Dew Drop – October 20, 2016 (#2349)

Top Links

• .NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15” (Joe Morris)
• Follow every Microsoft MVP on Twitter! (Chris Givens)
• Modern ASP.NET Web Forms Development – Dependency Injection (Jeffrey T. Fritz)

 

Web Development

• WebStorm 2016.2.4 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)
• Syncfusion HTML to PDF WebKit Powered (and free) (Greg Duncan)
• Notes from the ASP.NET Community Standup – October 18, 2016 (Jeffrey T. Fritz)
• Meet UI for ASP.NET Core (Petyo Ivanov)
• Creating a new .NET Core web application, what are your options? (Jon Hilton)
• Accessing SQL from Entity Framework Core Queries in ASP.NET Core (Rion Williams)
• Using Apache Web Server as a reverse-proxy for ASP.NET Core (Shayne Boyer)
• Introducing SIP Registration (Annie Benitez Pelaez)
• Hosting Azure Web App on Linux (Chris Pietschmann)
• Project Bletchley: Blockchain infrastructure updates (Christine Avanessians)
• Connect Microsoft Bookings to your Facebook Page and grow your business (Paul Tischhauser)
• Building RESTful APIs With Flask: ORM Independent (Shalabh Aggarwal)

 

XAML

• Twitter style launch animation in XAML (Matt Lacey)
• MCSD: App Builder Certification (Chris Pietschmann) – Web apps or Xaml apps
• Windows 10 1607, UWP and Project Rome–Transferring Browser Tabs Across Devices (Mike Taulty)
• Building a Mulit-Tenant Rich Client (UWP) that Connects via an Azure AD Protected WebAPI Through to an External Service (Nick Randolph)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• ModelBuilder 1.0.0 (Rory Primrose)
• Optimizing read transaction startup time: The low hanging fruit (Oren Eini)
• What Is: Microsoft Cognitive Services (Amanda Lange)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Simplified Scrum view (Moses (Muhammad) Soliman)
• Iterating the Product Owner Role: From Owner to Assistant (Pete Coulter)
• Giving Developers Autonomy While Still Maintaining Order in a Distributed Team (Carolyn Sullivan)
• The Evolution of the Testing Pyramid (Elias Nogueira)
• Static Analysis for the Build Machine? (Erik Dietrich)
• Track service usage data in VSTS (Matteo Emili)
• When is It Okay to Turn off Static Analysis Guidance (Serge Baranovsky)
• Avoid Storing Database Credentials in Source Control (Steve Smith)
• When to use mocks (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Now available: Android 7.1 Developer Preview (Dave Burke)
• Create a Game with iOS 10 and Message App Extensions (John Miller)
• Making an Alexa Raspberry Pi (Jeff Blankenburg)
• The Roadmap to Swift 4 (Sergio De Simone)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• .NET Rocks! – SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• The Xamarin Show 7: Continuous C# & F# IDE for iPad with Frank Krueger | The Xamarin Show (James Montemagno)
• 234 JSJ JAMStack with Brian Douglas and Matt Christensen (Aimee Knight, Charles Max Wood & Jamison Dance)
• AAWP Insight #196: 8.1 vs W10M, Acer pricing, bugs (Steve Litchfield)
• SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 66: The Microsoft Professional Program (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
• The Married Gamers Presents Episode 401: Zapped Again! (Chris Brown)
• Countdown Show #4 with Dona Sarkar | New Zealand 2016 (Rick Claus & Seth Juarez)
• Azure App Service Companion (Scott Hanselman & Camtomisser)
• Azure functions integration and Triggering with Azure Functions (Scott Hanselman & Seth Juarez)
• Windows Subsystem for Linux: Windows and Ubuntu Interoperability (Seth Juarez)
• Developer Tea – DCR – Step 3: Learning About Companies (Part 1) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Mentorship at Slack (Brenda Jin)
• Top 10 Halloween Events Hitting Philly This Month (Jillian Wilson)
• Dev To Founder – Amber Reyngoudt (Taylor Ford)

 

Database

• Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 – Free eBook (Joseph Sirosh)
• SQL SERVER – How to Avoid Triggers for Multiple Row Operations in a Table (Pinal Dave)
• High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, And Replication By Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, And Vadim Tkachenko (Ben Nadel)
• Jump Start Your Analytics with Cortana Intelligence Solutions (Sachin Chouksey & Darwin Schweitzer)

 

Miscellaneous

• Introducing Digital Badges for Microsoft Certified Professionals (Alison Cunard)
• So that’s 3 presidential debates, 0 climate change questions (Andrew Freedman)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14951 for Mobile and PC (Dona Sarkar)
• It’s in the cards: Bill Gates is part of U.S. team competing in Online Bridge World Cup (Kurt Schlosser)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-10-20 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-10-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2204 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1757 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #256 (Pedro Botelho)

 

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