Dew Drop – March 28, 2017 (#2449)

Top Links

• .NET Rocks! – Visual Studio for Mac with Mikayla Hutchinson (Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell)
• TypeScript’s New Release Cadence (Daniel Rosenwasser)
• Colored Map Markers on Xamarin iOS and Android (James Montemagno)
• UI for Xamarin Deep Dive: Starting Strong (Sam Basu)

 

Web & Cloud Development

• Prettify YesSQL Data Access APIs in ASP.NET Core (Hisham Bin Ateya)
• JavaScript Interview Day # 3: what is arguments object in a function (Dhananjay Kumar)
• Model Binding in ASP.NET Core (Dino Esposito)
• Day 3 – Exploring Docker for Windows (Michael Crump)
• Build More Engaging Skills Using AWS (Hilary Fagan)
• Parse CSV Data Using The Go Programming Language (Nic Raboy)
• #Ebook Deal/Day: RESTful Web Clients – $21.49 (Save 50%) Use code DEAL (O’Reilly Media)

 

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• WPF Tip #6 – Freeze Vector Image Resources (Alvin Ashcraft)
• Xamarin.Tips – Create Your Own Star Wars Intro Text! (Alex Dunn)
• Xamarin Alpha Preview (Cody Beyer)
• Pre-release: Xamarin.Forms 2.3.4.221-pre6 (David Ortinau)
• Transition from Xamarin.Forms to Xamarin Native Pt. 1 (Mario Jesús Galván Miranda)
• Xamarin Beta Release: 15.1 Beta Preview 2 (Bri Brothers)
• Microsoft Store Services SDK launches support for interstitial banner ads (Vivek Mohan)
• Talking to Printers (Peter Freeman Foot)

 

Visual Studio & .NET

• Moving from Emacs to Visual Studio (Nick Harrison)
• C# 7–The Good Parts–Pattern Matching (Mark Heath)
• Why .NET Core Made C# Your Next Programming Language to Learn (Matt Watson)
• Making the Invisible Visible Extension (Greg Duncan)
• Building Better Entity Framework Applications (Jon Smith)
• Yes, You Can Use a Single Service Registry for .NET and Java Microservices (Richard Seroter)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Let the Agile Manifesto Guide Your Software Testing (Nishi Grover Garg)
• How to Write Effective User Stories (Ben Linders)
• The Most Commonly Reinvented Wheels in Software (Erik Dietrich)
• There is no “One True Way” (George Stocker)
• 7 Questions To Ask Before Choosing Your Technology Stack (Mike Hostetler)
• Static Analysis to Hide My Ignorance about Global Concerns (Serge Baranovsky)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Connect to your Android emulator running on mac from your windows VM (Jan Tourlamain)
• Swift 3.1 Released! (Swift Team)
• Hitchhiking the HoloToolkit-Unity, Leg 12– More Experiments with Shared Holographic Experiences (Mike Taulty)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• MS Dev Show – stdlib, Nodal, NtSeq, and the Future of FaaS with Keith Horwood (Jason Young & Carl Schweitzer)
• AFH 060: Kickstarting Agility with Allen Holub [PODCAST] (Ryan Ripley)
• Agile Uprising Podcast: Agile Certifications/Future of Agile (Ryan Lockard)
• AiA 136 Catalog of Angular Libraries and Components with Romuald Brillout (Alyssa Nicoll, Charles Max Wood, Joe Eames, John Papa, Lukas Reubbelke & Ward Bell)
• Hello World Podcast Episode 85: Sara Ford (Shawn Wildermuth)
• JSJ 255 Docker for Developers with Derick Bailey (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal, Charles Max Wood, Cory House & Joe Eames)
• Functional Geekery Episode 88 – Justin Woo (Steven Proctor)
• Drone Squad Interview | Drones Garage (Jacob Orchard)
• Answers From James Kickoff | Answers from James (James Whittaker & Cameron Tomisser)
• Radical Candor Podcast Ep. 13: Help! My Boss is a Micromanager (Kim Scott & Russ Laraway)
• Revision Path 184: Alex Fefegha (Maurice Cherry)
• Developer Tea – One Super Simple Tactic to Regain Your Time (Jonathan Cutrell)
• Talk Python to Me #105 – A Pythonic Database Tour (Michael Kennedy)
• Data structures with Couchbase and .NET (video) (Matthew Groves)

 

Community / Events

• Windows Insider Program now sports more than 10 million members (Dan Thorp-Lancaster)
• 16+ Awesome Things To Do In Philly This Week, March 27-April 2 (Jillian Wilson)
• Phillies Host Star Trek: The Next Generation 30th Anniversary Night September 26! (Yali Perez)

 

Database

• Remove SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Configuration (Manvendra Singh)
• SQL SERVER – Huge Size of Table catalog.execution_component_phases in SSISDB (Pinal Dave)

 

PowerShell

• PowerShell and Object-Level Math Functions (Tim Smith)
• PowerShell Summit 2017 – Last-Minute Updates (Don Jones)
• How to write a Bash or PowerShell script to quickly create test repos – 086 (Sara Ford)

 

Miscellaneous

• ebook deal of the week: Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools, 2nd Edition (Kim Spilker)

 

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-03-28 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-03-28 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2309 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1829 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Reading Notes #273 (Frank Boucher)

 

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