Chris Miller)
• Batch Queries with Marten (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Miscellaneous

• Try This Quiz About Time, Energy, and Superheroes (Bill & Melinda Gates)
• NEW BOOK: Microsoft OneNote 2016 Step by Step (by Curtis Frye) (Ed Price)
• Windows ‘phone’ isn’t dead Part I: Keeping the vision in view (Jason Ward)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading February 22, 2016 #1047 (Robert Diana)
• Reading Notes #222 (Frank Boucher)
• Double Shot #1647 (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Morning Brew #2037 (Chris Alcock)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Feb 22nd, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)

 

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