Dew Drop – January 20, 2017 (#2406)

Top Links

• Exploring Intermediate Language (IL) with ReSharper and dotPeek (Maarten Balliauw)
• Integration Testing with Entity Framework Core and SQL Server (David Paquette)
• Deep event analysis with dotTrace 2016.3 (Alexey Totin)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15014 for PC and Mobile (Dona Sarkar)

 

Web Development

• Mixing Specific And Non-Specific ng-content Transclusion In Angular 2.4.1 (Ben Nadel)
• What’s Expected from React, Angular, and Vue in 2017 (David Iffland)
• Kendo UI for Angular 2 Is Now a Release Candidate (Petyo Ivanov)
• Debugging Azure Funtions in Visual Studio (Benjamin Perkins)
• Azure Logic App Updates January 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Introducing Docker 1.13 (Docker Core Engineering)
• Docker for Devs: Hot Module Reloading and Live Editing in Containers (Max McCarty)

 

XAML & Xamarin

• My book about localization with Xamarin is out (Chris Miller)
• Planet Xamarin: Follow Your Favorite Community Bloggers (James Montemagno)
• Windows 10 Development for Beginners (Free Course) (Richard Hay)
• Using OpenZWave in UWP apps (Morten Nielsen)
• Introduction To Exrin (Video) (Adam Pedley)
• Customizing Pluralization in Caliburn.Micro (Nigel Sampson)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• NuGet – Ending Windows XP support (Karan Nandwani)
• Tuples and Generics in C#7 (Steve Smith)
• Answer: What does this code do? (Oren Eini)
• Authenticating Your C# Application for the Google Cloud Platform – Part 1 (Josh Morales)
• Force Nuget to Reinstall Packages without Updating (Steve Smith)
• .NET Core Image Processing (Bertrand Le Roy)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Mediator between Integration Boundaries (Derek Comartin)
• How to Keep a Git Fork up to Date (Gary Hockin)
• Why Are We So Awful at Estimating Large Software Projects? (Kevin Ford)
• DZone Refcardz – Continuous Integration: Servers and Tools (Ryan Little)
• How long should a single method be? (Vladimir Khorikov)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• UI for Android Brings TabView, Gauges & AutoCompleteTextView (Deyan Ginev)
• Adding Unit Tests to Your NativeScript App (Rob Lauer)
• IoT Series and Is AllJoyn dead? and IoTivity.NET – A Crossplatform .NET Wrapper (Morten Nielsen)
• Your Unity Game on Amazon: Part 2 (Becky Young)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 217 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Speech to Text in 2017 with Signl.fm (Scott Hanselman)
• Episode 114 on Azure Functions for SharePoint add-ins with Doug Ware – Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• SSW TV – Migrating from TFS to the cloud… without losing your mind – Danijel Malik (Sophie Belle)
• [Webinar Recording] Advanced Defensive Programming Techniques (with Introduction to Design by Contract) (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• This Week on Windows: Windows 10 features, Halo Wars: 2, and More | This Week On Windows (Cameron Tomisser)
• The Amp Hour #332 – An Interview with Zach Barth of Zachtronics (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Video: Kim’s Manipulative Insincerity Story (Elisse Lockhart)
• Microsoft Mechanics – Introducing Advanced Threat Analytics for your datacenter (Michael Dubinsky)
• Windows Weekly 501: No-mentum (Paul Thurrott)
• Azure Analysis Services Programmability and Automation (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Developer Tea – 3 Questions Your Should Be Asking Before Starting A Project (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Rocket 106: Go Hard And Then Go Home (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)

 

Community / Events

• Where To Celebrate The Chinese New Year In Philly (Jillian Wilson)

 

Database

• Simple script to check SQL Server Replication Jobs (Ranga Babu)
• Long Running Transactions Cause SQL Server Transaction Log to Grow (Simon Liew)
• Ingesting JSON data into Couchbase NoSQL Database using Streamsets (Laura Czajkowski)
• SQL SERVER – Beautify SQL Code with dbForge SQL Complete (Pinal Dave)
• Analyze Donald Trump Tweets with Couchbase and N1QL (Arun Gupta)
• GitHub data, ready for you to explore (Stephanie Wills)

 

SharePoint

• Avoiding dependency issues in SharePoint Framework (SPFx) development (Chris O’Brien)

 

PowerShell

• Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.1 Released (PowerShell Team)

 

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft debuts eBook support as part of latest Windows 10 test build (Mary Jo Foley)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: Introducing Erlang – $12.99 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)
• Microsoft cuts MyPeople feature from Windows 10 Creators Update, arriving with Redstone 3 instead (Zac Bowden)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-20 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-20 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2267 (Chris Alcock)

 

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