Dew Drop – July 15, 2016 (#2288)

Top Links

• Choosing the path forward for existing desktop apps (Andrew Clinick)
• Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3 (Jb Evain)
• Polyglot from the Microsoft Realm (Sarah Dutkiewicz)
• Self-care matters: Pay yourself first (Scott Hanselman)

 

Web Development

• Using AES / CBC / PKCS5Padding / IV Encryption In ColdFusion And Decrypting Values In Node.js (Ben Nadel)
• CSS Grid updates, changes and state of the browsers (Rachel Andrew)
• Getting Started with Node.js in Windows – Web Apps With Express (Adam Anderson)
• Kendo UI Customization with CSS (Josh Eastburn)
• Official ASP.NET Core 1.0 Support Now in UI for ASP.NET MVC (Rumen Jekov)
• Foundations of Random Number Generation in JavaScript (Tim Brock)
• Announcing the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal (Chris Risner)
• SMS Sentiment Analysis in Python with Flask and the IBM Watson Twilio Add-on (Sam Agnew)
• Introducing Graph API v2.7 (Steven Elia)

 

XAML

• Windows 10 Anniversary Update 14388, UWP, Visual Layer–Offsets on Preview SDK 14388 (Mike Taulty)
• Communicating with your users (Windows Apps Team)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #2 in F# (Jeremy Clark)
• 7 Ways to Look at the Values of Variables While Debugging in Visual Studio (Kaycee Anderson)
• MEX Debugging Extension for WinDbg (MS Downloads)
• Quick Tip: Retrieve AppData folder path for all user accounts (Kunal Chowdhury)
• How can I preallocate disk space for a file without it being reported as readable? (Raymond Chen)
• ILMerge MSBuild task NuGet package v1.0.5 (CodePlex)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• C++ Unit Testing Survey (Summer 2016) (Augustin Popa)
• Azure Infographic: Cloud Design Patterns (Chris Pietschmann)
• White Paper & Webinar: 10 Reasons You MUST Consider Pattern-Aware Programming (Iveta Moldavcuk)
• Run Additional Test Code with SpecFlow 2 Hooks (Jason Roberts)
• Why is saving Performance Monitor (PerfMon) settings so difficult these days?! (Dan)
• Maintaining work ticket (Jakub Chodounský)
• A Guide to Developer Collaboration With GitHub: eBook Summary (Justin Collier)
• How to Change Drawing Scale in Visio Professional (Steve Smith)
• List of features and resolved issues of latest tools and extensions (aka.ms/vsarreleases) (Willy-P. Schaub)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Build A Password Manager For Android And iOS Using Ionic 2 (Nic Raboy)
• A Beginner’s Guide To Using ngrx In An Ionic 2 App – Part 2 (Ashteya Biharisingh)
• Apple’s Swift Playgrounds is a coding class disguised as a video game (Jacob Kastrenakes)
• Introducing the Facebook SDK for Swift Beta (Nikita Lutsenko)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Episode 099 on Office Dev Show Getting Started Series—Office 365 Developer Podcast (Richard DiZerega)
• Observed.Tech PODCAST Episode 202 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• Hanselminutes – Exploring the Orleans Distributed Virtual Actor Model with Richard Astbury (Scott Hanselman)
• 101 AiA The State of NG2 with Rob Wormald and Stephen Fluin (John Papa)
• Rocket 79: Pokémon Go, Going, Gone (Christina Warren, Simone De Rochefort & Brianna Wu)
• The Ops Team #25 – “Longest URL…IN THE WORLD” | The Ops Team (David Tesar, Matt McSpirit & Oguz Pastirmaci)
• Windows Weekly 474: Microsoft’s Worldwide Partners Conference (Paul Thurrott)
• Away From the Keyboard Episode 45: Mike Bluestein Scores a Goal (Richie Rump)
• Developer Tea – Listener Question: Am I Too Old for a Career in Tech? (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Video Tip: Giving Humble Feedback (Elisse Lockhart)
• The Amp Hour #307 – Call In Show #5 (Chris Gammell & David L. Jones)

 

Community / Events

• Microsoft Research Faculty Summit opens (Alyssa Hughes)
• Announcing the Google Play Indie Games Festival in San Francisco, Sept. 24 (Jamil Moledina)
• Round 4 of Europe for 2016: More talks, more workshops (Troy Hunt)

Database

• Troubleshooting Distributed Transaction Performance Problems in SQL Server (Ahmad Yaseen)
• Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Databases (Toni Pohl)

 

PowerShell

• Simple T-SQL Code Comparison With PowerShell (Tim Smith)

 

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: Access 2016 Programming Pocket Primer (Kay Ewbank)
• Researchers Develop AI to Tackle Minecraft Mazes (Adi Gaskell)
• Python extension for WinDbg 0.3.1.4 (CodePlex)

 

More Link Collections

• Geek Reading July 14, 2016 #1148 (Robert Diana)
• Daily Links 14 Jul 2016 (Malcolm Jack)
• The Morning Brew – #2136 (Chris Alcock)
• Windows App Developer Links – 2016-07-15 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2016-07-15 (Dan Rigby)
• Visual Studio – Developer Top Ten for July 14th, 2016 (Dmitry Lyalin)
• Double Shot #1706 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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