December 2016 – Page 4 – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Dew Drop – December 16, 2016 (#2385)

Top Links

Code Style Configuration in the VS2017 RC Update (Kasey Uhlenhuth)
ReSharper Ultimate 2016.3 is Released! (Daria Dovzhikova)
Christmas Trees in WPF, 2016 Edition (Reed Copsey)
Node.js and Password Storage with Bcrypt (Max McCarty)
Simple Progress Reporting with Task and Custom Progress Reporting with Task (Jeremy Clark)

Web Development

Your First Angular 2, ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio Code – Part 4 (Aaron Marisi)
Drag and Drop Grouping and Sorting with Angular 2 (Ed Charbeneau)
Introducing Postman Pro (Abhinav Asthana)
Semantic Variable Colors – New in PhpStorm 2016.3! (Gary Hockin)
9 Node.JS Frameworks Available for Your Next Project (Kasia Hoffman)
Building MVC Sites with Enterprise Stability and Open Source Flexibility (Peter Filipov)
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2 (Tom McFarlin)
Writing HTTP CRUD in Azure Functions (Adrian Hall)
Declaration scopes in Go (Dave Cheney)
Easily add authorization rules to your Azure App (Mitul Suthar)
Release of SDK 2.4.145 and Runtime 5.4.145 for Windows (Service Fabric Team)
New Theme Chooser for GitHub Pages (Jurgen Leschner)

XAML

2000 Things About WPF #1,198 – Selectively Enabling Child Elements in a Disabled Panel (Sean Sexton)
GameAnalytics SDK for Microsoft UWP Released (Windows Apps Team)

Miscellaneous .NET

RX .NET demo (SDP session) (Bnaya Eshet)

Design / Methodology / Testing

On Creating Your Own Flavor of Agile (Oliver Hookins)
The Importance of Time Boxes (David Bernstein)
WebDriver / UI Testing: Where to Start (Jim Holmes)
DevOps for the database – the inside story (Matt Hilbert)
Testing a Team Services extension and tracking code coverage (Mikael Krief)

Other Mobile Platforms

Google Targets IoT with Android Things (Abel Avram)
EditorVR Experimental Build Available Today (Amir Ebrahimi)
Get a glimpse of Wear 2.0’s upcoming standalone apps (Kacey Fahey)
System X-Ray for Amazon Fire TV: Displaying Custom Information (Andy Haldeman)
Data Synchronization with Couchbase in Ionic 2 Hybrid Mobile Apps (Nic Raboy)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 213 #OTP (Richard Hay)
Hanselminutes – Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing and Henry Segerman (Scott Hanselman)
Episode 111 with John Bristowe and John Liu about Office 365 development with KendoUI and Angular2—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Office Dev)
123 AiA Upgrading from Angular 1 to Angular 2 with Victor Savkin (John Papa)
[Webinar Recording] Applying Object Composition to Build Rich Domain Models (Iveta Moldavcuk)
The Nerdist Podcast – Ian McShane (Chris Hardwick)
Video: A Ruinous Empathy Story (Elisse Lockhart)
SQL Server Radio – Matan Loves Marriage (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
Talk Python to Me #89 – A conversation with the Chief Data Scientist of the United States (Michael Kennedy)
Microsoft Mechanics – An overview of modern management for Windows 10 (Janani Vasudevan)
Rocket 101: BRI IS BACK (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
Azure Podcast Episode 157 – Partner Spotlight – Stackify (Sujit D’Mello)

Community / Events

Git Merge 2017: the full agenda is now live (Brittany Walker)
Q&A With MVPs: How to host a conference (Alan Smith & Magnus Mårtensson)
IoT Hackathon Winners See Voice Command as the Interface of the Future (Jen Gilbert)

Database

Configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group on a Multi-Subnet Cluster (Manvendra Singh)
Does updating SQL Server statistics cause blocking (Daniel Farina)
Free eBook: Data Science with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (Chris Pietschmann)
The Definitive Guide to NoSQL Databases (Mohamad Altarade)
SQL Server + C#: What’s new (Andrea Lam)
Zip Files in SSIS (Tim Mitchell)
RavenDB 4.0 Alpha is out! (Oren Eini)
Always Use A Deterministic ORDER BY When Using LIMIT And OFFSET In MySQL (Ben Nadel)

PowerShell

The Key to Understanding PowerShell – on Windows or Linux (Don Jones)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-16 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-16 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2245 (Chris Alcock)

The Geek Shelf

Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks: Languages That Are Shaping the Future: Bruce Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt: 9781941222157: Books

ISBN: 1941222153
ISBN-13: 9781941222157

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Dew Drop – December 15, 2016 (#2384)

Top Links

Connect(“demos”); // 2016: BikeSharing360 on GitHub (Erika Ehrli Cabral)
Announcing Auth0 Authorization Extension v2! (Sandrino Di Mattia)
Extended WPF Toolkit Community Edition – Release v3.0.0 (CodePlex)
.NET Rocks! – Worldwide Energy Production Geek Out (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)

