Dew Drop – February 24, 2017 (#2429)

Top Links

• Xamarin .NET Workbooks – Interactive Computing is a stellar learning tool (Scott Hanselman)
• peasy-js-samples – MERN stack sample application added (Aaron Hanusa)
• Introducing downr: A simple blogging engine in ASP.NET Core with support for Markdown (Brady Gaster)
• Eric Mellino – A .NET Core Game Engine and CrazyCore | On .NET (Bertrand Le Roy & Kendra Havens)

 

Web Development

• Image Processing in Javascript (Tine)
• Individual CSS Transform Functions (Dan Wilson)
• SPA^2 using ASP.Net Core 1.1 + Angular 2.4 – part 4 (Robert_Dyball)
• From angular.module to ngModule (Todd Motto)
• How to Securely Share Secrets with Azure Key Vault and Azure Key Vault Explorer (Jon Gallant)
• Cross Function App Proxies and Proxy Request Parameters in Azure Functions (Jason Roberts)
• Real-time Visibility Into Application Errors with the Debugger Webhook (Carter Rabasa)
• Auth0 is OpenID Connect Certified (Martin Gontovnikas)
• Adding text and shapes with the Google Slides API (Wesley Chun)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Xamarin.Tips – Super Simple Sqlite (Alex Dunn)
• A New Monetization Opportunity: Application Extensions + Microsoft Affiliate Program (Michael S. Scherotter)

 

Miscellaneous VS & .NET

• TFS Build 2015 Not Transforming Web.Config (David Yardy)
• Easy text parsing in C# with Sprache (Thomas Levesque)
• Rider EAP 18: CoreCLR debugging is back (on Windows) (Maarten Balliauw)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• How to view diffs of images in a GitHub repo – 054 (Sara Ford)
• The One Thing Every Company Can Do to Reduce Technical Debt (Erik Dietrich)
• Correctness and Reuse (Jessica Kerr)
• Reasons for Automated Testing (Timothy Klenke)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Coding an Android App With Flutter and Dart (Ashraff Hathibelagal)
• Working With Data in NativeScript (Nick Branstein)
• Swift 4 Enters Final Stage, Defers ABI Stability (Sergio De Simone)
• Alexa Now Has Over 10,000 Skills Available (Zoey Collier)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 119 on expanding Azure skills with Kirk Evans—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard diZerega & Andrew Coates)
• Hanselminutes – Forgotten Empires, amazing games – Age of Empires is back with Bert Beeckman (Scott Hanselman)
• Android Central 325: The MWC preview event! (Daniel Bader)
• Mobile Center Webinar Recordings | Mobile Center Analytics and Getting More from App Testing (Courtney Witmer)
• The Amp Hour #337 – Fake it till you make it (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• SQL Server Radio – Great Productivity Tips (Matan Yungman & Guy Glantser)
• Windows Weekly 506: Foley as a Service (Paul Thurrott)
• Rocket 111: The FORCE Awakens (Simone De Rochefort, Christina Warren & Brianna Wu)
• Developer Tea – System Vs. Will Power (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Azure Podcast Episode 167 – Blockchain Hello World (Sujit D’Mello)
• Weekly update 23 (Troy Hunt)
• DocumentDB Support for Aggregates (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)

 

Community / Events

• A glimpse into the culture of our software development teams (Chris Smith)
• The Mistakes I’ve Made as an OSS Author (Jeremy D. Miller)

 

Database

• Audit SQL Server Logins Using SQL Profiler (Ben Snaidero)
• Timeout when starting SQL Server Launchpad service (Vitor Montalvao)
• SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: 1934, Level 16, INSERT or UPDATE Failed Because the Following SET Options have Incorrect Settings: ‘QUOTED_IDENTIFIER’. (Pinal Dave)
• How to build multiple database versions from the same source: pre-deploy migration scripts (Alex Yates)

 

SharePoint

• What the SharePoint Framework means to Users (Andrew Connell)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-02-24 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-02-24 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2286 and The Morning Brew #2287 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1813 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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