Dew Drop – January 30, 2017 (#2410)

Top Links

• Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate (John Montgomery) – It’s back up.
• Azure Tools for Visual Studio Code 1.2.0 – ARM Export, Batch, Telemetry (Brady Gaster)
• HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point (Troy Hunt)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15019 for PC (Dona Sarkar)

 

Web Development

• Convert ASP.NET Web Servers to Docker with Image2Docker (Elton Stoneman)
• Build Your Own ASP.NET Cache with WeakReferences (Peter Vogel)
• The 21 Most Awesome Awesome Lists for Node.js Developers (Tierney Cyren)
• Angular 2 in the MEAN Stack – A Project Template (Caleb McElrath)
• Form Validation Snippets: Email Validation with jQuery (Learning jQuery)
• Securing a Web API using Azure Active Directory and OWIN (Nick Randolph)
• Branding Guidelines for Angular and AngularJS (Stephen Fluin)
• Create Rest API Or Web API With ASP.NET Core 1.0 (Rajeesh Menoth)
• Telerik Reporting and ASP.NET Core (Stefania Tapela)
• Reporting Browser Bugs (Rachel Andrew)
• Enable Failed Reuqest Tracing for an Azure App Service Web App (Benjamin Perkins)
• The Importance of Website Performance (Devesh Sharma)
• Docker for AWS Now Generally Available (Jona Fenocchi)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Binding lists with iOS and MvvmCross (Marc Bruins)
• Using OxyPlot with Xamarin Forms (S. Ravi Kumar)
• Pinch Gesture In Xamarin.Forms Application For Android And UWP (Vijayaragavan S)
• Open UWP apps through Edge or a Web Browser Link (Michael Crump)
• New Ad Performance and App Promotion Performance Reporting in Windows Store Analytics API (Shreyas Ganesh Narayanaswamy)
• Announcing the new Channel 9 UWP App (Vi)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• EF Core CLI Commands with VS2017 RC3 (Julie Lerman)
• C++ for C# developers – var and foreach (Michal Komorowski)
• `yield` keyword to become `co_yield` in VS 2017 (Eric Mittelette)
• .NET Core List, Queue, and Dictionary Data Structures backed by Couchbase (Matthew Groves)
• Creating a portable and embedded Chocolatey Package (Rick Strahl)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• A Beginner’s Guide To Managing Software Development with Kanban and Trello (Demir Selmanovic)
• Agile Development Best Practices Using Visual Studio 2015 and TFS 2015 (Gouri Sohoni)
• 5 tips for using Retrospectives as a tool for dissent (Patrick Kua)
• Thinking About PMO Productivity (Johanna Rothman)
• Respecting Levels of Abstraction (Jonathan Boccara)
• Trello Keyboard Shortcuts: An Infographic Cheat Sheet (Leah Ryder)
• Splitting up Git administer permissions (Matt Cooper)
• Getting started with Delivery Plans in VSTS (Matteo Emili)
• Cross-Platform DevOps for .NET Core (Muhammad Rehan Saeed)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Visual Studio Emulator for Android (David Yardy)
• Android Sensors in Depth: Proximity and Gyroscope (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Unable to Connect or Debug to Visual Studio Android Emulator with Visual Studio 2017 RC (Nick Randolph)
• New Magazine for Computing Education (Sue Gee)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Yet Another Podcast #166 – James Montemagno (Xamarin) (Jesse Liberty)
• AFH 052: Software Estimation with Steve McConnell [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Thank you ! – MSPs at MVP Summit 2016 (Alexandre Roy)
• NexTech Africa 2017: Dona Sarkar | NXTA 2017 (Dona Sarkar)
• The Changelog 236: GunDB, Venture Backed and Decentralized with Mark Nadal (Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• This Week on Windows: Weekend Movie deal, Resident Evil 7, and OneDrive file syncing | This Week On Windows (Cameron Tomisser)
• CodeNewbie Ep. 125 – Learning to Code in the 1960s (Mary L Gorden) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Eat, Sleep, Code – Future Tech Fanboys (Ed Charbeneau)
• The Amp Hour #333 – Science, Not Silence (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Video: A Radical Candor Story (Elisse Lockhart)
• Merge Conflict 30: The One with No Conflicts (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• TWC9: VS Test Opens, New Xbox Features, Humans of Microsoft and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Vlad Kolesnikov & Nikola Metulev)
• One Dev Question with Raymond Chen – Have there really been 14,000+ builds of Windows? (keantonc & Rosshe)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries about Cosmic Phenomena (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• What The Tech 340: PC Sales Continue To Decline (Paul Thurrott)
• Developer Tea – Interview with Kalid Azad (part 2 of 3) and Developer Tea – Interview with Kalid Azad (part 3 of 3) (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Philly .NET Code Camp 2017.1 (Philly .NET Team)
• A Look Back at January 2017 (Jeremy Clark)
• Geek of the Week: Data scientist Muhammad Ahmad’s many pursuits include AI, art and simulations of dead people (Kurt Schlosser)
• Docker Online Meetup recap: Introducing Docker 1.13 (Lisa McNicol)

 

Database

• Find All Queries with Implicit Conversion in SQL Server – Interview Question of the Week #107 and SQL SERVER – Understanding JSON NULL Value Using STRICT Keyword (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Server on Linux – get started (Piotr Gankiewicz)

 

SharePoint

• SharePoint 2016 Central Admin – Application Management – Configure Quotas And Locks (Waqas Sarwar)

 

Miscellaneous

• Speaking Tips: Don’t Be Funny (Ted Neward)
• US Executive Order on Immigration (Adobe Corporate Communications)
• RELEASE: Microsoft Privacy Dashboard (Kurt Shintaku)
• Introduction to Machine Learning with Python (Michael Manapat)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-01-30 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-01-30 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2268 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1799 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Collective #284 (Pedro Botelho)
• Reading Notes #265 (Frank Boucher)
• Last Week on Channel 9: January 23rd – January 29th, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Azure Weekly: Jan 30, 2017 (Chris Pietschmann)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #139 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #5, 2017 (Sergey Tihon)
• From Pakistan to Bolivia, Our Friday Five Features MVPs Based Around the World (MVP Award Program)

 

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