Web Development

Creating A PouchDB Playground In The Browser With JavaScript (Ben Nadel)
Pragmatic Web Error Handling in ASP.NET MVC (Dino Esposito)
Semantic Variable Colours – New in PhpStorm 2016.3! (Gary Hockin)
Announcing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks V1 (Henrik F. Nielsen)
Angular 2.3.0 Released; Naming Guidelines Explained (James Chesters)
ASP.NET Or ASP.NET Core, What To Choose? (Mahesh Chand)
#Ebook Deal/Day: CSS: The Definitive Guide – $19.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Quick Tip for Showing JSFiddles in Your WordPress Blog (Rachel Hagerman)
Announcing the Public Beta Release 1.4 of our Twilio Client JavaScript SDK (Rob Brazier)
Creating a Custom WordPress Messaging System, Part 2 (Tom McFarlin)
Why RxJS Is The Hottest Way To Handle Async (Tracy Lee)
Extending User Control of Flash with Click-to-Run (Crispin Cowan & Microsoft Edge Team)
Writing Declaration Files for @types (Daniel Rosenwasser)
More details about containerd, Docker’s core container runtime component (Patrick Chanezon)
containerd – a core container runtime project for the industry (Solomon Hykes)

XAML

WPF Rendering DUCE.Channel Crashes due to Image Loading (Rick Strahl)
Windows 10, UWP and Sphero–Bringing 2D UWP Demo Code to HoloLens (Mike Taulty)

Miscellaneous .NET

Avoid Referencing Infrastructure in Visual Studio Solutions (Steve Smith)
Page the Doctor! When Entity Framework Paging Goes Rogue! (Rion Williams)
CodeRush for Roslyn, v. 16.2.3 is Available (Mark Miller)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Business features vs. technical features (Oren Eini)
A reminder to test (Remy Sharp)
Businesses Continue to Rule Out Cloud Services (Carolyn Sullivan)
Foundations of RESTful Architecture (Chris Smith)
Team Services December Extensions Roundup (Joseph Bourne)
Detecting Performance Bottlenecks with NDepend (Eric Dietrich)

Other Mobile Platforms

Android Wear 2.0 Gains New APIs (Eric Zeman)
Introducing the BikeRider Xamarin.Forms Sample App (Pierce Boggan)
Developing mobile apps with React Native in WebStorm (Ekaterina Prigara)
Swifter Swift, Swiftly (Alex Curylo)
Introducing Azure IoT Hub Routes – A new feature that allows you to route messages to alternate endpoints (Jon Gallant)
Playing with an Onion Omega IoT device to show live Blood Sugar on an OLED screen (Scott Hanselman)
What else is coming in Windows 10 IoT Core with the Creators Update? (Mary Jo Foley)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

Exploring our newest sample app, BikeSharing360 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Dmitry Lyalin & Robert Green)
Microsoft Mechanics – Step-by-step guide to building PowerApps for SharePoint (Chris McNulty)
242 JSJ Visual Studio and .NET with Maria Naggaga (AJ O’Neal & Charles Max Wood)
.NET Core and Visual Studio Code (and Couchbase) (video) (Matthew Groves)
The Joy of Coding – Episode 83 (Air Mozilla)
Programming the Microsoft Surface Dial (keantonc & Rosshe)
Microsoft Mechanics – Introducing the Windows Companion Device Framework (Anoosh Saboori)
Away From the Keyboard Episode 55: Christina Keelan’s Happy Ending (Richie Rump)
Interactive Spark on Azure | Data Exposed (Scott Klein)
SE-Radio Episode 277: Gil Tene on Tail Latency (Robert Blumen)
Developer Tea – Listener Question: Alex Asks About Getting Back Into The Game (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community / Events

Philly .NET January Meeting – Stress Free Deployments (Philly .NET Team)
Who will be crowned the last Small Basic Guru of 2016!! (Ed Price)
Another spicy interview (Eric Lippert)

Database

Presenting with SQL Server Management Studio (Andrew Pruski)
SQL SERVER – Discovery Report – How to Find Information About Installed Features? (Pinal Dave)
Using Azure to store and process large amounts of SQL data (John Miner)
Previewing the Generated PostgreSQL SQL for a Query in Marten (Jason Roberts)
Introducing Change Feed support in Azure DocumentDB (Aravind Ramachandran)
How Realm is Better As Compared To SQLite? (Lipika Gupta)

PowerShell

Generate T-SQL Scripts for all SQL Server Databases and all Objects using PowerShell (Angel Gomez)
DSC Resource Kit Release December 2016 (Katie Keim)

Miscellaneous

Interviewing for “Cultural Fit” (Don Albrecht)
Updates to the OneNote Class Notebook add-in—read/unread indicators in Review Student Work and more (OneNote Team)

More Link Collections

Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-14 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-15 and Windows App Developer Links – 2016-12-15 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2244 (Chris Alcock)
Collective #272 (Pedro Botelho)
The Daily Six Pack: December 15, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

Gigamic Quoridor Classic Game: Toys & Games

ASIN: B00001NTXN

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Dew Drop – December 14, 2016 (#2383)

