Dew Drop – April 18, 2016 (#2232)

Top Links

• MS Dev Show – VSTS and DevOps Announcements with Donovan Brown (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• Deploying ASP.NET Core RC1 to Azure App Services (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Test driving C# 7 features in Visual Studio “15” Preview (Thomas Levesque)
• .NET Goodness at BUILD 2016 – .NET ALL THE THINGS! (Beth Massi)

 

Web Development

• Turning Flash Off By Default in Microsoft Edge (Chris Love)
• A Guide to Proper Error Handling in JavaScript (Camilo Reyes)
• Using the SoundCloud API with the JavaScript SDK (Mustaghees Butt)
• Events in React (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
• Request.IsLocal in ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)
• Parallax Avatars With jQuery (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
• How I moved my blog from GeeksWithBlogs to WordPress. (Michael Freidgeim)
• HTML 5.1 Incremental Preview: Tabs, XSS, Tables, and Microformats (Rodrigo Kyle Mehren)
• HTML Table and jQuery – Handy Code Snippets (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Visual Studio Code 1.0 Released – Tips and Tricks (David Hayden)
• ES6 Symbols: Drumroll Please! (Paul Shannon)
• Supporting Avro in WebAPI via AvroMediaTypeFormatter (Yuval Itzchakov)
• Trees of Promises in ES6 (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Facebook Graph API v2.6 Delivers New APIs and Features (Eric Carter)
• Introducing the new Framer (Robin Rendle)

 

XAML

• Adding smooth transitions when navigating in your UWP app (David Catuhe)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Update your Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension now! (Ankit Asthana)
• Conflict: Website with given name already exists, during VSTS Release. (Clemens Reijnen)
• SonarLint for VisualStudio 2.1 released, brings consistency with MSBuild, navigation to SonarQube and notifications (Jean-Marc Prieur)
• Stack Up the Stream Objects to Combine Functionality (Peter Vogel)
• Ask dotNetDave – Properly Throwing & Rethrowing Exceptions (David McCarter)
• Notifications from an event log (Jef Claes)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Are You an Agent of Change? (Dave Rael)
• Versioning Software Builds Based on Git Tags and Semantic Versioning (SemVer) (Tugberk Ugurlu)
• To Split or Not to Split, It’s Really Complicated. (Jann Thomas)
• Challenges of Microservices Deployments (Mark Little)
• Overconfidence is oft inadequacy (Wes Higbee)
• Gulp Under the Hood: Building a Stream-based Task Automation Tool (Mikhail Angelov)
• Zero Downtime (Gabriel Schenker)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Work Item Integration for IntelliJ and Android Studio (Jason Prickett)
• FreshEssentials for Xamarin.Forms – The must-have nuget for Forms (Michael Ridland)
• HoloLens Environment Mapping Video Capture (Chris Pietschmann)
• Are mobile UIs as good as they can be? (DevToolsGuy)
• How many different APIs do you need to turn on a light? (Greg Duncan)
• Raspberry Pi Display Shows Your Day at a Glance (Jeremy S. Cook)
• Constructor Function: Swift (Ted Neward)
• 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 8 – Table Controller Basics (Adrian Hall)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Thimbleweed Park Podcast #47 (Ron Gilbert)
• Xamarin Podcast: Continuous Integration & Deployment (Pierce Boggan)
• WinBeta Podcast 61: New Start Menu, Messaging Everywhere and more (Sean Michael)
• Yet Another Podcast #153 – James Montemagno: Xamarin (Jesse Liberty)
• Learn about Android Development Patterns over Coffee with Joanna Smith (Laurence Moroney)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 84 – From Research To Code (Anna Lee) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Developer on Fire Episode 122 | Adam Tornhill – Learn to Learn (Dave Rael)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Developer Digest Episode 1 (Ed Charbeneau)
• TWC9: Build & Edge on Demand, VS Code 1.0, React Native UWP, Windows 10 Updates and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vladimir Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries – Science and Morality (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• What’s New From Build 2016: Xbox One Dev Mode (David Voyles)

 

Community / Events

• Intel rumored to cut thousands of jobs by end of 2016 (John Callaham)
• Get Microsoft Certified at Half Price during Ignite 2016 (Veronica Sopher)

 

Database

• SQL Server Data Tools Preview update for April 2016 (Abbie Petchtes)
• SQL SERVER – Identifying Page Types and SQL SERVER – Unable to Open Maintenance Plan in Management Studio and SELECT One by Two – Why Does SELECT 1/2 Returns 0 – Interview Question of the Week #067 (Pinal Dave)
• Simulate Reporting Services Data Driven Subscriptions on Unsupported Editions (Daniel Farina)
• Microsoft Releases Power BI Embedded Preview (Kent Weare)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell Script to Delete All Data in a SQL Server Database (Jeffrey Yao)
• The Unicode PowerShell module (Carlo Mancini)
• PowerShell unit testing: mocking constructors (Joe White)
• Test-DSCConfiguration exceeds the maximum envelope size (Emin Atac)

 

Miscellaneous

• This is your Windows 10 Mobile phone using Ethernet for blazing network speeds (Daniel Rubino)
• Here’s The Programming Game You Never Asked For (Jeff Atwood)
• Preview plugin-free Skype video calling in Microsoft Edge (Kyle Pflug)

 

More Link Collections

• The Morning Brew #2074 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1671 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Geek Reading April 15, 2016 #1085 (Robert Diana)
• Time for your #FridayFive! (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #228 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #215 (Pedro Botelho)
• Last Week on Channel 9: April 11th – April 17th, 2016 (Greg Duncan)
• GameDev News – Week Ending April 15, 2016 (Brian Peek)
• Weekly Xamarin Newsletter Issue #88 (Adam J. Wolf)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for Apr 15th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #98 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #16, 2016 (Sergey Tihon)

 

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