Dew Drop – February 10, 2017 (#2419)

Top Links

• Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary (Julia Liuson)
• Welcome to ReSharper Ultimate 2017.1 EAP (Svetlana Emelyanova)
• Extensions in Visual Studio 2017 | Visual Studio Toolbox (Robert Green)
• Universal Windows Platform (UWP) docs are now on Docs.Microsoft.com (Martin Ekuan)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Angular2 CLI with ASP.NET Core application – Tutorial (Michal Dymel)
• jQuery SVG Animated PopUp (jQuery Rain)
• Code Smells in CSS (Chris Coyier)
• Docker for Devs: Debug Docker Containers with WebStorm (Max McCarty)
• Browser Terminals (Remy Sharp)
• Introducing Docker Datacenter on 1.13 with Secrets, Security Scanning, Content Cache and more (Banjot Chanana)
• Enable logging for your Hybrid Connection Manager, troubleshooting and Azure Functions on 64 bit (Benjamin Perkins)
• Azure API Management, Logic Apps and ARM : manage and get managed (Massimo Crippa)
• JavaScript Start-up Performance (Addy Osmani)
• The OneNote REST API now supports application-level permissions (OneNote Team)
• You Can Use GhostDoc’s Document This with JavaScript (Erik Dietrich)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Entity Framework Core with Xamarin Forms (Adam Pedley)
• Building Android Apps with Entity Framework (Jon Douglas)
• Sending Files to a Xamarin.Forms App – Part 1: iOS (Matthew Soucoup)
• Enterprise/LOB controls for UWP from Telerik are now Open Source (Harini Kannan)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to be Agile with Distributed Teams (Hugo Messer & John Okoro)
• Thoughts on Agile Database Development (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Why Kanban May Not Be Working For You and How to Fix That. (Zuheb SM)
• Leaning on the compiler with intentional compilation errors in refactoring (Oren Eini)
• Incremental Design: Part II (Dave Farley)
• Reasons You Should Build a Monolith (George Stocker)
• 6 Ways To Be A More Productive Developer (Grzegorz Ziemoński)
• Two important lessons for success of Test Automation (Shrini Kulkarni)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Android Things Developer Preview 2 (Wayne Piekarski)
• Android Wear 2.0 is here with new hardware features! (Hoi Lam)
• Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Setup and Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – The Code and Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Deployment (Matthias Shapiro)
• Telerik Platform Improvements for NativeScript Developers (Rob Lauer)
• Azure IoT Hub Connector to Cassandra now available (Sam George)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 117 with Jeremy Thake on Microsoft Teams and extensibility—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• Hanselminutes – A new kind of STEM learning with Laron Walker (Scott Hanselman)
• DocumentDB Loves Xamarin and PowerApps and the Common Data Service (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• AC Podcast 324: Android Wear Strikes Back! (Daniel Bader)
• [Video] Xamarin.Flux (Alex Dunn)
• The Amp Hour #335 – When the TV watches you (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• This Week on Windows: Fallout Shelter, Anime Month and more (Elana Pidgeon)
• SQL Server Radio – Don’t Run Barefoot (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• TPDP Episode #12: Getting the Developer Help You Need, Online (Nic Raboy)
• Rocket 109: Being the Firehose (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – Three Insights About Heuristics (Jonathan Cutrell)

 

Community / Events

• Syncfusion – Special License for Xamarin MVPs (Marissa Keller Outten)
• Windows Developer Day – Creators Update Summary (Richard Hay)
• Limited Edition Amazon Developer Day Hoodie (Becky Young)
• Collaborating with other User Groups (Derek Comartin)
• Git Merge 2017 recap (Kelsey Schimmelman)
• From developer to seller: An identity crisis (Karoline Klever)
• Take the IoT Developer Survey 2017 (Roxanne Joncas)

 

Database

• Managing Temporal Table History in SQL Server 2016 (Aaron Bertrand)
• Installing SQL Server vNext on Ubuntu (Manvendra Singh)
• Getting Started with the SQL Server First Responder Kit (Jonathan Allen)
• Explicitly naming CL key columns in NC indexes – when and why (Kimberly Tripp)
• SQL SERVER – UpdateHADRResource – Failed to version-copy file – Exception data is: System.IO.IOException (Pinal Dave)
• Status Icons in Power BI Tables (Charles Sterling)
• 70-775 Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight Certification Exam (Chris Pietschmann)
• 10 GitHub samples with Azure DocumentDB you shouldn’t miss! (Rimma Nehme)

 

PowerShell

• Automating DacPac deployments using the SQL Compare command line and PowerShell (Feodor Georgiev)
• Building a GitHub Dashboard using PowerShell, AzureStorageTable, AzureFunction, and PowerBI (Steve Lee)

 

Miscellaneous

• Telecom guy uses bots to foil Microsoft support scammers (Julie Bort)
• Push Notifications and Buttons with Microsoft Flow: Part 3 (Jason Roberts)
• Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15031 for Mobile (Dona Sarkar)
• New “more helpful” Minecraft launcher is rolling out for Windows and OSX (Kit McDonald)
• Cortana reminds you of the important stuff – even when you forget to ask (Marcus Ash)
• Track your Office knowledge and skills with Office Training Roadmaps (Lesley Alexander-McVie)
• Why won’t you answer my question? (Rion Williams)

 

More Link Collections

• Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-10 and Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-10 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2277 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1806 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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