Top Links

Project Springfield: a Cloud Service Built Entirely in F# (William Blum)
Ok… let me explain: it’s going to be Angular 4 (Igor Minar)
Pride in Software Development (Rockford Lhotka)
The Year in .NET – Visual Studio 2017 RC and .NET Core updated, On .NET with Stephen Cleary and Luis Valencia, Ulterius, Inferno, Bastion, LoGeek Night (Bertrand Le Roy)
Cortana to open up to new devices and developers with Cortana Skills Kit and Cortana Devices SDK (Windows Apps Team)

Web Development

Babylon.js v2.5 and what’s next? (David Catuhe)

Communication Between Components Using @Input() in Angular (Dhananjay Kumar)

WebStorm 2016.3.2 is now available (Ekaterina Prigara)

Convert ASP.NET Web Servers to Docker with Image2Docker (Elton Stoneman)

Accessing HttpContext outside of framework components in ASP.NET Core (Filip W.)

Angular 2 and .NET Core – your first component (Jon Hilton)

A Few Paragraphs on Angular 2 (Rob Larsen)

Cross-Browser HTML5 Form Validation is Finally Here! Now What? (TJ VanToll)

Azure Functions Visual Studio Tools Preview (Chris Pietschmann)

Miscellaneous .NET

.NET Framework December Monthly Rollup is Now Available (Stacey Haffner)
December 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0 (Kendra Havens)
Special offer: Save 40% on all eBooks (Kim Spilker)
Entity Framework Core Extensions (Erik EJ)

Design / Methodology / Testing

Productivity Patterns (Derek Huether)
SonarSource have announced their own SonarQube Team Services / TFS integration (Bogdan Gavril)
Ensure Consistent Testing with Mock Objects and Moq (Peter Vogel)
Resources for Writing Clean Code as a Software Developer (Richard Hay)
How We Test Software: Chapter Four Part II—Developer Tools (Antonia Bozhkova)
What Is Clean Code? (Kevin Rutherford)
Microsprints: Why You Need Them To Get More Done (And How To Get Started) (Matt Bilotti)
Why Feedback Helps Teams Achieve Results (Russ Laraway)

Other Mobile Platforms

Announcing updates to Google’s Internet of Things platform: Android Things and Weave (Wayne Piekarski)
Designing and Prototyping Apps with Adobe Experience Design CC (Beta) (Michael S. Scherotter)
Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4: Authentication, In-App Billing, and more (Hoi Lam)
Introducing the WebVR API in Chrome for Android (Brandon Jones)
Installing Xamarin Made Easy with Offline Installation (Mayur Tendulkar)
PouchDB Data Modeling For My Dig Deep Fitness Offline First Mobile Application (Ben Nadel)
Unity 5.6 beta is now available (Alex Lian)
Creating a Raspberry Pi Pandora Player with Remote Web Control (Dave Johnson)
Introducing a New Alexa Video Series for Python Developers by Coding Dojo (Marion Desmazieres)
#Ebook Deal/Day: Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi – $15.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
Swift 3.1 Enters its Final Development Stage (Sergio De Simone)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

.NET Rocks! – JavaScript Development Environments with Cory House (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 170 | News from AWS re:Invent and ExpressRoute for Office 365 (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
SQL Data Partners Podcast Episode 74: 2016 in review and 2017 goals (Carlos Chacon Jr.)
RunAs Radio – The DevOps Handbook with Gene Kim (Richard Campbell & Greg Hughes)
StarTalk Radio – Science Gets Fabulous, with Summer Ash and Emily Rice – StarTalk All-Stars (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Tuesdays with Corey: Internal use of Azure Bot Framework to improve support engineering | Tuesdays With Corey (RicksterCDN)

Community / Events

Twilio SIGNAL 2017 – CFP Open (Twilio SIGNAL Team)

Database

Run SQL Server vNext (CTP1) as a Docker Container on a Mac (Susantha Bathige)
Unleash the power of SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL database temporal tables (Johan Åhlén & Peter Larsson)
SQL SERVER – Performance Analysis of Backup to Azure (Pinal Dave)
SSIS Data Taps (Tim Mitchell)
SQL Monitor review of 2016 (Ben Emmett)
Generating realistic dates using SQL Data Generator and Python (Phil Factor)
Provisioning a Couchbase Server Instance with the Command Line (Nic Raboy)

SharePoint

New book: Microsoft SharePoint 2016 Step by Step (Kim Spilker)

Miscellaneous

Robonomics: Prepare Today for the Jobless Economy of Tomorrow (Ian Stirk)
Scratch Blocks update: Making it easier to develop coding apps for kids (Google Devs)
2016 Favorite Books (Scott Banwart)
This is Microsoft’s first Amazon Echo competitor (Tom Warren)

More Link Collections

Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-12-14 (Dan Rigby)
The Morning Brew #2243 (Chris Alcock)
The Daily Six Pack: December 14, 2016 (Dirk Strauss)

The Geek Shelf

Professional C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Christian Nagel: 9781119096603: Books

ISBN: 111909660X
ISBN-13: 9781119096603

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